Politics

August 13, 2020
TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban

TikTok and its U.S. employees are planning to take President Donald Trump's administration to court over his sweeping order to ban the popular video app, according to a lawyer preparing...

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August 13, 2020
American considering cutting flights to many smaller cities

American Airlines is planning to drop flights to up to 30 smaller U.S. cities if a federal requirement to continue those flights expires at the end of next month, an...

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August 13, 2020
Americans are free to vote Trump out of office, but they may be stuck with Soros forever – whether or not they like him

George Soros had some tough words for Donald Trump, calling him “dangerous” and willing to do “anything to stay in power.” But what about the financier himself, who operates across...

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August 13, 2020
Initiative backers call it quits on education ballot drive

An Idaho group that had been collecting online signatures for an education initiative called off the effort on Thursday following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against them late last month....

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August 13, 2020
Millennials annoyed by Nick Cave’s attack on cancel culture are really just still angry with mum and dad

The singer penned a letter branding cancel culture “mercy's antithesis”, prompting the typical social media howling from my hideously woke generation who are abusing the only power they really have....

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August 13, 2020
Goodbye, Big Apple. Billionaire Carl Icahn relocates headquarters to the Miami area

Billionaire Carl Icahn has moved his headquarters from New York to Sunny Isles Beach. Icahn, the founder and majority shareholder of the conglomerate Icahn Enterprises, relocated his firm from the...

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August 13, 2020
Missouri prosecutors oppose expanding attorney general power

Missouri prosecutors on Wednesday came out against Republican Gov. Mike Parson's proposal to give the state attorney general the power to prosecute St. Louis homicides. Leaders of the Missouri Association...

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August 13, 2020
Big Sky scuttles rest of fall sports schedule over COVID-19

The Big Sky Conference has voted to postpone all fall sports competition until the spring because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The decision follows the Big Sky's postponement of...

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August 13, 2020
Private prison industry backs Trump, prepares if Biden wins

Executives at the nation's two largest private prison companies have been donating large sums to President Donald Trump and Republican candidates with an eye toward the November elections that one...

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August 13, 2020
You say ‘taco’, I say ‘tacx’: Years of SJW patronizing failed to force ‘Latinx’ into the lexicon of those it was meant to liberate

Try as they might to teach the rest of us how to refer to people of Hispanic heritage more inclusively, the enlightened scholars who obsess over pronouns have gotten almost...

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August 13, 2020
When are movie theaters reopening in South Florida? Two are about to, with COVID rules

AMC Theatres plans to reopen a couple venues in Broward County on Aug. 20 with COVID-19 restrictions in place and a throwback marketing lure. A spokeswoman for Broward County says...

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August 13, 2020
Ben Carson attends ground breaking new affordable housing project in Allapattah

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and Miami-Dade mayor Carlos Gimenez attended the ground breaking of Three Round Towers, a new affordable housing project being built by The...

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August 13, 2020
$500 million expansion at Alabama’s AM/NS Calvert mill

An Alabama steel mill is getting a $500 million expansion that's expected to create 200 direct jobs, officials said. ArcelorMittal announced the expansion plans Wednesday for it AM/NS Calvert mill...

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August 13, 2020
‘We need you to make good.’ Rubio, Florida officials urge Trump to help growers

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement was a supposed to be one of the Trump administration's signature policy achievements, a trade deal to bolster President Donald Trump's standing with voters in key...

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August 13, 2020
AMC plans to reopen two Broward theaters

Movies are on again at some AMC movie theaters but with COVID protocols. … Click to Continue »

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August 13, 2020
Outbreak of biotoxin closes some beaches in Washington state

Most recreational shellfish harvesting beaches in the Puget Sound region are closed because of a marine biotoxin that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning if consumed. Skagit County has closed all...

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August 13, 2020
Body ID’d after being found in car at Cahokia car dealership

A coroner has identified the decomposed remains of a woman whose body was found inside a car parked at an automotive repair shop and car dealership in Illinois' Metro East...

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August 13, 2020
Trump opposes USPS funding, says mail voting hard without it

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he opposes additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service, acknowledging that his position would starve the agency of money Democrats say it needs to...

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August 13, 2020
Washington families say law hurts students with disabilities

Three families in three Washington state have asked a judge to overturn emergency education rules they say have hindered special-education students. The families say in a complaint that under a...

