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• Trinidad says idle Venezuela oil vessel not a threat. Environmentalists are not convinced.

  22-10-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Thursday that a floating oil-storage vessel with nearly 55 million gallons of Venezuelan crude oil floating off its coast is not taking on water and shows no sign of capsizing and creating an environmental disaster off the coast of South America.
  
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• Bernie Sanders for Labor secretary? He's reportedly interested.

  22-10-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) reportedly has an "interest" in becoming Joe Biden's Labor secretary, were the Democrat to be elected president, Politico reports. Though Sanders shook off the suggestion when asked about it on Wednesday, "one person close to the Vermont senator" reportedly told Politico that "I can confirm he's trying to figure out how to land that role or something like it. He, personally, does have an interest in it."On Thursday, Sanders said he was planning to announce his own 100
  
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• 'Don't react to it': Cindy McCain, wife of the late Republican senator, explains the 'tipping' point that led her to endorse Democrat Joe Biden

  22-10-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I'm a Republican ... and I have no intention of changing my party," Cindy McCain said. "That's not why I'm here."
  
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• North Carolina man plotted to assassinate Biden, FBI claims

  22-10-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A North Carolina man had plans to assassinate Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden before he was ultimately arrested by the FBI, according to federal court documents.Federal officials detailed the shocking plot in court filings in a case against Alexander Hillel Treisman, who was arrested in May on child pornography charges.The FBI requested that Treisman remain behind bars until his trial, using the alleged assassination plot as justification.
  
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• Text Messages Appear to Show Meeting between Joe Biden and Son’s Business Partner

  22-10-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden appears to have met his son Hunter Biden's business partner in 2017, according to text messages obtained by Fox News.If it took place, the meeting may contradict the former vice president's claim that he "never" spoke with "my son about his overseas business dealings." The text messages came from Tony Bobulinski, the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings, a joint venture between members of the Biden family and now-defunct Chinese oil company CEFC."Mrng plse let me knw if we will do early din
  
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• Grandmother’s pill mills made millions in Tennessee, feds say. She’s going to prison

  22-10-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sylvia Hofstetter was sentenced to more than three decades in prison after prosecutors said she pocketed $4 million distributing oxycodone and other opiates.
  
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• Kobe Bryant’s Widow Vanessa Lists Tuscan-Style Southern California Home

  22-10-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The couple purchased the three-bedroom dwelling in Irvine as an investment in 2013
  
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• You and 5 friends can rent a private island in Florida for a week for about $50 a night

  22-10-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You can rent this island off the coast year-round, but a Hotels.com deal will temporarily lower the cost for Thanksgiving. Here's what it looks like.
  
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• GOP in ruby red Kansas stresses over costly Senate race

  22-10-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans who were desperate to have Kansas Congressman Roger Marshall as their candidate for an open Senate seat are finding the race to be anything but the sure thing they once thought it would be.GOP groups are pouring in millions of dollars to help the two-term congressman win what was supposed to be a safe Republican seat and to keep it from going to a party-switching state senator who was little known outside her suburban Kansas City-area district before the race began.Like other Democra
  
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• Christian singer to host evangelical ‘worship protest’ on Washington DC’s National Mall with 15,000 expected to attend

  22-10-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The event scheduled this weekend will not require attendees to wear masks or social distance
  
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• VIDEO: The US Navy is experimenting using drones to hand things off to ballistic missile submarines

  22-10-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The drones could be used to deliver medical or emergency supplies, or even messages if traditional communications are down.
  
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• Huawei Mate 40 phones launch despite chip freeze

  22-10-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chinese firm says its new phones are powered by the world's fastest mobile processor.
  
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• Uber drivers are suing the company over 'threatening' messages urging them to vote for California's Prop. 22

  22-10-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California voters will decide the fate of a pivotal gig worker law in November, one that Uber and its competitors are spending heavily to pass.
  
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• Don Jr ripped to shreds for claiming he worked his way to top

  22-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'The most hilarious tweet I've ever read on this site'
  
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• Celebrate your vote with virtual ‘I voted’ stickers from Yahoo

  22-10-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It has become an Election Day tradition for Americans to proudly wear — and post photos of — the iconic “I voted” stickers distributed at polling stations. 
  
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• Dad accused of killing wife films chilling message to daughter

  22-10-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A La Marque man suspected of shooting his 30-year-old wife appeared to post a clip in the midst of his flight from the law.
  
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• White House violated agreement with CBS by posting Trump and Pence interviews, network says

  22-10-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lesley Stahl tells vice president: ‘There is this anticipation that people in power are held accountable and they answer questions for the public, not for me, and I feel that we didn’t do that’
  
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• Another round of $1,200 stimulus checks? Pelosi says Dems, White House closer on deal

  22-10-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I think we’re just about there,” Pelosi said.
  
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• Lincoln Project targets Ivanka and Jared for Covid-19 death count with massive Times Square billboards

  22-10-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ‘There must be accountability for the lying and deaths — this is just the start,’ says anti-Trump conservative group
  
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• How to vote in 4 states with Oct. 23-24 registration deadlines

  22-10-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are the details you’ll need to vote in four states with deadlines coming up Friday, Oct. 23, and Saturday, Oct. 24.
  
