Monday, November 30, 2020

Tony Hsieh, the late former CEO of Zappos, famously pioneered the concept of paying new, unhappy employees $2,000 to quit in order to maintain a happy, productive workforce



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The Latest: Graham: Trump should attend Biden's inauguration



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Kremlin-Funded TV Airs Mind-Numbingly Racist Blackface Attack on Obama



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‘Is he just coming to bring Covid’: Democrat Georgia candidate launches blistering attack on Trump state visit



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Supreme Court appears skeptical of Trump's census plan



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Iran says Israel killed military nuclear scientist remotely



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Biden announces all-female senior press team



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Sri Lanka: Eight die in prison riot over Covid panic



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Republicans say Biden budget chief has 'zero chance' of confirmation



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Over 300 detained in Belarus during anti-government protests



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Turkey's new virus figures confirm experts' worst fears



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Navy will decommission warship damaged in suspected arson



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Georgia governor, defying Trump, says he'll 'follow the law' on election results



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Surgeon general: What to do if you had an unsafe Thanksgiving



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Thai protest leaders hear police charges of defaming king



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LA residents say homeless crisis growing with 'McMansion tents'



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Will Trump's refusal to concede cost the GOP its Senate majority?



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Trump administration rushes to complete Mexico border wall before Biden takes office



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Tony Hsieh, the late former CEO of Zappos, famously pioneered the concept of paying new, unhappy employees $2,000 to quit in order to maintain a happy, productive workforce



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Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?



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Republicans vow to block Biden budget pick over her ‘disparaging’ comments about senators



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NY GOP House candidate Claudia Tenney blasts Gov. Cuomo for 'confusion' surrounding uncalled race



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'World's loneliest elephant' Kaavan starts trip to Cambodia



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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Biden names Jen Psaki as White House press secretary as part of all female communications team



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Fact check: The warrant for Joe Biden's arrest circulating online is from a fake court



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Mother of teenager killed by police is shot during funeral service, report says



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Ethiopia declares victory as military takes Tigray capital



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Trump legal team will ‘get their clock cleaned’ by Supreme Court in challenging Pennsylvania election results, official says



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Trump attorneys described Giuliani as 'deranged' and likened the team pushing election fraud claims to a 'clown car,' report says



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Trump said world leaders complained to him about the election results — but most of them have already congratulated Biden



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Tigray crisis: Ethiopian soldiers accused of blocking border with Sudan



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Trump 'ashamed' to have endorsed Republican Georgia governor



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Exclusive: Syrian general accused of war crimes 'given new life in Europe by Mossad'



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Justice Department seeks to authorize firing squad executions



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Biden COVID-19 adviser: Many who celebrated Thanksgiving with family or friends will be in ICUs over Christmas



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Jared Kushner heading to Saudi Arabia and Qatar in last ditch effort to resolve Gulf dispute



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Trump: 'I'm ashamed I endorsed' Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp



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Chinese doctors jailed for illegal organ harvesting



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The most important relationship in D.C.? Biden and McConnell have a history



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A 55-year-old man was accused of writing alarming emails to pastor of a Texas church about harming Democrats and setting priests on fire



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Dozens of farm workers killed in 'insane' Nigeria attack



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Reporter Update: Military Aircraft Dumps Fuel Over City of Jeannette



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'Almost impossible': As education divide deepens, Democrats fear a demographic problem for future power



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Hong Kong's leader is being paid in cash due to US sanctions. Carrie Lam earns $56,000 a month and says money is now piling up at her house.



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Almost half of 7,363 new COVID-19 cases from South Florida as state approaches a million



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Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting



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Saturday, November 28, 2020

The Trump campaign wound up spending $3 million to increase Biden's lead in Wisconsin



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Oregon mink farm has COVID-19 outbreak after advocates warned of danger in state



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One pandemic, two different worlds in Georgia runoff races



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What the coronavirus vaccine shows about the potential for innovation



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Trump news – President complains about daytime TV amid claims he will hold spoiler event during inauguration



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US agency investigating Tesla front suspension failures



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‘Put up or move on’: Exasperated Republican congressman urges Trump to accept election defeat



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Lawmakers throw pig guts, punches on Taiwan parliament floor



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Indonesian police move transgender celebrity to private cell



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UK, EU resume face-to-face trade talks with time running out



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Pictured: A doctor hugged a distraught elderly coronavirus patient on Thanksgiving, after warning the public America is headed for its 'darkest days' over Christmas



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India: Pakistan shelling kills 3 Indian soldiers in Kashmir



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Trump campaign caught sharing fake newspaper cover on election result



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The Latest: Researchers urge Arizona shutdown, mask mandate



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Hyundai, Kia fined for delaying US engine failure recalls



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GOP congressman calls party's refusal to acknowledge Biden's win a 'massive grift' and says Trump 'forgot he was serving people and not himself'



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Indonesia police say suspected militants kill 4 villagers



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White rice spikes blood sugar levels and 'has almost the same effect as eating pure table sugar,' according to Harvard Medical School



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Cindy McCain is under consideration to become US Ambassador to the United Kingdom: report



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The states with and without travel restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic



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Ethiopia declares victory as military takes Tigray capital



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Iran shuts gov't offices, tightening virus restrictions



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Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is reportedly being flown by United Airlines chartered flights to distribution hubs, in anticipation of FDA approval



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Friday, November 27, 2020

Cyclone Nivar: Landfall triggers torrential downpours



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Trudeau expects most of Canada to be vaccinated by September



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Pig guts fly as Taiwan lawmakers brawl over US pork imports



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South Korean intelligence believes North Korea is nervous about dealing with Biden administration



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New cardinals quarantine in pope's hotel ahead of ceremony



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Your data and how it is used to gain your vote



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Trump says he knows whether he'll attend Biden's inauguration but keeps decision private



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India: Pakistan shelling kills 3 Indian soldiers in Kashmir



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Trump's national security advisor and his entourage were said to be treated as 'human petri dishes' in Vietnam, as the US COVID-19 outbreak worsens every day



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Donald Trump commits to leaving White House if Joe Biden wins Electoral College vote



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Donald Trump Jr. says he is 'all done with the Rona' and ends his COVID-19 isolation to celebrate Thanksgiving days after announcing his positive test



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Hyundai, Kia fined for delaying US engine failure recalls



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India farmers allowed to protest in Delhi after clashes



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Biden reportedly considering a retired four-star general to lead US military, would be first Black defense secretary if confirmed



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They're baaack: Trump and allies still refuse election loss



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Taiwan officials throw pig guts in parliament in fist fight over pork imports



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Trump news – live: President loses Pennsylvania appeal as he backtracks on vow to leave peacefully



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UK asks regulator to assess AZ-Oxford vaccine amid questions



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‘Isn’t this the language of a dictator?’: Trump confronted after press conference littered with misinformation



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Ethiopian PM rejects Tigray conflict talks in AU meeting



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Supreme Court blocks some COVID-19 restrictions at religious services in New York, marking a shift from decisions made before Amy Coney Barrett joined the bench



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Investigation underway after inmate shot, killed by correctional officer



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Tulsi Gabbard urges Trump to ‘please consider’ pardons for Julian Assange and Edward Snowden



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Thursday, November 26, 2020

High court blocks NY virus limits on houses of worship



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Cyclone Nivar: Landfall triggers torrential downpours



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Conspiracy theorist Trump lawyer Sidney Powell sues in Georgia and Michigan with error-filled ‘Kraken’ suits



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Japan, China agree on economic ties, split over islands



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Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock bet big on 'record-shattering turnout' in Georgia



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Trudeau: Canadians won't be among the first to get COVID-19 vaccine



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Man sues for refund of $2.5m he donated to Trump election challenge group



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Congress braces for Biden's national coronavirus strategy



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Supreme Court blocks some COVID-19 restrictions at religious services in New York, marking a shift from decisions made before Amy Coney Barrett joined the bench



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India coronavirus: How do you vaccinate a billion people?



