| Yahoo News/YouGov poll: With one week left, Biden's lead over Trump grows to 12 points — his biggest yet Posted: 26 Oct 2020 12:27 PM PDT  Biden's lead is four times the size of Hillary Clinton's national advantage over Trump at this point in 2016, underscoring how hard it will be for the president to pull off another upset on Election Day.
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| Pennsylvania teen fatally shot while watching sunset in park with girlfriend, authorities say Posted: 27 Oct 2020 04:52 AM PDT  Jason Kutt, the 18-year-old shot at Nockamixon State Park Saturday died from injuries, according to his family.
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| Our Favorite Home Decor Pieces From the Second Annual Etsy Design Awards Posted: 27 Oct 2020 02:41 PM PDT |
| Cause of Southern California fire that forced thousands to evacuate may be 'lashing wire' Posted: 27 Oct 2020 03:01 PM PDT  The fast-moving Silverado Fire has burned more than 11,000 acres and forced tens of thousands to flee the Irvine area.
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| Jaime Harrison enlists Common in bid to defeat Lindsey Graham in South Carolina Posted: 27 Oct 2020 01:50 PM PDT  Democrat Jaime Harrison enlisted the help of Grammy Award-winning rapper Common at a Monday rally in Columbia, S.C., as polls continue to show a closer race between Harrison and Sen. Lindsey Graham than many had expected.
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| Are polls of the presidential race reliable this time? Posted: 26 Oct 2020 12:05 PM PDT  President Trump's surprise victory in 2016 has made voters wary of trusting polls of this year's race. Will 2020 polls prove more accurate than they were four years ago?
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| NASA used a Boeing 747 rigged with a massive telescope to discover water on the moon — take a look at SOFIA Posted: 26 Oct 2020 09:00 AM PDT  The former Pan Am Boeing 747SP that took NASA over 10 years to retrofit for space exploration made the finding that will aid humanity's lunar return.
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| Venezuela's Guaido denounces forced disappearance of party coordinator Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:33 AM PDT  Venezuela's Juan Guaido on Tuesday accused the government of illegally detaining an opposition activist, blaming it for what he called the forced disappearance of Roland Carreno of the Popular Will party. Carreno was approached on Monday afternoon by unidentified people in vehicles without license plates, Popular Will said on Twitter. "We alert the world about his forced disappearance and we hold the dictatorship responsible for his physical and mental integrity."
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| Skull on fireplace mantel identified as man missing since 2012, Tennessee officials say Posted: 27 Oct 2020 05:29 AM PDT |
| Vietnam evacuating low-lying areas as strong typhoon nears Posted: 26 Oct 2020 09:39 PM PDT  Vietnam scrambled Tuesday to evacuate more than a million people in its central lowlands as a strong typhoon approached while some regions are still dealing with the aftermath of recent killer floods, state media said. Typhoon Molave is forecast to slam into Vietnam's south central coast with sustained winds of up to 135 kilometers (84 miles) per hour on Wednesday morning, according to the official Vietnam News Agency. The typhoon left at least 3 people dead and 13 missing and displaced more than 120,000 villagers in the Philippines before blowing toward Vietnam.
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| Turkey calls for France boycott as Islamic world backlash grows Posted: 26 Oct 2020 06:35 PM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday joined calls for a boycott of French goods, ramping up a standoff between France and Muslim countries over Islam and freedom of speech.
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| Hurricane Zeta could hit Louisiana by Thursday. It's the 27th named storm in this hurricane season, nearing the record. Posted: 26 Oct 2020 11:58 PM PDT  Only 2005 saw more named storms than 2020. But there's still more than a month left in this year's hurricane season.
