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• The family of a woman decapitated by a loose fence is suing Arches National Park, saying an $8 padlock would have prevented her death

  12-11-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Esther "Essie" Nakajjigo and her husband were driving out of Arches National Park in June when a gust of wind slammed a metal gate into their car.
  
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• Tiger in the hunt at Masters after first round

  12-11-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  A revitalized Tiger Woods drew on his vast experience at Augusta National to open his defense of the US Masters crown with a solid 4-under-par 68.
  
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• Doctor charged in alleged racially motivated attack on Louisiana college student

  12-11-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shane McKinney, 54, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor at Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital, was arrested and charged with simple battery.
  
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• Trump campaign surveys supporters over perceived attack by Fox News

  12-11-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump has complained about being treated unfairly by the news division of the network for months, even as Fox's opinion hosts support the president's demand to investigate potential voter fraud.Fox Corp shares were down 6% Thursday.
  
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• Dozens of pharmacies, including those inside Walmart, Costco, and Kroger stores, will now be able to administer COVID vaccines when they're available

  12-11-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Department of Health and Human Services just announced a partnership with large pharmacy chains to distribute an eventual COVID-19 vaccine.
  
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• Plane crashes into Los Angeles neighbourhood

  12-11-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FAA says the plane crash occurred during its final approach to the nearby airport
  
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• Trump forces out senior cybersecurity official in charge of stamping out election misinformation

  12-11-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  String of national security officials asked to leave following president’s defeat
  
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• DOJ reportedly ends investigation into Epstein deal with no action against prosecutors

  12-11-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following the completion of a Justice Department investigation, no action will be taken against the federal prosecutors who oversaw a controversial 2008 non-prosecution deal with Jeffrey Epstein, NBC News reports.The DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility ended a probe into the non-prosecution deal with the late financier and convicted sex offender by concluding that the prosecutors involved exercised "poor judgment" but didn't violate the law or engage in "professional misconduct," accordi
  
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• 'Dejected' Trump waffles over waging baseless election fight

  12-11-2020 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  How much longer President Donald Trump continues waging battle over an election he lost remained in question Thursday as more of his advisers voiced doubt his gambit to contest the results would succeed. One person who spoke to him called him "dejected" over the ordeal.
  
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• Chicago mayor orders a stay-at-home order from Monday

  12-11-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2.7 million residents of Chicago are being told to not leave the house unless absolutely necessary, as Covid numbers nationwide continue to break records
  
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• California man charged with running 'virtual kidnapping' scam from a Mexican prison

  12-11-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Julio Manuel Reyes Zuniga is accused of duping at least 30 Americans into paying thousands of dollars in ransom to loved ones who were never actually kidnapped.
  
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• U.S. Senate confirms Florida lawyer to lifetime federal judgeship

  12-11-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Aileen Cannon to serve as a federal district court judge for the Southern District of Florida, continuing the Trump administration’s trend of nominating young attorneys to lifetime positions on the federal bench.
  
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• Beto O’Rourke says Democrats lost the social media war in election analysis endorsed by AOC

  12-11-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former lawmaker lists GOP’s ‘ferocious’ digital campaign and Dems’ centralised message as takeaways from election
  
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• 5 people reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus on the first Caribbean cruise since the pandemic began

  12-11-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On the first cruise in the Caribbean since March, five passengers aboard SeaDream Yacht Club's SeaDream I have tested positive for coronavirus.
  
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• Nikki Haley, a high-profile Republican and possible 2024 presidential hopeful, has remained silent about Trump's unfounded election fraud claims

  12-11-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The ex-UN ambassador hasn't commented on Trump's refusal to concede the election, sticking instead to tweets about GOP victories down ballot.
  
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• John McCain's widow says it's time for Trump to 'accept the results and get on with the healing'

  12-11-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cindy McCain described Joe Biden as "a man of honor" who would "heal the wounds caused by the outgoing administration."
  
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• The economy as we knew it might be over, Fed Chair says

  12-11-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  The Covid-19 pandemic brought the economy to a screeching halt, and while it has started its long road to recovery, the economy we knew is probably a thing of the past, said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday.
  
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• Ritz takes a bite out of holiday ad space with LGBTQ-inclusive commercial

  12-11-2020 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  As part of its "Where There's Love, There's Family" campaign, Ritz's parent company is donating to the It Gets Better Project, which supports queer youth.
  
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• Trump bans US investments that would aid China's military

  12-11-2020 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning Americans from investing in Chinese firms that the administration says are owned or controlled by the Chinese military.
  
