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Sep 19, 2020
Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a new conservative Supreme Court justice could could change the course of the U.S. judicial branch for decades to come.
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Sep 19, 2020
Now in control of both the White House and Senate, Republicans want badly to nominate and confirm a justice within a matter of weeks. And they are determined to do so.
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Sep 19, 2020
Julie Cohen, the director of the 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, says the late justice's legacy will carry far beyond the steps of the Supreme Court.
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Sep 19, 2020
In 2008, CIA operative Stephen Stanek faced a decision: cancel the operation he was running or go forward with it — as a hurricane barreled through the Philippines with a projection to veer north and miss his team's area of operation.
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Sep 18, 2020
Hours after the announcement that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died Friday evening, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that if President Trump made a nomination, as he is expected to, McConnell would bring it up in the Senate, where Republicans have a 53-47 majority.
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Sep 18, 2020
Tributes and remembrances poured in across Washington on Friday night for the iconic liberal justice and champion for women's rights who died of complications from pancreatic cancer at 87.
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Sep 18, 2020
Mitch McConnell vowed to hold a vote on a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the most important question is whether he has the votes to confirm a Supreme Court Justice only six weeks before the presidential election.
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Sep 18, 2020
In an extraordinary moment following his rally in Minnesota on Friday night, the president appeared to be caught off guard when a reporter informed him of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 18, 2020
In an extraordinary moment following his rally in Minnesota on Friday night, the president appeared to be caught off guard when a reporter informed him of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 18, 2020
Appointed to the high court in 1993 by then President Bill Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg quickly became one of the most respected justices in history, one whose intelligence, incisive opinions and dissents on an increasingly conservative court made her a liberal and feminist icon.
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Sep 18, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal justice who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999, died Friday, the court announced in a statement.
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Sep 18, 2020
While the president's team touts its efforts to court a community that Republicans have long ignored, critics describe them as part of a cynical "depression campaign" designed to minimize Black American turnout.
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Sep 18, 2020
While the president's team touts its efforts to court a community that Republicans have long ignored, critics describe them as part of a cynical "depression strategy" designed to minimize Black American turnout.
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Sep 18, 2020
Joe Biden's support among Latinos is lagging in a few crucial swing states, potentially opening a path for President Trump to pull off another electoral college win.
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Sep 18, 2020
A Michigan judge ruled Friday that if a mail-in ballot is postmarked by Nov. 2, the day before the election, election officials must count it if it arrives by the end of the day on Nov. 16.
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Sep 18, 2020
Over recent days, officials from the U.S. Space Force and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed congressional committees on an "uptick" in Russian military activity in space targeting U.S. defense and intelligence satellites.
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Sep 18, 2020
Both Republicans and Democrats harbor grave and growing doubts about whether the upcoming election will accurately reflect the will of the people.
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Sep 18, 2020
Voting by mail This year, election and public health experts highly recommend voting by mail.
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Sep 18, 2020
The programs Rufo targeted are intended to improve communication, defuse tensions and promote equal opportunities among co-workers of different races and ethnicities, and are analogous, or identical to, similar programs that have been a staple of corporate human relations departments for decades.
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Sep 18, 2020
Just 20 percent of Trump voters with mostly Biden-backing neighbors say those neighbors would be surprised by their support for Trump. Among Biden voters in Trump country, however, that number is 10 points higher (30 percent).
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Sep 17, 2020
The ICE detention center where alleged forced hysterectomies took place has a checkered history of inmate abuse claims. New victims of the prison gynecologist have come forward.
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Sep 17, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden is hoping that barbershop conversations will equate to an increase in voter turnout for the Democratic presidential nominee among Black men in November.
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Sep 17, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden is hoping that barbershop conversations will equate to an increase in voter turnout for the Democratic presidential nominee among Black men in November.
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Sep 17, 2020
In a wide-ranging interview on the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast Thursday, Woodward said the president's efforts to undermine the public's confidence in the election could result in his refusal to leave office.
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Sep 17, 2020
A Texas police officer was indicted this week in the death of Pamela Turner, a Black woman who was killed outside her apartment more than a year ago.
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Sep 17, 2020
Russia is mounting "very active efforts" to interfere with the U.S. election to benefit President Trump, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress Thursday.
