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Ohio could be Biden's best shot at keeping Trump from contesting the 2020 election

Over the last week, three separate polls have shown Joe Biden leading President Trump by as much as 5 percentage points in Ohio — a surprising turn of events after Hillary Clinton lost there by 8 points in 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/339jXfE

Mitch McConnell ‘refusing to debate his election rival if there is a female moderator’

‘He continues to resist allowing women to host debates,’ said McConnell’s opponent in the Kentucky Senate race from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3n1MZpg

Voters react to first 2020 presidential debate

The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker polls show how Americans are responding to the first presidential debate. CBS News Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto joined CBSN's Elaine Quijano on "Red and Blue" to discuss the results. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33ihsHX

Mnuchin presents counteroffer on COVID bill in meeting with Pelosi

The treasury secretary said he and Pelosi are prepared to give negotiations over a coronavirus relief bill "one more serious try." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33eecgL

Top US infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci calls some of Fox News' primetime coverage of the coronavirus pandemic 'outlandish'

Fauci said that with some reporters, "anything that I would say they'll distort a bit," adding, "I'm not sure there's anything I can do about that." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HEnSZr

Marine fighter jet lands safely after crashing in mid-air with another plane in Southern California

Jet makes emergency landing in farm field after colliding with another plane from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30kFdNH

Donald Glover reveals he's struggled with his sexuality: 'I never felt completely safe'

"Most of my college years were me being like, 'I don't know what I like,'" the "Atlanta" creator said in a new interview with Michaela Coel. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33hmyEj

Feds offer millions in rewards on ex-Venezuelan officials wanted in Miami

After years of pursuing a trio of former Venezuelan officials in major drug-trafficking cases, the U.S. government is offering tens of millions of dollars in rewards for information leading to their arrests. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36jXb6B

Up to 50,000 airline workers could lose their job tonight if Congress doesn't approve more aid

“Hundreds of thousands of airline workers are facing financial ruin through no fault of our own. How will we take care of our families without a paycheck and health insurance?” said one airline worker. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3n8XJlN

Democrats postpone House vote on COVID-19 stimulus bill to give more time for negotiations

The pared-down version of the legislation passed by House Democrats in May will likely pass the House, but will face opposition in the GOP-led Senate. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3ik8Kx7

Fact check: Biden says 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have died from COVID-19. Is it true?

“... And if he doesn’t do something quickly by the end of the year, one in 500 will have been killed.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33hjp7z

'Miracle on the Hudson' pilot Sully Sullenberger said he'll only fly with airlines that block the middle seat during the pandemic

The pilot who famously landed a damaged plane on the Hudson shared his thoughts on airline safety amid coronavirus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30ipAGw

Space Force Now Has an Official Uniform

The U.S. Space Force members will wear the Operational Camouflage Pattern as the official service duty uniform. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/34GBihg

Auschwitz director offers to serve time in place of 13-year-old Nigerian sentenced to 10 years for blasphemy

The director of the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland has offered to serve time for a Nigerian child who was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to spend ten years in prison by a Sharia court . In an open letter, Piotr Cywinski asked Nigeria’s President to intervene and pardon 13-year-old Omar Farouq for the conviction. “As the director of the Auschwitz memorial, which commemorates the victims and preserves the remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where children were imprisoned and murdered, I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity,” he wrote. Omar Farouq was arrested earlier this year by religious police in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city, after he had a ‘blasphemous’ conversation with an older man. His conviction by a religious court has provoked condemnation by the United Nations and global human rights groups. Mr Cywinski told The Telegraph that he felt he had to act when he heard about Omar. “When I heard about this story las

Flight of Hong Kong protesters piles pressure on Taiwan

For some Hong Kong protesters, stripped of their passports and facing criminal charges, a perilous 600 km sea journey to Taiwan is their only hope of escape. For Taiwan, which has promised assistance to the people of Hong Kong but is wary of antagonising China, this brings a dilemma. People began fleeing to Taiwan from the early months of the Hong Kong protests last year, mostly legally by air, sometimes by fishing boat, said activists in Taipei who have helped Hong Kong citizens obtain visas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jiIt3p

