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• Former UK PM Blair accused of breaking quarantine rules after U.S. trip: Sunday Telegraph

  17-10-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been accused of breaking UK COVID-19 restrictions after failing to self-isolate for two weeks following a two-day trip to the United States, the Sunday Telegraph reported.The newspaper said it had obtained pictures showing Blair, who served as prime minister from 1997 to 2007, leaving a London restaurant 10 days after his return from Washington last month.The Sunday Telegraph said it understood that Blair appealed to Whitehall officials for special di
  
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• Beirut protests: 'A year of rising and fading hopes'

  17-10-2020 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Lina Sinjab looks back at one year of protests calling for change in Beirut, Lebanon.
  
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• U.S. Senate to vote this week on 'skinny' pandemic relief bill, PPP funds

  17-10-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a $300 billion Senate Republican coronavirus relief bill that is far below the estimated $2 trillion that Democrats have demanded.The bill, dubbed a "skinny" relief bill for its pared-down funding, was already rejected https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-to-vote-on-republican-coronavirus-aid-bill-opposed-by-democrats-idUSL1N2G61U6 by Democrats in September and is again expected to fail.Senate Majority Leader Mitch M
  
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• Senate to vote this week on 'skinny' pandemic relief bill, PPP funds

  17-10-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a $300 billion Senate Republican coronavirus relief bill that is far below the estimated $2 trillion that Democrats have demanded.The bill, dubbed a "skinny" relief bill for its pared-down funding, was already rejected https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-to-vote-on-republican-coronavirus-aid-bill-opposed-by-democrats-idUSL1N2G61U6 by Democrats in September and is again expected to fail.Senate Majority Leader Mitch M
  
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• Former PM Blair accused of breaking quarantine rules after U.S. trip - Sunday Telegraph

  17-10-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been accused of breaking UK COVID-19 restrictions after failing to self-isolate for two weeks following a two-day trip to the United States, the Sunday Telegraph reported.The newspaper said it had obtained pictures showing Blair, who served as prime minister from 1997 to 2007, leaving a London restaurant 10 days after his return from Washington last month.The Sunday Telegraph said it understood that Blair appealed to Whitehall officials for special di
  
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• New York officials say they put stop to planned 10,000-person wedding due to Covid

  17-10-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You can get married, you just can't have a 1,000 people at your wedding," said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
  
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• Analyst reveals who poses biggest legal threat to Trump if he loses election

  17-10-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  CNN legal analyst Elie Honig looks at the various legal battles Trump could face if he loses the presidential election, and how his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, could impact the Affordable Care Act if she is confirmed by the Senate.
  
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• Analyst reveals who poses biggest legal threat to Trump if he loses 2020 election

  17-10-2020 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  CNN legal analyst Elie Honig looks at the various legal battles Trump could face if he loses the presidential election, and how his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, could impact the Affordable Care Act if she is confirmed by the Senate.
  
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• McConnell sets up votes on narrow coronavirus relief proposal

  17-10-2020 23:26 via politico.com
  
  Democrats have already dismissed the GOP approach as inadequate, and are not expected to support the proposals.
  
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• Iran sees no arms buying spree as it expects U.N. embargo to end

  17-10-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran said it was self-reliant in its defense and had no need to go on a weapons buying spree as a United Nations conventional arms embargo was due to expire on Sunday despite strong U.S. opposition."Iran’s defense doctrine is premised on strong reliance on its people and indigenous capabilities ... Unconventional arms, weapons of mass destruction and a buying spree of conventional arms have no place in Iran's defense doctrine," said a Foreign Ministry statement carried by state media.
  
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• Halloween is going to look very different during the pandemic

  17-10-2020 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Halloween, a holiday that brings Americans together over a shared love for candy and costumes, will look very different during the pandemic.
  
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• Coronavirus: Dutch royals return amid anger over Covid holiday

  17-10-2020 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family flew back from Greece after just a day on holiday there, amid intense criticism.
  
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• Armenia, Azerbaijan announce humanitarian truce

  17-10-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Armenia and Azerbaijan said   Saturday they had agreed a "humanitarian truce" from midnight (2000 GMT) in a new attempt to quell nearly three weeks of fighting over a disputed region.
  
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• A man was found living in the rafters of a Nevada supermarket after his foot fell through the ceiling

  17-10-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police told local outlets that Matthew Hammar had "made himself at home" before he was discovered in the rafters of a Raley's supermarket.
  
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• A boiling summer is now a scorching fall in the western US

  17-10-2020 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  Scorching. Blistering. Burning. There are only so many ways to describe how hot it's been in the West this year.
  
