| How to watch the final presidential debate live on Yahoo Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:00 AM PDT  President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will face off in their last presidential debate Thursday at 9 p.m. ET at Belmont University in Nashville.
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| Senators Collins, Murkowski Vote Against Moving Forward with Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Posted: 23 Oct 2020 12:36 PM PDT  Senators Susan Collins (R., Maine.) and Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) voted on Friday against moving the Senate into an executive session to allow McConnell to expedite the final confirmation vote that is expected to seat Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.The Senate ended up approving the move to executive session — which allows McConnell to file cloture, thereby overcoming any potential filibuster — by a vote of 51-46. Republicans are attempting to confirm Judge Barrett to the Court bench next week, cementing a 6-3 majority of conservative justices.However, moderate Republicans Collins and Murkowski did not support the motion. Collins has already stated she will not vote in favor of Barrett's nomination because of the vote's proximity to the presidential election.Additionally, the Maine senator is in the midst of a difficult reelection campaign against Sarah Gideon, the Democratic speaker of the state House. President Trump is deeply unpopular among Maine voters, and the senator has struggled to keep a level of ideological distance between Trump and herself.Murkowski has not stated definitively how she will vote during the confirmation, although she, like Collins, has repeatedly voiced opposition to holding the confirmation in the week before elections."I've shared for a while that I didn't think we should be taking this up until after the election, and I haven't changed," Murkowski told Newsweek on Thursday. When asked if her comments meant she intends to vote against Barrett's confirmation, the senator responded, "That means I haven't changed my mind on that."Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to confirm Barrett on Monday. While Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D., Il.) has acknowledged that the Democrats cannot effectively stop the confirmation, Democrats engaged in procedural delay tactics on Friday in an attempt to slow the process.
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| Scott Peterson, who killed pregnant wife, faces death penalty at resentencing Posted: 23 Oct 2020 12:22 PM PDT  "At this point in time, we are on track to retry" the death penalty case, a prosecutor told a judge in California on Friday.
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| Treasure hunter dug through Yellowstone cemetery looking for famous bounty, feds say Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:03 PM PDT  He was allegedly seeking the coveted Forrest Fenn treasure, officials said.
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| Croatia accused of brutality, sexual abuse against migrants Posted: 23 Oct 2020 07:14 AM PDT  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Danish aid workers stationed in the Balkans say dozens of migrants have alleged they were brutalized by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the European Union nation, before being summarily expelled back to Bosnia. Nicola Bay, the head of the Danish Refugee Council in Bosnia, told The Associated Press Friday that 149 migrants of varying nationalities, independently interviewed by his staff in the country over the past 10 days, reported being exposed to "extremely abusive" treatment by Croatian police. The testimonies include allegations of brutal and prolonged beatings, of people being stripped naked and being forced to lie like logs stacked on top of each other, Bay said, adding: "In two cases, we have reports of severe sexual abuse."
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| America's 1.3 million Jehovah's Witnesses will be sitting out this election Posted: 22 Oct 2020 12:56 PM PDT  Jehovah's Witnesses do not vote, run for public office, serve in the military, or take "any action to change governments."
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| Ghislaine Maxwell could not contain frustration as she 'pounded' desk during bad tempered deposition Posted: 23 Oct 2020 02:05 AM PDT  Ghislaine Maxwell could not hide her frustration during an increasingly heated and bad tempered legal deposition that was unsealed in New York. Several times during the seven-hour exchange, which took place over two days, her anger boiled over as she was forced to answer repeated questions about allegations made by a woman she insisted was a serial liar. At one point, unable to contain her emotions, Miss Maxwell "very inappropriately and very harshly" pounded the desk, forcing them to take a break. She was being quizzed about Virginia Roberts Giuffre's claim that she was just 15 when she was first introduced to Jeffrey Epstein at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which she furiously insisted had been fabricated to make the story "more exciting." "Can we agree she was not the age she said… that is obviously, manifestly, absolutely, totally a lie," Miss Maxwell said. Sigfrid McCawley, for Ms Roberts Giuffre, interjected, stating for the record that Miss Maxwell had banged the desk "in an inappropriate manner." "I ask she take a deep breath and calm down," she said. "I know this is a difficult position but physical assault or threats is not appropriate so no pounding, no stomping, no."
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| Trump: The only undocumented immigrants who appear for their court dates have the 'lowest IQ' Posted: 22 Oct 2020 07:54 PM PDT 
Following a debate question on immigration, President Trump said that the only undocumented immigrants who appear for their court dates are those with the "lowest IQ."