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| White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Is Now Formally Moonlighting as a Trump Campaign Aide Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:56 AM PDT  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany appears to have taken on a new gig. In addition to her role as a government employee, she's now serving as a senior aide on her boss's reelection campaign.In an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday morning, McEnany was introduced as "Trump 2020 senior adviser and White House press secretary." A few hours later, Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney introduced McEnany by saying she is "serving now as adviser for the Trump campaign."McEnany's dual roles for the White House and the Trump reelection campaign immediately set off alarm bells among good-government advocates, who said they represent yet another instance of the often blurry lines between the Trump administration and the president's political operation."This looks like the latest example of Trump administration officials bending and breaking ethics laws and norms," said Paul Seamus Ryan, the vice president of litigation for the group Common Cause. "This is unfortunately par for the course for this administration."Now Kayleigh McEnany Has COVID, Making a Dozen From Rose Garden CeremonyA White House spokesperson said McEnany was not representing the White House during her Fox appearances on Tuesday."Kayleigh was appearing in her personal capacity as a private citizen," the spokesperson said.A spokesperson for the Trump campaign confirmed that McEnany is an unpaid adviser and also said she was appearing on Fox on Tuesday in a personal capacity. The spokesperson said that cable news shows on which she appears "have been instructed not to refer to her with her White House title," notwithstanding the America's Newsroom introduction on Tuesday that included both her campaign and White House titles.While most of McEnany's two Fox hits on Tuesday concerned the status of the Trump campaign and the 2020 race, she also weighed in on official administration policy on issues such as COVID relief negotiations with congressional Democrats."The chances [for a deal] are slim when you have someone like Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House," McEnany told Varney. "If we're providing stimulus relief for the American people, it should be just that, for American people, for United States citizens, not a wish-list from the liberal left," McEnany told Varney.Speaking in front of a backdrop that featured both the White House and the Trump campaign logo, McEnany also rattled off a series of policy proposals that "we offered" in those negotiations.Fox News Reporter Explodes Over Kayleigh McEnany: 'Stop Blaming the Media, I'm Tired of It!'It's that sort of blurry line between White House and campaign messaging, and the prospect that taxpayer resources could continue bolstering the president's reelection effort, that concern Ryan."This excerpt is McEnany commenting on federal government policy currently being negotiated by the Trump administration with Congress. This is McEnany doing the work of a [White House] press secretary," he said. "It's permissible for someone who works in the White House to also do campaign work. They just can't mix the two. They can't try to do the two things simultaneously."Ryan compared the situation to controversy over illicit politicking by former senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, who used her official Twitter account to share political messages, leading the Office of Special Counsel to recommend her removal over violations of the Hatch Act, which bars the use of taxpayer resources for partisan purposes.Conway brushed off the recriminations with a simple statement: "Blah blah blah."The Trump White House, and the president himself, have reveled in the frequent criticism they get over their unprecedented uses of taxpayer resources in the service of the president's reelection. After coming under fire for putting on a political nominating convention on the White House grounds in August, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh tweeted, "Liberals are more upset about the use of government buildings than they ever were about the use of the FBI to target political opponents."McEnany's Fox appearances on Tuesday came about two months after White House attorneys waived ethics rules so that she could meet in her capacity as a government official with employees of the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, both of which previously employed her.The waiver memo is undated, but metadata in the file posted to the White House website indicates it was created on August 26. That was the day of McEnany's speech at the Republican National Convention. She also spoke at a Trump campaign rally this month.The White House has also waived ethics rules for another staffer, director of advance Bobby Peede, to permit communications with the Trump campaign. According to Federal Election Commission records, the Trump re-elect has made regular payments from December 2019 through early this month to the firm Event Strategies, where Peede served as a partner prior to joining the White House.The largest of those payments, for nearly $100,000, came on August 24, two days before Peede's waiver memo was created.\-- With reporting by Justin BaragonaKayleigh McEnany Grilled on Trump's Sudden Embrace of Mail-In VotingRead 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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| As Trump says news about COVID should be illegal, WH chief of staff says goal is to 'defeat' virus, not 'control' it Posted: 26 Oct 2020 07:42 AM PDT  While President Trump's chief of staff on Monday attempted to clarify the assertion that the United States is "not going to control" the coronavirus crisis, the president himself complained that the media is too focused on the pandemic.
