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• A giant fish has been swimming near a Massachusetts town and police want people to stop calling 911 about it

  15-10-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Wareham Department of Natural Resources said people were "jealous" of the fish "just because it's not swimming weather anymore."
  
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• Park Police officers indicted in shooting of unarmed driver

  15-10-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two U.S. Park Police officers were indicted Thursday on manslaughter charges in the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed motorist who led officers on a stop-and-go chase outside Washington, capping nearly three years of inquiry into a case that caused an outcry over concerns of excessive force.The charges against officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard come after years of agitation by the family of Bijan Ghaisar, 25, of McLean, a Virginia suburb of the nation's capital.Ghaisar was fatally shot b
  
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• First, it was air bags. Now, millions of Takata seat belts may also be faulty.

  15-10-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Takata provided seat belt webbing for 30 percent of the vehicles produced worldwide.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani’s daughter backs Joe Biden to end Donald Trump ‘nightmare’

  15-10-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ms Giuliani says only electing Joe Biden ‘will end this nightmare.’
  
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• U.S. Justice official accuses Barr of 'scorn for apolitical prosecutors'

  15-10-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A recently retired federal prosecutor in California on Thursday became the third career Justice Department official to claim in a recent newspaper letter or op-ed that Attorney General William Barr has politicized the department.Phillip Halpern, a 36-year department veteran who prosecuted Republican former Representatives Duncan Hunter and Randy Cunningham in California, criticized Barr in the print edition of San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday and said he had resigned.
  
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• Dwyane Wade was walking down a California beach during a wedding proposal...

  15-10-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Proposing marriage can take months of planning or in the moment.
  
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• Donald Trump claims women love being called ‘housewives’ as he begged for their support

  15-10-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President continues appeal to voting bloc as polls say they have deserted him
  
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• SC Dems file ethics complaint in Graham fundraising comments

  15-10-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Carolina Democrats have filed a formal complaint against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for making a campaign fundraising appeal while speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill following judicial confirmation hearings.On Thursday, the South Carolina Democratic Party said Graham “committed a crime and violated longstanding ethics rules by openly raising money for his campaign in a Federal government building while leveraging his official U.S. Senate activity.”A copy of the complaint was
  
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• Democrats hint at consequences as GOP moves to confirm Amy Coney Barrett

  15-10-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats have temporarily iced the debate about court expansion, but their pushback Thursday previewed an internal fight on how to respond if they take power
  
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• Trump celebrates fatal shooting of Antifa activist by US Marshals

  15-10-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘We sent in the US marshals, took 15 minutes it was over, 15 minutes it was over, we got him’
  
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• Will Russian arms sales survive the Azeri-Armenian conflict?

  15-10-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia historically sold weapons to both Azerbaijan and Armenia to maintain peaceful relations as well as a military balance between the two.
  
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• 36,000 immigrants in Florida won’t get their citizenship in time to vote, data shows

  15-10-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Up to 300,000 lawful permanent residents nationwide – about 36,000 of them in Florida – will be prevented from completing their naturalization process in time to vote in the upcoming November election, data shows.
  
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• 'Fire! Fire! Fire!': A ship captain faces prosecution after a slaughter at sea

  15-10-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chilling case of the Ping Shin 101, which is still unfolding, shows the challenge of prosecuting crimes on the high seas.
  
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• 3 major health benefits of red wine — and how much you should drink

  15-10-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Red wine may benefit your heart, brain, and bone health — but only if you drink it in moderation.
  
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• ‘Your credibility... will die in this room’

  15-10-2020 23:00 via politico.com
  
  Senate Democrats vow the GOP will regret confirming Barrett to the Supreme Court on the eve of the election.
  
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• Less than 1% of dentists got COVID-19 after reopening, study finds. Here’s why

  15-10-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “This is very good news for dentists and patients,” the ADA says
  
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• 'Unflattering' dog and cat challenges bring joy to the internet

  15-10-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Animal owners are flocking to social media to show off the less glamorous pictures of their pets.
  
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• Fact check: Fake Trump tweet says Supreme Court should decide every election

  15-10-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Facebook user posted an image purportedly of a tweet from President Donald Trump's Twitter account. It's not real.
  
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• 'My life is forever changed': Michigan woman makes miracle recovery from COVID-19 after 196 days in the hospital

  15-10-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deanna Hair, 67, was discharged from Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor Thursday after fighting COVID-19 complications for more than six months.
  
