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• Trump backs Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate millions of votes

  10-12-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is backing a lawsuit filed to the Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to block millions of votes from four battleground states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden.
  
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• Donald Trump backs Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate millions of votes

  10-12-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is backing a lawsuit filed to the Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to block millions of votes from four battleground states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden.
  
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• Coronavirus relief negotiations reach a breaking point with time running short

  10-12-2020 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats are insisting on state and local assistance, which Senate Republicans won't accept without liability protections for employers that progressives oppose.
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 is here, with Keanu Reeves and glitches

  10-12-2020 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  The much-anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 is now available after months of delay. So far it's getting mixed reviews, as users find some glaring glitches.
  
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• The legal battle to break up Facebook is underway. Now comes the hard part

  10-12-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  The groundbreaking lawsuits filed against Facebook on Wednesday by state and federal officials represent the gravest regulatory threat the social media giant has ever faced.
  
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• US Supreme Court grapples with longshot bid challenging Biden's win

  10-12-2020 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  Although all 50 states have certified their election results and the Supreme Court swiftly rejected an emergency request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block election results in the commonwealth, the justices are now grappling with a new controversial bid from Texas, supported by President Donald Trump and 17 other Republican-led states.
  
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• Explaining the Supreme Court lawsuit from Texas and Trump challenging Biden's win

  10-12-2020 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  Although all 50 states have certified their election results and the Supreme Court swiftly rejected an emergency request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block election results in the commonwealth, the justices are now grappling with a new controversial bid from Texas, supported by President Donald Trump and 17 other Republican-led states.
  
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• Despite no fraud evidence, Texas sues to block electors. Here's what to know about the unprecedented lawsuit.

  10-12-2020 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  Although all 50 states have certified their election results and the Supreme Court swiftly rejected an emergency request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block election results in the commonwealth, the justices are now grappling with a new controversial bid from Texas, supported by President Donald Trump and 17 other Republican-led states.
  
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• EU agrees on $2 trillion package -- but fudges deal on rule of law

  10-12-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  The leaders of the European Union's 27 member states have reached a final agreement on the $2 trillion package designed to rebuild the bloc's faltering economies in the wake of the coronavirus recession.
  
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• Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon worries Boris Johnson 'planning' on no-deal

  10-12-2020 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says chance of a UK-EU deal is "vanishingly small" and worries that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "planning" on a no-deal Brexit.
  
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• Battleground states issue blistering rebukes of Texas lawsuit

  10-12-2020 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  Each of the four battleground states targeted by a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's defeat issued blistering briefs at the Supreme Court Thursday, with Pennsylvania officials going so far as to call the effort a "seditious abuse of the judicial process."
  
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• The attorney general taking Trump's conspiracies to court

  10-12-2020 20:20 via cnn.com
  
  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has fought in the courts for President Donald Trump's causes before, has emerged as one of the final defenders of the President's baseless claims of voter fraud in hopes of overturning the election.
  
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• Passenger aboard cruise cut short by Covid scare doesn't have virus, officials say

  10-12-2020 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  An 83-year-old Singaporean passenger aboard a "cruise to nowhere" has re-tested negative for Covid-19 after a false positive halted the voyage, Singapore's Ministry of Health said Thursday.
  
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• Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 by sniffing human sweat, study suggests

  10-12-2020 20:00 via cnn.com
  
  Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 by sniffing human sweat, according to a proof-of-concept study published on Thursday.
  
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• Analysis: Why this Texas 'election fraud' lawsuit is a total joke

  10-12-2020 19:57 via cnn.com
  
  When most people hear "lawsuit" and "Supreme Court," they generally think something serious is going on. After all, the legal system inAmerica is no joke! And if the Supreme Court might get involved? Well then, we all need to sit up and pay attention.
  
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• Biden taps Susan Rice to lead Domestic Policy Council

  10-12-2020 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  • LIVE: Biden picks another longtime Obama adviser for his Cabinet
  
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• What does the Hunter Biden investigation actually tell us?

  10-12-2020 19:36 via cnn.com
  
  On Wednesday, we learned that Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden, is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware regarding several financial questions that have arisen as a result of his business dealings in foreign countries -- most notably China.
  
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• Why some conservatives oppose the Texas election lawsuit

  10-12-2020 19:35 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and 17 Republican attorneys general are supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's audacious legal gambit at the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election.
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres announces she has Covid-19

  10-12-2020 19:31 via cnn.com
  
  Ellen DeGeneres announced on Thursday that she has tested positive for Covid-19.
  
