| The alt-right group Patriot Prayer, associated with a man killed in the Portland protests, has a history of provoking left-wing groups: 'This was just a matter of time' Posted: 31 Aug 2020 10:31 AM PDT  An Anti-Defamation League researcher fears that Aaron Danielson's killing will spur more bloodshed between right- and left-wing groups.
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| Schiff vows to 'compel' intelligence on election security after DNI head Ratcliffe ends in-person briefings Posted: 30 Aug 2020 02:30 PM PDT  "This intelligence paid for by taxpayers doesn't belong to Donald Trump," Schiff said. "It belongs to the American people."
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| St. Louis couple charged after waving guns appear in court Posted: 31 Aug 2020 07:56 AM PDT  The attorney for a white St. Louis couple charged for waving guns during a racial injustice protest outside their home said Monday that they're anxious to prove "with absolute certainty" that they did not commit a crime. One week after Mark and Patricia McCloskey spoke on video to the Republican National Convention, they were in court briefly Monday morning and did not enter a plea. Mark McCloskey, 63, came out with AR-15 rifle, according to court records, which said Patricia McCloskey, 61, displayed a semiautomatic handgun.
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| Russian opposition activist hospitalised after attack outside his home Posted: 31 Aug 2020 05:24 AM PDT  A 22-year-old Russian opposition activist has been hospitalised after what supporters said was a vicious attack by two men outside his house in Moscow. Yegor Zhukov, who came to prominence last year when he was arrested and tried over opposition protests, posted pictures of his bruised and bloody face to social media following the attack. He was taken to hospital for an MRI scan which showed he had "fortunately managed to avoid serious injuries or internal bleeding," a spokesman said. The activist "remained calm and even joked about what happened," his team said in a social media post, adding that he was allowed home following tests.
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| More migrant arrivals fuel local anger in Italy's Lampedusa Posted: 30 Aug 2020 08:57 AM PDT  A fishing boat carrying nearly 370 migrants landed overnight on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the country's news agencies said on Sunday, fueling anger from local officials over a recent rise in illegal arrivals.
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| Letters to the Editor: California's blackouts prove it: We still need oil and gas for energy Posted: 30 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  California's leaders need to set aside ideology and admit that in the near term, the state still needs fossil fuels to prevent blackouts.
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| Cheng Lei: Australian anchor on Chinese TV detained in China Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:18 PM PDT  Cheng Lei, an Australian citizen, worked as a news presenter for government-run CGTN in Beijing.
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| Worth the wait: Yellowstone’s Giantess Geyser erupts for first time in six years Posted: 30 Aug 2020 11:48 AM PDT  Giantess is one of the biggest geysers in the national park, and typically explodes between twice and six times a year In these troubled times there comes a point where we all need to let off steam.For this huge geyser in Yellowstone park, the moment was now and the eruption was spectacular, after a six-year wait.But, for the rest of us, watching this natural phenomenon is strangely meditative and beautifully distracting from much of the bad news around, despite the violent geothermal forces propelling it.Giantess Geyser spouted for the first time in more than six years in Yellowstone National Park, which straddles part of Wyoming and a little of Montana, on 25 August, according to the US National Park Service (NPS)."She" has more typically erupted between twice and six times a year in the past, according to the NPS website, and blasts a spout up to 200ft high."The surrounding area may shake from underground steam explosions just before the initial water and/or steam eruptions," the NPS website adds.Giantess is one of the biggest geysers in the park, alongside phenomena such as the super-tall Steamboat geyser, the largest active geyser in the world, and the park's most famous, Old Faithful, renowned for its punctual regularity as it soars from the ground about 20 times a day.Colorful hot spring features in the park include the blue-hued Morning Glory Pool and the psychedelic Grand Prismatic spring, as well as whiffy, sulfurous bubblers and roiling natural pots of scalding hot water fizzing out of the rocks.The features are among more than 10,000 hot springs and geysers in the park, a Unesco world heritage site.
