Monday, November 30, 2020
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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Missing Florida sailor found clinging to capsized vessel
from BBC News - World The man, 62, was rescued by a passing container ship, more than 80 miles off the Florida coast. https://ift.tt/2JppJ5n
Jill Biden, Joe's chief protector, to step up as first lady
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Trump administration rushes to complete Mexico border wall before Biden takes office
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Trump tells viewers to watch 'anything else' but Fox News ahead of his 1st interview since Election Day
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Gale-force winds, rain and snow lash much of northeastern US
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Arizona officials certify the state’s election results
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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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Republicans vow to block Biden budget pick over her ‘disparaging’ comments about senators
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Navy will decommission warship damaged in suspected arson
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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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Manhattan DA candidates weigh in on investigation into Trump's finances
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Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant's past matter?
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
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Covid: Fauci warns of 'surge in cases' post Thanksgiving
from BBC News - World Millions of people are returning home following the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. https://ift.tt/2Vimxvc
Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the Mafia
from BBC News - World Calabria was not hit by the first wave of the pandemic but its fragile health system is buckling now. https://ift.tt/39r5Gyr
Why India can't stop farmers burning stubble
from BBC News - World The toxic fumes from stubble burning affects hundreds of millions - but curbs to stop it keep failing. https://ift.tt/36jhz7s
Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president
from BBC News - World The campaign to save a 100-year-old tree shows cultural fears can make politicians listen in Kenya. https://ift.tt/3o5rALI
A 70-year-old photographic mystery
from BBC News - World Collector William Fagan finds 70-year-old photographs in a camera. https://ift.tt/2HQfpD9
The tech allowing thousands of students to sit exams at home
from BBC News - World Machine learning is helping firms across many industries more quickly solve difficult challenges. https://ift.tt/3qmLST0
Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate 7.7 billion people?
from BBC News - World Five challenges of distributing a Covid-19 vaccine to billions of people. https://ift.tt/3o8y8Jq
Nagorno-Karabakh: The boy who swapped his piano for a gun
from BBC News - World The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is over, but some are still waiting for news of missing relatives. https://ift.tt/2KLFUKR
Iran newspaper: Strike Haifa if Israel killed scientist
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Tigray crisis: Ethiopian soldiers accused of blocking border with Sudan
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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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Chinese doctors jailed for illegal organ harvesting
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'I'm scared. Are you scared?': A Michigan mom's harrowing story of leaving her autistic son to fight COVID-19 alone in the hospital
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Trump was convinced he was going to win on election night in a repeat of 2016, and was 'shouting at everyone' when Fox News called Arizona for Biden
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'Almost impossible': As education divide deepens, Democrats fear a demographic problem for future power
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Source: Pa. lawmaker gets a positive test at Trump meeting
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Black Lives Matter founders: We fought to change history and we won
from BBC News - World The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement tell the BBC's 100 Women season they are optimistic. https://ift.tt/3mlthEm
Saturday, November 28, 2020
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Viewpoint: How Ethiopia is undermining the African Union
from BBC News - World The country has rebuffed African efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the Tigray conflict. https://ift.tt/3q8LirK
Serbia coronavirus: The Church losing its leaders to the pandemic
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In pictures: Hurricanes leave Hondurans homeless and destitute
from BBC News - World Hurricanes Eta and Iota left more than 150,000 people in Honduras homeless and many lost everything. https://ift.tt/33HDow7
The battle to save a biodiversity hotspot in India
from BBC News - World Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub. https://ift.tt/37fVupU
Conjoined twins: 'We always knew we were different'
from BBC News - World They made headlines when surgeons separated them - now Sanchia and Eman Mowatt are at university. https://ift.tt/3fqDdtm
Afghanistan, home to the heroin trade, moves into meth
from BBC News - World A new report warns Afghanistan is becoming a major methamphetamine producer, leaving addicts in its wake. https://ift.tt/35WfQor
Why Bhutan's Sakteng wildlife sanctuary is disputed by China
from BBC News - World Tiny Bhutan is feeling the squeeze as its giant neighbours China and India vie for territory. https://ift.tt/3l3wlUj
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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Serbia and Montenegro expel respective ambassadors
from BBC News - World The two nations have expelled each other's envoys over a historical dispute dating back a century. https://ift.tt/36jlVM9
Khachaturyan sisters: A murder trial that shocked Russia
from BBC News - World The case of the three Khachaturyan sisters accused of killing their father sent shockwaves through Russia. https://ift.tt/3lbWro0
Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What does it mean for the east Africa region?