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• Expect a White House deep clean when Biden moves in

  10-12-2020 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  When the White House welcomes a new first family it gets a thorough cleaning in the five hours allotted for the turnover. But with a global pandemic raging -- and an outgoing President whose orbit is rife with people shunning public health guidelines and coming down with Covid-19, this January 20 is expected to include a deeper, more exhaustive cleaning, according to a White House official.
  
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• Kasich: I really don't know what the Republican Party stands for

  10-12-2020 19:02 via cnn.com
  
  Former Gov. John Kasich reacts to a controversial bid from Texas and 17 other Republican-led states asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to invalidate ballots of millions of voters in four battleground states -- Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- even though there is no evidence of widespread fraud.
  
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• Indictment of Egyptian officials over Giulio Regeni murder brings hope

  10-12-2020 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: prosecutions seen as opportunity for national security apparatus to come under scrutinyAlmost five years after the mutilated corpse of Giulio Regeni was found on the outskirts of Cairo in February 2016, Italian prosecutors have charged four members of Egypt’s national security agency over his kidnapping and murder.For those working to uncover the truth about how Regeni died and why Egyptian security forces had entrapped the student in a web of surveillance, it was a day heavy wit
  
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• New 'sea dragon' species discovered by amateur fossil hunter

  10-12-2020 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  A British fossil hunter has found a previously unidentified "sea dragon" on the southern English coast.
  
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• UK residents respond to vaccine rollout

  10-12-2020 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  The UK became the first country to begin administering a fully vetted and approved Covid-19 vaccine this week, starting with the elderly and frontline health workers.
  
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• Trump announces Israel and Morocco to normalize relations

  10-12-2020 18:42 via cnn.com
  
  Morocco has become the fourth country in the Middle East and North African region to agree to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, an 11th-hour foreign policy achievement for the lame duck Trump administration as it seeks to shore up regional support for Israel as a countermeasure to Iranian aggression.
  
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• America is in one of its darkest moments of the pandemic

  10-12-2020 17:13 via cnn.com
  
  • LIVE: Key vaccine meeting: What to know• Analysis: Trump undercuts vaccine news
  • 'It is not even close': Erin Burnett calls out Trump's Covid tweet
  
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• What color is 2021? Luckily, it's less blue than 2020

  10-12-2020 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Since 2000, the Pantone Color Institute has annually announced a "Color of the Year." The annual task forecasts the color that will best reflect the year ahead.
  
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• 'I thought about killing my children': the desperate Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay

  10-12-2020 17:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers face destitution after the collapse of fashion retailers – and despite beatings and police crackdowns vow they will protest until they are paid It was 4.30am when the police charged the hundreds of garment workers sleeping under makeshift shelters and in sleeping bags on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. As blows rained down, the workers fled.By morning the streets had been cleared of the non-violent protest that more than 700 garment workers had been peacefully staging outside the
  
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• Kim Kardashian West tweets Trump to stop Brandon Bernard's execution

  10-12-2020 16:58 via cnn.com
  
  Kim Kardashian West is asking her millions of followers to help her stop the execution of Brandon Bernard.
  
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• LeBron James named TIME's 2020 Athlete of the Year

  10-12-2020 16:50 via cnn.com
  
  Not many have had a year quite like LeBron James.
  
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• Georgia becomes ground zero for election misinformation ahead of US Senate runoffs

  10-12-2020 16:47 via cnn.com
  
  Georgia, currently the center of the American political universe, is so awash with misinformation that some supporters of President Donald Trump here believe that he did not lose the presidential election. Some are not sure if they will be able to trust the results of the state's runoff election next month that will decide which party controls the US Senate.
  
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• Lebanese judge charges caretaker PM in Beirut port explosion

  10-12-2020 16:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Four high-ranking officials were charged in connection with the incident, which left hundreds dead.
  
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• GE misled investors before its stock imploded, SEC says

  10-12-2020 16:36 via cnn.com
  
  General Electric misled shareholders about the deterioration of its insurance and power businesses in the years before its stock price imploded, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  
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• US militia leader -- also a former sheriff's deputy -- convicted for bombing mosque

  10-12-2020 16:26 via cnn.com
  
  The founder of a terrorist militia -- also a former Illinois sheriff's deputy -- was found guilty on hate crime charges for bombing a Minnesota mosque in 2017.
  
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• Pentagon planning to withdraw support for most CIA counter-terror missions

  10-12-2020 16:15 via cnn.com
  
  The US Department of Defense is planning to withdraw most support for CIA counter-terror missions by the beginning of next year, in a move expected to have a broad effect on the scope of the intelligence agency's paramilitary operations, a senior defense official and former senior administration official with direct knowledge of the move told CNN.
  
