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Sep 21, 2020
The US president bragged about appointing judges, audio reveals, talking to journalist Bob Woodward.
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Sep 21, 2020
World leaders will come together, virtually, on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, as the deadly coronavirus pandemic challenges the effectiveness and solidarity of the 193-member world body. As COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year, began to spread around the world, forcing millions of people to shelter at home and dealing a devastating economic blow, countries turned inward and diplomats say the United Nations struggled to assert itself. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters that the pandemic has exposed the world's fragilities.
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Sep 20, 2020
In new guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the coronavirus spreads mainly through respiratory aerosols, small particles that apparently can remain suspended in the air and inhaled.
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Sep 20, 2020
The men were working to help dispose of the many unexploded World War Two bombs on the islands.
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Sep 20, 2020
Protesters gathered on Sunday in drought-hit northern Mexico in an attempt to retain control of a dam key to government efforts to diffuse tensions over a water sharing pact with the United States. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has been working to maintain a good relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Friday that Mexico has to comply with its obligations. Under the 1944 treaty, Mexico must deliver 1,750,000 acre-feet of water to the United States over a five-year period.
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Sep 20, 2020
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday lifted all coronavirus restrictions across the country, except in second-wave hotspot Auckland, as the number of new infections slowed to a trickle. "Our actions collectively have managed to get the virus under control," she told reporters in Auckland. New Zealand, a nation of five million, appeared to have halted community transmission of COVID-19 earlier this year, but a fresh outbreak in Auckland in August prompted the government to place the city back in lockdown.
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Sep 20, 2020
Jake Gardner was facing manslaughter and other charges in the fatal shooting of James Scurlock on May 30 during protests in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Sep 20, 2020
A humpback whale has found its way back to sea weeks after it got lost in a murky, crocodile-infested river in northern Australia. 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. The last of the trio managed to navigate its way through shallow channels at the broad river mouth and back into Van Diemen Gulf over the weekend, Kakadu National Park manager Feach Moyle said. "It made its way out on the high tides and we're pleased it appeared to be in good condition and not suffering any ill effects," Moyle said in a statement. Humpbacks follow the western Australian coast in their annual migration from the tropics to Antarctica. A group of recreational sailors first spotted the lost trio on Sept. 2 more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the river mouth. Two of the whales had disappeared before wildlife authorities arrived a week later. Northern Territory government whale and dolphin scientist Carol Palmer said it was a mystery why a whale would stray so far up a shallow river full of crocodiles. "It could have been chased up by some big sharks or maybe it was just a wrong turn," Palmer said. Despite the river's name, there are no alligators in Australia. It was named after the river's many crocodiles by European explorers who apparently couldn't tell the difference. Authoriti
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Sep 20, 2020
"What started as intense flu-like symptoms escalated within the week to a hospital stay," said her family.
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Sep 20, 2020
Egypt's antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 sarcophagi in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo that had lain buried for 2,500 years.
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Sep 20, 2020
A Canadian company debuts a powerful new capability to monitor the potent greenhouse gas.
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Sep 20, 2020
Biden pleaded with Republican senators to not push a nominee through, saying such an action would push the country "deeper into the abyss."
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Sep 20, 2020
Three deeply conservative women judges have emerged as President Trump's short list to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.
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Sep 20, 2020
As a judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett, 48, has voted in favor of one of Trump's hardline immigration policies and shown support for expansive gun rights. Barrett indicated support for gun rights in a March 2019 dissenting opinion.
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Sep 20, 2020
Journalist Jeff Wise examines the type of prosecutions that Trump could face if he loses the presidential election
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Sep 20, 2020
Joyce Morley, a DeKalb County school board member, said those accusing her of making racially insensitive comments during a recent meeting are mishearing what she actually said. During an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday, Morley explained that video from the emotionally-charged board meeting shows her saying the word "rights" and not "whites" when discussing the school district's plans to reopen schools. During the Monday meeting in question, Cheryl Watson-Harris, DeKalb schools superintendent proposed that students and staff return to in-person learning as early as October, but on a part-time basis.
