| 'The long knives are out': The Pentagon purge may be less about a Trump plan than end-of-presidency chaos and revenge Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:33 PM PST  A series of personnel changes placing Trump loyalists in key Defense Department positions has sparked rumors of plans for dramatic action in the waning days of his presidency, but a number of former national security officials see it more as the chaotic final days of an outgoing administration.
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| Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, supporter of QAnon, denounces House mask requirement Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:14 AM PST  Amid a raging coronavirus pandemic, the incoming Republican freshman said she "proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive."
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| Project Veritas could face legal liability for postal worker's ballot fraud allegations, experts say Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  Project Veritas accused the Washington Post of witness intimidation after it ran an article debunking ballot claims
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| A local news anchor in Milwaukee was suspended after he asked why 2020 took Alex Trebek but not Mitch McConnell Posted: 14 Nov 2020 09:51 AM PST  "2020 takes Alex Trebek but leaves Mitch McConnell?" Perry, who anchors the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts wrote. "Just end already."
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| 20 million Americans will get a COVID vaccine this year, administration says Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:40 PM PST  The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
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| Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Muslim media figure, says she was singled out after arrest at Newark Airport Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:40 PM PST  Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, a New Brunswick native, was booted from an American Airlines plane at after a white male filed a complaint against her.
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| Suburban Philadelphia voters surge with verve to oust Trump Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:33 AM PST  Voters in Philadelphia's suburbs have whipped up wave after wave of anti-Donald Trump sentiment since 2016, hurling perhaps their biggest rebuke yet to the Republican this month. With turnout well above the state average, the four growing Pennsylvania counties hugging Philadelphia provided a decisive margin for former Vice President Joe Biden, lifting the Democrat to victory in the battleground state and to the presidency. Much of the credit in suburban Philadelphia goes to Democrats' turnout.
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| Following ceasefire and concessions Armenians leave disputed territory, some setting fire to homes Posted: 14 Nov 2020 11:54 AM PST  Following a Russian-brokered ceasefire that includes territorial concessions which will go into effect Sunday, Armenians are leaving villages in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and some are setting fire to their homes, The Associated Press and Reuters report. It's unclear when and how many Azeris, many of whom were displaced from the same land in 1994, will return to the villages.The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory, which is officially recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians for decades, flared up in recent months. The fighting resulted in Azerbaijan seizing the key city of Shusha, leading to the ceasefire, which Russia — generally considered a staunch ally and protector of Armenia — plans to enforce with 2,000 peacekeepers.The Armenians who are leaving their homes cast doubt on the idea that they could live peacefully beside the returning Azeris, per AP and Reuters, and many remain uncertain of where their next destination will be. "We are homeless now, do not know where to go and where to live," one woman leaving her home told AP. Read more at The Associated Press and Reuters.More stories from theweek.com 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' Texas senator suggests it's too soon to declare Biden the winner because Puerto Rico is still counting votes
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| Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Nevada Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:41 AM PST  The quake struck about 20 miles southeast of the town of Mina at a depth of almost four miles.
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| An adults-only luxury resort in the Maldives is offering guests to book a year's worth of unlimited stays in 2021 for $30,000 Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:16 PM PST  The Anantara Veli resort in the Maldives deal allows 2 guests to book unlimited stays at an overwater bungalow in 2021 for $30,0000.
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| Trump plans “vote-count rallies” to “wreck” Fox News in bid to launch competing network: report Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:32 PM PST  Trump reportedly considers launching a "cheaper" streaming-only MAGA platform over an "expensive" cable channel
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| Turkey's president plans provocative 'picnic' in symbolic Cyprus ghost town Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:49 AM PST  Turkey's president is to make a provocative visit on Sunday to a once glamorous holiday resort that for nearly 50 years has been a surreal ghost town in the no-man's-land that divides the Greek and Turkish parts of Cyprus. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has infuriated many Greek Cypriots by saying he will have "a picnic" amid the ruins of Varosha, a town of abandoned high-rise hotels, dilapidated restaurants and overgrown gardens. The Turkish leader announced the visit to Varosha, which has been sealed off since Turkey's 1974 invasion of the island, during a news conference in Ankara last month. "We can have a picnic at Varosha," he said. "We see it on screen, now we want to see it for ourselves."
