Politics

November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Kentucky voters mixed on state of nation

Voters in Kentucky made their pick for president while holding mixed views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Alabama voters mixed on state of nation

Voters in Alabama made their pick for president while holding mixed views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Kentucky voters mixed on state of nation

Voters in Kentucky made their pick for president while holding mixed views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Florida voters sour on state of nation

Voters in Florida made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Voters sour on state of nation

Voters made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President Donald Trump...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Florida voters sour on state of nation

Voters in Florida made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Voters sour on state of nation

Voters made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President Donald Trump...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Florida voters sour on state of nation

Voters in Florida made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President...

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November 3, 2020
AP VoteCast: Voters sour on state of nation

Voters made their pick for president while holding negative views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President Donald Trump...

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November 3, 2020
How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday

Wall Street posted solid gains on Election Day, sending the S&P 500 up 1.8%. More than anything, what investors hope for is a clear winner to emerge relatively soon from...

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November 3, 2020
Censorship’s slope is always slippery & the Internet Archive’s embrace of biased ‘fact-checking’ proves it

The Internet Archive has begun slapping “fact-checks” on archived pages, supposedly to provide “context” they're missing. But readers don't need their thoughts babysat, and it's a small step to deleting...

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November 3, 2020
Pennsylvania voters out in force in key battleground

Voters turned out in force Tuesday in the key presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania as Donald Trump and Joe Biden headlined a statewide election in which millions of ballots have...

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November 3, 2020
Is it a parking lot or delivery hub? That question earned Miami startup $1 billion

Miami-based REEF, best known for it's so-called ghost kitchens that provide off-site food delivery, announced Tuesday it had raised a total of $1 billion to expand its operations. A growth...

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November 3, 2020
Reward up to $20,000 in death of East Chicago 8-year-old

The reward for information leading to an arrest in the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old Indiana girl has climbed to $20,000, police announced Tuesday. The Federal Protection Agency, LLC, a...

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November 3, 2020
Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery rose 85 cents to $37.66 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude oil for January delivery rose 74 cents to $39.71 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline...

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November 3, 2020
Fort Lauderdale attorney suspended after posing online as opposing attorney’s client

Much of the six-month suspension Fort Lauderdale attorney Tracy Newmark began serving Sunday comes down to lying, according to the referee's reports of Newmark's Florida Bar discipline cases. Lying about:...

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November 3, 2020
Judge orders Election Day sweep for missing mail ballots, including in South Florida

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued an extraordinary Election Day order shortly after noon Tuesday, commanding the U.S. Postal Service to sweep mail processing facilities for undelivered ballots in...

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November 3, 2020
Exorcising the ghost of Russiagate: Rudy Giuliani appearing on RT after Atlas uproar makes powerful statement about US media BIAS

Trump's personal lawyer seemed to be making a strong personal statement when he appeared for an interview on RT, just days after White House Covid-19 guru Scott Atlas offered an...

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November 3, 2020
Horse racing on slow track with efforts to address diversity

Horse racing returns to Kentucky this weekend for another signature event it hopes will garner the attention of a mainstream audience. While it wants to be considered among North America's...

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November 3, 2020
Broncos GM Elway, team president Ellis positive for COVID-19

The novel coronavirus has reached the highest levels of the Denver Broncos organization with general manager John Elway and team president Joe Ellis testing positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The...

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November 3, 2020
Clarke wins and he’s off to the bar, this time not by choice

Stop if you've heard this one before: Darren Clarke wins a big tournament and spends the next week at the bar. It's not entirely by choice this time. Clarke's timing...

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November 3, 2020
As four are killed in Austrian attack, remember not all terrorism victims die. Some, like my friend, live with invisible scars

Four people were killed and many more injured after Islamist terrorist attacks in Vienna. But they won't be the only victims – being caught up in horror like this causes...

