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• Dr. Fauci: US may not be back to normal until 2022

  28-10-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  As Covid-19 cases continue to jump during the fall surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's little chance of normalcy on the horizon.
  
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• Red coating contaminates SpaceX rockets, delays crew launch

  28-10-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX’s second astronaut flight is off until mid-November because red lacquer dripped into tiny vent holes in two rocket engines that now must be replaced.SpaceX and NASA officials announced the discovery of the potentially damaging contamination Wednesday.The clogged holes were found after the aborted launch of a GPS satellite on Oct. 2.
  
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• CNN Poll: Biden continues to hold nationwide advantage

  28-10-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  With the race for the presidency approaching its end amid a raging pandemic, Democratic nominee Joe Biden maintains a substantial lead over President Donald Trump nationwide, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
  
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• 'I always feel Abramovich's support,' says Lampard after Chelsea owner's rare appearance

  28-10-2020 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Frank Lampard says he "always feels the support" of owner Roman Abramovich after the owner made a rare appearance at their game in Russia.
  
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• SpaceX engine swap should clear way for astronaut launch

  28-10-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX is replacing two suspect engines in the Falcon 9 rocket that will boost four astronauts to the space station.
  
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• 'Please don't shoot my son': Man killed by police needed mental health help, family says

  28-10-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  His relatives said they called 911 requesting an ambulance and hoped he could receive medical intervention. But police arrived first.
  
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• What India thinks of the US election

  28-10-2020 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  India has long been one of the more pro-American countries in the world. While President Donald Trump doesn't enjoy the same support as predecessors former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush -- presumably because of his trade threats and his restrictions on visas for highly-skilled workers, most of which go to Indians -- that broad approval remains largely intact, with 56% of Indians polled saying they had confidence in Trump to do the right thing on world affairs.
  
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• 'Bar Rescue' host Jon Taffer says he was 'surprised' by Trump's plan to save the hospitality industry in their podcast interview

  28-10-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taffer said he also offered Joe Biden an interview in an effort to drill into both candidates' plans to help bars, restaurants recover from the pandemic.
  
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• Lawyer for China exec accuses RCMP of lying about her arrest

  28-10-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lawyer for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei on Wednesday accused a Canadian police officer of lying about why he didn’t arrest her immediately at Vancouver’s airport two years ago.Richard Peck told Constable Winston Yep during cross-examination that he did not believe Yep was honest when he told the British Columbia Supreme Court this week why the arrest happened only after Canada Border Services Agency officers questioned Meng for three hours.Yep is the first in a s
  
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• US fighter jet intercepts aircraft near Trump rally, deploying signal flares

  28-10-2020 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  An aircraft entered restricted air space over President Donald Trump's rally in Bullhead City, Arizona on Wednesday, leading to a fighter jet being scrambled to intercept it.
  
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• Politics, COVID and attacks on civil service wearing on intelligence community as election approaches

  28-10-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A worsening pandemic and fears about losing their protections as civil servants amid political chaos is leading many intelligence officers in the U.S. government to consider leaving their agencies, according to current and former intelligence officers who spoke to Yahoo News.
  
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• Biden, in LGBTQ interview, vows to pass Equality Act in first 100 days

  28-10-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden, a leading voice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights as vice president under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, also pledged in an interview with the Philadelphia Gay News to expand queer rights internationally by making equality a centerpiece of U.S. diplomacy should he win the election and assume office in January.Biden has championed the Equality Act before, but his priority for the issue is significant given the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic and a host of other
  
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• Philadelphia police ask residents to stay indoors amid protests over fatal police shooting of Black man

  28-10-2020 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  The Philadelphia Police Department requested that residents in seven districts stay indoors as demonstrators took to the streets for a second night following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
  
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• This is what voters in Pennsylvania are worried about

  28-10-2020 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  In Western Pennsylvania, where fracking for natural gas is a major economic driver, many worry about the future of fracking in the last week of the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Biden says 'no excuse for looting' in wake of Wallace shooting

  28-10-2020 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  After casting his vote in the general election, Joe Biden was asked for his thoughts on the death of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., who was shot and killed by Philadelphia Police.
  
