| Trump's rallies define his view of liberty: The right not to care about other people Posted: 19 Oct 2020 01:03 PM PDT  President Trump made a fateful decision last week to return to holding mass rallies despite warnings from health officials about doing so during a pandemic.
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| ‘Backhanded racism’: Biden supporters weigh in after GOP senator mocks Kamala Harris’s name Posted: 18 Oct 2020 02:12 PM PDT  After Sen. David Perdue mocked Kamala Harris's name, Democratic supporters launched a viral Twitter campaign and called the comments "backhanded racism."
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| Rudy Giuliani said he released his Hunter Biden story to the New York Post because he knew other outlets would scrutinize it too much Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:20 AM PDT  Giuliani told The New York Times that he chose the Post because other publications would "spend all the time they could to try to contradict it."
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| U.S. Postal carrier charged with stealing Miami-Dade mail-in ballot, debit cards Posted: 19 Oct 2020 01:45 PM PDT  A U.S. Postal Service carrier has been arrested on charges of stealing one Miami-Dade County mail-in ballot that was sent to a Miami Beach resident earlier this month, federal authorities said Monday.
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| Unmasked man in Washington grocery store speaks out after video goes viral Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:08 AM PDT  In the viral video, an employee confronts Scott, who said his medical condition prevents him from wearing a mask.
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| Lindsey Graham uses Amy Coney Barrett hearing to complain about Democratic rival's fundraising Posted: 17 Oct 2020 11:14 PM PDT  "I'd like to know where the hell some of it is coming from," Graham said of his opponent's campaign funds
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| Sen. Schumer, McConnell spar over COVID relief bill Posted: 19 Oct 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Schumer is not impressed with McConnell's latest proposal. The Senate minority leader, Charles Schumer, believes Republicans and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell are the reason an agreement on a COVID-19 relief hasn't been made. On a call with reporters on Sunday, The Hill reports that Schumer says Senate Republicans are the "No. 1 reason there's no agreement," and they "won't even go along with what Trump is willing" to get done.
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| President curses and rages at coronavirus coverage during crowded rally Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:52 PM PDT  Follow the latest updates
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| Montana federal prosecutor warns of dangers of pot legalization ahead of vote Posted: 19 Oct 2020 02:43 PM PDT  Montana's top federal prosecutor is urging voters to tread carefully before voting to legalize recreational marijuana, taking the unusual step of jumping into a political debate about a ballot initiative in the weeks before the election. In an op-ed published in several newspapers in recent days and posted on the Justice Department's website on Monday, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme told voters they should "review in detail" a pair of ballot initiatives that would legalize cannabis for adults ages 21 and older, warning that marijuana is addictive, could lead to more traffic accidents and could even "increase the risk of severe complications from COVID-19." Smoking, whether marijuana or tobacco, could increase risk of severe COVID-19 due to potential for lung inflammation.
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| Rudy’s ‘Russian Agent’ Pal Booted from Facebook for U.S. Election Interference Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:18 AM PDT  Facebook has suspended the account of Ukrainian politician—and alleged Russian agent—Andrii Derkach for election interference activity.The member of Ukraine's parliament has been working with President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to gather allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson told The Daily Beast, "We removed this account and this Page for violating our policy against the use of our platform by people engaged in election-focused influence operations."Derkach was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in September for allegedly acting as an agent of Russian intelligence and being "directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election."Rudy: Only '50/50' Chance I Worked With a 'Russian Spy' to Dig Dirt on Bidens and UkraineThrough his "Nabu Leaks" website, Derkach began spreading leaked recordings of conversations between Vice President Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko discussing a $1 billion loan to Ukraine and the need to fire an allegedly corrupt former prosecutor. Derkach and a number of Republican politicians have spread unsubstantiated allegations that Biden's internationally backed pressure on Ukraine to fire its prosecutor general was part of a corruption scheme involving Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company where Biden's son, Hunter, sat on the board.Giuliani has come under increasing scrutiny for his relationship with Derkach, as revelations swirl about the U.S. intelligence community's concerns that Russian spies may have tried to use the former mayor of New York as a conduit to launder disinformation from Moscow.Giuliani's relationship with Derkach blossomed as he traveled around Ukraine in search of dirt on Biden's son. Giuliani interviewed Derkach for a video series about his Hunter Biden conspiracy theories and recently told The Daily Beast, "The chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Tourist seen hand-feeding a bear on TikTok has been charged, Tennessee officials say Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:47 AM PDT  She appeared to give the animal chocolate and watermelon, footage from a mountain town shows.