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| Soldier who made ‘vile’ Holocaust joke to 3 million TikTok followers punished, Army says Posted: 31 Aug 2020 04:48 PM PDT  "He wrote: 'For legal reasons this is a joke.' ... Would he look into the eyes of Survivors liberated by @USArmy and tell them this?" the Auschwitz Memorial Museum said in a tweet.
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| Indiana Congressman introduces bill to ban protest 'thugs' from receiving unemployment aid Posted: 31 Aug 2020 09:53 AM PDT  U.S. Rep. Jim Banks introduced a bill that would ban people from receiving unemployment aid if convicted of a federal offense related to protests.
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| World Bank: Lebanon blast caused damage up to $4.6 billion Posted: 31 Aug 2020 06:32 AM PDT  The massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month that killed and injured thousands of people has caused up to $4.6 billion in physical damage, the World Bank said in a report released Monday. The Aug. 4 blast was caused by the explosion of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut since 2014. The blast was the most destructive single incident in Lebanon's history with thousands of buildings, including residential homes, hospitals, schools and museums suffering considerable damage.
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| Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend offered plea deal if he would claim Taylor was part of ‘organized crime syndicate’ Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:35 PM PDT  Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend was offered a plea deal if he would claim that she was part of an "organized crime syndicate." Jamarcus Glover, Taylor's ex-boyfriend and the focus of the no-knock raid which took her life, pled not guilty to drug charges Friday.
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| Far-right Patriot Prayer group says fatal shooting victim in Portland was a supporter Posted: 31 Aug 2020 03:36 PM PDT  "I have regrets that Jay was shot," group founder Joey Gibson said of Saturday night's deadly confrontation that followed a pro-Trump caravan entering the city.
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| Leaked email reveals CVS district leader instructed pharmacy staff not to tell patients their medications were filled by someone who tested positive for COVID-19 Posted: 31 Aug 2020 11:00 AM PDT  A CVS technician said a district leader threatened to fire staff if they told patients their medications were filled by a COVID-positive worker.
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| Appeals court keeps Flynn case going, won't order dismissal Posted: 31 Aug 2020 11:30 AM PDT  A federal appeals court will not order the dismissal of the Michael Flynn prosecution, permitting a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department's request to dismiss its case against the former Trump administration national security adviser.`
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| Japan country profile Posted: 31 Aug 2020 08:44 AM PDT  Provides an overview of Japan, including key events and facts about this earthquake-prone country on the western rim of the Pacific.
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| 75-year-old Buffalo man shoved by police speaks out on incident after month in hospital Posted: 31 Aug 2020 09:15 AM PDT  Martin Gugino, 75, was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police in June, and the incident drew wide criticism. Now Gugino tells his side.
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| 'Rest in peace Jay': sympathy for the far right foretells Trump's election strategy Posted: 31 Aug 2020 10:36 AM PDT  The president has shown a lifelong penchant for inflaming racist hatreds and fears – expect much more of this before NovemberSix months into the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump tweeted a rare statement of condolences, as the confirmed death toll in the US climbed past 183,000.But the expression of regret was not for victims of Covid-19. Instead the president memorialized a member of a far-right group killed in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night."Rest in peace Jay," the president tweeted, referring to Aaron "Jay" Danielson, shot dead in clashes after a convoy of Trump supporters drove through an anti-racism protest.Trump is not often given to expressions of sympathy or understanding. But going back to the days when he took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to call for the deaths of five wrongfully accused Black men in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, he has shown a lifelong penchant for inserting himself at raw public moments to inflame racist hatreds and fears.The difference now is that Trump is president, and that penchant has become the centerpiece of his re-election strategy. That much is plain from his Twitter feed, which on Sunday included footage of a Black man assaulting a white woman on a subway platform, apropos of nothing."I think he only means to agitate things," said Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. "He is campaigning. It's clear his campaign is all about 'law and order', it's a throwback to the past, and he's going to do everything to disrupt law and order in this time."It has been three years since Trump defended the "very fine people" among the white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia. It has been only two months since he branded anti-racist protesters "terrorists" and two weeks since he tweeted that "the history and culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart" with the removal of statues to Confederate leaders and generals.Trump has announced that he will visit Kenosha on Tuesday. The Wisconsin city has been the scene of protests after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, four times in the back as Blake reached into a car in which his children were sitting.Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old who was both a Trump admirer and a self-styled law enforcement enthusiast, brought a semi-automatic rifle to the scene of protests in the city and killed two people, prosecutors say.Trump has expressed his support: on Friday the president "liked" a tweet thread beginning: "Kyle Rittenhouse is a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump."Of the caravan of trucks flying Trump flags that drove into the anti-racism protests in Portland on Saturday, spraying mace and firing paintballs, Trump tweeted: "GREAT PATRIOTS!"A suspect held in the death of Danielson reportedly described himself as a supporter of "antifa", a broad label applied to "anti-fascist" groups that Trump and the far right have accused of unsubstantiated acts of violence. Danielson was identified as a "friend and supporter" of the Patriot Prayer group, whose founder, a former Republican candidate for US Senate, has condemned white supremacy but which attracts white supremacist sympathizers.Trump's planned Kenosha visit was seen by Bass and others as likely to inflame tensions at a time when calls for calm and mutual understanding are needed."I think his visit has one purpose, and one purpose only, and that is to agitate things and to make things worse," Bass said.For others, Trump's plan to visit Kenosha was ominously reminiscent of visits to scenes of other conflicts critics say he has fomented with incendiary tweets and by cheerleading violent actors.After a white gunman who warned of a "Hispanic invasion" killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas last year, Trump visited despite urging from local officials not to. At the scene, Trump boasted about progress on his border wall.A year earlier, Trump paid a similarly controversial visit to Pittsburgh, where a gunman who accused Jews of "committing genocide to his people" killed 11 at a synagogue.Joe Biden has directly tied Trump's rhetoric to such incidents of violence, and accused the president of unleashing "the deepest, darkest forces in this nation"."How far is it from Trump's saying this 'is an invasion' to the shooter in El Paso declaring 'this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas'?" Biden has tweeted. "Not far at all."The Democratic nominee for president planned to visit Pittsburgh on Monday, "to lay out a core question voters face in this election: are you safe in Donald Trump's America?"In released excerpts of his speech, he said: "This president long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country. He can't stop the violence – because for years he has fomented it."Trump, Biden added, "may believe mouthing the words 'law and order' makes him strong, but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows you how weak he is."Writing for the Daily Beast, the columnist Michael Tomasky said trying to convince voters that Biden represents chaos would not work. The piece was titled "White People Aren't as Racist or Stupid as Trump Thinks".But four years ago, Trump showed he knew white voters, who made up 74% of the 2016 electorate, better than a lot of people. They voted 54%-39% for Trump, putting him where he is today.
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| Hamas says deal reached to calm violence with Israel Posted: 31 Aug 2020 12:42 PM PDT  Gaza's Hamas rulers said Monday they have reached an agreement through international mediators to end the latest round of cross-border violence with Israel. Under the deal, Hamas is to halt the launches of explosives-laden balloons and rocket fire into Israel, while Israel said it will ease a blockade that has been tightened in recent weeks. The Israeli restrictions have worsened living conditions in Gaza at a time when it is coping with a new coronavirus outbreak.
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| An LA teacher said she and her daughter had to flee their home after she received threats for wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt to class Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:22 AM PDT  On the first day of school, the English teacher in Los Angeles wore a shirt that read, "I can't breathe," a message associated with the BLM movement.
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| Tesla Model S on autopilot slammed into a police car because the driver was watching a movie on his phone, authorities say Posted: 31 Aug 2020 07:31 AM PDT  Nobody was injured in the crash, and the doctor behind the wheel of the Tesla was charged with two crimes.
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| Sex workers blame Bella Thorne for changes at OnlyFans that harm their income Posted: 30 Aug 2020 06:37 PM PDT  The content subscription platform said its new transaction rules were not due to one user and will "continue to review these limits" amid the backlash.