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Sep 20, 2020
The shooting that left 2 people dead and 14 others injured brought further tumult to a city already gripped by civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sep 20, 2020
The courthouse is reportedly among several Louisville buildings federal officials requested closed to prepare for the "possibility of civil backlash."
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Sep 20, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death less than two months before the election has fueled a fierce debate over the timing of her replacement.
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Sep 20, 2020
The line to succeed Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court starts with these five federal appeals court judges.
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Sep 20, 2020
Thousands of Israelis resumed their weekly protest Sunday outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in central Jerusalem, despite a new nationwide lockdown order aimed at curbing a raging coronavirus outbreak. An exception allowing people to hold public demonstrations was included in the three-week lockdown imposed last Friday. Thousands of Israelis have participated in the protests throughout the summer, calling on Netanyahu to resign while he is on trial for corruption charges and accusing him of bungling the country's coronavirus crisis.
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Sep 20, 2020
The ban on the Chinese-owned messaging and payments apps was to come in on Sunday night.
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Sep 20, 2020
The signs had been displayed over the summer by a political action committee called "Arizona Republicans Who Believe In Treating Others With Respect."
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Sep 20, 2020
Both the Portland Police Bureau and Mayor Ted Wheeler denied using tear gas against protesters after Wheeler's order to ban it.
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Sep 20, 2020
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gary Kirby, the owner of Westside Sports Bar and Lounge in West Melbourne, Florida started banning masks on September 11. Taking a hard stand against customers wearing face coverings inside his business, Kirby placed a sign on his door that prohibits masks upon entry. Residents of West Melbourne, which is in Brevard County, are encouraged to wear a mask and follow the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recommendations, Don Walker, the communications director for Brevard County told Fox News.
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Sep 20, 2020
The man told one of the women he had inappropriate photos of her, police say.
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Sep 20, 2020
All is not lost yet. But gear up for a fight
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Sep 20, 2020
An Oregon town has recruited a herd of goats to head off the risk of another wildfire. According to the latest estimate, more than 938,000 acres of land were destroyed by the blazes which swept through the state in the north-west of the US. Forest City, a town with around 25,000 inhabitants 25 miles west of Portland, is taking drastic measures to ensure it does not suffer the same fate as other parts of the state. The 230 goats are set to start work this week, chomping through the vegetation in a 14-acre grove which has been earmarked for use as a city park. They have been hired from a company called Healing Hooves, based in Washington State which rents out its goats to landowners in the region. Renting the goats costs around $800 (£489) a day, not counting the costs of transportation. The animals are corralled by an electric fence. The goats are marshalled by Craig Madsen, who has been going the work for more than 18 years. As fires raged across California and Oregon, Donald Trump said poor land management by local authorities was to blame for the spread of the flames. Ecologists believe removing excess vegetation, especially near power lines and timber, is one way of minimising the risk of a catastrophic wildfire. Mr Madsen believes his herd of goats can clear an acre of brush in about a day and a half. The terrain at Forest City is ideal for his team. "Some of the grove backs onto people's yards. It's pretty steep, but goats don't mind fences and slopes," Mr Madsen told the Telegraph. "They chew up the undergrowth and if i
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Sep 20, 2020
A British bomb disposal expert has been killed in an explosion in the Solomon Islands. Luke Atkinson, 57, was working for Norwegian People's Aid, an 81-year-old humanitarian organisation, specialising in mine disposal and relief aid. Mr Atkinson, from London, was a programme manager working on creating a database of unexploded ordnance, dating back to the Second World War. Trent Lee, an Australian in his 40s who was a chemical weapons adviser, was also killed. Police are working overnight to clear the site of the explosion in a residential area of Honiara, the Solomon Islands capital. The blast could reportedly be heard three miles away, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. "Explosives ordinance disposal officers will have to render the scene safe before forensics and other investigators access the scene to find out what happened," Inspector Clifford Tunuki said. According to ABC, investigators are trying to ascertain why the explosives were taken to a flat, which serves as the project office. The Solomon Islands, which was a major battleground in the war, is strewn with unexploded ordnance and workers have been trying to clear the site ahead of the 2023 Pacific Games. "There is a worldwide problem with the remnants of war all kinds of munition are left after conflict and it takes a tremendous toll on societies," Per Nergaard, the deputy general secretary of Norwegian People's Aid, told the Telegraph. "We have been doing for the last 25 years. We are among the largest in the humanitarian fie
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Sep 20, 2020
Spirit Airlines reiterates its policy for wearing only CDC-approved masks during the COVID-19 pandemic after a passenger insists on wearing a gaiter.