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| Fauci said the US has 'no appetite' for lockdowns but mask wearing and distancing could be enough, the day after a Biden advisor called for a weeks-long lockdown Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:37 AM PST  Dr. Anthony Fauci told "Good Morning America" that taking steps like mask wearing and social distancing means that a lockdown might not be needed.
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| Chris Wallace: Republican-controlled Senate would give Biden excuse to pushback on progressives Posted: 13 Nov 2020 07:26 AM PST  'Fox News Sunday' anchor Chris Wallace lays out the stakes of the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia.
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| Booming population helped Dems in Georgia. Mississippi's 'brain drain' is keeping it red. Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:30 AM PST  Political experts say Mississippi won't see nail-biter elections, especially at the nation level, anytime soon — thanks in part to stalled population growth.
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| Chicago boy, 12, shot while picking up school supplies with father Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:49 PM PST  A 12-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was shot multiple times in Chicago while shopping for school supplies with his father. Lamar Davis was sitting in a parked car in the city's Lawndale area on Wednesday, when a maroon SUV pulled up, rolled down a rear window and someone opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun, per the Chicago Tribune. "He was just sitting there in the car and someone shot him," Lamar's mother, Melissa Robinson, told the Chicago Tribune.
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| Haiti is running low on fuel again as sweet deal with fuel supplier turns sour Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:27 PM PST  Another sweet deal has gone sour in Haiti.
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| Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief Posted: 14 Nov 2020 06:54 AM PST  'It's almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,' says Andrew McCabe
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| Murder and mayhem: How South African farming became a 'full-scale war' Posted: 14 Nov 2020 04:56 AM PST  When armed men broke into their farm in Free State province on Wednesday night, Mark Regal and his wife were already on high alert. Just the day before, their neighbour and fellow farmer Eddie Hills had died in hospital, a week after being stabbed in a robbery in which his father was tied up and shot. Aware that they too could lose more than just their property, Mrs Regal returned fire and killed one of the intruders, police said. But Mr Regal, 50, was overpowered and killed, the seventh farmer to be murdered in the province in six weeks. The spate of killings has inflamed racial tensions in South Africa, with the Free State's white farming community accusing the ANC-ruled government of doing little to help. Trouble first flared with last month's grisly murder of farm mechanic, Brendin Horner, 21, whose body was found tied by a noose to a fence near his cottage. When two suspects appeared in court a week later in the tiny town of Senekal, a white mob stormed the building, attempting to avenge Mr Horner's death on the spot.
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| Armenians set fire to homes before handing village over to Azerbaijan Posted: 14 Nov 2020 06:15 AM PST  Still wearing the camouflage fatigues in which he had fought against Azeri forces a week earlier, Arsen, an ethnic Armenian, lit a fire on Saturday under his sister's dining room table in the small village of Charektar. Armenians are resorting to a scorched earth policy as the clock ticks down to a handover of territory to Azerbaijan under a Russia-brokered peace deal that followed six weeks of fighting between ethnic Armenian forces and Azeri troops over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas.
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| Trumpworld's faux-intellectual grifters are helping him debase democracy with bogus 'voter fraud' claims. And Republicans rake in the cash. Posted: 14 Nov 2020 05:28 AM PST  Internet "skeptics" are amplifying Trump's fake voter fraud claims. The GOP is using it to raise campaign funds.
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| 4-year-old boy in Texas loses mom and dad to Covid Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:57 PM PST  "Just this morning he told me that he wishes he had his mom back and he just wanted her back," Raiden Gonzalez's grandmother said. "I just told him that they're now angels watching over us."
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| With COVID-19 surging, schools suspend in-person education Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:54 AM PST  With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state spiking to record levels, bus drivers and teachers in quarantine, students getting sick and the holidays looming, Schools Superintendent Scott Hanback in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, made a tough decision this week. Texas surpassed 1 million cases this week.
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| ‘It cost him his life.’ Suspect drowns trying to flee Doral police Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:15 AM PST  A man died early Friday morning after running from police and jumping into a canal in Doral.
