| Trump supporters like me are concerned by Biden's win. But there's still some hope. Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:30 AM PST  I vote Republican because that party — and President Donald Trump — have a demonstrated commitment to anti-socialism. Biden can still show us that.
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| Erdogan tells Putin that Armenia must negotiate over Nagorno-Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:56 AM PST  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be convinced to negotiate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan and called for a peaceful resolution, the Turkish Presidency said. At least 1,000 people have died in nearly six weeks of fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians.
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| RNC chair calls for voter 'irregularities' to be reviewed DESC: Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:27 PM PST 
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on Friday urged that voter "irregularities" be reviewed in the presidential election.
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| Bolsonaro abandons 'friend' Trump after 2020 election, says he's 'not the most important person in the world' Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:07 AM PST  Tthe Brazilian president has often been called the "Trump of the Tropics," and even echoed the US president's attacks on "fake news" media.
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| Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Several Others Have COVID Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:12 PM PST  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has contracted COVID-19—weeks after an outbreak infected a slew of Trumpworld figures, including the president.Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson and Trump campaign aide Nick Trainer have also tested positive, according to Bloomberg. At least two other White House staffers are also ill, according to multiple media reports.The news comes just two weeks after Meadows shockingly admitted on television that the Trump administration has decided it is "not going to control the pandemic."And it broke on a day that the United States set a new record for coronavirus cases, tallying another 122,000 positive tests as hospitalizations soar.As The Daily Beast has reported, Meadows has aggressively shunned masks and has mocked others for taking precautions in the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans."You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to," he snarked at reporters trying to ask him questions as he walked—maskless—indoors with Jared Kushner in June.> White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, to reporters: "You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to." > @politico's @JakeSherman: "We're just trying not to die." > pic.twitter.com/aD7KvgHNLH> > — David Gura (@davidgura) June 9, 2020White House journalists have identified Meadows as one of the administration officials they feel is endangering the health of those around him."It's absolutely outrageous," one prominent correspondent told the Daily Beast last month."They have literally put lives in jeopardy, they have put people's health in jeopardy—there's no other way to describe it when you have multiple White House staffers getting sick with COVID and they're still not taking precautions. I don't know how else to describe it other than it's just reckless and shows a lack of regard for other human beings—especially the press."Mark Meadows Might Be the Second Most 'Reckless' Man in the White HouseMeadows has even questioned the effectiveness of masks, even though scientific studies have proven they slow the spread of the virus."If masks is the panacea for everything, if that's the way that we open back our economy and get everybody back to work, I will gladly wear my mask each and every day if that's what makes the difference. And it doesn't," he said in September.When COVID-19 broke out in Vice President Mike Pence's office last month, Meadows reportedly tried to keep it secret. Pressed about that, he tried to justify it by saying that he did not believe "sharing personal information is something we should do."His illness was announced the night before Joe Biden was declared the 46th president of the United States and just moments after the former vice president addressed the nation about the status of vote-counting and spoke movingly about the toll the coronavirus had exacted in the last eight months.Bloomberg reported that Meadows was with Trump at campaign headquarters on Tuesday and was back on Wednesday. He was not wearing a mask either time.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Common cold antibodies hold clues to COVID-19 behavior; lung scans speed COVID-19 diagnosis in stroke patients Posted: 06 Nov 2020 10:44 AM PST  Among people who were never infected with the new coronavirus, a few adults - and many children - may have antibodies that can neutralize the virus, researchers reported on Friday in Science. Among 302 such adults, 16 (5.3%) had antibodies, likely generated during infections with "common cold" coronaviruses, that reacted to a specific region of the spike protein on the new virus called the S2 subunit. Among 48 children and adolescents, 21 (43.8%) had these antibodies.
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| Heavy fighting near key town in Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:03 AM PST  Armenia reported Saturday that "fierce combat" with Azerbaijani forces took place overnight near the town of Shusha, a key stronghold in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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| Sexual assault charge against Jacob Blake dismissed in plea bargain agreement Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:24 PM PST  He pleaded guilty to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and domestic abuse.