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• There are 6 days until the election. Here's what to know.

  28-10-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Numbers compiled by @electproject show at least 71 million people have already voted in the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Erdogan vows action over 'disgusting' Charlie Hebdo cartoon

  28-10-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vented his outrage Wednesday at a "disgusting" cartoon in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting him looking up a woman's skirt while drinking beer in his underpants.
  
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• Trump tries to turn back a tidal wave of early voting

  28-10-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Throughout the 2020 campaign, President Trump has pursued a strategy to try to keep voter turnout low in the general election, which, conventional wisdom holds, helps Republicans.
  
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• Justices deny fast, new look at Pennsylvania ballot deadline

  28-10-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not grant a quick, pre-election review to a new Republican appeal to exclude absentee ballots received after Election Day in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, although it remained unclear whether those ballots will ultimately be counted.The court's order left open the possibility that the justices could take up and decide after the election whether a three-day extension to receive and count absentee ballots ordered by Pennsylvania's
  
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• A man waved a sword at a woman blocks away from a polling place, warning her to 'vote for Trump' and photographing her license plate

  28-10-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man attending a Trump rally in Beverly Hills on Saturday wielded a sword and threatened passersby to vote for Trump, a viral TikTok video showed.
  
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• Health worker’s eye socket broken after asking rail riders to wear coronavirus masks on London Underground

  28-10-2020 22:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A London rail rider allegedly broke a United Kingdom health service worker’s face after he asked the passenger’s group why they weren't wearing coronavirus masks, police said.
  
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• 2020 election odds: Here’s the latest predictions for Trump v Biden

  28-10-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US election takes place on 3 November
  
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• US Air Force F-16s intercepted an unauthorized aircraft flying in a restricted area over a Trump rally

  28-10-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When President Donald Trump saw the F-16 deploy signal flares, he told a crowd that they were putting on a display for him.
  
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• What happens if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave the White House?

  28-10-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will enter uncharted territory after Election Day if the president refused to leave the White House after a clear electoral defeat
  
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• My son can't eat most Halloween candy, so I'm putting out a teal pumpkin for him and the millions of other kids with food allergies

  28-10-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The premise of the Teal Pumpkin Project is simple: Show trick-or-treaters that you have non-food items for those with allergies, even in a pandemic.
  
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• US says 'very real' risk of Turkey sanctions over Russian arms

  28-10-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US official warned Wednesday that NATO ally Turkey faced a risk of sanctions after it defiantly tested Russia's S-400 air defense system.
  
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• 'Offensive and embarrassing': Senators struggle to pronounce Google CEO Sundar Pichai's name correctly

  28-10-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senators questioning Google CEO Sundar Pichai alongside Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey couldn’t pronounce his name correctly.
  
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• Man arrested at Trump rally with South Dakota's Noem

  28-10-2020 22:15 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Police in Maine have arrested a man who they said displayed a knife and a wooden baton at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump where South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was appearing
  
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• Social media CEOs get earful on bias, warning of new limits by lawmakers

  28-10-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With next week's election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google received a hectoring from Republicans at a Senate hearing Wednesday for alleged anti-conservative bias in the companies' social media platforms — and were warned of coming restrictions from Congress.
  
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• Fauci says it's time for the US to 'put aside these extraordinary excuses' and mandate masks

  28-10-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We have to sort of shake each other by the collar and say, 'take a look at what's going on. Look at the data. It speaks for itself,' Fauci said.
  
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• 'Anonymous' WH official who wrote about officials thwarting Trump reveals himself

  28-10-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, revealed himself Wednesday as the author of an anonymous 2018 New York Times op-ed that depicted President Trump as a danger to the nation.
  
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• First amusement park in California reopening under COVID-19 limitations. What to know

  28-10-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amusement parks have been closed for months during the pandemic.
  
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• Toyota recalls 5.84 million vehicles for fuel pump issue

  28-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Toyota said on Wednesday that it has expanded a worldwide fuel pump recall to a total of 5.84 million vehicles for a defect that could cause the part to fail.
  