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• Coronavirus updates: US has 2,000 deaths in a day; Fauci says pandemic won't be around 'a lot longer'; Chicago closer to a lockdown

  12-11-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A record number of infections has driven hospitalizations to record levels. California meanwhile is nearing 1 million cases. Latest COVID-19 news.
  
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• New Jersey governor pleads with Covid-fatigued residents to choose inconvenience over death

  12-11-2020 22:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  "You know what's really uncomfortable and annoying? When you die," a blunt Gov. Phil Murphy said.
  
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• Two top Homeland Security officials forced to resign by White House

  12-11-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Two senior Department of Homeland Security officials have been forced to resign by the White House, according to sources familiar with the resignations.
  
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• Pennsylvania officials ask judge to toss Trump lawsuit over election results

  12-11-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials in the election battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign seeking to prevent the state from certifying its results in the vote for president.In court filings in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, lawyers for the Pennsylvania secretary of state and seven of the state's counties said the case made vague and unsupported allegations "on the basis of repeatedly-rej
  
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• McEnany wears 2 hats as WH press secretary, campaign adviser

  12-11-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A White House press secretary who refers questions to the White House?Kayleigh McEnany is wearing two hats, one as a Trump 2020 campaign adviser and the other as the White House press secretary, charged with articulating the administration’s policies and positions to the press and the public.On Thursday morning, McEnany appeared on Fox News as a campaign adviser and punted when asked if President Donald Trump should be providing President-elect Joe Biden access to the President's Daily Bri
  
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• Trump and his followers are on the 'crazy train' with unhinged election conspiracies, Republican congressman says

  12-11-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As President Trump’s claims of election cheating fall apart in court filings, he is taking his followers down a path of increasingly unhinged conspiracies about millions of votes being altered by mysterious forces manipulating computer systems and voting machines.
  
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• Factbox: What Twitter said worked - and didn't - in its U.S. election measures

  12-11-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tweets from Trump that shared false claims about voter fraud and challenged the election outcome to his 88 million followers have been shared tens of thousands of times on the platform.In a blog post, Twitter said it labeled about 300,000 tweets across the site with disputed or potentially misleading content under its 'civic integrity' rules between Oct. 27 and Nov. 11.It said these represented 0.2% of all US election-related tweets sent during that period.
  
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• After 3-day recount, incumbent Democrat loses Senate seat to Ileana Garcia by 34 votes

  12-11-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After three long days of a painstaking recount, early results on Thursday showed Latinas for Trump co-founder Ileana Garcia leading Democratic incumbent José Javier Rodríguez in the race for Senate District 37 by a mere 34 votes.
  
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• Illinois urges people to quarantine ahead of Thanksgiving gatherings

  12-11-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "If you do choose to have a small in-person Thanksgiving, have every single person more or less quarantine for two weeks prior," Governor J.B. Pritzker said.
  
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• Florida mother arrested after refusing to wear a mask during school board meeting

  12-11-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kari Turner, 40, was arrested on Tuesday in front of her two children
  
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• Elderly mobster with late-stage cancer granted compassion release from prison

  12-11-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former mobster was involved in several murders in the 1980s
  
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• Baptism by fire: Georgia Democratic challenger Warnock faces first TV attack in crucial U.S. Senate race

  12-11-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia unleashed her first full-scale TV attack ads on Democratic challenger the Rev. Raphael Warnock on Thursday, as the final battle for control of the U.S. Senate intensifies ahead of their January runoff.Loeffler, who spent much of the year fighting fellow Republican Doug Collins for conservative votes in their 20-candidate Nov. 3 multiparty election, released two 30-second spots that accused the Democrat of celebrating "anti-American hatred," praising "
  
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• 1 dead in small plane crash on street near homes in Los Angeles

  12-11-2020 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  The aircraft crashed just outside Whiteman Airport, a private general aviation airport in the Pacoima area of the San Fernando Valley.
  
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• Amid surge, Covid survivor warns others to take virus seriously

  12-11-2020 22:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, Minnesota reported its highest number of Covid-19 deaths in one day: 56. New cases in the state have spiked by about 135 percent in just the last two weeks.
  
