| Prominent Trump backer, evangelical minister Jeffress admits Biden has won Posted: 11 Nov 2020 11:57 AM PST  Evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress has become one of the few high-profile supporters of President Trump to admit in public that the election was won by Joe Biden — and to urge his followers to pray for (rather than against) him.
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| What we can learn from the Amish about coronavirus Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:00 AM PST  The outbreak is indicative of what happens when people gather in small social situations — something millions of lockdown-weary Americans are eager to do, regardless of whether they are Amish or not.
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| AOC’s Twitter explodes after posting single photo in response to Senator’s rejection of ‘crazy socialist agenda’ Posted: 12 Nov 2020 03:15 PM PST  'Defund the police? Defund, my butt,' Joe Manchin tweeted
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| ‘Horrific’: Florida man shoots girlfriend, plus roommate who tried to help, police say Posted: 11 Nov 2020 12:36 PM PST  A woman tried in vain to save her housemate who was killed by her boyfriend in their home Sunday morning in the Central Florida city of Bartow, deputies said.
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| Cracker Barrel apologized and removed a noose-like decoration hanging from the ceiling after a customer called the chain out Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:52 AM PST  The restaurant chain has said the decoration was "an antique soldering iron with an original wrapped cord." The decoration has since been taken down.
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| 'Defying the odds': 51-year-old woman gives birth to her own granddaughter Posted: 12 Nov 2020 12:16 PM PST  Julie Loving, 51, carried her daughter's child through gestational surrogacy. After a Nov. 2 delivery, everyone is doing "fantastic and healthy."
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| Dad: Teen, found dead in Malaysia, couldn't survive jungle Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST  The father of a French-Irish teenager who was found dead last year near a Malaysian jungle resort after vanishing on a holiday said Thursday that his daughter would not have had the stamina or instinct to survive for days in the jungle. Sebastien Quoirin told an inquest into Nora Anne Quoirin's death that the condition of the 15-year-old's body also didn't support the police theory that she ventured out of the family's cottage on her own, walked and hid in the forest.
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| U.S. threatens Beijing with new sanctions over Hong Kong lawmaker suspensions Posted: 12 Nov 2020 05:26 AM PST  "We're quitting the legislature at this juncture, but we're NOT quitting the Hong Kong democracy fight," said opposition lawmaker Claudia Mo.
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| Saudi will strike those who threaten its security, crown prince warns Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:12 AM PST  Saudi Arabia will strike those who threaten the kingdom's security and stability with an "iron fist", the crown prince said on Thursday, one day after an attack on a Remembrance Day ceremony injured two in the kingdom. Islamic State claimed Wednesday's attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah during a World War One remembrance ceremony involving French and other embassies. "We will continue to hit with an iron fist against anyone who thinks of threatening our security and stability," Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, said in a speech carried by Saudi state news agency SPA.
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| Pelosi calls on Republicans to 'stop the circus and get to work' on addressing the coronavirus crisis Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:31 AM PST 
At a press conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Republicans for "continuing to ignore" the COVID-19 crisis.
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| Trump and his followers are on the 'crazy train' with unhinged election conspiracies, Republican congressman says Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:34 PM PST  President Trump is taking his followers down a path of increasingly unhinged conspiracies about millions of votes being altered by mysterious forces manipulating computer systems and voting machines, said Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va.
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| Trump supporter files restraining order against neighbours who celebrated Biden win Posted: 11 Nov 2020 03:45 PM PST  Michael Mason says he is tired of being 'harassed' for supporting president
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| Louisiana doctor accused of attacking college student and calling her the n-word Posted: 12 Nov 2020 03:19 PM PST  Doctor was released on $10,000 bond
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| A NYC councilman said he'll defy Gov. Andrew Cuomo's social-distancing orders to host more than 10 people in his home for Thanksgiving Posted: 11 Nov 2020 04:43 PM PST  "I'll be having more than 10 people at my house on Thanksgiving ... Some family will come from (gasp!) New Jersey," councilman Joe Borelli said.