Trump on Biden's late son: "I don't know Beau"

At the first presidential debate on Tuesday night, Joe Biden criticized President Trump's alleged comments calling fallen soldiers "losers," saying his late son Beau Biden, who served in Iraq, was "not a loser." Mr. Trump tried to respond with attacks on Biden's other son, Hunter Biden, saying "I don't know Beau." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Sr8MsJ

Florida martial arts school billed taxpayers over $350,000 for ‘ghost’ kids, state says

Funded by public grants, the United Martial Arts Academy in Homestead offered an array of self-defense training, including the “Tiny Tigers” and “Little Dragon” courses for kids. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36od7ov

A creepy presidential debate ad shows a deepfake of Putin telling Americans they're ruining their own democracy

In an ad campaign from non-profit RepresentUs, deepfakes of Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin warn Americans that they're ruining their own democracy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30zM0TZ

Veteran GOP strategist predicts Trump's debate performance will suffer thanks to tax bombshell

GOP political consultant Mike Murphy predicts President Trump will be distracted at tonight's debate as a result of reports on his taxes. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jg4HDk

CDC study on COVID-19 in kids bolsters case for elementary school reopening

The study adds nuance to prior findings that the risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, increases with age. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/345Noi3

Texas sheriff indicted and booked in own jail after probe into Black man's death

A Texas sheriff has been indicted on charges of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death in custody of a Black man, Javier Ambler, that was filmed by the police reality TV series “Live PD," prosecutors said Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EK3Qf3

‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts Look On in Horror as Rudy Giuliani Blurts Out Biden Dementia Conspiracy Theory

Everyone knows that live television isn’t easy. Anything can go wrong—from a faulty connection, a verbal slip-up, or, as was the case on Tuesday morning’s Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani bellowing insane conspiracy theories at the nation with no obvious way to stop him.It’s always a risk to allow Giuliani to share his wildly unpredictable stream of consciousness live. The man who was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2001 has long since been reduced to sharing the latest Trumpist conspiracy theories on any cable news channel that has the budget to cover any possible subsequent defamation lawsuits.This time, his F&F hosts looked on with visible horror in their eyes as Giuliani shared his completely baseless belief that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia. If you have the time, it’s worth watching the clip at least three times so you can see each of the hosts panicking in their own unique way as the former New York City mayor rambles on and on.> On Fox & Friends,

Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett puts years of gun safety progress at risk

Over 145,000 Americans have been killed by guns with Trump in office. If Barrett replaces Ginsburg, gun safety laws and more US lives are endangered from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/340C4nc

Explainer: Who's fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and why does it matter?

WHERE AND WHAT IS NAGORNO-KARABAKH? It's a mountainous, forested patch of land that sits inside the territory of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan and is recognised under international law as part of that country. Nagorno-Karabakh survives almost totally on budget support from Armenia and donations from the worldwide Armenian diaspora. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3mZGUtK

Barrett Lamented ‘Very Brutal’ Confirmation Process in 2019 Speech, Blamed ‘Dangerous’ Drift toward Judicial ‘Policymaking’

Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, warned in a private discussion at Notre Dame last year that the judicial nomination process “has gotten very brutal” due to “a fundamental misunderstanding of the judicial role.”Footage of the event, which went public Tuesday, shows Barrett and Amul Thapar, a federal appeals judge for the Sixth Circuit who is also on President Trump’s shortlist for the Supreme Court, discussing their backgrounds and judicial philosophy in a far-ranging conversation.Barrett, already the topic of heavy scrutiny for her family’s involvement in a charismatic Christian group, spoke candidly on the topic of judicial confirmations — referencing comments made by Ginsburg after Justice Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearing, of which the late justice said “the way it was, was right. The way it is, is wrong."“Part of that is because people have a fundamental misunderstanding of the judicial role,” Barrett explained. “If you think

White nationalist from Charlottesville rally nicknamed ‘Crying Nazi’ is charged with threatening to rape a woman

