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• Two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian-Style Houses Hit the Market, One for First Time

  06-11-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Carr House in Illinois and the Armstrong House in Indiana were built in Wright’s signature aesthetic, with flat roofs and plenty of natural light
  
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• Paul Shanley, priest at center of sex scandal, dead at 89

  06-11-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Roman Catholic street priest who played a pivotal role in the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Archdiocese of Boston has died, authorities said Friday.Paul Shanley was 89.Police in Ware, a town in west-central Massachusetts where Shanley was living since his release from prison in 2017, confirmed his death but did not say how he died.
  
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• Trump calls for ballot counting scenario where votes legally cast by military would be thrown out

  06-11-2020 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  As President Donald Trump baselessly claimed that all votes received after Election Day are illegal, he attacked the absentee ballots of military members and their spouses that, by law, must be counted.
  
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• Tennessee governor gives death row inmate temporary reprieve

  06-11-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has granted a death row inmate a temporary reprieve from execution.Lee issued a short statement Friday afternoon saying he is granting a reprieve to Pervis Payne until April 9 "due to the challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.”Payne is the fourth inmate to receive a reprieve this year because of the virus.
  
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• Bannon's lawyer drops him after comments suggesting Fauci should be beheaded

  06-11-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who was arrested over the summer for alleged fraud, has lost his lawyer after suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.Lawyer William Burck on Friday "abruptly moved to drop" Bannon as a client after the former Trump strategist suggested violence against Fauci and Wray, The New York Times reports. Burck reportedly did not provide an explanation as to why he was doing so. A judge will have to a
  
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• Build an electoral map

  06-11-2020 23:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
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• RNC chair calls for voter 'irregularities' to be reviewed DESC:

  06-11-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on Friday urged that voter "irregularities" be reviewed in the presidential election.
  
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• QAnon-supporting Republican accuses a former Navy SEAL lawmaker of having a 'loser mindset'

  06-11-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Did you even read past the first sentence," Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former US Navy SEAL, said in a tweet.
  
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• Does Key West need a COVID-19 curfew? City leaders will decide

  06-11-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the Florida Keys, the Key West City Commission on Tuesday will consider installing a nightly curfew.
  
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• Outraged Canadians forced Whole Foods to overturn a controversial rule banning employees from wearing national symbol in remembrance of veterans

  06-11-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadians nationwide wear the poppy to observe the upcoming Remembrance Day holiday, similar to Veterans Day in the US.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spars with her centrist Democratic colleagues over policy and rhetoric after House Democrats suffer unexpected losses

  06-11-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats' unexpected electoral losses this week prompted renewed debate over the party's policies and message.
  
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• Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale is moving his VC firm from Silicon Valley to Austin, in part because it's 'more tolerant of ideological diversity'

  06-11-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale already moved his family outside of the Bay Area, and now, he's moving his venture capital firm too.
  
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• Do Democrats still want Nancy Pelosi to be House Speaker?

  06-11-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. reacts to party's frustration over loss of seats on 'Your World'
  
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• Pennsylvania Judge: Provisional Ballots from People Who Already Voted to Be Set Aside, Reviewed

  06-11-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pennsylvania commonwealth judge on Friday ordered that all provisional ballots cast by voters who had previously cast an absentee or mail-in ballot be set aside until county election directors ensure they meet state code and can legally be counted.The order, by Commonwealth judge Kevin Brobson, was in response to a lawsuit filed by state Republicans on Election Day that alleged some county election officials allowed voters to cast provisional ballots after they learned from political operative
  
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• Advocates race to find Georgia voters to correct bad ballots

  06-11-2020 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Volunteers search for voters whose ballots were initially rejected but could be "cured" with a signature or an ID before the Friday deadline.
  
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• We spoke to Hong Kong residents fleeing to the UK to avoid prison under China's strict new anti-protesting law

  06-11-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Restrictions on free speech and a ban on protests by China has seen large numbers of residents quit Hong Kong. But not everyone can get out.
  
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• Richard Branson wants to be the first 'space billionaire' to actually travel to space

  06-11-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Richard Branson, the thrill-seeking British billionaire, founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 on the promise that a privately developed spacecraft would make it possible for hundreds of people to become astronauts, no NASA training required. And if a 2,500-mile-per-hour ride to the edge of space sounded off-putting, Branson also pledged to take the journey himself before letting paying customers on board.
  
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• Michigan couple with 14 sons welcome their first daughter after nearly three decades

  06-11-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Michigan couple whose large family attracted attention by growing to include 14 sons has welcomed their first daughter nearly three decades after the birth of their first child.
  