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November 3, 2020
Cruise industry throws in the towel on 2020, looks to 2021

The cruise industry has jettisoned hopes of restarting operations this year. Days after both Carnival and Norwegian extended a halt on cruises through the end of the year, the group...

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November 3, 2020
Cruise lines suspend U.S. sailings through Dec. 31

Cruising from the U.S. will remain suspended through Dec. 31, an industry group announced Tuesday. The announcement by the Cruise Lines Industry Association followed a move Friday by the U.S....

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November 3, 2020
Conviction and 10-year sentence upheld in payday loan scam

An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 10-year sentence for a man who ran a $220 million predatory payday lending operation that cheated over a half-million people nationwide....

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November 3, 2020
Kentucky police head resigns after report on old training

The head of Kentucky State Police is stepping down days after a report surfaced about old training materials the agency used that encouraged cadets to be “ruthless” and quoted Adolf...

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November 3, 2020
The Latest: Melania Trump casts her vote near Florida resort

The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 11 a.m. First lady Melania Trump has cast her vote, stopping in at a voting center in Palm Beach, Florida, close...

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November 3, 2020
Chicago-area sportswear chain to pay $420,000 to settle suit

A Chicago area chain of sportswear stores has agreed to pay $420,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit that alleged the company refused to hire more Blacks and Hispanics and...

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November 3, 2020
Grains mostly higher, livestock higher

Grain futures were mostly higher on Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Dec. up .018 cent at $6.0720 a bushel; Dec. corn rose .062...

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November 3, 2020
Spanish court takes over new investigation of ex-king

Spanish Supreme Court prosecutors have taken over a new investigation into the financial activities of ex-King Juan Carlos, who recently left Spain to live in an unspecified country following the...

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November 3, 2020
News Guide: Tight races challenge Texas’ reliably red status

Unusually tight races were expected Tuesday in Texas following a record-breaking three weeks of early voting, and Democrats were eyeing possible inroads to power in what has been the nation's...

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November 3, 2020
As bodies mount up in terrorist attacks, Europe must realise Islam itself is not the problem but how & why people get radicalised

The West needs to thoroughly re-examine its relationship with Islam and rethink its imperialist policies in the Middle East if we are ever to see an end to the atrocities...

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November 3, 2020
A look at the 12 statewide ballot measures in California

Here's a look at the 12 statewide measures on the ballot in California. More information is available from the California Secretary of State's voter guide. —PROPOSITION 14 — Authorizes $5.5...

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November 3, 2020
The Latest: Feds monitoring vote, say no major problems seen

The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 9:45 a.m. Federal authorities are monitoring voting and any threats to the election across the country at an operations center just...

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November 3, 2020
Voters asked to approve $5.5 billion for stem cell research

The future of California's first-of-its-kind stem cell research program is in the hands of voters, who will decide whether it deserves a $5.5 billion infusion of borrowed bond money to...

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November 3, 2020
Californians consider expanding landmark data privacy law

Two years ago, California became the first state to pass a sweeping digital privacy law seen as the strongest of its kind in the United States. Voters are now deciding...

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November 3, 2020
California voters to decide on dialysis clinics care

California voters are deciding whether to require a doctor or highly trained nurse at each of the state's 600 dialysis clinics whenever patients are being treated to improve patient care....

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November 3, 2020
California ballot measure would reshape property taxes

California's 42-year-old system of tying property taxes to the last sales price of a building faces one of its biggest tests yet Tuesday. Since a 1978 ballot measure sparked a...

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November 3, 2020
Nike says Oregon HQ layoffs will reach 700 by January

Nike said Monday it expects to eliminate 700 jobs at its Oregon headquarters near Beaverton by early January as part of a broader restructuring the company announced during the summer....

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November 3, 2020
Five reasons why England’s new coronavirus lockdown is not justified

There's a grave danger that Boris Johnson's decision to shut down the country again s based on a flawed, one-eyed interpretation of the facts, and that the ‘cure' will be...

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