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• Trump lashes out at Barr after realizing inquiry into Russia probe won't be public before election

  09-10-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has ramped up his criticism of Attorney General Barr as he seeks to make the origins of the Russia probe a major election issue.
  
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• South Carolina Senate debate replaced with interviews after Lindsey Graham ‘refuses Covid-19 test'

  09-10-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican senator reportedly declines coronavirus test and attacks rival for demanding ‘special treatment’ as GOP under scrutiny for White House disease outbreak
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett didn't disclose 2 talks with anti-abortion groups to the Senate

  09-10-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN has found another controversial event Amy Coney Barrett didn't inform the Senate about.After her nomination to the Supreme Court, the Senate asked Barrett to list every talk she had given, as well as provide a transcript of the event. But she failed to mention speaking at two events held by right-to-life student groups at the University of Notre Dame, CNN reports.Barrett is a professor at Notre Dame, as well as a circuit court judge. She delivered one lecture and one seminar for anti-abortio
  
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• Despite stumbles and disruptions, VP debate shows America's progress: Readers

  09-10-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On debate stage, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris showed beyond a doubt that she is ready to lead this nation.
  
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• Hope Hicks returned to work at the White House the day after self-quarantining aboard Air Force One, according to report

  09-10-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hope Hicks only told Trump and a handful of senior staff about her COVID-19 diagnosis, much to the dismay of her coworkers, the Washington Post said.
  
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• South Carolina Senate Candidate Suggests Amy Coney Barrett Would Roll Back Civil Rights: ‘I Don’t Look Good in Chains’

  09-10-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison on Wednesday questioned whether Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett would “roll back the civil rights of folks” saying, “I don’t look good in chains, so I’m not going back to that.”The comments came during a Post and Courier Pints and Politics event in Columbia, South Carolina where Harrison, a Democrat who is challenging three-time Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham, discussed whether he would vote for Barre
  
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• At least 12,000 mink dead as coronavirus spreads among fur farms in Utah and Wisconsin

  09-10-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Covid-19 is killing mink in the same way it kills humans, and is wreaking havoc on fur farms in Utah and Wisconsin
  
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• China's Xi says intends to deepen relations with North Korea: KCNA

  09-10-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a congratulatory message to Kim Jong Un for the founding anniversary of North Korea's ruling party, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he intends to deepen relations with Pyongyang, North Korean state media reported on Saturday."We have an intent to successfully defend, consolidate and develop the China-Korea relations together with Korean comrades and propel the long-lasting and stable development of the socialist cause of the two countries," North Korean state news agency KCNA quoted Xi as s
  
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• 'I had to be rude because he was lying': Trump defends interrupting Biden at least 128 times during debate

  09-10-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President was widely criticised for his behaviour during first face-off with his challenger
  
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• Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi expresses concern over UK approach to approving Covid-19 vaccine

  09-10-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the Democratic Party’s most senior figures has openly criticised the UK’s system for approving a Covid-19 vaccine, suggesting that the process for ensuring its safety is not as rigorous as that followed in America. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives - one half of the US Congress - made the unexpected comment during a press conference on Friday. She said that people must be “very careful” about the UK drive to approve a vaccine, sug
  
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• Fauci Calls Amy Coney Barrett Nomination Ceremony a ‘Super-Spreader Event’ for Coronavirus

  09-10-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday called the White House's ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a “super-spreader event” for the coronavirus after the president and a number of attendees tested positive for the virus in its aftermath.Fauci’s comments came during an interview with CBS News’ Steven Portnoy, in which Portnoy noted that most of the president’s aides had not worn masks until recently and asked what people can learn about the efficacy of ma
  
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• Priscilla Chan said she's proud of how Mark Zuckerberg has handled backlash over Facebook's policing of misinformation and conspiracy theories like QAnon

  09-10-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I am proud of how he's been handling all of this, and I know he is doing his hardest, and I wish others could see that," Chan told the "Today" show.
  
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• South Carolina debate in question as Graham refuses to take COVID-19 test despite possible exposure

  09-10-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It takes less than 30 minutes to get your nose swabbed," rival Jaime Harrison, who lost an aunt to COVID-19, says
  
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• North Carolina University issues ‘shelter in place order’ following ‘direct threat’ over BLM mural

  09-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Students and teachers warned ‘do not come to campus’
  
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• Sixteen ‘Boogaloo’ Followers Have Been Busted in 7 Days

  09-10-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant. Thirteen other Michigan and Delaware men arrested in state and federal busts over alleged plots to take over the state government. A Maryland man busted on federal weapons charges. A Virginia man arrested for allegedly violating a local open-carry law.At least four state and federal busts—and, in one case, a local arrest—have targeted the so-called “Boogaloo” moveme
  
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• Polls show Joe Biden leading Donald Trump, but after 2016, should we believe them?

  09-10-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  National and state polls continue to show Joe Biden leading Trump. In some cases, it's by a double digit margin. But how accurate are they?
  