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• Obama accuses Trump of accelerating spread of online disinformation and conspiracy theories

  15-10-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mr Obama warns against echo chambers and QAnon conspiracy theory
  
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• The Capital Note: China Bulls Shop, Europe’s Sour Grapes

  15-10-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance and economics. On the menu today: China’s successful bond issue, America’s high tech (and the resentment it generates in the EU), China’s Covid exports (no, not that one) and the end of risk-free assets.China Bulls ShopU.S. investors facing meager returns on developed-market bonds bought up record amounts of Chinese sovereign debt in a bond offering today. According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. investors boug
  
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• Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Trump is actually doing worse with all white voters than in 2016

  15-10-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the homestretch of the 2020 campaign, Trump not only appears to be performing worse than before among college-educated white women, he's also doing worse among white voters in general.
  
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• Whites-only church eyes small town; residents fear becoming 'hate capital of Minnesota'

  15-10-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Asatru Folk Assembly bought an abandoned Lutheran church and now needs a conditional use permit to operate.
  
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• Dianne Feinstein Thanks Lindsey Graham for ‘One of the Best Set of Hearings That I’ve Participated In’

  15-10-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) on Thursday, the final day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, thanked Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) for presiding over “one of the best set of hearings” that she had participated in.“I just want to thank you, this has been one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in and I want to thank you for your fairness and the opportunity of going back and forth,” the Democrat told the ch
  
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• No need for Biden to quarantine after flying with person who tested positive for COVID-19: campaign

  15-10-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden flew on an airplane with a person who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 but Biden was not in close contact with the person and there is no need for him to quarantine, his campaign said on Thursday."Vice President Biden was not in close contact, as defined by the CDC, with this individual at any time," the statement said, adding they both wore masks during the flights, which occurred on Monday and Tuesday."Given these facts, we have been ad
  
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• Fundraising lifts Democrats in final weeks of U.S. election campaign

  15-10-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats hoping to capture the U.S. presidency and the Senate have seen a wave of cash from small donors come their way in the final months before the Nov. 3 election.The Democratic fundraising organization ActBlue reported on Thursday that it collected $1.5 billion on its online platform from July to September, the most it has ever raised in a quarter.The Democratic sum includes donations made to several groups and political candidates as well as the presidential campaign of former Vice Presid
  
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• Trump heads to Georgia to shore up support in a state Republicans once took for granted

  15-10-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Peach State could be the ultimate swing state this election, with a tight presidential race and two toss-up Senate campaigns.
  
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• Ex-Google chief: U.S. must do 'whatever it takes' to beat China on AI

  15-10-2020 22:21 via politico.com
  
  "We want America to be inventing this stuff," Eric Schmidt said during POLITICO's summit on artificial intelligence. "Or at least the West."
  
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• Winter should be mostly mild with few blizzards, but much of USA could see drought, forecasters say

  15-10-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NOAA forecasts a mild winter for the East and South, but that may mean drought for the southern half of the USA.
  
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• Scott Peterson's murder convictions of wife and unborn son to be reexamined

  15-10-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scott Peterson has gone from facing the death penalty for the 2004 conviction of killing his wife and unborn son to possibly facing a new trial.
  
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• Gordon Ramsay roasted a TikTok chef who covered their chicken in toothpicks and 'turned it into a hedgehog'

  15-10-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Acupuncture doesn't belong on a chicken!" Gordon Ramsay said of the TikTok creation. "You've turned the chicken into a hedgehog!"
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett wouldn't tell America where she stands on vital issues, so GOP senators did it for her

  15-10-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans were set on confirming Barrett before the hearings even started, placing her in a perfect position to evade questions.
  
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• Military study finds airline passengers unlikely to spread COVID if they wear a mask

  15-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In new U.S. Transportation Command study, putting a mask on airline mannequin with simulated “cough” captured 95 percent of particles released.
  
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• ‘Jesus Christ’: President Trump says the son of God is the only person more popular in US

  15-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Claim comes as polls put president’s approval rating in the low-40s
  
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• Trump admits exposing Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to Covid-19: 'He didn't care. He's from North Carolina'

  15-10-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘Could you imagine, I had to go to North Carolina to find my chief of staff?’ president says in apparent jab at key swing state
  
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• C-SPAN suspends Steve Scully after he admits to lie about Twitter hack

  15-10-2020 21:50 via politico.com
  
  The news came on the day of what was supposed to be a career highlight for the 30-year C-SPAN veteran.
  