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• Rhonda Fleming, film star in the 1940s and 1950s, dies at 97

  17-10-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Rhonda Fleming, a film star in the 1940s and 50s known as the "Queen of Technicolor," has died, according to her assistant. She was 97.
  
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• Film star Rhonda Fleming has died

  17-10-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Rhonda Fleming, a film star in the 1940s and 50s known as the "Queen of Technicolor," has died, according to her assistant. She was 97.
  
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• Poultry firm denies any link to US Senator of same name who mocked Kamala Harris

  17-10-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Perdue Chicken assures angry customers it has no links to Georgia politician
  
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• White supremacists across the country indicted on drug and firearm charges

  17-10-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to the U.S. Justice Department, 21 Utah-based white supremacists have been indicted for allegedly selling drugs and firearms.In recent days, similar charges were brought against white supremacist gang members in Texas, Kentucky, and Mississippi.
  
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• 'Log off! Log off!' teacher orders students when sexual assault livestreamed during first grader's remote learning class

  17-10-2020 22:27 via chicagotribune.com
  
  CHICAGO - An 18-year-old man out on bond for a gun case was held without bail after he livestreamed himself during a sexual act with a 7-year-old first grader on break from her Chicago Public Schools remote learning class on Thursday prosecutors said. Catrell A. Walls, of the West Chesterfield neighborhood on the South Side, was arrested Thursday afternoon shortly after 3:30 p.m., after he was ...
  
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• You can now rent a private AMC theater for just $99

  17-10-2020 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  A crisp Benjamin Franklin can get you your own private AMC movie theater.
  
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• US spies say the Hunter Biden email controversy shows how 'exploitable' and 'grotesquely vulnerable' Trump and Giuliani are to Russian intelligence

  17-10-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They want to protect their boy in the White House because Trump's policies have been strategically fantastic for Russia," said a former CIA spy.
  
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• 'Utter nonsense': Ex-DHS secretary reacts to Trump's training video

  17-10-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Chertoff, who served as secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush, weighs in on a training video for Trump supporters who are interested in being poll watchers on Election Day.
  
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• 'Utter nonsense': Ex-Bush official reacts to Trump's training video

  17-10-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Chertoff, who served as secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush, weighs in on a training video for Trump supporters who are interested in being poll watchers on Election Day.
  
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• Coronavirus case increases hit record highs in at least 7 states

  17-10-2020 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  "We need to do more" to contain the spread, the mayor of Denver said. "With the holidays on the horizon, we must ... knuckle down together to do the hard work that needs to be done."
  
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• Rapper who bragged about getting rich off unemployment benefits in music video arrested for $1.2 million scheme, federal prosecutors say

  17-10-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rapper Nuke Bizzle attempted to "exploit" California's Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program helping those who lost their job during the pandemic.
  
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• Giant sunfish sighting prompts 911 calls; officials say, 'Please stop'

  17-10-2020 21:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  "We are aware of a sunfish in Broad Cove," authorities posted. "We have checked on it, and it is doing normal sunfish activities ... The sunfish is FINE."
  
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• Sterling hits winner as Man City beat Arsenal

  17-10-2020 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Raheem Sterling scores the winner as Manchester City edge past Arsenal to climb up to 10th in the Premier League.
  
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• Oracle founder Larry Ellison donated $250,000 to pro-Lindsey Graham super PAC the day the TikTok deal was announced

  17-10-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ellison made the $250,000 donation just hours after it was announced that Oracle had beat out Microsoft, The Verge first reported Saturday.
  
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• Jihadists kill 14 soldiers in attack on Nigerian army base

  17-10-2020 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Islamic State West Africa Province fighters fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, sources sayJihadists linked to the Islamic State group have killed 14 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on an army base, military sources have said.Two sources told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity that fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group had attacked the base in Jakana on Friday evening, firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Continue reading...
  
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• Federal government to execute first woman since 1953

  17-10-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lisa Montgomery was given the death penalty in 2008 for killing mother-to-be Bobbie Jo Stinnett, cutting the baby from her womb, and then pretending it was her own.
  
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• One of Kentucky's largest newspapers endorsed Mitch McConnell challenger Amy McGrath

  17-10-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "McConnell purports to care about Kentucky and the country, but time and again, he has chosen the GOP instead," Lexington Herald-Leader's editorial board said.
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett attacked for ‘cruelty’ over role in overturning prison inmate rape damages

  17-10-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Observers say Ms Barrett ruled against a county in similar prison case
  
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• In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting

  17-10-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As a teen Constitutional debater Heidi Schreck found the Constitution "magical." Then she became a woman in America
  
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• Utah landlord evicted an 18-year-old woman for disturbing the peace in her apartment after she shared suicidal thoughts with her roommates, reports say

  17-10-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The woman was given six days to move out after her landlord said she interfered with her roommates' "quiet enjoyment" of their apartment.
  
