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• Fauci staffer to retire after report he trashed 'mask nazi' Fauci and coronavirus 'fraud' online

  21-09-2020 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Daily Beast reported that the staffer's posts have become more and more conspiratorial as the pandemic has dragged on.
  
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• UK medical experts raise nation's COVID-19 alert level, say cases are rising 'rapidly and probably exponentially'

  21-09-2020 23:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom are rising “rapidly and probably exponentially,” medical experts are raising the nation’s COVID-19 alert level.
  
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• Supreme Court appointment 'done for the right reasons' will help President Trump: Pollster

  21-09-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pollster Frank Luntz on nominating a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how the election will be impacted.
  
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• The Supreme Court nomination process, explained

  21-09-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump narrows list of nominees
  • Opinion: GOP's rush to fill vacancy could backfire spectacularly
  
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• Why Trump reportedly prefers to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court over Barbara Lagoa

  21-09-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Monday said he'll probably announce his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday, and word is he's leaning toward the speculative favorite, appellate court judge Amy Coney Barrett, Bloomberg reports.Barrett, whom Trump reportedly met with Monday, is well-regarded in conservative circles, Bloomberg notes, and, because she hails from the Midwest, there's reportedly a sense that her selection could help sway swing voters in Rust Belt and Great Lakes states. Trump also already interviewe
  
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• Older voters were critical to Trump's 2016 victory. But that was pre-pandemic.

  21-09-2020 23:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The pandemic’s devastating effect on older Americans could make it harder for President Trump to win re-election, according to new polling and interviews.
  
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• Only 52% of conservatives think Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat should be filled before the election, according to a new Insider poll

  21-09-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Among those who identify as "very conservative," 73% want a Supreme Court pick to be voted on ahead of the election, a new Insider poll found.
  
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• Three jailed after being caught with 109 undersized lobsters in the Keys, police say

  21-09-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three Lower Keys residents were jailed Friday after state fish and wildlife police said they were found with more than 100 undersized lobsters and a haul of out-of-season stone crab claws.
  
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• Two new studies indicate COVID-19 can spread on long airline flights, promote distancing

  21-09-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both studies, taking different approaches, found clusters of COVID-19 cases traced back to long airline flights.
  
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• Archaeologists unearthed 27 sarcophagi in an ancient Egyptian city of the dead. They've been sealed for more than 2,500 years.

  21-09-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egyptians buried their dead in Saqqara for thousands of years. The ancient city has yielded countless discoveries, including human and animal mummies.
  
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• Country on brink of 200,000 deaths | Cases rising in over half of states | CDC retracts guidance on transmission

  21-09-2020 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  It's the last day of summer, but doctors are already saying this will be a grueling fall unless everyone takes Covid-19 seriously.
  
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• 'Apocalyptic fall' might await US, doctors warn

  21-09-2020 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  It's the last day of summer, but doctors are already saying this will be a grueling fall unless everyone takes Covid-19 seriously.
  
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• Nobody wants to watch the Emmys anymore. And after Sunday night, can you blame them?

  21-09-2020 23:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Emmy voters stuck to what they recognized, and in the end, it all just felt like more of the same.
  
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• Rush Limbaugh calls for GOP to skip hearings for Trump SCOTUS pick and go straight for floor vote

  21-09-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The conservative radio host hopes to avoid confirmation hearings like Brett Kavanaugh’s or Clarence Thomas’s
  
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• Florida governor threatens 'unconstitutional' felony charges in sweeping proposal to curb protests

  21-09-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Drivers who kill demonstrators while fleeing ‘mob’ not liable, Ron DeSantis says
  
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• ‘No Right’: Schumer Claims It Would ‘Spell the End’ of the Senate If Republicans Fill Ginsburg Vacancy

  21-09-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) claimed Monday that Republicans have “no right” to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ahead of the November election, and said doing so would “spell the end” of the Senate.Schumer’s comments came in a speech on the Senate floor in response to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s remarks that President Trump’s nominee for a vacancy would receive a vote
  
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• See the Marvel 'WandaVision' series trailer

  21-09-2020 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Disney has unveiled the trailer for "WandaVision," the first Marvel Studios series to come to Disney+.
  
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• Scientists say Californians moving is just the beginning of a larger trend. Here's what it means

  21-09-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  It's not just the nearly 7,900 wildfires that have consumed more than 3.4 million acres and claimed 26 lives in California that have Arthur Gies looking online for apartments in New York.
  
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• Tropical Storm Beta forecast to make landfall Monday in hurricane-weary Gulf Coast

  21-09-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Beta was forecast to make landfall in Texas on Monday, the latest storm in an exceptionally busy hurricane season.
  
