Politics

November 1, 2020
Christmas is usually crap, but Covid means you can have the festive season you’ve always secretly wanted

Why the hysteria about how awful Christmas is going to be this year, with families split up, social distancing and bars and restaurants likely to be closed? Sounds like a...

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November 1, 2020
The Latest: Australia has no local case 1st time in months

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has recorded no new locally transmitted coronavirus infection for the first time in five months. In Melbourne, the capital of Victoria state, which had the highest...

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November 1, 2020
Slave owner or not?: Asheville struggles to rename streets

James Patton, who served on the city's governing body in the 19th century, was a documented slave owner, holding up to 35 people at one time in bondage, according to...

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October 31, 2020
Obama: Trump failed to take pandemic, presidency seriously

Calling Joe Biden his “brother,” Barack Obama on Saturday accused Donald Trump of failing to take the coronavirus pandemic and the presidency seriously as Democrats leaned on America's first Black...

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October 31, 2020
Mississippi program to use door cameras to fight crime

Mississippi's capital city could begin using residents' door security cameras in its effort to fight rising crime. Recently, Jackson began a pilot program with two technology corporations to provide a...

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October 31, 2020
Possible job cuts announced at Pennsylvania universities

More than 80 tenured and tenure-track faculty members at a western Pennsylvania university have been told they may lose their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, part...

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October 31, 2020
Possible job cuts announced at Pennsylvania universities

More than 80 tenured and tenure-track faculty members at a western Pennsylvania university have been told they may lose their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, part...

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October 31, 2020
Possible job cuts announced at Pennsylvania universities

More than 80 tenured and tenure-track faculty members at a western Pennsylvania university have been told they may lose their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, part...

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October 31, 2020
Judge orders Postal Service to take extraordinary measures

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to take “extraordinary measures” to deliver ballots in time to be counted in Wisconsin and around Detroit, including using a priority...

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October 31, 2020
Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit

The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three...

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October 31, 2020
NASA center holding online event highlight HBCU ties

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is holding an online event to highlight the role of historically Black institutions in space missions. The virtual gathering will be held Tuesday to put...

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October 31, 2020
Dozens of undelivered ballots found at Miami-Dade post office with mail backlog

Special agents with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General discovered 48 pieces of election mail sitting in a post office in South Miami-Dade County on Friday, the office...

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October 31, 2020
‘Obamacare’ sign-ups begin as millions more are uninsured

Millions of Americans who have lost health insurance in an economy shaken by the coronavirus can sign up for taxpayer-subsidized coverage starting Sunday. It's not a new COVID relief program...

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October 31, 2020
‘Obamacare’ sign-ups begin as millions more are uninsured

Millions of Americans who have lost health insurance in an economy shaken by the coronavirus can sign up for taxpayer-subsidized coverage starting Sunday. It's not a new COVID relief program...

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October 31, 2020
‘Obamacare’ sign-ups begin as millions more are uninsured

Millions of Americans who have lost health insurance in an economy shaken by the coronavirus can sign up for taxpayer-subsidized coverage starting Sunday. It's not a new COVID relief program...

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October 31, 2020
Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit

The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three...

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October 31, 2020
Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit

The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three...

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October 31, 2020
Biden looks to restore, expand Obama administration policies

Stop and reverse. Restore and expand. Joe Biden is promising to take the country on a very different path from what it has seen over the past four years under...

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October 31, 2020
Biden looks to restore, expand Obama administration policies

Stop and reverse. Restore and expand. Joe Biden is promising to take the country on a very different path from what it has seen over the past four years under...

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October 31, 2020
Biden looks to restore, expand Obama administration policies

Stop and reverse. Restore and expand. Joe Biden is promising to take the country on a very different path from what it has seen over the past four years under...

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October 31, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone: If Biden wins, Russiagate will magically morph into Chinagate

Just like Democrats and the liberal media peddled Russiagate against Donald Trump, Biden is now the target of a budding Chinagate – the conservatives and Trumpists eager to adopt their...

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October 31, 2020
High demand, high prices for forest products amid pandemic

As the unpredictable nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect every industry differently, sawlog prices in Montana are reaching record levels, said F.H. Stoltze Land and Resource Manager Paul...

