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• Novavax enters late-stage clinical trials

  24-09-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday it was initiating its final Phase 3 clinical trial for its experimental Covid-19 vaccine.
  
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• Video vindicates man, attorney advocates for police body cameras statewide

  24-09-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Maryland defense attorney said police body worn camera video helped his client and the devices should be used statewide. The use of body cameras by law enforcement sparked a heated debate during a hearing Wednesday on police reform and accountability.
  
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• Opinion: The only sure way to keep Trump from killing democracy

  24-09-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election, raising the already blaring alarms over threats to America's democracy to a deafening volume.
  
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• In a Covid-19 world, what's next for deluxe, all-you-can-eat buffets?

  24-09-2020 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  David Yeskel remembers the days of yore with packed shows and crowded casinos and, especially, all-you-can-eat buffets.
  
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• Biden fires back at Trump: What country are we in?

  24-09-2020 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden fires back at President Donald Trump after his refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.
  
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• 'The Five' react to Trump blasting mail-in ballots

  24-09-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president rails against mail-in voting when asked about peaceful transfer of power
  
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• Justice Dept. expected to file antitrust action vs. Google

  24-09-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department is expected to bring an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Thursday.The department also is examining Google’s online advertising practices, said the person, who could not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.Antitrust officials at the department b
  
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• Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years

  24-09-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court's legitimacy.The new bill, seen by Reuters, would allow every president to nominate two justices per four-year term and comes amid heightened political tensions as Republican President Donald Trump prepares to announce his third pick for the Supreme
  
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• What's in the iPhone 12? Analysts give us their predictions

  24-09-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  Apple users are still awaiting the unveiling of the iPhone 12, after the tech giant introduced only new iPads, Apple Watches and a new services bundle at its virtual event last week.
  
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• Celebrity splits are none of our business, but we still care

  24-09-2020 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  Full disclosure: While I don't know Cardi B and Offset personally, I felt blindsided by the news she recently filed for divorce.
  
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• Some Democrats threaten to pack Supreme Court if Trump nominee is confirmed

  24-09-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News' Mike Emanuel reports on the battle inside the Democratic Party.
  
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• US hits Iran court, judges with sanctions over wrestler

  24-09-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration on Thursday hit an Iranian revolutionary court and several judges with sanctions in part for their role in the conviction and execution of a young wrestler.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed the sanctions on two judges with Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz as well as three prisons where he said human rights abuses were rampant.Pompeo said Judge Seyyed Mahmoud Sadati was being hit for his involvement in the case of 27-year-old wrestler Navid Afkari who wa
  
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• 2 Black Lives Matter demonstrators are facing life in prison. Experts say the 'deeply disturbing' potential sentences are an 'unprecedented' form of government overreach.

  24-09-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Department of Justice said on Thursday that more than 300 people across 29 states have been charged with federal crimes connected to protests.
  
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• China says US has 'created enough troubles for the world'

  24-09-2020 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  China's Ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday that the US has "created enough troubles for the world already" as the two nations continued to spar over the coronavirus pandemic during a tense meeting of the UN Security Council.
  
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• GOP Sen. Cory Gardner stayed mum on meatpacking coronavirus outbreaks as he received industry donations

  24-09-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some of the biggest and most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. stemmed from the meatpacking industry. But Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) was reluctant to call for accountability, including when it came to a Colorado-based plant Gardner received donations from, Business Insider reports.Early in the pandemic, meatpacking factories' close quarters became home to massive COVID-19 outbreaks throughout the country. An outbreak at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado led to at least 291 conf
  
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• The Justice Department released a 'bizarre' statement saying it's investigating 'potential issues with mail-in ballots' in Pennsylvania, and no one knows what it means

  24-09-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The DOJ deleted an initial statement about the investigation from its website and released a revised statement shortly thereafter.
  
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• Sanders issues stark warning on Trump and calls for election commission

  24-09-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator accuses Trump and Republicans of ‘sowing the seeds of chaos’ by ‘casting doubt’ on electionSenator Bernie Sanders has returned to the campaign trail by calling for an independent election commission to stop Donald Trump defying the will of the people and plunging the US into a constitutional crisis.The independent senator also urged social media companies to “get their act together” and news media to prepare the American people to understand that &ldqu
  
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• I.Coast's Ouattara lashes banned presidential bids as 'provocation'

  24-09-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ivory Coast's head of state, Alassane Ouattara, has blasted attempts by two rivals to contest next month's presidential elections as "provocation" and says one of them belongs behind bars.
  
