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• 20 million Americans could get a coronavirus vaccine next month, according to the head of Operation Warp Speed

  13-11-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even more people could start receiving coronavirus shots next year, if the top experimental vaccines get a green light from regulators.
  
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• Trump appears to almost accept that he lost the election

  13-11-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While talking about the possibility of further restrictions due to COVID-19 in a speech at the White House Friday, President Trump seemed to almost acknowledge that he was defeated by President-elect Joe Biden.
  
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• Trump walks away from Covid briefing refusing to take questions about the election

  13-11-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  They were his first public remarks in nearly a week
  
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• Trump says he may ‘stop by’ at MAGA rally in Washington DC in tweet immediately flagged by Twitter

  13-11-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since losing the 2020 election, the president has used Twitter almost exclusively to vent baseless allegations of voter fraud
  
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• Trump seemingly nearly slips and acknowledges his election loss

  13-11-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's update about the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to nearly collide with the elephant in the room — his election loss.Trump spoke publicly on Friday for the first time since the presidential election, addressing the coronavirus pandemic and vowing he'd never implement lockdown measures to help curb the out-of-control spread of the virus. "This administration will not be going to a lockdown," Trump said.But he seemed to catch himself from preemptively criticizing the future Biden
  
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• Biden legal team confident Georgia recount will confirm victory in the state

  13-11-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's legal team in Georgia said on Friday they do not expect a hand recount of votes in the state to change the results of the Nov. 3 election.Democrat Biden, who led Republican President Donald Trump by more than 14,000 votes in Georgia, according to unofficial results, was declared the winner in the state by TV and news networks earlier on Friday.Without producing evidence, Trump has complained of widespread fraud and irregularities in Georgia and other battleground
  
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• SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA has been delayed until Sunday due to wind and issues with the rocket-booster recovery

  13-11-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This is the fourth time NASA has delayed the launch of its Crew-1 mission with SpaceX, but the first time due to weather.
  
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• Newsom apologizes for attending French Laundry party

  13-11-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Newsom says he "should have modeled better behavior" after he attended a birthday party last week in Napa County despite the state's guidelines about small gatherings.
  
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• Michigan judge says cheating claims based on ignorance of how elections work

  13-11-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Michigan judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit alleging cheating during the Nov. 3 election, agreeing with Detroit that most claims were made by individuals who did not understand the vote-counting processes.
  
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• Disgruntled Mississippi lawmaker wants his state to secede. Fine with me. Bye! | Opinion

  13-11-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dear Price Wallace:
  
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• Elon Musk may have Covid-19, putting SpaceX's plan to launch astronauts this weekend into question

  13-11-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on social media last night that he took four Covid-19 tests in one day, two of which were positive and two of which were negative. It's not yet clear if Musk has the virus, but the news immediately drummed up concern about whether a diagnosis will impact SpaceX's plans to launch astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station this weekend.
  
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• More than 200 incarcerated people and staff at Texas prisons and jails have died from coronavirus, report shows

  13-11-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  11 of the 14 incarcerated individuals in jails who died from coronavirus were not convicted of a crime, per the report.
  
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• Michigan judge says GOP election challengers skipped training session, didn't fully understand process

  13-11-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Michigan judge has shot down an attempt to delay the certification of 2020 election results in Detroit, Michigan, after determining that challengers lacked a "full understanding" of the process and their claims weren't credible.Judge Timothy Kenny on Friday rejected two poll challengers' bid to stop vote certification in Detroit, where President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump, saying it "would be an unprecedented exercise of judicial activism for this court" to do so, CNN reports. Th
  
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• Austrian colonel 'spied on Nato for Russia'

  13-11-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A retired Austrian colonel has been unmasked as one of Russia's key informants about Nato, whose intelligence was likely to have been used to plan the Salisbury poisonings. Martin Möller, 72 – identified by a pan-European operation involving MI6 – is believed to have dealt directly with the notorious Russian Unit 29155, which worked to destabilise Europe and carried out foreign assassinations, a Telegraph investigation has found. On Friday night, Mr Möller admitted he had s
  
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• Trudeau threatens to cancel Christmas for Canadians

  13-11-2020 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  Canadian Thanksgiving was just last month, and the country has seen consequences as Covid-19 cases reach record highs. Now, Canadian leaders say Christmas celebrations are in jeopardy.
  