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| Kamala Harris fever is gripping India – but not everyone is convinced Posted: 27 Oct 2020 12:01 PM PDT  Her comments on Kashmir and her own mixed heritage might be controversial in India, but seeing a first Indian-American in the White House would still be a source of pride pride for many, Stuti Mishra reports from Delhi
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| Fox News staffers say the network is 'in a panic' about election-night coverage after top hosts were exposed to a COVID-19 patient and told to quarantine Posted: 27 Oct 2020 04:26 AM PDT  Hosts such as Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, and Dana Perino had flown on a private jet with someone who later tested positive for the coronavirus.
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| Woman injured in police shooting says cops let boyfriend die Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:02 AM PDT  A woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Chicago said Tuesday that officers did nothing more than cover her boyfriend with a blanket after he was shot and left him on the ground to die. Tafara Williams, 20, spoke to reporters during a Zoom call from her hospital bed as she described the Oct. 20 shooting in Waukegan that killed 19-year-old Marcellis Stinnette. "They allowed him to die," Williams said.
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| Pfizer says Covid-19 vaccine still possible in 2020 despite data lag Posted: 27 Oct 2020 05:07 PM PDT  Pfizer executives expressed measured optimism Tuesday over the prospect of providing a coronavirus vaccine in 2020 even as they signaled key data on the vaccine would not be released before the US election.
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| Judge rejects Trump request to be replaced in columnist's defamation lawsuit Posted: 27 Oct 2020 07:34 AM PDT  A federal judge on Tuesday denied President Trump's request that he be replaced as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
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| Zeta is now a Cat 1 hurricane, and the Florida Panhandle is under a tropical storm watch Posted: 26 Oct 2020 04:06 AM PDT  Zeta is now a Category 1 hurricane, prompting tropical storm and hurricane watches from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle ahead of a Wednesday landfall.
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| Justice Kavanaugh seems to argue no votes should be counted after Election Day. He may get his wish in key states. Posted: 26 Oct 2020 10:39 PM PDT  The Supreme Court sided with Republicans in Wisconsin on Monday, ruling 5-3 along ideological lines that Wisconsin can count only those absentee ballots that arrive by Election Day — even if they were mailed days earlier. Since first-class mail has been taking an average of 10 days to be delivered in the state, Wisconsin's Democratic Party urged mail-in Democrats to hand-deliver their absentee ballots or vote in person.The practical issue involves what happens with Wisconsin's 700,000 outstanding absentee ballots. "But the deeper issue is about the extent to which a ballot should be considered as valid," Phillip Bump writes in The Washington Post. In a factually sloppy concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh evidently embraced President Trump's baseless conspiracies about voter fraud and bizarre demand that the winner be announced election night.Many states require absentee ballots to arrive by Election Day because they "want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election," Kavanaugh wrote. "And those states also want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night, or as soon as possible thereafter."Justice Elena Kagan, in her dissent, noted that "there are no results to 'flip' until all valid votes are counted. And nothing could be more 'suspicio[us]' or 'improp[er]' than refusing to tally votes once the clock strikes 12 on election night."More broadly, Kavanaugh — and Justice Neil Gorsuch — embraced late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's concurring opinion in 2000's Bush v. Gore, which invented a legal theory "so radical, so contrary to basic principles of democracy and federalism, that two conservative justices" rejected it, even as they agreed to hand the White House to George W. Bush in what was supposed to be a one-off decision, Mark Joseph Stern writes at Slate.> Kavanaugh favorably cites Bush v. Gore two pages later. So much for "limited to the present circumstances." (Kavanaugh worked on Bush's legal team in that case.) pic.twitter.com/3Q7E9Y6Kiy> > — Matt Ford (@fordm) October 26, 2020Rehnquist argued that state courts cannot interpret state election laws in federal elections, Stern writes, "a breathtaking assault on state sovereignty" that would transform the Supreme Court "into a national board of elections with veto power over each state's election rules." With Judge Amy Coney Barrett put on the court, the conservatives likely have five votes enact Rehnquist's theory, throwing out ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina as well as Wisconsin, he added. "In other words, Barrett's first decisions as a justice may determine the outcome of the election."More stories from theweek.com Republicans are on the verge of a spectacular upside-down achievement The very different emotional lives of Trump and Biden voters Middle-finger voting is driving the entire country mad
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| Fact check: Trump debate quote about 'fault' for US COVID-19 outbreak taken out of context Posted: 27 Oct 2020 09:55 AM PDT  A social media post leaves out important context in quoting the president on the questions of responsibility and fault for the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak.