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| It’s simple to enter the visa lottery for a free green card. But you better hurry Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:52 PM PST  Up to 55,000 foreign nationals and their families from around the world will have a chance to legally immigrate to the United States with a green card in 2022, thanks to one of the simplest visa programs.
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| How many US presidents have lost a second term? All the one-term presidents Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:49 AM PST  Only ten presidents have failed to win re-election
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| The Army Is Looking at Changing Up the Size of Its Infantry Squads Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:17 AM PST |
| Fox News host Tucker Carlson says Biden and Harris want Americans 'drinking Starbucks every day from now until forever' in a baseless monologue about uniformity Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:08 AM PST  On the Tucker Carlson Tonight show, the Fox News host claimed, without citing any evidence, that the Biden administration "demands obedience."
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| Democrats need Georgia races to win a majority in the Senate: Here's where things stand Posted: 07 Nov 2020 06:00 AM PST  Democrats won two seats held by Republicans: in Colorado and Arizona. But Republicans held off challengers in Iowa, Montana, Maine and South Carolina.
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| Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:00 AM PST  Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.
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| Thieves 'take €600,000 worth of luxury goods' from Paris home of Saudi princess Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:02 AM PST  Thieves stole €600,000 worth of luxury goods from the home of a Saudi princess in Paris, a source close to the case said on Friday, including designer bags and fur coats. The 47-year-old princess, who had been away on holiday in the South of France and had not set foot in the opulent apartment in Paris's 8th arrondissement since August, discovered on returning that bags, watches, jewellery and furs were missing. The princess, whose name has not been revealed, was hospitalised on Thursday in a state of shock, and prosecutors have opened a formal investigation which will be handled by the Paris police force's special anti-organised crime unit. But it was unclear if there had been a break-in, according to Le Parisien newspaper. The thief or thieves appear to have entered the apartment, situated near the swanky Avenue George V in the heart of the French capital, without using force, the source said, adding that the bounty included more than 30 Hermes bags worth between €10,000 and €35,000 each and a Cartier watch worth €8,000. A spare set of keys to the home was also missing. Paris has seen a spate of luxury thefts in recent years, and it is not the first time that members of the Saudi royal family have been targets. In 2018, a Saudi princess reported that hundreds of thousands of euros' worth of jewellery had been stolen from her room at the Ritz, and in 2016, an unidentified female member of the Saudi royals claimed she was robbed of a €1 million watch while walking near the Louvre. In a headline-grabbing incident in 2014, a Saudi prince lost hundreds of thousands of euros in cash and diplomatic documents during an armed attack on his convoy as it travelled through the city.
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| Fighting nears key town as Azerbaijani forces advance in Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:30 AM PST  Explosions sound in the distance as Kamo Hayrapetyan kneels to pray at the Holy Saviour Cathedral in Nagorno-Karabakh's historic town of Shusha.
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| Fourth night of protests in Portland as National Guard deployed Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:27 AM PST  Two arrests were made after a gathering of more than 100 protestors was broken up
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| Second Mexican state to enter highest coronavirus alert level Posted: 06 Nov 2020 05:16 PM PST  A second Mexican state will from next week enter the highest level of coronavirus alert as authorities bid to contain a recent jump in infections in the north of the country, the health ministry said on Friday. The northern state of Durango will as of Monday join Chihuahua, a neighboring region on the U.S. border, in the red alert phase following an increase in hospitalizations. Most of Mexico's 32 regional governments are currently at the lower orange or yellow alert levels.
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| Major US media news outlets called the presidential race for Biden on Saturday Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:33 AM PST  The AP, along with networks including CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and Fox News, all made the call for the vice president on Saturday.
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| Democrats "devastated" and reflective after House GOP exceeds expectations Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:36 AM PST  House Republicans were able to knock off at least five Democratic incumbents they had targeted in 2020.
