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• Photos show Hurricane Delta's aftermath as Louisiana suffers back-to-back storms

  10-10-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  See the aftermath of Hurricane Delta — downed wires, broken windows and intense flooding — throughout Louisiana.
  
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• Brazil reaches 150,000 deaths from COVID-19 milestone

  10-10-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil’s count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 150,000 on Saturday night, despite signs the pandemic is slowly retreating in Latin America's largest nation.The Brazilian Health Ministry reported that the death toll now stands at 150,198.The figure is the world’s second highest behind the United States, according to the tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
  
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• 'We reject their support': Trump campaign strongly declines Taliban endorsement for his 2020 reelection

  10-10-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We reject their support and ... the President will always protect American interests," Tim Murtaugh said in a statement to Insider.
  
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• Colin Kaepernick calls for abolishing police and prisons

  10-10-2020 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  Colin Kaepernick is calling for abolishing the police and prison institutions as part of a new series of essays.
  
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• Barrett's confirmation could lead to SCOTUS taking rare action on gun rights

  10-10-2020 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court has gone a decade without acting on a major case concerning the Second Amendment, an issue that could receive rare attention in the future by the high court should Judge Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the bench in the coming weeks.
  
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• A defiant Trump delivers a dark White House speech

  10-10-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  • Fact check: Five false claims Trump made in his first speech since getting Covid-19
  • Biden leads Trump as race enters final stretch
  
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• A North Carolina university went into lockdown after it received a threat about its Black Lives Matter mural

  10-10-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The campus stayed on lockdown for almost 10 hours as campus, local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies conducted their investigation.
  
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• Florida won’t be releasing new coronavirus cases and deaths on Saturday. Here’s why

  10-10-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UPDATE 10/11/2020: Florida adds 5,570 COVID-19 cases a day after duplicate tests led state to hold report
  
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• Trump news: President attacks ‘unscientific lockdowns’ and slams Biden in White House speech

  10-10-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Biden-Harris hay bale display in Massachusetts set on fire 24 hours after it was finished

  10-10-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'It’s actually hard to believe anyone who says they love this country would do this,' the owner of the farm said.
  
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• Fresh explosions in Karabakh capital despite ceasefire

  10-10-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresh explosions rocked the capital of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Saturday despite a ceasefire agreed between warring neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan that brought a brief lull in shelling and missile strikes earlier in the day.
  
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• Kim Jong Un gets emotional over Covid efforts

  10-10-2020 22:44 via cnn.com
  
  Kim Jong Un choked up before praising North Korea's "anti-epidemic" efforts and unveiling a new ballistic missile. Neither Kim, nor any crowd members appeared to be wearing masks.
  
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• Trump holds public event despite unclear Covid-19 status

  10-10-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump, in his first public event since he was diagnosed with coronavirus, gave a brief, campaign-style speech from the balcony of the White House.
  
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• 'Extraordinarily inept': ER doctor blasts Trump's White House event

  10-10-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump, in his first public event since he was diagnosed with coronavirus, gave a brief, campaign-style speech from the balcony of the White House.
  
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• Federal judge throws out Trump challenge to Pennsylvania voting

  10-10-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The judge ruled that the campaign did not provide "concrete" evidence of impending voter fraud.
  
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• 2 charged in Michigan plots served in US Marines

  10-10-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Marine Corps confirmed Saturday that two men charged in plots against Michigan's governmentspent time in the military.Officials are “aware of the circumstances surrounding” Daniel Harris and Joseph Morrison and will assist in any way in the investigation, the Marine Corps said in an emailed statement.Harris is one of six men charged federally with conspiring to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the Nov. 3 elections.
  
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• The Trump campaign after the Pence-Harris debate

  10-10-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Did the vice president point a way forward for Trump?
  
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• What if armed far-right groups go to the polls? Some plan to

  10-10-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Armed right-wing groups are registering as poll watchers and planning to monitor voting places during the presidential election.
  
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• 2020 election live updates: Biden hopes Trump makes sure he's COVID 'clear' before events; Christie out of hospital

  10-10-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chris Christie announced Oct. 3 he tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• Democrats and Republicans rip into the White House's $1.8 trillion stimulus offer, dampening chances of $1,200 stimulus checks and coronavirus relief before the election

  10-10-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Odds are diminishing for a coronavirus relief package before November as Democrats and Senate Republicans lambasted the Trump administration's plan.
  