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In Thanksgiving Message, Trump Says ‘We’re Like a Third-World Country’ Because He Lost Election



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Malaysian PM gains political lifeline with budget approval



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Apple is reportedly moving iPad production out of China for the first time ever because of Trump's trade war



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COVID-19 travel restrictions by state: What you need to know before you travel



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Disney Cruise Line, P&O Cruises extend COVID-19 sailing suspension into 2021



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Money promised to combat US overdose crisis sits unused



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Giuliani tells Pennsylvania legislators they can override popular vote to appoint pro-Trump electors



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New Hampshire Republicans want to impeach the state's GOP governor for requiring people to wear a mask in public places



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Footsoldiers of democracy, election officials became targets of rage



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Conspiracy theorist Trump lawyer Sidney Powell sues in Georgia and Michigan with error-filled ‘Kraken’ suits



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Stephen Bannon switching lawyers in border wall fund case



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Donald Trump commits to leaving White House if Joe Biden wins Electoral College vote



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Volunteers discuss side-effects after receiving Moderna and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines



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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

PHOTOS: Presidential turkey pardons — a look back



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Biden says he will take executive action on immigration



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2 US citizens detained for speaking Spanish in Montana store settle border patrol lawsuit



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Almost everything Trump said at a Republican event in Pennsylvania about the election was a lie or a conspiracy theory



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Punishing hurricanes to spur more Central American migration



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8 ways people ruined nature in 2020



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Sen. Scott: How will Biden differ from Obama with identical Cabinets?



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As virus cases spike, financial outlook for airlines dims



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Lunar mission is latest milestone in China's space ambitions



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In his wake, Trump leaves vulnerabilities of democracy exposed



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McDonald's has temporarily stopped distributing its Disney World-themed toys because they included QR codes that led to 'unintended search results' when scanned



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Macron outlines France's baby steps out of lockdown



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Intelligence employees vent frustrations over being forced to return to the office



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Biden's team has made contact with Dr. Fauci, and the president-elect said he has been 'very, very helpful' in briefings with staff



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Ghislaine Maxwell woken up every 15 minutes in jail while she sleeps says lawyer



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New New York travel restrictions take effect, NJ and CT stick with advisory



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Russia is offering its experimental COVID-19 vaccine to other countries, but Putin won't take it until it's formally approved



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Report: New Mexico governor, former surgeon general are the top contenders to be Biden's health secretary



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Dentists say young influencers who are filing down their teeth for the 'perfect smile' will need dentures by the time they're 40



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Trump to reportedly join Rudy Giuliani at Pennsylvania election event after aides 'tried talking him out of' going



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People are skeptical that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will be able to easily slip back into NYC society



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Ingraham: Trump won't fade away after Biden is sworn in as president



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Biden says his team has spoken to Fauci: ‘He’s been very, very helpful’



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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Would you hop a train to Disney World? The yellow Brightline is making a bet you will



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A brief, bloody war in a corner of Asia is a warning about why the tank's days of dominance may be over



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China criticizes pope over comment on Uighur Muslim minority



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Fauci says it’s ‘unrealistic’ to think we’ll be able to celebrate normally with families during spring holiday season



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Scott Peterson among death row prisoners who got Covid unemployment benefit from California



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Rights experts: Japan's handling of Carlos Ghosn was wrong



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A woman who lives in an RV with her family full-time says being Black in the tiny home community can be isolating



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Georgia taxpayers will fund another full recount at Trump's request



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Georgia election official: We've 'crossed a tipping point' where many Republicans' distrust of system will suppress vote



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Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong taken into custody after guilty plea



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Afghanistan war: 26,000 Afghan children killed or maimed since 2005



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75% of every donation to Trump's 'election defense fund' could be spent by the president himself on things like paying family members or financing a 2024 bid



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J Paul Getty's grandson found dead in Texas hotel room



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After senate run, Harrison launching PAC to boost Democrats



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Marco Rubio blasts Biden White House picks for Ivy League degrees — despite Trump administration's similar credentials



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Trump pardons turkey at White House ceremony



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In a capital’s Afro-Brazilian architecture, traces of a complex story



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Trump campaign legal team distances itself from Powell



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Michigan girl, 14, who was detained by police dies of coronavirus



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Joe Biden given access to intelligence briefings as Donald Trump prepares for life in Mar-a-Lago



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CDC to shorten quarantine for those exposed to Covid-19



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Biden has reportedly chosen his U.N. ambassador, national security adviser



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Pakistan opposition seeks end to Imran Khan's 'puppet' rule



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Monday, November 23, 2020

Netanyahu rival launches probe, testing partnership



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Coronavirus threatens endangered gorillas, chimps, and orangutans



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Pakistan says soldier, 4 militants killed in border shootout



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The Trump campaign requested a recount in Georgia one day after the state's election results were certified and showed Biden won by more than 12,000 votes



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Republican senator urges Trump to accept defeat and condemns ‘unprecedented’ attempt to overturn election result



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Pa. Lt. Gov. Fetterman says GOP 'put a Grubhub order in for chaos' after the election



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Melania welcomes White House tree after being caught on tape saying ‘who gives a f***’ about Christmas



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Why a watchdog group is troubled by Biden's secretary of state pick



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Republican official: Trump efforts to undermine Georgia results could 'suppress the vote' in U.S. Senate runoff elections



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Election mail: We sent 193 shipments, and here's what we learned



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This Gun Coffee Brand Was MAGA Royalty. Then It Turned on Kyle Rittenhouse.



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Reports: Israeli PM flew to Saudi Arabia, met crown prince



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Rush Limbaugh: Trump’s Legal Team ‘Promised Blockbuster Stuff and Then Nothing Happened’



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Pennsylvania Republicans File Emergency Lawsuit to Block Certification of Election Results



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Fauci says it’s ‘unrealistic’ to think we’ll be able to celebrate normally with families during spring holiday season



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Climate change: Covid pandemic has little impact on rise in CO2



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Man in Trump-shaped flotation device charged with assault after breathing on protesters



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Biden names 2 White House staffers to help negotiate legislation with Congress



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Arnab Goswami: India's most loved and loathed TV anchor



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Thousands march in Taiwan against US pork imports



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White House still planning holiday parties, despite warnings



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Helicopter pilot finds 'strange' monolith in remote part of Utah



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California's Covid curfew to begin, as US cases hit 12-million mark



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Sunday, November 22, 2020

Wisconsin police arrest 15-year-old boy for Mayfair Mall shooting, say 'bullets started flying' during altercation



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Iran closes businesses, curtails travel amid virus surge



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Republicans launch Pennsylvania lawsuit that argues GOP-backed bill allowing universal mail voting is unconstitutional



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Greta Thunberg spoke zero words to anyone outside her family for 3 years before becoming the face of the youth climate movement, a new film reveals



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On Jan. 20, Trump will lose a major perk. Here's what legal challenges await him.



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Virus News: G-20 leaders vow to make vaccines available



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A bipartisan group of Georgia teens is trying to flip the Senate by enlisting thousands of students to vote in the January runoffs



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US Rep. Mike Garcia claims win in swing district north of LA



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Pompeo touts Iran policy in Gulf ahead of Biden presidency



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Iowa congressman notorious for racist remarks asks Kamala Harris if she was descended from slave owners



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Israel strikes Hamas sites in Gaza Strip after rocket attack



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Teenager arrested in Wisconsin mall shooting that injured eight



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Confrontation at German coronavirus protest goes viral



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Catholic leaders likely to take oppositional stance against Biden's views on abortion



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Michigan legislators wooed by Trump in White House see no reason not to certify results



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Trump legal team disavows association with lawyer Sidney Powell



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Azerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists



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Election mail: We sent 193 shipments, and here's what we learned



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President-elect: Inheriting an economy in disrepair



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ISIS claims attack in Kabul that killed at least 8



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Russia's health system under strain as the virus surges back



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News Analysis: Biden preps to be president as Trump fights for the job he is ignoring



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The Desperate Final Gasps of Team Trump’s Flailing ‘Mini-Coup’



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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Florida teacher, coach found with more than 400 files of child pornography, deputies say



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'Bring it on, I'm not backing down': Arizona top election official Katie Hobbs holds fast against attempts to undermine the state's election



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Azerbaijani leader hails handover of region ceded by Armenia



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California enacts nighttime curfew as COVID-19 cases spike



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A focal point for Biden’s democracy summit



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Sanders, Warren under scrutiny as Biden weighs Cabinet picks



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9 arrested at Fairfield City Council meeting



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Kabul attack: Several killed as rockets hit residential areas



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Week offers snapshot of how Trump, Biden approach presidency



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Rudy Giuliani suggested someone 'cut the head off' Democratic leaders in Fox News interview



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Judge rejects Derek Chauvin divorce filing due to possible fraud



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What's with all the election audits?



