Politics

September 21, 2020
The Latest: India records nearly 87,000 new virus cases

NEW DELHI — India has recorded nearly 87,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, with another 1,130 deaths. With the Health Ministry announcement Monday, India now...

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September 21, 2020
Asian markets lower after Wall St declines for third week

Asian stock markets were lower Monday after Wall Street declined for a third straight week and Britain reported a rise in coronavirus infections. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and...

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September 21, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s made-up car plants, court revisionism

President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are playing loose with the facts when it comes to a successor for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Seeking to justify a...

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September 21, 2020
Restaurant owners turn to food trucks during the pandemic

Many in the restaurant industry are now turning to food trucks to help their business survive, and Wake Technical Community College is seeing a higher demand for classes that prepare...

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September 21, 2020
SC man goes from homeless to hero with Sunday Dinners

Redd Martin spent years living on the streets, eating from trash cans, and doing what he could to survive. His life began to change after he met a woman who...

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September 21, 2020
Asian markets lower after Wall St declines for third week

Asian stock markets were mostly lower Monday after Wall Street declined for a third week and Britain reported a rise in coronavirus infections. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney...

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September 20, 2020
WNBA postpones game between Storm and Lynx due to COVID-19

The opener of the WNBA playoff series between the Seattle Storm and the Minnesota Lynx was postponed nearly 90 minutes before its scheduled tipoff Sunday because of inconclusive COVID-19 test...

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September 20, 2020
Analysis: Quirky or serious, legal opinions guide officials

Can a Mississippi school district give financial rewards to students who do well on college entrance exams? Can a city government remove a dilapidated building if the owner does not...

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September 20, 2020
The Latest: Dolphins, Bills resume game after weather clears

The Latest on Week 2 in the NFL (all times EDT): ___ 3:30 p.m. The Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills have resumed playing after lightning in the area halted the...

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September 20, 2020
Trump declares Sally a major disaster for 3 Alabama counties

President Donald Trump on Sunday declared a major disaster in three Alabama counties battered by Hurricane Sally. Storm surge and torrential rains swamped Mobile and Baldwin counties on either side...

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September 20, 2020
Family, work and opera filled Ginsburg’s final summer

She was seeing family. She was exercising. She was listening to opera. She was doing the work of the court. She even officiated at a wedding. That's how Justice Ruth...

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September 20, 2020
Raiders eager to show off new digs in Vegas debut vs. Saints

The Raiders finally have a home to call their own. After spending almost their entire 60-year existence sharing stadiums that were sometimes old and out of date, the Raiders are...

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September 20, 2020
Law and order vs. health care as Dems, GOP vie for suburbs

In Republican hands for 28 years but now up for grabs, a suburban Missouri congressional district hugging St. Louis has become a lab for what each party considers one of...

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September 20, 2020
US judge approves injunction to delay WeChat restrictions

A federal judge has approved a request from a group of WeChat users to delay looming U.S. government restrictions that could effectively make the popular app nearly impossible to use....

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September 20, 2020
Iran dismisses US efforts for UN sanctions as currency drops

Iran dismissed U.S. efforts to restore all U.N. sanctions on the country as mounting economic pressure from Washington pushed the local currency down to its lowest level ever on Sunday....

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September 20, 2020
Amazon land grabbers assail ecotourism paradise in Brazil

Brazil's Alter do Chao, a sleepy village that blends rainforest and beaches, bet on tourism and scored big. Visitors flocked here to eat Amazonian river fish while gazing out over...

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September 20, 2020
SC Legislature 2-week special session ends with money talk

The September special session of the South Carolina Legislature continues this week with more discussions about money. The House and Senate are expected to hash out differences on how to...

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September 20, 2020
County eyes security cameras at park surrounding spring

A southwest Georgia county is considering using security cameras to monitor attendance and activity at a park surrounding a giant spring. Dougherty County Public Works Director Larry Cook tells WALB-TV...

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September 20, 2020
Farm workers, drivers reminded of harvest safety measures

Illinois drivers and workers in the agriculture industry can take safety precautions during the busy fall harvest season, state officials said this week. Tractor roll-over accidents on farms or roadways...

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September 20, 2020
Efforts afoot to save South’s disappearing grasslands

In the early 2000s, a harvest of pine trees on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau led to a remarkable discovery. Once sunlight hit the ground, the seeds and rootstock of native grasses...

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September 20, 2020
Georgia’s Fulton County works to avoid another vote debacle

Twice delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia's primary election earlier this year was marred by dysfunction: Hourslong wait times at polling places. Absentee ballots that never arrived. Votes cast...

