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• Positive COVID-19 test rates top 25% in some U.S. Midwest states

  27-09-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The positivity rate has risen to 26% in South Dakota, up from 17% the previousweek, according to the analysis using testing data from The COVID Tracking Project.The World Health Organization considers rates above 5% concerning because it suggests there are more cases in the community that have not yet been uncovered.Several states such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have positive test rates of less than 1%.
  
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• St. Helena hospital evacuated due to Glass Fire

  27-09-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOSPITAL EVACUATED: All 55 patients at the hospital have been evacuated safely, a representative with the Adventist Health Medical Center said Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Fact check: It's true, Ginsburg and Scalia were close friends despite ideological differences

  27-09-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The "odd couple" of the Supreme Court disagreed on the bench but spent every New Year's Eve together.
  
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• Poll: Majority of Michigan, Wisconsin voters say don't fill RBG Supreme Court seat before election

  27-09-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The poll found Democratic nominee Biden leading Trump among likely voters 52%-44% in Michigan, and 54%-44% in Wisconsin.
  
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• Swiftly spreading wildfire erupts in California's Napa Valley wine country

  27-09-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of northern California's Napa Valley wine country and spread across more than 1,000 acres (404 hectares), forcing the evacuation of several communities and a hospital, authorities said.The blaze, dubbed the Glass Fire, broke out east of Calistoga, about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco, and raced toward the adjacent towns of Deer Park and St. Helena, with flames advancing to within a mile of the Adventist Health St. Helena hospital.
  
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• California wine country wildfire forces evacuation of hospital, hundreds of homes

  27-09-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of northern California's Napa Valley wine country to spread across nearly 2,000 acres (809 hectares), forcing the evacuation of a hospital and hundreds of homes, authorities said.Fire crews were out in force, scrambling to fend off flames threatening neighborhoods and vineyards at the northern end of the famed wine-growing valley and surrounding hillsides, about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco.The blaze, dubbed the Glass Fire, broke
  
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• New York Times publishes Donald Trump's tax returns in election bombshell

  27-09-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Paper details $750 federal income tax payments in 2016, 2017* Information ‘does not reveal unreported Russia connections’* Trump’s taxes: key findings from the New York Times reportDonald Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, paid only $750 in federal income taxes in the year he was elected US president, according to a stunning New York Times investigation that could shake up the presidential election.“Trump taxes show chronic losses and years of tax avoidance,” w
  
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• New York Times publishes details of Donald Trump's tax returns

  27-09-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Paper details $750 federal income tax payments in 2016, 2017* Information ‘does not reveal unreported Russia connections’* Trump’s taxes: key findings from the New York Times reportDonald Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, paid only $750 in federal income taxes in the year he was elected US president, according to a stunning New York Times investigation that could shake up the presidential election.“Trump taxes show chronic losses and years of tax avoidance,” w
  
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• Republicans condemned for promoting ‘Notorious ACB’ shirts days after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death

  27-09-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic senator says the point of the shirt was ‘to stick a finger in the eye of Ginsburg’s grieving family and anyone mourning her loss’
  
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• Heat wave brings 'critical risks' of wildfires to California

  27-09-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A heat wave in the Western U.S., combined with windy conditions in California, have increased the risk of fire in an area already battered by blazes.
  
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• A ballistics report pokes holes in Kentucky AG's claim that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot a police officer

  27-09-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Friendly fire had been ruled out when it came to a police officer being shot before officers unloaded 30 bullets into Breonna Taylor's apartment.
  
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• Haunted house shooter thought someone had cut in line, Michigan police say

  27-09-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police are searching for the suspect, who they say fled the scene in a blue sedan.
  
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• Los Angeles officer 'will be ok' after being injured during shooting inside police station, authorities say

  27-09-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The shooting comes after 2 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot in an apparent ambush this month while sitting in a patrol car in Compton.
  
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• South Park characters -- with masks -- fill stands to root for Denver Broncos - CNET

  27-09-2020 22:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Friendly faces day or night! Cartman and crew are rooting on their favorite NFL team.
  
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• NFL legend Joe Montana confronts intruder 'who grabbed grandchild’

  27-09-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The alleged culprit now faces kidnapping and burglary charges.
  
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• Pelosi expresses hope that deal can be made with White House on COVID-19 relief

  27-09-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that she thinks an agreement can be reached with the White House on a coronavirus relief package and that talks were continuing.
  
