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• Joe Biden touts progressive platform in final days of campaign

  30-10-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democratic nominee has his busiest day on the trail; Peter Doocy has the latest on 'Special Report'
  
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• Illinois shatters single-day COVID-19 record set a day earlier with nearly 7,000 new cases

  30-10-2020 23:56 via chicagotribune.com
  
  CHICAGO — Illinois on Friday reported nearly 7,000 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus, eclipsing a single-day record set just 24 hours earlier and pushing the total number of known cases since the pandemic began past 400,000. "This is an extraordinarily dangerous time," Gov. J.B. Pritzker said during his daily COVID-19 briefing. "And as a result, we must do everything in our power to ...
  
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• A Biden or Trump win could change the life of transgender service members

  30-10-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has been vague about his plans for the military if he wins the election, but one specific promise he has made is to roll back the Trump administration policy that effectively bars transgender service members from serving openly in their preferred gender.
  
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• Canada's ex-finance minister Bill Morneau cleared over charity gift

  30-10-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bill Morneau quit in August, but he denied it was over the gift of trips from WE Charity.
  
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• Trump pushes baseless theory about doctors and virus deaths

  30-10-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump pushed a baseless conspiracy theory at one of his rallies in Michigan, claiming that "our doctors get more money if somebody dies from Covid." CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
  
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• Chip wars: The US v China

  30-10-2020 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chips that power nearly all electronic devices are at the heart of the battle for global dominance.
  
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• U.S. says Iranian hackers behind threatening emails accessed voter data

  30-10-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. officials said late Friday that the Iranian hackers behind a wave of threatening emails sent to thousands of Americans earlier this month successfully accessed voter data.The statement, issued jointly by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), partially confirms the authenticity of a video distributed as part of a disinformation campaign that briefly drew attention when it became public last week.The campaign - which consist
  
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• Migrant Children From Other Countries Are Being Expelled Into Mexico

  30-10-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. border authorities have been expelling migrant children from other countries into Mexico, violating a diplomatic agreement with Mexico and testing the limits of immigration and child welfare laws.The expulsions, laid out in a sharply critical internal email from a senior Border Patrol official, have taken place under an aggressive border closure policy the Trump administration has said is necessary to prevent the coronavirus from spreading into the United States. But they conflict with the
  
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• How is the rest of the world taking the US election

  30-10-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2020 U.S. presidential election is creating waves across the pond, where residents of the United Kingdom have taken interest; Greg Palkot reports
  
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• ‘These guys are not very polite’: Biden calls Trump supporters who disrupted Minnesota rally ‘ugly folks’

  30-10-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden lashed out at Minnesotans disrupting his campaign rally, saying the “ugly folks” were not polite for interrupting his speech criticizing Donald Trump over the Covid-19 pandemic.“Dr Fauci called for a mask mandate last week, this isn’t a isn’t political statement like those ugly folks over there beeping their horns, this is a patriotic duty for God sake,” Mr Biden said.It is the second time in the past week that Mr Biden insulted disruptive Trump supp
  
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• Kennedy cousin wont be retried in Martha Moxley case

  30-10-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Skakel spent 11 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2018
  
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• Kim Kardashian West's lavish private island birthday party may have cost over $2 million, according to resort estimates and a luxury private event planner

  30-10-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The event reportedly included a private island resort buyout, private jet transportation, goodie bags, and much more.
  
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• Meet the Kansas City activist who's going viral for her scathing speech at a Board of Police Commissioners' meeting

  30-10-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kansas City activist Keiajah "Kj" Brooks spoke at the Board of Police Commissioners meeting, spending two minutes "reading [them] for a filth."
  
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• Midshipman asks judge to block his removal over tweets

  30-10-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chase Standage, a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman facing expulsion over social media posts, sees himself as a casualty of a campus “culture war."An academy official recommended disenrolling the white midshipman for tweeting a flurry of crude messages, including one in which he said Breonna Taylor received “justice” on the day police in Louisville, Kentucky, killed the Black woman during a drug raid.U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander didn't immediately rule on Friday after presid
  
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• Trump administration attempted to direct $250 million in taxpayer funds for re-election campaign, Krishnamoorthi says

  30-10-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Documents revealed the Trump administration attempted to use taxpayer money to boost his chances of winning the 2020 election.New documents unveiled an attempt made by President Donald Trump‘s administration to use taxpayer funds for his re-election campaign.Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said to CNN’s Jake Tapper that the $250 million intended for COVID-19 education was attempted to be used for other purposes.
  
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• Swing state profile: Could New Hampshire help Donald Trump keep the presidency?

  30-10-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton’s closest win gives Donald Trump hope
  
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• Should Democrats be nervous about early voting trends?