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• Sudan to host Russian military base

  13-11-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The naval logistics center in Sudan will be Russia’s first military base in Africa since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  
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• As Trump refuses to concede defeat, far-right groups plan show of support in Washington

  13-11-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Trump has refused to accept that he lost the election to Democrat Joe Biden, now president-elect, adding to tensions.Trump's supporters, including Republican lawmakers, have amplified his claims that the election was stolen from him.The protests in the nation's capital will bring together far-right personalities, including conspiracy theorist and Infowars broadcaster Alex Jones and self-described "American Nationalist" Nicholas Fuentes.
  
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• It just got harder for immigrants: the U.S. naturalization test is about to change

  13-11-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. legal permanent residents who apply for citizenship through naturalization on or after Dec. 1, 2020, will face a more challenging test — in which immigrants must prove they can read, write and speak basic English, and have essential knowledge of U.S. history and government.
  
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• Grandfather serving 505-year sentence ordered to be released 'without delay'

  13-11-2020 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  In a stunning reprieve for a man sentenced to more than five centuries behind bars for a nonviolent offense, a judge in Los Angeles on Thursday summarily slashed his sentence to time served and ordered his immediate release.
  
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• California governor went to party, violated own virus rules

  13-11-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For months, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pleaded with Californians to resist the temptation to socialize with friends and relatives outside their household.Newsom acknowledged Friday he attended a birthday party with a dozen friends on Nov. 6 at the posh French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco.Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy communication at the University of Southern California, noted people across the state have been canceling birthday parties, funerals and
  
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• 'CDC is putting American lives at risk': Members of Congress call for CDC to reinstate cruise 'no-sail' order

  13-11-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two members of Congress are calling for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate its cruise "no-sail" order.
  
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• Scores killed in massacre amid intense conflict in Ethiopia

  13-11-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amnesty International said it can confirm likely hundreds of people were killed in Ethiopia's semi-autonomous region of Tigray.
  
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• A Biden COVID-19 advisor suggested a national lockdown lasting up to 6 weeks, but said the idea was unlikely to gain support

  13-11-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Thursday Michael Osterholm told ABC News that he had not discussed this idea with others and added he did not believe it would gain support.
  
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• 'The long knives are out': The Pentagon purge may be less about a Trump plan than end-of-presidency chaos and revenge

  13-11-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A series of personnel changes placing Trump loyalists in key Defense Department positions has sparked rumors of plans for dramatic action in the waning days of his presidency, but a number of former national security officials see it more as the chaotic final days of an outgoing administration.
  
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• Explosion kills 2 steam pipe workers at veterans hospital

  13-11-2020 21:30 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Two workers have been killed in an explosion while repairing a steam pipe in a maintenance building at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut
  
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• Scott Peterson to stay at San Quentin as judge mulls retrial

  13-11-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  No one outside of San Quentin State Prison will be seeing Scott Peterson in person anytime soon as officials consider if he should face a new trial in the headline-grabbing slayings of his pregnant wife and unborn child, a California judge decided Friday.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo had been concerned that Peterson, 48, would have difficulty staying in touch with his defense attorneys from the prison, where he's been housed since he was sentenced to death in 2005, a
  
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• Gordon Ramsay roasted a TikTok chef who stuffed Flamin' Hot Cheetos into her burger

  13-11-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The TikTok chef told Insider that it was an honor to be roasted by Gordon Ramsay, who said during the video: "If that's a burger, I'm turning vegan!"
  
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• Senior election official blasts Trump's false claims as 'laughable'

  13-11-2020 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  A senior federal election security official who was appointed by President Donald Trump has blasted the President's false post-election claims, calling them "baffling", "laughable" and "insulting".
  
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• America’s longest serving nonviolent cannabis prisoner to be released after 32-year sentence

  13-11-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘It feels amazingly wonderful to know that I will be home with my family and loved ones very soon’
  
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• El Paso nurses speak out against 'irresponsible and insensitive' lifting of the city's shutdown order

  13-11-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I'm just extremely exhausted — emotionally, physically," Idali Cooper, a registered nurse, said at a press conference. "It's very demoralizing."
  
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• Charles Koch says he regrets fueling partisanship: 'Boy, did we screw up!'

  13-11-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The billionaire, who has funneled millions into the tea party and the conservative movement, expresses regret in a new book. "What a mess!" he said.
  
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• Biden turns Georgia blue for first time in 28 years

  13-11-2020 20:45 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden will win Georgia, CNN projected Friday, striking at the heart of what has been a Republican presidential stronghold for nearly three decades. The former vice president is the first Democratic nominee to triumph in Georgia since Bill Clinton did it in 1992.
  
