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• Facebook removes Trump ads with baseless claims

  30-09-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump campaign began running the ads Tuesday with at least 38 different versions.
  
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• Democrats postpone House vote on COVID-19 stimulus bill to give more time for negotiations

  30-09-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pared-down version of the legislation passed by House Democrats in May will likely pass the House, but will face opposition in the GOP-led Senate.
  
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• Republicans blast debate as 'a brawl', 'embarrassment'

  30-09-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McConnell said Wednesday that he condemns white supremacists in the "strongest possible way."McConnell had been asked about President Donald Trump's deflection of an opportunity to condemn white supremacists during Tuesday’s presidential debate."I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Tim Scott that he put out earlier today. I think he said it exactly correctly and that's exactly how I would express myself on that issue," McConnell, a Republican, told reporters, adding: "He
  
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• Police arrest Proud Boy member on assault and gun charges hours after Trump refuses to denounce white supremacy

  30-09-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arrest follows president’s controversial comments at debate: 'Proud Boys – stand back and stand by’
  
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• LA police 'ambush': Deonte Lee Murray charged with attempted murder

  30-09-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deonte Lee Murray is accused of shooting two officers in their car, an attack that was caught on video.
  
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• Twitter lights up with celebrations and criticism over Biden’s use of ‘Inshallah’ during debate

  30-09-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Biden invokes phrase while criticising Mr Trump on his still unreleased tax returns.
  
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• Three times Trump was racist during presidential debate

  30-09-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US president made several insensitive remarks on Tuesday
  
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• 'It was painful. And triggering': Why Ibram X. Kendi, psychologists say debate could be traumatizing

  30-09-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Viewers and mental health experts likened the spectacle to a dysfunctional family or an abusive relationship.
  
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• The U.S. is once again giving away 55,000 green cards to foreigners. It’s simple and free.

  30-09-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that it will officially open registration for the Diversity Visa Program for Fiscal Year 2022 (DV-2022), better known as the visa lottery.
  
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• Singapore Airlines is turning a parked A380 superjumbo jet into a restaurant to cater to a travel-starved population

  30-09-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Singapore Airlines' fleet of Airbus A380s is now turning into a tourist attraction as the pandemic has rendered the long-range jets obsolete.
  
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• Singapore Airlines is turning a parked A380 superjumbo jet into a restaurant to cater to a travel-hungry population

  30-09-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Singapore Airlines' fleet of Airbus A380s is now turning into a tourist attraction as the pandemic has rendered the long-range jets obsolete.
  
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• Dancers explain 'Get Your Booty To The Poll' campaign

  30-09-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Exotic dancers in Atlanta are using their moves on the pole to get more people to the election polls and vote in November.
  
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• 'Ask somebody!': CNN correspondent blasts Trump's Proud Boys denial

  30-09-2020 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Sara Sidner responds to President Trump's claim that he does not know who the Proud Boys are a day after encouraging the far-right group to "stand back and stand by" during the first presidential debate.
  
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• Vatican denies Pompeo audience with Pope

  30-09-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Vatican said Wednesday it had denied U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an audience with Pope Francis - and accused him of trying to drag the Catholic Church into the U.S. presidential election after he denounced its relations with China.Two top Vatican diplomatic officials made the extraordinary remarks as Pompeo was in Rome, ahead of a planned trip to meet members of the Vatican Thursday.Pompeo said in an article and series of tweets earlier this month that the Vatican is putting its &ldq
  
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• Chris Wallace is 'sad'

  30-09-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News' Chris Wallace received mixed reviews for his performance as the moderator for the first 2020 presidential debate. Some analysts blamed him for failing to keep things under control, while others believe he did the best he could. For his part, Wallace said he's "just sad with the way" it all turned out.In an interview with The New York Times, Wallace spoke candidly about the situation, admitting that he felt desperate while trying to prevent the candidates from interrupting each other. H
  
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• I.Coast's ex-first lady says French army shut eyes to 'rape attempt'

  30-09-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo accused the French army of not having protected her from an alleged rape attempt during her 2011 arrest, in an interview broadcast Wednesday on France 24.
  
