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• Opposition leader flees Venezuela, heads towards Spain and the United States

  24-10-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López escaped from the South American country and was traveling on Saturday to Spain, where he will spend time with his family before eventually heading towards the United States to continue the efforts to outs the Nicolas Maduro regime, sources close to the former political prisoner told el Nuevo Herald.
  
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• Americans Should Brace for 100,000 New COVID Cases a Day, Experts Say

  24-10-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “You should be prepared for how bad it’s going to get.”The words of Dr. William Haseltine, an internationally renowned infectious disease expert, summarized the resounding—and sobering—takeaway from several public health experts and epidemiologists who spoke to The Daily Beast on Saturday, hours after the U.S. smashed its previous record of new daily COVID-19 cases. The country hit 83,757 reported infections in one day on Friday, while hospitalizations skyrocketed a
  
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• Fact check: Hillary Clinton, not Joe Biden, used the phrase 'super predators'

  24-10-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A social media claim about usage of the term "super predators" to describe Black people is inaccurate.
  
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• Trump tells GOP donors that holding Senate will be 'tough' – report

  24-10-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Washington Post reports remarks before Nashville debate* President also said he ‘just can’t’ help some GOP senators* How ending Obamacare would kill Fauci plan to conquer HIVShortly after Donald Trump insisted to reporters in Ohio he expected a “red wave” on election day, 3 November, it was reported on Saturday that he told Republican donors this week it would be “tough” for the party to hold on to the Senate.Trump trails Joe Biden in most national and
  
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• Yet another tropical depression forms in the Atlantic, bringing the tally to 28 this season

  24-10-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a record-shattering hurricane season, 2020 has produced yet another tropical depression, the 28th of the year..
  
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• Republican Murkowski, who opposed pre-election Supreme Court confirmation, will vote for Barrett

  24-10-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of two Republican U.S. senators who had opposed the pre-election confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, said on Saturday she would nevertheless vote to confirm Barrett.Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska reiterated her opposition to the rushed confirmation process, which will culminate in a final vote on Monday, just over a week from Election Day.Murkowski's support helps cement the near certainty that Barrett
  
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• Majority of voters say Biden won second debate, poll finds

  24-10-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sixty-five percent of voters said the candidates were mostly respectful of each other's time, as opposed to 10% who said that after the first debate.
  
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• Republicans crash Florida early vote, eating into Democrats’ lead

  24-10-2020 23:13 via politico.com
  
  Dueling appearances from President Trump and former President Obama kicked off statewide early voting in Florida.
  
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• Trump seizes on one Biden debate comment

  24-10-2020 23:11 via cnn.com
  
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• Previously undecided voter says this Trump move made his mind up

  24-10-2020 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  Eric Camacho, a previously undecided Ohio voter, told CNN's Ana Cabrera that President Trump's behavior following his diagnosis with Covid-19 was what ultimately pushed him to decide on voting for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
  
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• Republican breaks silence on vote for Trump's Supreme Court nomination

  24-10-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Saturday that she will ultimately vote yes on Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  
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• Murkowski announces she will vote yes to confirm Amy Coney Barrett

  24-10-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Saturday that she will ultimately vote yes on Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  
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• Holdout senator says she will vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett

  24-10-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Saturday that she will ultimately vote yes on Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  
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• Coronavirus is surging in college towns. The worst spot? Texas

  24-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  College towns have seen a surge of the coronavirus, especially in Texas, but they're doubling down on in-person classes and fans at football games.
  
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• Obama: This basic question was 'too tough' for Trump

  24-10-2020 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama took aim at President Donald Trump and his response to the coronavirus pandemic during a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Miami. CNN's Arlette Saenz reports.
  
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• iPhone 12 launch causes NHS Covid-19 app confusion

  24-10-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some owners of Apple's new phones get an error message when trying to run the contact-tracing app.
  
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• Colorado wildfire forces more evacuations

  24-10-2020 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wind gusts fanned the second largest wildfire in Colorado’s history… as residents in the town of Estes Park, located in Rocky Mountain National Park, were told to evacuate on Saturday.The winds pushed the blaze - dubbed the East Troublesome Fire - toward homes in the eastern part of the town.At the same time, a red flag warning was issued by the National Weather Service as winds of 60 miles per hour and low humidity were expected throughout the day.Near the town of Grand Lake, offic
  
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• Lisa Murkowski will vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court

  24-10-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Alaska senator previously stated that she was firmly against confirming a judge to the high court so close to the general election.
  
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• Democrats give new support to Mike Espy’s Senate race

  24-10-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A few weeks ago, Mike Espy complained that national Democrats seemed to be throwing in the towel and giving up on his chances of beating Rep. U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in deeply red Mississippi.“They don’t think a Black man in Mississippi can win,” the former agriculture secretary wrote on Twitter.Keep your eyes on Mississippi.
  