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| Top infectious-disease expert says 'the next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic' Posted: 18 Oct 2020 01:12 PM PDT  Dr. Michael Osterholm predicted that by the holidays, the US "will see numbers much, much larger than even the 67,000 to 75,000 cases."
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| A preschooler who spotted a missing endangered lemur gets a lifetime pass to the San Francisco Zoo Posted: 18 Oct 2020 07:27 AM PDT  The 5-year-old, James Trinh, was walking out of school on Thursday when he spotted the elderly and endangered lemur on the loose.
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| Supreme Court justices chastise Vermont on the limits of police power in 'deer jacking' case Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:40 AM PDT  Vermont's high court ruled that game wardens had a legal right to wander around the land of a homeowner suspected of illegally hunting deer at night.
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| Trump reportedly invited a waiter into a top secret intelligence briefing room to order a milkshake Posted: 19 Oct 2020 07:57 AM PDT  Look, sometimes a man just needs a malted milkshake. Admittedly, there are less opportune moments to indulge in such a craving — say, when you're in a highly classified briefing about Afghanistan with your country's senior defense and intelligence officials.Nevertheless, President Trump reportedly brought such a huddle to a halt a few months after he took office in 2017, Politico reports. "Does anyone want a malt?" the commander-in-chief supposedly asked the top-ranking officials who'd assembled for the briefing at his New Jersey golf club, including the head of the CIA's Special Activities Center, "a little known unit" that is "responsible for operations that include clandestine or covert operations with which the U.S. government does not want to be overtly associated," Spec Ops Magazine explains.Trump urged, "We have the best malts, you have to try them," before inviting a waiter into the code-word-secure briefing room to satisfy his sweet tooth. "The malt episode ... became legendary inside the CIA, said three former officials," Politico writes, explaining that "it was seen as an early harbinger of Trump's disinterest in intelligence, which would later be borne out by the new president's notorious resistance to reading his classified daily briefing." (That is to say, pictures were added to the briefings to help keep him engaged).Still, this is a man who has flexed the power of the nation's highest office to … install a button on his desk in the Oval Office that summons a butler to bring him a Diet Coke. The briefings can wait! To paraphrase a queen of France who was similarly burdened with the trivialities of running a country when there were sweets to consume, let them drink milkshakes.More stories from theweek.com Will Kansas go blue? What happened to third party candidates? If Roe falls
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| China denies report it may detain Americans, says U.S. mistreats its scholars Posted: 19 Oct 2020 12:56 AM PDT  China denied on Monday that foreign nationals are under threat of arbitrary detention, following a newspaper report that Beijing had warned Washington it might arrest Americans in China. The Chinese foreign ministry said it was Washington that was mistreating foreign citizens, accusing the United States of "outright political repression" of Chinese academics. "The U.S. claim that foreign nationals in China are under threat of arbitrary detention is playing the victim and confusing black and white," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular news briefing.