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Friday, November 27, 2020
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Maradona: Funeral worker apologises over coffin photos
from BBC News - World The Argentine funeral worker took photos next to the open casket of football legend Diego Maradona. https://ift.tt/3lfNH0e
Swiss vote on making firms liable for rights abuse
from BBC News - World Many in government and business are wary, but campaigners say politicians are out of touch. https://ift.tt/2Jiu9eq
Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet
from BBC News - World For thousands of years Inupaiq people have relied on the land in Alaska but now climate change is threatening their entire way of life. https://ift.tt/39lxeFm
Losing Cinema Park: Tears over demolition of Kabul's iconic cinema
from BBC News - World Why the demolition of a 70-year old cinema hall in Kabul went viral in Afghanistan. https://ift.tt/33nERXU
Jane Fonda: 'It's much harder to be young than it is old'
from BBC News - World As an 82-year-old Jane Fonda is still protesting - this time about climate change - and getting arrested. https://ift.tt/3o6DXr1
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
Disney Cruise Line, P&O Cruises extend COVID-19 sailing suspension into 2021
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Thai protesters push on despite charges of royal defamation
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'This is War': Poland’s battle for abortion
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Can a ninja’s life teach us about staying safe in a pandemic?
from BBC News - World Genichi is the first student from a Japanese university with a master’s degree in ninja studies. https://ift.tt/37i7VSa
US election results: Why the most accurate bellwether counties were wrong
from BBC News - World Of the 19 places in the US that usually correctly pick the president, only one got it right this time. https://ift.tt/2HJdlwE
Singapore: Jolovan Wham charged for holding up a smiley face sign
from BBC News - World Activist Jolovan Wham faces large fines for violating public order in Singapore. https://ift.tt/3q3raY7
Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Fears of a march into guerrilla warfare
from BBC News - World The government is hoping for a quick victory in Tigray but it may not be that simple. https://ift.tt/2JeOalW
PG Wodehouse: Why India still holds a flame for the English author
from BBC News - World The Jeeves and Wooster creator was the most English of novelists so why does he have fans in India? https://ift.tt/36855Q0
Searching 80,000 miles for the American dream
from BBC News - World Photographer Ian Brown travelled around the US in search of people's American dreams. https://ift.tt/33mI229
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
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Coronavirus and gender: More chores for women set back gains in equality
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The woman sacrificing everything for freedom
from BBC News - World Three months on from the Belarus election, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya reflects on how her life has changed. https://ift.tt/362VASi
Tributes pour in for football great Maradona
from BBC News - World Three days of mourning begin in Argentina as tributes pour in for Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, who died on Wednesday. https://ift.tt/375Wqgw
Yemen: Growing up in a war-torn country
from BBC News - World Yemen is labelled the "the world's worst humanitarian crisis" and 60% of its population is under 25. https://ift.tt/39cTpO1
Black Friday: Why bots will beat you to in-demand gifts
from BBC News - World Black Friday and Christmas shopping are here - but it may be harder than ever to snag what you want. https://ift.tt/3m83PCa
Why France may ban discrimination against accents
from BBC News - World A French MP wants to push back against the traditional Parisian disdain for regional voices. https://ift.tt/3fChz5J
Chile's Mapuche indigenous group fights for rights
from BBC News - World The Mapuche make up 12% of Chile's population but are not recognised in the country's constitution. https://ift.tt/37bHdu3
Tigray crisis: How the Ethiopian army and TPLF clashed over an airport
from BBC News - World With communications largely cut to the Tigray region, both sides in the conflict are trying to control the narrative. https://ift.tt/3783QQd
Covid: US doctor's video simulates what dying patient sees
from BBC News - World This doctor made a video simulating what a dying Covid patient sees - to urge people to wear masks. https://ift.tt/33kET2V
Report: New Mexico governor, former surgeon general are the top contenders to be Biden's health secretary