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• Judge blocks Texas governor's order limiting number of ballot drop-off sites

  10-10-2020 22:01
  
  A federal judge blocked an order by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that restricted the number of locations where voters can hand-deliver mail-in ballots in each county.
  
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• How to watch October's spectacular Orionids meteor shower

  10-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Skywatchers have the chance to see a spectacular meteor shower as Earth passes through the debris from Halley's Comet.
  
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• John Oliver is being honored with his name on a sewage plant after 'fight' with a Connecticut town

  10-10-2020 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  It's official, a sewage plant in Danbury, Connecticut will be named after John Oliver after the comedian got into a tiff with the town's mayor.
  
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• Meghan Markle says that the day of her now-famous candid interview, she was 'running a marathon' balancing mom and duchess responsibilities

  10-10-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Meghan Markle joined Prince Harry for an exclusive interview on the "Teenager Therapy" podcast that aired Saturday for World Mental Health Day.
  
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• Trump taxes reveal $21 million windfall during 2016 race

  10-10-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Continuing its explosive reporting on President Donald Trump‘s tax records, the New York Times revealed on Friday that Trump engineered a $21 million windfall shortly before contributing 10 million to his “self-funded” 2016 presidential campaign.According to The Times, tax records show that back in 2016, Trump’s golf courses and the new hotel he was building in Washington, D.C. were eating away at his cash-on-hand.
  
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• Next Crew Dragon launch slips into November

  10-10-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Launch delay will give engineers more time to resolve an engine turbopump issue on a different rocket
  
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• Lindsey Graham says Black people can 'go anywhere' in South Carolina if conservative

  10-10-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican senator made comment in televised ‘conversation’ with his rival, Jaime Harrison, who is BlackIn a televised campaign event US senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said African Americans and immigrants can “go anywhere” in his home state but they “ just need to be conservative”.Graham made the comment in a televised “conversation” with his political rival, former South Carolina Democratic party chair Jaime Harrison, the first African
  
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• After being sidelined by his Covid-19 diagnosis, the President gave a divisive speech to a crowd of mostly Black and Brown Americans

  10-10-2020 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  A defiant President Donald Trump will resume public events Saturday, potentially putting lives at risk once again with an afternoon speech at the White House that is expected to involve hundreds of guests just nine days after he revealed his Covid-19 diagnosis.
  
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• 2 suspects in Michigan kidnapping plot are US Marines who were recently-discharged

  10-10-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the US Marines was reportedly discharged on the same day the kidnapping charges were announced.
  
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• Texas teen has the world's longest legs

  10-10-2020 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  Maci Currin isn't all legs, but they do make up 60 percent of her total height.
  
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• Texas teen breaks world record for longest legs

  10-10-2020 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  Maci Currin isn't all legs, but they do make up 60 percent of her total height.
  
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• A Texas teenager breaks two world records for longest legs

  10-10-2020 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  Maci Currin isn't all legs, but they do make up 60 percent of her total height.
  
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• Remains of woman found in 1981 identified as victim of serial killer Samuel Little

  10-10-2020 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  A cold case in Georgia has been solved.
  
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• Trump returns to public events with 'law and order' speech at White House

  10-10-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President maskless during speech from balcony as questions linger about his health after contracting coronavirus* Trump hosts White House event – live updatesDefiant in the face of slipping opinion polls, and determined to justify his implausible claim of a swift and full recovery from his encounter with Covid-19, Donald Trump returned to public events on Saturday with a brief “law and order” speech from a White House balcony.In a closely-watched first public appearance at a li
  
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• Man led on a rope by Galveston PD sues city

  10-10-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Neely was led by mounted officers while tied with a rope during his arrest. Now he's taking them to court.
  
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• Trump hosts first public event since COVID-19 diagnosis, says virus will 'disappear' with 'science, medicine'

  10-10-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Saturday hosted somewhere between 300 and 400 people on the South Lawn of the White House, marking his first public event since he was hospitalized after contracting COVID-19 last week. It's been just two weeks since a crowd gathered in the Rose Garden for Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination, which experts believe may have been the catalyst for a coronavirus outbreak that affected both the Trump administration and Republican senators.Trump was scheduled to speak
  
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• Thousands will enter the 2022 visa lottery for a free green card. This advice could help

  10-10-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This week, the U.S. government opened the entry period to participate in the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program for Fiscal Year 2022 (DV-2022), which ends on Nov. 10, 2020.
  