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| Sharp rise in Chinese coercive diplomacy in 2020, says new report Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:51 AM PDT  The Chinese Communist Party is increasingly resorting to the use of coercive diplomacy, taking advantage of the lack of a coordinated pushback from like-minded governments, according to a new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The study analyses 152 cases of the CCP's use of coercive diplomacy across 28 countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand and in East Asia over the past decade, and concludes that governments need to counter its "divide-and-conquer" tactics through a joint strategy via multilateral institutions. "Our dataset suggests the CCP has begun to use coercive diplomacy far more actively. We found a sharp increase from 2018 onwards," said Fergus Hanson, Emilia Currey and Tracy Beattie, the ASPI authors, in a statement. "In the first eight months of 2020 we found 34 cases of coercive diplomacy, which equates to more than half of the number recorded in 2019. Unless states can come up with a better strategy to resist coercive diplomacy, we can expect this trend to continue."
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| U.S. warship transits Taiwan Strait for second time in two weeks Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:58 PM PDT |
| Will my child be sent home for cough, runny nose? What to know about day care guidelines during COVID-19 Posted: 31 Aug 2020 10:33 AM PDT  With flu, cold and allergy season around the corner, experts say a runny nose or cough is almost inevitable at daycare facilities.
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| Police: Man brandished gun at protest in self-defense Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:13 PM PDT |
| New report deepens mystery around Trump’s sudden and suspicious visit to Walter Reed hospital Posted: 31 Aug 2020 02:40 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence was reportedly prepared to take over the presidential duties
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| Walesa warns Poles against populism on 40th Solidarity anniversary Posted: 31 Aug 2020 05:55 AM PDT  Poland's anti-communist icon Lech Walesa on Monday warned against populism as his deeply divided country marked 40 years since a landmark deal gave rise to the freedom-fighting Solidarity trade union.
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| Biden on protests: ‘These are not images of some imagined Joe Biden America in the future, these are images of Donald Trump’s America today’ Posted: 31 Aug 2020 11:44 AM PDT  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Monday challenged the Republican talking point that people will not be safe in the United States with Biden as president.
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| Two licensed pilots with families identified as the men killed in Broward plane crash Posted: 31 Aug 2020 11:42 AM PDT |
| The woman leading the fight against Putin '24/7' after poisoning of Navalny Posted: 30 Aug 2020 07:35 AM PDT  Lyubov Sobol was already among the most visible dissidents in Vladimir Putin's Russia. At 32, she has fronted a protest movement, calling thousands to the streets when she and other opposition candidates were barred from standing in Moscow city elections last year. She staged a hunger strike and a sit-in at the offices of the Moscow election commission, eventually being lifted out of the building on a sofa after she refused to stand for police officers. A laughing Ms Sobol broadcast the incident live from her phone to her vast social media following. She has been sued by one of the most powerful businessmen in the country, and her husband has survived a poisoning. In 2016 an unknown assailant jabbed a syringe into his leg and injected a psychotropic substance that left him convulsing and unconscious, an attack Ms Sobol believes was linked to her activism. Now, with opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a coma in a German hospital after another suspected poisoning, the telegenic lawyer finds herself at the helm of his anti-Kremlin organisation. Doctors at Berlin's Charite Hospital, where Mr Navalny was transferred from a Siberian clinic, have said he will probably survive the ordeal but may sustain long-term damage.
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| Pro-western leader Zaev returns to power in North Macedonia Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:31 AM PDT  Zoran Zaev, the pro-Western leader who changed the name of North Macedonia last year to secure its membership in NATO and the European Union, returned to power late on Sunday, seven months after resigning over the slow pace of EU membership talks. The country joined NATO in March after adding the word "North" to its name, under an agreement with Greece, which has a province called Macedonia and had blocked its neighbour's membership in Western organisations for decades.
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| Women forced to 'make the sacrifices' as child care centers face lack of support Posted: 31 Aug 2020 04:11 AM PDT  Economic challenges have only grown amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving workers and providers squeezed.