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• Biden holds commanding 10-point lead in polls as Trump demands 'drug test' before Tuesday's debate

  27-09-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrat led president 54-44 per cent in head-to-head national poll released on Sunday
  
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• Jill Biden, Doug Emhoff team up in final campaign stretch

  27-09-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff are both from New Jersey.Biden and Emhoff have rapidly become two of the campaign’s most prolific surrogates, engaging in in-person campaign events and virtual fundraisers at a pace that often outmatches their spouses at the top of the ticket.While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have spent their days campaigning in key states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, Jill Biden and Emhoff have had nonstop schedules of virtual fundraisers, constituency-focused events
  
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• Anti-English sentiment on rise in Scotland, Rennie tells Lib Dems

  27-09-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  English people in Scotland are being made to feel like “strangers in their own homes” as a result of rising nationalist bigotry, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has warned. Willie Rennie, in his speech to his party’s virtual conference on Sunday, said that the pandemic was being used by some to “spread hate” and said he felt “uncomfortable” with “the growing anti-English sentiment in Scotland”. He highlighted border protests in t
  
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• Fact check: Satirical claim that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Ginsburg's death

  27-09-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is considered "alive" by law, according to a satirical website.
  
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• Greece says first migrant dies of COVID-19 since the pandemic

  27-09-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A male migrant died of COVID-19 on Sunday, the first reported death of an asylum seeker since the pandemic broke out in Greece in late February, a government official told Reuters.The 61-year-old Afghan, a father of two children, who lived at the migrant camp of Malakasa north of Athens, was treated and died at a hospital in Athens, the official said, adding that authorities were tracing his contacts.
  
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• Democrats planning to delay Amy Coney Barrett confirmation

  27-09-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel weighs in on Democrats' plan to delay the Supreme Court confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.
  
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• The Trump campaign is waging an all-out legal war to stop the expansion of vote-by-mail in 7 different states

  27-09-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump has challenged state efforts to make it easier to cast a ballot by mail, arguing without evidence that the method could lead to voter fraud.
  
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• 100 Arrested During Unauthorized and 'Unruly' Car Rally in Maryland

  27-09-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People at the event shared videos of confrontations that erupted between police officers and rally attendees
  
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• Debates commission co-chair: We don’t expect moderators to be fact-checkers

  27-09-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, rejects Trump’s calls to test Biden for drugs before event.
  
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• Laurence Fox's says new 'culture wars' party has received £5 million in donations

  27-09-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new party set up by the actor Laurence Fox to fight Britain’s culture wars has already received £5 million in donations, he has claimed, nearly matching the war chest assembled by Labour prior to last year’s election. The sum was declared by Fox on Sunday as he officially launched Reclaim, a group he said would seek to promote free speech, overhaul allegedly biased public bodies and celebrate Britain’s national and cultural history. It comes after The Sunday Telegraph d
  
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• Russian dissident Navalny recovering faster than expected

  27-09-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is recovering from the suspected assassination attempt last month faster than expected, one of his aides said Sunday.Navalny, who collapsed on a plane from Siberia to Moscow on Aug. 20 and spent nearly three weeks in a coma, was discharged last week from the Berlin hospital where he was being treated.“He is doing much better, I would say unexpectedly better," Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff, told German broadcaster RTL.
  
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• 'Lawful but awful': US self-defense laws questioned after Breonna Taylor’s death

  27-09-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. legal system evolved to protect police and civilians alike who accidentally kill or injure innocent bystanders in the course of self-defense.
  
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• Former FDA commissioner clarifies debate over agency's coronavirus vaccine guidance

  27-09-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday, during an appearance on CBS News' Face the Nation, addressed reports about how he demanded the Food and Drug Administration justify, in detail, its reasoning for preparing to unveil new standards for a coronavirus vaccine.Meadows told host Margaret Brennan that he wants to know "why would that new guidance come out after we've already spent $30 billion" on vaccine development. "And my challenge to the FDA is just to make sure it's based on scien
  
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• Exit polls see Romania's Social Democrats lose control of Bucharest

  27-09-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Romania's deeply-entrenched Social Democrats lost control of capital Bucharest in local elections Sunday, exit polls showed, as mask-clad voters chose mayors and local councillors nationwide in the first electoral test after years of political turbulence.
  