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• Biden wins White House with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232: US media

  13-11-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden has won 306 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College that decides who wins the White House, against 232 for Donald Trump, US media projected on Friday.
  
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• Iron Dome batteries activated to fill cruise missile defense gap

  13-11-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The units that will operate the Army's interim cruise missile defense capability — Israel's Iron Dome system — are activated.
  
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• Kentucky couple receives racist letters, bullets in mail months after neighbor allegedly painted swastika on their driveway

  13-11-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A couple with five children in Louisville has had their property vandalized with racist slurs repeatedly over the past several months.
  
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• Democrats keep winning the popular vote. That worries them.

  13-11-2020 20:23 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Democrats have yet again won the popular vote in a presidential election
  
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• Puerto Rico to activate National Guard to fight COVID-19

  13-11-2020 20:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Puerto Rico’s governor says she will activate the National Guard to help enforce a curfew aimed at curbing a rise in COVID-19 cases and other measures, including once again closing beaches to everyone except those doing exercise
  
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• Donald Trump suggests for first time he might have lost election, saying 'who knows which administration it will be' in 2021

  13-11-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump yesterday publicly acknowledged for the first time since the presidential election was called for his rival Joe Biden that he may not form the next US administration. In telling comments in the White House’s Rose Garden, the US president let slip his uncertainty about remaining as president while discussing policy to tackle Covid-19. Since Mr Biden was declared the election winner on Saturday Mr Trump has refused to concede, insisting he was the real victor and launching legal
  
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• 'The Crown' pulls off a Season 4 red carpet premiere from home

  13-11-2020 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  The stars of "The Crown" ushered in Season 4 from their respective homes this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• SpaceX's Musk gets mixed virus tests on eve of crew launch

  13-11-2020 20:15 via abcnews.go.com
  
  SpaceX chief Elon Musk may have to steer clear of NASA's Kennedy Space Center after getting mixed COVID-19 test results on the eve of his company's second crew launch
  
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• Critics decry Supreme Court Justice Alito's 'nakedly partisan' speech on COVID-19 measures, gay marriage

  13-11-2020 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Supreme Court Justices aren't supposed to be political hacks.," tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. "This right-wing speech is nakedly partisan."
  
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• Trump loses election lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan, drops Arizona case

  13-11-2020 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Judges have dealt double blows to President Trump's longshot attempts to disqualify enough ballots to win the presidency.On Friday, a Michigan judge rejected an injunction claiming election irregularities were rampant in Detroit's Wayne County. Trump supporters' lawsuit claimed the vote count was plagued by fraud, but Circuit Court Judge Timothy Kenny said the suit didn't prove he should halt certification of the vote or order it to be audited, Bloomberg reports.Also on Friday, a federal appeals
  
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• Ahmaud Arbery's accused killers were denied bond after prosecutors brought evidence of racist social media posts and text messages

  13-11-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Travis and Gregory McMichael appeared in court Thursday for a bond hearing following charges for Ahmaud Arbery's death.
  
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• Judge rejects demand to block certification of Biden win in Detroit

  13-11-2020 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  A Michigan state judge has rejected an attempt by two poll challengers to block the certification of a Joe Biden win in Detroit, which helped carry his victory in the state. The judge also denied the request for an audit of the election.
  
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• Could COVID-19 get as bad as the 1918 Spanish flu? Fauci, others see similarities

  13-11-2020 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “History is kind of repeating itself 102 years later.”
  
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• Marlins hire MLB's first female general manager

  13-11-2020 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  The Miami Marlins have hired Kim Ng to be the team's new general manager, making her the first woman GM and first Asian American GM in Major League Baseball history.
  
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• Mother of college student who died following pancake eating competition drops lawsuit

  13-11-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Caitlin Nelson’s family blamed Sacred Heart university for allowing 2017 event
  
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• Trump to break silence with vaccine update after criticism he's ignored pandemic

  13-11-2020 19:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak about the federal government's coronavirus vaccine program after criticism he has been ignoring the pandemic.
  
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• Trump says he'll 'do the right thing' after all votes are counted, confidant says

  13-11-2020 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was a "realist" who would follow the U.S. Constitution after all legitimate votes were counted, but was waiting to see how U.S. states proceeded in certifying their final election results, a top confidant said.Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, in a post on Twitter and in an interview with the network, said Trump had called him earlier on Friday.Trump told him he would "do the right thing" when all the legitimate votes are counted, Rivera tweeted
  
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• Geraldo speaks about conversation with President Trump

  13-11-2020 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Geraldo Rivera spoke over the phone with the president, over a week after Election Day.
  
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