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| Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin requested dismissal of murder charges in George Floyd killing Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:36 AM PDT  In a new court filing, Chauvin's attorney explained that Minneapolis officer "acted according to MPD policy, his training, and within his duties."
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| State police return to Portland after protest shooting; Trump defends Kyle Rittenhouse ahead of Kenosha visit Posted: 31 Aug 2020 04:41 PM PDT  Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced a plan to curb violence in Portland following a fatal shooting and clashes between Trump supporters and protesters.
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| Judge orders Georgia to extend deadline for absentee ballots Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:44 PM PDT  A federal judge on Monday ordered Georgia to extend its deadline for accepting mail-in ballots for November's general election from the close of polls on Election Day until three days later. Georgia law says absentee ballots must be received by the close of polls on Election Day. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross ordered that absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and arrive at county election offices by 7 p.m. three business days later be counted.
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| Hitler’s Quest for Power Was Nearly Derailed Multiple Times. But the System Enabled His Rise Posted: 31 Aug 2020 09:30 AM PDT  A determined strongman, not taken seriously by the elites but enabled by a core of passionate supporters, bent events his way just as his country went into free-fall
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| Waiter fired from restaurant after telling boss he had COVID-19, Michigan lawsuit says Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:14 PM PDT  The restaurant violated special rights workers have during the pandemic, the lawsuit says.
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| Herman Cain's Twitter account claims coronavirus 'is not as deadly' as expected after he dies of the virus Posted: 31 Aug 2020 06:40 AM PDT  Herman Cain's Twitter is spreading coronavirus conspiracies from beyond the grave.Cain, the former businessman and presidential candidate, died a month ago from COVID-19. But his Twitter account and website have lived on through posts assumedly from his former staffers, including one early Sunday morning that doubted the deadliness of the virus.A now-deleted tweet that reads as if it's from "THE Herman Cain" links to an article suggesting most COVID-19 patients died of an underlying condition along with the virus. It's captioned "It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be."> A deleted tweet from Herman Cain's Twitter account pic.twitter.com/cuHMjN4LV1> > — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 31, 2020Cain's account quickly deleted the tweet, but later shared another article with the caption "The summer 'second wave' really hasn't come close to the original spike, and it isn't showing signs it will." That article came directly from Cain's website, in which the site's editor Dan Calabrese speculates Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden isn't considering how he'll campaign if the COVID-19 pandemic dies off by January. Still, Calabrese does acknowledge "When you're getting more than 40,000 new cases every day, you can't say the pandemic is over," and that cases could easily rise again as the U.S. restarts crowded events.Cain was hospitalized with COVID-19 not long after attending President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was pictured without a mask on.More stories from theweek.com Data firm predicts election 'chaos' as Trump seems to win in a landslide before losing as more votes are counted Ron Jeremy hit with 20 more sexual assault charges involving 13 women Pandemic adviser with no epidemiology background reportedly pushes White House to adopt herd immunity strategy
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| Decommissioned Navy Warship Blasted and Sunk in Pacific Exercise Posted: 31 Aug 2020 10:50 AM PDT  Ships and aircraft from ten nations participating the exercise sank the amphibious cargo ship in a live-fire exercise.
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| 'Hero' St. Louis police officer dies after being shot in the head Posted: 31 Aug 2020 07:36 AM PDT  A St. Louis police officer died Sunday after being shot in the head by a gunman, authorities said.
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| India sets global record with single-day rise in coronavirus cases Posted: 29 Aug 2020 09:48 PM PDT  India on Sunday reported the biggest single-day jump in coronavirus infections of any nation in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the epicentre shifts to the south Asian giant. India's 78,761 cases exceeded the 77,299 recorded in the United States on July 16, a Reuters tally of official data showed. The world's second-most populous nation is, with 3.54 million cases, the third-hardest hit by the pandemic, following the United States and Brazil, but its daily tallies have exceeded those of the other two countries for almost two weeks.
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| Swift Boat mastermind to launch massive super PAC to boost Trump Posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:30 AM PDT  The late effort, expected to include some of the party's biggest givers, comes as Trump has been overwhelmed by Joe Biden on TV.
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