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• Republican Georgia secretary of state says no sign of widespread fraud in vote count

  11-11-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brad Raffensperger, in an interview with CNN, said he has ordered a hand recount because of the closeness of the vote count, but he believed votes had so far been tallied accurately.Biden's current lead, with nearly all votes counted, is 0.3%.Asked about voter fraud, Raffensperger said: "We have ongoing investigations but we have not seen something widespread."
  
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• Portland City Commissioner Who Campaigned to Defund Police Called 911 on Lyft Driver

  11-11-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Portland's city commissioner, who campaigned to defund the police, called 911 last week on a Lyft driver who refused to close his window.Jo Ann Hardesty, who serves as Portland's city commissioner and has been a prominent voice advocating for defunding the police department in the wake of calls for police reform, has claimed that most 911 calls don't involve a real emergency, the Oregonian reported.As recently as last week, Hardesty expressed support for slashing the police department budge
  
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• Cuomo orders curfew on New York restaurants and gyms, parties capped at 10 people as COVID-19 cases climb

  11-11-2020 23:28 via nydailynews.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. — Bars, restaurants and gyms across New York must close by 10 p.m. and private parties will be limited to 10 people as part of new coronavirus restrictions that Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. Cuomo's curfew and cap on gatherings at private residences comes as COVID-19 cases skyrocket across the country and parts of Staten Island are now facing new lockdowns after being ...
  
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• Jeffrey Toobin fired from The New Yorker after exposing himself during a Zoom call with coworkers

  11-11-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The prominent legal expert and longtime staff writer had been suspended from the magazine for several weeks while Condé Nast investigated the matter.
  
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• In the Trump campaign's latest election lawsuit, Republican poll watchers complain they couldn't stand within 6 feet of poll workers because of coronavirus guidelines

  11-11-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 342-page lawsuit includes more than a dozen affidavits in which GOP observers said they were told to stand further away from election workers.
  
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• A Montana County Is So Swamped by COVID They’ve Run Out of Teachers, Hospital Beds

  11-11-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For seven emergency response physicians associated with the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Montana, the rapid spike of coronavirus cases in the state has them at their breaking point.The 80-year-old hospital system, named after one of the three “Copper Kings” of Butte, has seen the number of total infections double in the last few weeks—and the pandemic is slated to only get worse as winter looms.In the last week alone, three residents in Ravalli County—where
  
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• After backlash, Alton Brown apologizes for 'flippant' Holocaust tweets

  11-11-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  His followers were quick to call him out for the insensitivity of the comparison he made.
  
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• North Carolina Sen. Tillis reelected, keeps seat for GOP

  11-11-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis has won reelection to his U.S. Senate seat, confirming that Democrats must now win both runoff races in Georgia in January if they are to seize Senate control from the GOP.Tillis earned a second Senate term by defeating Democrat Cal Cunningham, whose campaign outraised Tillis during 2020.As of Wednesday afternoon, Tillis led Cunningham by about 94,400 votes, from among more than 5.4 million votes counted so far.
  
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• Fever, symptom screening misses many coronavirus cases

  11-11-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Temperature and COVID-19 symptom checks like the ones used at schools and doctor's offices have again proved inadequate for spotting coronavirus infections and preventing outbreaks.A study of Marine recruits found that despite these measures and strict quarantines before they started training, the recruits spread the virus to others even though hardly any of them had symptoms.None of the infections were caught through symptom screening.
  
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• Donations under $8K to Trump ‘election defense’ instead go to president, RNC

  11-11-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A large portion of the money goes to "Save America," a Trump leadership PAC, or political action committee, set up on Monday, and the Republican National Committee (RNC).Under Federal Election Commission rules, both groups have broad leeway in how they can use the funds.The Trump campaign, the RNC and Trump's new Save America PAC did not respond to requests for comment.
  
