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• Oregon just became the first state to legalize medical psilocybin. Here's what 'magic' mushrooms do to your brain and body.

  04-11-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in "magic" mushrooms, can cause hallucinations and potentially decrease anxiety and depression symptoms.
  
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• Nobody thought Vienna attacker was capable of this, says his former lawyer

  04-11-2020 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  The gunman who carried out a deadly terror attack in the Austrian capital, Vienna, "was a lost soul" who did not appear capable of such an act, a lawyer who represented him said Wednesday.
  
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• The two reasons most likely to sink Trump's last-minute Supreme Court ploy

  04-11-2020 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  The specter of litigation calling Wisconsin's result into question is minimal, at best. That may be bad for Trump, but it may be good for the rest of us.
  
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• Graphic: Outstanding votes in battleground states

  04-11-2020 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  There are still ballots to count.
  
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• Postal Service says it delivered ballots on time amid untracked vote concerns

  04-11-2020 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  About 300,000 mailed ballots weren't scanned by the Postal Service, but workers and advocates explain that doesn't mean they're missing.
  
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• Biden projects confidence about his lead: 'We believe we will be the winners'

  04-11-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden projected confidence Wednesday that he will maintain his lead over Donald Trump in a series of key states that are enough to hand him the presidency.
  
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• 'Poll watcher' drama outside Detroit counting room

  04-11-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan, a battleground state that will help determine who wins the U.S. presidential election, is still counting "tens of thousands" of ballots according to a top state official. Emotions were running high in Detroit, where poll watchers were barred from the counting room on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Republican allies break with Trump, say take time to count all the votes

  04-11-2020 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Their comments came after the president urged that ballot counting in some states be stopped and baselessly claimed a "major fraud on the nation."
  
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• Biden moves closer to the presidency as Trump launches legal challenges

  04-11-2020 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden has moved to within 17 electoral votes of claiming the presidency by winning the state of Michigan, CNN projects, in the latest twist of a dramatic election clash with President Donald Trump that has left America's political fate uncertain hours after polls closed.
  
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• Are yams and sweet potatoes the same? 5 questions answered about the favorite fall food

  04-11-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sweet potato and yam are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Here's how to tell the difference.
  
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• NC man says he was told at polls to cast second ballot. ‘How was I able to vote twice?’

  04-11-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “There’s definitely a flaw in the system, for sure. That’s concerning.”
  
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• Ankara vows 'firm' response to French ban on Turkish group

  04-11-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey vowed Wednesday to deliver a firm response to France's ban of the Turkish ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves group linked to a top ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  
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• Postal Service to continue extraordinary measures to deliver properly postmarked ballots through Saturday

  04-11-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  The United States Postal Service will continue to implement extraordinary measures through this weekend to deliver ballots in time to be counted in more than a dozen states, a top official at the agency said Wednesday.
  
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• Trump and Cooper both win NC? How does that happen?

  04-11-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ten times since 1968, N.C. voters have opted to send a Democrat to the Governor’s Mansion and a Republican to the White House. Some call it North Carolina’s split personality when it comes to politics.
  
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• Federal judge says he'll force USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to show up in court and explain what happened to mail-in voting

  04-11-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Judge Emmet Sullivan accused the Postal Service of slow-walking his orders and threatened to depose the postmaster general.
  
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• Walmart's early Black Friday deals start tonight — but you can shop these now

  04-11-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most deals will go live at 7 p.m. on Nov. 4, but you can save on other must-have items ahead of time.
  
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• Meet the candidates who made history in the 2020 election

  04-11-2020 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  From Cori Bush, Missouri's first Black congresswoman, to Sarah McBride, the nation's first state senator to publicly identify as transgender, the 2020 election was filled with historical milestones.
  
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• Biden: "We believe we will be the winners" when counting is done

  04-11-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All eyes are on a handful of battleground states where Biden appears to be making gains against President Trump.
  