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August 13, 2020
US seizes digital currency accounts used by militant groups

The Justice Department has seized millions of dollars from cryptocurrency accounts that militant organization abroad, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, relied on to raise money for their operations,...

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August 13, 2020
Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame inducts 3 new members

Two Kansas newspaper publishers and a veteran political reporter for The Associated Press are being inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. The inductees are Linda Denning, editor and...

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August 13, 2020
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s risk to Social Security, economy myth

President Donald Trump's proposed payroll tax cut is a threat to Social Security no matter how he casts it. During a news conference Wednesday, he insisted he could eliminate the...

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August 13, 2020
Forest abandons lawsuit challenging Cooper executive orders

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest ended a testy legal battle with campaign rival and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday after a judge recently rejected Forest's demand to...

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August 13, 2020
Grains higher, livestock higher

Grain futures were higher on Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. rose 2.40 cents at $4.9560 a bushel; Sept. corn gained 10.60 cents...

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August 13, 2020
Trump: Widespread mail-in voting hard without funding USPS

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he opposes additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service, acknowledging that his position would starve the agency of money Democrats say it needs to...

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August 13, 2020
As DJ quits and BBC boycott is planned over use of the N-word, why don’t black celebs call out the sexism and profanity of rap?

Use of the N-word in a BBC news report has caused a 1Xtra radio presenter to quit and now there are calls to boycott the Beeb. But there's silence on...

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August 13, 2020
Officer’s widower charged with fraud in benefits collection

The widower of a Philadelphia police officer who died while on duty has been charged with fraud after authorities say he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of workers...

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August 13, 2020
Seasonal rise in migrants crossing the Channel is nothing compared to the surge that awaits the UK when it leaves EU

The UK can currently return cross-Channel migrants back to France thanks to the Dublin Convention. But once it leaves the EU that will no longer apply, leaving it open to...

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August 13, 2020
Pompeo, in Slovenia, pushes 5G security, warns about China

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Slovenia on Thursday to make the case for high-speed wireless networks that bar Chinese companies like Huawei. On the second leg of a...

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August 13, 2020
Thousands in Belarus form ‘lines of solidarity’ in protest

Thousands of people swarmed the streets of Belarus' capital and other cities Thursday to keep up their protests of election results that extended the 26-year rule of authoritarian President Alexander...

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August 13, 2020
Florida’s new jobless claims drop the most of any state

Florida led the nation in a drop in the number of new jobless claims filed last week compared to the previous week, according to federal labor figures released Thursday. Some...

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August 13, 2020
For Americans waiting on virus aid, no new relief in sight

Americans counting on emergency coronavirus aid from Washington may have to wait until fall. Negotiations over a new virus relief package have all but ended, with the White House and...

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August 13, 2020
Facebook beefs up anti-misinfo efforts ahead of US election

Beginning Thursday, U.S. Facebook users who post about voting may start seeing an addendum to their messages -- labels directing readers to authoritative information about the upcoming presidential election. It's...

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August 13, 2020
New unemployment filings in Florida fall to post-pandemic low

Newly filed applications for unemployment assistance in Florida hit a post-pandemic low last week, the U.S. Department of Labor reported. It's an early sign that the worst of the economic...

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August 13, 2020
AMC to offer 15-cent tickets on first day of reopening

AMC Theatres, the nation's largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie. AMC Entertainment, which owns the...

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August 13, 2020
Many more likely sought jobless aid after $600 check ends

The U.S. government will provide its latest report Thursday on the pace of layoffs, which have remained stuck at a high level since the viral pandemic erupted five months ago....

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August 13, 2020
Trust the experts and take your pills, citizen! Meet the nerd who wants to force-feed you ‘morality pills’ to beat Covid

Swallowing mind-bending pills until you love your government and obey its orders might sound like science fiction. But there are scientists out there who want you to shut up and...

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August 13, 2020
A revamped PPP coronavirus loan program is in the works. Will it help small businesses left out before?

WASHINGTON – The Paycheck Protection Program stood out as an early success of the government's pandemic relief effort, but it ended with a whimper and left billions of dollars unallocated...

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August 13, 2020
Beach home sales at the Jersey Shore are surging during the coronavirus outbreak

For some employees given the option of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, the workplace expanded from the city office to the beachfront condominium. A picturesque scenario. If a...

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August 13, 2020
HVAC companies see high interest in air filters, UV lights in war on COVID-19

Strong air flow was thought to be a good thing until it led to an asymptomatic patient transmitting the virus to 10 people in three different families at a restaurant...

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