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| Family of Moscow-Born Teen Who Beheaded Teacher Were from Chechnya Where Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Are Demonized Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:15 AM PDT  MOSCOW—The man known as "Putin's attack dog" has spent years promoting a violent response to the publication of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. When a teenager from a Chechen family beheaded a school teacher in France on Friday for sharing these images with his class, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Putin-backed ruler of Chechnya, took to social media to lecture France about its "unacceptable attitude to Islamic values."Kadyrov has worked hard to make the French controversy a cause célèbre in the Muslim-majority region of Russia. He gathered hundreds of thousands of Chechens for an anti-Charlie Hebdo rally, just a few days after terrorists killed 12 and injured 11 people at the satirical newspaper's office in January 2015. That was the biggest rally ever seen in the Northern Caucasus. With a white vest on, Kadyrov spoke to a crowd of about a million people, calling on Muslims to rise against those who "deliberately kindle the fire of religious hostility."When Charlie Hebdo republished the cartoons on September 2 to mark the opening of a trial of those involved in the terror attack, Chechnya's official Instagram account responded with a call in the Chechen language saying, "May the Almighty punish them for their deeds as quickly as possible." Two days later Chechen Islamic jurist Salakh Mezhiyev condemned the French publication as part of "the West's well-planned attack against Islam." A rain of angry statements followed, and Instagram users called to make Charlie Hebdo "burn in hell."Parents of Student Arrested After Teacher Beheaded for Showing Anti-Muslim CartoonSvetlana Gannushkina, the head of Moscow's Civic Assistance Committee, said there could be no doubt what the Chechen leader was advocating. "The message Kadyrov has been sending his people is pretty clear, she told The Daily Beast. "He calls for Muslims to take measures against those mocking Muhammad."The son of a Chechen émigré family in the suburbs of Paris did just that on Friday. A French teacher of geography and history, 47-year old Samuel Paty, was decapitated in the street in the Conflans Saint-Honorine neighborhood by Abdullah Anzorov, 18, about a week after Paty had shown the Muhammed cartoons to his students.Witnesses heard Anzorov yell during the attack, "Allahu Akbar!" The attacker was later shot dead after firing a plastic pellet gun at police. The authorities have arrested at least ten members of Anzorov's Chechen family.The teenager himself was born in Moscow and only visited Chechnya as a young child, but Grigory Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the Caucasian Knot media site, told The Daily Beast that Kadyrov's influence stretched well beyond the republic's borders. "It has to do with so-called 'Kadyrovtsy,' they are responsible for spreading intolerance, hatred of critical thinking," he said. "The murder in France took place after Chechnya's main mufti condemned Charlie Hebdo."Kadyrov, whose hardline policies are fully supported by President Vladimir Putin, did condemn the terrorist attack at the end of his social media tirade, but he also doubled down on his criticism of the cartoonists and those who would challenge Islamic fundamentalism. "While speaking out categorically against any manifestation of terrorism," he wrote. "I also urge not to provoke believers, not to offend their religious feelings."Kadyrov has been lecturing on public morality and behavior for years. Enjoying Kremlin-backed power in his republic, he forbade smoking and drinking, banned women from entering state buildings without scarves on, and called for a crusade against his own LGBT citizens in order "to purify our blood."Chechen nationals across the world continue to follow Kadyrov, watching his videos and messages on Telegram and Instagram. His own Instagram account was blocked after U.S. sanctions, but he continues to spread his message via the republic's official account.Yekaterina Sokirianskaya, the founder of the Conflict Analysis and Prevention Center think tank, has been researching Chechen émigrés in Europe and the U.S. "Many Chechens in the West are shocked, ashamed, they condemned the murderer for spoiling their nation's reputation," she said. "As my own research showed, most young Chechen refugees blend in, learn languages, study and work on the West. They have no other home, since returning to Chechnya would be too dangerous for most of them."Judging by how much Anzorov rushed to photograph his beheaded victim and publish photographs on Twitter, he was prepared for a demonstratively violent act for some time, using the teacher as a pretext."The shocking photographs were published on Twitter in a post addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron, which read, "I have executed one of your dogs."Chechnya watchers in Russia believe that many Muslims who oppose Kadyrov's domestic policy have been seduced by his criticism of Charlie Hebdo and French politicians who support tolerance and freedom of speech. "Kadyrov makes statements about Muslims in Myanmar, Muslims in Palestine, he has ambitions of becoming the leading voice for all Russian Muslims," Sokirianskaya told The Daily Beast.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Many homes likely lost in north-central Colorado fires Posted: 18 Oct 2020 10:50 AM PDT  Nearly 3,000 people were forced to flee from a fast-moving fire in north-central Colorado and authorities believe a large number of homes were destroyed. The CalWood Fire started around noon Saturday near the Cal-Wood Education Center, which is about 17 miles (27 kilometers) from downtown Boulder. The National Center for Atmospheric Research's Mesa lab recorded gusts of 59 mph (95 kph) on Saturday.
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| Chief: Indiana police recruit fired for ties to neo-Nazis Posted: 18 Oct 2020 12:45 PM PDT  A police recruit in Indiana was fired less than 24 hours after the department was notified that the officer had been involved in a neo-Nazi online chat forum.
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| A Texas woman in her 30s died of COVID-19 earlier this year while waiting for her plane to take off Posted: 19 Oct 2020 01:28 PM PDT  The woman reportedly had trouble breathing and required supplemental oxygen before she died while her plane was on the tarmac in Arizona.
