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• Doctor reacts to Republican senator's suggestion: 'Very disturbing'

  14-11-2020 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner reacts to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) telling coronavirus survivors to throw out their masks and celebrate.
  
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• Iota threatens 2nd tropical strike for Nicaragua, Honduras

  14-11-2020 17:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  No warnings were in effect as of Saturday, though that could change quickly over the weekend.
  
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• 6-year-old German students sketch wanted hit-and-run driver for police

  14-11-2020 16:37 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Police in Germany have circulated sketches of a suspect wanted in a hit-and-run accident that were drawn by 6-year-old students who saw what happened.
  
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• Are Mexico's stringent gun control laws aiding a rise in cartel violence?

  14-11-2020 15:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  While Mexico is one of just three countries – alongside the United States and Guatemala – with the constitutional right to bear arms – citizens must travel from far and wide to this one place, wade through ceaseless red tape and waiting periods and are heavily restricted when it comes to what they can and cannot buy.
  
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• US Army identifies 5 Americans killed in helicopter crash in Egypt

  14-11-2020 14:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Army announced Saturday the deaths of five soldiers who were part of peacekeeping operations with the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) mission.
  
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• Accused 'dead' voter is alive and speaking out

  14-11-2020 14:43 via cnn.com
  
  In his continued attempts to delegitimize the election, President Trump tweeted that late veteran James Blalock was a victim of voter fraud. CNN affiliate WXIA's reporter Brendan Keefe looked into this claim, finding that it was not James Blalock who voted in the 2020 election, but his wife.
  
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• Canadian conservationists are raising $1.7 million to buy an island and fend off developers

  14-11-2020 08:15 via cnn.com
  
  A foundation in British Columbia, Canada, is raising money to purchase West Ballenas Island, an undeveloped enclave rich with stunning views, rare plants, threatened species and diverse marine life.
  
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• Tropical Storm Iota forecast to hit storm-ravaged Central America as a major hurricane early next week

  14-11-2020 08:10 via cnn.com
  
  Tropical Storm Iota could strengthen into a major hurricane in the Caribbean and slam into Central America early next week -- the very region already devastated by Hurricane Eta earlier this month -- forecasters say.
  
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• This company conquered the ice cream market. Home delivery is the final frontier

  14-11-2020 07:51 via cnn.com
  
  Thomas Wall had a problem. It was the summer of 1913 and business was flagging at T. Wall & Sons, his family butcher shop in London.
  
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• Trump wavers between reality and election fiction during Rose Garden vaccine address

  14-11-2020 06:38 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump had an eye on his legacy as he strode to the microphone in the White House Rose Garden Friday and touted the administration's "unequaled and unrivaled" efforts to help produce a coronavirus vaccine through Operation Warp Speed. Then, for a brief moment, he seemed close to acknowledging the reality that his presidency is almost over.
  
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• Grandson of Nazi who took over Jewish store tracks owner's descendants to apologize

  14-11-2020 06:02 via cnn.com
  
  Thomas Edelmann was born in Germany more than 25 years after the Allies defeated Hitler.
  
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• The president-elect's greatest foreign policy hurdle could be convincing the rest of the world that once again, Washington can be taken at its word

  14-11-2020 06:00 via cnn.com
  
  The president-elect's greatest foreign policy hurdle could be convincing the rest of the world that once again, Washington can be taken at its word
  
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• Test for Biden: Rebuild trust in America

  14-11-2020 06:00 via cnn.com
  
  The president-elect's greatest foreign policy hurdle could be convincing the rest of the world that once again, Washington can be taken at its word
  
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• Biden's victory isn't enough on its own to heal the wounds Trump inflicted on Europe

  14-11-2020 06:00 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election was met with a sigh of relief across the vast majority of European capitals. In the eyes of most, Donald Trump's presidency saw the European Union's most important ally vacillate between uninterest and outright aggression.
  