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• Landlord threatens to raise tenants’ rent if Biden elected

  22-10-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents at a Colorado trailer park claim they were told their rent would double if the former VP wins the 2020 presidential election.A Colorado landlord allegedly threatened his tenants by sending them a letter saying their rent would double if former vice president Joe Biden is elected.9NEWS reported residents of the Colorado trailer park emailed the letter from their landlord to the news outlet questioning whether or not the threat was legal.
  
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• Intelligence officials think the Trump administration's election interference warnings are focused on the wrong country

  22-10-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American intelligence officials described the Trump administration's decision to focus on Iran's election disinformation campaign on Wednesday night as "concerning," characterizing efforts by Russia to be a bigger threat to destabilizing Americans' faith in the integrity of election results come Nov. 3.FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe shared on Wednesday that both Russia and Iran have obtained voter registration information and that Iran specific
  
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• ‘Nature can sure throw some curveballs.’ Two deer die with antlers locked in Kansas

  22-10-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The deer evidently met each other’s match.
  
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• 'Mama, they just shot us for nothing': Waukegan police officer fatally shoots Black teen, injures woman

  22-10-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People are protesting in Waukegan, Illinois, after a police officer fatally shot 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette on Tuesday.
  
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• Exclusive: 'Dumb mistake’ exposed Iranian hand behind fake Proud Boys U.S. election emails - sources

  22-10-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter."Either they made a dumb mistake or wanted to get caught," said a senior U.S. government official, who asked not to be identified.Iranian officials denied the U.S. allegations.
  
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• Exclusive: 'Dumb mistake' exposed Iranian hand behind fake Proud Boys U.S. election emails - sources

  22-10-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages, according to four people familiar with the matter."Either they made a dumb mistake or wanted to get caught," said a senior U.S. government official, who asked not to be identified.
  
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• A 73-year-old in Colorado was fined more than $1,000 after her pet deer gored a woman walking her dog

  22-10-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tynette Housley, 73, was cited on misdemeanor charges of illegal possession of wildlife and illegally feeding wildlife.
  
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• Putin says Karabakh deaths soaring as diplomats scramble

  22-10-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that weeks of fighting over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh province had left close to 5,000 people dead as world leaders scrambled to broker a truce.
  
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• ‘Should I Kill Joe Biden?’: Feds Say Nomad Busted With Car Full of Guns Debated Assassinating Ex-Veep

  22-10-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 19-year-old who was busted with a car full of guns and explosives—including a semi-automatic rifle—debated killing Joe Biden online, traveling to a Wendy’s mere miles from the former vice president’s home and penning a checklist that ended in “execute,” federal authorities allege in court documents.Alexander Hillel Treisman, originally from Seattle, was indicted by a federal grand jury in September on a child pornography charge after authorities stumbled upo
  
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• Police say BB gun shots fired at opponent of Pence's brother

  22-10-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Black woman who says she has received numerous racist and threatening messages as an Indiana congressional candidate against Vice President Mike Pence’s brother was unintentionally shot at last week by two boys with a BB gun, not a firearm, police said Thursday.Democrat Jeannine Lee Lake, who faces long odds against Republican Rep. Greg Pence in the GOP-dominated 6th District, called police after hearing what she thought was gunfire before a local Democratic Party meeting Oct. 15.Muncie
  
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• Pro-Graham Group Runs Ad Linking Rival Harrison to ‘Looting’ and ‘Rioting’

  22-10-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) fights for his political life, his supporters’ closing argument has emerged: a vote for Democratic candidate Jaime Harrison, they contend, is a vote for looting, rioting, and chaos.That’s the message delivered by Hobart Lewis, the sheriff of Greenville County, South Carolina, in an ad, paid for by a pro-Graham super PAC, that has begun hitting airwaves in the state this week.As footage rolls of looters smashing windows and setting fires, Lewis intones, &
  
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• Pompeo to ask China partner Sri Lanka to make 'difficult' choices

  22-10-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will ask Sri Lanka to make "difficult" choices on its growing relationship with China amid criticism the island is sliding toward authoritarianism, an official said Thursday.
  
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• Who the hell are nonvoters? We polled them and found the 6 kinds of people who don't vote.

  22-10-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If "did not vote" were a presidential candidate in 2016, it would have received 100 million votes and won in a landslide.
  
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• Protests continue in Rhode Island after moped driver was critically injured in a crash involving police

  22-10-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protests continued in Providence, Rhode Island, after a man was critically injured in a crash involving a moped being followed by a police cruiser.
  
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• Who wins when a fish and snake tangle? SC man catches life-or-death struggle on video

  22-10-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I looked down and the snake had a big catfish in his mouth,” the man said. “I thought it was awesome.”
  
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• America's 1.3 million Jehovah's Witnesses will be sitting out this election

  22-10-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jehovah's Witnesses do not vote, run for public office, serve in the military, or take "any action to change governments."
  