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| Michigan Republican fundraised at DeVos family home while trying to downplay financial ties Posted: 19 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  John James bought ads to distance himself from Betsy DeVos as super PAC funded by family poured millions into race
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| Bloomberg Gun Control Group Pours $4.4 Million into Battleground States in Final Weeks Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:05 AM PDT  Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control advocacy group founded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, is spending $4.4 million on ads in six battleground states in the final weeks of the presidential election campaign, Politico reported on Monday.The group is spending a total of $60 million on ads in 2020 election races. In Texas, Everytown is running $2 million worth of ads attacking Republican candidates in the state's 22nd and 24th congressional districts over their support for gun rights. Another $1.4 million has been devoted to flipping state legislatures in Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa, and Minnesota, while $1 million is focused on voter mobilization efforts in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina, and Texas.Some of the ads attempt to connect the coronavirus pandemic with casualties of gun violence."Deaths from Covid-19 and gun violence are on the rise, but Republicans in the North Carolina state legislature have failed to take the action required to keep us safe," one digital ad reads."At the onset of the pandemic, "everyone asked, 'was the political zeitgeist scrambled?' And we asked ourselves the same question," Everytown president John Feinblatt told Politico. "Our polling showed us, when you couple the dual carnage of Covid and gun violence to legislative failure to address both emergencies, it's particularly potent."Gun sales have surged across the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic. The FBI has conducted record numbers of background checks, with 2.7 million in March at the start of the pandemic and 3.9 million in June, after widespread demonstrations and riots broke out in various cities.
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| Republican senator tries to distance himself from Trump: 'He is who he is' Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:42 AM PDT  Under-pressure John Cornyn says relationship 'maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they can change their spouse'A member of Republican leadership in the US Senate has likened his relationship with Donald Trump to a marriage, and said that he was "maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they're going to change their spouse, and that doesn't usually work out very well".The Texas senator John Cornyn's comments, to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, are the latest instance of a Republican under electoral pressure seeking to distance himself from an unpopular president, however gingerly, as polling day looms. Democrats are favoured to take the Senate, potentially leading to unified government in Washington."I think what we found is that we're not going to change President Trump," Cornyn said. "He is who he is. You either love him or hate him, and there's not much in between."What I tried to do is not get into public confrontations and fights with him because, as I've observed, those usually don't end too well."Trump spent some of the weekend in a public fight with Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Sasse criticised Trump in a call with constituents, lamenting among other things his treatment of women and the way he "kisses dictators' butts" and "flirts with white supremacists".Trump fired back with insults, forcing Republican National Committee chair, Ronna McDaniel, on to the defensive on the Sunday talkshows.Sasse is more or less assured of re-election in two weeks' time but his prediction of a "bloodbath" for Senate Republicans with an unpopular president at the top of ticket may have stung Trump – and McDaniel – the most.Cornyn, a former Senate majority whip, certainly knows what Sasse meant. He leads his Democratic challenger in the usually safe Republican state – but not by much, some polls showing MJ Hegar within the margin of error.Cornyn told the Fort Worth paper that "when I have had differences of opinion" with Trump, "which I have, [I] do that privately. I have found that has allowed me to be much more effective, I believe, than to satisfy those who say I ought to call him out or get into a public fight with him."Cornyn said he was happy to praise Trump publicly when they agreed, such as on judicial nominations and tax cuts. Subjects of disagreement included Covid-19 response; efforts to secure another relief bill; and the use of defense funds for border security.On trade policy, Cornyn added: "I applaud him for standing up to China but, frankly, this idea that China is paying the price and we're not paying the price here at home is just not true."The comment was mild enough not to immediately rile Trump, who was campaigning in battleground states. The Star-Telegram described Cornyn's caution, saying he "noted that his friend, former [senator] Bob Corker [of Tennessee], who initially was on cordial terms with Trump's White House, opted not to run for re-election in 2018 after clashing with Trump on issues such as a border wall."Corker was once considered as a running mate or secretary of state. Exasperated to the point of saying the White House was being run like an "adult daycare centre", he retired in 2018.Blasting back at Sasse, Trump showed he never forgets a slight. The Nebraska senator, the president tweeted, "seems to be heading down the same inglorious path as former senator Liddle' Bob Corker", who became "totally unelectable" because of his criticism "and decided to drop out of politics and gracefully 'RETIRE'".Cornyn, 68, is hoping to defeat his 44-year-old opponent and secure a fourth six-year-term.