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Sep 17, 2020
NPR reported Wednesday that a senior military police officer had asked about the possibility of obtaining the nonlethal weapons to use against protesters near the White House in early June.
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Sep 17, 2020
Hazardous smoke from wildfires across the West is presenting the latest danger for the men and women who pick America's fruit and vegetable crops.
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Sep 17, 2020
In a wide-ranging live interview on the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast Thursday, the "Rage" author said the president does not have the capacity "to assess what's real and what's unreal."
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Sep 17, 2020
Lockdowns and protective measures like the widespread wearing of face masks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have driven influenza infections to record lows, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
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Sep 17, 2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is presenting a distorted account of President Donald Trump's words on the coronavirus, wrongly suggesting Trump branded the virus a hoax. In fact, Trump pronounced Democratic criticism of his pandemic response a hoax. Biden tweeted a video mashup of Trump's rhetoric on the crisis, sampling the many times the president has underplayed the severity of the pandemic.
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Sep 17, 2020
As President Trump continues to insist that college campuses are "low risk" environments for students, doctors and public health experts caution that coronavirus infection may carry long-term effects even for otherwise healthy young adults.
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Sep 16, 2020
President Trump said CDC Director Robert Redfield "made a mistake" about when a COVID-19 vaccine would be ready.
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Sep 16, 2020
If Pennsylvania has a repeat performance of its primary, America is in trouble. Election results in Pennsylvania's June 2 primary took weeks to be announced. But state officials told Yahoo News they're confident that results won't take as long to be announced in the fall election.
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Sep 16, 2020
San Francisco may soon become the first major American city to lower its voting age to 16. Should the rest of the country follow suit?
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Sep 16, 2020
President Trump has tapped a climate skeptic to help run the federal agency charged with overseeing the government's research on climate change.
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Sep 16, 2020
Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, Dr. Robert Redfield strongly disputed that the CDC's scientific research has been influenced by political appointees attempting to bring those findings in line with President Trump's views.
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Sep 16, 2020
"This face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine," Redfield said, referring to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. "if I don't get an immune response, the vaccine's not going to protect me. This face mask will."
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Sep 16, 2020
Tune in here on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 12:30 p.m. ET.
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Sep 16, 2020
Tune in here on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 12:30 p.m. ET.
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Sep 16, 2020
Tune in here on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 12:30 p.m. ET.
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Sep 16, 2020
The author and investigative journalist sat down with the Yahoo News "Skullduggery" podcast for a wide-ranging discussion conversation about "Rage," his new book on the Trump presidency.
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Sep 15, 2020
A large number of Americans say they won't feel safe taking a vaccine for coronavirus once one is available. Can their lack of trust be fixed or will vaccine skepticism make herd immunity impossible?
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Sep 15, 2020
The family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Ky., apartment earlier this year, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the city for $12 million that includes an agreement to implement a number of police reforms.
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Sep 15, 2020
For weeks, residents up and down the West Coast have been checking forecasts to find out when the suffocating, hazardous wildfire smoke will shift and allow them to once again open their doors and windows.
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Sep 15, 2020
A Black seventh grader from Colorado had the police called to his house for playing with a toy gun during virtual art class. His mom, Dani Elliott, believes that if anyone did anything wrong, it was the school.
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Sep 15, 2020
A disciple of Nixonian "dirty trickster" Roger Stone, Caputo has worked for Oliver North, Russian energy giant Gazprom and, most recently, Trump, joining his presidential campaign back when few were taking that campaign seriously.
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Sep 15, 2020
The magazine on Tuesday announced the first presidential endorsement in its 175-year history. Its editors said they felt "compelled" to do so because President Trump's rejection of science has cost tens of thousands of American lives.
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Sep 15, 2020
Joe Biden is heading to Florida on Tuesday amid worries about his campaign's Latino outreach operation. Recent polls there have seen Biden's lead dwindle to just about 1 percent, in large part due to soft support among Latinos.
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Sep 14, 2020
A top adviser to Joe Biden applauded the Trump administration's role in helping to broker the new peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
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Sep 14, 2020
Scrutiny of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy intensified on Monday amid new reports alleging improper business dealings and persistent charges that the longtime Republican donor is subverting postal operations in order to make mail-in voting difficult in November's presidential election.
