‘More conservative than Attila the Hun’: Kelly Loeffler’s new ad prompts criticism, even from Republicans.

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A judge extends Wisconsin’s mail-in voting deadline, allowing ballots to arrive up to six days after the election.

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How 3 Republicans Explain Their Supreme Court Flip-Flops

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Trump’s Supreme Court Pick May Need to Denounce Roe. Good.

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How Does Your Identity Inform Your Political Beliefs and Values?

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Learn to Argue Productively’

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Lagoa’s Role in Florida Will Be a Big Factor in Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

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Our 2020 Civil Conversation Challenge for Teenagers

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How Ginsburg’s Death Has Reshaped the Money Race for Senate Democrats

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Hollywood unions and studios have reached a deal to resume filming.

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Biden Courts Obama-Trump Voters as the President Seeks to Hold Them

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US offers $5m-reward for Colombian ELN rebel leader

Wilver Villegas Palomino, a leading ELN member, has been charged with "narcoterrorism" by the US.

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China admits Uighur birthrate has dropped by nearly one-third

Chinese officials have admitted that birth rates have plummeted among its ethnic Uighurs, fuelling claims that Beijing is subjecting its Muslim minority to a campaign of forced birth control. Official statistics show that in Xinjiang, the north-western province where most of the 10 million strong Uighur community live, birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018. The figures follow accusations that Beijing is attempting to reduce the Uighur population by threatening women with fines or spells in mass detention camps if they flout harsh family planning measures. At least a million Uighurs are believed to have passed through the detention camps in recent years, which Beijing insists are voluntary schools to teach Uighurs of the dangers of Islamic extremism. Human rights groups say they are used to eradicate Uighur culture, in tandem with forced abortion and sterilisation policies that amount to "demographic genocide".

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A Vermont grocery store worker was fired after stopping a purse snatcher who stole from an elderly woman

Amir Shedyak, a grocery store employee, told local news that he was fired after trying to stop a purse snatcher during a shift in August.

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'A crazy year up north': Arctic sea ice shrinks to 2nd-lowest level on record

The amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been steadily shrinking over the past few decades because of man-made global warming, experts say.

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Rush Limbaugh calls for GOP to skip hearings for Trump SCOTUS pick and go straight for floor vote

The conservative radio host hopes to avoid confirmation hearings like Brett Kavanaugh’s or Clarence Thomas’s

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Whale swims free of Australian river as 270 are stranded

A humpback whale has found its way back to sea weeks after getting lost in a murky, crocodile-infested river in northern Australia, while an estimated 270 pilot whales became stranded in the country's south. There have been no previous recorded sightings of whales in remote East Alligator River in the Northern Territory’s World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park, and no one can explain why at least three of the blue water mammals ventured so deep inland in a river with little visibility. In a more common phenomenon, about 270 pilot whales were reported stranded Monday on sandbars off Australia’s southern island of Tasmania state.

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Shark attacks a snorkeler in the Florida Keys, sheriff’s office says

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Florida man fights off attacking alligator by poking its eyes; survives with 65 stitches

Mark Johnson, 61, was attacked by alligator and survived with 65 stitches. Here's the trick he used, which FWC warns doesn't always work.

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‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters

The president is running well behind his 2016 pace with the demographic that sent him to the White House.

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L.A. County's Bobcat fire grows to nearly 100,000 acres

The Bobcat fire in Los Angeles County has grown to nearly 100,000 acres, and continues to threaten the historical Mt. Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains.This is one of the largest fires ever recorded in the county; the biggest blaze, 2009's Station fire, burned 160,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest. The Bobcat fire is only 15 percent contained, and is moving through communities in the Antelope Valley, the Los Angeles Times reports. There are more than 1,600 firefighters on the scene, with some coming from as far away as New York."We're still in the thick of a good firefight," Andrew Mitchell, public information officer with the U.S. Forest Service, said on Sunday. There were some flare-ups around Mt. Wilson Observatory overnight, but crews were able to stamp them out. Forecasters expect lower temperatures and calmer winds over the next few nights, and Mitchell said he thinks "the next couple days we'll start to really get a handle on this fire because the conditions will be right and we'll be able to really start backing it with all our assets."There are 27 major wildfires now burning in California, the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on Sunday. Since mid-August, blazes in the state have killed 26 people and destroyed more than 6,100 structures.More stories from theweek.com McConnell unexpectedly rejects Democrats' funding bill, leaving U.S. on the verge of government shutdown The audacious case for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Why Trump reportedly prefers to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court over Barbara Lagoa

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Drought-hit Mexicans demand that water sharing with U.S. end

The treaty of 1944 details water sharing between Mexico and the United States, but Mexico is currently behind on their end of the deal.

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Trump's Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north

Peggy Lehner, a Republican state senator in Ohio, doesn't sugarcoat what she has seen happen to support for President Donald Trump in her suburban Dayton district. Trump's chances for a second term rest heavily on being able to maintain the margins he won by in 2016, particularly in suburban areas. Trump campaigned near Dayton Monday evening and was set to hold a rally outside Toledo later, as liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death stoked questions of whether the sudden court vacancy would energize more suburban voters who support abortion rights or social conservatives in small-town and rural areas who oppose them.

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