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• Ted Cruz joins right-wing chorus mocking Covid vaccine coverage following Trump’s defeat

  11-11-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Texas senator met with swift backlash over false claims surrounding the novel coronavirus and Donald Trump’s defeat
  
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• California school board president quits after wife’s racist Kamala Harris comments

  11-11-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A school board president in the San Francisco Bay Area has resigned after his wife’s racist comments about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris raised an outcry.Jon Venverloh announced Sunday that he was stepping down from his position with the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in Menlo Park.
  
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• Biden wants mask mandates nationwide, but he can't actually enforce them. Here's what he could do instead.

  11-11-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Throughout the presidential campaign, Joe Biden laid out several action items to combat COVID-19, including supporting face mask mandates nationwide.
  
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• Biden's Pennsylvania lead is now big enough to avoid an automatic recount

  11-11-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden's lead in Pennsylvania has, for now at least, cleared the state's automatic recount threshold.If one candidate wins an election in Pennsylvania by a 0.5 percent margin or lower, the state will recount the ballots, regardless of whether a request is made. But with new ballots in from Allegheny County, which is home to Pittsburgh, Biden is now up by 0.74 percent. Theoretically, the number could shrink with more tallying underway, but Biden's lead is expected to continue g
  
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• 3 more White House officials reportedly test positive for COVID-19, adding to new cluster

  11-11-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several key figures in Trump's orbit tested positive for the virus after a large indoor watch party at the White House on election night.
  
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• 'Boogaloo' far-right extremists have been illegally buying 3D-printed machine gun parts disguised as wall hangers online, FBI says

  11-11-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boogaloo members charged in connection with murder and terrorism have used "portablewallhanger.com" to buy the illegal devices.
  
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• Misshapen Cincinnati Christmas tree is the perfect depiction of 2020

  11-11-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The tree took to Twitter to defend itself.
  
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• Coronavirus updates: NY restricts bars, home gatherings; hospitalizations reach all-time high; Texas first to reach 1 million infections

  11-11-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of Americans hospitalized due to COVID-19 has risen almost 50% in the last two weeks. Latest COVID-19 news.
  
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• CNN team leaves Georgia Republican rally fearing it will become coronavirus superspreader event

  11-11-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The event was held to rally support for Senators Kelly Lofeffler and David Perdue ahead of their January runoff races.
  
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• Boris Johnson refers to Trump as the 'previous president,' describes conversation with Biden as 'refreshing'

  11-11-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump hasn't admitted he lost the 2020 presidential election yet, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is already talking about him as if he's no longer in office.While speaking to the House of Commons on Wednesday, Johnson referenced Trump as the United States' "previous president" after congratulating President-elect Joe Biden on his win, The Hill reports."I had and have a good relationship with the previous president," Johnson said.Johnson was responding to a question from a mem
  
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• ‘Horrific’: Florida man shoots girlfriend, plus roommate who tried to help, police say

  11-11-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman tried in vain to save her housemate who was killed by her boyfriend in their home Sunday morning in the Central Florida city of Bartow, deputies said.
  
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• Virus surge breaking infection records across the US

  11-11-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Texas on Wednesday became the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and California closed in on that mark as a surge of coronavirus infections engulfs the country. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said all restaurants, bars and gyms statewide will have to close at 10 p.m. starting Friday, a major retreat in a corner of the U.S. that had seemingly brought the virus largely under control months ago. Texas, the second-most populous state, has recorded 1.02 million coronavirus
  
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• 'Countdown to catastrophe' in Yemen as U.N. warns of famine - again

  11-11-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Millions of men, women and children in war-torn Yemen are facing famine - again, top United Nations officials warned on Wednesday as they appealed for more money to prevent it - again."We are on a countdown right now to a catastrophe," U.N. food chief David Beasley told the U.N. Security Council.The United Nations describes Yemen as the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with 80% of the people in need of help.
  
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• Royal Caribbean to look for volunteers to help test the new normal for cruises as the CDC's 'No Sail' order is lifted

  11-11-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The volunteers, who won't be paid for their efforts, will be part of a trial to test out the new guidelines the CDC requires for ships to set sail.
  