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• Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a brutal math lesson about his $13 million salary

  30-09-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO.On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene CEO Mark Alles, testified on drug pricing for the House Oversight Committee. While at the company, Alles saw a massive increase in the price of the cancer drug Revlimid -- and Porter broke down just what it got Alles in return.Porter started her takedown by asking Alles if he knew what a Revlimid pill cost in 2005: $215, she reminded him with the help of
  
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• Democrats line up vote on COVID-19 stimulus plan as deal with White House remains out of reach

  30-09-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pared-down version of the legislation passed by House Democrats in May will likely pass the House, but will face opposition in the GOP-led Senate.
  
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• New York battles COVID-19 hot spots as Washington wrangles over relief

  30-09-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City restaurants welcomed patrons back inside for the first time in months on Wednesday as authorities scrambled to contain COVID-19 outbreaks in some neighborhoods and negotiators in Washington wrangled over a coronavirus relief package.Coronavirus infection rates continued to climb in many of the nine ZIP codes in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn where new clusters have emerged, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday.The city is deploying 400 police officers as well as other offici
  
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• Fact check: Picture of 'Black Lives Matter protesters' attacking a white man is misleading

  30-09-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The event where the picture was taken was not a Black Lives Matter protest, USA TODAY found. It was an event in St. Louis involving a statue.
  
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• Google ditches the super-expensive phone race with the 5G Pixel

  30-09-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Google is tapping out of the super-expensive smartphone race.
  
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• Heiress sentenced to nearly seven years in Nxivm case

  30-09-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Clare Bronfman, heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, was sentenced to 81 months in prison Wednesday -- more than the 60-month sentence prosecutors had recommended.
  
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• 'Women in military, bad idea': Mike Pence’s most controversial comments about women

  30-09-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Pence has a long history of making eyebrow-raising comments about women
  
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• Analysis: The problem isn't the debate rules -- it's Trump

  30-09-2020 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  In the wake of the single worst debate in modern American politics, the Commission on Presidential Debates is pledging to make some changes.
  
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• Drive down Hwy 29 shows fire damage to historic Napa Co. wineries

  30-09-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just like you've probably done if you've visited any of the famous Napa Valley wineries, we took a drive down Highway 29 and Silverado Trail in Napa County. Here's what we found.
  
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• Trump's Helsinki summit with Putin was 'soul crushing' for Mueller's team and showed them Russia had won a 'servile' American president, new book says

  30-09-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After the summit, Mueller voiced a suspicion that if Trump was "in the tank with Putin," it was likely for financial reasons, Andrew Weissmann wrote.
  
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• Senate to vote on a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown with hours to spare

  30-09-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate is set to approve a short-term spending bill to keep the government from shutting down.
  
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• Critics warn Trump's 'poll watcher' rhetoric is a potential voter suppression tactic

  30-09-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump’s call for his supporters to watch for cheating at the polls this fall is raising concerns about voter intimidation and voter suppression.
  
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• McConnell weighs in on debate, white supremacy

  30-09-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell weighed in on Tuesday night's fiery and often uncontrolled presidential debate echoing Sen. Mitt Romney's comments earlier in the day, saying "it was not Lincoln-Douglas." (Sept. 30)
  
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• 'Mailmen selling ballots. Dumped in rivers. Found in creeks': Trump makes unfounded claims about mail-in voting

  30-09-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From claiming mailmen are "selling the ballots" to arguing that mail ballots are being "dumped in rivers," Trump ramped up his assault on mail-voting
  
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• Judge drops suit alleging racist efforts to oust prosecutor

  30-09-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out a federal rights lawsuit filed by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and blasted her claims that she was the victim of a coordinated and racist conspiracy aimed at forcing her from office.Gardner, the city’s elected prosecutor, claimed in the suitthat “entrenched interests” were intentionally impeding her efforts to reform racist practices that have led to a loss of trust in the criminal justice system.
  
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• Vatican denies Pompeo audience with pope, accuses him of playing politics

  30-09-2020 22:18 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Vatican announced Wednesday that they had denied U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s request to meet with Pope Francis during his visit to Rome this week.
  
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• Ford recalls almost 750,000 Lincolns, Mustangs, trucks and SUVs for various safety issues

  30-09-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Problems with rearview cameras, brakes and axles caused Ford to announce a recall of 748,747 cars, trucks and SUVs in the United States, Canada and Mexico on Wednesday.
  