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| Giuliani's Hunter Biden material was apparently being sold in Ukraine 18 months ago Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:48 AM PDT  "Explicit photos and emails purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden were circulating in Ukraine last year at the same time that Rudy Giuliani was searching for dirt there on former Vice President Joe Biden," Time reports, citing two people approached with the material in May and September of 2019. "The two people said they could not confirm whether any of the material presented to them was the same as that which has been recently published in the U.S.," or whether any of the documents were authentic.One of the people said when the New York Post published a story about material purportedly taken from a water-damaged laptop left at a Delaware repair shop, "it brought back memories of the same information that was being introduced to us a year ago." The second person told Time the material was offered for sale at a price of $5 million, with the unidentified seller looking to sell it to Republican allies of President Trump, but "I walked away from it, because it smelled awful."In January, the U.S. cybersecurity firm Area 1 reported that Russia's GRU military hackers had broken into the computer systems of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company Hunter Biden worked for. Selling pilfered private information is so commonplace in Ukraine now it's the "national sport," said Igor Novikov, a former adviser to Ukraine's president, and it really exploded when Giuliani put out the call for dirt on the Bidens. One of the people Giuliani worked with, Andrii Derkach, has been identified by the U.S. government as an "active Russian agent.""For months, Derkach has been peddling allegations of criminality against Biden that are remarkably similar to the broad strokes of the initial New York Post story," Politico reports. "If Borat was able to compromise Rudy, imagine what a trained intelligence officer could do," quipped former CIA officer Alex Finley.Russian intelligence often mixes in forged documents with real ones, and anything coming from Ukraine's kompromat market should be treated with caution, as it's "extremely hard to verify, yet very easy to fake," Novikov told Time."For those not steeped in the byzantine maze of reporting on Hunter Biden, the story can be pretty hard to follow," Politico notes, but in short, "there are giant blinking warning signs about the documents, their provenance, and the timing of their disclosure." Read more about the "hard drive from hell" at Politico and Time.More stories from theweek.com Who won the final 2020 debate? Call it a draw. Trump vividly reminds us that he doesn't know how tariffs work Joe Biden's hokey virtue signaling is good politics
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| Fact check: Harris said her work as California's AG is a 'model of what our nation needs' Posted: 22 Oct 2020 08:02 AM PDT  Kamala Harris never said that "California is a model of what the country should be." She did, however, say her work on criminal justice reform is "a model of what our nation needs to do."
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| Derek Chauvin, ex-officer in George Floyd case, has 3rd-degree murder charge dismissed Posted: 22 Oct 2020 09:03 AM PDT  The former police officer seen on video kneeling on Floyd's neck for about eight minutes still faces the more serious charge of second-degree murder.
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| The family of the rescued Zion National Park hiker spoke out after a sheriff's sergeant questioned her survival story — but it's still confusing Posted: 23 Oct 2020 06:41 AM PDT  Holly Courtier was found 12 days after disappearing on a hike. Her sister spoke to reporters after a sheriff's sergeant questioned the survival story.
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| ‘Nature can sure throw some curveballs.’ Two deer die with antlers locked in Kansas Posted: 22 Oct 2020 01:21 PM PDT  The deer evidently met each other's match.
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| US embassy in Turkey issues a warning about 'potential terrorist attacks and kidnappings' of Americans and foreigners in Istanbul Posted: 23 Oct 2020 07:23 AM PDT  In response to the threat, the embassy suspended its services and urged American citizens to be careful, avoid crowds, and keep a low profile.
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| China threatens retaliation over US-Taiwan arms sale Posted: 22 Oct 2020 01:55 PM PDT  China on Thursday threatened to make a "legitimate and necessary" retaliation over the US sale of $1 billion worth of missiles to Taiwan as Beijing becomes increasingly strident over its claims to the self-ruled island.