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• Nevada judge tosses Trump campaign lawsuit over mail-in ballots

  21-09-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that sought to block the state from sending mail-in ballots to every registered voter, a legal victory for Democrats ahead of November's election.The order adds to wins for Democrats in battleground states, including in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, where courts this month ruled that mailed ballots arriving within certain time periods after Nov. 3's Election Day must still be counted.Trump
  
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• A man is brutally beaten on a Miami train. He is the fourth person this month, police say.

  21-09-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 73-year-old Miami man was brutally beaten over the weekend while riding on the Metromover, the fourth person who has been attacked while riding the Miami-Dade transportation system this month.
  
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• Fact check: In 2016, Ginsburg said president is 'elected for four years not three years'

  21-09-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A post attributes a 2016 quote to the late jurist about presidential power to appoint Supreme Court justices. The post is missing context.
  
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• McConnell on why Trump nominee is different than Obama's in 2016

  21-09-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell makes the case for the Senate voting on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, six weeks before the presidential election, despite blocking Obama's nominee in March of 2016 because it was too close to the election.
  
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• Trump administration at odds with allies over reimposing U.N. sanctions on Iran

  21-09-2020 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.N. will not reimpose sanctions against Iran as demanded by the Trump White House after a majority on the Security Council rejected the move.
  
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• McConnell Pushes Back on Allegations of SCOTUS Hypocrisy, Cites ‘Overwhelming’ Historical Precedent for Filling Vacancy

  21-09-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) called for the Senate to vote on a new Supreme Court justice sometime "this year," and argued that a confirmation hearing could take place before the November elections.McConnell made his remarks in a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, while Republicans and Democrats gear up for a fight over the nomination that could occur in the midst of election campaigns."President Trump’s nominee for a vacancy will receive a vote on the floor of the S
  
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• Lindsey Graham insists he hasn't changed his mind on SCOTUS nominations — but also that Kavanaugh's treatment changed his mind

  21-09-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016, Republicans steamrolled former President Barack Obama's nominee because they said the next president should choose the nominee. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) even invited Democrats to "use my words against me" if there was an election-year vacancy come 2020 -- but he seems to have changed his mind.In a Monday letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham claimed he still felt the same about election-year vacancies. He looked
  
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• Meet the people running hundreds of miles to raise funds for Black voters

  21-09-2020 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  10,000 people will run a virtual race this week to raise funds for Black Voters Matter.
  
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• Two key GOP senators propose $28.8 billion in airline assistance to avoid job cuts

  21-09-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two key Republican senators on Monday introduced legislation that would authorize $28.8 billion in payroll assistance to avoid thousands of airline industry layoffs set to begin on Oct. 1.Senators Roger Wicker, who chairs the Commerce Committee, and Susan Collins, who chairs the appropriations subcommittee overseeing airline issues, introduced the measure that would grant airlines a new bailout days before existing payroll support runs out.Airlines are making a last-ditch effort to win funding,
  
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• As death toll climbs, Biden warns against becoming 'numb' to COVID-19

  21-09-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Due to Donald Trump’s lies and incompetence over the last six months we have seen one of the greatest losses in American history,” Joe Biden said in Wisconsin on Monday.
  
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• CDC stumbles again, mistakenly posts about airborne spread

  21-09-2020 22:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The agency now says Friday's guidance was posted "in error."
  
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• Biden can thank Californians for his big lead in the money race

  21-09-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Enthusiastic donors, many in California, swelled Joe Biden's campaign accounts this summer, and he headed into the fall with a huge financial advantage over Trump.
  
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• Police cancel vacations; prepare for Breonna Taylor decision

  21-09-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisville, Kentucky, police said Monday that they had canceled vacations and were setting up barricades in preparation for the state attorney general's announcement about whether he will charge officers in Breonna Taylor's shooting death.A statement from the department said all requests for vacation and days off were being canceled “until further notice” as the city awaits Attorney General Daniel Cameron's announcement.“It is important to note that (Cameron) has said there is
  
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• The Mississippi Senate race is tightening, a new poll shows

  21-09-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mississippi may have a real Senate race on its hands.At least that's what the latest Tyson Group poll suggests. The survey has incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) up just one point on her Democratic challenger, Mike Espy, who represented Mississippi in the House from 1987 to 1993 before serving as agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration for a time.> MISSISSIPPI (!!) SENATE RACE:> > Mike Espy (D): 40%> Cindy Hyde-Smith (R): 41%https://t.co/Sx0Y15R87z> > —
  
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• NIH official to 'retire' after being ID'd as author of anti-Fauci posts on right-wing blog

  21-09-2020 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  A public affairs official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will "retire" after a news report identified him as the anonymous author of blog posts on a conservative website that disparaged Dr. Anthony Fauci and mocked the use of masks, a spokesperson for the health agency said Monday.
  
