Politics

October 16, 2020
Another ‘hack’ job? Censorship of the Hunter Biden story shows Twitter & Facebook have a big dog in the US political fight

By suppressing news of Joe Biden's son's alleged emails, the social media titans have revealed their political stakes. That should make them ineligible to protections granted by Section 230 of...

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October 16, 2020
GOP, Dems hope Supreme Court fight bolsters Senate prospects

For Republicans, the nomination fight over Amy Coney Barrett is a chance to seal conservative control of the Supreme Court for decades. For some GOP senators, it's also a lifeline...

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October 16, 2020
Trump administration denies California relief for 6 fires

President Donald Trump's administration this week rejected California's request for disaster relief funds aimed at cleaning up the damage from six recent wildfires among the siege of deadly and destructive...

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October 16, 2020
Players Coalition awards $350,000 for internet in schools

Players Coalition, a nonprofit founded by Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins, is donating $350,000 in grants nationwide to help provide K-12 students and schools with internet access, broadband connectivity and...

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October 16, 2020
Florida’s jobless rate climbs as 770,000 remain unemployed; Miami-Dade rate surges

Florida's unemployment rate climbed in September as hundreds of thousands of residents remained without a job — a sign the economic crisis brought by the coronavirus pandemic shows little sign...

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October 16, 2020
Shut up, spoilt Londoners! The Covid lockdown should be stricter still, so stop complaining and get on with it

The biggest city in Western Europe is set to face a tightening of restrictions, and millions are disgruntled, but they have no right to be. If anything, the clampdown should...

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October 16, 2020
Shut up, spoilt Londoners! The Covid lockdown should be stricter still, so stop complaining and get on with it

The biggest city in Western Europe is set to face a tightening of restrictions, and millions are disgruntled, but they have no right to be. If anything, the clampdown should...

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October 16, 2020
Some businesses opening, expanding despite pandemic hurdles

First there was taco night, then barbecue sandwiches, followed by meats by the pound — all splashy marketing events to generate buzz leading up to Proof BBQ's grand opening in...

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October 16, 2020
Some businesses opening, expanding despite pandemic hurdles

First there was taco night, then barbecue sandwiches, followed by meats by the pound — all splashy marketing events to generate buzz leading up to Proof BBQ's grand opening in...

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October 16, 2020
US retail sales grow for 5th month in a row

Retail sales rose strongly in September, the fifth consecutive month of growth, as Americans spent more on clothing, cars and sporting goods. The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday that retail...

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October 16, 2020
Progressives calling for Dianne Feinstein’s head over her questioning of ACB prove they have no idea about political strategy

Leftists demanding that veteran senator Dianne Feinstein step down for her lack of invective during Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation have completely missed the point – this was a deliberate move...

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October 16, 2020
Pfizer: Mid-November earliest it can seek virus vaccine OK

Pfizer Inc. cannot request emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine before the third week of November -- and that's if everything goes well, the company's CEO announced Friday. Despite President...

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October 16, 2020
Colts trying to fix Taylor-made ground game against Bengals

The Indianapolis Colts' game against Cincinnati on Sunday was placed in doubt when the team closed its practice facility Friday after “several individuals” tested positive for COVID-19. The Colts wrote...

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October 16, 2020
Deadline looms to defuse Pennsylvania’s budget time bomb

Months after passing a partial budget that avoided some hard decisions, Pennsylvania's Legislature and governor face a deadline at the end of November to finish the job and plug a...

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October 16, 2020
Malala survived being shot by extremists, so why should she care when the Twitter Taliban flame her for having a Tory friend?

Famed human rights campaigner Malala has been slammed by the Left. Her crime? Being friends with a Conservative. Do these woke morons living in the digital dark ages have no...

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October 16, 2020
Pennsylvania sees another big monthly drop in jobless rate

Pennsylvania's unemployment rate began to look like the rest of the nation's in September, taking another steep drop from its post-pandemic high as the labor force and payrolls grew, according...

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October 16, 2020
Alabama jobless rate jumps to 6.6% as pandemic woes continue

Alabama's monthly unemployment rate jumped to 6.6% in September as the coronavirus pandemic kept up its continuing damage to the state's economy, the government reported Friday. The rate was a...

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October 16, 2020
China rapidly expands use of experimental COVID-19 vaccines

China is rapidly increasing the number of people receiving its experimental coronavirus vaccines, with a city offering one to the general public and a biotech company providing another free to...

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October 16, 2020
Study finds 4 drugs have little to no effect on COVID-19

The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found “conclusive evidence” that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has little or no...