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Sep 20, 2020
Fox News' Mark Levin discusses the controversy over appointing a new Supreme Court justice in place of Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 presidential election.
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Sep 20, 2020
The US military has sent half a dozen armored vehicles on a 90-day mission to reinforce its troops in eastern Syria, less than a month after four US soldiers were injured during an altercation with Russian troops in the area. The military said fewer than 100 soldiers would accompany the vehicles. There are currently less than 1,000 US troops in Syria, a number that has remained approximately the same since the end of the US military offensive that deprived the Islamic State [IS] of most of the territory in Syria. Russia has deployed military forces to Syria in support of the Syrian regime, while US troops conduct joint patrols and operations with the Syrian Democratic Forces, a militia it backed in 2015 to fight against IS. The US and Russia have previously clashed with each other in Syria, such as a 2017 incident that led to the deaths of around 300 Russian military contractors. "The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation in Syria, but will defend Coalition forces if necessary," said Captain Bill Urban, a spokesman for the US military's Central Command. Also on Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Turkey to investigate war crimes committed by groups it backs in northern Syria. Turkey began launching major military operations in 2016 in order to remove Syrian Kurdish militia groups, including the US-supported SDF, from areas they controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border.
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Sep 20, 2020
A Finnish passenger cruise ship was evacuated on Sunday after it ran aground off the island of Aland in the Baltic Sea, the cruise line and emergency services said Sunday.
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Sep 20, 2020
Things got tense on the latest episode of ABC's "The View" when a Black Republican candidate for the U.S. House accused one a co-host of wearing blackface. Kim Klacik, who is running to represent Maryland's 7th Congressional District that includes part of Baltimore, got into a heated exchange with the group of women hosts after she lodged the claim against Joy Behar. The late Elijah Cummings represented the district from 1996 to 2019.
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Sep 20, 2020
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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Sep 20, 2020
John Swinney has been warned against inflicting "even more damage" on Scotland's pupils after it emerged he is planning to scale back next year's exams. Mr Swinney is expected to cancel next year's National 5 exams, with around 80,000 pupils awarded their certificates on the basis of coursework only. The Deputy First Minister is also considering plans to scale back Highers, the gold standard of the Scottish education system, basing them on a shorter school year with fewer areas of some subjects being covered. But parents' group Us For Them Scotland, which helped force Mr Swinney into a U-turn on reopening schools, said children could not afford to have "their exams disrupted again." In a letter to the Education Secretary, the group said it was unfair to leave them "hanging this way" and urged to make an "unequivocal statement" the 2021 exam diet will go ahead as normal. The Scottish Tories said Mr Swinney's "plan A" must be to press ahead with the exams and "exhaust all avenues before scrapping them." Mr Swinney is expected to outline his plans before the October school holidays, which starts in three weeks, but the Conservatives urged him to make an urgent Holyrood statement.
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Sep 20, 2020
Lake Ozark Mayor Gerry Murawski said last week that he didn't expect motorcyclists to wear masks to Bikefest because "that's just the way they are."
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Sep 20, 2020
Already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic and a tightened deadline, the Census Bureau must now contend with several natural disasters as wildfires and hurricanes disrupt the final weeks of the nation's once-a-decade headcount. The fires on the West Coast forced tens of thousands of people to flee homes in California and Oregon before they could be counted, and tens of thousands of others were uncounted in Louisiana communities hit hard last month by Hurricane Laura. Nearly a quarter million more households were uncounted in areas affected this week by Hurricane Sally.