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| Lopez Obrador criticizes DEA role in Mexico after ex-army chief's arrest Posted: 18 Oct 2020 03:00 PM PDT  Mexico's president has criticized the historic role played by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in his country, days after a former Mexican army chief was arrested in Los Angeles on drug charges at the behest of the DEA. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador described Thursday's arrest of ex-Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos as evidence of rampant corruption in past governments. Speaking in the southern state of Oaxaca on Saturday, Lopez Obrador said the DEA had dealt for years with Cienfuegos and Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico's security minister from 2006 to 2012, who has also been charged in the United States with drug-trafficking offenses.
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| Journalist went undercover with French police. He found racism, brutality and a toxic culture. Posted: 19 Oct 2020 03:13 AM PDT  "It's a police force where you can do whatever you want," Gendrot told NBC News.
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| 6 Russians charged over most 'destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group' Posted: 19 Oct 2020 12:03 PM PDT  The Department of Justice has announced charges against six Russian intelligence officers in connection with a series of majorly "disruptive and destructive" cyberattacks.The DOJ on Monday said that a federal grand jury had indicted six Russian computer hackers, officers of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), for their role in a series of "computer intrusions and attacks" conducted from 2015 through 2019 "for the strategic benefit of Russia." This allegedly included malware attacks against Ukraine's electric power grid, as well as efforts to disrupt France's 2017 elections and the 2018 Winter Olympics.Officials also said the defendants were responsible for "destructive malware attacks that infected computers worldwide" and led to nearly $1 billion in losses.The alleged hackers, The Washington Post notes, are a part of the same intelligence agency previously charged over interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, although the indictment unsealed on Monday didn't include charges related to U.S. election interference. NBC News' Kevin Collier wrote that "naming six officers (allegedly) responsible for election meddling and destruction two weeks before the election seems a pretty clear sign." The Post reports that "officials said the announcement was not timed to the current political schedule," however. Johns Hopkins University professor Thomas Rid also described the indictment as an "incredible document," which suggests intelligence communities "must have stunning visibility into Russian military intelligence operations if today's disclosures are considered dispensable."Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers in a statement on Monday said "no country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented damage to pursue small tactical advantages and to satisfy fits of spite," saying the defendants were charged over the "most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group" and adding, "No nation will recapture greatness while behaving in this way."More stories from theweek.com Will Kansas go blue? What happened to third party candidates? If Roe falls
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| JetBlue just revealed its newest jet, the controversial Airbus A220 that the airline will be the second in the US to operate Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:34 AM PDT  JetBlue will only the second US airline to the fly the Airbus A220, which has been a fan favorite for travelers and will give flyers a much-needed upgrade.
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| A secret identity, hid in an overhead plane bin and potentially the first First Lady to work: Everything you need to know about Jill Biden Posted: 19 Oct 2020 12:27 PM PDT  Educator says she wants to keep on teaching if Joe Biden beats Donald Trump
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| An idle Venezuelan tanker with millions of gallons of oil is creating panic in Trinidad Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:23 PM PDT  More than 20 months after a Venezuelan oil tanker carrying nearly 55 million gallons of crude oil was abandoned off the country's northern coast following tightened U.S. sanctions, inspectors from neighboring Trinidad and Tobago will finally get a chance to see for themselves if the idle vessel's cargo could lead to a major ecological disaster off the Caribbean coast of South America.
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| U.S. government tries to block Titanic expedition as archeologists say human remains could exist Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:22 AM PDT  A plan to retrieve the ocean liner's radio received pushback as archaeologists say human remains could still be there.
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| A tabloid got a trove of data on Hunter Biden from Rudy Giuliani. Now, the FBI is probing a possible disinformation campaign. Posted: 18 Oct 2020 04:09 PM PDT  The FBI is examining whether the material supplied to the New York Post by Rudy Giuliani is part of a disinformation campaign by Russia.
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| Pennsylvania’s rejection of 372,000 ballot applications bewilders voters and strains election staff Posted: 19 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT  The administrative nightmare highlights the difficulty of ramping up mail-in voting on the fly
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| Woman rescued in Zion National Park is 'getting her strength back' Posted: 19 Oct 2020 11:56 AM PDT  "She was unable to take more than a step or two without collapsing," the woman's daughter said. "She told me she was so dehydrated she couldn't open her mouth."