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US executes federal inmate for 1994 murder



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Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results



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Justices put off case over access to Russia probe grand jury



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Netanyahu: Convicted spy Pollard expected in Israel soon



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Biden wants Congress to pass virus aid in lame-duck session



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Desperate Rudy’s Latest Pennsylvania Gambit Is Wilder Than His Sweaty Press Conference



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Court: Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban



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Turkish, Saudi leaders speak by phone ahead of G20 summit



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Lindsey Graham continues to weigh in on Georgia election after being accused of interference



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Florida man saves his dog from the jaws of an alligator; wildlife cam films the dramatic rescue



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Trump's defeat by Joe Biden has triggered a huge wave of relief among the United States' European allies



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Friday, November 20, 2020

Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results



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Catholic leaders likely to take oppositional stance against Biden's views on abortion



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Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so



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CNN Reporter Fires Back at Kayleigh’s ‘Activists’ Snipe: You’re ‘Not Doing Your Job!’



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Tiger King star Jeff Lowe sued over 'inhumane treatment' of animals



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Pakistan's PM Khan in 'historic' first visit to Afghanistan



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TITLE: Trump: Pfizer and other drug companies delayed vaccine information deliberately



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Trump lawyers mix up Michigan and Minnesota in latest court filing fail



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Illinois Sen. Duckworth says 'silence is deafening' from Republicans on Trump's election maneuvers



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Rudy Giuliani suggested someone 'cut the head off' Democrat leaders in Fox News interview



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Stacey Abrams drops into historic Verzuz rap battle to encourage Georgians to vote in critical Senate runoff races: 'Let's get it done'



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N.Y. Attorney General subpoenas Trump Organization for Ivanka records



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Explosion at gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai causes fire



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Pence gives hopeful outlook on pandemic, but takes no questions



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Why Isn’t Bernie Backing Jon Ossoff in Georgia?



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Pike River: The 29 coal miners who never came home



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Will Trump and Fox News turn from allies to enemies?



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Serbian Church leader dies after contracting COVID-19



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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin wants to redirect $580 billion of unspent stimulus money to prop up small businesses and extend unemployment benefits



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CDC Reveals Wild Spread of COVID-19 Cases From Sturgis Rally



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Fox News' Tucker Carlson is reluctantly skeptical of the vote-switching conspiracy from Trump's lawyers



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How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing Coronavirus Media Sensation



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'The cub was lethargic, depressed, and thin': Justice Department files complaint against 'Tiger King' star Jeffrey Lowe alleging violations of the Endangered Species Act and the Animal Welfare Act



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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Kenya arrests four more after BBC Africa Eye baby stealers exposé



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Biden says he will not pursue a national lockdown as part of his COVID-19 response: 'I am not going to shut down the economy, period'



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Georgia recount confirms Joe Biden's victory in blow to Donald Trump



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AOC shoots down Nikki Haley in fiesty Covid relief exchange: ‘I know you’re confused about actual governance’



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Why Michigan’s Top Legislators Should Cancel that Meeting with Trump



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Megyn Kelly says she removed her sons from their New York City school that has 'gone off the deep end' after it circulated a letter about racism



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Cuomo warns law enforcement they have to implement his Thanksgiving Covid restrictions



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Trump summons Michigan GOP leaders for extraordinary meeting



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The Supreme Court is running the clock on Trump's election lawsuits, experts say



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Michigan deputy fired after sharing racist photo of Kamala Harris watermelon Jack-O’-Lantern



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McConnell warns Republican senators to stay healthy or risk their lame-duck agenda



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Official in charge of signing off on Biden's win is reportedly 'afraid on multiple levels'



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Lara Trump is reportedly considering running for Senate in North Carolina



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Michigan businessman’s shaming of Republicans who blocked vote certification goes viral



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Stephen Moore: It’s ‘Depressing’ Biden Won, Time for Trump To Focus on Final Months in Office



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Michigan militia planned 'weeklong series of televised executions' as part of kidnapping plot, prosecutors say



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Mexico says it wants its ex-officials tried in Mexico



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Republicans on board of key Michigan county revoke decision to certify election results



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Cuomo warns law enforcement they have to implement his Thanksgiving Covid restrictions



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Iraqi FM condemns Baghdad rocket attack as 'terrorist act'



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‘She has to finally come to a decision’: GSA chief Emily Murphy faces blowback as nation awaits vote certification



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A woman woke up from a COVID-19 coma to learn she gave birth to twins 16 days earlier



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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo snapped at reporters at a tense coronavirus press briefing where he learned that NYC schools were closing amid a spike in new infections



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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer call on Republicans to restart negotiations on another stimulus package



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Rights group condemns Iraq for execution of IS-linked men



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Taiwan refuses to renew pro-China news channel's license



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Trump campaign will pay $3 million for a seemingly hopeless recount in 2 Wisconsin counties



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Unapologetically progressive, Rep. Rashida Tlaib is ready for her sophomore term



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Official in charge of signing off on Biden's win is reportedly 'afraid on multiple levels'



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Autism Canada takes issue Toronto van attack suspect defense



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Prosecutors want 2017 arrest of teen in Floyd death trial



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Thai royalists defend king amid protests: ‘We will not abandon him’



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CA family accused of acting 'Black' in 'white neighborhood'



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Israel strikes Syria, killing 3 troops, after finding bombs



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Cuomo warns law enforcement they have to implement his Thanksgiving Covid restrictions



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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows says he 'can't guarantee' the federal government will avoid a shutdown next month



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Most counties in Georgia finishing audit, counts are 'very close': Raffensperger



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Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade says it's time for Trump to start 'coordinating' with 'the Biden team'



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Tiny owl rescued from New York Rockefeller Center Christmas tree



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A woman believed to be a QAnon follower was charged with killing a legal theorist trying to help her regain custody of her daughters



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The Trumps are refusing to turn over the keys to the Bidens — and Michelle and Barack Obama have had enough



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Iraq, Saudi Arabia reopen key border crossing after decades



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1st Georgia Senate runoff poll shows both races essentially tied



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Lacking an Alternative, House Dems Tap Pelosi to Stand for Speaker



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Trump's last-minute foreign policy dumps are reportedly an attempt to overwhelm Biden and drown his agenda



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'Compromised position': Dr. Anthony Fauci on why he thinks he hasn't heard from Joe Biden's team



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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Mike Pompeo appears to acknowledge transition, saying it will honour US ‘obligations’



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A scientist who helped make the Pfizer vaccine predicted life being back to normal within a year if enough people take it



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Rudy Giuliani appears in federal court for first time in 28 years to push Trump campaign's voter fraud claims



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Georgia Republicans privately wonder if anti-Trump suburbanites will help them in the Senate runoffs



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Trump administration official blocking Biden transition is reportedly looking for a new job herself



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Women crucial to Biden's win, even as gender gap held steady



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These states require travelers to self-quarantine or present a negative COVID-19 test



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Thai royalists defend king amid protests: ‘We will not abandon him’



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Bill Gates says several more COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners will likely be highly effective, boosting worldwide access to a shot



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Pennsylvania Supreme Court reverses rare Trump legal victory



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Biden and Harris met with the CEOs of Microsoft, Gap, General Motors, and Target to discuss the COVID-19 economic recovery. 'I'm a union guy,' Biden said.