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Saudi Arabia calls Houthi missile strike on oil facility a 'cowardly' act
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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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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 calls into Pennsylvania hearing, rambles about voter fraud on speakerphone
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Biden says his team has spoken to Fauci: ‘He’s been very, very helpful’
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'Michael Flynn's loyalty to Trump has paid off' - Omarosa Manigault Newman
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Georgia taxpayers will fund another full recount at Trump's request
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Afghanistan war: 26,000 Afghan children killed or maimed since 2005
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Nagorno-Karabakh: The family that lost everything
from BBC News - World Maria and her children were driven from their home in Nagorno-Karabakh due to the ongoing conflict. https://ift.tt/2J8JcXQ
Brexit: Biden says no to hard border in Ireland
from BBC News - World US President-elect Joe Biden says closing the border would be "just not right". https://ift.tt/3lbrwbD
Zahara: Violence against women in South Africa 'a pandemic'
from BBC News - World Zahara, a platinum-selling singer in South Africa, talks to the BBC about surviving a violent attack. https://ift.tt/3l9JnQc
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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Lugano attack: Two hurt in suspected terror incident in Switzerland
from BBC News - World A 28-year-old woman is arrested after allegedly stabbing and trying to choke two other women. https://ift.tt/3l71Nkm
Monday, November 23, 2020
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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Ntabo Ntaberi: DR Congo militia leader jailed for crimes against humanity
from BBC News - World A military court jails Ntabo Ntaberi for life after a two-year trial that saw 178 victims testify. https://ift.tt/2IUBZet
Nagorno-Karabakh: 'It's too painful to sleep'
from BBC News - World Whilst most Azerbaijanis are celebrating the end of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, some are struggling to return to normal life. https://ift.tt/35YICFi
Reunited after the Manchester Arena bombing
from BBC News - World Usman and Sharon were connected forever after being caught up in the bombing's aftermath. https://ift.tt/33eH73Y
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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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US election 2020: Trump ally urges him to accept defeat in US vote
from BBC News - World Former Republican governor Chris Christie calls the president's legal team an "embarrassment". https://ift.tt/3lXeQ98
Covid-19 pandemic: Merkel 'worried' about vaccines for poor countries
from BBC News - World The German leader voices concern after top economic powers promise a fair distribution of vaccines. https://ift.tt/3lUWUvT
Covid in North Dakota: One day inside a rural US hospital’s fight
from BBC News - World Staff at a 14-bed hospital in North Dakota tell first-hand their fight to keep friends' family members alive. https://ift.tt/2UTbKHz
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
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Covid makes Brazil's president Bolsonaro a hero to some
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India's most loved and loathed TV anchor
from BBC News - World The star presenter is making Indian TV news louder and more aggressive than ever before. https://ift.tt/3flXRLc
The Indonesian meteorite which didn't sell for $1.8m
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China gives musical talent show a virtual makeover
from BBC News - World Dimension Nova shakes up reality TV with computer-animated contestants performing to real judges. https://ift.tt/3lTgtEN
Children mimic street brutality in the playgrounds of Belarus
from BBC News - World Violence is being copied in children's games, raising fears that months of protests have affected the young. https://ift.tt/3kS04iI
Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Debretsion Gebremichael, the man at the heart of the conflict
from BBC News - World War veteran and ex-minister Debretsion Gebremichael now leads the struggle against the government. https://ift.tt/395Ymbu
The coronavirus pandemic 'great reset' theory and a false vaccine claim debunked
from BBC News - World We unpick some of this week's misleading claims about the pandemic and the coronavirus vaccine. https://ift.tt/3700ApR
GOP Michigan ex-governor says state board will certify Biden winner over 'bully' Trump