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| Turkish burgers off the menu in Saudi Arabia as trade boycott bites fast food industry Posted: 23 Oct 2020 05:38 AM PDT  With its spicy sauce and Ottoman-themed packaging, the "Turkish burger" is one of the more exotic choices on the menu at Saudi Arabian restaurant Herfy. Or, at least, it was. This week, the Turkish patty has vanished from the menu and been replaced with an identical "Greek burger," the latest casualty of Saudi Arabia's unofficial boycott of Turkish products. "It's the same thing," one Herfy worker, Mahmood Bassyoni, told customers as he offered them a taste of the burger, according to Bloomberg news agency. "Just the name changed." The boycott reportedly began after Recep Tayyip Erdogan outraged Riyadh, one of its main rivals in the Middle East, by claiming that "Arab countries in the Gulf will not exist for long but Turkey will always remain powerful." Tensions have also simmered over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate and differing attitudes towards Islamist groups in the region. Mr Erdogan has accused Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, of ordering the murder personally, something that he vehemently denies. The Telegraph approached Herfy for comment on whether the rebranding was related to the boycott but had not received a response at the time of publication. According to Arab News, a Saudi news website, the boycott has been gaining steam in recent weeks, with major supermarket Al Sadhan Group expressing support for the campaign. This was followed by dairy firm Tamimi Markets adding its voice to the backlash against Turkish goods, along with a number of online fashion retailers.
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| Scoop: Rudy Giuliani declined offer of compromising Hunter Biden emails and images in May 2019 Posted: 22 Oct 2020 08:59 PM PDT  Giuliani turned the offer down out of credibility concerns, a source familiar with the meeting tells Salon
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| Oklahoma Democrat Rejects Biden’s Promise to ‘Transition’ Away from Oil Industry Posted: 23 Oct 2020 05:21 AM PDT  Representative Kendra Horn (D., Ok.) immediately distanced herself from Joe Biden's claim during the Thursday presidential debate that he would "transition" away from the oil industry.Towards the end of the debate, President Trump challenged Biden to say whether or not he would go after the oil industry."I would transition from the oil industry, yes," Biden responded. "It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time….And I'd stop giving to the oil industry—I'd stop giving them federal subsidies. [Trump] won't give federal subsidies to solar and wind. Why are we giving it to the oil industry?"Biden campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield attempted to clarify that the former vice president only wants to end federal subsidies for the oil and gas industry, not eliminate it entirely. However, Representative Horn stated that she did not concur with Biden's initial comments."Here's one of the places Biden and I disagree. We must stand up for our oil and gas industry," Horn wrote on Twitter about half an hour after Biden made his remarks. "We need an all-of-the-above energy approach that's consumer friendly, values energy independence, and protects [Oklahoma] jobs."Horn also touted an endorsement from Steven C. Agee, dean of the Meinders School of Business at Oklahoma City University and former president of an oil and gas exploration company.Horn narrowly defeated Republican Steve Russell in 2018 and became the first Democrat to represent Oklahoma's 5th congressional district since 1975. The district itself encompasses Oklahoma City, and its voters largely backed Donald Trump in the 2016 elections.The Chamber of Commerce, the powerful Washington, D.C.-based business lobby, has also given its endorsement to Horn. The endorsement drew surprise and condemnation from Republicans."I question how the U.S. Chamber could endorse a candidate who consistently voted against the largest industry in Oklahoma, employing over 90,000 workers throughout the state," State Chamber of Oklahoma President Chad Warmington wrote in an August letter to the lobby. Warmington was apparently referring to the oil industry.
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| Fauci says as coronavirus infections swell, federal task force is meeting just weekly Posted: 23 Oct 2020 11:59 AM PDT  The infectious diseases doctor who has become a central figure in the pandemic told MSNBC the frequency of meetings has "diminished" over time.
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| Judge moves criminal case against Texas attorney general Posted: 23 Oct 2020 01:56 PM PDT  A judge on Friday ordered the long-running criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to his home county in a legal victory for the Republican. Judge Jason Luong ruled that the securities fraud case should continue in Collin County, north of Dallas, siding with Paxton's defense attorneys who argued the case should be returned there after it was moved to Houston. Paxton pleaded not guilty in 2015 and the case has been stalled for years over legal challenges.
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| AOC's snub of a tribute to an assassinated Nobel Peace Prize winner sure makes it seem like all Israeli leaders are too problematic for the progressive left Posted: 22 Oct 2020 07:44 AM PDT  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bailed on a left-wing peace advocacy group's memorial for former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin after online backlash.
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| Lindsey Graham stands firm behind Amy Coney Barrett - but back home his bid for re-election is on shaky ground Posted: 23 Oct 2020 07:56 AM PDT  'Lindsey Graham flip flops. You've gotta stick to your guns, man,' Harrison voter says of senator's handling of Supreme Court pick
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| WATCH: Trump posts his version of '60 Minutes' interview Posted: 22 Oct 2020 09:44 AM PDT  President Trump uploaded a cut of his "60 Minutes" segment to Facebook on Thursday before its Sunday evening broadcast on CBS. Trump this week abruptly ended his interview with Lesley Stahl and walked off camera.