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• Lebanon's prime minister charged over deadly Beirut blast

  10-12-2020 16:11 via cnn.com
  
  A Lebanese judge has charged caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with criminal neglect over the huge explosion at Beirut's port that killed more than 200 people this summer.
  
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• TV journalist shot dead in Afghanistan after gunmen attack her vehicle

  10-12-2020 16:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Gunmen shot and killed a female TV anchor in eastern Afghanistan early Thursday, officials said.
  
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• Analysis: Trump undercuts promising vaccine news by focusing on the past

  10-12-2020 16:10 via cnn.com
  
  Americans could get the first real glimmer of hope that there will be an end to the pandemic that has upended their lives Thursday, when a key advisory panel takes a vote that could clear the way for the US Food and Drug Administration to greenlight a Covid-19 vaccine within days.
  
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• Ground zero for US election misinformation ahead of Senate runoff

  10-12-2020 16:05 via cnn.com
  
  • LIVE: Biden's top contenders for key Cabinet spot of attorney general
  • Trump won't move on even as those around him are
  • GOP senators ready to acknowledge Biden won
  
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• Next steps for the Covid-19 vaccines in the US

  10-12-2020 16:00 via cnn.com
  
  The United States is suffering a devastating rise in cases and deaths from the coronavirus and hopes for a return to a more familiar life are pinned on vaccines.
  
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• This mosaic is shining a new light on the 'Dark Ages'

  10-12-2020 15:48 via cnn.com
  
  A newly dated mosaic at Chedworth Roman Villa, England, has upended experts' understanding of the 'Dark Ages' in Britain. Historians previously thought the mosaic industry to be dead during the economic collapse after the Roman Empire's retreat.
  
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• The highly anticipated video game starring Keanu Reeves is finally here

  10-12-2020 15:48 via cnn.com
  
  The most anticipated game of 2020 is finally here. Cyberpunk 2077, a role-playing game set in a dystopian future and based on a pen-and-paper title from the '90s, is being released Thursday.
  
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• Following a record day where the daily death toll surpassed 9/11, a meeting is underway that could clear a path for a turning point in the pandemic fight

  10-12-2020 15:44 via cnn.com
  
  The United States should be celebrating a day of great hope today, as a Covid-19 vaccine could get authorized for emergency use very soon.
  
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• F1 driver apologizes for 'inappropriate behavior' after video on social media surfaces

  10-12-2020 15:34 via cnn.com
  
  Nikita Mazepin, who is set to race for Formula One team Haas next season, has apologized after a video was posted on social media believed to be him, touching the breast of a woman sitting in a car.
  
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• Taylor Swift dropping surprise album

  10-12-2020 15:31 via cnn.com
  
  It's the holiday season and Taylor Swift has a gift.
  
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• 'Tremendously exciting' 5th century Roman mosaic found in Britain

  10-12-2020 15:24 via cnn.com
  
  Archaeologists have uncovered Britain's first 5th century Roman mosaic -- a find of "enormous" historical significance which could change the way historians view the period it dates back to.
  
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• Trump administration dials up US-China tech tensions

  10-12-2020 15:17 via cnn.com
  
  In its final weeks in office, the Trump administration is rushing out policies against flagship Chinese companies. The goal? To cement Trump's legacy as a hardliner against Beijing, hobble China's tech ambitions and box in the incoming Biden administration. CNN's Sherisse Pham reports.
  
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• McDonald's is giving away free food during the holidays

  10-12-2020 15:15 via cnn.com
  
  McDonald's is feeling more like Santa and less like the Grinch with its new meal deal.
  
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• Pornhub to ban unverified uploads after child abuse content claims

  10-12-2020 15:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Site – visited 100m times a day – to make changes following allegations it was hosting abusive and non-consensual materialPornhub, one of the largest adult content sites in the world, has announced it will be banning unverified video uploads after allegations that it has been hosting child abuse videos.An investigation by the New York Times last week claimed Pornhub was hosting non-consensual and child abuse content on its website. Activists have long called for changes to Pornhub&rs
  
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• Rich countries leaving rest of the world behind on Covid vaccines, warns Gates Foundation

  10-12-2020 14:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Deals struck by wealthy nations to secure treatments could leave the world’s poorest people unvaccinated without urgent actionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt could be too late for any kind of fair distribution of coronavirus vaccines because of the deals already made by rich countries, according to Mark Suzman, chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Despite the unprecedented pace of scientific progress on the development of vaccines,
  
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