  30-10-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'The Five' discuss whether Joe Biden should be concerned about falling short in traditional Democrat strongholds
  
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• Getty photographer documents moment of home evictions

  30-10-2020 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar speaks with Getty Images photographer John Moore who has been covering home evictions as a result of the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Public health building shot with pellet gun after protests at homes of Utah officials

  30-10-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters have gathered at the home of a top state health official.
  
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• Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to defuse Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

  30-10-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Friday to urgent steps after talks to resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh where hundreds have been killed in more than a month of fighting, a statement by major powers said.Armenia and Azerbaijan - whose three ceasefires have failed to halt the latest fighting - would communicate on issues "related to possible ceasefire verification mechanisms," it said.
  
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• Trump says Biden will take away your electricity, celebrates low Black voter turnout in Wisconsin rally

  30-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump made another visit to the swing state of Wisconsin on Friday evening, bringing some unfounded theories and repetitive rants along with him.For starters, Trump celebrated reports that Democratic nominee Joe Biden wasn't driving Black voter turnout, framing it in a way that made it seem like he was happy about the disenfranchisement. "The Black vote is not turning out for him," Trump said of Biden. "They're not showing up to vote and others aren't either."> At a rally in Green B
  
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• Here's what happened when NBC News tried to investigate the alleged Hunter Biden emails

  30-10-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Analysis: Trump complains the media isn't reporting on Hunter Biden's emails. But NBC News met obstacles, including Rudy Giuliani, when it tried.
  
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• Coronavirus: US sees record-high daily Covid numbers as election nears

  30-10-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Days before the presidential election, dozens of states are experiencing serious Covid-19 surges.
  
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• Who is voting? Who is winning? Early vote only offers clues

  30-10-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As early voting breaks records across the U.S., political analysts and campaigns are reviewing reams of data on the voters, looking for clues to key questions: Who is voting?Registered Democrats are outpacing registered Republicans significantly — by 14 percentage points — in states that are reporting voters' party affiliation, according to an Associated Press analysis of the early vote.Meanwhile, polls show Republicans have heeded President Donald Trump's baseless warnings about mai
  
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• Police smash car windows, family trapped at protest

  30-10-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A night of peaceful protests in Philadelphia late on Tuesday gave way to more unrest and some demonstrators clashed with police after a Black man was killed by police officers in a shooting caught on video. (Oct. 30)
  
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• The New Yorker ’s Hit Piece on Scalia’s Labor Dept. Was Too Good to Fact-Check, Emails Show

  30-10-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump’s election led to an explosion in fact-checking as a journalism genre unto itself, but The New Yorker has been at it for nearly 100 years as part of the normal course of its work. And it takes pride in that pedigree.A 2009 piece in the magazine laid out the process, in which writers submit their stories and the fact-checking department painstakingly vets every detail that can possibly be vetted.“Each word in the piece that has even a shred of fact clinging to it is sc
  
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• Minnesota Democrats ramp up push for absentee ballot turnout

  30-10-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minnesota Democrats and election officials on Friday urged people with absentee ballots not yet mailed to drop them off by hand or vote in person, a day after an appellate court’s ruling raised questions about whether ballots that arrive up to seven days beyond Election Day would be counted.Thursday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said absentees arriving after Election Day should be separated from other ballots, raising the specter that they c
  
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• Best Buy just dropped a surprise Black Friday 2020 Sale and these are the best deals

  30-10-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shop the Best Buy Black Friday 2020 preview sale to save on Bluetooth headphones, TCL TVs, Amazon devices and more.
  
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• Trump says he isn't the 'most famous man' in the world — Jesus is

  30-10-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While campaigning in Wisconsin on Friday, President Trump said he isn't the "most famous man" in the world. He said that Jesus Christ is instead.
  
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• States Want to Approve COVID-19 Vaccines Themselves. Will That Lead to More Trust—Or Less?

  30-10-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Experts say it's probably a good idea, but could backfire
  
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• A white supremacist gang has been charged with kidnapping and forcibly removing a tattoo of a former member before killing him

  30-10-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new indictment charges members of the group with kidnapping, forcibly removing a tattoo, and then killing one ex-gang member.
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse extradited to Wisconsin following terse ruling from Illinois judge accusing him of asking the court to 'ignore binding Illinois law'

  30-10-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rittenhouse, charged in Wisconsin with first-degree homicide over the shooting of three people at Kenosha protests, had been fighting his extradition.
  
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• Breonna Taylor grand jurors say there was an 'uproar' when they realized officers wouldn't be charged with her death

  30-10-2020 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Two grand jurors who heard the Kentucky Attorney General's Office presentation of the Breonna Taylor case say prosecutors were dismissive of their questions and that there was an "uproar" when jurors realized Louisville police officers wouldn't be charged with Taylor's death.
  