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| Coronavirus: New York imposes measures in 'last chance' against new wave Posted: 12 Nov 2020 02:08 AM PST  US hospital admissions hit record levels as New York City warns it is on the cusp of a second wave.
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| Federal appeals court upholds Harvard University's use of affirmative action policies Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:25 AM PST  The lawsuit charged that Harvard discriminated against Asian American students in order to boost African American and Hispanic enrollment.
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| California school board president quits after wife’s racist Kamala Harris comments Posted: 11 Nov 2020 01:59 PM PST  A school board president in the San Francisco Bay Area has resigned after his wife's racist comments about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris raised an outcry. Jon Venverloh announced Sunday that he was stepping down from his position with the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in Menlo Park.
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| Yerevan reels from defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh Posted: 11 Nov 2020 09:05 AM PST  On Yerevan's emblematic Republic Square, a giant screen continuously broadcasting videos to the glory of Armenian soldiers fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh has been quickly, quietly removed.
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| Sunken boats. Stolen gear. Fishermen are prey as China conquers a strategic sea Posted: 12 Nov 2020 06:52 AM PST  Beijing's aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping's visions of power.
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| Dems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz Posted: 11 Nov 2020 11:20 PM PST  Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out over a parking lot filled with cars, with supporters blaring their horns in approval as he declared that "change has come to Georgia." Hours earlier, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stepped to a microphone in suburban Atlanta and addressed hundreds of eager supporters packed into the Cobb County GOP headquarters. The freshman senator and her Florida colleague, Sen. Marco Rubio, stirred the crowd with their insistence that the change offered by Ossoff and his fellow Democratic Senate hopeful Raphael Warnock means "radical elements" would control Washington.
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| 'When saliva runs out, one has to have gunpowder,' Brazil's Bolsonaro says in swipe at Biden Posted: 11 Nov 2020 07:58 AM PST  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who portrays himself as a close friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, took a swipe at President-elect Joe Biden, referring to Biden as a "candidate" and assailing him for his stand on the Amazon rainforest. Bolsonaro is one of a small group of prominent world leaders yet to congratulate Biden, who won last week's presidential election and is due to enter the White House on Jan. 20. Speaking at an event on Tuesday, Bolsonaro took issue with Biden's call during a U.S. presidential debate in September for Brazil to fight deforestation with foreign help or face unspecified "economic consequences."
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| Florida mother arrested after refusing to wear a mask during school board meeting Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:17 PM PST  Kari Turner, 40, was arrested on Tuesday in front of her two children
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| Any hope of keeping Earth habitable now requires sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, a new study found Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:00 AM PST  Even if greenhouse-gas emissions stop now, global warming will continue for centuries, a study shows. The solution: removing carbon from the air.
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| A fifth-grade teacher in Texas is accused of fatally shooting her 17-year-old son while taking him to school, local reports say Posted: 11 Nov 2020 12:13 PM PST  According to an affidavit cited by local news, Sarah Hunt told police she "didn't mean to" shoot her son.
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| Lucille Bridges, who took daughter Ruby to become first Black student at all-white school, dies at 86 Posted: 11 Nov 2020 06:39 AM PST  Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then 6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86.
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| Laura Ingraham dragged for interviewing anonymous poll worker claiming voter fraud Posted: 11 Nov 2020 06:19 AM PST  The disguised woman told Ingraham she saw envelopes being opened and passed around near a Biden-Harris vehicle. Fox News host Laura Ingraham is being criticized today for her interview of an anonymous person who described seeing envelopes being ripped open and marked for a vote for Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden. The unnamed woman told Ingraham she saw envelopes being opened and passed around near a Biden-Harris campaign vehicle, where she saw workers opening ballots and changing the vote.
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| Mr. Potato Head? Another botched art restoration in Spain gets flak online. Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:03 AM PST  "Nobody knows who would do such a barbarity," Antonio Capel, the artist who shared the photo, told USA TODAY.
