| 'The long knives are out': The Pentagon purge may be less about a Trump plan than end-of-presidency chaos and revenge Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:33 PM PST  A series of personnel changes placing Trump loyalists in key Defense Department positions has sparked rumors of plans for dramatic action in the waning days of his presidency, but a number of former national security officials see it more as the chaotic final days of an outgoing administration.
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| Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, supporter of QAnon, denounces House mask requirement Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:14 AM PST  Amid a raging coronavirus pandemic, the incoming Republican freshman said she "proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive."
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| Project Veritas could face legal liability for postal worker's ballot fraud allegations, experts say Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  Project Veritas accused the Washington Post of witness intimidation after it ran an article debunking ballot claims
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| In California: Newsom bemoans attending dinner; travel discouraged Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:58 PM PST  Plus: College football and COVID-19, Trump breaks a record, and has the pandemic made San Francisco more affordable?
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| 20 million Americans will get a COVID vaccine this year, administration says Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:40 PM PST  The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
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| Booming population helped Dems in Georgia. Mississippi's 'brain drain' is keeping it red. Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:30 AM PST  Political experts say Mississippi won't see nail-biter elections, especially at the nation level, anytime soon — thanks in part to stalled population growth.
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| Murder and mayhem: How South African farming became a 'full-scale war' Posted: 14 Nov 2020 04:56 AM PST  When armed men broke into their farm in Free State province on Wednesday night, Mark Regal and his wife were already on high alert. Just the day before, their neighbour and fellow farmer Eddie Hills had died in hospital, a week after being stabbed in a robbery in which his father was tied up and shot. Aware that they too could lose more than just their property, Mrs Regal returned fire and killed one of the intruders, police said. But Mr Regal, 50, was overpowered and killed, the seventh farmer to be murdered in the province in six weeks. The spate of killings has inflamed racial tensions in South Africa, with the Free State's white farming community accusing the ANC-ruled government of doing little to help. Trouble first flared with last month's grisly murder of farm mechanic, Brendin Horner, 21, whose body was found tied by a noose to a fence near his cottage. When two suspects appeared in court a week later in the tiny town of Senekal, a white mob stormed the building, attempting to avenge Mr Horner's death on the spot.
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| US military flew terminally ill Bahrain premier to America Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:18 PM PST  The U.S. military flew Bahrain's terminally ill prime minister to America for hospital care two months before his death, the State Department acknowledged Friday, underlining the importance of the island kingdom. The care offered to Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa came just after the U.S. military similarly flew Kuwait's late ruling emir to the same Mayo Clinic hospital in Minnesota. Both countries host major U.S. military bases in the region and are considered major non-NATO allies, granting them military and economic privileges with America.
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| Kamala Harris, Joe Biden send out wishes for happy Diwali Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:58 PM PST  Diwali, one of the most important holidays in India, symbolizes new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil, and light over darkness.
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| Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Muslim media figure, says she was singled out after arrest at Newark Airport Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:40 PM PST  Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, a New Brunswick native, was booted from an American Airlines plane at after a white male filed a complaint against her.
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| Chicago boy, 12, shot while picking up school supplies with father Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:49 PM PST  A 12-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was shot multiple times in Chicago while shopping for school supplies with his father. Lamar Davis was sitting in a parked car in the city's Lawndale area on Wednesday, when a maroon SUV pulled up, rolled down a rear window and someone opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun, per the Chicago Tribune. "He was just sitting there in the car and someone shot him," Lamar's mother, Melissa Robinson, told the Chicago Tribune.