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Second Georgia county finds previously uncounted votes



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No to a Loan-Debt-Forgiveness/COVID-Relief Compromise



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British diplomat praised for saving drowning woman in China



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Trump's new Pennsylvania lawyer is a conservative radio host who's said Biden won



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Chuck Grassley, Senate's oldest Republican and third in line to president, tests positive for coronavirus



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Iowa Guv Finally Orders Mask-Wearing, Then Bungles Message



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Trump's lawyer puts Philadelphia mobster 'Skinny Joey' Merlino at center of election conspiracy



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‘This is false’: Arizona secretary of state denies Lindsey Graham spoke to her as voter fraud row intensifies



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Historic deal revives plan for largest US dam demolition



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Georgia recount is returning almost no changes in vote tallies that give Biden win



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US jeweller ‘was paid £200m by UK to secure PPE’



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Joe Biden names 9 top White House appointees, including Rep. Cedric Richmond and campaign manager O'Malley Dillon



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Monday, November 16, 2020

Perdue backs out of debate after being called a “crook," Ossoff will face off against empty podium



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Trans man who does not want to be listed as child's 'mother' fails in Supreme Court bid



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Racist MAGA sign saying ‘coming for blacks, Indians’ leaves Fox News broadcaster in shock



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A nurse in a strained El Paso hospital says the sickest COVID-19 patients are put in a doctor-less room called 'the pit' where they are given 3 chances to be revived before workers let them die



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South Dakota ER nurse recalls how dying coronavirus patients spend last minutes insisting virus isn't real



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New York boy, 14, steals his dad’s car to run away with his 11-year-old girlfriend



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People infected with COVID-19 at Thanksgiving could enter 'the morgue around Christmas'



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Madeleine McCann suspect taken to hospital with broken ribs after incident in holding cell



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Former FDA commissioner says COVID-19 pandemic could be 'effectively' ended in 2021



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Special operations snipers are about to get this 'awesome' new rifle of choice for US military sharpshooters



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Counterprotesters attack Trump supporters at MAGA march



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Trump's 2020 chances '100 percent dead' after 4 swing state lawsuits are dropped



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These states require travelers to self-quarantine or present a negative COVID-19 test



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Hurricane Iota is now an 'exceptionally dangerous' Category 5 storm. It's the 30th — and strongest — named storm this year.



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France's Macron hosts Trump envoy after congratulating Biden



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Fauci: Moderna's 'outstanding' vaccine results are 'as good as it gets'



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‘Where are you going to find the votes?’: Trump adviser clashes with Fox News host in fiery exchange



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Lock him up! If Trump refuses to leave the scene after his defeat, there's an obvious solution



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A scientist who helped make the Pfizer vaccine predicted life being back to normal within a year if enough people take it



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Giuliani: Trump is contesting the election 'vigorously' in the courts



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Who will sell Iran weapons now that the arms embargo is dead?



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EXPLAINER: Why poll watcher complaints don't amount to fraud



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A major Amazon Air contractor says it won't return a $400 million bailout despite requests from Congress and booming business



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Sunday, November 15, 2020

Joe Biden administration: president-elect assembles a diverse cabinet

Joe Biden administration: president-elect assembles a diverse cabinetSusan Rice is being considered for secretary of state and Michele Flournoy is reportedly top choice for defence secretaryJoe Biden is piecing together what he has promised to be a diverse cabinet, with Michele Flournoy reportedly top choice for US defence secretary and Susan Rice considered a frontrunner for secretary of state.Flournoy was previously a senior defense adviser in Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s administrations and is considered a political moderate. Since leaving government she has been involved in various consultancy roles around military contracts.The appointment, if confirmed by the US Senate, would end a tumultuous period under Donald Trump, who has had five male defense secretaries during his presidency. The latest, Mark Esper, was unceremoniously fired on Monday for, among other issues, disagreeing with the president over the use of force against civilian protesters.If she did become America’s first female defense secretary, Flournoy would potentially be faced with the task of deploying the military to distribute a Covid-19 vaccine. It’s likely she would seek to rebuild the US’s international reputation, telling a conference in March that “it’s going to take a lot of work over a number of years to recover that trust and that standing”.Biden, who has vowed “to be a president for all Americans”, will face a challenge getting his cabinet picks past a Republican-held Senate if, as expected, the party retains control of the chamber following two special elections in Georgia in January. If he does offer up political moderates and even Republicans for roles, he risks stirring anger among the progressive Democratic wing.Rice, who served as national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration, is seen as a safe pick for the state department, although some Republicans may object to her over what they consider misleading statements over the 2012 attack on a US consulate in Libya which killed four Americans.Questioned while on a bicycle ride on Saturday, Biden confirmed that he was getting closer to picking a cabinet that will face steep challenges once the president-elect enters the White House on 20 January.A largely uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 is tearing across the country, with a record number of daily cases recorded on Friday. A Biden administration will have to somehow tame the pandemic while crafting a response to the economic fallout that has cost millions of jobs, probably in the face of Republican opposition in the Senate.Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who became an effective campaigner for Biden after he dropped his own presidential ambitions, could be in line for a job, perhaps as ambassador to the United Nations.Lael Brainard, a governor at the Federal Reserve and another political moderate, is favorite to be named as treasury secretary, while Doug Jones, recently defeated as Senator from Alabama, or Sally Yates, acting attorney general under Trump before being fired, could be put forward as attorney general.




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America’s largest militia says it will refuse to recognise Biden as president and ‘resist’ his administration

America’s largest militia says it will refuse to recognise Biden as president and ‘resist’ his administration‘Anything he signs into law we won’t recognise as legitimate,’ Oath Keepers founder says




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The Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for Covid-19 as governor finally mandates masks

The Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for Covid-19 as governor finally mandates masksThe states had largely dodged big outbreaks during the spring and summer




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How the Armenian Genocide’s Legacy Explains a Conflict on Pause

How the Armenian Genocide’s Legacy Explains a Conflict on PauseFor Armenians around the world, the recent one-sided peace deal to end the conflict involving the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh must be seen through the lens of history. And that history is stitched together by widespread persecution and mass suffering over hundreds of years. It is a history that includes the first genocide of the 20th century, when more than 1.5 million Armenians were systematically exterminated by the Ottoman Turks, an event Turkey still denies to this day. Framing today’s conflict over land gravely misses the point.Armenians see these latest acts of aggression by Turkey vis-à-vis Azerbaijan as a continuation of genocide and a threat to their very existence. In some ways, history is repeating itself. Regardless, these events further underscore why recognition of the Armenian genocide and the war over Nagorno-Karabakh are not mutually exclusive.To fully understand why this decades-old conflict suddenly reignited, one must examine the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During his rule, Erdogan has sought to increase Turkey’s regional influence and on many occasions has glowingly talked about resurrecting the Ottoman Empire, all while styling himself as a modern-day sultan.During the Trump administration, Erdogan has tried to stretch that influence from the Aegean Sea to the South Caucasus. It is one of the reasons that Turkey has been a staunch supporter of Azerbaijan in the latter nation’s efforts to retake Nagorno-Karabakh. With the two nations bound by strong cultural, ethnic, and historic ties, Turkey has vowed to help Azerbaijan on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. However, Erdogan’s belligerent and hostile behavior has only reminded Armenians of their terrible past.Since the conflict erupted last month, Turkey has armed and sent Syrian mercenaries, including Islamic terrorists, into the region to help Azerbaijan fight Armenians where there have been confirmed reports of war crimes and atrocities. We’ve seen this before. A hundred years ago, Ottoman Turks enlisted the help of Kurds, who participated in massacres of Armenians and played a vital role in the Armenian genocide. It is as if Erdogan has turned to the Ottoman Empire’s playbook.There’s no denying Turkey’s role in fueling the fire in Nagorno-Karabakh through its reckless actions and rhetoric. But Ankara’s ongoing campaign to deny the Armenian genocide has also helped it there. Denial has helped establish a level of insouciance from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Israel, thereby allowing Turkey to continue to act with impunity. Thus it can, for example, provide Azerbaijan with drones that are indiscriminately killing innocent civilians and destroying cultural centers and churches that have stood since long before Azerbaijan became a country.For far too long, the West has turned a blind eye to Turkey’s egregious behavior. There is a reason that more journalists sit in Turkish prisons than anywhere else in the world, and that Ankara regularly tops the annual lists of human-rights violations. Turkey’s considerable success in refusing to acknowledge its historical role in the Armenian genocide makes Ankara today believe that it can do what it wants without consequences. It is why Erdogan felt compelled to challenge the United States to impose sanctions on his country for its involvement over Nagorno-Karabakh and launched a personal attack on French president Emmanuel Macron.These recent actions by Erdogan did not happen overnight. Ankara has been trying to shape U.S. foreign policy for years concerning Turkey and the Armenian genocide. As part of an effort to sow doubt about the veracity of the Armenian genocide, Turkey has embarked on a years-long campaign to block any U.S. legislation that formally acknowledges it. For the most part, Turkey has successfully used the cover of NATO and realpolitik to convince lawmakers that recognizing the Armenian genocide is not in the political interests of the United States. When Congress finally passed a nonbinding resolution last year that formally affirmed recognition, Ankara officially responded by calling the bill political theater. There were even multiple reports that President Trump tried to thwart the resolution on the Senate floor to appease Erdogan.It should not surprise us, then, when we see Turkey’s wanton disrespect for the rule of law and aggressive behavior in its actions in Nagorno-Karabakh. In many ways, we have allowed it to happen, and have even encouraged it. We have only ourselves to blame.It is often said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is also often said that denial is the last stage of genocide. That is why recognition of the Armenian genocide goes hand in hand with a real resolution of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenians know all too well what happens when this type of aggression goes unchecked. Until Turkey comes to terms with its past, we can expect Ankara to continue its quixotic quest to revive the Ottoman Empire.