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| Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Despite questions about the 'laptop from hell,' most Americans think the Trumps are more 'corrupt' than the Bidens Posted: 27 Oct 2020 05:53 AM PDT  President Trump has intensified his accusations of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, based on emails supposedly found on a laptop formerly owned by Biden's son Hunter. But a plurality of voters aren't buying it — and a majority believe Trump and his family are more "corrupt" than the Bidens.
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| Small plane crashes in Texas, killing one on board Posted: 27 Oct 2020 06:04 AM PDT  The aircraft crash in Lubbock sparked a small fire and killed one pilot on board, who has not yet been identified.
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| 'Murder hornet': First nest found in US eradicated with vacuum hose Posted: 26 Oct 2020 12:59 AM PDT  The Asian giant hornets can wipe out a colony of honeybees in hours.
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| Rioters Injure Thirty Police Officers in Night of Violent Unrest in Philadelphia Posted: 27 Oct 2020 06:54 AM PDT  At least 30 police officers were hurt during rioting that broke out in West Philadelphia overnight after police fatally shot a man wielding a knife on Monday, authorities said.Rioters threw rocks and bricks at police and looted and vandalized businesses, NBC Washington reported. A 56-year-old sergeant was hospitalized after she was struck by a pickup truck, breaking her leg, among other injuries. The unrest broke out after police shot and killed 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., a black man, in Cobbs Creek. Wallace had a knife when he walked toward officers and ignored orders to drop his weapon, police said. Video of the incident appears to show Wallace approaching officers while his mother attempted to restrain him. The camera briefly points downward and the sounds of several gunshots ring out as police open fire. Wallace is then shown lying still on the ground while his mother, who is screaming hysterically, runs to him. Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and District Attorney Larry Krasner said they would investigate the incident, while Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby defended the officers in a statement. Looters took advantage of the unrest, breaking into a number of stores including several Rite Aid stores in West Philadelphia, clothing and shoe stores and at least one restaurant, NBC reported. At 57th and Vine streets, clothing and merchandise were thrown on the sidewalk. Two ATM machines were smashed as well.> A night of rioting and looting in West Philadelphia after police shot a man who they say was armed with a knife. Damage and looting reported at pharmacies, liquor stores, and shops along 52nd St @NBCPhiladelphia pic.twitter.com/x5ae6Dente> > -- Randy Gyllenhaal (@RandyGyllenhaal) October 27, 2020Rioters set fire to police cars and dumpsters. Police said five police vehicles and one fire department vehicle were vandalized.Police arrested more than 30 people for throwing rocks and bricks at police or looting, the department said.
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| Turkey's Erdogan sues Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker for insults Posted: 27 Oct 2020 05:00 AM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after the anti-Islam politician posted a series of tweets against the Turkish leader, including one that described him as a "terrorist." The state-run Anadolu Agency said Erdogan's lawyer on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against Wilders at the Ankara Chief Prosecutor's office for "insulting the president" -- a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in prison. Wilders posted a cartoon depicting Erdogan wearing a bomb-resembling hat on his head, with the comment: "terrorist."
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| A Family Dollar customer reportedly shot and killed another shopper outside a store in Ohio Posted: 26 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT  The attack underscores the trend of violent crimes and robberies happening at dollar stores across the US.
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| Hurricane Zeta hits Mexico's Caribbean coast Posted: 27 Oct 2020 12:21 AM PDT  Hurricane Zeta slammed into Mexico's Caribbean coast late Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the Yucatan Peninsula, where authorities warned residents and tourists to shelter indoors.