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• Judge rejects request to delay access to Floyd case filings

  15-10-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected prosecutors' request to put a 48-hour hold on filings in the criminal cases of four Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death.Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said a natural lag in the court filing system gives prosecutors sufficient time to see filings and, if they choose, to ask that they be sealed.As evidence of that lag, Cahill cited this week's filing by defense attorneys that sought to introduce evidence from a 2019 arrest involvin
  
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• Cybercrime Money-launders Busted by European Police, FBI

  15-10-2020 21:42
  European and American officials said Thursday that they have arrested 20 people in several countries for allegedly belonging to an international ring that laundered millions of euros stolen by cybercriminals through malware schemes.
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• A Keys man was caught with 16 stolen lobsters stuffed down his pants, cops say

  15-10-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 27-year-old Florida Keys deckhand tried to steal 16 lobster tails by stuffing them down his pants, police said.
  
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• YouTube cracks down on QAnon content

  15-10-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  YouTube on Thursday said it was banning content that targets an individual or a group using conspiracy theories such as QAnon or Pizzagate that have "been used to justify real-world violence."The company said in a blog post that it would begin enforcing these expanded hate and harassment policies immediately and would "ramp up" in the weeks to come.The move follows recent crackdowns announced by other major social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, against QAnon content.QAnon is an
  
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• 'You will be infected or you will die of starvation': Amazon contractors reportedly say their office is still unsafe months after first complaining of 'subhuman' conditions

  15-10-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The report comes after claims surfaced in April of "subhuman" conditions at the call center, where workers slept on the floor between shifts.
  
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• TrickBot Botnet Survives Takedown Attempt

  15-10-2020 21:32
  The TrickBot botnet appears to have resumed normal operations days after Microsoft announced that it managed to take it down using legal means. 
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• The New York Post's dubious Hunter Biden article was shared 300,000 times on Facebook even after the company said it limited its reach

  15-10-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most interactions with the New York Post article came after Facebook said it would temporarily slow the spread of the unverified and dubious story.
  
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• Superconductors: Material raises hope of energy revolution

  15-10-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scientists find a material that displays a much sought-after property at room temperature.
  
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• On Apple iPhone 12, it's a battle of the 5G bands among AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile

  15-10-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even though iPhone 12 supports all types of 5G, not every wireless carrier does. And many of the benefits of faster service are still slow to arrive.
  
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• Apple just announced a new wireless charger that 'will be available at a later date.' The last time Apple did this, it ended up canceling the product.

  15-10-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple's new wireless charging pad, the MagSafe Duo, will be able to charge both an iPhone and Apple Watch at the same time.
  
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• Inspired by Trump, Hasidic Backlash Grows Over Virus Rules

  15-10-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK -- A group of mostly young men began descending on the Brooklyn home of a Hasidic journalist just before midnight Sunday.The men, who were fellow ultra-Orthodox Jews, were shouting that the journalist, Jacob Kornbluh, was a snitch, an informer who had betrayed his own by publishing reports on how devoutly religious Jews in the city had been ignoring coronavirus guidelines.The group got all the way to Kornbluh's doorstep, where a line of police officers kept them at bay.The tense scene s
  
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• Former Roommate of Accused Capital One Hacker Sentenced

  15-10-2020 20:37
  The former roommate of a woman accused of hacking Capital One banking company and at least 30 other organizations has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally possessing firearms, according to federal prosecutors.
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• Chicago officer sues former chief for sexual harassment

  15-10-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chicago police officer has filed a lawsuit alleging sexual assault by former police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who was out drinking with her the night he was found asleep behind the wheel of his SUV.In her lawsuit filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court, Cynthia Donald also says Johnson destroyed cellphone evidence of their relationship amid an investigation into Johnson's movements that night.Donald's lawsuit alleges Johnson sexually harassed her, pressured her to engage in sexual act
  
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• Wynn Resorts' Encore scales back hours due to lack of demand on Las Vegas Strip amid COVID-19 pandemic

  15-10-2020 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new schedule will "continue indefinitely until consumer demand for Las Vegas increases," Wynn Resorts announced this week.
  
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