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• Gang member who says he beat up R. Kelly sentenced to life in racketeering case

  28-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A convicted gang member who said he beat up jailed R&B singer R. Kelly in a cell in August has been sentenced to life in prison for a racketeering conviction that involved two 1999 killings.
  
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• US election 2020: What to look out for on election night

  28-10-2020 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Americans will pick their next president on 3 November. Here's what to look for as results roll in.
  
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• Man arrested with two weapons at pro-Trump rally attended by South Dakota governor

  28-10-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Governor Noem’s security says she was ‘not in harm’s way’ during incident
  
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• Asian Americans more likely to use absentee ballots — and be rejected in Calif.

  28-10-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those with an absentee ballot can still drop it off. These groups are helping to educate voters on processes.
  
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• 'Safer than your local grocery store': How the Pentagon kept the virus at bay as the White House struggled

  28-10-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The contrast between the chaos the pandemic has wreaked on the White House and the limited impact it has had on the health of the 25,000-strong Pentagon workforce, which has rigorously followed CDC guidelines, could not be more pronounced.
  
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• See Trump's 1994 comments about women working

  28-10-2020 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump offered his latest appeal to suburban women, promising to get their husbands "back to work" if he's reelected. CNN's Brianna Keilar calls out Trump's history of sexist and outdated comments.
  
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• See RuPaul and Cory Booker react to finding out they're cousins

  28-10-2020 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and "Drag Race" star RuPaul Charles found out they're cousins after they each participated in PBS' "Finding Your Roots."
  
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• CNN anchor calls out Trump's 'tone deaf' plea to suburban women

  28-10-2020 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump offered his latest appeal to suburban women, promising to get their husbands "back to work" if he's reelected. CNN's Brianna Keilar calls out Trump's history of sexist and outdated comments.
  
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• Analysis: The secret to how Trump avoids paying his debts

  28-10-2020 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  • New York Times: Tax records show Trump had over $270 million in debt forgiven after failing to repay lenders
  
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• Why this historically red state might go blue in 2020

  28-10-2020 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  Arizona has voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1952, with the exception of President Bill Clinton in 1996. Arizona voters explain why 2020 may be the year the state turns from red to blue.
  
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• Walmart CEO urges Congress to pass another stimulus bill, assisting those who 'really need help' and boosting holiday sales by billions of dollars

  28-10-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another round of stimulus checks could boost online holiday sales by billions of dollars, according to Adobe analysis released on Wednesday.
  
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• The Latest: President declares emergency in Mississippi

  28-10-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has declared an emergency exists in Mississippi and ordered federal assistance be expedited to aid state, local and tribal efforts to recover from Hurricane Zeta.The president authorized the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts in the state and provide help to save lives and protect property.It added that FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide equipment and resources to deal wit
  
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• Identity of 'Anonymous' Trump critic revealed

  28-10-2020 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  The anonymous senior Trump administration official who wrote a 2018 New York Times op-ed and a subsequent book critical of President Donald Trump is Miles Taylor, he revealed in a statement to CNN on Thursday.
  
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• The White House is rolling its eyes at the big 'Anonymous' reveal

  28-10-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is just as impressed with the revelation of "Anonymous" as everyone else.On Wednesday, former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor revealed he was the one who wrote a New York Times op-ed and a subsequent book detailing how he was part of a "quiet resistance" within the Trump administration. It wasn't exactly a surprising announcement considering Taylor had already spoken out against Trump, including at the Democratic National Convention two months ago.As White House Pre
  
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• Molecule discovered on Saturn's moon Titan that's never been found in any other atmosphere

  28-10-2020 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in our solar system that has a thick atmosphere. It's four times denser than Earth's.And now, scientists have discovered a molecule in it that has never been found in any other atmosphere.
  
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• 'Anonymous,' author of White House tell-all book, revealed to be Miles Taylor

  28-10-2020 21:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  "Anonymous," the author of a tell-all book from a person who was currently serving in the Trump administration, has revealed themselves.
  
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• Gingrich: Georgia 'polls are wrong,' state not in play for Biden

  28-10-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former House speaker joins 'Bill Hemmer Reports' to analyze 2020 election polls
  
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