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• Judge delays release of Breonna Taylor grand jury recordings to protect witnesses, lawyers say

  30-09-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge agreed to the Kentucky Attorney General's request for a delay in releasing grand jury recordings in the controversial Breonna Taylor decision.
  
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• ‘Dangerous Megalomaniac’: Seagram’s Heiress Sentenced to 81 Months in NXIVM Sex Cult Case

  30-09-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For years, Seagram’s liquor empire heiress Clare Bronfman dedicated her time—and millions—to NXIVM as its operations director and one of its largest donors, going to extreme lengths to protect the self-help group and its leader.But on Wednesday, the 41-year-old was sentenced to 81 months in prison for her role in the purported cult that branded women and manipulated them into master-slave relationships.“I’m immensely grateful and privileged that people all over the
  
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• These brands promised to get rid of their racist logos. Here's why it's taking so long

  30-09-2020 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  It's been more than three months since Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Cream of Wheat and several other food companies made national headlines by acknowledging the racist origins of some of their brand mascots and announcing plans to change them.
  
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• Census takers: We're being told to finish early, cut corners

  30-09-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As a federal judge considers whether the Trump administration violated her order for the 2020 census to continue through October by setting an Oct. 5 end date, her court has been flooded with messages from census takers who say they are being asked to cut corners and finish their work early.Josh Harkin, a census taker in northern California, said in an email Tuesday to the court that he had been instructed to finish up by Wednesday, even though his region in the Santa Rosa area still had 17,000
  
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• She tried to board a flight without shoes. Then came the meltdown, airline says

  30-09-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another day, another public meltdown. But this latest melee wasn’t over masks.
  
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• She tried to board a flight barefoot in Miami, airline says. Then came the meltdown

  30-09-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another day, another public meltdown. But this latest melee wasn’t over masks.
  
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• Wave of small earthquakes hits California just days after previous wave

  30-09-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Latest wave comes just days after earlier set of Calaveras fault tremors
  
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• Broward strikes deal with USPS to speed up process for record number of mail ballots

  30-09-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Planning for a record number of mail ballots amid concerns about whether the U.S. Postal Service can handle the load, Broward Elections Supervisor Peter Antonacci has come up with a way to streamline the process of getting Nov. 3 ballots to the elections office.
  
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• Trump just couldn't say it. Still, he said so much

  30-09-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: Trump's toxic performance was an appeal to America's worst impulses
  • Analysis: This is now what America's leadership looks like
  • Opinion: Biden did the one thing he had to do to win the debate
  
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• One shrug and non-answer illustrated just how repellent Trump is on matters of race

  30-09-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: Trump's toxic performance was an appeal to America's worst impulses
  • Opinion: Biden did the one thing he had to do to win the debate
  
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• Fact check: Biden says 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have died from COVID-19. Is it true?

  30-09-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “... And if he doesn’t do something quickly by the end of the year, one in 500 will have been killed.”
  
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• Mnuchin presents counteroffer on COVID bill in meeting with Pelosi

  30-09-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The treasury secretary said he and Pelosi are prepared to give negotiations over a coronavirus relief bill "one more serious try."
  
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• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked the SEC to investigate secretive data firm Palantir before it hit the stock exchange

  30-09-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ocasio-Cortez expressed concern over the startup's secrecy, as well as its involvement with governments that "may present human rights risks."
  
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• Debates commission will make changes to format to 'ensure a more orderly discussion'

  30-09-2020 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  The Commission on Presidential Debates said Wednesday it would be making changes to the format of the remaining presidential debates after the first debate between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump devolved into a chaotic disaster the night before.
  
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• Analysis: Why changing the debate rules can't possibly solve the real problem

  30-09-2020 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  In the wake of the single worst debate in modern American politics, the Commission on Presidential Debates is pledging to make some changes.
  
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• Sadly, it’s not a joke: Cuba, China, Russia about to join U.N. Human Rights Council | Opinion

  30-09-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It sounds totally insane, but the ongoing session of the United Nations General Assembly is about to elect Cuba, Russia and China to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.N.’s top human-rights body.
  
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• ISIS militants wreak havoc in Mozambique, killing more than 1,000 in insurgency

  30-09-2020 21:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Islamic State-affiliated terrorists have reportedly formed a base hub of operations in Northern Mozambique, killing more than 1,500 people, and displacing more than 250,000, according to the European Union.
  
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