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| Journalists Share Deceptively Edited Clip of GOP Michigan Senate Candidate John James’ Answer on Health Care Posted: 19 Oct 2020 01:28 PM PDT  A number of prominent journalists shared a deceptively edited video that purported to show Republican Michigan Senate candidate John James fumbling his response to a question about protecting patients with pre-existing health conditions."I don't see a full health care plan on your website. What do you want to replace it with?" anchor Devin Scillian of Detroit's Local 4 News asked James during an interview on Sunday."So here's the thing. I'm not a politician," James begins his response, at which point the video ends.During the rest of his answer that was not included in the clip, James goes on to outline his vision for health care and the proposals he believes could replace the Affordable Care Act."Health care is unaffordable for too many Americans, and I believe that by increasing competition, increasing choice, increasing quality of care, lowering costs, I think we can do that with some of the ways I proposed," James said.The Michigan Republican said he proposes "broadening the risk pools across state lines," as well as reforming the tort and regulatory hurdles that raise costs and allowing business association health plans "so people can make their own choice.""Those are the types of things through a legislative requirement that must protect preexisting conditions," James said.The video was put out by Michigan Democrats and subsequently shared by several prominent journalists and others with large Twitter followings.CNN White House correspondent John Harwood shared the video, as did Emily Singer and Oliver Willis of the American Independent and veteran broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien. Several former government officials and entertainment personalities also shared the video along with Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's communications director and incumbent Gary Peters, James's opponent in the Senate race.The Michigan Senate race is now considered a toss up between James and Peters, according to RealClearPolitics.James has been advocating for replacing Obamacare since his first unsuccessful run for Senate in Michigan three years ago.In November 2017, James called the Affordable Care Act a "monstrosity" and declared Washington needs "someone who will go and work their tail off" to repeal and replace it."Our failure to repeal and replace Obamacare is the surest sign that we need new conservative leadership in Washington," James said at the time.
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| Aeroflot Airlines crew members helped smuggle $50 million worth of stolen iPads, iPhones, and more into Russia, a government investigation has found Posted: 19 Oct 2020 12:16 PM PDT  The Department of State has revoked 113 visas of Aeroflot employees in connection to the smuggling scheme.
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| Neil deGrasse Tyson says asteroid could hit day before election Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:01 AM PDT  Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson posted a picture of an asteroid approaching Earth saying that it could strike the planet before the election on Nov. 3. "Asteroid 2018VP1, a refrigerator-sized space-rock, is hurtling towards us at more than 40,000 km/hr," he wrote in a tweet Saturday. "It may buzz-cut Earth on Nov 2, the day before the Presidential Election."
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| Black man given life sentence for stealing hedge clippers gets parole after 23 years Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:25 AM PDT  The man was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1997.
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| Japan to export defense tech to Vietnam under new agreement Posted: 19 Oct 2020 07:19 AM PDT  Japan has been pursuing such pacts in recent years to bolster ties with Southeast Asian countries and sustain its own defense industry.
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| Marines Will Be Seeing More of These Red Patches on Utility Covers. Here's Why Posted: 19 Oct 2020 01:24 PM PDT |
| Ratcliffe: No proof foreign actors tied to 'Biden' laptop. Officials: FBI is probing Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:49 AM PDT  Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI counterintelligence chief, said it's possible the laptop was the product of a political dirty trick by domestic actors.
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| Tennessee poll worker fired after turning away voters in Black Lives Matter shirts, masks Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:30 PM PDT  A poll worker at the Dave Wells Community Center in Memphis was fired after turning away voters wearing 'Black Lives Matter' gear. Another worker quit shortly afterward.
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| U.S. borders with Canada, Mexico to stay closed to non-essential travel until Nov. 21 Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:58 AM PDT  The United States' land borders between Canada and Mexico will remain closed to all non-essential travel until Nov. 21, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said Monday. The extension comes as the United States remains one of the worst-affected countries in the world and is reporting the second-highest number of new cases daily.
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| Tension and defiance in trenches of Karabakh Posted: 19 Oct 2020 06:21 AM PDT  Scorched grass, some trees on the horizon and coils of barbed wire are visible from a small slit in the wall protecting a trench on the frontline of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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| Elon Musk says SpaceX has a 'fighting chance' of sending its giant Starship rocket to Mars in 2024 — 2 years later than previously hoped Posted: 19 Oct 2020 08:28 AM PDT  SpaceX founder Elon Musk previously set an "aspirational" timeline for a Mars launch by 2022. Its Starship rocket is still a prototype.
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