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• Trump’s Marks COVID Comeback With Limp Balcony Speech to Hundreds

  10-10-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump hosted hundreds of people outside the White House on Saturday for his first in-person event since contracting COVID-19—but his administration wouldn’t say whether he’s still infected with the virus.“We gotta vote these people into oblivion,” Trump told the crowd of supporters in a brief 18-minute speech from a White House balcony, far shorter than his typical rally addresses.The in-person event marked Trump’s return to the campaign spotlight after
  
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• Trump delivers speech to supporters in 1st in-person event since COVID-19 diagnosis

  10-10-2020 20:50
  
  President Donald Trump is delivering remarks from the White House at his first in-person event since he tested positive for coronavirus.
  
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• Hurricane Delta leaves over half a million without power in Louisiana

  10-10-2020 20:49
  
  Delta made landfall Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane.
  
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• Millions will be ordered not to leave their local areas in new Covid clampdown

  10-10-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Millions of people will be asked not to travel outside their local areas and could be banned from mixing with other households, even outdoors, amid fears that some hospitals in the North-West could be overwhelmed within days. This weekend, Downing Street was briefing mayors and council leaders on the planned three-tier "Local Covid Alert Levels" system of restrictions for England, expected to be announced by Boris Johnson on Monday. Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, said he was in discussion
  
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• Analysis: Trump delivers dark and divisive speech in first major appearance since Covid diagnosis

  10-10-2020 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  A defiant President Donald Trump will resume public events Saturday, potentially putting lives at risk once again with an afternoon speech at the White House that is expected to involve hundreds of guests just nine days after he revealed his Covid-19 diagnosis.
  
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• Unseeded teen Swiatek wins French Open

  10-10-2020 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  Not even a grand slam champion who has carved out a reputation for being one of the top competitors around could stop a surging Iga Swiatek in the French Open final.
  
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• Trump's $1.8 trillion stimulus proposal faces opposition from Pelosi and Senate GOP

  10-10-2020 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republicans on Saturday balked at President Donald Trump's roughly $1.8 trillion stimulus proposal, making it all but certain Congress won't pass an economic relief package before Election Day.
  
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• Canary Islands sees biggest migrant surge since 2006

  10-10-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours, the Red Cross said on Saturday, the largest number since a 2006 crisis in the archipelago.Beefed-up security on Morocco's Mediterranean coast is pushing traffickers and migrants south to risk the perilous crossing to the Canaries, located around 60 miles (97 km) to the west of the Atlantic coast, analysts and rights groups say.Between Thursday and Saturday, 1,015 migrants landed in 485 boats in the seven Spanish islands, a
  
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• Former Philadelphia officer is indicted for murder in 2017 shooting of unarmed Black man

  10-10-2020 20:29 via cnn.com
  
  A former Philadelphia police officer was indicted on murder charges Friday in the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed Black man, prosecutors say.
  
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• Trump holds first in-person event since COVID-19 diagnosis

  10-10-2020 20:14
  
  President Donald Trump is delivering remarks from the White House at his first in-person event since he tested positive for coronavirus.
  
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• Hurricane Delta crashed onshore 13 miles away from where Laura struck only 43 days ago

  10-10-2020 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Power outages surged Saturday morning across the parts of the Gulf Coast region as what was left of Delta made its way farther inland intothe Mississippi Valley, leaving another mess behind in the already hurricane-battered region.
  Delta, a former Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean and then a major hurricane at Category 3 force later on as it churned across the Gulf of Mexico, became a tropical depression by Saturday morning as it passed through western Mississippi, unloading heavy rain as it
  
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• Miami road to be named after Trayvon Martin

  10-10-2020 20:01
  Black teen's death by a neighborhood watch volunteer catalyzed a movement.
  
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• Religious gathering limit upheld as NY hospitalizations rise

  10-10-2020 19:58
  
  New York authorities focus on limiting gatherings in COVID-19 hotspots.
  
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