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October 16, 2020
Kansas liquor sales rise during pandemic

Business is booming for one segment of the economy in Kansas during the coronavirus pandemic: liquor stores. The Wichita Eagle reported that tax collections on liquor sales at stores are...

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October 16, 2020
Colts close practice facility after positive tests for virus

The Indianapolis Colts closed their practice facility after “several individuals” tested positive for COVID-19, the team said Friday. The Colts wrote on Twitter that the team will work remotely. “This...

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October 16, 2020
Colts close practice facility after positive tests for virus

The Indianapolis Colts closed their practice facility after “several individuals” tested positive for COVID-19, the team said Friday. The Colts wrote on Twitter that the team will work remotely. “This...

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October 16, 2020
Black panderers: Trump & Biden’s fight for African American vote is a grotesque pantomime of caring

Democrats and Republicans have decided they need to take a hefty share of the black vote in order to win November's election. But both parties prefer shameless pandering to treating...

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October 16, 2020
Twitter changes hacked content rules after Biden story furor

Twitter said late Thursday it was changing its policy on hacked content after an outcry about its handling of an unverified political story that prompted cries of censorship from the...

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October 16, 2020
Twitter changes hacked content rules after Biden story furor

Twitter said late Thursday it was changing its policy on hacked content after an outcry about its handling of an unverified political story that prompted cries of censorship from the...

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October 16, 2020
Investors hope to continue their climb as companies’ quarterly results come in

Investors keep scaling the wall of worry. Sure, there have been trips and slips, but investors are confident 2021 is a strong anchor to take risk now. That anchor begins...

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October 16, 2020
Investors hope to continue their climb as companies’ quarterly results come in

Investors keep scaling the wall of worry. Sure, there have been trips and slips, but investors are confident 2021 is a strong anchor to take risk now. That anchor begins...

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October 16, 2020
Black scholars form effort to fight trolls, disinformation

A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project to combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday. The newly formed...

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October 16, 2020
Asian shares mixed amid 2nd wave coronavirus, election fears

Asian shares were mixed on Friday as investors weighed concerns about the U.S. presidential election and an economic stimulus package, on top of flaring outbreaks of coronavirus. Looking ahead, markets...

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October 16, 2020
DEA recruits cite ‘monkey noises’ among claims of racism

At the Drug Enforcement Administration's Training Academy in Virginia last year, an instructor on the firing range called out a name that was shared by two trainees, one Black and...

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October 16, 2020
DEA recruits cite ‘monkey noises’ among claims of racism

At the Drug Enforcement Administration's Training Academy in Virginia last year, an instructor on the firing range called out a name that was shared by two trainees, one Black and...

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October 16, 2020
The Latest: China says Qingdao outbreak linked to hospital

BEIJING — Authorities say they have completed coronavirus tests on more than 10 million people in the northern Chinese port city of Qingdao after a hospital outbreak there blamed on...

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October 16, 2020
The Latest: China says Qingdao outbreak linked to hospital

BEIJING — Authorities say they have completed coronavirus tests on more than 10 million people in the northern Chinese port city of Qingdao after a hospital outbreak there blamed on...

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October 16, 2020
Thousands arrive in Hawaii on first day pre-travel testing

About 8,000 people landed in Hawaii on the first day of a pre-travel testing program that allowed travelers to come to the islands without quarantining for two weeks if they...

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October 16, 2020
Power still out to thousands in California to prevent fires

Thousands of people in Northern California remained without power Friday after a utility cut off service to prevent powerful winds from damaging equipment and sparking wildfires amid a fall heat...

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October 16, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Rhetoric from Trump, Biden in the non-debate

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Here's how...

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October 16, 2020
Don’t let credit card debt cripple your finances | Opinion

Credit card debt is a problem for millions of Americans, and a particular concern for South Florida residents. A recent report from WalletHub, a personal finance website, projects an $80...

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October 16, 2020
Healing ‘scars of centuries’: Tackling the dual ills of housing inequality, racism

This summer, shortly after George Floyd was callously murdered by police in Minneapolis and demonstrations erupted across the country, I sought to understand how prior U.S. presidents led our country...

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October 16, 2020
In work-from-home era, some CEOs miss seeing their staff in person

In a pre-COVID world, we would customarily sit with our younger attorneys to review documents or materials related to a litigation or transactional matter. As a result, the most challenging...

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October 16, 2020
Black scholars form effort to fight trolls, disinformation

A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project to combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday. The newly formed...

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