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Donald Trump's shameful endgame puts national security at risk: Rep. Adam Schiff

Donald Trump's shameful endgame puts national security at risk: Rep. Adam SchiffTrump is preventing a seamless handoff during a deadly pandemic and damaging the country’s readiness if Biden faces an early foreign policy crisis.




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Murder and mayhem: How South African farming became a 'full-scale war'

Murder and mayhem: How South African farming became a 'full-scale war'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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Iran mocks Al-Qaeda No. 2 killed in Tehran report

Iran mocks Al-Qaeda No. 2 killed in Tehran reportIran on Saturday dismissed a US newspaper report that Al-Qaeda's second-in-command was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents as "made-up information" and denied the presence of any of the Sunni jihadist group's members in the Islamic republic.




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Black Lives Matter Is Challenging Sweden’s Myth of a Post-Racial Paradise

Black Lives Matter Is Challenging Sweden’s Myth of a Post-Racial ParadiseIt’s been four months since anti-racism protests filled Europe’s boulevards and parks, toppling statues of enslavers and colonizers like Edward Colston and Belgium’s King Leopold II, and prompting larger conversations around anti-Blackness on the continent. But even as the swells of crowds with raised fists have left the streets, the cause of the protests remains. Black lives still hang in the balance, and now activists are moving from marches to ideological battles in classrooms, boardrooms, and online spaces.In Ireland, that means shifting focus onto the need to dismantle Direct Provision. France has been grappling with not only police brutality towards Black and Muslim people but attitudes toward minorities from France's former colonies in Africa and ideas on colonialism in general, including questions of returning stolen artifacts to former colonies. And in Sweden— which has traditionally seen itself as a post-racial paradise—the first step is getting the country to admit to its own racist structures, past and present.Since protests spread across Sweden in early June, ugly truths about its racialized history have been seeping into public spaces. Despite the country being considered one of the least racist in the world, police biases and Afrophobia are rife, and Sweden’s past involvement with the cross-Atlantic slave trade and racist pseudo-science is ignored or erased.Protests in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö this summer were met with police backlash for breaking the COVID-19 limit of 50 people to a public gathering. More than 2,000 people took part in the Gothenburg protest, raising their voices against the deep-rooted racism that underpins much of Swedish society. Nontokozo Tshabalala and Aron Zahran, activists and mobilizers from the BLM protest in Gothenburg, say the first step is to get Swedish society to acknowledge that there is a racism problem in the country, which they say the white population loves to ignore.“They pretend that the issue isn’t there. Sweden only ended slavery after pressure from the U.K. and international players, and even then King Gustav III said that no Swede has ever had any part in the slave trade, which is a blatant lie and feeds Swedish denialism,” says Zahran.Sweden, long considered a socialist utopia and a bastion of human rights by the global left, is not post-racial—nor does it have a compassionate police force. Historically, the country participated in the processes that have come to define racist systems all over the world: Sweden’s Caribbean colony of Saint Barthélemy (now the French overseas territory of St. Barth) was active with slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. Scandinavian involvement in the slave trade is often overlooked but Sweden was one of the last countries in Europe to abolish slavery, a full 14 years after the U.K. The country’s colonization of the Caribbean island is still taught in its schools as a practice in benevolent leadership.The country was also a cradle for the pseudoscience of race biology, with Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus being the first scientist to divide people into biologically-defined races—definitions that were meant to justify the discrimination of people of color around the world for centuries. Scientific racism played a large role in the definitions cited by South Africa’s former government to set up the system of apartheid, which has since been deemed a crime against humanity. Linnaeus, known in Sweden as the father of taxonomy, is celebrated all over the country but there have been calls to remove his statues, calling him the father of racial division. However, many Swedes see this as an affront to the country’s heritage and protected the statue in Stockholm from possible vandalism earlier this year.The Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala continued to take a leading role in research dealing with racial eugenics well into the 1930s and facilitated the implementation of forced sterilization laws, which pertained to certain groups of people with “unwanted” genes, such as people of mixed race, the Swedish Romani population, and the indigenous Sámi people. The aim was to prevent “ethnically inferior inhabitants” from having children. This research paved the way for the Nazi party’s 1933 Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases, eradicating those seen as lacking “racial hygiene.” These laws were only completely abolished in the 1970s, despite the practice of sterilization being universally declared criminal and barbaric after the 1946 Nuremberg Trials.Even so, modern-day Sweden likes to brush over these issues of the past, in a poignant example of the problem of nationalism in Europe today: racism is not deemed a mainstream problem. It is instead seen as an expression of extremism, where there are only good people or Nazis. The right-wing Swedish Democrat party, which was founded by a Nazi sympathizer and which now holds 13 percent of the country’s parliament, is treated as a national anomaly rather than a growing threat. Scandanavia’s neo-Nazi party, the Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordfront), is still painted as a national joke, even after 2019 attacks on Jewish cemeteries across Scandinavia on the 81st anniversary of ​Kristallnacht.Activists Zahran and Tshabalala say the largest hurdle for BLM in Sweden right now is educating white Swedes on their own history. This is the country where former prime minister Olof Palme said in 1965: “Democracy is firmly rooted in this country. We respect the fundamental freedoms and rights. Murky racial theories have never found a foothold here. We like to see ourselves as open-minded and tolerant.” It’s a popular sentiment, one that pretends racist ideology was never coddled in the heart of Swedish society in the arms of Linneaus and his ilk.Despite Sweden’s self-professed tolerance, there still seems to be a pattern of discrimination and exclusion in Swedish society, as well as Europe more broadly: the “us” vs. the foreign “them.” While national minorities such as the Sámi, Roma, and Jewish people have a long history of being excluded from the Swedish nation, people of color are most evidently discriminated against in every major arena of society, such as the housing and job markets. “If your name is not Swedish, you are less likely to get an interview,” says Zahran. “Black Swedes are paid less, need a higher level of education to enter certain positions, and are less likely to be accepted into Swedish society.” Tshabalala adds that while all of this is true, Swedes maintain a self-righteous attitude that the country doesn’t see color. Nevertheless, urban areas are spatially segregated along racial lines, with people of color concentrated to low-income housing projects. Many of these areas are considered “problem areas” by the police, and the media (and public) quickly latched onto the term “no-go zone,” implying that those areas are lawless, with little attempt made to cover up the reason why they’re known as such.Amid Spreading George Floyd Protests in Europe, a Question: Do Black Lives Matter Less in France? Although few modern Swedes are descendants of enslaved people, over one-quarter of all Swedish citizens have heritage from outside Scandinavia, including approximately 350,000 Afro-Swedes, most of whom arrived in the past 50 years. “If you are a first-generation Swede, with your parents having been born elsewhere, it’s the same as having Finnish or Norwegian parents—but they are seen as citizens, whereas Black Swedes are always, no matter whether we are born here, seen as foreign,” says Zahran. For Black Swedes, structural racism is apparent from racially-motivated hate crimes, police and security profiling, to discrimination in everyday society. “Oftentimes,” Zahran says, “security forces quietly belong to growing neo-Nazi groups.” The fact that the Danish neo-Nazi politician Rasmus Paludan’s followers felt comfortable enough to enter the country to burn copies of the Qu’ran near one of the city’s mosques in August shows the complacency toward racism in Sweden. “This is what we are dealing with,” says Tshabalala.Both Tshabalala and Zahran point out that racism extends to the Swedish criminal justice system. “Whiteness is so embedded in Swedish culture and even the human rights realm, that it’s seen as okay when a Black woman’s rape case is thrown out of court because there was lack of evidence,” says Tshabalala, citing the attitudes towards immigration and sexual violence, a correlation often used by the right-wing Swedish Democrats in the argument against immigration and giving asylum to refugees. There have also been many cases of violence with racist overtones, such as Stockholm security guards abusing a 12-year-old boy of Somali descent in the Kista Galleria shopping center and a pregnant Afro-Swedish woman at Hötorget’s underground station.The left in the U.S., such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, often speak of the “Nordic model” as an example of democratic socialism, but the reality is that the model is slowly moving closer to that of America, especially in its income inequality, which has increased faster than any other country in the world. Increasingly neo-liberal policies have affected working-class Swedes and they have disproportionately impacted racial minorities in larger cities like Stockholm and Malmö, where it is now common to see primarily Black neighborhoods emerging that are low-income and underdeveloped, much like in the U.S.Swedish police may not carry guns, but that doesn’t stop police brutality, and Tshabalala says the target demographic in racial profiling is Black Swedes. In a recent report by criminologist Leandro Schclarek Mulinari, minorities tell of how they are harassed by police and security guards with violent and intimidating methods, all based on their appearance. Mulinari also details over-policing in Black areas, with police disproportionately targeting Black and minority Swedes through “selective policing,” despite higher self-reported drug usage in majority-white neighborhoods. “Yet Swedish people brush these facts aside like it’s not a problem,” says Zahran. “The first goal is to educate and get people to admit this thing exists.”The BLM movement in Sweden is not just asking to reform the police, but also for a redistribution of resources, to invest in communities overlooked by white politicians and a society run by and for white people. Eradicating ignorance is the only way to get there. “Advertising and creative industries need to change perceptions about Black people. We need Black faces, Black voices, and Black representation,” says Tshabalala. “And we need to keep BLM on the agenda. We can’t wait for the next person to become a statistic. We don’t want someone to die to have to move the fight forward.”Zahran says the fact that Sweden has an equality minister who is getting involved with the movement is a positive step forward, but there’s still such a long way to go. While corporations are falling over themselves to be “BLM friendly,” the movement is still busy with the groundwork in education and awareness. “We need to target industry and the consumer culture because Sweden is so consumer-driven. Whiteness in these spaces keeps the status quo,” says Tshabalala. “We also need to get more representation in NGO and human rights spaces, because we can’t have white people heading up foundations aimed at Black empowerment.”Still, BLM has not lost momentum in Sweden, according to the activists. They both agree that the key is to keep that energy going and not get distracted from the goal even though the protests are over. Where BLM Sweden is at right now is trying to change public perceptions of Black people and empower others to do the same. “BLM gave Black people and allies the impetus to effect change,” says Zahran, “and that’s where we are: pushing forward, taking each issue step by step.”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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Appeals court rules against El Paso's shutdown order amid Covid surge