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• New New York travel restrictions take effect, NJ and CT stick with advisory

  04-11-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New travel restrictions took effect in New York Wednesday that allow visitors from out of state to test out of the mandatory 14-day quarantine.
  
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• Latest from the states that will decide the election

  04-11-2020 23:02 via deeplink
  
  See where the Electoral College tally stands.
  
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• Mississippi's new magnolia flag starting to fly after vote

  04-11-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Mississippi flag without Confederate images was flying in parts of the state on Wednesday, one day after a majority voters approved the design that has a magnolia encircled by stars and the phrase “In God We Trust.”Officials hoisted the flag outside Hattiesburg City Hall and on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.“Mississippi voters sent a message to the world that we are moving forward together,” former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Reuben And
  
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• U.S. House agriculture leader loses election, unsettling Midwest farm sector

  04-11-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, House Agriculture Committee chair, failed to win re-election in Minnesota on Tuesday, a loss some agriculture leaders said could hurt the Midwest grain belt.Ruling parties take seniority into account when selecting committee chairs, providing an opening for senior House Democrats like Reps. Jim Costa of California, David Scott of Georgia and Marcia Fudge of Ohio to lead the agriculture committee.
  
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• Biden predicts victory in 2020 race: 'When the count is finished, we will be the winners'

  04-11-2020 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shortly after Biden spoke, NBC News projected him as the winner in the battleground state of Michigan.
  
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• North Carolina election results won't change for a week: officials

  04-11-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Carolina election officials said on Wednesday they did not expect vote totals reported by the state to change for more than a week, as the state remained undecided in both the U.S. presidential race and a Senate seat."With very few exceptions, North Carolina's election results will not change until Nov. 12 or 13, when all mail-in ballots are received and counted by each county," Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the state Board of Elections, told a news conference.State officials h
  
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• Tigray crisis: Ethiopia orders military response after army base seized

  04-11-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The authorities in the Tigray region seize a base from the federal army, as tensions worsen.
  
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• Republican candidates earned victories across North Carolina. Here’s how they did it

  04-11-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One key: going hard after voters who hadn’t voted recently.
  
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• Biden at 264 electoral votes, Trump at 214: US media

  04-11-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden on Wednesday neared the magic number of 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House with several battleground states still in play, as incumbent President Donald Trump challenged the vote count.
  
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• In blue and red states, milestone wins for LGBTQ candidates

  04-11-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Across the nation, LGBTQ candidates achieved milestone victories in Tuesday’s election, including the first transgender person elected to a state Senate, and the first openly gay Black men to win seats in Congress.The landmark wins came not in only blue but also red states such as Tennessee, where Republican Eddie Mannis, who is gay, and Democrat Torrey Harris, who identifies as bisexual, won seats in the state House to become the first openly LGBTQ members of that legislature.
  
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• Trump immigration rule takes effect again during appeal

  04-11-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal appeals court has allowed a Trump administration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps to go back into effect while it considers the case.On Monday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman in Chicago struck down the rule and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services stopped applying it to pending applications.Under the Trump administration rule, officials can deny permanent residency to legal immigrants over their use of food stamps, Medicai
  
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• Manchester United suffers shock Champions League defeat to Istanbul Basaksehir

  04-11-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's job as Manchester United head coach may well be hanging by a thread following a shock 2-1 defeat to Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir in the Champions League.
  
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• Frustrated Democrats eye two more years in minority after falling short in key Senate races

  04-11-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Democrats poured record-shattering sums of money into Senate races across the country, betting that President Donald Trump's deep unpopularity would provide their path back to power.
  
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• Florida in the path of Tropical Storm Eta

  04-11-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After slamming into Central America, Eta may have South Florida in its sights.
  
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• Florida in the path of Eta and it could become hurricane again

  04-11-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After slamming into Central America, Eta may have South Florida in its sights.
  