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• A fifth-grade teacher in Texas is accused of fatally shooting her 17-year-old son while taking him to school, local reports say

  11-11-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to an affidavit cited by local news, Sarah Hunt told police she "didn't mean to" shoot her son.
  
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• Nearly 1,300 Charlotte-area hospital employees will see minimum wage bump in 2021

  11-11-2020 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The increase, totaling $4.3 million, will affect more than 2,000 employees, including 1,300 in the Charlotte area.
  
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• Trump - news live: President could try to ‘pardon himself’ as White House clamps down on ‘disloyal’ staff

  11-11-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Parents are sharing photos of blended families after a mom asked for her stepson to be cropped out of an image

  11-11-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mom apparently posted in a photo-editing group, asking for someone to crop her stepson out of a family picture for $10.
  
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• Prominent Trump backer, evangelical minister Jeffress, admits Biden has won

  11-11-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress became one of the few high-profile supporters of President Trump to admit in public that the election was won by Joe Biden — and to urge his followers to pray for (rather than against) him.
  
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• Trump's Pentagon purge is reportedly an attempt to get troops out of the Middle East before he leaves office

  11-11-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump is reportedly scrambling to fulfill a campaign promise at the last possible second.Trump campaigned in 2016 on the assurance he'd bring U.S. troops in the Middle East back home. That still hasn't happened, but some new hires in the Pentagon are aimed at getting that task done before Trump leaves office, Axios reports.Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other top Pentagon officials on Monday after months of tension. Esper said he didn't want to be the "yes man" Trump was
  
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• Scott Atlas calls Fauci a ‘political animal’ and accuses him of favoring Biden

  11-11-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The feud between the White House’s top doctors continues
  
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• Can Joe Biden heal a divided America?

  11-11-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president-elect has pledged to usher in a "time to heal for America." Can he bring the country together or are the nation's political fractures too severe to be fixed?
  
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• “Instant bank fraud” hoax is back – don’t spread fake news!

  11-11-2020 20:31
  
  You need to spread the word to your family and friends NOT to spread the word to their family and friends
  
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• Ivanka Trump may have incidentally undermined part of the Trump world's election argument

  11-11-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's critics were quick with the sarcasm after Ivanka Trump proudly tweeted about her father's electoral victory in Alaska, which was projected by news outlets, including The Associated Press, on Wednesday.> I'm deeply confused, since this is a projection by the AP and not a certified final count. It's almost as if "the media can't call elections" is a new standard invented in bad faith to prolong an election dispute by a few more days. https://t.co/RI6tWNtfir> > — Be
  
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• Puerto Rico finds uncounted ballots in vault week after election

  11-11-2020 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico’s elections commission said it has found over 100 briefcases with uncounted ballots a week after the U.S. territory held its election.
  
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• Florida introducing new laws allowing citizens to shoot ‘looters and rioters’

  11-11-2020 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'It allows for vigilantes to justify their actions'
  
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• Trump campaign sues Michigan to prevent certification of Biden win

  11-11-2020 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's campaign sued Michigan on Wednesday to block the state from certifying last week's election results, which show the president trailing Democrat Joe Biden.
  
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• 'We're not a colony': Mexican president stands firm on not recognizing Biden win

  11-11-2020 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday dug in his heels as one of the few leaders of major countries yet to congratulate Joe Biden on his presidential election win, saying it was too early and that his country was "not a colony".Lopez Obrador, who accused rivals of electoral fraud in his presidential defeats in 2006 and 2012, says he has no side in the U.S. election, and will wait until legal challenges launched by the Trump administration over the vote have played out.Lopez
  
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• A gym trainer exposed 50 athletes to COVID-19, but no one got sick — because one member is a ventilation expert who redesigned the room's layout

  11-11-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World-renowned viral transmission expert Linsey Marr is also an avid athlete. Here's how she helped her local gym prevent an outbreak.
  
