| Should you trust the polls in 2020? Here’s what pollsters have to say Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:42 AM PDT  Trump caused a massive upset in 2016. Could he do it again?
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| GOP senators plan to subpoena Jack Dorsey to testify about Twitter's decision to block the link to an unverified and dubious story about Hunter Biden's emails Posted: 15 Oct 2020 11:12 AM PDT  Twitter said it blocked the link to the New York Post articles for violating its policy against "hacked materials."
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| Accused Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse won't be charged in his home state of Illinois Posted: 14 Oct 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Local authorities said there's no evidence Rittenhouse, who is accused of killing two people in August, possessed the weapon outside of Wisconsin.
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| Mexican court blocks ex-president's bid to register new party Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:07 AM PDT  Mexico's top electoral tribunal has rejected former President Felipe Calderon's bid to register a new political party, citing insufficient proof on the origin of cash contributions, it said on Thursday. Calderon, president from 2006 to 2012, and his wife Margarita Zavala, a presidential candidate in the 2018 election, had sought to register Mexico Libre (Free Mexico) after splitting with the center-right National Action Party (PAN). The upper chamber of the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) ruled by a majority vote to deny the registration.
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| Senator Lindsey Graham defends reference to ‘the good old days of segregation,’ claims he was being sarcastic Posted: 14 Oct 2020 11:03 AM PDT  'I want to assure the people of South Carolina, that statement was made with dripping sarcasm'
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| You know someone’s child at school is COVID-19 positive. Should you tell? Posted: 15 Oct 2020 08:03 AM PDT  The family on your block has COVID-19 but they're still going to send their kids to school. What do you do?
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| Nagorno-Karabakh volunteers get weapons as clashes intensify Posted: 15 Oct 2020 11:32 AM PDT  MARTUNI, Nagorno-Karabakh (AP) — As the fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces rages on in the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, its residents are joining volunteer squads to defend their towns. The Ovanisyan family and their neighbors were called Wednesday to receive their Kalashnikov rifles to help protect Martuni, a town close to the front line in the eastern part of the region. The recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh erupted on Sept. 27 and has since killed hundreds.
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| End Sars: Nigerian army warning amid anti-police brutality protests Posted: 15 Oct 2020 09:25 AM PDT  The statement follows a week of protests against police brutality which have shaken the country.
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| Kim Jong Un's new 'monster' ICBM could pack a punch, but only if it survives long enough for North Korea to use it Posted: 15 Oct 2020 11:04 AM PDT  "If even one of these things gets through, that is a really spectacularly bad day for the United States," one expert told Insider.
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| Supreme Court justices set stage to end marriage equality Posted: 14 Oct 2020 01:27 PM PDT  Justices suggest marriage equality will be on the chopping block as the Senate aims to confirm Amy Coney Barrett.
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| Massachusetts' Republican governor 'cannot support Donald Trump for president' Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:09 PM PDT  Massachusetts' Republican governor is diverging from his party this election cycle.In a Wednesday statement, Gov. Charlie Baker declared through a spokesperson that he "cannot support Donald Trump for president" and will "leave the election analysis to the pundits." Baker didn't say whether he'd support Democratic nominee Joe Biden in turn.> BREAKING: @MassGovernor releases statement saying "he "cannot support Donald Trump for President" wcvb pic.twitter.com/SPV2MY0ykh> > — Sharman Sacchetti (@SharmanTV) October 14, 2020Baker also didn't vote for Trump in 2016, saying he cast a blank ballot for the presidency for the first time that year. He said he had previously decided he couldn't support Trump "for a number of reasons," but said Hillary Clinton had "believability issues."Baker is a moderate Republican who has been surprisingly popular in the deep blue state of Massachusetts throughout his last five years in office. He has maintained one of the highest approval ratings of any governor in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic, even topping Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) support among Massachusetts Democrats in August.More stories from theweek.com Will there be another Trump surprise in Michigan? The 1 big problem with 2 town halls Democrats need a better counter to 'originalism'
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| Former Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in 1984 abduction and killing of Colorado girl Posted: 14 Oct 2020 03:59 AM PDT  Steven Pankey has been charged with the death of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who vanished in 1984, authorities said on Tuesday.