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| Erdogan says Turkey tested Russian S-400s, shrugs off U.S. objections Posted: 23 Oct 2020 04:30 AM PDT  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed on Friday that Turkey had been testing the S-400 air defence systems that it bought from Russia and said U.S. objections on the issue did not matter. Washington says Ankara's purchase of the Russian systems compromises NATO defences, and has threatened sanctions. An apparent firing test of S-400s test last week prompted a furious response from the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon.
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| The Lincoln Project savages Trump's debate claim that separated migrant kids are 'so well taken care of' Posted: 22 Oct 2020 10:58 PM PDT  Just minutes after President Trump declared during Thursday night's debate that migrant kids separated from their parents are "so well taken care of" inside U.S. facilities, the Lincoln Project released a searing four-second ad combining his words with the wails of children.This week, lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant kids with their families told a court they haven't been able to track down the parents of 545 children. They were separated under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy, and when asked about this by moderator Kristen Welker, Trump claimed the government is working to find the parents, but added that many are smuggled into the country by coyotes and when kids are placed in U.S. facilities, they are "so well taken care of."Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pushed back, saying the children in question were ripped away from their parents, not smugglers, and called the act "criminal." On Twitter, PBS NewsHour reporter Amna Nawaz said that she has "been inside the border processing centers where many kids and families were held. They were under resourced. Crowded. Staff overwhelmed. Groups of young kids crammed into windowless rooms."The Lincoln Project wasted no time bringing attention to Trump's claim. Their video uses footage from facilities, showing young children wrapped up in mylar blankets inside cages, and the audio is Trump's claim that "they're in facilities that were so clean ... so well taken care of," mixed with the sounds of kids crying. Watch the ad below. > "They're so well taken care of." pic.twitter.com/IysMjSvE0g> > -- The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 23, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump loses on the merits Who won the final 2020 debate? Call it a draw. Get ready for Trump TV, America
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| Text Messages Appear to Show Meeting between Joe Biden and Son’s Business Partner Posted: 22 Oct 2020 02:27 PM PDT  Joe Biden appears to have met his son Hunter Biden's business partner in 2017, according to text messages obtained by Fox News.If it took place, the meeting may contradict the former vice president's claim that he "never" spoke with "my son about his overseas business dealings." The text messages came from Tony Bobulinski, the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings, a joint venture between members of the Biden family and now-defunct Chinese oil company CEFC."Mrng plse let me knw if we will do early dinner w your Uncle & dad and where, also for document translation do you want it simple Chinese or traditional?" Bobulinski wrote in a text to Hunter Biden on May 2, 2017."Not sure on dinner yet and whatever is the most common for a Chinese legal DOC," Hunter replied."Chinese legal docs can be both, i'll make it traditional," Bobulinski answered. Later on, Hunter replied, "Dad not in now until 11- let's me I and Jim meet at 10 at Beverly Hilton where he's staying." "Jim" is James Biden, Hunter's uncle and the former vice president's brother.On the same day, Bobulinski sent a text to James Biden."Great to meet u and spend some time together, please thank Joe for his time, was great to talk thx Tony b," the message states.The Beverly Hilton referred to by Hunter appears to be the Los Angeles branch of the hotel chain. On May 3, one day after the text conversations, Joe Biden participated in a conversation at the Milken Institute's "Global Conference," held in the Beverly Hilton in L.A.Bobulinski has turned over the texts and other documents to various Senate committees for further investigation. Bobulinski also confirmed the authenticity of an email purporting to show that Joe Biden was offered a 10 percent stake in the CEFC-Biden family partnership.Hunter Biden had cultivated a relationship with CEFC and its chairman, Ye Jianming. In November 2017 the Justice Department charged Ye's lieutenant Patrick Ho with corruption and bribery, and Hunter Biden initially agreed to represent Ho in the lawsuit.Ho was eventually sentenced to prison in the U.S. for attempting to bribe the governments of Chad and Uganda. Ye Jianming disappeared in 2018, and is thought to be held by the Chinese government.
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| Fukushima: Contaminated water could damage human DNA, Greenpeace says Posted: 23 Oct 2020 02:41 AM PDT  The group says the water has a radioactive substance amid reports it could be released into the sea.
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| Venezuelans 'dying slowly' in rat- and roach-infested homes Posted: 22 Oct 2020 06:15 PM PDT  Sunlight cannot penetrate, the air is fetid and fellow residents include rats and cockroaches -- but that's how 14 families are "dying slowly" in government accommodation in Venezuela's capital Caracas.