Christopher Cantwell sent a series of threatening text messages in bid to uncover information about leader of a far-right group from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36gE0un

COVID-19 cases rising among US children as schools reopen

After preying heavily on the elderly in the spring, the coronavirus is increasingly infecting American children and teens in a trend authorities say appears fueled by school reopenings and the resumption of sports, playdates and other activities. Children of all ages now make up 10% of all U.S cases, up from 2% in April, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported Tuesday. About two times more teens were infected than younger children, the CDC report said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S9qqAP

A creepy presidential debate ad shows a deepfake of Putin telling Americans they're ruining their own democracy

In an ad campaign from non-profit RepresentUs, deepfakes of Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin warn Americans that they're ruining their own democracy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30zM0TZ

Debate offers Trump chance to yank stubbornly stable 2020 race his way

Presidential candidates to face off for first time in Cleveland and for Biden no news would be good newsAfter months of anticipation, Donald Trump and election rival Joe Biden were scheduled to meet on a debate stage for the first time in Cleveland on Tuesday night, in what could be Trump’s last best chance to turn the presidential race his way and win re-election.Suffering from weeks of negative revelations in the news and terrible poll numbers, Trump needs a big score at the first presidential debate to shift the national conversation away from the sputtering economy, the coronavirus pandemic and his staggering tax avoidance, analysts say.Those factors could see a performance by Trump that is even more aggressive than usual.“Trump will go after Biden hard, to deflect attention away from his own troubles, including the reports on his tax evasion and business failures,” said Brad Bannon, a Washington-based Democratic strategist. “Much of Biden’s support is based on his calm demeanor, w

Biden can beat (and infuriate) Trump by being the adult on the presidential debate stage

Joe Biden’s campaign is based around being calm, rational and a healer. He shouldn't try to call more names or be more pugnacious than Donald Trump. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GdeUSu

Dr. Fauci warns the US is ‘not in a good place’ on Covid-19 as cases rise in parts of the country

'Now's the time actually to double down a bit,' nation’s leading infectious disease expert warns in new interview from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cDKapK

Positive COVID-19 test rates top 25% in some U.S. Midwest states

The positivity rate has risen to 26% in South Dakota, up from 17% the previous week, according to the analysis using testing data from The COVID Tracking Project. The World Health Organization considers rates above 5% concerning because it suggests there are more cases in the community that have not yet been uncovered. Several states such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have positive test rates of less than 1%. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36cbIl1

South Carolina TV anchor hit man with beer bottle in fight over politics, police say

The victim was left with cuts on his face, police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36duDvw

California governor signs law requiring trans inmates to be housed by gender identity

The law requires inmates to be asked how they identify, then they must be housed accordingly. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on Saturday that will require California prisons to house transgender inmates according to their gender identity. The law requires officers to privately ask inmates if they identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33bNcOI

Fact check: False claim that Biden and Harris said the other 'wasn't fit to run the country'

A post claims that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris questioned each other's fitness to be president during the Democratic debates. They did not. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jgpwhW

Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett puts years of gun safety progress at risk

Over 145,000 Americans have been killed by guns with Trump in office. If Barrett replaces Ginsburg, gun safety laws and more US lives are endangered from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/340C4nc

Wine country wildfire forces hundreds of evacuations

A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of Northern California's Napa Valley wine country and spread across nearly 2,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of a hospital and hundreds of homes, authorities said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30fHrOc

With EU help, Taiwan gets rare win in China naming dispute

Taiwan said on Monday the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to get international groups and companies to refer on their websites and in official documents to democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as being part of China, to the ire of Taiwan's government and many of its people. Over the weekend, Taiwan officials expressed anger after the Brussels-based Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy began listing on its website its six Taiwan member cites as belonging to China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jcSEXl