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• EU fails to agree on Belarus sanctions – video report

  21-09-2020 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Large protests against the veteran Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, continued with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets of the capital, Minsk, for the sixth weekend in a row. The demonstrations began when Lukashenko secured a sixth term after claiming victory in an election that has had its legitimacy called into question.The leader of the main opposition party, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, was in Brussels on Monday to push the European Union to agree on sanctions again
  
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• Millions in military gear vanishes — until eBay post unravels trooper’s plot, feds say

  21-09-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Illinois state trooper is accused of lifting more than $3 million worth of military equipment from a Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina.
  
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• ‘Anarchist’ Seattle, Portland and New York allowed violence during protests, feds say

  21-09-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The DOJ threatened to “restrict” federal grants to cities it says “allowed anarchists and rioters” to damage property during protests.
  
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• Pelosi 'misspoke' on SF indoor church visit, spokesperson says

  21-09-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Well, I have been to church in San Francisco recently and I did receive communion," Pelosi said on Friday.
  
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• Tibetan NYPD officer charged with spying for Chinese government

  21-09-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A New York City police officer has been arrested on charges he was secretly working as an agent of the Chinese government. Baimadajie Angwang, a community affairs liaison at the 111th Precinct in Queens and a member of the US Marine Corps Reserve, had for years been reporting back to “handlers” in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), according to a criminal complaint filed at a New York federal court. Mr Angwang, 33, an ethnic Tibetan native of China and a naturalised American
  
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• Secrecy envelopes will cause electoral chaos, official warns

  21-09-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philadelphia's top elections official is warning of electoral chaos in the presidential battleground state if lawmakers there do not remove a provision in Pennsylvania law that, under a days-old court decision, requires counties to throw out mail-in ballots returned without secrecy envelopes.Lisa Deeley, chairwoman of the three-member board overseeing Philadelphia's elections, wrote Monday to the state Legislature's presiding Republicans amid a partisan stalemate over fixing glitches in Pennsylv
  
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• Arctic summer sea ice second lowest on record: US researchers

  21-09-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arctic summer sea ice melted in 2020 to the second smallest size since records began 42 years ago, US scientists announced Monday, offering further stark evidence of the impact of global warming.
  
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• Snorkeler attacked by 10ft bull shark in Florida Keys

  21-09-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Victim was airlifted to Miami hospital with a serious bite wound
  
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• Keith Olbermann Airs Out Ex-MSNBC Colleague Chris Matthews for Terrible Take on Trump and RBG

  21-09-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With a ratio of more than 10,000 replies to fewer than than 2,000 retweets and counting, this tweet from disgraced MSNBC host Chris Matthews is already being touted as the worst take of 2020.“Trump is right to show respect for RBG,” Matthews tweeted Monday morning, after President Donald Trump went on Fox & Friends and baselessly claimed that the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was some sort of left-wing hoax. “True presidential behavior,” he added. &ldquo
  
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• Analysis: Trump gives himself 'A+' for handling of pandemic

  21-09-2020 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  Very soon, the United States will mark a somber milestone: 200,000 Americans will have died from the coronavirus.
  
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• Analysis: 200,000 deaths is an 'A+' in Trump's eyes

  21-09-2020 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  Very soon, the United States will mark a somber milestone: 200,000 Americans will have died from the coronavirus.
  
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• Norfolk Shipyard CO Is 4th Navy Leader to Be Fired in a Month

  21-09-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Capt. Kai Torkelson was relieved of command Monday by Vice Adm. Bill Galinis.
  
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• Sen. Kelly Loeffler stages historically dubious re-enactment to claim she's 'more conservative than Attila the Hun'

  21-09-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) is willing to reimagine history to prove how conservative she is.Loeffler is trying to fend off both Democrats and Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) to protect her relatively new seat, and rolled out a campaign ad Monday trying to prove she's the real conservative in the race. Playing off the idea that she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun," Loeffler's ad features a grunting Attila and a "liberal scribe" who translates for him: "Fight China" and "attack big government"
  
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• Wisconsin Black man falsely arrested at his own home sues city

  21-09-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As reported by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Keonte Furdge was arrested in his home after a neighbor called the police because he was sitting on the patio.Two police officers entered the house with their guns drawn and handcuffed Furdge, 23.
  
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• House Plan to Avoid Government Shutdown Includes Money for 2 Nuclear Submarines

  21-09-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bill also increases funding for the VA's electronic health record modernization program.
  
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• Trooper wounded in crash faced firing in Black man's death

  21-09-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Louisiana state trooper was critically injured early Monday in a single-vehicle highway crash that came hours after learning he would be fired for his role last year in the in-custody death of a Black man.Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth received word Sunday that State Police intended to terminate him following an internal investigation into the May 2019 death of Ronald Greene, a case that has drawn mounting scrutiny and become the subject of a federal civil rights investigation.State Police
  
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