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| School says students may be intentionally getting COVID-19 Posted: 14 Oct 2020 09:46 AM PDT  Brigham Young University's campus in Idaho warned that students caught intentionally contracting the virus will be suspended and potentially "permanently dismissed."
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| US dumping hundreds of migrants in dangerous Mexican border town Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:45 PM PDT  Expelled are being targeted by organised crime it is claimed
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| Kyle Rittenhouse, accused of killing 2 people during Wisconsin protests, won't face charges in Illinois, his home state Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:31 PM PDT  Illinois police found Rittenhouse committed no crimes there. It was unclear whether someone else possessed the gun in Illinois, or where it is now.
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| Taliban to 'reset' commitments under agreement with Washington to bring down violence: U.S. special envoy Posted: 15 Oct 2020 05:13 AM PDT  The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan said on Thursday he had struck an agreement with the insurgent Taliban to "re-set" their commitments under a troop withdrawal deal and reduce the number of casualties in the country, which has seen heavy fighting in southern Helmand province. This week, the Taliban launched a major offensive in Helmand, attempting to take the provincial capital and ensuing fighting had displaced thousands of civilians. U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said on Twitter that he and General Scott Miller, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, had held several meetings with the Taliban.
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| Marine Corps fires commander after 9 service members died when their amphibious assault vehicle sank into the sea Posted: 13 Oct 2020 07:13 PM PDT  The commanding officer of the unit involved in the accident was relieved "due to a loss in trust and confidence in his ability to command."
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| Sleeping homeless man on bench reported to Ohio cops. It was a sculpture of Jesus Posted: 15 Oct 2020 04:10 PM PDT  "Within twenty minutes of the statue arriving, I was having a conversation with a very kind police officer."
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| GOP Sen. Ben Sasse admitted that Trump "ignored" the coronavirus and "flirted” with white supremacy Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:24 PM PDT  Sasse asked why GOP thought "selling a TV-obsessed narcissistic individual" to America was "good" in leaked call
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| Angela Merkel warns of potential 'disaster' as Germany records highest daily case total Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:59 AM PDT  Angela Merkel is said to be deeply concerned that new coronavirus restrictions agreed by regional leaders do not go far enough and Germany may be heading for "disaster". The warning comes as Germany and Italy – two countries that appeared to have escaped the worst of the second wave – recorded their highest daily rise in infections since the start of the pandemic. Mrs Merkel put on a brave face for the cameras after German regional leaders stopped short of agreeing tough new measures she had proposed on Wednesday. But behind closed doors she reportedly lost her temper during marathon six-hour talks with the leaders of Germany's 16 states, telling them she was "not happy" and warning: "What you've agreed is not enough to avert disaster." Under Germany's federal system, the state governments have the final say over lockdown measures and Mrs Merkel is powerless to overrule them. Regional leaders agreed new restrictions for areas where the infection rate rises over safety limits, including an 11pm curfew for restaurants and pubs, a limit of 10 on gatherings and the mandatory use of face masks in crowded areas outdoors.
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| Russian spies living among us: Inside the FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:10 PM PDT  FBI agents reveal how they tracked and stopped a Russian spy ring operating in the U.S., tasked with gathering government secrets.
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| Chloe Wiegand's grandfather pleads guilty in toddler's cruise ship death, won't serve time Posted: 15 Oct 2020 10:07 AM PDT  Sam Anello has pleaded guilty in the cruise ship death of his granddaughter Chloe Wiegand. But he won't serve jail time.