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| Coronavirus concerns may have kept Trump from meeting newly-elected GOP lawmakers in person at White House Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:19 AM PST  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) set up a visit to the White House for newly-elected Republican lawmakers Friday evening, but they didn't get a chance to meet President Trump in person, Politico reports.The president did reportedly send his regards to the newcomers, but the fact that he stayed out of the spotlight raised some eyebrows.> Weird @playbookplus note: "LAST NIGHT, MCCARTHY took the newly elected Republicans to the White House...INTERESTING TO NOTE: President DONALD TRUMP did not come down to meet the group. He did send his well wishes."> > -- Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 14, 2020As it turns out, further reporting revealed Trump probably wasn't standing anyone up, but, in a bit of twist, likely stayed away because the group hadn't been tested for COVID-19 prior to their arrival. > UPDATE to Playbook: MCCARTHY himself didn't go to the W.H. w the new freshmen Republicans -- but his team organized, attended. POTUS didn't go down to say hi, and that could be because the group of newly elected GOP lawmakers was not tested for Covid @ WH, per several sources.> > -- Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 14, 2020More stories from theweek.com 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' Texas senator suggests it's too soon to declare Biden the winner because Puerto Rico is still counting votes
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| Trumpworld's faux-intellectual grifters are helping him debase democracy with bogus 'voter fraud' claims. And Republicans rake in the cash. Posted: 14 Nov 2020 05:28 AM PST  Internet "skeptics" are amplifying Trump's fake voter fraud claims. The GOP is using it to raise campaign funds.
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| 4-year-old boy in Texas loses mom and dad to Covid Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:57 PM PST  "Just this morning he told me that he wishes he had his mom back and he just wanted her back," Raiden Gonzalez's grandmother said. "I just told him that they're now angels watching over us."
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| ‘It cost him his life.’ Suspect drowns trying to flee Doral police Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:15 AM PST  A man died early Friday morning after running from police and jumping into a canal in Doral.
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| Fauci said the US has 'no appetite' for lockdowns but mask wearing and distancing could be enough, the day after a Biden advisor called for a weeks-long lockdown Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:37 AM PST  Dr. Anthony Fauci told "Good Morning America" that taking steps like mask wearing and social distancing means that a lockdown might not be needed.
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| An adults-only luxury resort in the Maldives is offering guests to book a year's worth of unlimited stays in 2021 for $30,000 Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:16 PM PST  The Anantara Veli resort in the Maldives deal allows 2 guests to book unlimited stays at an overwater bungalow in 2021 for $30,0000.
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| Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief Posted: 14 Nov 2020 06:54 AM PST  'It's almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,' says Andrew McCabe
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| Prosecutors ask Barr to rescind memo on U.S. vote counting irregularities - Washington Post Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:08 PM PST  U.S. prosecutors are asking Attorney General William Barr to rescind a memo issued earlier this week that instructed them to publicly investigate "substantial" allegations of vote counting irregularities, saying they have not seen the unusual activity, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The 16 assistant U.S. attorneys specially assigned to monitor the presidential election this month also said Barr's Monday memorandum had thrust prosecutors into partisan politics and that the policy change was not based in fact, according to the Post, which saw a copy of the letter. Barr sent his memo after days of attacks on the integrity of the election by President Donald Trump and Republican allies, who have alleged without evidence that there was widespread voter fraud.
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| Minneapolis business owner on city’s crime spike: We don’t have help like before Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:59 AM PST  The Minneapolis city council members and police chief clash over funding; Salon owner Flora Westbrooks shares with 'Fox & Friends' how her business was impacted during the riots.
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| Haiti is running low on fuel again as sweet deal with fuel supplier turns sour Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:27 PM PST  Another sweet deal has gone sour in Haiti.
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| Kentucky couple receives racist letters, bullets in mail months after neighbor allegedly painted swastika on their driveway Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:34 AM PST  A couple with five children in Louisville has had their property vandalized with racist slurs repeatedly over the past several months.
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| Huge Asian trade pact to be signed in coup for China Posted: 14 Nov 2020 04:25 PM PST  Fifteen countries will on Sunday sign a sprawling Asian trade deal they hope will help them bounce back from the pandemic and which is seen as a huge coup for China in extending its influence.