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| Coronavirus concerns may have kept Trump from meeting newly-elected GOP lawmakers in person at White House Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:19 AM PST  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) set up a visit to the White House for newly-elected Republican lawmakers Friday evening, but they didn't get a chance to meet President Trump in person, Politico reports.The president did reportedly send his regards to the newcomers, but the fact that he stayed out of the spotlight raised some eyebrows.> Weird @playbookplus note: "LAST NIGHT, MCCARTHY took the newly elected Republicans to the White House...INTERESTING TO NOTE: President DONALD TRUMP did not come down to meet the group. He did send his well wishes."> > -- Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 14, 2020As it turns out, further reporting revealed Trump probably wasn't standing anyone up, but, in a bit of twist, likely stayed away because the group hadn't been tested for COVID-19 prior to their arrival. > UPDATE to Playbook: MCCARTHY himself didn't go to the W.H. w the new freshmen Republicans -- but his team organized, attended. POTUS didn't go down to say hi, and that could be because the group of newly elected GOP lawmakers was not tested for Covid @ WH, per several sources.> > -- Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 14, 2020More stories from theweek.com 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' Texas senator suggests it's too soon to declare Biden the winner because Puerto Rico is still counting votes
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| Judge: Newsom overstepped authority with mail-in ballots mandate Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:29 PM PST  A Sutter County judge finalized a ruling Friday night saying Gov. Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority when mandating all Californians receive mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 general election.
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| Two bodies discovered by California snowplough driver were murdered, police say Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:56 AM PST  Couple had previously been charged with drug offences and husband was linked to disappearance of a man in June
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| 11-year-old boy killed in Atlanta drive-by shooting Posted: 14 Nov 2020 10:10 AM PST  What started as a day of celebration ended with an unimaginable tragedy that took the life of an 11-year-old boy. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Connie Sims took his son, Tyrell Sims, to the mall on the afternoon of Nov. 6 to celebrate him passing an exam. Later that evening, Tyrell went to play in the front yard with his friend after helping his friend's grandmother decorate for Christmas, according to his father.
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| A Biden COVID-19 advisor suggested a national lockdown lasting up to 6 weeks, but said the idea was unlikely to gain support Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:37 PM PST  On Thursday Michael Osterholm told ABC News that he had not discussed this idea with others and added he did not believe it would gain support.
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| Thousands of Georgians rally in Tbilisi to protest election results Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:55 AM PST  Thousands of protesters rallied in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday to back opposition calls for a re-run of the Oct. 31 parliamentary election they say was rigged. According to official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party won 48.23% of the vote, with the largest opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM), taking 27.18%. Eight opposition parties including the UNM have said they would boycott parliament.
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| Federal judge green-lights Cuban doctors’ human-trafficking lawsuit against health group Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:30 PM PST  A federal judge has ruled that a human-trafficking lawsuit against the Pan American Health Organization filed by Cuban doctors who worked in Brazil can continue.
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| Trump trade adviser says White House is 'moving forward under the assumption there will be a 2nd Trump term' Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:36 AM PST  White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro sees no reality in the very real election of President-elect Joe Biden.In a Friday interview with Fox Business, Navarro once again relayed President Trump and his supporters' refusal to accept the results of last week's election. "We're moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term," Navarro said. He then outlined how the Trump campaign and the White House "seek verifiable ballots" and "an investigation into what are growing numbers of allegations of fraud" in the election, and declared anyone who believes Biden won to be operating under "an immaculate deception."> White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro: "We're moving forward here at the White House under the assumption that there will be a second Trump term ... We have, what appears in some sense to be, an immaculate deception." > > (FWIW, there will not be a second Trump term.) pic.twitter.com/qiVfAyZ5G9> > — The Recount (@therecount) November 13, 2020Biden has secured the electoral votes — and then some — he needed to win the 2020 election. His win margin in critical swing states Trump hopes to overturn is far wider than recounts have overturned in the past, and not a single election official across the U.S. found evidence of widespread voter fraud the Trump campaign is alleging.More stories from theweek.com 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' Texas senator suggests it's too soon to declare Biden the winner because Puerto Rico is still counting votes
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| Lawmakers want US Army to quicken purchase of Arctic-capable vehicles Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:21 PM PST  The Army should move faster to get vehicles that can operate in harsh Arctic conditions, Senate appropriators said in the Defense Subcommittee's version of the FY21 defense spending bill.
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| Kentucky couple receives racist letters, bullets in mail months after neighbor allegedly painted swastika on their driveway Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:34 AM PST  A couple with five children in Louisville has had their property vandalized with racist slurs repeatedly over the past several months.
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| Letter from Africa: Culture clash over Nigeria's rival alphabets Posted: 14 Nov 2020 05:11 PM PST  A court case of the use of Arabic script on the local currency reveals deep cultural and religious divides.
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