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• Former Mali foreign minister Moctar Ouane named transitional premier

  27-09-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mali's interim president Bah Ndaw on Sunday named former Malian foreign minister Moctar Ouane as prime minister, opening the way for the country's neighbours to lift sanctions imposed after its August military coup.
  
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• NYPD officers charge at group of protesters and diners, arresting people on sidewalk

  27-09-2020 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police say they “responded to a large disorderly group obstructing vehicular traffic," but video of the incident appeared to show a different scene.
  
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• What politicians from Amy Coney Barrett's home state of Indiana say about her Supreme Court nomination

  27-09-2020 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Eric Holcomb said Barrett will add "another healthy dose of Hoosier hospitality to our nation’s capital."
  
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• Democrats condemn Trump for gloating about an end to Obamacare less than a day after announcing his Supreme Court nominee

  27-09-2020 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It's no mystery about what's happening here: President Trump is trying to throw out the Affordable Care Act," Democratic nominee Joe Biden said.
  
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• Ballistics report doesn't support Kentucky AG's claim that Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot cop

  27-09-2020 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Kentucky State Police ballistics report failed to match a bullet that hit a Louisville cop in thigh to a shot fired by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend.
  
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• Huge swing state hurdle: returning your absentee ballot

  27-09-2020 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In many swing states, voters cannot simply return an absentee ballot to an Election Day poll
  
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• Fact check: Claim of double standards between COVID-19, swine flu responses is inaccurate

  27-09-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The claim correctly cites swine flu case counts but is inaccurate on other points, including the response to H1N1.
  
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• 'People are voting right now': Biden pleads with Republicans to wait until 2021 to confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee

  27-09-2020 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential nominee opposes Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  
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• Koch-backed advocacy group launched a 'full-scale' campaign to push Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation

  27-09-2020 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity will start phone banking to encourage lawmakers in 11 key states to support Trump's SCOTUS nomination.
  
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• Lawyer says officer thought Blake was trying to kidnap child

  27-09-2020 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer’s lawyer contends.Sheskey saw Blake put a child in the SUV as he arrived, but he didn’t know that two other children were also in the back seat, Matthews said.
  
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• Woman arrested after driving car into California protest

  27-09-2020 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman who authorities say drove a car into a crowd during a Southern California demonstration against police brutality, striking and injuring two people, has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder and assault. The Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a statement late Saturday that 40-year-old Tatiana Turner of Long Beach was booked into jail. Turner drove a car into a crowd at a demonstration against police brutality and systemic racism Saturday that drew protesters and coun
  
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• Best home security cameras for 2020: Arlo, Google Nest and more - CNET

  27-09-2020 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These security cameras are the best of the best.
  
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• Man convicted of collecting urine from boys now faces child porn charges, Ohio cops say

  27-09-2020 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials say the man liked to drink the urine he collected.
  
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• Three Florida police officers fall ill after 'potential poisoning' on night out

  27-09-2020 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Investigators await test results to show whether group was drugged
  
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• Officer pistol-whipped with his own gun inside a Los Angeles police station, cops say

  27-09-2020 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I am grateful that the officer who was in this incident tonight ... did not lose his life.”
  
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• 'You're not wanted': Trump's proposed college student visa changes worry international students – again

  27-09-2020 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  International college students say they feel unwanted after yet another Trump administration proposal to restrict U.S. student visa rules.
  
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• 100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests

  27-09-2020 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  About 100,000 demonstrators marched in the Belarusian capital calling for the authoritarian president’s ouster, some wearing cardboard crowns to ridicule him, on Sunday as the protests that have rocked the country marked their 50th consecutive day.Protests also took place in nine other cities, underlining the wide extent of dismay and anger with President Alexander Lukashenko, who has stifled opposition and independent news media during 26 years in power.The protest wave began after the Au
  
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• New aftermath footage of police raid that killed Breonna Taylor shows Louisville officers violating investigation policies

  27-09-2020 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The footage shows officers involved in the raid on Taylor's apartment walking throughout the scene unescorted, a violation of their police department rules.
  
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• Former National Security Advisor McMaster Says It's 'Irresponsible' to Discuss Military's Role in 2020 Election Transition

  27-09-2020 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the presidential election
  
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• South African defence minister's pay docked over use of air force plane

  27-09-2020 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Africa's defence minister was accused of misusing state resources for party political business.
  
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