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• Florida in the path of Eta and it could become a hurricane again

  04-11-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After slamming into Central America, Eta may have South Florida in its sights.
  
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• 13 Investigates Harris County areas with worst voter turnout

  04-11-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 80,000 Harris County voters live in precincts where the majority vote changed from Democrat to Republican or vice versa this year.
  
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• Hear Biden speak about his position

  04-11-2020 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addresses the nation as votes continue to be counted in several battleground states.
  
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• Tense situation at ballot-counting center

  04-11-2020 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Miguel Marquez reports from a convention center in Detroit where some observers and challengers to the vote-counting process have been removed from a room where absentee ballots are being counted.
  
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• Smerconish: You can't claim fraud or theft without backing it up

  04-11-2020 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Dana Bash talks to Michael Smerconish about the Trump campaign going to the Supreme Court to ask it to intervene in a pending case challenging a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allowed ballots to be counted after Election Day.
  
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• MAGA Fanatics Descend on Detroit Vote-Counting Site As Biden Wins Michigan

  04-11-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT—After both Democrats and Republicans sent their allotted 134 “poll challengers” into a vote-counting site here on Wednesday, election officials barred additional outside challengers from entering.The cap on poll watchers was within state rules. But consistent with surging GOP panic that continued counting might hand Democratic challenger Joe Biden the presidency, a mob-like crowd of Republicans cried foul, chanting “stop the vote” and “let us in”
  
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• After judge's order, Postal Service sweep finds 13 ballots

  04-11-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Postal Service inspectors found just 13 ballots — all in Pennsylvania — during an Election Day sweep of mail processing centers ordered by a federal judge. The ballots were found in two separate mail processing facilities and were expedited for delivery to local election offices, according to court records filed Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington, D.C., had given the Postal Service until Tuesday afternoon to search 27 facilities in several battlegroun
  
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• Twitter suspends fake Associated Press accounts that made bogus U.S. election calls

  04-11-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several Twitter accounts falsely claiming to be tied to The Associated Press have been suspended after broadcasting unverified U.S. election results, according to screenshots circulating online and a review of the accounts in question.Twitter Inc did not immediately respond to an email.
  
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• His hopes of winning growing dim, Trump looks to halt vote counting in Pennsylvania

  04-11-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As President Trump’s reelection prospects continued to dim on Wednesday, his campaign launched an aggressive yet questionable strategy to keep Joe Biden from winning the state of Pennsylvania.
  
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• Joe Biden is technically within one state — Pennsylvania — of the White House

  04-11-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan has 16 electoral votes and is not expected by analysts to be particularly competitive.
  
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• After taking Michigan, Joe Biden is technically within one state — Pennsylvania — of the White House

  04-11-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan has 16 electoral votes and is not expected by analysts to be particularly competitive.
  
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• Joe Biden: 'I feel very good about Pennsylvania'

  04-11-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic nominee addresses the nation as the presidential race hangs in the balance
  
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• Judge 'shocked' USPS disregarded order for postal inspectors to search for undelivered ballots

  04-11-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  USPS facilities in some crucial battleground states had not been searched, leaving questions about whether all ballots had been delivered in time.
  
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• LeBron James pleads with people in Akron to help find killer of his best friend's sister after she was slain in her home

  04-11-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LeBron James' "little brother" Brandon Weems lost his older sister Ericka after she was killed in their hometown of Akron, Ohio, this week.
  
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• US election results: Tables turned as Trump voters start to worry

  04-11-2020 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republicans in our group chat were jubilant overnight - but the mood changed as more results came in.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's $22 million Palm Beach mansion will be demolished

  04-11-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  The $22 million Palm Beach mansion owned by financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be demolished to make way for an even more expensive home, according to the developer who is buying it.
  
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• Lottery ticket said NC man won the jackpot. He checked it ’40 times’ just to be sure

  04-11-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Admit it: It’s tough to believe you just won $1 million.
  
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