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• Trump election party draws scrutiny as guests test positive

  08-11-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least three top Trump administration or campaign officials have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an election night watch party in the White House East Room.Ben Carson, the secretary for housing and urban development, tested positive, a department spokesperson confirmed Monday, as did David Bossie, who was recently tasked with overseeing the campaign’s legal challenges contesting the election's outcome.The event had been under scrutiny since another attendee, White House chie
  
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• ESPN’s massive layoffs have hit the Miami-based Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz. Here is who’s out

  08-11-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ESPN’s Miami-based Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz is dealing with a loss in the show’s family after being informed Chris Cote is among the network’s massive layoffs announced in a company-wide internal memo last Thursday.
  
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• Utah governor issues statewide mask mandate amid virus surge

  08-11-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency and ordered a statewide mask mandate in an attempt to stem a surge in coronavirus patient hospitalizations that is testing the state’s hospital capacity.Herbert and the Utah Department of Health late Sunday issued executive and public health orders requiring residents to wear face coverings in public, at work and when they are within 6 feet (2 meters) of people who don’t live in their households.Several of the state's largest count
  
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• Estonian far-right coalition partner says U.S. election rigged, Biden corrupt

  08-11-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leaders of a far-right party in Estonia's government coalition on Sunday denounced the U.S. election result as rigged and called president-elect Joe Biden "corrupt", sparking a political crisis as other coalition partners condemned the comments.Estonia, a NATO and European Union member, relies on backing from the United States for its security from Russia."In my opinion, there is no question at all that these (U.S.) elections are rigged," said Martin Helme, head of the populist far-right Ekre pa
  
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• Here’s when South Florida counties could start feeling tropical storm conditions from Eta

  08-11-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When will South Florida start feeling Tropical Storm Eta? For Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties, it will be between Sunday evening and Monday morning.
  
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• Trump campaign displays doctored newspaper to question election outcome

  08-11-2020 22:55 via politico.com
  
  “The media doesn’t select the President,” a since-deleted tweet said, accompanied by the image of an altered Washington Times front page showing Al Gore won in 2000.
  
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• Couple who waved guns at St Louis protesters sue news photographer

  08-11-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A St Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched near to their home have alleged that a photographer trespassed onto their property to capture the confrontation.Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are both attorneys in their 60s, filed a lawsuit in the St Louis Circuit Court against photographer Bill Greenblatt and United Press International, who provided the photo for publications.The McCloskeys are also suing Redbubble, an online marketplace for
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany calls celebrations for Joe Biden 'superspreader events'

  08-11-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called celebrations that occurred for President-elect Joe Biden "superspreader events"
  
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• Christian churches mirror country's political division

  08-11-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The messages in Christian houses of worship on the first weekend since the election were as divided as the country's electorate, with religious leaders mostly calling for peace and unification even as some bemoaned the result and others celebrated.Hours after the news broke Saturday of Democrat Joe Biden's victory, St. Joseph on the Brandywine Deacon Michael Stankewicz led a prayer during afternoon Mass at the president-elect's home church in Wilmington, Delaware, in which he asked “that o
  
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• TikTokers post videos of themselves appearing to troll Trump voter fraud hotline

  08-11-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman told the hotline she had gone down to Georgia and "I was in line to vote and ... this guy challenged me to a fiddle competition."
  
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• Biden's approach to tackling COVID-19 will be dramatically different, and quickly apparent

  08-11-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden's administration will put science and communication first in battling the COVID-19 pandemic, health experts say, but still faces challenges.
  
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• Romney: Time to 'get behind the new president,' calling Trump '900-pound gorilla' for GOP

  08-11-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2012 GOP presidential nominee said Trump isn't "disappearing by any means" from the Republican Party.
  
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• Man arrested in Chicago after killing girlfriend and her family

  08-11-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chicago man was arrested for killing his girlfriend, her mother and her sister because his girlfriend did not agree to cook him breakfast or braid his hair.On Friday, John Matthews was sent to jail without bail on three counts of first-degree murder for the death of his 24-year-old girlfriend, Shonta Harris, her mother, 56-year-old Frances Neal, and her sister, 27-year-old Jasmine Neal.Harris was dating Matthews for two years when the fight took place.
  