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• Missouri poll worker kept COVID diagnosis mostly to herself

  06-11-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri election judge who came to work despite testing positive for the coronavirus died in her sleep after a 15-hour shift at the polls, the director of her county’s election office said Friday.The woman worked Election Day as an election judge supervisor at Memorial Hall in Blanchette Park in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles.St. Charles County Election Authority Director Kurt Bahr said in a phone interview that the woman had previously worked several oth
  
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• Election analysts became unlikely TikTok icons after their tireless broadcasts

  06-11-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN's John King and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki have become unexpected icons of election week. Here are the best TikToks about the news anchors.
  
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• L.A. man detained in connection to online threats tied to possible Biden win

  06-11-2020 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  He was not under arrest and no charges had been filed, authorities said.
  
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• Fact check: Viral video shows Pennsylvania poll workers fixing damaged ballots

  06-11-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A viral video claiming to show a poll worker committing voter fraud in Delaware County is false. Poll workers were fixing damaged ballots.
  
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• Sexual assault charge against Jacob Blake dismissed in plea bargain agreement

  06-11-2020 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  He pleaded guilty to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and domestic abuse.
  
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• Police investigate alleged plot to attack Pa. Convention Center

  06-11-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philadelphia police are investigating an alleged plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Thursday night.
  
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• Ivanka Trump Was Floating Above This Week’s Mess. No Longer.

  06-11-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ivanka Trump lives her life on Instagram; this year, her 7.2 million followers were privy to photos of her campaigning for her father. . .and also, for attention. In the lead-up to November 3, Ivanka(’s assistants) breathlessly posted pictures from barns in North Carolina, fields in Pennsylvania, and packed stages in Wisconsin. In her overcoats and pantsuits, she fashioned herself an avatar of inoffensive feminism, a “woman who works” doing. . .something. (Just trust her!)But a
  
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• Nancy Pelosi formally announces run for reelection as House speaker

  06-11-2020 22:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Nancy Pelosi formally announced her run for reelection as House speaker.
  
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• Shop with celebrity hair stylists: curling irons

  06-11-2020 22:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hair stylists to Cindy Crawford, Letitia Wright, Julia Roberts and others share pro tips and curling iron recommendations.
  
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• GOP files emergency request at Supreme Court as Biden overtakes Trump's lead in Pennsylvania

  06-11-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans in Pennsylvania have filed an emergency request at the US Supreme Court to separate mail-in ballots that arrived after Election Day but before a deadline of 6 November, which officials have already been ordered to do, as vote counters continued to process ballots that could determine the fate of the presidency.In a separate case, a federal court judge has denied a GOP request to toss out Pennsylvania ballots that had been “cured”, or contained errors that were corrected.T
  
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• Trump administration moves forward with $2.9 billion drone sale to UAE, source says

  06-11-2020 22:06 via cnn.com
  
  The US State Department informed Congress Thursday of the Trump administration's intent to sell 18 armed MQ-9B drones to the United Arab Emirates for an estimated $2.9 billion, a congressional aide told CNN on Friday.
  
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• Death of Black mother after birth of first child highlights racial disparities in maternal mortality

  06-11-2020 22:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Chaniece Wallace, an Indianapolis physician, died due to preeclampsia complications two days after she welcomed her daughter, Charlotte.
  
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• Federal employee claims bosses used government resources to push Trump campaign in Arizona battleground

  06-11-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Press conference was moved from CBP headquarters to Arizona at last minute, senior agency staffer tells The Independent
  
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• Latest jobs report shows long-term unemployment still on the rise, worrying economists

  06-11-2020 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The number of unemployed Americans who have been jobless for more than 26 weeks jumped to 3.6 million in October from 2.4 million the month before.
  
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• ‘A dreaded two years’: Biden, allies gear up to face a GOP Senate

  06-11-2020 22:00 via politico.com
  
  Votes are still being counted, but the likely election outcomes have Democrats reevaluating their priorities for a Biden White House.
  