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Sep 20, 2020
Trump made similar remarks in 2016, saying, "I don't think I'm going to lose, but if I do, I don't think you're ever going to see me again."
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Sep 20, 2020
The remarks came as President Trump promised to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday.
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Sep 20, 2020
"Well, we have our options," Pelosi told ABC's "This Week." "We have arrows in our quiver that I'm not about to discuss right now."
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Sep 20, 2020
Students in Iowa's largest school system are facing the possibility that this most unusual school year could stretch into next summer, and the district could be hit with crippling bills because of a dispute with the governor over the safety of returning to classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic. Des Moines school officials have repeatedly refused to abide by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds' order requiring the state's 327 school districts to hold at least half their classes in-person rather than online. For Des Moines, it's a question of trying to keep its more than 33,000 students and 5,000 staffers from contracting the disease.
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Sep 20, 2020
Two-thirds of Americans say they are likely to get coronavirus vaccine
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Sep 20, 2020
A train derailed after coming into contact with debris on the roadbed as it was pulling into a subway station in Manhattan Sunday morning, according to the MTA.
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Sep 20, 2020
Thousands of starfish washed up on Navarre Beach after Hurricane Sally, a grim parting gift from the tropical cyclone that devastated the Florida Panhandle earlier this week.
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Sep 20, 2020
Test teams of soldiers will attempt to reduce the time it takes to see and hit targets to less than 20 seconds.
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Sep 20, 2020
Officials say letters came from Canada, as they investigate female suspect
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Sep 20, 2020
Sound science "will be the sole basis" for safe and effective therapies to be adopted, the WHO says.
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Sep 20, 2020
The firefighter died after going missing in the San Bernardino National Forest. Those at the party could face charges for the death, say investigators.
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Sep 20, 2020
An election official said that voters had been escorted into the polling center because they felt intimidated by protesters, who had gathered outside.
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Sep 20, 2020
Biden leads by 8 among registered voters in the newest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Sep 20, 2020
As American virus deaths near 200,000, president praises his ‘D grade' pandemic response
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Sep 20, 2020
Robert W. Gore's invention has been used in space suits, guitar strings and waterproof jackets.
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Sep 20, 2020
Four years ago, the allure of conservative Supreme Court appointments helped persuade skeptical Republicans to support Donald Trump for president. Two years ago, a contentious clash over Trump's choice of Brett Kavanaugh for the court was credited with bolstering GOP gains in the Senate in an otherwise bad midterm election.
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Sep 20, 2020
The US military has sent half a dozen armored vehicles on a 90-day mission to reinforce its troops in eastern Syria, less than a month after four US soldiers were injured during an altercation with Russian troops in the area. The military said fewer than 100 soldiers would accompany the vehicles. There are currently less than 1,000 US troops in Syria, a number that has remained approximately the same since the end of the US military offensive that deprived the Islamic State [IS] of most of the territory in Syria. Russia has deployed military forces to Syria in support of the Syrian regime, while US troops conduct joint patrols and operations with the Syrian Democratic Forces, a militia it backed in 2015 to fight against IS. The US and Russia have previously clashed with each other in Syria, such as a 2017 incident that led to the deaths of around 300 Russian military contractors. "The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation in Syria, but will defend Coalition forces if necessary," said Captain Bill Urban, a spokesman for the US military's Central Command. Also on Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Turkey to investigate war crimes committed by groups it backs in northern Syria. Turkey began launching major military operations in 2016 in order to remove Syrian Kurdish militia groups, including the US-supported SDF, from areas they controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border.
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Sep 20, 2020
The Czech government could declare a state of emergency if a recent spike in coronavirus cases continues in the coming days, Health Minister Adam Vojtech said. The Czech Republic's daily count of new coronavirus cases has reached record highs in recent days and the country of 10.7 million had reported a total of 48,306 cases as of Saturday, Health Ministry data showed. "Should we need to have some deeper measures (against the epidemic), then the emergency state will be necessary," Vojtech said in a televised debate on Sunday.