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| Nurse Charged With Murdering 8 Babies and Trying to Kill 10 More Posted: 12 Nov 2020 07:11 AM PST  A British nurse has been charged with murdering eight babies, as well as the attempted murders of 10 others, after a years-long investigation into an unexplained spike in baby deaths at a hospital's neonatal unit.It's the third time that Lucy Letby, 30, has been arrested. She was previously detained in 2018 and 2019 as authorities probed the string of infant fatalities at the Countess of Chester Hospital in England. Both times, the nurse was released with no further action against her, but she appeared in court Thursday to finally face 18 formal charges.In the courtroom, the nurse learned that she faces eight charges of "murder of a victim under 1 year old," and each infant victim's name was read aloud to her. According to BBC News, five baby boys and three girls died. They were named Cemlyn Bennett, Joseph Johnson, Barney Gee, Joseph Gelder, Eli Gelder, Elsie McNall, Daisy Parkin, and Maddie Freed.Letby did not speak in court other than to confirm her identity, and her representatives have not said whether or not she plans to plead guilty. The media has been ordered not to report the names of the alleged victims of attempted murder, but there are reportedly five boys and five girls.The charges all relate to a string of baby deaths, and non-fatal collapses, at the Countess of Chester Hospital near Liverpool in 2015 and 2016. According to a National Health Service report into the incidents, the hospital launched a probe after resident doctors became concerned about what was described as a "higher-than-usual number of neonatal deaths on the unit, several of them being apparently 'unexplained' and 'unexpected.'"The police became involved a year later. This week, the inquiry's leader, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Hughes, said that Letby's third arrest came after more than three years of investigative work by his team.Susan Gilby, chief executive of the hospital where Letby is accused of committing the crimes, said in a statement that the major development was of "serious concern" and added that the trust that runs the hospital will be "fully supportive and respectful of the judicial processes."Neil Fern, who is representing some of the families in the legal case, told The Guardian, "The families are overwhelmed with the news and there is a mix of emotion. All the families now have hope that they can finally start to learn the truth of what happened in the first days of their children's lives. We have been working with the families for many years on these cases, and they have had to live with the consequences for all that time."Letby is expected to make another court appearance on Friday.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Georgia senators hold 1st runoff rally in a packed, windowless room as coronavirus cases spike Posted: 11 Nov 2020 09:55 AM PST  If there's ever been a time not to brag about "huge crowds" at a political rally, it's now.In Georgia and across the country, COVID-19 cases are spiking at rates that haven't been seen in months, leading some states to implement new shutdowns and gathering bans. But dozens of supporters of Georgia's Republican senators, approximately half of them maskless, still gathered Wednesday in a windowless room as both senators prepare for runoff races in January, CNN reports.Both of Georgia's Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, failed to get a majority of the vote in their re-election races last week and will face runoffs against Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively. GOP senators are now rallying around Loeffler and Perdue, with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) joining Loeffler for Wednesday's rally to "save our majority." There was no social distancing or virus protections apparent at the rally, which happened in Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb that's among Georgia's counties with the most COVID-19 cases.> This is what the "Save Our Majority" rally looks like. Speaking before this crowd in a windowless room, Sens. @marcorubio @KLoeffler. Approx 1/3rd to 1/2 of the room is maskless, as Georgia COVID19 infections enter a red zone. pic.twitter.com/ALppPBWkxu> > -- Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) November 11, 2020> My entire @CNN team has physically left this indoor rally. It's not safe given the Covid19 numbers in Georgia. Again, this is the "Save our Majority" rally in Cobb County pic.twitter.com/CyWGEss0Vy> > -- Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) November 11, 2020Georgia isn't alone in seeing COVID-19 cases skyrocket. Case counts are spiking in cities around the country more drastically than they have in months, even before potential spread from celebrations in the wake of Joe Biden's election can be taken into account. > This is today's snapshot of each state's progress in reducing COVID cases/hospitalizations/death, via https://t.co/MfkeAwWTve> > Green is trending better.> > Yellow is caution warranted.> > Red is going downhill. > > Bruised red is uncontrolled spread. pic.twitter.com/vWtSYtSDAT> > -- Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 11, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Pope Francis congratulates Biden, discusses addressing climate change and welcoming immigrants in 1st call
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| Pennsylvania court blocks counting of some mail-in ballots Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:06 AM PST  The Commonwealth Court found Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar lacked the authority to extend the deadline to Nov. 12 from Nov. 9 by which voters could provide missing information to validate their ballot. The case was brought by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee.