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• More than 47 million ballots cast in U.S. election, eclipsing 2016 early turnout

  22-10-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. voters have cast more than 47 million votes for the Nov. 3 presidential election, eclipsing total early voting from the 2016 election with 12 days to go, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project.The surge comes after many states have expanded mail-in voting and in-person early voting as a safe way to vote during the coronavirus pandemic and amid voter eagerness to weigh in on the political future of Republican President Donald Trump, who is facing a stiff challenge from Demo
  
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• Brazilian indigenous leader wins Robert Kennedy rights award

  22-10-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alessandra Korap of the Munduruku tribe in the Amazon was awarded the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights prize for her work defending the rights, ancestral lands and culture of indigenous people in Brazil."This prize is not for me alone, it is for all of Brazil's indigenous peoples that are crying out for help," the 36-year-old said in a telephone interview.The $30,000 award was presented to her by the former U.S. senator's daughter, Kerry Kennedy, in a virtual ceremony from Washington at which
  
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• GOP Sen. Thom Tillis faces off against Democrat Cal Cunningham in a competitive US Senate race in North Carolina

  22-10-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tillis, first elected in 2014, is up for a tough reelection battle against former state legislator Cunningham.
  
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• The Media’s Shameful Hunter Biden Abdication

  22-10-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an interview with National Public Radio’s public editor today, Terence Samuel, managing editor for news, explained why readers haven’t seen any stories about the New York Post’s Hunter Biden email scoop.“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” Samuel reasoned. “And quite frankly, that's where we end
  
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• Rally at Port Canaveral pushes return to cruises by ending federal 'no-sail' order

  22-10-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It's been too long," says Longshoreman Bobby Deriso. "We're ready to go back to work. We need to put food back on the table."
  
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• Hunter Biden business partner confirms email ahead of presidential debate

  22-10-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former House Oversight Committee chairman and Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy reacts on 'Bill Hemmer Reports'
  
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• Pelosi Refuses to Answer Reporter’s Question on Hunter Biden: ‘I Don’t Have All Day’

  22-10-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) refused on Thursday to answer a reporter's question about corruption allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden.A former business partner of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, sent documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday purporting to show a business arrangement between members of the Biden family and now-defunct Chinese oil company CEFC. One email that Bobulinski received describes a business deal between Hunter Biden and representatives of
  
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• Delta brutally subtweets rival airlines like American and United for not blocking middle seats during a pandemic

  22-10-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Delta's tweet, which read "A haunted house, but they're not blocking middle seats," appeared to call out competitor airlines.
  
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• A shift in Miami-Dade’s Black political leadership puts the focus on inequality and race

  22-10-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During one of his final Miami-Dade commission meetings after nearly three decades on the dais, Dennis Moss led fellow board members through a talk of unrealized progress for Black Miami in the Miami Herald’s “Separate and Unequal” series.
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro chats with coronavirus-infected health minister wearing no mask

  22-10-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday visited Health Minister General Eduardo Pazuello, who has COVID-19, and made his point that the disease is easy to recover quickly from with the help of the controversial drug chloroquine.The two men chatted and joked without wearing masks in Pazuello's hotel room, seen in a video posted on social media by the president, who recovered from a bout of COVID-19 in July."This is another concrete case of someone who took chloroquine and it worked," Bolso
  
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• Mexico reaches deal to pay water debt to US

  22-10-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico announced Thursday it has reached a deal with the United States to pay the shortfall in its annual contribution of water from border-area rivers by giving the U.S. Mexico's rights to water held in border dams that normally supply cities and towns downstream.The agreement announced Thursday allows Mexico to meet the Oct. 24 deadline which, if missed, could have endangered a cross-border water sharing treaty that greatly benefits Mexico.Mexican officials has also worried the water debt coul
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell dismisses 'absurd' allegations as lurid details revealed in unsealed deposition

  22-10-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Even a prince would sweat at that kind of grilling. For seven hours over the course of two days, Ghislaine Maxwell was interrogated, probed and prodded over everything from sex toys in a laundry basket to whether Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile, had ever had sex with a child. On the subject of the Duke of York, Ms Maxwell gave the Queen's son her backing. The prince famously told Newsnight that allegations he had slept with Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was a teenager were false, not
  
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• Ex-Trump aide Manafort beats Manhattan prosecutor's bid to revive NY fraud charges

  22-10-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of state fraud charges against Paul Manafort, saying that reviving the case against U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman would violate double jeopardy rules.In a 4-0 vote, the intermediate-level Appellate Division rejected Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's claim that his case against Manafort warranted an exception to a state law against trying him twice for the same conduct.
  
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• Harrison: Record $57M haul in US Senate race has been spent

  22-10-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jaime Harrison raised a record-shattering $57 million last quarter in his bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, but the South Carolina Democrat told The Associated Press on Thursday that the cash is already spent.Harrison's financial haul in the third quarter of this year was the most ever brought in by a Senate candidate in a quarterly fundraising period and came as other Democratic Senate challengers raked in eye-popping cash against Republican incumbents.At the time, pundits questioned if H
  
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