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• Georgia’s Runoffs Are About So Much More Than Senate Power

  11-11-2020 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic candidate for Senate Jon Ossoff, right, and Democratic candidate for Senate Raphael G. Warnock, left, arrive before they speak to a crowd during a "Get Out the Early Vote" event at in Jonesboro, Ga. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.The balance of power in the U.S. Senate now hinges on whether Republicans can hold onto two seats in Georgia that are heading toward a January runoff.Georgia Democrats have been shut out of the Senate for the last 15 years as the unofficial capital of the New Sout
  
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• New York governor issues new restrictions as U.S. grim records mount

  11-11-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday imposed a new round of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus as the infection rate climbed and hospitalizations soared in the state that was the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak in its early stages.Cuomo ordered bars, restaurants and gyms in the state to shut down on-premises services at 10 p.m. nightly, and capped the number of people who could attend private parties at 10."We’re seeing a national and global COVID surge, and
  
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• The Electoral College thwarts the will of the people. Elect U.S. presidents by popular vote | Opinion

  11-11-2020 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are many lessons to draw from the tumultuous 2020 election, and one of the most urgent is that our system of elections is broken. Not in the way Donald Trump alleges, with his fabulist claims of rampant cheating and voter fraud. Rather, the fault is a combination of structural inequities that were either baked in from the start or have emerged in subsequent years as wealthy special interests have abused the system.
  
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• TikTok Files Last-Minute Petition Against Trump Order

  11-11-2020 19:27
  TikTok asked a Washington court Tuesday to stop an order from US President Donald Trump's administration from taking effect this week as the White House seeks to ban the Chinese-owned app in the United States.
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• The mayor of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, declined to issue a mask mandate despite rising COVID-19 cases across the state

  11-11-2020 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mayor Paul TenHaken said he supported and encouraged mask-wearing, but feared a mandate would create a "community division," among residents.
  
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• Facebook extends ban on US political ads and refuses to call Biden winner in email to advertisers

  11-11-2020 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Move comes as Donald Trump spreads election fraud disinformation
  
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• The CDC issued new advice saying cloth masks protect the wearer from COVID-19 infection. It's not that simple.

  11-11-2020 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a shift, the CDC now says face masks perform 2 functions: keeping viruses from spreading, and protecting healthy individuals from exposure too.
  
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• Georgia senators hold 1st runoff rally in a packed, windowless room as coronavirus cases spike

  11-11-2020 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If there's ever been a time not to brag about "huge crowds" at a political rally, it's now.In Georgia and across the country, COVID-19 cases are spiking at rates that haven't been seen in months, leading some states to implement new shutdowns and gathering bans. But dozens of supporters of Georgia's Republican senators, approximately half of them maskless, still gathered Wednesday in a windowless room as both senators prepare for runoff races in January, CNN reports.Both of Georgia's Republican
  
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• Man wanted for murder of Dominique ‘Rem’mie’ Fells arrested in L.A.

  11-11-2020 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Akhenaton Jones was sought for the June murder of Fells, a transgender Philly woman known for ‘being vibrant.’A man suspected of murdering a transgender woman in Philadelphia was arrested on Monday in Los Angeles.Akhenaton Jones was arrested in connection to the murder of 27-year-old Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells.
  
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• Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan Wins Reelection, Giving Republicans 50 Senate Seats

  11-11-2020 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Senator Dan Sullivan has won his Senate reelection bid in Alaska, giving Republicans 50 Senate seats, two more than Democrats currently hold.The Associated Press called the race for Sullivan over his Democratic opponent Al Gross on Wednesday, more than a week after Election Day.Two Georgia runoff elections in January will decide the composition of the upper chamber. Should both Democrats triumph over Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, the Senate will
  
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• GOP Senator Pat Toomey Calls on Trump Admin. to Cooperate with Biden Transition Team

  11-11-2020 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Pat Toomey called on the Trump administration this week to start working with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team even as President Trump mounts various legal challenges challenging the election results."We're on a path it looks likely Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States. It's not 100 percent certain but it is quite likely. So I think a transition process ought to begin," Toomey said Monday in an interview with Pittsburgh's Action News 4.The
  
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