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• Missing Hong Kong protester Alexandra Wong 'was held in mainland China'

  17-10-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Grandma Wong" says she was detained by mainland police and forced to renounce her activism.
  
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• 'Diddy' Combs: 'White men like Trump need to be banished'

  17-10-2020 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  In an interview with Charlamagne tha God, rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs endorsed presidential candidate Joe Biden and said he was helping to launch a new political party, Our Black Party.
  
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• Lisa Montgomery to be first female federal inmate executed in 67 years

  17-10-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Brandon Bernard also faces execution for separate killing* Attorney general Bill Barr cites ‘heinous murders’The US is set to execute a female federal inmate for the first time in 67 years, Donald Trump’s justice department has said.Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a Missouri woman in 2004 and stole her unborn baby, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 8 December.Montgomery, whose lawyers have long argued she has brain damag
  
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• A Kentucky postal worker who trashed over 100 absentee ballots was fired and could face federal charges

  17-10-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The report comes at a time of heightened anxiety over voting, amplified by President Donald Trump's widely debunked claims of rampant fraud.
  
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• Haitian police, protesters clash; president calls for unity

  17-10-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian police on Saturday fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters who blocked roads and set fires in the capital, Port-au-Prince.It was the latest unrest during more than a year of protests calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse over corruption charges.Haiti is currently experiencing a political impasse without a parliament and is now run by decree under Moïse.
  
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• Transit shutdowns fail to deter fourth day of Thai pro-democracy protests in Bangkok

  17-10-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Unlike protests a day earlier, in which police used a water cannon to disperse protesters, Saturday’s demonstrations saw no reports of any clashes.
  
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• France teacher attack: Suspect 'asked pupils to point Samuel Paty out'

  17-10-2020 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man waited for Samuel Paty, who showed Prophet Muhammad cartoons in class, and beheaded him.
  
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• Promoted Cadiz earn shock win over Real Madrid to draw level at top

  17-10-2020 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newly promoted Cadiz stun defending champions Real Madrid with a deserved victory that moves them level at the top of La Liga.
  
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• New Texas rule lets social workers turn away clients who are LGBTQ or have a disability

  17-10-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Social workers called the change "incredibly disheartening," while Gov. Greg Abbott's office said it was necessary
  
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• NY's Cuomo opens movie theaters as coronavirus hot spots cool off but cancels a Brooklyn wedding with 10,000 guests

  17-10-2020 20:57 via nydailynews.com
  NEW YORK - Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the green light for movie theaters to open outside of New York City on Saturday as he all but declared victory over the coronavirus hot spots that had threatened to spread into a wider flare up. Cinemas will be permitted to open on Oct. 23 in counties outside the five boroughs that have an overall COVID-19 positivity rate of less than 2% and that have no ...
  
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• 7 ways to stay healthy (and sane) during the fall coronavirus surge

  17-10-2020 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  Get ready for the most difficult months yet in this pandemic.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani said there's a '50/50' chance he worked with a Russian spy to obtain harmful information about the Bidens

  17-10-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, confirmed he informed Trump and other top Republicans about 'leaked' emails before he provided them to the New York Post.
  
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• Anti-lockdowners protest as London COVID alert level is raised

  17-10-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As a second wave of infections gathers pace, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has stepped up local restrictions in parts of England where cases are surging - hoping to shield the economy by allowing the least-affected regions to remain open.As of midnight, London was moved up to the "tier 2" or "high-risk" level.
  
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• How this former QAnon believer escaped the virtual cult

  17-10-2020 20:40 via cnn.com
  
  Jitarth Jadeja found QAnon in 2017. The 32-year-old spent two years entrenched in the virtual cult. His biggest regret? Sharing the conspiracy theory with his father.
  
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• Lenox Square robbery victim arrested by Atlanta police

  17-10-2020 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a failed robbery attempt inside the Neiman Marcus at Lenox Square on Friday afternoon, Treonta Deon Williams, 30, was at the cash register when he was shot at by intruders.The victim helped identify two of the four robbers, Jamell Gaskin-McLaughlin, 17, and Delon Maurice Robinson, 19, who were subsequently arrested and charged, WSB-TV, a Cox Media Atlanta news affiliate, reported.Williams was also arrested and taken into police custody.
  
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