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• Michigan 'plot': Who are the US militia groups?

  09-10-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Militia members were plotting to kidnap the Michigan governor. What's the story behind these groups?
  
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• What Happens Next in Ethiopia's Political Turmoil

  09-10-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This week Ethiopia’s government entered the controversial sixth year of its five-year mandate.Covid-19 has produced plenty of political drama these last few months, but Ethiopia has experienced more than most—here’s why.Ethiopian politics operates in a system of “ethnic federalism”—while there is a central government to this federation, its constituent parts are carved out along ethnic lines and jockeyed over by parties promising the best deal for the ethnicit
  
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• The DOJ is suing Yale, accusing it of discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. Their claims are 'leveraging the model minority myth' to pit racial groups against each other, scholars say.

  09-10-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration DOJ's claim against Yale is just "political messaging for November," according to a senior counsel at the Brennan Center.
  
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• The Biden campaign sold 35,000 fly swatters in a matter of hours after a fly's famous landing on Mike Pence's head during the vice-presidential debate

  09-10-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Biden campaign's fly swatters, which carried the slogan "Truth Over Flies," sold for $10 each.
  
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• Fauci says 'we had a superspreader event in the White House'

  09-10-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 following a "superspreader event," Dr. Anthony Fauci says.Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of President Trump's coronavirus task force, spoke to CBS News Radio on Friday and again stressed that "everybody should wear a mask, literally universally" amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But after Trump and numerous people in his orbit recently tested positive for COVID-19, CBS' Steven Portnoy asked Fauci "what did we learn abo
  
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• Brits accused in beheading of hostages plead not guilty

  09-10-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two British men charged with helping the Islamic State group carry out executions and ransom negotiations for Western hostages pleaded not guilty Friday in a federal court.El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are identified by authorities as two of four men who were dubbed “the Beatles” by hostages, who took note of their British accents.The indictment charges the men in connection with the deaths of four American hostages — journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid w
  
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• Pompeo warns of China risks ahead of US-India talks

  09-10-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday urged closer ties with India as he warned of China's growing might on its doorstep, amid a flurry of diplomacy between the world's two largest democracies.
  
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• Isis 'Beatles': Brother of murdered British hostage says he does not hate Isis killers

  09-10-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Exclusive: Mike Haines says he is glad Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh will not face death penalty
  
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• 'It's the law': Kentucky AG seeks to keep Breonna Taylor grand jurors silent on case

  09-10-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General Daniel Cameron wants an immediate stay on any judge's order granting grand jurors the right to speak freely in the Breonna Taylor case.
  
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• Trump to hold in-person event at White House despite possibly still being contagious, reports say

  09-10-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump is planning to host his first in-person event on Saturday since testing positive for Covid-19 just a week ago, and possibly still being contagious.ABC News reports that the president will give a speech from one of the balconies of the White House at an event billed as: “Remarks to peaceful protesters for law and order."A crowd will gather on the South Lawn and will include attendees of a previously scheduled event arranged by Candace Owens, the conservative activist whose grou
  
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• International Coalition Backs Embattled Expert on Chinese Foreign-Influence Operations

  09-10-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 150 China-focused experts and academics signed on to a letter this week expressing their support for Anne-Marie Brady, a professor at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury, whose work on the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign political interference has been the target of a review by the school’s vice chancellor.The paper that triggered the review is “Holding a Pen in One Hand, Gripping a Gun in the Other,” Brady’s investigation of how China’s Peop
  
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• A 2012 Keys murder has been solved with DNA. The boyfriend did it, cops say.

  09-10-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2012 homicide of a Florida Keys man is no longer a cold case awaiting resolution, police said Friday.
  
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• Cunningham won't directly address possible other affairs

  09-10-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham refused on Friday to address whether other sexual affairs could surface days after The Associated Press reported his intimate encounter this summer with a public relations consultant.Cunningham is in a closely contested, expensive race with Republican Sen. Thom Tillis that could determine control of the Senate.
  
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• Trump declares he's 'healed' of the coronavirus, bashes DOJ and curses in two-hour interview

  09-10-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The freewheeling interview with Rush Limbaugh was the longest the president has given since he tested positive last week.
  
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• A Republican congressman is accusing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of interfering in the US presidential election

  09-10-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a TIME video, the couple urged Americans to vote on Nov. 3. Rep. Jason Smith described that as "an inappropriate act of domestic interference."
  
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• White House offers $1.8 trillion COVID-19 stimulus plan as Trump says he wants even more funding

  09-10-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At an event in Kentucky on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was “unlikely” a stimulus deal would occur before the election.
  
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• Harrison demands Graham get COVID-19 test before next debate

  09-10-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison are set to meet for their second debate on Friday.
  