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| Watchdog says Lebanon probe into port blast flawed Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:22 AM PDT  A leading international human rights group on Thursday said a Lebanon-led probe into the devastating port explosion in Beirut this summer has been marred by political meddling and lack of judicial independence, resulting in failure to yield credible results two months later. Human Rights Watch called for a United Nations-led inquiry into the causes of the blast to determine responsibility. The New York-based watchdog called on international supporters of Lebanon, lead by France, meeting next week to press the Lebanese authorities to accept an independent probe.
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| Houston officer killed two weeks before retirement Posted: 23 Oct 2020 09:03 AM PDT  Sgt. Harold Preston, who led 'from the front,' died at an area hospital with his family by his side. A longtime Texas police officer just two weeks away from his retirement was shot and killed Tuesday while responding to a domestic violence call. Houston Police Sgt. Harold Preston, 65, suffered multiple head wounds after the 41-year force veteran responded to a call at a local apartment complex.
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| Senate Democrats will boycott Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing vote as GOP vows to move forward Posted: 22 Oct 2020 03:59 AM PDT  Senate Democrats say they will boycott a committee hearing Thursday where Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination is set to move forward.
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| North Korea told citizens to stay inside, claiming (with no scientific basis) that a storm of yellow dust coming from China was carrying COVID-19 Posted: 23 Oct 2020 03:21 AM PDT  On Wednesday, North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper warned people of the "danger of invading malicious viruses" inside an approaching storm.
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| How has China avoided a coronavirus second wave? Posted: 23 Oct 2020 04:31 AM PDT  Europe is the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic once again, with the number of daily infections doubling in the past 10 days as a second wave hits. But China has avoided a second wave. The question is why? The answer is that its authorities, after being overwhelmed in Wuhan, have fine-tuned an emergency response for surprise cluster outbreaks. Many subsequent waves of infection have emerged in China, a country of 1.4 billion people and nearly 40 times the size of the UK. Cases have cropped up across the country, as far apart as in the south along the border to Vietnam, and in the north near Russia.
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| Trump’s rape defamation hearing abruptly ends after DOJ lawyer is denied entry into courthouse Posted: 21 Oct 2020 06:38 PM PDT  Attorney falls foul of New York's coronavirus regulations
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| Pelosi Refuses to Answer Reporter’s Question on Hunter Biden: ‘I Don’t Have All Day’ Posted: 22 Oct 2020 12:22 PM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) refused on Thursday to answer a reporter's question about corruption allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden.A former business partner of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, sent documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday purporting to show a business arrangement between members of the Biden family and now-defunct Chinese oil company CEFC. One email that Bobulinski received describes a business deal between Hunter Biden and representatives of the politically-connected Chinese energy firm CEFC in which Joe Biden, who is referred to as "the big guy," is slated to receive a ten percent stake.During a press briefing with the House Speaker on Thursday, a reporter attempted to bring up the corruption allegations.> .@SpeakerPelosi snaps at a reporter asking her about Hunter Biden: "I'm not answering those questions — we're talking about the coronavirus." pic.twitter.com/p71CSpq8l2> > -- Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 22, 2020"Madame Speaker, these allegations of corruption involving Joe Biden—" the reporter asked, before Pelosi cut her off."Okay, I'm not answering your question, okay?" Pelosi said. "We're talking about the coronavirus, that's what I—I don't have all day for questions, that's what we're taking now." Pelosi proceeded to field several additional questions on the pandemic response and negotiations for a potential economic relief bill.President Trump has dug into the allegations against Joe Biden and his son in the run-up to the November elections. While the Biden campaign has denounced the allegations as a smear campaign and possible Russian disinformation, Biden has not denied the veracity of emails purporting to describe the CEFC deal.The New York Post last week revealed documents purportedly from Hunter Biden's laptop detailing additional business dealings in Ukraine. The Biden campaign has also not denied the veracity of those documents.