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Sep 20, 2020
"Unity 2020" is an "intellectual dark web" star's plan to win the presidency and unite the country. But it has no candidates or ballot access.
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Sep 20, 2020
Military jets flew over central London and a memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, a major air campaign against Nazi Germany during World War II. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led the service, which was attended by under 100 guests — a much smaller audience compared to the 2,000 people usually invited to the annual event — to allow for social distancing. In a speech, Air Vice Marshal John Ellis honored public health workers in their fight "against an invisible army" as he compared the Battle of Britain with the country's current battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sep 20, 2020
'The system is broken and we know why.'
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Sep 20, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic began bearing down on the United States in March, President Donald Trump set out his expectations. If the U.S. could keep the death toll between 100,000 to 200,000 people, Trump said, it would indicate that his administration had "done a very good job."
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Sep 20, 2020
In August, the CDC reported that 94% of Americans who died of COVID-19 had underlying conditions. But that doesn't mean the virus only killed 6%.
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Sep 20, 2020
London is just "days away" from a lockdown that could see restrictions reimposed and commuters working from home, Sadiq Khan has said. The Mayor believes the capital could be just two or three days behind hotspots in the North West and North East of England. He has called on the Government to impose restrictions on bars and restaurants "sooner rather than later" and is planning to tell Londoners to work from home where people can. The number of cases per 100,000 people over seven days is reported to have increased in London from 18.8 to around 25, effectively an "amber" rather than "red" alert. However, other "soft data" such admissions to hospital and the NHS 111 line suggests that the capital is days rather than weeks behind other local lockdown areas. Officials from Department for Health and Mr Khan's office met yesterday to study the data and thrash out a potential strategy. "On the back of this data, Sadiq thinks the Government should be bringing in more restrictions probably sooner rather than later. The emphasis on that is to avoid a damaging, full lockdown which risks the economy," said a mayoral source. "The sort of restrictions that could make a difference in London involve similar ones to what we have seen in the North West and North East." A spokesman for the mayor said: "The situation is clearly worsening. Sadiq will meet council leaders on Monday and any London-specific measures will be recommended to ministers following that. "The Mayor wants fas
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Sep 20, 2020
The chef and restaurateur demonstrates for "Sunday Morning" viewers his rendition of a classic ground-beef-and-gravy dish
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Sep 20, 2020
The German humanitarian group Sea-Watch on Sunday condemned as politically motivated the blockade of its ship in the Sicilian port of Palermo by Italian authorities after an 11-hour inspection. It is the fifth rescue ship blocked by Italian authorities in as many months. The Sea-Watch 4 is operated by four humanitarian groups, including Sea-Watch and Doctors Without Borders.
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Sep 20, 2020
Tropical Storm Beta is moving towards the Texas coast and rain bands are likely today.
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Sep 20, 2020
Brazil's former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, barred from elected office due to corruption convictions, said he is open to backing any candidate who can beat far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections. "I am prepared to support any candidate who is committed to the working people of Brazil and against Bolsonaro," Lula told Reuters on Friday in an interview via video conference. Whether or not he himself runs in the next general election, Lula said depends on the courts.
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Sep 20, 2020
The 2020 winner must rebuild an economy slammed by COVID-19. Trump has an edge but Biden seeks to be the Main Street choice to Wall Street's Trump.
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Sep 20, 2020
Three people have died after Cyclone Ianos, a rare storm known as a medicane, battered Greece, flooding streets and homes, Greek authorities said on Sunday. Ianos uprooted trees and caused power cuts on the Ionian islands and the western Peloponnese. It swept through central Greece on Saturday, hitting the cities of Karditsa and Farsala before it moved south to the island of Crete.
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Sep 20, 2020
California once had far more Confederate monuments and place names than any state outside the South. Most have been removed.
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Sep 20, 2020
More than 130 Confederate monuments and other historic statues were taken down across three dozen states amid a wave of protests and calls for racial justice over the past four months.
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Sep 20, 2020
The US president says he will announce his nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg next week.