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September 20, 2020
At least Trump is honest about his political assassinations

US President Donald Trump has said he had wanted to assassinate Syria's Bashar al-Assad after all, contradicting his own earlier claims. It wouldn't be Washington's first political killing – what's...

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September 20, 2020
With federal unemployment aid tapped out, how will jobless Floridians manage?

Despite months of pandemic-induced chaos, Florida hasn't fallen off the economic cliff. There are policy reasons for that, experts say: Gov. Ron DeSantis has largely erred on the side of...

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September 20, 2020
The Covid-19 ‘rule of six’ is a joke, and if Boris thinks the police will do his dirty work in enforcing it, he’s wrong

The prime minister needs to understand you can't use officers to enforce Covid-19 laws that no one believes are necessary. His authoritarian approach is wrong and he's failed to persuade...

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September 20, 2020
Ex-electrician wants NASA to make ‘little people’ honorees

Skip Laisure's dad wasn't very strict with his three sons when they were growing up in Ohio. But when a space shuttle launched, Paul Laisure insisted that they come and...

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September 20, 2020
Ex-electrician wants NASA to make ‘little people’ honorees

Skip Laisure's dad wasn't very strict with his three sons when they were growing up in Ohio. But when a space shuttle launched, Paul Laisure insisted that they come and...

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September 20, 2020
Ex-electrician wants NASA to make ‘little people’ honorees

Skip Laisure's dad wasn't very strict with his three sons when they were growing up in Ohio. But when a space shuttle launched, Paul Laisure insisted that they come and...

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September 20, 2020
Sweden spared surge of virus cases but many questions remain

A train pulls into the Odenplan subway station in central Stockholm, where morning commuters without masks get off or board before settling in to read their smartphones. Whether on trains...

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September 20, 2020
Ice cream plan of restaurant owners hit regulatory roadblock

Tim and Emily Lewis built their reputation on scratch-made splurges with unique flavor profiles crafted using ingredients culled from local farms. So it was no surprise when the couple behind...

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September 20, 2020
Ice cream plan of restaurant owners hit regulatory roadblock

Tim and Emily Lewis built their reputation on scratch-made splurges with unique flavor profiles crafted using ingredients culled from local farms. So it was no surprise when the couple behind...

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September 20, 2020
Family follows father’s legacy to open meat wholesaler

The Sanders family has always been “in the cow business,” as Will Sanders puts it. Will, along with his older brother Scott, his sister Leslie and his mother Linda, wished...

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September 20, 2020
Group of Black women farmers target agricultural disparities

Bonita Clemons arrived at her farm group's plot bearing gifts. Four members were already there, picking weeds out of the rows of squash and other produce or repairing leaky drip...

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September 20, 2020
Newnan woman visits ‘Magick River’ in Malaysia

Michaela Beck of Newnan has been stuck in Malaysia since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while there she was able to visit a sacred place not many foreign...

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September 20, 2020
The Latest: Australia’s Melbourne reports fewer cases

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, has moved close to easing severe lockdown restrictions after recording only 14 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. It was the second day in...

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September 20, 2020
Asia Today: Fewer cases in Melbourne, Korea; Japan travel up

Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, has moved close to easing severe lockdown restrictions after recording only 14 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. It was the second day in a row new...

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September 20, 2020
Asia Today: Fewer cases in Melbourne, Korea; Japan travel up

Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, has moved close to easing severe lockdown restrictions after recording only 14 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. It was the second day in a row new...

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September 20, 2020
Longtime baseball pro scout Gary Hughes dies at 79

Gary Hughes, a beloved professional scout for numerous big league organizations during a 54-year career, has died in Northern California after a battle with cancer. He was 79. Hughes was...

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September 20, 2020
Longtime baseball pro scout Gary Hughes dies at 79

Gary Hughes, a beloved professional scout for numerous big league organizations during a 54-year career, has died in Northern California after a battle with cancer. He was 79. Hughes was...

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September 20, 2020
Longtime baseball pro scout Gary Hughes dies at 79

Gary Hughes, a beloved professional scout for numerous big league organizations during a 54-year career, has died in Northern California after a battle with cancer. He was 79. Hughes was...

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September 19, 2020
Gabriel throws 4 TD passes, No. 14 UCF beats Ga Tech 49-21

Dillon Gabriel threw for a career-best 417 yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 14 Central Florida to a 49-21 victory over Georgia Tech in the Knights' season opener Saturday....

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