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• A 73-year-old Texas man was accused of stealing posts from 'hundreds' of political campaign signs for 3 years, police say

  08-11-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Collin County Sheriff Office said "Republican, Democrat, and Independent have had hundreds of T-posts holding their campaign signs stolen."
  
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• SNL’s Kate McKinnon lampoons Rudy Giuliani’s bizarre Philadelphia press conference

  08-11-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saturday Night Live’s post-election edition featured a particularly cutting rendering of Rudy Giuliani — fresh off his widely ridiculed appearance that day at a low-end Philadelphia landscape gardening business.Regular cast member Kate McKinnon has played Mr Giuliani before, but this time deployed her impression at a particularly salient moment, hot on the heels both of Mr Giuliani’s bizarre press conference and of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s victory speeches.
  
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• Japan built monster plane-carrying subs to attack US cities during World War II, but they never fired a shot

  08-11-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The enormous I-400-class submarines were supposed to carry planes and launch air raids on US cities, but the tide of the war turned on Japan.
  
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• James Clyburn: ‘defund the police’ slogan may have hurt Democrats at polls

  08-11-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Black South Carolina congressman likens mantra at BLM protests to radical messaging in civil rights efforts that eroded movementJames Clyburn, the House majority whip and Democratic “kingmaker” who played an outsized role in Joe Biden’s successful presidential run, has said the “sloganeering” of the Black Lives Matter protests and other social justice efforts this summer might have hampered them at the polls.Clyburn, a Black South Carolina congressman and prominent
  
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• Why Joe Biden won

  08-11-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the most contentious and chaotic presidential elections in U.S. history has finally been decided. What allowed Joe Biden to emerge as the winner?
  
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• Exclusive: 'Mink virus' alert as hospitals ordered to keep suspected cases in isolation

  08-11-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Every hospital in the country has been ordered to isolate suspected "mink virus" patients amid increasing efforts to prevent a mutant strain of Covid from spreading to Britain. Jonathan Van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer, has told doctors, nurses and GPs to take "immediate action" against a new strain of the virus feared to be resistant to vaccines. In a letter circulated to health chiefs, co-signed by the NHS medical director, Professor Steve Powis, hospitals have been told that any coro
  
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• Where is Mike Pence? VP missing in action as Trump administration rejects election loss

  08-11-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Whereas he appeared on the campaign trail with Donald Trump right up to the eve of election day, Mike Pence has kept a low profile in public since the results began filtering in – and even as the Trump administration fought back hard against indications the president was losing.While some Republicans have begun distancing themselves from the president and his false claims that the election was stolen from him, others – such as senator Lindsey Graham and much of the top White House st
  
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• Fact check: No evidence that 14,000 dead people cast ballots in Wayne County, Michigan

  08-11-2020 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Posts falsely claim that 14,000 dead people cast a vote in Wayne County. Some names included on the list are still alive, or not living in Michigan.
  
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• Deadly Tropical Storm Eta targets Florida, would be state's first landfall of historic hurricane season

  08-11-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eta targeted Florida after storming through Central America as a Category 4 hurricane, triggering deadly mudslides that destroyed entire villages.
  
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• Business leaders fear 'panic' lockdown and warn Covid overcaution risks 'strangling' Scotland

  08-11-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Business leaders have pleaded with Nicola Sturgeon not to impose a “panic” lockdown on Scotland, as they warned that the country is at risk of being “strangled” by an “overabundance of caution”. The First Minister is considering a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions, and is likely to announce this week that she will impose new legal obligation on the public not to travel to or from council areas with high virus rates. The first review of a five-tier
  
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• Tropical storm Eta makes landfall in Cuba on route to Florida Keys

  08-11-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Eta is predicted to bring life-threatening flash flooding to Cuba, before strengthening on route to the Florida Keys.Eta had maximum sustained wind speeds of 60mph when it made landfall in Cuba at around 7am on Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Centre (NHC).The tropical storm is expected to bring two feet of rain portions to Cuba, which is likely to lead to life-threatening flash floods and landslides across the country.
  