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• Biden's toughest foreign policy challenge may be regaining allies' trust

  14-11-2020 06:00 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump may be refusing to concede his defeat, but governments around the world are congratulating President-elect Joe Biden -- and anticipating that he will adopt a more traditional foreign policy approach.
  
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• Analysis: Biden's victory isn't enough on its own to heal the wounds Trump inflicted on Europe

  14-11-2020 06:00 via cnn.com
  
  Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election was met with a sigh of relief across the vast majority of European capitals. In the eyes of most, Donald Trump's presidency saw the European Union's most important ally vacillate between uninterest and outright aggression.
  
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• US has more Covid-19 hospitalizations than ever

  14-11-2020 04:16 via cnn.com
  
  • Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school amid Covid concerns
  
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• Biden's possible India links spark genealogical frenzy

  14-11-2020 03:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Already bursting with pride at Kamala Harris's ancestry, India has now started digging up potential local roots for US President-elect Joe Biden.
  
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• Prosecutors ask Barr to rescind memo on U.S. vote counting irregularities - Washington Post

  14-11-2020 03:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. prosecutors are asking Attorney General William Barr to rescind a memo issued earlier this week that instructed them to publicly investigate "substantial" allegations of vote counting irregularities, saying they have not seen the unusual activity, the Washington Post reported on Friday.The 16 assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor the presidential election this month also said Barr's Monday memorandum had thrust prosecutors into partisan politics and that the policy change w
  
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• In California: Newsom bemoans attending dinner; travel discouraged

  14-11-2020 02:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Plus: College football and COVID-19, Trump breaks a record, and has the pandemic made San Francisco more affordable?
  
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• Fact check: Claim that Pennsylvania case is proof of ‘dead people’ voting is under investigation

  14-11-2020 02:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Pennsylvania’s ballot tracker shows a recorded mail-in ballot for a Denise Ondick, officials have yet to determine this was voter fraud.
  
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• GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in California

  14-11-2020 02:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Young Kim defeated U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros on Friday in a Southern California district, the second GOP candidate to snatch a Democratic-held seat in the state this year.The contest in the 39th Congressional District anchored in Orange County was a rematch from 2018, when Cisneros was one of seven Democrats who claimed GOP-held California districts that year.Kim overcame President Donald Trump’s poor performance in heavily Democratic California, where he got only one-third of the
  
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• A Republican House candidate prematurely claimed victory in a race to unseat Democratic congresswoman Lauren Underwood, and then went to new member orientation even after she was declared the winner

  14-11-2020 02:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Jim Oberweis doesn't get to call this election: the voters do. There are thousands of votes that have yet to be counted," Rep. Lauren Underwood said.
  
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• Elon Musk's positive COVID-19 test means he likely can't attend SpaceX's astronaut launch on Sunday, based on NASA rules

  14-11-2020 02:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Musk's positive tests couldn't have come at a worse time: SpaceX is set to launch four NASA astronauts into orbit for its Crew-1 mission on Sunday.
  
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• As Trump refuses to concede, his agencies awkwardly prepare what they can for a Biden transition

  14-11-2020 02:11 via cnn.com
  
  Bulky briefing books and budgets are unopened. Office spaces dedicated to the transition sit vacant. And planning conversations between incoming and outgoing administrations have been silenced for now.
  
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• Pelosi's office backs down. Incoming House member dinner switches to boxed meals after event gets skewered on social media.

  14-11-2020 02:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pelosi's chief of staff tweeted "Members-elect are now picking up their boxed meals and departing the Capitol. There is no group dinner."
  
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• El Paso COVID-19 ruling could impact Houston

  14-11-2020 01:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some small business owners are worried a new presidential administration may bring an unbearable lockdown that their businesses won't survive.
  
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• Bryson DeChambeau's Masters challenge evaporates after bizarre lost ball

  14-11-2020 01:51 via cnn.com
  
  Bryson DeChambeau's much vaunted challenge for the Masters fell victim to a lost ball and a string of errant shots as fellow Americans Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas were in a four-way tie for the clubhouse lead at Augusta National on Friday.
  
