| Azar says Trump family 'is a different situation than the rest of us' on COVID safety measures Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:45 PM PDT  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was at pains to defend not only the administration's response, but the president's behavior.
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| ‘Take it! Take it!’ Watch a man get violently carjacked in front of his Florida home Posted: 02 Oct 2020 10:36 AM PDT  A terrifying carjacking went down for a Florida man right in front of his Windermere-area home Monday night.
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| North Korea's Kim tours flood-hit town, sister reappears in public Posted: 01 Oct 2020 05:52 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected recovery efforts in a flooded village, his latest visit to areas damaged by recent typhoons, while his sister reappeared in public for the first time in about two months, state media said on Friday. Kim praised the speed of reconstruction work in Kimhwa County in the country's southeast during the visit with Kim Yo Jong, KCNA reported. Summer storms and floods have hit North Korea hard, destroying thousands of homes and raising concerns of a worsening of the country's chronic food shortages.
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| Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham admits he sent sexual messages to woman who is not his wife Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:25 AM PDT  Cunningham admitted to sending sexual text messages to a woman who is not his wife but said he will not drop out of the race against Sen. Thom Tillis.
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| More wildfire evacuations ordered as Northern California braces for powerful winds Posted: 01 Oct 2020 07:23 PM PDT  The length of containment lines dug around wildfires in the state is so massive they could stretch from San Diego to New York City, a fire official said.
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| Beto O'Rourke says Texas is "Biden's to lose" in presidential race Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:16 AM PDT  O'Rourke said he'd like to see the Biden campaign to make more appearances in the state.
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| Steve Daines got influx of cash after vote to extend an investor visa program “rampant” with fraud Posted: 03 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Montana GOP senator met with investor and visa proponent at private resort — then his vote made donations flow
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| Japan reveals record high budget request eyeing hypersonic tech, F-35s and more Posted: 02 Oct 2020 06:25 AM PDT  Japan is set to continue its recent trend of setting new records for its annual defense budgets, with the country continuing to cast a wary eye on China's military modernization and nuclear-armed North Korea's missile program.
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| Royal Navy diving contract with Chinese-linked firm is 'maritime version of our 5G' Posted: 02 Oct 2020 11:54 AM PDT  The Royal Navy diving contract with a Chinese-linked firm is the "maritime version of our 5G", the Defence Chairman has warned. Tobias Ellwood raised security concerns after JFD, an underwater capability which is a customer of Chinese owned SMD, a supplier of subsea equipment, announced it had been awarded a contract for the management and availability of the Royal Navy's in-service life-support diving equipment, to help safeguard the lives of divers worldwide. Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee, said: "It's the maritime version of our 5G. "We are falling into China's trap by becoming subservient in so many aspects of our life, including military." This follows already strained relations with Beijing after Boris Johnson bowed to the demands of backbench MPs in July and banned Huawei from the 5G network, with the agreement to strip out all of its existing infrastructure over the next few years. Huawei is viewed as a security threat because of laws in China that oblige private companies to hand over data to the government if required, and a US embargo on secure American-made chips being sold to the firm has increased the perceived danger. China previously warned that Britain would "bear the consequences" if it treated the country as a hostile provider, and was further disgruntled after Britain offered three million Hong Kong residents a home in the UK following its decision to impose strict security laws on the former colony. Dr Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said: "Given growing concerns about the aims of the Chinese Communist Party, it seems extraordinary that a company ultimately owned by the Chinese state can be involved in the supply chain for a Royal Navy contract. The British state should be mitigating risks, not taking unnecessary ones." In a statement released by JFD, which has done business with the Royal Navy for more than 20 years, it said that among the equipment suite it will be servicing is its Shadow rebreather, a system designed and manufactured by JFD, as well as provision for recompression chambers, enclosed mine lifting bags (EMLB), parachute lift bags and surface-supplied diving equipment. On its website SMD lists JFD as its customer for its remotely operated vehicles (ROV) systems which are used underwater for submarine rescue, torpedo recovery and range maintenance and distressed aircraft and vessel recovery. Mr Ellwood has previously warned that nuts and bolts from China should not be involved in UK military equipment and earlier this year announced his committee had launched an inquiry into the UK's defence supply chain. "We need indigenous capabilities and not be at the beacon call of China," Mr Ellwood said. "They won't attack directly and this affects our ability to have sovereign equipment. "This is the wrong move." It is understood that the Ministry of Defence conducts "thorough checks of all companies" that it does business with.