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• Myanmar election: Aung San Suu Kyi win expected as vote count begins

  08-11-2020 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi are celebrating already in anticipation of general election victory.
  
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• People are calling out CNN host Van Jones for saying that Kamala Harris walked out to Beyoncé instead of Mary J. Blige before her victory speech

  08-11-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I've never heard anyone make that mistake ever," one Twitter user said of Jones mistakenly identifying a Mary J. Blige song as a Beyoncé song.
  
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• I saw Donald Trump’s presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping

  08-11-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It ended with his personal lawyer in the parking lot of a landscaping company, struggling to be heard over a man in his underpants shouting about George Soros.The president had spent much of the intervening period making grave and entirely unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, but even so he was unusually quiet.Journalists from around the world who had gathered in Philadelphia, most of whom had spent the last four days transfixed by moving maps on CNN, were eager for stimulation, and perha
  
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• ‘The pride of our village’: Kamala Harris' historic election as vice president celebrated in India

  08-11-2020 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Harris’ uncle, who lives in New Delhi, said he plans to travel to Washington for the vice president elect's inauguration.
  
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• Nursing home COVID-19 cases rise fourfold in surge states

  08-11-2020 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite Trump administration efforts to protect nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest wave of COVID-19.
  
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• Twitter immediately flags Trumps first six tweets as misleading on day after Biden’s win

  08-11-2020 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter immediately flagged all six of Donald Trump’s first tweets of the day as possibly misleading on Sunday, one day after his rival Joe Biden  was declared the winner of the US presidential election.On Sunday morning, the president used Twitter to lash out further at the electoral process and promote continued baseless claims of election fraud by posting quotes attributed to Newt Gingrich and a legal analyst.All six of the posts were flagged by the social media platform within an
  
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• Kamala Harris made a statement by wearing head-to-toe white in a powerful suit silhouette for her victory speech

  08-11-2020 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vice President-elect Harris paid homage to the women who came before her with an electrifying speech and through her symbolic style choices.
  
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• ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek dead at 80

  08-11-2020 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek has died at the age of 80 after a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer, the game show announced on Sunday.
  
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• ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek’s death brings tears, love from celebrities, contestants

  08-11-2020 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alex Trebek died at age 80 from pancreatic cancer.
  
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• New leftist leader takes office in Boliva

  08-11-2020 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New leftist President Luis Arce took office in Bolivia on Sunday, bitterly criticizing last year's ouster of his mentor, former leader Evo Morales, and branding the conservative interim administration that followed as “brutal.”The former economy minister inherits a deeply polarized nation struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and the economic hardships it has caused — the worst economic slump in four decades — as well as sharp divisions over the 14 years in power of Mo
  
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• Third World War a 'risk', the head of the military warns, as he calls on Government for long-term funding

  08-11-2020 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is a “risk” of a Third World War due to growing global uncertainty, the head of the military has warned, as he called on the Government to commit to "long term" funds for the armed forces. General Sir Nick Carter said that the increase in regional conflicts playing out across the world could ramp up into a “full-blown war”. The Chief of the Defence Staff said that the world was a “very uncertain and anxious place” during the coronavirus pandemic and sugg
  
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• Nurses will be allowed to look after two Covid patients to ease pressure on hospitals

  08-11-2020 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nurses will be permitted to look after two Covid patients at the same time in an attempt to relieve strain on hospitals, NHS bosses have ruled. NHS England has decided to temporarily relax the 1:1 rule amid rising numbers of staff who have been forced off sick with the virus or told to self-isolate. The number of people ill with Covid has risen to 11,514, of who 986 are on ventilators, according to the most recent figures. NHS England has agreed its decision with the British Association of Criti
  
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• Ethiopia's army chief sacked as Tigray fighting continues

  08-11-2020 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A reshuffle comes just days after the PM ordered a big military operation against Tigrayan forces.
  