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| Democratic strategist privately warns of surging voter registration among Trump-leaning demographics Posted: 15 Oct 2020 08:22 AM PDT  Poll after poll may give Democratic nominee Joe Biden the advantage next month, but Democrats still have some fears.While Democrats have made voter registration and flat-out voting a major message throughout their pushes for Biden, Republicans have still so far been winning the voter registration game. Democrats haven't publicly acknowledged their shortcomings, but at least one is privately sounding the alarm, Thomas B. Edsall relays in an opinion column for The New York Times.Both national and swing-state polls continue to give Biden an advantage over President Trump this November, with FiveThirtyEight's presidential tracker showing Biden with an 87 in 100 chance of winning. But voter registration tells a different story: Republicans have added hundreds of thousands more voters to their ranks across the swing states of Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.A Democratic strategist "who closely follows [voter registration] data on a day-to-day basis" revealed Republicans' advantage from a different angle in a privately circulated newsletter, Edsall reports. "Since last week, the share of white non-college over 30 registrations in the battleground states has increased by 10 points compared to September 2016, and the Democratic margin dropped 10 points to just 6 points," the strategist writes. "And there are serious signs of political engagement by white non-college voters who had not cast ballots in previous elections."Pew Research Center data also spells a bit of trouble for Biden among Hispanic Catholics and Black women, who seem to have slightly drifted to Trump. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Will there be another Trump surprise in Michigan? The 1 big problem with 2 town halls Democrats need a better counter to 'originalism'
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| Supreme Court orders 2nd look at Scott Peterson's conviction for killing his pregnant wife and unborn son Posted: 15 Oct 2020 06:36 AM PDT  The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a second look at Scott Peterson's conviction for killing his pregnant wife and unborn son, less than two months after it overturned his death penalty.
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| Amy Cooper Made Another 911 Call on Black Birder—and It Was Worse Than the First Posted: 14 Oct 2020 07:44 AM PDT  Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police on a Black man after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, called 911 twice during the Memorial Day incident, falsely stating in a previously unreported call that he "tried to assault her," prosecutors revealed Wednesday.Cooper, 41, was charged in July with a misdemeanor count of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. In a 911 call captured in a viral video, she allegedly falsely reported that Christian Cooper, 57, was threatening her life. The charge is punishable by up to a year in jail.However, Cyrus R. Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, said in a statement Wednesday that Cooper allegedly "engaged in racist criminal conduct" when she made a second 911 call in which she "falsely accused a Black man of trying to assault her." "Fortunately, no one was injured or killed in the police response to Ms. Cooper's hoax," the statement said.Black Birdwatcher Declines to Cooperate With Police in Case Against White Woman Who Called the Police on HimDuring a brief court hearing on Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi stressed that at no time during the May 25 encounter did Christian Cooper try to assault the 41-year-old woman, stating that "using the police in a way that is both racially offensive and designed to intimidate is something that can't be ignored."Cooper is negotiating a plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors that would spare her jail time. Illuzzi said Cooper was prepared to "take responsibility for her actions" and will be working with her defense team to explore a rehabilitative program that would "educate her and the community on the harm caused by such actions.""We hope this process will both enlighten, heal and prevent similar harm to our community in the future," the prosecutor added. "This process can be an opportunity for introspection and education."Authorities say that, on May 25, Cooper was walking her dog through the Ramble in Central Park, a woodsy area of the New York City sanctuary where dogs must be leashed, when Christian Cooper approached her. Christian Cooper, an avid bird watcher and PR professional, asked the 41-year-old to leash her dog but she refused. The two individuals are not related.In the video taken by Christian Cooper, Amy Cooper gets increasingly upset by his request and states she is going to call the police and tell them, "There's an African American man threatening my life.""I'm in the Ramble, there is a man, African-American, he has a bicycle helmet and he is recording me and threatening me and my dog," Amy Cooper is then heard yelling to a 911 operator while gripping her dog's collar. Before hanging up, she adds: "I am being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately!"Before the video ends, Christian Cooper calmly thanks her when she finally puts her dog on a leash. His sister, Melody, later posted the video on social media, where it went viral—igniting worldwide outrage over Amy Cooper's white privilege.In the second, previously unreported 911 call, the 41-year-old repeated the accusation to another NYPD dispatcher before adding that the birder "tried to assault her," according to the DA's office. "When responding officers arrived, Ms. Cooper admitted that the male had not 'tried to assault' or come into contact with her," the DA's office said Wednesday.A day after the incident, Cooper was fired from her job as the head of insurance portfolio management at Franklin Templeton. The company said it doesn't "tolerate racism of any kind." The 41-year-old also surrendered her dog, Henry, to the shelter he was adopted from—though she was later reunited with the cocker spaniel.In a public apology issued on May 26, Cooper said she "reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about his intentions when, in fact, I was the one who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog on a leash.""He had every right to request that I leash my dog in an area where it was required. I am well aware of the pain that misassumptions and insensitive statements about race cause and would never have imagined that I would be involved in the type of incident that occurred with Chris," Cooper said in the statement."I hope that a few mortifying seconds in a lifetime of forty years will not define me in his eyes and that he will accept my sincere apology."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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| U.S. quietly ends probe of Obama-era 'unmasking' of Trump allies: sources Posted: 14 Oct 2020 09:43 AM PDT  The U.S. Justice Department has ended its probe into whether Obama administration officials improperly "unmasked" associates of President Donald Trump mentioned in intelligence reports, two congressional sources said on Wednesday. Unmasking refers to the naming of U.S. citizens whose identities were blacked out in reports from the National Security Agency that captured their communications with a foreign national. Trump and his allies have sought to portray the use of the process during the administration of his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama, as a misuse of government authority.