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| Hope Hicks, top White House official tests positive for coronavirus Posted: 01 Oct 2020 06:26 PM PDT  According to a White House official, Hope Hicks, counselor to President Trump, has tested positive for the coronavirus, Thursday.
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| Rochester, New York, mayor indicted on 2 felony campaign finance charges Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:56 PM PDT  The Rochester mayor and her campaign aides are accused of illegally using a political action committee, or PAC, to bolster campaign finances.
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| Factbox: Coronavirus in U.S. Congress - 18 members have tested or been presumed positive Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:26 PM PDT  Lee's announcement came within hours of the bombshell news of Republican President Donald Trump's positive test. Lee was one of several prominent people who did not wear masks in a crowd at the White House on Sept. 26 as Trump introduced U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee. Cassidy, 63, a Louisiana Republican, decided to self-quarantine for 14 days and contact those with whom he may have had contact after testing positive, according to a statement in August.
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| 17-foot white shark caught off Nova Scotia declared a 3,541-pound ‘Queen of the Ocean’ Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:00 PM PDT  She is more than 50 years old and covered with scars and scratches.
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| Despite coronavirus impact, U.S. Mexican workers send big amounts of money back home Posted: 02 Oct 2020 05:36 AM PDT  "We are honestly very surprised at their resilience," Jonathan Fortun, an economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, said about the payments.
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| Latino Voters May Defy the GOP’s Conventional Wisdom Posted: 03 Oct 2020 03:30 AM PDT  For Latino voters across the country, the issue of lax border policy versus Trump's hawkish stance on illegal immigration isn't settled. Rather, it is possible that the rise of the Latino Republican will defy the conventional wisdom of many GOP strategists and pundits: that restrictionist border policy, or anything deviating from the status quo before Trump — what amounts to de facto open borders — could alienate Latino voters. It is possible that Latinos in border states such as California and Texas are getting behind Trump because of his hardline stance on this issue, which is directly related to GOP's messaging on law and order.Historically, there has never been any consensus among Latinos on the issue of illegal immigration. In fact, for many Latinos, especially workers in the agricultural industry, hardline stances were quite common. Caesar Chavez is one of the most admired populist figures in American history, and he had no tolerance for illegal immigration. The leader of the United Farm Workers union, Chavez described illegal immigrants as "wetbacks" who threatened unionized workers. "As long as we have a poor country bordering California," he said in 1972, "it's going to be very difficult to win strikes." Chavez believed that illegal immigrants would drive down wages and weaken union negotiating power. How did Chavez respond when U.S. government failed to secure the border in the late '70s? Armed with bats, chains, and barbed wire, Chavez and his fellow union members (all of whom were Latino) set up tents along the border of California and Mexico and proceeded to attack Mexican nationals who tried to make a run for it. The line was a hundred miles long. The effort was a success, according to Chavez. He didn't hesitate in declaring it so.In 1994, 30 percent of California Latinos voted in favor of Proposition 187, also known as the "Save Our State" Initiative. Prop 187 was ultimately ruled unconstitutional. Its provisions would have banned illegal immigrants from California's public-school system and required providers of non-emergency health care to verify the legal status of a person seeking assistance. There was backlash against the proposition, especially among Latinos. Over 70,000 Latino immigrants protested in Los Angeles. But that 30 percent was not at all insignificant. Several academic studies, which investigated why Latinos would vote for the proposition, were published years later.Even today, there is still no consensus among Latinos. In 2018, for example, 58.5 percent of Latino voters said they supported Trump's immigration policies even though they disliked the president. Over 50 percent of respondents want stronger immigration laws, while only 18.3 percent said that current immigration law was too strict. Furthermore, in a recent Washington Post survey, 69 percent of Latinos favored shutting down almost all immigration amid the coronavirus pandemic. There is also the issue of law and order, which is high among Latinos' concerns in the aftermath of this summer's riots. In an early-June poll conducted by ABC News/Ipsos, 54 percent of Latino Democrats supported sending in the military to restore order in cities, and 60 percent of