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• Israeli leader confirms consent to US arms sales to UAE

  24-10-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday appeared to confirm that Israel has given its consent for the United States to sell F35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates following a recent agreement establishing diplomatic relations between the Mideast countries.The expected sale would make the UAE the first Arab nation - and just the second country in the Middle East after Israel — — to possess the stealth warplanes.Netanyahu has repeatedly insisted the deal establishin
  
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• Ex-CIA Director Brennan: 'Outrageous' for Trump to talk of inviting Saudi crown prince to D.C.

  24-10-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast, former CIA Director John Brennan said it is “outrageous" for President Trump to talk about inviting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington.
  
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• Murkowski to vote to confirm Barrett to the Supreme Court

  24-10-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Murkowski was the only Republican who did not support Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.
  
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• Nigeria clashes trigger global movement against police brutality

  24-10-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than two weeks ago, tens of thousands of Nigerians began demanding the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a controversial police unit known as SARS.
  
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• France reacts after Erdogan questions Macron's mental health

  24-10-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France recalled its ambassador to Turkey for consultations after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said President Emmanuel Macron needed mental health treatment and made other comments that the French government described as unacceptably rude.Erdogan questioned his French counterpart's mental condition while criticizing Macron’s attitude toward Islam and Muslims.“What is the problem of this person called Macron with Islam and Muslims?” Erdogan asked rhetorically during his
  
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• Afghan security forces kill senior al Qaeda leader al-Masri

  24-10-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted Terrorists list, Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a tweet late on Saturday.The head of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center, Chris Miller, confirmed al-Masri's death in a statement, saying his "removal .. from the battlefield is a major setback to a terrorist organization that is consistently experiencing strategic losses
  
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• Cameroon: Children killed in attack on school in Kumba

  24-10-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials have blamed Anglophone secessionists for the attack on a private school in a restive region.
  
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• Afghan bombing: Kabul education centre attack kills at least 18

  24-10-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suicide attack outside the private facility in the Afghan capital has wounded dozens more.
  
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• Archbishop Pizzaballa appointed Jerusalem Patriarch

  24-10-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Vatican’s apostolic administrator in the Holy Land, has been named as the new Patriarch of Jerusalem by Pope Francis.Pizzaballa, 55, a Franciscan friar, has served as the acting Patriarch for four years and has steered the diocese through a financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, when the churches at the birthplace of Christianity were closed throughout its holiest season, Easter.In ordinary years, the Holy Land would be preparing for an influ
  
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• Former home of Jennifer Dulos goes on the market for $1.75M

  24-10-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former home of Jennifer Dulos, the Connecticut mother of five who prosecutors say was killed by her estranged husband last year, is going on the market for $1.75 million.The 10,000-square-foot, six-bedroom house in Farmington, Connecticut is being listed as part of the sell-off of the estate of Fotis Dulos, Jennifer Dulos' estranged husband, The Hartford Courant reported Saturday.Fotis Dulos, a luxury home builder, took his own life in January while facing a murder charge.
  
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• Nigeria’s police order massive mobilization to ‘dominate the public space’ after unrest over SARS

  24-10-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria’s top police official on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to “reclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters” after days of unrest and demonstrations over police abuses that left at least 69 people dead.The police order could further heighten tensions in Africa’s most populous country after some of its worst turmoil in years.Nigeria’s inspector general of police, M.A. Adamu, ordered colleagues
  
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• Fauci advocates mask mandate amid COVID-19 surge across US

  24-10-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Friday, top infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested it might be time for face coverings to be made mandatory to stop the spread of the virus.“Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it,” he told CNN’s Erin Burnett during an interview.“I don’t like to be the authoritarian from the federal government, but at the local level, if governors and others essentially mandate the use of masks when you have an outbreak, I think
  
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• ‘If you bring Florida home this thing’s over.’ Obama makes surprise Miami Springs stop

  24-10-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Miami Springs on Saturday, stopping by the small, majority Latino city to motivate local campaign workers for Democratic nominee Joe Biden before they headed out to knock on doors.
  
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• Nigeria's police order massive mobilization after unrest

  24-10-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria’s top police official on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to “reclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters” after days of unrest and demonstrations over police abuses that left at least 69 people dead.The police order could further heighten tensions in Africa’s most populous country after some of its worst turmoil in years.Nigeria’s inspector general of police, M.A. Adamu, ordered colleagues to “
  
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• Voter advocates hoping to stave off intimidation at polls

  24-10-2020 20:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Anti-government extremists and other armed civilians have flocked to protests against racial injustice and Covid-19 lockdowns.
  
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• See Illinois' health director tear up as she shares Covid death toll

  24-10-2020 20:33 via cnn.com
  
  Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike fought back tears while sharing statistics about the state, where the Coronavirus infection rate is "rapidly rising."
  