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Sep 20, 2020
"I can tell you that Puerto Rico's recovery, if it can be called that, didn't come thanks to the government," said a community social worker on the island.
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Sep 20, 2020
Oracle will take a 12.5% stake in TikTok Global and store all its U.S. user data in its cloud to comply with U.S. national security requirements, the companies said on Saturday. Retail giant Walmart said it would take a 7.5% stake.
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Sep 20, 2020
This is a joint investigation by The Daily Beast and the Dossier Center.Six men await trial in Moscow and Buenos Aires, charged with operating one of the craziest, most ambitious narco-trafficking rings in history. Russia's embassy in Argentina was the storage depot and Russian government transport was intended to move a cartel-sized consignment of virtually uncut cocaine from South America to Moscow. It was a transnational crime that astounded and confused the world, not least because authorities allege it was carried out by a small but resourceful cabal including one dirty embassy employee, one corrupt cop, and one charismatic chameleon who used some of the most secure Russian state real estate to store and smuggle $60 million worth of drugs. According to the official narrative, they did it all right under the noses of innocent diplomats and intelligence officers—and they would have gotten away with it without the plucky joint police work of Russian and Argentinian law enforcement. But what if that neat conclusion, which will soon be presented in court, is intentionally incomplete, a whitewash designed to protect more senior officials in the Russian government?The Daily Beast, in collaboration with the London-based Dossier Center, has obtained the documents from both the Russian and Argentinian investigations of the notorious 2018 cocaine bust, including hundreds of hours of telephone wiretap recordings, reams of witness and suspect interrogation transcripts, and
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Sep 20, 2020
In the trailer for First Kid, the forgettable 1996 comedy about a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the president's son, the title character, played by a teenage Brock Pierce, describes himself as "definitely the most powerful kid in the universe." Now, the former child star is running to be the most powerful man in the world, as an Independent candidate for President of the United States. Before First Kid, the Minnesota-born actor secured roles in a series of PG-rated comedies, playing a young Emilio Estevez in The Mighty Ducks, before graduating to smaller parts in movies like Problem Child 3: Junior in Love. When his screen time shrunk, Pierce retired from acting for a real executive role: co-founding the video production start-up Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) alongside businessman Marc Collins-Rector. At age 17, Pierce served as its vice president, taking in a base salary of $250,000.DEN became "the poster child for dot-com excesses," raising more than $60 million in seed investments and plotting a $75 million IPO. But it turned into a shorthand for something else when, in October of 1999, the three co-founders suddenly resigned. That month, a New Jersey man filed a lawsuit alleging Collins-Rector had molested him for three years beginning when he was 13 years old. The following summer, three teens filed a sexual-abuse lawsuit against Pierce, Collins-Rector, and their third co-founder, Chad Shackley. The
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Sep 20, 2020
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement the deadline for the ban has been moved to September 27 due to "recent positive developments."
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Sep 20, 2020
Relatives of some of the 12 Hong Kong people arrested by China at sea last month demanded the city's government check on their condition and ensure lawyers appointed by the families and not the Chinese government, can meet with them. The 12 were arrested on Aug. 23 for illegal entry into mainland Chinese waters after setting off from Hong Kong in a boat bound for self-ruled Taiwan. All were suspected of committing crimes in Hong Kong related to the anti-government protests that erupted last year.
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Sep 20, 2020
Pocket money app RoosterMoney said video games "Fortnite" and "Roblox" top the pocket money charts. Kids are also saving 14% more than last year.
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Sep 20, 2020
Britain is at a tipping point on COVID-19, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday, warning that a second national lockdown could be imposed if people don't follow government rules designed to stop the spread of the virus. COVID-19 cases have risen sharply in recent weeks to more than 4,000 per day, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling it a second wave and stricter lockdown measures being introduced in areas across the country. "The nation faces a tipping point and we have a choice," Hancock told Sky News.
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Sep 20, 2020
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday that there was no plan for her talk by telephone with new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, after a Japanese envoy had told Tsai that Suga might be open to it, prompting concern in Beijing. Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has close cultural and historic ties with Japan, though Japan, like most countries, recognises China's government in Beijing, not Taiwan's.