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| German embassy in Bangkok becomes flashpoint as demonstrators pressure Berlin on Thai king's legal status Posted: 26 Oct 2020 07:41 AM PDT  The German embassy in Bangkok became a new focal point of Thailand's months-long pro-democracy rallies on Monday as thousands marched on the building to petition Berlin to investigate the Thai king's use of his powers while residing in Bavaria. Since 2007, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who ascended to the throne in 2016, has spent long periods of time in southern Germany. But his extended presence on German soil has become a diplomatic headache for Berlin during Thailand's nationwide rallies, where some protest leaders have made bold demands for the monarchy to be reformed – long a taboo subject in the Southeast Asian nation because of strict lese majeste laws. In Germany, Heiko Maas, the foreign minister warned the king against using the country as a base to conduct Thai politics. "We are monitoring this long-term," Mr Maas said. "It will have immediate consequences if there are things that we assess to be illegal." His comments came as the embassy's premises in central Bangkok turned into a potential flashpoint between rival protest groups on Monday.
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| Black Trump supporter: ‘A Black man has nothing to win in this race’ Posted: 27 Oct 2020 09:41 AM PDT 
Karl Williams of Brooklyn believes that Black men have "nothing to win" in this year's presidential race with either President Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden. "There's no policy platform being presented that's going to address any needs of Black men," Williams, an investor who trades options, said in a video interview with Yahoo News. Despite this conviction, Williams, 34, plans to vote for Trump for a second time on Nov. 3. With one week left until the election, some experts say Black men are a key demographic who could shock the country on Election Day and vote for Trump in surprising numbers.
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| Seattle woman still missing three weeks after traveling to Dallas, Texas Posted: 26 Oct 2020 04:18 PM PDT  Marisela Botello, 23, was last seen leaving her ex-boyfriend's house in Dallas, Texas on October 4, 2020. She took a Lyft alone to the entertainment district Deep Ellum. Her family said security video reportedly shows her leaving the Select Start bar at 1 a.m. with an unknown man. Her cell phone and debit card haven't been used since that night and her other belongings were left behind at her ex-boyfriend's house where she had been visiting from Seattle for the weekend. She missed her flig
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| Ex-Marines at Camp Lejeune arrested in Idaho for secretly selling guns, feds say Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:10 AM PDT  They are accused of trafficking illegal guns between Idaho, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, according to court filings.
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| Viral photo sparks concerns about Indonesia's 'Jurassic Park' Posted: 27 Oct 2020 08:52 AM PDT  The viral image has raised questions about the conservation impact on the animal native to Indonesia.
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| The dark secret at the core of the yachting industry: 15 current and former crew members describe what it's really like to work on a superyacht, from bullying to sexual harassment Posted: 26 Oct 2020 08:29 AM PDT  In conversations with Business Insider, yacht crew members described an endless cycle of abuse on board and having nowhere to turn for help.
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| Tropical Storm Zeta expected to strengthen into hurricane Posted: 26 Oct 2020 07:26 AM PDT  The formation of Zeta puts the 2020 hurricane season one name storm away from tying the all-time record.
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| COVID-19 prevented new parents from meeting their baby born via surrogate. Then, the birth mother stepped in to care for the child. Posted: 27 Oct 2020 07:37 AM PDT  The new parents named their baby girl Jennifer — in honor of the surrogate who went above and beyond for their family.
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| Nigeria looting hits capital Posted: 26 Oct 2020 11:34 AM PDT  Huge crowds ransacked food warehouses in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday in the latest looting to hit the country during a wave of unrest.
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| Supreme Court ruling spurs Wisconsin to get early votes in Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:40 AM PDT  Democrats and Republicans in the battleground state of Wisconsin were pushing Tuesday to get 320,000 outstanding absentee ballots returned by the close of polls on Election Day, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline to receive and count ballots as Democrats had wanted. "This is an all-hands-on-deck final push," said Ben Wikler, who chairs the Wisconsin Democratic Party, which has been advocating absentee voting more aggressively than Republicans.
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| Trump supporter pulls gun on protesters after unknown liquid is dumped on him Posted: 26 Oct 2020 06:55 PM PDT  The man was not cited or arrested for pointing his gun at a group of young anti-Trump protestors
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| Coronavirus in the U.S. is spreading like 'wildfire,' epidemiologist says Posted: 26 Oct 2020 04:56 PM PDT  "The U.S. is now seeing a pretty widespread transmission across the board," said William Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology.
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