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• Melania Trump posts video that misleads on the President's LGBTQ policies

  30-10-2020 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  Melania Trump tweeted a video of herself posted Thursday discussing for three minutes the efforts the Trump administration has made to support the rights of the gay community, blaming sentiments that President Donald Trump opposes gay rights on his "many enemies in the political establishment."
  
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• Trump tells supporters in battleground Wisconsin Biden would let ‘rioters’ run the federal government

  30-10-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘We win this state, it’s over,' president says as former GOP governor says his campaign is right to feel a 2016 repeat win there is possible
  
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• A backlog of mail is piling up at a Miami-Dade post office as Election Day nears

  30-10-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just days before the Nov. 3 election, mail delivery is being delayed at times in a critical Florida district, South Florida’s letter carrier union chief said Friday — and extraordinary measures are being considered to alleviate the bottleneck.
  
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• Russia loses UN vote over women's rights in conflict zones

  30-10-2020 21:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Security council resolution that many feared would weaken human rights is rejected by UK, US and other statesAttempts by Russia to introduce a UN security council resolution, which activists said would have unravelled the rights of women in conflict have failed as 10 countries abstained on a crucial vote on Friday.The UK, US, Germany and France were among the abstaining member states, which meant the resolution did not gain the nine votes required to pass. Continue reading...
  
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• Following protests over the police shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr., Philadelphia City Council passes a ban on police use of tear gas and rubber bullets

  30-10-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philadelphia is the largest city to pass a ban on "less-lethal" weapons in protests, according to the city council.
  
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• More than 1,000 Miami students are likely under a COVID quarantine, teachers union says

  30-10-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of Miami-Dade County public school students in quarantine due to increased cases of COVID-19 a month into the return to in-person learning is likely more than 1,000, according to the teachers union.
  
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• The Pentagon is building a school to teach the force how to defeat drones

  30-10-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office is spearheading an effort to get after the training side of countering drone threats, which includes the establishment of a school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
  
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• 'If he tries he wont succeed': Biden's lawyer warns they're ready for Trump to challenge election results

  30-10-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Law professor who worked on Obama campaigns added that the 2020 race has been ‘pretty heated’
  
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• U.S. judge blocks Commerce Department TikTok order

  30-10-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge in Pennsylvania on Friday blocked a U.S. Commerce Department order set to take effect on Nov. 12 that would have effectively barred Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the United States.U.S. District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone enjoined the Commerce Department from barring data hosting within the United States for TikTok, content delivery services and other technical transactions.
  
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• Tanzania elections: President Magufuli in landslide win amid fraud claims

  30-10-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  John Magufuli is re-elected by a landslide - but the opposition has dismissed the results.
  
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• 10-foot-long python captured in Ford Mustang

  30-10-2020 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  There are lots of reasons that the check engine light could come on in a Ford Mustang, but a big, honkin' snake curled up under the hood is probably not in the service manual.
  
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• Social issues a priority for cardinal-to-be Wilton Gregory

  30-10-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, soon to become the Roman Catholic Church’s first Black cardinal from the United States, hopes the U.S. hierarchy can broaden its concept of “pro-life” so that other pressing issues can be considered top priorities along with opposition to abortion.Gregory, in an interview Friday with The Associated Press, also endorsed proposals to include the history of Black Catholics in the U.S. as part of the curriculum in Catholic schools.Earlier
  
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• For transgender people in the military, much hinges on presidential election

  30-10-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has been vague about his plans for the military if he wins the election, but one specific promise he has made is to roll back the Trump administration policy that effectively bars transgender service members from serving openly in accord with their gender identity.
  
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• Chris Wallace: Trump, Biden cannot win without these three states

  30-10-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Fox News Sunday' host joins 'Bill Hemmer Reports' to discuss how early voting may impact the 2020 election
  
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• Trump wildly claims doctors are profiting off COVID-19 deaths

  30-10-2020 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has a disturbing and downright false explanation for why America's coronavirus deaths are continuing to rise.While rallying in Michigan on Friday, Trump once again took aim at the U.S.'s coronavirus case and death counts, which are indisputably the highest in the world. But Trump didn't quite get the indisputable part of all that, claiming that doctors are only driving up death counts to make money.A lot of COVID-19 deaths have also been attributed to other causes, or comorbiditi
  
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• MGM Resorts sees $495 million operating loss as Las Vegas reckons with tourism decline

  30-10-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A slow return of travel and fewer tourists on The Strip translated to a third quarter operating loss of $495 million for MGM Resorts.
  
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• Walmart quickly walks back decision to remove guns and ammo from store shelves

  30-10-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The company had said it was removing guns from shelves due to civil unrest.
  
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