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• Trump appointee breaks with President over his election claims

  14-11-2020 01:38 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Erin Burnett talks to Chairman of the US Election Assistance Commission Ben Hovland about the integrity of the 2020 US election and President Trump's refusal to accept the results.
  
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• Mike Pence secretly attended his daughter’s wedding two days before election

  14-11-2020 01:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The vice president and Second Lady Karen Pence were on hand to see youngest child Audrey Pence Tomanelli tie the knot.The bride posted a black and white picture to Instagram of her parents watching her kiss husband Daniel Tomanelli outside the steps of a courthouse.There is no sign of anyone in the wedding pictures wearing a mask but they are all socially distancing.
  
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• Haiti is running low on fuel again as sweet deal with fuel supplier turns sour

  14-11-2020 01:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another sweet deal has gone sour in Haiti.
  
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• How Diwali is being celebrated across the world during Covid-19

  14-11-2020 01:19 via cnn.com
  
  Diwali, one of the most important festivals inIndia, commenced Thursday, with the main festivities due to take place on Saturday, November 14.
  
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• Bollywood's newest blockbuster called out for problematic transgender portrayal

  14-11-2020 01:19 via cnn.com
  
  One of Bollywood's most hotly anticipated movies of the year, "Laxmii," is already among 2020's most controversial.
  
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• Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's children withdrawn from school over Covid guidelines

  14-11-2020 01:16 via cnn.com
  
  Administrators at the posh Washington private school that the three young children of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner attended for the last three years expressed concern about the couple's public flouting of Covid-19 guidelines, ultimately resulting in President Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law withdrawing their children from the school, a longtime parent at the school told CNN.
  
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• Convicted Killer Evaded Capture for 50 Years—Until He Got Sloppy in His New Life

  14-11-2020 01:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in a small Detroit suburb stumbled onto the discovery of a lifetime recently when they charged a man for stealing hydrocodone pills from the local CVS pharmacy where he worked. After fingerprinting the man, a licensed traveling pharmacist by the name of Paul Dickson, authorities learned they had much more on their hands than a case of petty theft: Paul Dickson was in fact Leonard Rayne Moses, a convicted killer who’d been on the lam for nearly five decades.“We’ve never f
  
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• China turns its attention to frozen foods in battle to eliminate virus threat, but experts remain skeptical

  14-11-2020 01:08 via cnn.com
  
  For months, China has been trying to completely eliminate the novel coronavirus after largely containing its initial outbreak.
  
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• Trump and GOP rush to “quietly pack the FEC with partisans” after election, watchdog group warns

  14-11-2020 01:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FEC would have three Republicans, two independents and only one Democrat if the Senate moves forward
  
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• Teen facing death penalty after being accused of murdering five relatives has shown ‘no remorse’

  14-11-2020 00:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘He has not shown any sign of remorse. While in detention, he has not talked about his family at all,’ probation officer says
  
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• Trump attacks N.Y. gov, says he'll withhold Covid vaccine from state until Cuomo approves

  14-11-2020 00:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In his first public comments in over a week, Trump, who is yet to concede in the election, criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said he planned to have a panel of experts review a vaccine.
  
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• Trump threatens to deny New Yorkers vaccine. See governor's response

  14-11-2020 00:45 via cnn.com
  
  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reacts to President Trump's remarks in the Rose Garden threatening to deny his state a vaccine for coronavirus.
  
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• 20 million Americans will get a COVID vaccine this year, administration says

  14-11-2020 00:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
  
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• Tourist posed as US marshal to land discounts in Pigeon Forge, feds say

  14-11-2020 00:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities said he even flashed a fake badge.
  
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• Supreme Court agrees to hear California grower's challenge to state farm labor law

  14-11-2020 00:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Do union organizers have a right to go on agricultural land, or does that violate private property rights? The Supreme Court will decide.
  
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• Republican Martha McSally finally concedes Arizona Senate race a week after election

  14-11-2020 00:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mark Kelly had already claimed victory and travelled to Washington DC
  
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