all Latino voters were amenable to military presence. What do these figures have to do with Trump's immigration policies? Upholding law and order in cities is not entirely different from upholding law and order on the border, and Latinos who support law-enforcement agencies and the military intervening in cities might prefer that the border be secured and that immigrants enter the country legally. As stated earlier, historically, this was the case in California.The idea that all immigrants, Latinos, and blacks are guaranteed to vote for Democrats in the long term is a delusion, as is the idea that all Latino voters are driven away from the GOP because of Trump's immigration policy and his "xenophobic" rhetoric. Now more than ever, citizens are privy to the media's hysteria about white supremacy, and Trump's past comments about illegal immigrants seem completely irrelevant during a pandemic, recession, and season of rioting. If Republicans want to be the party of law and order that broadly appeals to all demographics, then perhaps they shouldn't be equivocal on the issue of illegal immigration.
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| Judge: Census violated order; demands mass text to workers Posted: 02 Oct 2020 06:41 AM PDT  A federal judge ordered the Census Bureau to text every 2020 census worker by Friday, letting them know the head count of every U.S. resident is continuing through the end of the month and not ending next week, as the agency previously had announced in violation of her court order. The new order issued late Thursday by U.S. District Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, instructed the Census Bureau to send out a mass text saying an Oct. 5 target data for finishing the nation's head count is not in effect and that people can still answer the questionnaire and census takers can still knock on doors through Oct. 31. The judge also ordered Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham to file a declaration with the court by the start of next week confirming his agency was following a preliminary injunction she had issued last week.
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| US Army discontinues Rapid Equipping Force Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:23 PM PDT  The counterinsurgency remnant will disband.
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| An Arkansas man was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for a fatal shooting over unwanted mayonnaise on his hamburger order Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:31 AM PDT  According to local news outlet, 35-year-old Andra Crockett was sentenced up to 130 years in prison for the 2019 shooting.
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| More than 1,500 alums of Rhodes College sounded off against Amy Coney Barrett's nomination in a letter Posted: 03 Oct 2020 12:04 PM PDT  Barrett, President Donald Trump's pick to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1994.
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| Texas AG Ken Paxton took bribes and abused office, top aides say in call for federal investigation Posted: 03 Oct 2020 05:10 PM PDT  Top aides of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked federal authorities to investigate allegations of potential crimes.
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| Germany says it expects EU to impose sanctions against Russia over Navalny case Posted: 03 Oct 2020 02:43 AM PDT  Germany expects the European Union to impose new sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny with an internationally banned nerve agent, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Saturday. Navalny emerged from a coma in early September after suddenly falling ill during a flight in Siberia on Aug. 20 and later being airlifted to Berlin for treatment. German doctors say he was poisoned with Novichok, a Russian nerve agent.
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| Miami cop called mom to say he didn’t feel well. When she got to his home, he was dead. Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A young Miami police officer who injured his foot chasing a suspect two weeks ago died Thursday evening after calling his mother and telling her he took medication and didn't feel well.
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| Lawsuits challenge Virginia's sexual orientation protections Posted: 02 Oct 2020 07:52 AM PDT  Conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom claims the new state law infringes on their clients' religious freedoms.
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| Right-wing trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman charged with felony voter intimidation Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Pair of persistent provocateurs under investigation for alleged vote-suppression tactics in four additional states
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| Karl Rove weighs in on President Trump campaigning during quarantine: Make lemonade out of lemons Posted: 02 Oct 2020 10:54 AM PDT  Fox News contributor Karl Rove discusses how President Trump can connect with American voters during his quarantine on 'Outnumbered Overtime.'