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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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Azerbaijani leader hails handover of region ceded by Armenia
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Democrats and mainstream media ignore growing fraud allegations
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Trump considers targeting birthright citizenship with executive order in his last weeks in office, report says
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Court hears arguments on dead North Dakota candidate's seat
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Friday, November 20, 2020
Kyle Rittenhouse: Teen charged over Wisconsin protest deaths posts $2m bail
from BBC News - World Kyle Rittenhouse is alleged to have shot three people at a protest over the shooting of a black man. https://ift.tt/3kXa0Yw
Irish open-air cellist strikes coronavirus lockdown chord
from BBC News - World Patrick Dexter films recitals outside his picturesque cottage on Ireland's rural west coast. https://ift.tt/3pO8iMA
Students create device to capture car tyre microplastic debris
from BBC News - World We hear a lot about single-use plastics like bottles and packaging but tyre wear is a big problem. https://ift.tt/3kUBkpX
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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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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Donald Trump Jr tests positive for coronavirus
from BBC News - World The president's son is said to be quarantining at his cabin after being diagnosed this week. https://ift.tt/2Hkjj6Q
Russian special forces rescue boy kidnapped by suspected paedophile
from BBC News - World The child was abducted by a suspected paedophile in September from a village east of Moscow. https://ift.tt/3lPWVkJ
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Biden's DIY transition proceeds without Trump assistance
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McConnell warns Republican senators to stay healthy or risk their lame-duck agenda
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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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Coronavirus: CDC urges Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving
from BBC News - World The warning comes as US virus cases soar past 11.6 million, and the country records 250,000 deaths. https://ift.tt/36VOM88
Remembering the Nuremberg trials 75 years on
from BBC News - World Fergal Keane looks at their legacy and speaks to a Holocaust survivor, a prosecutor and the son of a defendant. https://ift.tt/35R0Jgl
US election: How other incumbents left the White House after losing
from BBC News - World Donald Trump joins a small group of US presidents who lost the election while in office. https://ift.tt/3ffzrDe
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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US election 2020: Biden says Trump denial 'sending horrible message'
from BBC News - World The president-elect says Donald Trump has shown "incredible irresponsibility" in challenging defeat. https://ift.tt/2UKS2O9
Thousands join anti-government protests across Colombia
from BBC News - World Demonstrators call for healthcare improvements and a minimum wage for unemployed people. https://ift.tt/32WAV0c
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
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Tiny owl rescued from New York Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
from BBC News - World The saw-whet owl is doing well after its unplanned three-day road trip to the Big Apple. https://ift.tt/32UTzpc
Australian elite soldiers killed Afghan civilians, report finds
from BBC News - World There is "credible evidence" that special forces soldiers were involved in 39 killings, a report finds. https://ift.tt/3kMVfXU
Hong Kong: UK and allies express 'serious concern' over China's policies
from BBC News - World The "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing group say China seeks to silence critical voices in Hong Kong. https://ift.tt/3pGLrm5
EU faces challenge from three states to Covid budget
from BBC News - World EU leaders will meet via video, with Hungary and Poland objecting to funds being tied to rule of law. https://ift.tt/3fcEYKF
Coronavirus: Father Christmas’ guide to a Covid safe Christmas
from BBC News - World Father Christmas explains how to have a Covid secure Christmas https://ift.tt/32Uyzz6
Pike River: The 29 coal miners who never came home
from BBC News - World It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw. https://ift.tt/3nC1Hmn
US election 2020: How much did it cost and who paid for it?