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| Trump plans “vote-count rallies” to “wreck” Fox News in bid to launch competing network: report Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:32 PM PST  Trump reportedly considers launching a "cheaper" streaming-only MAGA platform over an "expensive" cable channel
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| New Alabama senator struggles with basic WWII history and says US fought ‘socialism and communism’ Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:20 PM PST  It's not his only recent gaffe about history
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| Turkey's president plans provocative 'picnic' in symbolic Cyprus ghost town Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:49 AM PST  Turkey's president is to make a provocative visit on Sunday to a once glamorous holiday resort that for nearly 50 years has been a surreal ghost town in the no-man's-land that divides the Greek and Turkish parts of Cyprus. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has infuriated many Greek Cypriots by saying he will have "a picnic" amid the ruins of Varosha, a town of abandoned high-rise hotels, dilapidated restaurants and overgrown gardens. The Turkish leader announced the visit to Varosha, which has been sealed off since Turkey's 1974 invasion of the island, during a news conference in Ankara last month. "We can have a picnic at Varosha," he said. "We see it on screen, now we want to see it for ourselves."
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| Geraldo speaks about conversation with President Trump Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:40 AM PST  Geraldo Rivera spoke over the phone with the president, over a week after Election Day.
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| Lawyers for 1st woman to face federal execution in decades have Covid, seek delay Posted: 14 Nov 2020 09:52 AM PST  Her lawyers say in a lawsuit that they are ill because Attorney General Bill Barr "recklessly scheduled Mrs. Montgomery's execution in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic."
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| President-elect Joe Biden met with top Democrats to discuss another COVID-19 relief package Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:52 PM PST  Biden spoke with House Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer about the need to distribute aid to Americans bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| The Dakotas are 'as bad as it gets anywhere in the world' for COVID-19 Posted: 14 Nov 2020 10:12 AM PST  Both North and South Dakota now face a predictably tragic reality that health experts say could have been largely prevented with earlier action.
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| Lawmakers want US Army to quicken purchase of Arctic-capable vehicles Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:21 PM PST  The Army should move faster to get vehicles that can operate in harsh Arctic conditions, Senate appropriators said in the Defense Subcommittee's version of the FY21 defense spending bill.
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| In pictures: Diwali celebrations around the world Posted: 14 Nov 2020 10:04 AM PST  The festival of light is celebrated with candles and fireworks by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains worldwide.
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| Trump trade adviser says White House is 'moving forward under the assumption there will be a 2nd Trump term' Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:36 AM PST  White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro sees no reality in the very real election of President-elect Joe Biden.In a Friday interview with Fox Business, Navarro once again relayed President Trump and his supporters' refusal to accept the results of last week's election. "We're moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term," Navarro said. He then outlined how the Trump campaign and the White House "seek verifiable ballots" and "an investigation into what are growing numbers of allegations of fraud" in the election, and declared anyone who believes Biden won to be operating under "an immaculate deception."> White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro: "We're moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term ... We have, what appears in some sense to be, an immaculate deception." > > (FWIW, there will not be a second Trump term.) pic.twitter.com/qiVfAyZ5G9> > — The Recount (@therecount) November 13, 2020Biden has secured the electoral votes — and then some — he needed to win the 2020 election. His win margin in critical swing states Trump hopes to overturn is far wider than recounts have overturned in the past, and not a single election official across the U.S. found evidence of widespread voter fraud the Trump campaign is alleging.More stories from theweek.com 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' Texas senator suggests it's too soon to declare Biden the winner because Puerto Rico is still counting votes
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| Vietnam bracing for Typhoon Vamco as death toll in Philippines rises to 53 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:34 PM PST  Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country's central coast early on Sunday, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country's deadliest storm this year. Packing winds of up to 165 kph (103 mph), Vamco is forecast to hit a swathe of Vietnam's coast from Ha Tinh to Quang Ngai province, the government's weather agency said on Saturday. "This is a very strong typhoon," Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said, warning provinces in Vamco's projected path to prepare for its impact. The provinces plan to evacuate 468,000 people by the end of Saturday, state media cited the government's disaster management authority as saying. Vietnam is prone to destructive storms and flooding due to its long coastline. Vamco will be the 13th storm that affects the Southeast Asian country this year, where more than 160 people have been killed in natural disasters triggered by a series of storms since early October.
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| Federal judge green-lights Cuban doctors’ human-trafficking lawsuit against health group Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:30 PM PST  A federal judge has ruled that a human-trafficking lawsuit against the Pan American Health Organization filed by Cuban doctors who worked in Brazil can continue.
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