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Sep 14, 2020
The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals that less than a third of Americans (32 percent) say they plan to get vaccinated, a stunning 23-point decline that reflects rising concern about the politicization of the vaccine process.
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Sep 14, 2020
The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals that less than a third of Americans (32 percent) say they plan to get vaccinated, a stunning 23-point decline that reflects rising concern about the politicization of the vaccine process.
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Sep 14, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unsuccessfully pressed President Donald Trump on Monday to acknowledge that climate change is making wildfires worse across much of the West Coast.
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Sep 14, 2020
Why not just let the American people choose our president directly, instead of relying on some clumsy work-around to the Constitution known as the Electoral College?
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Sep 14, 2020
Tune in here on Sept. 15 at 1 p.m. ET for "Count us in," a lively 40-minute discussion aimed at inspiring and informing the Latinx community to stand up and be counted — in the U.S. census and in the presidential election.
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Sep 13, 2020
The Joint Operations Center inside Fort Meade in Maryland is the nerve center for both the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency as they do cyber battle.
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Sep 12, 2020
President Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he was deliberately downplaying the risks of the coronavirus in the early months of the pandemic. What impact will these statements have?
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Sep 11, 2020
Donald Trump has fallen further behind Joe Biden following bombshell reports that the president knowingly misled Americans about the dangers of COVID-19 and privately disparaged dead U.S. soldiers as "suckers" and "losers," according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
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Sep 11, 2020
Two of the most senior officials involved in planning the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden warned Thursday that a U.S. pullout from Afghanistan would result in a Taliban takeover within a year.
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Sep 11, 2020
Attorneys for George Floyd's family on Friday refuted defense claims that Floyd died of complications stemming from a drug overdose while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers in May.
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Sep 11, 2020
The new findings could help shape the debate about how to reopen schools safely as the coronavirus continues to sicken thousands and kill hundreds daily.
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Sep 11, 2020
For at least a few hours Friday, the 2020 presidential race was put on pause to honor 9/11 victims on the 19th anniversary of the terror attacks.
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Sep 11, 2020
Mark Zaid said Department of Homeland Security whistleblower Brian Murphy was told he was being demoted because it would help acting Secretary Chad Wolf politically.
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Sep 11, 2020
As the revelations by journalist Bob Woodward of how President Trump misled the American people about the severity of the coronavirus reverberated this week, the Biden campaign did its best to keep the story alive with scathing digital advertising.
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Sep 11, 2020
Dozens of wildfires in Oregon have forced the evacuation of 500,000-plus residents, prompting Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler to declare a state of emergency.
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Sep 11, 2020
Suburban policing accounts for a disproportionate amount of violence against people of color, with officers rarely punished.
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Sep 11, 2020
"I am concerned about indoor dining, even at 25% capacity," says Linsey Marr, a leading aerosol scientist at Virginia Tech who was not involved in the new CDC study. "Restaurants are the worst of all situations," she says, because people don't wear face masks while eating and drinking. They also tend to talk loudly, which is associated with increased pathogenic spread.
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Sep 11, 2020
Those tuning in to high-profile House hearings often find them most interesting toward the end, when junior representatives start asking questions.
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Sep 10, 2020
On the eve of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a federal judge directed the Saudi Arabian government to make as many as 24 current and former officials available for depositions about their possible knowledge of events leading up to the airplane attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Sep 10, 2020
For the fourth straight year, fire season, as it is called in California, has millions of residents in the nation's most populous state on edge.
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Sep 10, 2020
President Trump's swipe at military leaders for being beholden to the defense industry came from a commander in chief who has demonstrated a marked preference for appointing defense industry executives to senior Pentagon positions.
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Sep 10, 2020
"Part of the reason why I wrote the book is that I was grappling with my own despair and disillusionment" after the election of Donald Trump, Eddie Glaude said in an interview on "The Long Game," a Yahoo News podcast.
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Sep 10, 2020
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins from Louisiana and Jaime Harrison from South Carolina envision a "new South" to address issues they say have been largely ignored by their longtime incumbent opponents.
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Sep 10, 2020
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins from Louisiana and Jaime Harrison from South Carolina envision a "new South" to address issues they say have been largely ignored by their longtime incumbent opponents.