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| Mississippi lawmaker floats break up of union over Biden win Posted: 11 Nov 2020 09:51 PM PST  GOP politician suggested forming 'own country' after president-elect's victory
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| What is a 'lame duck' president? Hint: The political term has nothing to do with waterfowl. Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:01 AM PST  The description of a "lame duck" refers to a politician who remains in power but will soon be replaced by a newly-elected successor.
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| California man charged with running 'virtual kidnapping' scam from a Mexican prison Posted: 12 Nov 2020 02:20 PM PST  Julio Manuel Reyes Zuniga is accused of duping at least 30 Americans into paying thousands of dollars in ransom to loved ones who were never actually kidnapped.
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| Letters to the Editor: Armenians aren't in a 'conflict.' They're fighting for their survival Posted: 12 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  Armenians have documented war crimes against them by Azerbaijani forces. The media need to stop portraying this as merely a "conflict."
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| Huge China-backed trade pact to be signed at Southeast Asian summit Posted: 11 Nov 2020 07:39 PM PST  Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations are set to sign an enormous free trade deal at an online summit that started Thursday, with the pact seen as a coup for China in extending its influence across the region.
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| 'Unity at the expense of my equality... is not an option': Ayanna Pressley turns the screws on Democratic leadership over party divides ahead of Georgia runoffs Posted: 11 Nov 2020 09:55 PM PST  "We have sacrificed and shelved and moderated and whispered in the name of unity for a very long time," Pressley told the radio show "Signal Boost."
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| Ghana's former president Jerry Rawlings dies at 73 Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:10 AM PST  Ghana's former president Jerry Rawlings, who staged two coups and later led the West African country's transition to a stable democracy, has died, according to the state's Radio Ghana and the president. Rawlings was 73. President Nana Akufo-Addo said that Rawlings died Thursday morning at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in the capital, Accra, where he had been receiving treatment after a short illness.
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| With air bases at risk, Agile Combat Employment must mature Posted: 12 Nov 2020 06:27 AM PST  The U.S. Air Force must evolve from its dependence on well-established airfields, or risk yielding an operational edge.
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| Three More Trumpworld Figures Test Positive for COVID-19 Amid Voter Fraud Crusade Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:38 AM PST  At least three more Trumpworld insiders have tested positive for the coronavirus just weeks after the White House and GOP were crippled by a major outbreak ensnaring the president.Corey Lewandowski, the Trump adviser who has been bringing bogus illegal voting and election fraud lawsuits, tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, The New York Times and several other outlets reported. Republican National Committee chief of staff Richard Walters has also contracted the virus, NBC reports. And a longtime GOP strategist and lobbyist, Jeff Miller, who was at the White House on Election Night, has also tested positive, sources told Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs.Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Several Others Have COVIDWalters has not been at the White House recently, but an RNC spokesperson told The Washington Post that contact tracing had begun. Any tracing efforts for Lewandowski would have to span multiple states and probably hundreds of people. He was at the White House on Election Night for a party that is now emerging as a possible superspreader event. Several others at the party have since tested positive including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump campaign legal aide David Bossie, White House political director Brian Jack, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and several aides. After the party, Lewandowski flew to Pennsylvania to lead the Trump campaign's legal challenges against ballot-counting in the state. On Saturday, he appeared, mask free, alongside Rudy Giuliani and other Trump campaign figures at a bizarre event outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia. Days earlier, he yelled into a megaphone alongside Florida attorney Pam Bondi at a crowded press briefing outside a Philly ballot-counting site. > Here is Corey Lewandowski outside the convention center in Philadelphia last week: pic.twitter.com/hqOd2qt3zy> > — Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) November 12, 2020He has told friends he believed he contracted the virus while in Philadelphia, CBS News reports. Just prior to Election Day, Lewandowski traveled to a Trump rally in Wisconsin and tweeted a photo of himself on Air Force 1 with Tiffany Trump, Bossie, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and Tiffany's boyfriend, businessman Michael Boulos. None of them were wearing masks.> Just arrived in Wisconsin for @realDonaldTrump rally in Kenosha. Honor to travel travel with @Reince @David_Bossie, @TiffanyATrump, @MichaelZBoulos! Four More Years! pic.twitter.com/g94LB51GDh> > — Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) November 2, 2020Alaska Rep. Don Young (R), who just won re-election to the state's sole congressional seat, also revealed Thursday that he has tested positive. "I am feeling strong, following proper protocols, working from home in Alaska, and ask for privacy at this time," the 87-year-old, who is the oldest member of Congress and has served 24 terms, wrote on Twitter.Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is overseeing the state's election recount, also went into self-isolation Thursday after his wife contracted the virus.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to be frozen out of Biden cabinet, report says Posted: 11 Nov 2020 08:59 AM PST  'We cannot afford to put any seats in jeopardy,' says Democrat Gerry Connolly
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| Iowa teacher, 38, dies days after testing positive for COVID-19: 'There's a lot of sadness' Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:35 AM PST  Jason Englert, 38, was in his first year of teaching a gifted students program when it was tragically cut short.