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Sep 20, 2020
Thousands of protesters who have flooded Belarusian cities for six weeks of demonstrations to demand an end to the 26-year rule of the country's authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko include people of all ages, professions and social groups. While younger people make up the bulk of the protests pushing for Lukashenko's resignation after the Aug. 9 vote that the opposition sees as rigged, many retirees also have joined the daily demonstrations. The 73-year-old former geologist has become one of the most recognizable faces of Belarus protests, fearlessly waving a huge red-and-white opposition flag in front of riot police.
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Sep 20, 2020
India's coronavirus case tally surged to 5.4 million as it added 92,605 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the federal health ministry showed on Sunday. The country has posted the highest single-day caseload in the world since early August, and lags behind only the United States, which has 6.7 million cases in terms of total infections. A total of 1,113 people died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said, taking mortalities to 86,752, which is a relatively low 1.6% of all cases.
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Sep 20, 2020
Protesters cement a "People's Plaque" in a park and march in Bangkok calling for political reforms.
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Sep 19, 2020
"This is not a party. This is a school," Edith Pride, an elementary school teacher in Boca Raton, Florida, reminded parents.
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Sep 19, 2020
"It's been a stressful week," said Monrovia resident Anna Howie. "I don't think I've gotten three or four hours of sleep each night."
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Sep 19, 2020
Canadian authorities said the man was going over 86 mph before being stopped, where police discovered fully reclined seats.
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Sep 19, 2020
U.S. has almost confirmed 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 as several states hit peaks in cases. Latest coronavirus news.
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Sep 19, 2020
Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin are believed to be the first set of conjoined twins in Michigan to be successfully separated.
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Sep 19, 2020
As Pensacola copes with effects of Sally, three storms are active in an exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season.
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Sep 19, 2020
Fire crews are having trouble getting a handle on the wildfire burning in three Northern California counties. Overnight, crews said a spot fire near Forbestown crossed the south fork of the Feather River -- burning about 400 acres. That prompted the Yuba County Sheriff's Office to issue a "re-notification" of mandatory evacuation orders. It said the fire situation outside Yuba County's northwest border is unstable and continues to creep closer to neighboring communities. During its most recent briefing on this portion of the fire, Cal Fire said the flames that jumped the south fork of the Feather River were "resisting control" and that their focus Saturday would be attacking that spot fire. Watch the video in the player above to hear from people feeling the impact of the fire and the ongoing evacuation orders in place.
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Sep 19, 2020
Biden surrogate Max Baucus discusses how the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg impacts the Biden-Harris campaign.
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Sep 19, 2020
Janusz Walus killed anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, sparking fears of a racial civil war.
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Sep 19, 2020
Barbara Lagoa would bring lengthy judicial experience and two potential political benefits: She is a Cuban American from a battleground state.
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Sep 19, 2020
Federal officials have not announced why at least two buildings are closing to the public, but there is anticipation of a possible announcement on the Breonna Taylor investigation.
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Sep 19, 2020
The new company will be called TikTok, and it would be headquartered in Texas.
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Sep 19, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a fearless fighter for abortion rights.
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Sep 19, 2020
We'll enjoy some fantastic weather Saturday ahead of impacts from Tropical Storm Beta.
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Sep 19, 2020
As Pensacola copes with effects of Sally, three storms are active in an exceptionally busy Atlantic hurricane season.
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Sep 19, 2020
Just as many Jews in the United States were sitting down to a post-sunset Rosh Hashanah dinner on Friday, preparing to dip apples in honey to signal the sweetness of the year to come, news came of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Ginsburg, the first female Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court, died on one of the holiest days in Judaism, as many of the country's nearly six million Jews welcomed the new year 5781, based on the Hebrew calendar. "I heard of Ruth's death while I was reciting the Mourner's Kaddish at the Rosh Hashanah service," fellow Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said in a statement, referring to a prayer in memory of the dead.
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Sep 19, 2020
Our Supreme Court reporter recalls the private side of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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