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| London will go back into coronavirus lockdown from midnight Friday, with indoor household mixing banned Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:57 AM PDT  The UK government is set to move London into the second-most-serious COVID-19 tier — "high" — at midnight on Friday.
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| Navy's Top Officer Wants a New Mid-Size Destroyer That Packs a Major Punch Posted: 15 Oct 2020 10:14 AM PDT |
| Soldiers to evaluate new light tank prototypes Posted: 15 Oct 2020 09:28 AM PDT  An upcoming soldier vehicle assessment for the Mobile Protected Firepower competitive entries could be a determining factor in helping the Army choose a winner.
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| Tennessee mayor arrested for allegedly shoplifting $300 worth of Target merchandise Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:24 PM PDT  John Blade is accused of using self checkout and not scanning items
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| 3-week-old baby sexually assaulted in Marion County foster home, lawsuit says Posted: 15 Oct 2020 10:06 AM PDT  Foster officials knew the risk when they put a 3-week-old child in a foster home with a sexually aggressive teen, a lawsuit alleges. The girl was assaulted and battered.
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| Pakistan says roadside bomb kills 6 troops in border region Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:58 AM PDT |
| In California, people lived on the edge of homelessness before COVID-19. Now, it's worse. Posted: 15 Oct 2020 04:30 AM PDT  California's middle class isn't done shrinking. They await their fate, one government program away from minimum-wage jobs or losing their homes.
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| Chinese nationals laundered money and helped sell drugs for Mexican cartels, feds say Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:53 PM PDT  The six suspects made at least $30 million in an alleged scheme that involved funneling illicit drug money to the feared Sinaloa cartel, court documents say.
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| Saudi Arabia failed to win a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, while China and Russia were voted in Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:41 AM PDT  China and Russia were elected to the council in a secret ballot on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia did not receive enough votes to join.
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| Workers Who Were Laid Off Say They're Being Passed Over—For Their Own Jobs Posted: 15 Oct 2020 05:40 AM PDT  As companies begin rehiring, unions push for right of recall legislation that would give first dibs to laid-off employees
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| Graham's $28 million sets quarterly fundraising record for Senate Republicans Posted: 14 Oct 2020 04:02 PM PDT  Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has set a fundraising record for Republican Senate candidates, bringing in $28 million in the third quarter of a reelection battle that is becoming among the more expensive in the country.
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| Fact check: Is Amy Coney Barrett the first Supreme Court nominee during a presidential election? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 01:52 PM PDT  Presidents have nominated justices to the country's highest court in an election year, but Trump is the first to do so after voting has started.
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| White supremacist pleads guilty in plot to blow up Colorado synagogue Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:15 PM PDT  A self-described white supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime and explosive charges for a botched plot to blow up a historic Colorado synagogue last year, prosecutors said on Thursday. Richard Holzer, 28, who was arrested in November following an undercover FBI sting, admitted to planning to bomb the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
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| Trump celebrates fatal shooting of Antifa activist by US Marshals Posted: 15 Oct 2020 02:22 PM PDT  'We sent in the US marshals, took 15 minutes it was over, 15 minutes it was over, we got him'
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| 'You will be infected or you will die of starvation': Amazon contractors reportedly say their office is still unsafe months after first complaining of 'subhuman' conditions Posted: 15 Oct 2020 12:41 PM PDT  The report comes after claims surfaced in April of "subhuman" conditions at the call center, where workers slept on the floor between shifts.
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