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• Harvard admissions didn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans, appeals court finds

  12-11-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Affirmative action narrowly survived in the Supreme Court last time around, but that was before the Trump administration appointed three justices
  
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• Fox News Parts Ways With John Solomon, Architect of Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracies

  12-11-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a tumultuous year at Fox News that included the network’s own “Brain Room” warning hosts and anchors not to trust his “disinformation,” pro-Trump columnist John Solomon is no longer a paid contributor with the network.A Fox News spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast that Solomon is no longer affiliated with the conservative cable outlet. Solomon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.While Solomon’s hits on Fox News have dried up in rec
  
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• White separatist who spewed racial hatred dead at 82

  12-11-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tom Metzger, the notorious former Ku Klux Klan leader who rose to prominence in the 1980s while promoting white separatism and stoking racial violence, has died at age 82.Riverside County Department of Public Health spokesman Jose Arballo Jr. said Metzger died Nov. 4 at a skilled nursing facility in Hemet.The former grand dragon of the California chapter of the Ku Klux Klan became one of racism's most prominent figures after he left that organization in the 1980s to form the White Aryan Resistan
  
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• The ultimate REI gift guide

  12-11-2020 21:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  With thousands of options, there’s a gift at REI for virtually anyone. From climbing gifts to hiking gifts and running gifts, here are some of the best.
  
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• Joe Manchin Slams Fellow Dems’ ‘Crazy Socialist Agenda’ amid Intra-Party Battle: ‘Defund, My Butt’

  12-11-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Joe Manchin on Wednesday slammed efforts by progressive members of his party to slash police department budgets, saying the Democratic Party as he conceives of it does not have "some crazy socialist agenda.""Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I'm a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans' jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police," Manchin wrote in a tweet
  
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• North Dakota allows Covid-positive healthcare workers to stay on job; nurses warn it's 'irresponsible'

  12-11-2020 21:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  As hospitals in the state reach 100% capacity, there aren't enough healthy frontline workers to keep up with the explosive coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Small plane crashes on street near homes in Los Angeles

  12-11-2020 21:43 via nbcnews.com
  The aircraft crashed just outside Whiteman Airport, a private general aviation airport in the Pacoima area of the San Fernando Valley.
  
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• Trump's eldest children split on his path forward

  12-11-2020 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has long sought advice from different perspectives throughout his career, but at a pivotal moment in defining his legacy as President, he is receiving conflicting advice from his closest and most trusted advisers -- his eldest children -- as he strategizes his next move in the wake of his election loss.
  
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• U.S. judge dismisses Trump campaign libel lawsuit against CNN

  12-11-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a libel lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign against CNN over a 2019 opinion piece which it said suggested the campaign would be open to Russian interference, according to a court document.The campaign sued CNN, which is owned by AT&T Inc, in March over the June 13, 2019, piece by Larry Noble, a CNN contributor and former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission.U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said the campaign had fail
  
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• Officials expect up to 250,000 day-trippers for Saturday's SpaceX launch in Florida

  12-11-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of spectators are expected as four astronauts are set for liftoff on Saturday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
  
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• Judge dismisses Trump campaign's lawsuit against CNN

  12-11-2020 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit President Donald Trump's campaign had filed against CNN for a 2019 opinion piece about former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling.
  
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• Lewandowski is latest White House election night guest to test positive for coronavirus

  12-11-2020 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Several top Trump aides, campaign officials and allies have tested positive for Covid-19 since attending his election night party at the White House.
  
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• Screening travelers for symptoms of Covid-19 was ineffective, CDC study says

  12-11-2020 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  Temperature and symptom-based screening programs don't help catch coronavirus cases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report that took a closer look at the programs used at US airports until mid-September.
  
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• From magazine editor to first Asian American in Penn. state Senate

  12-11-2020 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  “I think writing about culture and politics intellectually helped give me clarity on how to think about these subjects together,” Nikil Saval said.
  
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• Lindsey Graham donates $1 million to Republicans in Georgia while acknowledging Biden should receive briefings

  12-11-2020 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican claims ‘tsunami of liberal money’ is heading towards Georgia while donating $1 million of his own campaign funds to GOP candidates in the state
  
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• Texas infant with injection marks tests positive for heroin

  12-11-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 2-month-old girl tested positive for heroin and was placed on life support after being found unresponsive with injection marks at a West Texas home over the weekend, according to police.The girl's mother, Destiney Harbour, 21, was arrested, along with her mother, Christin Bradley, 37, and Bradley's boyfriend, Dustin Smock, 34, San Angelo police said Tuesday.All three were charged with causing serious bodily injury to a child.
  
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• 'Chinese virus' sign at doctor's office draws rebuke

  12-11-2020 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The World Health Organization has advised against using geographic locations when naming illnesses, saying "it has had unintended negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities."
  
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