from BBC News - World The US elections in 2020 cost a record $14bn. BBC Reality Check takes a look at who paid this and how it was spent https://ift.tt/37QCjEK
Covid: Dr Fauci asks families to weigh up risks over US Thanksgiving
from BBC News - World The top US infectious diseases expert asks Americans to weigh up the risks of travelling to see family. https://ift.tt/3kL5wUs
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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Iraqi FM condemns Baghdad rocket attack as 'terrorist act'
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Rep. Tlaib raises possibility of investigation into Trump administration handling of U.S. Census
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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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Georgia's Republican secretary of state says railing against absentee ballots cost Trump the state
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Yazidis appoint new spiritual leader in Iraq - in pictures
from BBC News - World The religious minority group suffered harsh persecution under Islamic State (IS) group control. https://ift.tt/3pIMxxN
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
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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Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda: US to drop charges against Mexican ex-minister
from BBC News - World Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda was arrested in Los Angeles last month and charged with drug trafficking. https://ift.tt/3fb4IXZ
Chuck Grassley: Senior Republican senator gets coronavirus
from BBC News - World Chuck Grassley's illness caused him to skip a Senate vote for the first time in 27 years. https://ift.tt/3nwmJTy
Australia drought: Capturing spectacular storms in the outback
from BBC News - World An Australian photographer says it feels "amazing" to capture spectacular images of long-absent storms. https://ift.tt/3pE9QIQ
'Newsmax does not want to become Trump TV'
from BBC News - World But CEO Chris Ruddy hopes the president will be on the conservative news outlet "quite a bit" after the White House. https://ift.tt/3kFBmCi
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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Ethiopia Tigray crisis: 'We came with the clothes on our backs'
from BBC News - World The on-going conflict in northern Ethiopia has forced civilians from the Tigray region to flee to eastern Sudan. https://ift.tt/36IdI2U
Monday, November 16, 2020
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
Cuomo threatens Trump with legal action over vaccine distribution plan
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NEW 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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Costco will deliver a 12-month long private flight membership to your email — if you pay $17,500
The U.S. Cardinal Crusading Against the Catholic President-Elect
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ROME—When then-candidate John F. Kennedy gave his landmark stump speech to the Houston Ministers Conference in September 1960, he stressed that he was “not the Catholic candidate for president.” He insisted instead, “I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters—and the church does not speak for me.”The Plot to Bring Down Pope FrancisTwo months later, JFK was elected the first Catholic president of the United States amid fears that his presidency would be guided by the Vatican and Pope John XXIII and warnings that he might compromise the separation of church and state—none of which happened. Sixty years later, Joe Biden is the second Catholic ever to win the presidency, and this time the criticism isn't from outside the Catholic Church, but from within, with conservative American Cardinal Raymond Burke leading the charge, painting Biden as an anti-Catholic not fit to lead.In the months leading up to the election, Burke was on a campaign of his own, stumping for the thrice-married incumbent President Trump while pleading that Biden is “not a Catholic in good standing” over his views on abortion and birth control. Burke said Biden should not receive communion at Catholic mass and should not tout his faith. “I don’t understand why Catholics who are involved in politics can’t get this straight in their heads, but they should,” Burke told the Catholic Action for Faith and Family association, for which Burke is a spiritual adviser, in an interview that was run by the popular conservative Catholic website Lifesite. “If someone says, ‘I’m a devout Catholic,’ and at the same time is promoting abortion, it gives the impression to others that it’s acceptable for Catholics to be in favor of abortion. And of course, it’s absolutely not acceptable. Never has been. Never will be.”Biden is not Burke’s only target. He has also condemned Pope Francis for his recent remarks on extending civil rights to same-sex couples. Burke, whose office did not respond to multiple requests for comments, accused Francis last month of inciting “error and confusion with words that do not correspond to the constant teachings of the Church,” when the pope commented in a documentary that he supported legal rights for gays. “To speak of a homosexual union, in the same sense as the conjugal union of the married, is misleading, because there can be no such union.”The pope