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Sep 10, 2020
The president said he downplayed the threat of the coronavirus because he never wants to "create panic." But his administration, campaign and Twitter feed stir it at seemingly every turn.
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Sep 10, 2020
While more studies are needed, researchers and doctors throughout the country are warning of a likely connection between COVID-19 and a serious heart condition.
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Sep 10, 2020
The FBI is warning police nationwide to expect an increase in election-related threats — and, potentially, violent attacks — from domestic extremists, according to a recent bulletin reviewed by Yahoo News.
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Sep 10, 2020
What would President Trump have to do to get banned from Twitter? This episode of Yahoo News' "Conspiracyland" examines that question in the context of Trump pushing painful conspiracies about a former aide to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
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Sep 09, 2020
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton believes that the president's failure to level with Americans about the gravity of the coronavirus is emblematic of his tendency to make decisions solely on what "will affect him politically.".
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Sep 09, 2020
Experts have long feared that colder weather and other factors could create a fall wave of the coronavirus with the potential to dwarf previous peaks — and America's most prominent COVID-19 modelers are projecting just that. So is it time to freak out about the fall? Maybe not just yet.
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Sep 09, 2020
A whistleblower has alleged that President Trump's acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary ordered him to hold back intelligence on Russian election interference because it "made the President look bad."
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Sep 09, 2020
Attorney General William Barr says crime is down in Chicago and Operation Legend is restoring order to the city. The data, however, shows there may not be much to celebrate.
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Sep 09, 2020
President Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that he misled the American public about the threat of COVID-19 earlier this year in order to "reduce panic" about a virus that has so far killed nearly 200,000 people in the U.S.
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Sep 09, 2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden responded to a series of bombshell revelations about President Trump on Wednesday, saying that audiotapes recorded by veteran journalist Bob Woodward showed Trump "failed to do his job on purpose."
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Sep 09, 2020
The screening operations have been held at select airports since January.
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Sep 09, 2020
WASHINGTON--Key battleground states "face the risk of serious problems" in the Nov. 3 presidential election, House Democrats warned on Wednesday. The warning comes ahead of a House hearing on electoral integrity, and amid worries of how millions will vote across the nation in the midst of the pandemic. The new report, from the coronavirus subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee, examined election preparedness in Texas, Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin.
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Sep 09, 2020
The former Republican governor of Pennsylvania on Wednesday called on that state's legislature to make a small change to how mail-in ballots are counted that could make a huge difference in how quickly election results are reported in November. Ridge, along with former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, sent an open letter to the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania legislature asking them to allow election clerks to prepare mail ballots for counting before Election Day.
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Sep 09, 2020
President Trump and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough have had a tumultuous relationship that ultimately became one of the bitterest feuds of the Trump presidency — a clash that is examined in detail in this episode of Yahoo News' "Conspiracyland."
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Sep 08, 2020
Entering the home stretch of his reelection campaign, President Trump told supporters in North Carolina Tuesday that Democrat Kamala Harris "could never be your first woman president."
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Sep 08, 2020
As recent authoritarian transformations in other countries have shown, there is a route to power through encouraging politicized violence.
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Sep 08, 2020
Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville pushed back on President Trump's assertion that senior military leaders are eager to fight wars to benefit defense contractors.
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Sep 08, 2020
President Trump traveled to Florida on Tuesday and pitched himself as a strong defender of the environment.
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Sep 08, 2020
Chief La'Ron Singletary announced his retirement Tuesday after scrutiny over the death of a Black man in police custody.
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Sep 08, 2020
While the White House recently said Congress's intelligence oversight committees would no longer be personally briefed on foreign threats to elections, it seems the Senate may still get direct access to intelligence officials.
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Sep 08, 2020
A month after 460,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, S.D., researchers have found that thousands have been sickened across the nation, leading them to brand the rally a "superspreader" event that will involve more than $12 billion in health care costs.
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Sep 08, 2020
A month after 460,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, S.D., researchers have found that thousands have been sickened across the nation, leading them to brand the rally a "superspreader" event that will involve more than $12 billion in health care costs.
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Sep 08, 2020
An explosive report accused President Trump of making repeated disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military. Will the allegations hurt his reelection chances?
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Sep 08, 2020
The widower of a former aide to Joe Scarborough said the conspiracy theories about the death of his wife have caused the family pain and anguish.
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