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• Ethiopia's government carries out air strikes against Tigray region

  06-11-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ethiopia's prime minister on Friday said his government has carried out airstrikes against the forces of the country's well-armed Tigray region, asserting that strikes in multiple locations "completely destroyed rockets and other heavy weapons" and made it impossible for a retaliatory attack. Abiy Ahmed's evening announcement marked another escalation in clashes this week that experts say could slide one of Africa's most powerful and populous countries into civil war. There was no mention of cas
  
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• Dan Crenshaw Spars with Rep. Taylor Greene over Trump’s Fraud Claims: ‘Start Acting’ Like a Congresswoman

  06-11-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) slammed newly-elected congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed support for the wild internet conspiracy theory QAnon, after Greene accused him of being insufficiently supportive of President Trump's reelection bid.Trump claims, without evidence, that Democrats are conducting widespread voter fraud in crucial swing states. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent backlog of mail-in ballots, elections officials have not yet finished
  
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• Kindergartner reportedly dies of Covid-19 in Texas

  06-11-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “This doctor told us that our child would be fine, and our child didn’t even make it twenty-four hours," the child's father said.
  
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• Bannon lawyer quits fraud case after inflamatory remarks

  06-11-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, quit defending him in a federal fraud case a day after Bannon made inflammatory comments about Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray.In a letter dated Friday, defense attorney William Burck told a federal court judge in New York City that he was withdrawing from the case.The lawyer quit after Bannon suggested on an online broadcast that Fauci and Wray should be beheaded for being disloyal to the pres
  
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• Congress' QAnoner is already picking fights with her Republican colleagues

  06-11-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) made a pretty mild statement about the ongoing presidential vote count and President Trump's attempts to hold on to the White House. Incoming congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene spun it into a show of loyalty to the president.Crenshaw, a frequent ally of Trump, made clear Friday that, perhaps unlike the president, he would accept Trump's potential election loss. But he also called for "investigations" and "the court process" to happen before there's a final call.>
  
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• Watch this cruise ship assembled in seconds

  06-11-2020 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  Timelapse video of the brand-new Iona by P&O Cruises is the latest development in the cruising industry devastated by the coronavirus pandemic
  
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• Republican leaders press Trump team to detail fraud charges

  06-11-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  GOP leaders are nervously watching President Donald Trump's erratic handling of an election that's slipping away from him, delicately urging him and his team to clearly make a specific case about voting impropriety or accept the will of the American public.
  
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• GOP leaders press Trump team to detail fraud charges as they cautiously navigate the President

  06-11-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  GOP leaders are nervously watching President Donald Trump's erratic handling of an election that's slipping away from him, delicately urging him and his team to clearly make a specific case about voting impropriety or accept the will of the American public.
  
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• The Progressive Agenda Is Dead

  06-11-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democrats gambled that if they chose the least offensive, most avuncular establishmentarian to lead them -- a guy who could say “Do I look like a socialist?” and get America to concur that, no, Joe Biden did not look like one — they could leverage dislike for President Trump to win not only the presidency but the Senate. Meanwhile, they assumed they would build on their majority in the House to achieve overwhelming dominance.What the Democrats understood is that Democrats a
  
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• Amazon hiring 1,700 in Charlotte area. Other companies looking to fill seasonal jobs.

  06-11-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Giant retailers gearing up for holiday shopping.
  
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• Romney says Trump ‘damages the cause of freedom’ with election conspiracies

  06-11-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Romney joins a growing list of Republicans criticizing how the president has handled his dwindling chances at re-election
  
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• Fears over mutated Covid virus from mink lead to Denmark flight ban

  06-11-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Flights between Denmark and the UK were banned on Friday night to prevent the spread of a mutated Covid virus from mink that scientists fear could counter the effectiveness of a vaccine. The flights ban is the first in the UK since the start of the pandemic and follows the discovery of a mutated form of coronavirus, which can spread to humans, in Danish mink farms. Health officials are expected to trace and test some 3,000 people who flew in to the UK from Denmark in the past week via the travel
  
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• How Joe Biden gained an edge in Michigan

  06-11-2020 21:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Trump won the state in 2016 by 10,704 votes. New data shows Biden is now leading the president by 146,896 votes in the battleground state.
  
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• Home Depot Black Friday deals are here — 31 deals to shop right now

  06-11-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You can take advantage of savings on home essentials, tools and other seasonal favorites.
  
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• Democrat Mark Kelly projected to flip GOP-held Senate seat

  06-11-2020 21:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The seat was previously held by the late Sen. John McCain.
  
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• Pennsylvania Republicans win Supreme Court order to enforce separation of late-arriving ballots

  06-11-2020 21:19 via politico.com
  
  Justice Samuel Alito did not grant a GOP request that those ballots go uncounted, but instead said they could be tallied “if counted separately.”
  
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• Pennsylvania Republicans ask Supreme Court to enforce separation of late-arriving ballots

  06-11-2020 21:19 via politico.com
  
  The Pennsylvania secretary of state said Thursday that the late-arriving ballots are already being separated and have not been counted yet.
  
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