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October 31, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s voting wrongs; Biden’s trade miss

The actual crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and a manufactured crisis over voting fraud featured heavily in President Donald Trump's misstatements during the 2020 campaign's final week. Democrat Joe Biden...

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October 31, 2020
Expect a lot more of the same if Trump wins a second term

Expect to see a lot more of the same if there's a second Trump administration. President Donald Trump has consistently pointed to tax cuts and regulatory relief as key successes...

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October 31, 2020
Citi Bikes (aka DecoBikes) have returned to Greater Miami. They now come sanitized

Another sign of normalcy is gliding back into Greater Miami on two wheels. Citi Bike Miami, the hourly cycle rental service run by operator DECOBIKE LLC, has reactivated all its...

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October 31, 2020
Her poor service at a big bank in South Florida struck a chord with many readers

Last Sunday, I wrote about an unpleasant experience I had at a bank, when I went with my godson, who is legally blind, to take care of an estate problem....

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October 31, 2020
Handful of races to set N. Carolina legislature rule, agenda

FILE PHOTOS ON HOLD Control of the North Carolina General Assembly — which carries with it the leverage to shape current policies and draw district boundaries for the next decade...

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October 31, 2020
Vote will show Georgia as swing state or extend GOP control

The most competitive election cycle in decades could confirm Georgia as a swing state or leave Republicans still in control. After weeks of early balloting, voters on Tuesday will finish...

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October 31, 2020
Nearly 3 months after vote, Belarus protests still go strong

Nearly three months after Belarus' authoritarian president's re-election to a sixth term in a vote widely seen as rigged, demonstrators keep swarming the streets of Belarusian cities to demand his...

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October 31, 2020
In service-heavy Florida, minimum wage boost is on ballot

Joseph Gourgue wishes he could help out his children and grandchildren financially, but his $9 an hour wage as a wheelchair attendant at Orlando International Airport doesn't let him. Gourgue,...

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October 31, 2020
Karin Kneissl: France has a sad history of terrorist attacks, and that history is set to continue

The brutal attack on a church in Nice is part of a long list of horrors. However, the incident looks different in this time of absolute uncertainty. The Nice assassin...

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October 31, 2020
Obamacare enrollment window opens to pandemic landscape of economic woes, legal threat

Florida entered the novel coronavirus pandemic in a precarious position, with the fourth-worst rate of people without health insurance in the country and as one of a dozen states with...

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October 31, 2020
Lose your passion for life at 54? Nonsense! I’m 56 and not ready for the knacker’s yard yet

A Norwegian psychologist says we start to lose our passion, grit and mindset in our early fifties. But plenty of evidence proves he's wrong, with many inspirational figures still going...

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October 31, 2020
University finds nuke plant study will lead to huge job loss

A new report from Northern Illinois University says closing the Byron Generating Station will result in the loss of more 2,300 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of...

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October 31, 2020
Show your work: AP plans to explain vote calling to public

The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage, is pulling back the curtain this year to explain how it is reaching those conclusions....

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October 31, 2020
Friday’s Sports in Brief

BASEBALL DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers hired AJ Hinch as manager, giving him a chance to return to a major league dugout after he was fired in the wake...

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October 31, 2020
The Latest: Australia to spend on vaccines for wider region

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific and Southeast Asia “as part of a shared...

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October 31, 2020
Deaf dog, deputy provide comfort in last moments of life.

A teenage boy with Huntington's disease could move only a finger, but his eyes lit up as he held the therapy dog's leash a month before he died in hospice...

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October 31, 2020
‘Beyond organic’: Amonite farm, Heritage Hills Farmstead

Heritage Hills Farmstead's Karl and Karli Amonite began growing their own meat and eggs on Karli's family farm years ago as a way of providing their small family with better...

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October 31, 2020
N. Carolina artists face fears, change tactics in pandemic

As she watched COVID-19 cancel Wilmington-area festivals earlier this year, Linda Callison started freaking out a little. Callison, a 60-year-old Wilmington-based artist, relies on venues like festivals and farmer's markets...

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