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• Rep. Clyburn: President Trump cannot win fairly in November

  24-09-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Majority Whip James Clyburn discusses Trump's comments about peaceful transfer of power on 'Your World'
  
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• Who Invited the Far-Right Oath Keepers to Downtown Louisville?

  24-09-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE—On Wednesday night, at least 20 members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, were observed guarding storefronts in downtown Louisville amid sometimes violent unrest over the lack of charges in the police killing of Breonna Taylor. The businesses included Bader’s Food Mart—which is also a Shell gas station—Stewart’s Pawn Shop, and Hampton Inn Downtown Louisville, all at or near the intersection of Jefferson and South 1st Street. All of the busin
  
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• Police officer put on leave for riding bicycle over protester's head

  24-09-2020 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  A Seattle police officer captured on video rolling his bicycle over the head of a protester who was laying in the street is now on administrative leave.
  
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• Hawley: Filling SCOTUS vacancy is 'about Republicans keeping their promise'

  24-09-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Judiciary Committee member lays out tentative schedule for confirmation hearing, final vote on 'Bill Hemmer Reports'
  
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• Republicans in key states take steps that threaten vote integrity

  24-09-2020 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states.
  
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• Bolstered by Trump campaign, local officials are taking concrete steps to try to sow doubt about election results

  24-09-2020 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states.
  
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• Bolstered by the Trump campaign, state and local officials in battleground states are taking concrete steps to sow doubt about the election results

  24-09-2020 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states.
  
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• Bolstered by the Trump campaign, officials in battleground states are taking concrete steps to try to sow doubt about the election results

  24-09-2020 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful presidential transition Wednesday comes as Republicans across the country are taking concrete steps that threaten to undermine the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states.
  
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• Vatican announces surprise resignation of top cardinal

  24-09-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the most influential Vatican cardinals, Angelo Becciu from Italy, resigned his position unexpectedly on Thursday, the Holy See announced without explanation.
  
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• Trump cuts aid for pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran

  24-09-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Open Technology Fund, which helped activists evade state surveillance and sidestep web censorship, sees $20m grant pulledThe Trump administration has stopped vital technical assistance to pro-democracy groups in Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran, which had helped activists evade state surveillance and sidestep internet censorship.The Open Technology Fund (OTF) has had to stop all its operations in Belarus, and many of its activities supporting civil society in Hong Kong and Iran, because a congression
  
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• Bank manager finds 9.07-carat diamond in Arkansas state park

  24-09-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass.Kevin Kinard of Maumelle found the second-largest diamond in the 48-year history of Crater of Diamonds State Park on Labor Day, according to a news release from Arkansas State Parks.Kinard said he and his friends hauled sifting equipment to the state park in Murfreesboro.
  
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• ‘They cover my shrapnel wounds’: Veteran Senate candidate responds to critics using photo of her tattoos

  24-09-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a Republican super PAC in Texas posted a photo of Senate candidate MJ Hegar featuring her tattoos and calling her a “radical,” Hegar had a quick response on Twitter: the tattoos covered shrapnel wounds she received as an Air Force helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.A pro-Cornyn Super PAC is using a photo of my tattoos to make me seem "radical."
  
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• Breonna Taylor protesters urged nonviolence, then 2 Louisville police officers were shot

  24-09-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters discouraged violence after the indictment in the Breonna Taylor case. Two officers were shot while responding to a crowd.
  
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• Amazon's Ring will sell a $250 security drone that flies around your home

  24-09-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Ring, the Amazon-owned home security business, introduced a flying camera on Thursday that may excite home-surveillance fans but is almost certain to rankle privacy advocates.
  
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• What if Trump loses but won't concede? How a constitutional crisis could play out

  24-09-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's refusal to say that he'd peacefully transfer power may just be bluster. But there are steps he could take, and Democrats are on the alert.
  