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• Illinois health director tears up as she shares Covid-19 death toll

  24-10-2020 20:33 via cnn.com
  
  Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike fought back tears while sharing statistics about the state, where the Coronavirus infection rate is "rapidly rising."
  
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• The Electoral College can pick a president who got fewer votes. Here's why and how.

  24-10-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2020 presidential election again highlights one of the most confusing and controversial parts of the U.S. elections: The Electoral College.
  
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• Fox host Lou Dobbs says 'I don't know why anyone' would vote for Sen. Lindsey Graham

  24-10-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The conservative commentator slammed the South Carolina senator for what he feels is a lack of oversight regarding anti-conservative bias.
  
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• Europe's clocks are going back. Here's how to stay positive as the nights draw in

  24-10-2020 20:22 via cnn.com
  
  The clocks are turning back one hour across Europe at 2am on Sunday October 25, giving everyone across the continent an extra hour in bed, and signaling the start of winter.
  
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• Venezuela opposition figure Leopoldo López leaves Spanish embassy

  24-10-2020 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leopoldo López, who took shelter in the Spanish embassy in Caracas, is going to Spain, his father says.
  
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• At least 18 killed, dozens wounded in suicide bombing outside Kabul education center

  24-10-2020 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 18 people were killed and 57 injured Saturday during a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, the interior ministry said. The casualty toll may continue to rise as family members continue searching hospitals where the wounded are being treated.The explosion occurred outside an education center in Dasht-e-Barchi, a heavily Shiite neighborhood in the western section of the capital, per The Associated Press. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the Taliban — which
  
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• France recalls envoy after Erdogan jibe at Macron

  24-10-2020 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France on Saturday said it was recalling its envoy to Turkey for consultations after comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron needed a mental health check-up that Paris condemned as unacceptable.
  
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• Jared and Ivanka threaten lawsuit over Times Square billboards

  24-10-2020 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law, both top White House aides, are threatening to sue a group of anti-Trump Republicans for posting billboard ads in New York City's Times Square linking them to the country's almost 225,000 coronavirus deaths.A lawyer representing Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, made the threat on Friday in a letter to the Lincoln Project, calling the ads "false, malicious and defamatory" and saying they constituted "outrageous and shameful libel.""If
  
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• Trump rallies in North Carolina as contest with Biden hits battleground states – live

  24-10-2020 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  As election day nears, what dirty tricks could Trump turn to?California ‘shattering prior returns’ with 6m ballots castUS election polls tracker: who is leading in the swing states?Sign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 6.40pm BST While the US is surging towards record numbers of new coronavirus infections that could exceed the grim threshold of 100,000 cases a day, Donald Trump’s most controversial official White House coronavirus adviser, Scott At
  
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• Coronavirus live news: UK records 174 deaths; Colombia due to surpass 1m cases

  24-10-2020 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Polish president Andrzej Duda tests positive for Covid-19UK could be urged to keep windows open in effort to curb Covid-19Coronavirus vaccine final-stage testing to restart in USWhich countries have the most coronavirus cases and deaths?6.32pm BST Greece announced a record 935 new infections on Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 29,992.Five further deaths were also reported, taking the country’s toll to 564. 6.24pm BST The Metropolitan Police have said they made 18 a
  
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• Biden promises increased scientific investment if elected in 'most in-depth statement of priorities'

  24-10-2020 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the latest episode of Pod Save America -- a podcast hosted by several former Obama administration staffers -- the Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, laid out what Politico described as "the most in-depth statement of priorities we've heard from" the candidate.Biden, responding to the Republican Party's agenda for a second Trump administration term (which includes items focused on space exploration and a national high speed wireless network), said that, first and
  
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• Michigan man who accidentally bought extra lottery ticket wins two $1M prizes

  24-10-2020 19:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  "It took several days for the reality to set in that my mistake had paid off to the tune of $2 million," Samir Mazahem said.
  
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• 2 staff members to Sen. Loeffler test positive for COVID

  24-10-2020 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two staff members for Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia tested positive for the coronavirus, but a subsequent test of the senator came back negative, the senator's office said Saturday.Loeffler was tested on Friday after learning about the positive tests of two Senate staff members, her office said in a brief statement.The statement did not say whether the senator had close contact with the staff members or planned additional tests.
  
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• Elderly couple who refused to evacuate home was killed by Colorado wildfire, local authorities say

  24-10-2020 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The couple's "only desire was to be together in the home they loved," their family said in a statement.
  
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• Asian American businesses hit especially hard during the pandemic

  24-10-2020 19:20 via cnn.com
  
  • The US marks a harrowing coronavirus milestone
  • A proposed visa rule threatens to expel about 12,000 doctors working in the US
  
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