did not respond directly to Burke’s criticism of himself or the president-elect, but he did call Biden Friday to congratulate him. In a readout of the call, which was confirmed by the Holy See press office, the Biden-Harris transition team said Biden “thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness' leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the world.” The two then discussed shared interests including “caring for the marginalized and the poor, addressing the crisis of climate change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities.”The difference between the pope’s reaction to Trump and Biden could not be more stark with the pope and Trump clashing on a number of occasions. In February 2016, Francis said anyone who wants to build walls is “not Christian” when asked about the southern border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Francis also criticized Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord and expressed concern over when Trump undid President Obama’s move to restore trade and travel with Cuba.Steven Millies, associate professor of Public Theology and director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union, has studied Catholicism in the American political spectrum for 30 years. He points to other up-and-coming Catholics in the Democratic Party including Julián Castro, Ted Lieu, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as beacons of light. He says the Biden presidency provides a moment of “opportunity to promote the diversity of Catholic social teaching rather than seeing it through the preeminent, singular lens of abortion.”To be clear, Francis is not an advocate of abortion, and it may be this issue that divides the two if Biden takes decisive action to protect women’s reproductive rights, though it is already clear that Francis has more tolerance for Biden than Catholics like Burke.Millies says today’s church under Pope Francis is not the same as it was under Pope John XXIII when the first Catholic president was sworn in six decades ago. “The Catholic Church today is very different from the one to which JFK belonged,” he says. “The church is more diverse, but it is also shrinking rapidly. And, increasingly, the Catholic Church is a body at war with itself. Biden is a different sort of Catholic for this moment.” In short, Biden is a Pope Francis kind of Catholic.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? 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Moldova election could see shift away from Moscow and first female president taking power
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Moldovans on Sunday voted in a presidential election that will determine whether the ex-Soviet nation remains allied with Russia or seeks closer ties with the European Union. Exit polls put centre-right, pro-EU candidate Maia Sandu in the lead after she won a surprise victory in the first round vote two weeks ago, forcing Kremlin-backed incumbent Igor Dodon into a run-off. Moscow has been vocal in its support for Mr Dodon, with Russian President Vladimir Putin making a personal appeal to Moldovans last month to return the leader for a second term. The Russian intelligence service has meanwhile accused the US of preparing for a “revolution” in Moldova and backing protests in the event of a Mr Dodon win. The vote comes amid unrest in what Russia traditionally considers its field of influence, with mass demonstrations in Belarus against the Kremlin-allied dictator Alexander Lukashenko, and popular protests bringing down the leadership of Kyrgyzstan. But analysts say the economy and corruption are more likely to influence Moldovan voters’ decisions than geopolitical concerns. Moldova, already one of the poorest countries in Europe, has seen its economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic, following a number of political crises and corruption scandals. Reports of voter fraud have tainted previous elections in the country of 3.5 million, wedged between Romania and Ukraine, and drawn tens of thousands out onto the streets to protest. Ms Sandu, an ex-prime minister who would be Moldova’s first female president, has raised the spectre of fraud again in this election. A former economist for the World Bank, Ms Sandu wants the country to join the European Union and has promised to defend Moldova’s interests against Russia. She is popular among the many Moldovans who have left the country to work abroad, whose support gave her the edge over Mr Dodon in the first round of voting. Mr Dodon and his rival have traded insults throughout the campaign, with the president accusing Ms Sandu of being “hysterical”, and the challenger in turn calling him a “great thief”. They ran against each other in 2016, with Mr Dodon winning in a second round.
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Ex-Obama official suggests Biden should pack as much as he can into executive orders
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Former 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
SpaceX, NASA set for first operational astronaut mission to space
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SpaceX'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
Al-Qaida's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran
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WASHINGTON -- 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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