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• Coronavirus updates: Cuomo says New York will review vaccines approved by feds; Missouri city bans dancing a la 'Footloose'

  24-09-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York will conduct a review of any coronavirus vaccines approved by the federal government. Study says virus has mutated. Latest COVID news.
  
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• 'We have to do better': Biden courts Hispanic voters, veterans in first Florida visit as nominee

  24-09-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden outlined healthcare proposals for veterans in Tampa before honoring Hispanic Heritage Month in Kissimmee.
  
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• Republicans lose a round in Pennsylvania mail voting dispute

  24-09-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt a blow Thursday to Republicans in the legal fight over the deadline for mailed ballots in the presidential battleground state.The court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority, rejected without comment a request by Republicans to put on hold its decision to extend the deadline for receiving and counting mail-in ballots.Republicans are now likely to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block the ruling.
  
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• Husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein Admits Helping Well-Connected Applicants to University of California: ‘No One Ever Told Me It Was Wrong’

  24-09-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) admitted on Thursday to sending an inappropriate letter identified in a state audit that appeared to help an applicant to the University of California, Berkeley, get accepted to the school.The California State Auditor issued a scathing report on Tuesday that found the University of California system admitted 64 students from 2013 through 2018 based on those students' connections to university staff or donors, instead of their academic records.
  
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• Will the public trust a Covid-19 vaccine?

  24-09-2020 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  Operation Warp Speed, the mission to develop an effective Covid-19 vaccine, seeks to deliver 300,000 doses by January 2021. According to projections from the University of Washington, by then the US death toll from the novel coronavirus will likely have reached nearly 400,000.
  
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• McEnany on Trump's refusal to say he'll commit to peaceful transfer of power

  24-09-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary argues such questions are 'more fitting for Democrats.'
  
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• Smoke from California's wildfires likely killed more than 1,200 people – nearly 50 times the number who perished in the flames

  24-09-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers at Stanford University estimate that wildfire smoke killed at least 1,200 people over age 65 in California – and likely more.
  
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• Senate committees release interim Hunter Biden probe report

  24-09-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Author Peter Schweizer joins 'Bill Hemmer Reports' for analysis
  
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• Can the U.S. avoid a ‘twindemic’ of coronavirus and flu?

  24-09-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Experts warn that the United States could face a public health catastrophe in the fall. Can the worst-case scenario be averted?
  
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• Sen. Duckworth: Trump has earned those boos

  24-09-2020 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) responds to President Donald Trump's latest comments about a peaceful transition of power in the event he loses the election, saying he earned the boos he received while paying respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
  
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• Unrest sweeps US after grand jury verdict in Breonna Taylor case

  24-09-2020 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  • LIVE UPDATES: Family of Breonna Taylor wants grand jury transcript released
  • CNN crew caught in chaos as shots ring out
  
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• Pro-Trump activists have been planning violence ahead of Portland protests, including at one to be held this weekend

  24-09-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chat logs leaked to The Guardian show the activists discussing how to acquire weapons ahead of anti-racism rallies.
  
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• Letters to the Editor: If Democrats expand the Supreme Court, will Republicans do the same?

  24-09-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Any attempt by Democrats to enlarge the Supreme Court would give Republicans an excuse to further 'balance' it when they're in power.
  
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• Trump's use of fake content is defended as humor. His supporters aren't always in on the joke

  24-09-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  At a Trump rally in Bemidji, Minnesota, last Friday, grievances against social media platforms Twitter and Facebook were a common refrain.
  
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• Deputy filmed punching a 14-year-old boy is fired by sheriff's department

  24-09-2020 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department has fired a deputy who was seen in a viral video punching a 14-year-old boy.
  
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• Cyprus says committed to peace talks, but not at gunpoint

  24-09-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cyprus is committed to reunification talks with estranged Turkish Cypriots but not at gunpoint, its president said on Thursday on a dispute which has deepened Greece-Turkey tensions and stymied European Union policy-making on Belarus.A simmering decades-old conflict which split the east Mediterranean island's Greek and Turkish Cypriots has come full circle with the issue featuring prominently in disputes between NATO allies Greece and Turkey, and now holding up EU plans to impose sanctions on Be
  
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• 2020 Election: Trump claims first presidential debate will be ‘unfair'

  24-09-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Trump insists that Chris Wallace will not ask Joe Biden tough questions
  
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