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| Judge halts new North Carolina absentee witness info rule Posted: 03 Oct 2020 07:43 AM PDT  A federal judge has halted new North Carolina absentee voting rules that gave voters more leeway to fix witness problems and extended the period when elections boards could accept mailed-in ballots. The rules, issued last week in a settlement with voting rights advocates, were blocked by a temporary restraining order issued Saturday by U.S. District Judge James Dever, who raised concerns about changing rules after numerous ballots have already been cast. Saturday's decision comes amid a tangle of litigation in state and federal court over absentee ballots in the key presidential battleground.
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| Five North Carolina police officers resign after Black man’s overdose death in custody Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:55 PM PDT  Harold Easter lay collapsed on the floor of an interview room for nearly eight minutes before an officer arrived
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| Lindsey Graham photographed with leader of white nationalist group Proud Boys Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:58 PM PDT  The South Carolina senator recently called Proud Boys a 'racist organization,' however, photo shows him smiling with a known leader of the white nationalist group. Just days after President Donald Trump appeared to support the white supremacist group, Proud Boys, during Tuesday night's presidential debate — only to later disavow them after mounting pressure — a photograph has recently surfaced showing Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a member and organizer of the organization. The photo, which has made its rounds on Twitter, shows Graham smiling for a photo-op with Joe Biggs, a known member and organizer of Proud Boys, which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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| Disneyland, Universal Studios at odds with California over expected theme park guidelines Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Though California theme parks have urged California to let them reopen, expected guidelines from the state aren't what they had in mind.
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| Putin critic Navalny's approval rating surges in wake of poisoning Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:54 AM PDT  One-fifth of Russians now approve of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, according to an opinion poll published on Friday, a figure more than twice as high as a year ago but one accompanied by a doubling of disapproval of his activities. A vocal opponent of President Vladimir Putin, Navalny, 44, fell ill on a domestic flight in August and was airlifted to a Berlin hospital. Russia says it has seen no evidence he was poisoned.
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| Sportscaster who called Sen. Tim Scott ‘Uncle Tom’ is out of a job, CT station says Posted: 02 Oct 2020 09:08 AM PDT  The reporter has apologized for the "deeply insensitive" remark.
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| Ancient Egyptian mummies unearthed after more than 2,600 years Posted: 03 Oct 2020 05:27 AM PDT  A sealed door was also unearthed where it is expected more mummies may lie behind, said Khaled el-Anany the first Minister of Antiquities and Tourism.
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| Anger from Moscow, Minsk as EU, US sanction Belarus Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:21 PM PDT  The United States and the EU hit Belarus officials with long-awaited sanctions over the country's political crisis on Friday, drawing an angry response from Minsk and its ally Moscow.
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| Russian journalist dies after setting herself on fire Posted: 02 Oct 2020 08:31 AM PDT  A Russian journalist has set herself on fire and died outside police headquarters in an apparent protest against months of official harassment. Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the Koza Press news website in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, died at the scene, her news outlet said. Just an hour before she died by suicide, she wrote on her Facebook page: "Blame my death on the Russian Federation." Russia's top investigative body on Friday confirmed Ms Slavina's death and said they opened an official probe into self-immolation. A day earlier, police raided her home in connection with an investigation into a man linked to an organisation bankrolled by exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Police seized her laptop, phone and notebooks, she wrote in a Facebook post: "They took away everything they could find. They left me with no means to work."
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| China National Day: Hong Kong peace 'is an illusion' Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:11 AM PDT  Last year, China's National Day saw violent clashes between police and protesters in Hong Kong.
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| Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who helped Trump with debate prep this week, has tested positive for COVID-19 Posted: 03 Oct 2020 09:29 AM PDT  Christie tweeted he will be receiving medical attention and thanked supporters who have reached out to him.
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| Photos shows luxury cruise ships being broken up at a dock in Turkey as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreck the industry Posted: 03 Oct 2020 09:33 AM PDT  The cruise industry has been decimated by COVID-19 after multiple outbreaks occurred at sea and the ships became death traps.