Appeals court rules against El Paso's shutdown order amid Covid surgeThere can only be "one captain of the ship," judge says in ruling in favor of the state.




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Cuomo threatens Trump with legal action over vaccine distribution plan

Cuomo threatens Trump with legal action over vaccine distribution planNEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeated his threat to sue the Trump administration as he invoked Martin Luther King, Jr. during Sunday remarks about the COVID outbreak at historic Riverside Church in Manhattan. "The Rev. Dr. King, who spoke in this magnificent church, said of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane because it often results in ...




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Ex-Obama official suggests Biden should pack as much as he can into executive orders

Ex-Obama official suggests Biden should pack as much as he can into executive ordersFormer President Barack Obama's chiefs of staff want President-elect Joe Biden to embrace his executive authority once he's in office, NPR reports.Denis McDonough who served in the role during Obama's second term told NPR that President Trump "has demonstrated ... an enormous amount of leeway for the president to institute executive action on things like immigration and energy and climate policy" and "there's no reason" the president-elect "should not use the authority that's available to him."Meanwhile, Obama's first chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, argued Biden, despite his fondness for working across the aisle in Congress, should fit as much of his agenda as he can into his executive orders because "the fewer things you have to clog up the legislative pipeline with allows you to concentrate your political capital in that legislative front."Should Biden heed this advice, which seems likely at least when it comes to certain issues, it would dash the already tenuous hopes of those who want the president-elect to initiate a scaling back of the office. Read more at NPR.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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Covid: Dr Fauci urges Americans to keep the faith but warns 200,000 more could die in next four months alone

Covid: Dr Fauci urges Americans to keep the faith but warns 200,000 more could die in next four months aloneOn Friday, the US experienced a record 177,000 new daily cases, the fourth straight day it set an all-time record




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SpaceX, NASA set for first operational astronaut mission to space

SpaceX, NASA set for first operational astronaut mission to spaceSpaceX's newly designed Crew Dragon capsule, which the crew has dubbed Resilience, was set for liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:27 p.m. Eastern time (0027 GMT on Monday) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mission personnel left the launchpad, and the crew access arm - the walkway between the launch tower and rocket - retracted, setting the stage for the spacecraft's launch escape system to be armed and mission teams to start loading the Falcon 9 rocket with fuel. An air leak caused an unexpected drop in capsule pressure less than two hours before launch, NASA officials said.




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Navajo Nation orders new three-week stay-at-home lockdown



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An interactive tool will let you calculate the chance that someone at your Thanksgiving dinner may have COVID-19

An interactive tool will let you calculate the chance that someone at your Thanksgiving dinner may have COVID-19Your chance of encountering someone sick varies based on your location in the US and the size of a gathering. This tool calculates that risk.




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Al-Qaida's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran