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• Delaware suspect in Whitmer plot was pardoned last year

  09-10-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Delaware man charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has a long criminal history and was pardoned just last year by Delaware’s governor for crimes dating to 1994, according to state records.Barry G. Croft Jr., 44, was taken into custody this week after being arrested by the FBI in Swedesboro, New Jersey.Croft made an initial appearance before a federal magistrate in Wilmington on Thursday.
  
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• Coronavirus pushes Trump into a 'fiasco vortex' as events spin out of administration's control

  09-10-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus outbreak at the White House has plunged Trump’s presidency into what crisis relations expert Eric Dezenhall calls “the fiasco vortex,” a phenomenon in which crisis overtakes a public figure, destroying any attempts to impose a favorable cast on developments.
  
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• Hunters bag record-breaking python in Florida Everglades

  09-10-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Florida hunters set a new record when they caught a Burmese python that measured a whopping 18 feet, 8.8 inches (5.71 meters), authorities in the southern state said Friday, as they encourage more people to eliminate the invasive species.
  
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• Small explosion at bakery in Lebanese capital kills 4 people

  09-10-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A diesel tank exploded inside a Beirut building on Friday night, killing four people and injuring several others, the Lebanese Red Cross said.The state-run National News Agency said the blaze erupted inside a bakery in the basement of the building.The explosion came two months after a massive blast at Beirut’s port killed nearly 200 people, injured about 6,500 and caused damage worth billions of dollars.
  
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• Trump hails his COVID 'cure' as leading medical journal calls him 'dangerously incompetent' on pandemic

  09-10-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump continued to hail an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment as a “cure” for COVID-19, telling radio host Rush Limbaugh that it sped his recovery from the disease and was “better than a vaccine.”
  
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• When could President Trump resume campaign rallies after COVID fight?

  09-10-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Communications Director Alyssa Farrah joins 'Bill Hemmer Reports' for an update on the president's health
  
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• Trump declares he's 'healed' of coronavirus, bashes DOJ and curses in two-hour interview

  09-10-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The free-wheeling interview with Rush Limbaugh was the longest the president has given since he tested positive last week.
  
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• NYC cancels $900M payment to teachers due to financial crisis

  09-10-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NYC teachers who were expected to receive their share of a $900 million payout were told those funds will not be released.The de Blasio administration canceled the payment and is blaming it on the pandemic, according to the New York Post.“It is the city’s desire to avoid the necessity for layoffs, and to make a retroactive payment at this time would therefore be fiscally irresponsible,” said First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan to Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation
  
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• No one will buy the Watts murder house featured in Netflix's 'American Murder: The Family Next Door

  09-10-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The house is technically still owned by Watts despite its foreclosure
  
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• U.S. oil faces a perfect storm — and it's bigger than just one hurricane

  09-10-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, nearly all production in the Gulf of Mexico was knocked offline, making gas prices spike by nearly 50 cents a gallon in some parts of the country.
  
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• A judge said Derek Chauvin can live outside of Minnesota as he awaits trial over the death of George Floyd

  09-10-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Derek Chauvin is now able to reside in a "contiguous state" to Minnesota per the new order form the district court.
  
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• Trump complains of delays in results of probe into origins of Russia investigation

  09-10-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said on Friday it was a "disgrace" that a Justice Department review of the origins of the Russia investigation that consumed two years of his presidency would not be ready before the Nov. 3 election.U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, a Trump appointee and close ally of the Republican president, is said to have told Senate Republicans that the review is unlikely to be completed before the vote.Trump has been pushing for the investigation to move forward more quickly to give h
  
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• 'You're lying, it's a hoax': Disbelief of the coronavirus is driving a wedge through American families — even those who've been infected

  09-10-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We spoke to two women on opposite ends of the political spectrum who both had the coronavirus to see how it's impacted their choice in the election.
  
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• Amazon Prime Day starts Tuesday — but we found 10 deals you can buy right now

  09-10-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You don't have to wait until Oct. 13 to score major deals.
  
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• New York pharmacist sent cocaine to DEA agent probing his store, feds say

  09-10-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dimitrios Lymberatos took the “sinister action” to make the investigator fear for her physical safety and to cause trouble for her, authorities said.
  
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• Ex-police officer on bail in George Floyd case allowed to leave Minnesota

  09-10-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said in a court ruling made public on Friday that he had been presented with "evidence supporting safety concerns that have arisen in the pretrial conditional release supervision" of Chauvin.Cahill ordered that Chauvin, 44, should establish residency somewhere in Minnesota or "a contiguous state as soon as possible" and report that to the officer assigned by the Minnesota Department of Corrections to oversee his release.
  
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• Plot puts focus on governors' safety amid threats, protests

  09-10-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor has put a focus on the security of governors who have faced protests and threats over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic.While the alleged plot against Gretchen Whitmer is the most specific and highest-profile to come to light, it’s far from the first threat against state officials, particularly Democrats who imposed business closures and restrictions on social gatherings.In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said this week that news
  
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