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• Biden Camp: AOC Won’t Be Disappointed by ‘Incredibly Progressive and Aggressive’ Agenda

  08-11-2020 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Biden team is promising that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) will not be disappointed by the president-elect's "incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda" once he takes office.Asked by NBC host Chuck Todd whether the New York progressive would be "disappointed or not when she sees the agenda of the Biden administration in the first six months," Biden's campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield answered in the negative."No. I think that Vice President Biden
  
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• Lindsey Graham warns GOP will 'never win' a presidential race if party doesn't 'fight back' in 2020

  08-11-2020 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo that people should "not accept the media's declaration" of President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Trump. "Fight back," he said.Graham shares the unfounded view with Trump and other allies that voter fraud could have played a role in the outcome, noting that he believes "this is a contested election" and therefore Trump "should not concede," which he has yet to do. But the senator also appeared to have his eye on th
  
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• Gottlieb says Biden to take office at likely "apex" of coronavirus surge

  08-11-2020 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gottlieb predicted the nation will see a record number of hospitalizations this week.
  
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• McCarthy: Republicans close enough to control House floor

  08-11-2020 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., discusses ongoing legal battles of the election and Nancy Pelosi's bid for reelection as House speaker.
  
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• Kamala Harris' Indian ancestral village celebrates her victory as she becomes Vice President of the United States

  08-11-2020 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thulasendrapuram, population 350, was the Indian home of Harris' maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan.
  
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• Michelle Obama: 'Voting in one election isn't a magic wand, and neither is winning one'

  08-11-2020 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a series of tweets, former First Lady Michelle Obama congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, presses Americans to focus on challenges ahead.
  
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• Trump mocked over press conference at Four Seasons garden center

  08-11-2020 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was billed as a major press event at Philadelphia's Four Seasons but a briefing by Donald Trump's lawyers was mercilessly mocked when it emerged the venue was not the plush hotel but a suburban garden center next to a sex shop.
  
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• What Is Trump’s Family Telling Him to Do?

  08-11-2020 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani said on Fox News on Sunday that President Trump’s legal team plans to continue fighting the election outcome with a new round of court filings this week.But what is the president’s family telling him to do?The White House pushed back on a report that Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser, was counseling him to throw in the towel. An administration official told The New York Times that Kushner is standing by the lame-duck president’s quixiotic effort to
  
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• AOC Says ‘Not a Single Member of Congress’ Campaigned on Socialism, Blames House Defeats on ‘Republican Attacks’

  08-11-2020 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Sunday dismissed concerns among some members of her party that the label of "socialist" hurt House Democrats who lost their reelection bids this week.In a leaked conference call between congressional Democrats on Thursday, Representative Abigail Spanberger of Virginia warned that the party must never use the words "socialist" or "socialism" again, saying that "we lost good members because of that" and predicting that Democrats will get "
  
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• Democrats won the battle against Donald Trump — but not the war against Trumpism

  08-11-2020 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America's celebration is justified. But Biden's painful, partial victory is only the beginning of a long conflict
  
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• Dutch Protestant Church admits failing Jews in World War II

  08-11-2020 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Dutch Protestant Church made a far-reaching recognition of guilt Sunday for its failure to do more to help Jews during and after World War II and even for the church’s role in preparing ”the ground in which the seeds of anti-Semitism and hatred could grow.”At least 91 people were killed, hundreds of synagogues burned down, around 7,500 Jewish businesses vandalized, and up to 30,000 Jewish men arrested, many of whom were taken away to concentration camps.René de Reuve
  
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• Live election updates: Biden moves ahead with transition; Trump refuses to concede

  08-11-2020 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo News is providing complete coverage, with live updates on the election and transition of power.
  
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• Study Considers a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors

  08-11-2020 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Polls in several key states underestimated the breadth of support for President Donald Trump before the Nov. 3 election, just as they did in 2016.But why?Early results from a study by researchers at the University of Southern California indicate that pollsters may not have captured support for Trump among followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory that has spread widely on Twitter and other social networks in recent months.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York TimesThe researchers i
  
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