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| How Texas could be the linchpin in finally dismantling the Electoral College Posted: 23 Oct 2020 06:46 AM PDT  A little over a week from Election Day "and everyone with bated breath," columnist Peggy Noonan writes in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Whoever wins, "the changes in how we vote, from early voting to voting by mail, all hastened by the pandemic, will have been established after this election, and won't go away. This will make things appear more democratic and may leave them more Democratic. Progressive preoccupation with the Electoral College is about to diminish, sharply."No, Republicans should become preoccupied, too, Jesse Wegman argued on Thursday's The Daily podcast. The framers of the Constitution set up the Electoral College because they had to invent a way to "pick the leader of a self-governing republic" and were worried "most people wouldn't know national political candidates," he explained. But they never even discussed today's winner-takes-all system, "and when they saw it start to be adopted in the states in the early 1800s, they were horrified. James Madison, the man we think of as the father of the Constitution, tried to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of winner-take-all rule because he saw how corrosive it was to erase up to half of voters in the state."Madison failed, but Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) almost got a constitutional amendment enacted in 1969 — President Richard Nixon was on board, it had broad national support, the House approved the amendment, and nearly three-quarters of states were set to approve it, Wegman said. Sadly, "three Southern segregationist senators" filibustered it to death in 1970, killing "the best effort we've ever had in American history to abolish the Electoral College."This only became a partisan issue after George W. Bush then Donald Trump won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, but it's a double-edged sword, Wegman said. "Right now what we're seeing is some really big and important Republican-majority states are shifting demographically." Texas, with its 38 electoral votes, "is going to turn blue" as soon as 2024, he predicted, and "if Republicans can't win Texas, I think their paths to an Electoral College victory are basically eliminated."In the next eight years, "when both parties have suffered enough in a short enough time period that they realize that it doesn't help anybody," Wegman said, "I think we have the opening to switch to a system in which everybody counts equally, and everybody's vote matters." Listen to Wegman's entire argument at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Trump loses on the merits Who won the final 2020 debate? Call it a draw. Get ready for Trump TV, America
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| Wild hogs running amok in California city. Can bow hunters help get rid of them? Posted: 23 Oct 2020 03:22 PM PDT  Wild pigs are destroying land due a population boom.
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| How S.Africa farm murder sparked violence, then soul-searching Posted: 23 Oct 2020 05:35 AM PDT  A white farmer's murder in a rural town in early October touched off a series of racially charged events that has drawn comparisons with South Africa's apartheid past, but the truth is far more complex.
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| Judge slashes bond for man linked to plot to kidnap Whitmer Posted: 23 Oct 2020 09:06 AM PDT  A judge on Friday slashed bond from $10 million to $100,000 for a man accused of assisting in a scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and commit other violence against state government. A defense attorney argued that Pete Musico was kicked out of the group in the early summer because he was too "soft" and wouldn't commit to violence after participating in armed but legal spring rallies at the Capitol. "He was telling them you cannot accomplish what we're trying to accomplish through violence," Kareem Johnson said.
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| Disney California Adventure will reopen select stores, eateries as part of Downtown Disney Posted: 23 Oct 2020 02:47 PM PDT  Good news, Disney fans: A small portion of Disney California Adventure Park will soon be open to the public, as part of the Downtown Disney District.
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| Minn. judge dismisses 1 charge against former cop in Floyd's death Posted: 22 Oct 2020 11:46 AM PDT  A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd's neck, but the more serious second-degree murder charge remains.
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| Stunning photos show Special Forces snipers taking tough high-angle shots way up in the mountains Posted: 23 Oct 2020 02:15 PM PDT  These shots require a little extra math before the sniper pulls the trigger. Snipers also have to get a little creative with their shooting positions.
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| China and Germany heading for superpower status as U.S. influence wanes, says Putin Posted: 22 Oct 2020 08:27 AM PDT  The era when the United States and Russia decided the world's most important questions is in the past, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, saying China and Germany were now heading for superpower status. Addressing a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, Putin suggested that the role of the United States had waned, along with that of Britain and France, while Beijing and Berlin - in terms of political and economic weight -- were heading for superpower status. If Washington was not prepared to discuss global problems with Moscow, Russia stood ready to have that discussion with other nations, said Putin, who was speaking via video link.
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| Letters to the Editor: Liberals should panic about another Trump win. It'll get them to vote Posted: 23 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The thought of giving Trump another four years rightly nauseates Americans, who are turning their anxiety into a resolve to oust the president.
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| India buzzes with fake news of 'civil war' in Pakistan Posted: 22 Oct 2020 06:15 PM PDT  Who was behind rumours that police and troops were fighting in Karachi, and what was the motive?
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| University of Utah admits error in Lauren McCluskey’s death and agrees to pay $13.5m settlement Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:10 PM PDT  Lauren McCluskey had reported harassment to police more than 20 times
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| ‘Black Guy’ label for student in yearbook was created by employee, Indiana school says Posted: 23 Oct 2020 02:16 PM PDT  The school has said it was a "truly reprehensible error."
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