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| ‘Brazen’ shootout at church funeral service leaves 18-year-old dead, NC police say Posted: 11 Nov 2020 04:50 AM PST  Police say shots were fired into the crowd from two vehicles and "persons in the crowd fired guns back."
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| Tropical Storm Eta barrels toward Gulf Coast with heavy rain, wind Posted: 12 Nov 2020 05:27 AM PST  "This is an unpredictable storm in a very unpredictable year," an official said.
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| Mexican prosecutors accuse ex-president of directing graft: newspaper Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:41 AM PST  Ex-Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto ordered aides to bribe lawmakers to enact reforms in the benefit of foreign firms, according to a document from the attorney general's office published Thursday by daily newspaper Reforma. The document, a request for an arrest warrant for an especially powerful former minister in Pena Nieto's 2012-2018 administration, describes the former president as running "a state within a state" that employed "its own system of criminal power" centered on distributing bribes from scandal-plagued Brazilian builder Odebrecht. The arrest warrant request for Luis Videgaray describes more than 121 million pesos ($6 million) in bribe payments allegedly distributed to key members of Congress to ensure passage of a sweeping energy opening to private companies, according to the newspaper.
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| Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump moved their kids to a new school after parents complained about the couple not following coronavirus protocols, report says Posted: 12 Nov 2020 06:12 AM PST  Kushner and Trump's children were pulled out of their school in Washington, DC, two weeks before Election Day, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency said.
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| Arrest of man in sergeant's killing literally stops I-10 traffic Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:55 PM PST  Robert Soliz, 24, was taken into custody 24 hours after the shooting death of Sgt. Sean Rios.
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| Disgraced MP who flouted Covid rules 'shows brass neck' with Commons return Posted: 12 Nov 2020 07:03 AM PST  A disgraced MP who broke Covid-19 rules by making a return trip from Glasgow to London with the virus has made her first appearance in the Commons since testing positive. Margaret Ferrier, who has continued to defy calls to stand down from her £82,000-per-year job and is sitting as an independent after being stripped of the SNP whip, asked a question by video link about Hong Kong. Opposition parties said the 60-year-old's appearance was a "gross insult to her constituents" and accused her of "brazenly trying to retain her Westminster privileges at the taxpayers' expense". When she initially refused demands to stand down, including from within the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon suggested the delay may have been due to Ms Ferrier being ill with coronavirus.