Al-Qaida's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in IranWASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida's second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed.Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down on the streets of Tehran by two assassins on a motorcycle on Aug. 7, the anniversary of the embassy attacks. He was killed along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden.The attack was carried out by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States, according to four of the officials. It is unclear what role if any was played by the United States, which had been tracking the movements of al-Masri and other Qaida operatives in Iran for years.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York TimesThe killing occurred in such a netherworld of geopolitical intrigue and counterterrorism spycraft that al-Masri's death had been rumored but never confirmed until now. For reasons that are still obscure, al-Qaida has not announced the death of one of its top leaders, Iranian officials covered it up, and no country has publicly claimed responsibility for it.Al-Masri, who was about 58, was one of al-Qaida's founding leaders and was thought to be first in line to lead the organization after its current leader, Ayman al-Zawahri.Long featured on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, he had been indicted in the United States for crimes related to the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people and wounded hundreds. The FBI offered a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture, and as of Friday, his picture was still on the Most Wanted list.That he had been living in Iran was surprising, given that Iran and al-Qaida are bitter enemies. Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, and al-Qaida, a Sunni Muslim jihadi group, have fought each other on the battlefields of Iraq and other places.American intelligence officials say that al-Masri had been in Iran's "custody" since 2003, but that he had been living freely in the Pasdaran district of Tehran, an upscale suburb, since at least 2015.Around 9 on a warm summer night, he was driving his white Renault L90 sedan with his daughter near his home when two gunmen on a motorcycle drew up beside him. Five shots were fired from a pistol fitted with a silencer. Four bullets entered the car through the driver's side and a fifth hit a nearby car.As news of the shooting broke, Iran's official news media identified the victims as Habib Daoud, a Lebanese history professor, and his 27-year-old daughter Maryam. The Lebanese news channel MTV and social media accounts affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported that Daoud was a member of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant organization in Lebanon.It seemed plausible.The killing came amid a summer of frequent explosions in Iran, mounting tensions with the United States, days after an enormous explosion in the port of Beirut and a week before the U.N. Security Council was to consider extending an arms embargo against Iran. There was speculation that the killing may have been a Western provocation intended to elicit a violent Iranian reaction in advance of the Security Council vote.And the targeted killing by two gunmen on a motorcycle fit the modus operandi of previous Israeli assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. That Israel would kill an official of Hezbollah, which is committed to fighting Israel, also seemed to make sense, except for the fact that Israel had been consciously avoiding killing Hezbollah operatives so as not to provoke a war.In fact, there was no Habib Daoud.Several Lebanese with close ties to Iran said they had not heard of him or his killing. A search of Lebanese news media found no reports of a Lebanese history professor killed in Iran last summer. And an education researcher with access to lists of all history professors in the country said there was no record of a Habib Daoud.One of the intelligence officials said that Habib Daoud was an alias Iranian officials gave al-Masri and the history teaching job was a cover story. In October, the former leader of Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Nabil Naeem, who called al-Masri a longtime friend, told the Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya the same thing.Iran may have had good reason for wanting to hide the fact that it was harboring an avowed enemy, but it was less clear why Iranian officials would have taken in the Qaida leader to begin with.Some terrorism experts suggested that keeping Qaida officials in Tehran might provide some insurance that the group would not conduct operations inside Iran. American counterterrorism officials believe Iran may have allowed them to stay to run operations against the United States, a common adversary.It would not be the first time that Iran had joined forces with Sunni militants, having supported Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Taliban."Iran uses sectarianism as a cudgel when it suits the regime, but is also willing to overlook the Sunni-Shia divide when it suits Iranian interests," said Colin P. Clarke, a counterterrorism analyst at the Soufan Center.Iran has consistently denied housing the Qaida officials. In 2018, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said that because of Iran's long, porous border with Afghanistan, some Qaida members had entered Iran, but they had been detained and returned to their home countries.However, Western intelligence officials said the Qaida leaders had been kept under house arrest by the Iranian government, which then made at least two deals with al-Qaida to free some of them in 2011 and 2015.Although al-Qaida has been overshadowed in recent years by the rise of the Islamic State, it remains resilient and has active affiliates around the globe, a U.N. counterterrorism report issued in July concluded.Iranian officials did not respond to a request for comment for this article. Spokesmen for the Israeli prime minister's office and the Trump administration's National Security Council declined to comment.Al-Masri was a longtime member of al-Qaida's highly secretive management council, along with Saif al-Adl, who was also held in Iran at one point. The pair, along with Hamza bin Laden, who was being groomed to take over the organization, were part of a group of senior Qaida leaders who sought refuge in Iran after the 9/11 attacks on the United States forced them to flee Afghanistan.According to a highly classified document produced by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center in 2008, al-Masri was the "most experienced and capable operational planner not in U.S. or allied custody." The document described him as the "former chief of training" who "worked closely" with al-Adl.In Iran, al-Masri mentored Hamza bin Laden, according to terrorism experts. Hamza bin Laden later married al-Masri's daughter, Miriam."The marriage of Hamza bin Ladin was not the only dynastic connection Abu Muhammad forged in captivity," Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent and Qaida expert, wrote in a 2019 article for West Point's Combating Terrorism Center.Another of al-Masri's daughters married Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, no relation, a member of the management council. He was allowed to leave Iran in 2015 and was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Syria in 2017. At the time, he was the second-ranking Qaida official after Zawahri.Hamza and other members of the bin Laden family were freed by Iran in 2011 in exchange for an Iranian diplomat abducted in Pakistan. Last year, the White House said Hamza bin Laden had been killed in a counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.Abu Muhammad al-Masri was born in Al Rarbiya district of northern Egypt in 1963. In his youth, according to affidavits filed in lawsuits in the United States, he was a professional soccer player in Egypt's top league. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he joined the jihadi movement that was coalescing to assist the Afghan forces.After the Soviets withdrew 10 years later, Egypt refused to allow al-Masri to return. He remained in Afghanistan where he eventually joined bin Laden in the group that was later to become the founding nucleus of al-Qaida. He was listed by the group as the seventh of its 170 founders.In the early 1990s, he traveled with bin Laden to Khartoum, Sudan, where he began forming military cells. He also went to Somalia to help the militia loyal to Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. There he trained Somali guerrillas in the use of shoulder-borne rocket launchers against helicopters, training they used in the 1993 battle of Mogadishu to shoot down a pair of U.S. helicopters in what is now known as the Black Hawk Down attack."When al-Qaida began to carry out terrorist activities in the late 1990s, al-Masri was one of the three of bin Laden's closest associates, serving as head of the organization's operations section," said Yoram Schweitzer, head of the Terrorism Project of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "He brought with him know-how and determination and since then was involved in a large part of the organization's operations, with an emphasis on Africa."Shortly after the Mogadishu battle, bin Laden put al-Masri in charge of planning operations against U.S. targets in Africa. Plotting a dramatic, ambitious operation that, like the 9/11 attacks, would command international attention, they decided to attack two relatively well-defended targets in separate countries simultaneously.Shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 7, 1998, two trucks packed with explosives pulled up in front of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The blasts incinerated people nearby, blew walls off buildings and shattered glass for blocks around.In 2000, al-Masri became one of the nine members of al-Qaida's governing council and headed the organization's military training.He also continued to oversee Africa operations, according to a former Israeli Intelligence official, and ordered the attack in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2002 that killed 13 Kenyans and three Israeli tourists.By 2003, al-Masri was among several Qaida leaders who fled to Iran which, although hostile to the group, seemed out of American reach."They believed the United States would find it very difficult to act against them there," Schweitzer said. "Also because they believed that the chances of the Iranian regime doing an exchange deal with the Americans that would include their heads were very slim."Al-Masri was one of the few high-ranking members of the organization to survive the American hunt for the perpetrators of 9/11 and other attacks. When he and other Qaida leaders fled to Iran, they were initially kept under house arrest.In 2015, Iran announced a deal with al-Qaida in which it released five of the organization's leaders, including al-Masri, in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who had been abducted in Yemen.Abdullah's footprints faded away, but according to one of the intelligence officials, he continued to live in Tehran, under the protection of the Revolutionary Guards and later the Ministry of Intelligence and Security. He was allowed to travel abroad and did, mainly to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.Some American analysts said al-Masri's death would sever connections between one of the last original Qaida leaders and the current generation of Islamist militants, who have grown up after bin Laden's 2011 death."If true, this further cuts links between old-school al-Qaida and the modern jihad," said Nicholas J. Rasmussen, a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. "It just further contributes to the fragmentation and decentralization of the al-Qaida movement."--TIMELINE1963Abu Muhammad al-Masri was born in northern Egypt, and grew up to play soccer in Egypt's top professional league. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he joined the jihad movement there.1980sAfter the Soviets withdrew, Egypt refused to allow al-Masri to return. He remained in Afghanistan, and eventually joined Osama bin Laden in a group that was later to become the nucleus of al-Qaida.EARLY 1990sAl-Masri traveled with bin Laden to Khartoum, Sudan, where he began forming military cells. He also went to Somalia, where he helped train the fighters who fought U.S. troops in a battle popularly known as the Black Hawk Down attack.1998Al-Masri was one of the masterminds of the deadly attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.2000Al-Masri became one of the nine members of al-Qaida's governing council and was put in charge of the organization's military training activities.2002While overseeing African operations, he issued orders for the attacks in Mombasa, Kenya, that killed 15 people, according to a former Israeli Intelligence official.2003After the 9/11 attacks, al-Masri was among several Qaida leaders who fled to Iran. They were initially held under house arrest.2015Iran and al-Qaida announced a deal in which Iran released five of the organization's leaders, including al-Masri, from prison in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who had been abducted in Yemen.2020Al-Masri was secretly assassinated in Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said. But no one -- Iran, al-Qaida, the U.S. or Israel -- publicly acknowledged the killing.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company




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Shepherd Bushiri: Preacher flees South Africa ahead of fraud trial

Shepherd Bushiri: Preacher flees South Africa ahead of fraud trialThe self-styled prophet says he skipped bail and left South Africa because he had received death threats.