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| It’s raining in South Florida and there’s a Flood Watch. Here’s how long that should last Posted: 03 Oct 2020 05:20 AM PDT  If you're in South Florida, it's likely you woke up to rains and under a Flood Watch. The former should let up by Sunday evening, which is why the National Weather Service set up the latter until 8 p.m. Sunday.
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| Firefighter's girlfriend watched live video as he saved home surrounded by flames Posted: 01 Oct 2020 09:41 PM PDT  Grant Newnom successfully fought off the flames surrounding the house in Santa Rosa, California, for hours, at times with nothing more than a garden hose.
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| Zimbabwean shoppers rush into S.Africa as borders open Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:57 AM PDT  Zimbabwean street vendor Memory Chauke did not get very far when she hopped over a fence into neighbouring South Africa on the first day its borders reopened after a six-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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| 'I'll cut missiles in half and use them to feed my pigs': Nagorno-Karabakh defiant in face of Azeri shelling Posted: 02 Oct 2020 09:58 AM PDT  As a senior fireman in Stepanakert, the capital city of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armen Naremanian knew he'd be busy when war erupted with Azerbaijan last weekend. Yesterday, though, rather than putting out fires or rescuing people from bombed buildings, he was running for cover himself. Just as he was eating lunch, a rocket landed in Stepanakert's main fire station compound, the blast echoing across the city and wrecking part of the building, injuring 11 of his colleagues. "We saw some Azerbaijan drones in the sky looking for targets, but we didn't think the fire station would be a target because we're a humanitarian service," said Mr Naremanian, as he surveyed the two-foot wide crater that the rocket tore in the compound's car park. "Now it's going to make it harder for us to rescue innocent victims of this war. They are doing this shelling just to cause panic among people." The rocket was part of a constant barrage of Azeri artillery around Stepanakert in the last week - some hitting military targets, some smacking harmlessly into nearby hills and gorges, some wrecking civilian homes and farmsteads. But while much of the shelling appears to be almost indiscriminate, there is nothing random about the choice of Stepanakert as a general target.
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| House passes COVID relief bill, but it's unlikely to pass Senate Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he would not support any legislation that has a price tag of over $2 trillion.
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| Arkansas pastor allegedly performed exorcism on toddler, did meth with parishioners Posted: 02 Oct 2020 09:35 AM PDT  Lloyd Eddie Lasker Jr., pastor of House of Refuge and Deliverance Ministries outside Little Rock, faces a slew of charges. A pastor from Mayflower, Arkansas was arrested and charged last week with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a gun by a convicted felon. Lloyd Eddie Lasker Jr., pastor of House of Refuge and Deliverance Ministries, was taken into custody after allegedly performing an exorcism of a toddler.
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| 25th amendment: What happens if Trump withdraws from election after Covid diagnosis? Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:31 AM PDT  How party national committees, state laws, and Supreme Court would intervene if president too ill to compete
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| 'Thanks for the chaos': Madrid returns to lockdown Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:37 AM PDT  Some 4.8 million Madrid residents will be barred from leaving the area from Friday evening, making it the first European capital back into lockdown due to surging coronavirus cases. Restaurants and bars in the Spanish capital and nine satellite towns will shut early and slash capacity by half in what has again become Europe's worst infection hotspot. The new restrictions, to start at 10 pm (2000 GMT), are not as strict as the previous lockdown from March, when people were barred from leaving their homes.
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| Tropical Storm Gamma forms over Caribbean Sea, more rain for South Florida Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:19 AM PDT  Tropical Storm Gamma has formed southeast of the Yucatan Peninsula, marking the 23rd named storm of the season, according to the National Hurricane Center. It is forecast to strengthen before hitting the Yucatan Peninsula Saturday.
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| White House claims Trump's condition has not deteriorated from virus Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:49 PM PDT  Chief political anchor Bret Baier tells 'The Five' the president is being taken to hospital out of abundance of caution
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