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| The New York Times ’ Misleading ‘Analysis’ of Benjamin Netanyahu Posted: 11 Nov 2020 03:36 PM PST  'News Analysis," a creative euphemism for "Opinion," is deployed by outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post with increasing frequency. One of the Times' recent offerings in this genre comes from Jerusalem bureau chief David Halbfinger, who writes that "Biden's Win Means a Demotion for Netanyahu and Less Focus on Israel." It's an odd formulation. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Israel's prime minister for over a decade, during presidencies of both parties. I suspect that the Times would consider treating other heads of state as inferior of the United States jingoistic in most other circumstances. But the opportunity to denigrate a conservative Israeli leader demands an exception.Halbfinger's column-in-disguise has more problems than its title. He asserts that "Mr. Netanyahu's stature on the global stage" has been "diminished." He also approvingly quotes the critical Netanyahu biographer Anshel Pfeffer, who holds that "he's gone from Trump's wingman to the guy who polishes the canopy of the F-16." He offers no evidence for these claims. Instead, as proof that Netanyahu is "unusually flummoxed" by Biden's victory, he cites the fact that it took Netanyahu twelve hours after CNN and Fox News projected that Biden would become the 46th president of the United States to offer his congratulations on Twitter and that when he did, he did not by name reference the office of the presidency. Perhaps Halbfinger's conception of being "flummoxed" differs from that of the rest of us.Halbfinger has a similarly unorthodox conception of what constitutes a "calming influence." In his view, the agreements that the Trump administration has brokered between Israel and Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kosovo, and Sudan are not signs of a more stable region. But he does believe that a Biden administration would somehow have a pacifying effect. Especially if it responded to other Arab states' expressing an interest in formalizing relations with the world's only Jewish state by urging them to ask for more concessions from Israel in the Palestinian conflict. His idea of a balanced approach, then, entails the United States urging one of two willing parties in question not to agree to a deal unless one of the two provides more benefits to an unwilling fourth party. Got that?Later in the column, Halbfinger credulously entertains an unsubstantiated hypothetical scenario from Pfeffer in which Biden would invite "Mr. Netanyahu's rivals, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, to Washington for high-profile meetings while snubbing the prime minister." Similarly, he quotes a former adviser to former prime minister Shimon Peres, who speculated that Biden might say, "The party's over. I don't want to fight with you, but I intend to stabilize the situation, and you're going to help me. Forget about annexation. No surprises. No unilateral anything. And I need something constructive from you as well: Make it easier to shore up the Palestinian Authority before it collapses, and Gaza before it explodes. And I promise you I'll bring you into the room when I'm discussing Iran." Neither hypothetical is subject to qualification from Halfbinger. Bibi will just have to do as Uncle Joe tells him, of course — "the party's over."Most mainstream journalists tend to be sharply critical of Netanyahu, whom they characterize as fond of — as Halbfinger does in his piece — "divisive political tactics, denunciations of 'fake news' and playing to working-class voters' resentments." Netanyahu is a flawed man with no shortage of words and actions one can quibble with. But he has deftly guided Israel through every crisis it has faced during his tenure while — contrary to his political opponents' portrayal of him — operating as a pragmatist rather than a winger. Netanyahu knows there will be no good-faith negotiation with the current crop of Palestinian leaders. But with Arab leaders spooked by the Obama administration's absurd and illogical embrace of the Iranian regime, he saw an opportunity for rapprochement and took it.The Left's instinctive contempt for figures such as Netanyahu of course results in biased writing. But perhaps even worse is that it leads to inaccurate and unbalanced analysis. This is particularly true of columns labeled "News Analysis," which are habitually shrill and lacking in insight. Unfortunately, a few hysterical quotes from the expert class, who tend to share the opinion of the author, can suffice to gain this designation and the patina of objectivity that comes with it. Netanyahu's time as prime minister may well be coming to an end. He has, after all, held the position for nearly twelve years. But the idea that Donald Trump's loss will bring it about is the stuff of the New York Times editorial board's fantasies, not of sober analysis.
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| Lindsey Graham donates $1 million to Republicans in Georgia while acknowledging Biden should receive briefings Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:49 AM PST  Republican claims 'tsunami of liberal money' is heading towards Georgia while donating $1 million of his own campaign funds to GOP candidates in the state
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| World shares slip on doubts over COVID vaccines, outbreaks Posted: 11 Nov 2020 10:11 PM PST  World stocks fell back on Thursday after a comeback by big technology shares that have thrived during the pandemic. "Vaccine trades reversed to give way to 'stay home' trades," as shares of technology companies and others that do well when people stay home and work remotely rallied, Mizuho Bank said in a commentary.
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