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Washington state governor imposes sweeping restrictions amid COVID-19 surge

Washington state governor imposes sweeping restrictions amid COVID-19 surgeThe restrictions, most of which will take effect Monday at 11:59 p.m. and last for one month, come as the average daily tally for cases has doubled in the past two weeks, Inslee told a news conference. The spike in cases "...means, unfortunately, the time has come to reinstate restrictions on activities statewide to preserve the public's well-being and to save lives," Inslee said. Indoor gatherings will be prohibited outside one's household and outdoor gatherings will be limited to five people.




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Huge India oil well fire extinguished after five months

Huge India oil well fire extinguished after five monthsA massive oil well fire that raged for more than five months in northeast India has finally been extinguished, officials said Sunday.




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Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief

Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief‘It’s almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,’ says Andrew McCabe




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Top Biden aide says U.S. government must approve transition this week

Top Biden aide says U.S. government must approve transition this weekU.S. President-elect Joe Biden's incoming chief of staff on Sunday said the federal government needs to sign off on transition team efforts this week so that Biden's team can receive national security briefings and address COVID-19. "What we really want to see this week ... is the General Services Administration issue that ascertainment," Ron Klain said on NBC News' "Meet the Press." Trump's tweet acknowledging Biden's win - before later saying he did not concede - had no bearing on the actuality of the election, Klain added.




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Boris Johnson is in self-isolation after a British parliament member he spent 35 minutes with tested positive for COVID-19, reports say

Boris Johnson is in self-isolation after a British parliament member he spent 35 minutes with tested positive for COVID-19, reports sayJohnson and Conservative MP Lee Anderson attended a 35-minute last week and were photographed standing side by side, unmasked.




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GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in California

GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in CaliforniaRepublican Young Kim defeated U.S. Rep. Gil Cisneros on Friday in a Southern California district, the second GOP candidate to snatch a Democratic-held seat in the state this year. The contest in the 39th Congressional District anchored in Orange County was a rematch from 2018, when Cisneros was one of seven Democrats who claimed GOP-held California districts that year. Kim overcame President Donald Trump’s poor performance in heavily Democratic California, where he got only one-third of the votes.




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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Nevada

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes NevadaThe quake struck about 20 miles southeast of the town of Mina at a depth of almost four miles.




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Following ceasefire and concessions Armenians leave disputed territory, some setting fire to homes

Following ceasefire and concessions Armenians leave disputed territory, some setting fire to homesFollowing a Russian-brokered ceasefire that includes territorial concessions which will go into effect Sunday, Armenians are leaving villages in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and some are setting fire to their homes, The Associated Press and Reuters report. It's unclear when and how many Azeris, many of whom were displaced from the same land in 1994, will return to the villages.The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory, which is officially recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians for decades, flared up in recent months. The fighting resulted in Azerbaijan seizing the key city of Shusha, leading to the ceasefire, which Russia — generally considered a staunch ally and protector of Armenia — plans to enforce with 2,000 peacekeepers.The Armenians who are leaving their homes cast doubt on the idea that they could live peacefully beside the returning Azeris, per AP and Reuters, and many remain uncertain of where their next destination will be. "We are homeless now, do not know where to go and where to live," one woman leaving her home told AP. Read more at The Associated Press and Reuters.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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Most Republican lawsuits challenging election results in battleground states haven't gone far

Most Republican lawsuits challenging election results in battleground states haven't gone farMost lawsuits challenging election results in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania have not gone far. Here's the status of some of the key cases.




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With COVID-19 surging, schools suspend in-person education

With COVID-19 surging, schools suspend in-person educationWith COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state spiking to record levels, bus drivers and teachers in quarantine, students getting sick and the holidays looming, Schools Superintendent Scott Hanback in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, made a tough decision this week. Texas surpassed 1 million cases this week.




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Chris Wallace: Republican-controlled Senate would give Biden excuse to pushback on progressives

Chris Wallace: Republican-controlled Senate would give Biden excuse to pushback on progressives‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Chris Wallace lays out the stakes of the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia.




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A local news anchor in Milwaukee was suspended after he asked why 2020 took Alex Trebek but not Mitch McConnell

A local news anchor in Milwaukee was suspended after he asked why 2020 took Alex Trebek but not Mitch McConnell"2020 takes Alex Trebek but leaves Mitch McConnell?" Perry, who anchors the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts wrote. "Just end already."




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Coronavirus concerns may have kept Trump from meeting newly-elected GOP lawmakers in person at White House

Coronavirus concerns may have kept Trump from meeting newly-elected GOP lawmakers in person at White HouseHouse 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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Thousands of Georgians rally in Tbilisi to protest election results

Thousands of Georgians rally in Tbilisi to protest election resultsThousands of protesters rallied in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday to back opposition calls for a re-run of the Oct. 31 parliamentary election they say was rigged. According to official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party won 48.23% of the vote, with the largest opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM), taking 27.18%. Eight opposition parties including the UNM have said they would boycott parliament.




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Report: Trump asked about plan to subvert Electoral College

Report: Trump asked about plan to subvert Electoral CollegePresident Trump asked his aides about a plan to subvert the Electoral College, the New York Times reported on Thursday.




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New Alabama senator struggles with basic WWII history and says US fought ‘socialism and communism’

New Alabama senator struggles with basic WWII history and says US fought ‘socialism and communism’It’s not his only recent gaffe about history




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It just got harder for immigrants: the U.S. naturalization test is about to change

It just got harder for immigrants: the U.S. naturalization test is about to changeU.S. legal permanent residents who apply for citizenship through naturalization on or after Dec. 1, 2020, will face a more challenging test — in which immigrants must prove they can read, write and speak basic English, and have essential knowledge of U.S. history and government.




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In pictures: Diwali celebrations around the world

In pictures: Diwali celebrations around the worldThe festival of light is celebrated with candles and fireworks by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains worldwide.




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Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, supporter of QAnon, denounces House mask requirement 

Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, supporter of QAnon, denounces House mask requirement Amid a raging coronavirus pandemic, the incoming Republican freshman said she “proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive.”




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Stepmoms say Kamala Harris's embrace of her blended family on the national stage was a long-awaited moment

Stepmoms say Kamala Harris's embrace of her blended family on the national stage was a long-awaited momentStepmothers, who have long been discriminated against, were happy to see Harris' share her family in the spotlight.




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4-year-old boy in Texas loses mom and dad to Covid

4-year-old boy in Texas loses mom and dad to Covid"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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The Wolverine Watchmen plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer also included a plan to burn down the state Capitol building, officials say

The Wolverine Watchmen plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer also included a plan to burn down the state Capitol building, officials sayAccording to the Michigan Attorney General's Office, the group had also considered storming the Capitol to "take hostages" and "execute tyrants."




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Following ceasefire and concessions Armenians leave disputed territory, some setting fire to homes

Following ceasefire and concessions Armenians leave disputed territory, some setting fire to homesFollowing a Russian-brokered ceasefire that includes territorial concessions which will go into effect Sunday, Armenians are leaving villages in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and some are setting fire to their homes, The Associated Press and Reuters report. It's unclear when and how many Azeris, many of whom were displaced from the same land in 1994, will return to the villages.The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory, which is officially recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians for decades, flared up in recent months. The fighting resulted in Azerbaijan seizing the key city of Shusha, leading to the ceasefire, which Russia — generally considered a staunch ally and protector of Armenia — plans to enforce with 2,000 peacekeepers.The Armenians who are leaving their homes cast doubt on the idea that they could live peacefully beside the returning Azeris, per AP and Reuters, and many remain uncertain of where their next destination will be. "We are homeless now, do not know where to go and where to live," one woman leaving her home told AP. Read more at The Associated Press and Reuters.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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Guardian identified for small child found wandering Sunday morning by Fort Myers police

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