Remains of 117 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War returned

The remains of 117 Chinese soldiers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China on Sunday in an annual repatriation delayed this year by the coronavirus outbreak. South Korea handed over the remains at a ceremony at Incheon airport outside Seoul, and a Chinese military transport plane flew them to Shenyang, a northeastern Chinese city near the North Korean border. Chinese soldiers fought on the North Korean side against US-led forces in the South during the war on the Korean Peninsula. Most of the 117 remains were found in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. It was the seventh annual repatriation, and the largest since the 437 returned in the first one in 2014. In all, the remains of 716 Chinese soldiers have been sent back. This year's return, originally planned for the spring, was postponed for several months because of the spread of Covid-19. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/346Lf5L

Missouri man faces prison for assault after police officer broke hand punching him

Officer injured in fight to arrest suspect after speeding stop from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3l3GEIr

Former paramilitary leader deported to Colombia

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S78Cq3

How to watch the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden

The debate will be moderated by "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3i9CrRp

Trump’s 2016 Campaign Listed Millions of Black Voters It Wanted to Stop From Voting, Leak Reveals

LONDON—Over three million Black voters in key states were identified by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign as people they had to persuade to stay at home on Election Day to help him reach the White House.The revelation comes from an enormous data leak obtained by the British news network Channel 4. It shows that, four years ago, the Trump campaign prepared files on almost 200 million American voters and separated some out into eight different categories. One such category, assigned to 3.5 million Black voters, was titled: “Deterrence.”The leaked database was reportedly used by Trump’s digital campaign team, which was critical to Trump’s narrow victory. Channel 4 News has a track record of exposing the unethical practices of Cambridge Analytica—the now-defunct British digital black-ops firm that harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of voters for the use of Team Trump.The leaked files show that Black Americans were disproportionately marked ‘Deterrence’ by the 2016 campaig

Professor ripped for suggesting Amy Coney Barrett is a ‘White coloniser’ who uses two Black children as ‘props’

Academic facing calls for firing after Twitter posts about Supreme Court nominee from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3id6tDI

NYPD officers charge at group of protesters and diners, arresting people on sidewalk

Police say they "responded to a large disorderly group obstructing vehicular traffic," but video of the incident appeared to show a different scene. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30avmdm

Two People Injured After Driver Speeds Into Southern California Protest

A man and a woman suffered "major injuries" after the car struck them and were transported to the hospital, but are expected to survive from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3l4LQMb

Fact check: Kentucky attorney general is not married to a relative of Mitch McConnell

Viral posts on Facebook falsely suggest that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's wife is a niece or granddaughter of the powerful senator. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3486PH4

Why Democrats probably won't boycott Supreme Court confirmation hearings

As Democrats try to beat the odds and prevent the confirmation of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee (almost certainly Amy Coney Barrett) before the November presidential election, some lawmakers and activists have suggested boycotting the Senate Judicary Committee hearings, which are tentatively scheduled for the middle of October. Just don't expect the idea to gain much traction, The Washington Post reports, especially among Democrats who sit on the committee.Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has said he will forego the standard courtesy visit, in which the nominee meets with senators individually, but he does intend to participate in the hearings and he believes "all my Judiciary colleagues will."The risks of skipping out on the hearings seem to outweigh the potential reward, per the Post. If Democrats don't go, Republicans would likely move swiftly though the questioning and toward a committee vote.More specifically, though, a boycott could prevent Sen. K

Utah family sues police, claiming 'gratuitous violence'

The family of a Utah man who was shot at nearly 30 times and killed as he ran from police filed a lawsuit Friday against Salt Lake City and its police department. The family of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal family allege the officers engaged in “gratuitous violence” by shooting at him between 27 and 29 times after he was already on the ground and incapacitated. “Despite the family’s attempts to negotiate, it is apparent that the SLCPD and the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office (are) not interested in real reform,” the family’s attorneys wrote in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3j4o4iL

China's Xi says 'happiness' in Xinjiang on the rise, will keep teaching 'correct' outlook

Chinese President Xi Jinping said levels of happiness among all ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang are rising and that China plans to keep teaching its residents a "correct" outlook on China, Xinhua news agency reported late on Saturday. China has come under scrutiny over its treatment of Uighur Muslims and claims of alleged forced-labour abuses in Xinjiang, where the United Nations cites credible reports as saying one million Muslims held in camps have been put to work. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/349E6BI