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| Bannon's lawyer drops him after comments suggesting Fauci should be beheaded Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:38 PM PST  President Trump's former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who was arrested over the summer for alleged fraud, has lost his lawyer after suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.Lawyer William Burck on Friday "abruptly moved to drop" Bannon as a client after the former Trump strategist suggested violence against Fauci and Wray, The New York Times reports. Burck reportedly did not provide an explanation as to why he was doing so. A judge will have to approve change, the Times notes."Mr. Bannon is in the process of retaining new counsel," a letter to the court reportedly said.The move came after Bannon said during his online show that Trump should fire Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Wray, director of the FBI, at the start of a second term should he win re-election, and then suggested he would like both to be killed."I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England," Bannon said. "I'd put the heads on pikes. Right? I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you're gone."Twitter has also permanently suspended Bannon's show's account over the remarks, while YouTube removed a video of the comments for violating its policy against "inciting violence," CNN reports.Bannon was arrested and hit with charges in August for allegedly defrauding donors to an online "Build the Wall" fundraising campaign. He has pleaded not guilty.Fauci has spoken out about receiving death threats against him and his family during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling 60 Minutes in October that the "very fact that a public health message to save lives triggers such venom and animosity to me that it results in real and credible threats to my life and my safety" is "sad."More stories from theweek.com Trump's motorcade greeted by jeering Biden supporters near White House as he returns from playing golf Fox News brings Trump to his knees The day the world stopped paying attention to Donald Trump
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| Hong Kong police set up a hotline for people to snitch on those breaching China's draconian national security law, and it got more than 1,000 calls within hours Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:56 AM PST  China imposed the security law for Hong Kong on June 30, giving itself new powers to crack down on dissent in all forms.
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| USPS finds 1,700 ballots in Pennsylvania mail facilities after sweep Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:38 AM PST  The U.S. Postal Service said about 1,700 ballots had been identified in Pennsylvania at processing facilities during two sweeps Thursday and were being delivered to election officials.
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| She Killed Her Grandpa and Stuffed Him in a Tool Box, Cops Say Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:45 PM PST  A New Mexico woman has been accused of drugging her veteran grandfather to death, stuffing his body in a big tool box, and telling people that he was living at a fictional nursing home.Candy Jo Webb, 27, went on the lam after a neighbor found A.J. Harden's decomposed remains in mid-October, and investigators began asking questions, according to court papers.But she was tracked to Jacksonville, Florida, where U.S. marshals picked her up on Thursday. She's being held on a charge of first-degree murder and awaiting extradition to New Mexico, police said Friday.A criminal complaint against Webb says that police learned Harden, 82, was dead when a resident of Fort Sumner, Chad Abeyta, noticed a foul odor coming from a tool box dumped on property near his home and made the grisly discovery.The remains were severely decayed, but a medical appointment card with Harden's name was found in the pocket of the clothing. Then investigators discovered that Harden had a link to the burial ground: his granddaughter had once lived on the property with her boyfriend, Shawn Perkins.As The Eastern New Mexico News reported earlier this week, Webb told police that she took her 82-year-old grandfather to to a nursing home in Wellington, Texas, in the spring but needed to look up the name of the facility.The next day, police spoke to the dead man's grandson, Arron Harden, who said he had not seen his grandfather, that Webb would not say where he was, and that she had obtained a restraining order keeping him away from the home.When investigators pressed Webb on A.J.'s whereabouts, she said he was at the "Shady Oaks" retirement home in Fort Worth—which does not exist, according to court papers.Webb ghosted the cops, who turned their attention to her boyfriend, Garrett Beene. He revealed that Webb told him Harden died in his sleep and she called the fire department to take his body away, but police said no emergency call was ever made.A day later, Beene contacted police through his attorney with a different story: Webb allegedly told him that her grandfather asked her to kill him so she gave him a fatal dose of Xanax and Ambien. Beene said he didn't believe her and accused her of doing it so she could have his lake house. Perkins, the ex-boyfriend, had told police that Harden regularly gave Webb money.An obituary said Harden grew up in Fort Sumner, served in the Navy, got married, and became a truck driver. In his later years, he and his wife ran a hamburger stand."An amazing man with a beautiful heart," friend Denise Beck wrote on his condolence page.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Ethiopian Prime Minister announces airstrikes in country's Tigray region Posted: 06 Nov 2020 09:19 AM PST  Abiy Ahmed said the airstrikes on multiple locations Tigray region "completely destroyed rockets and other heavy weapons."
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| U.S. Postal Service delivered 40,000 votes nationwide Thursday: lawyer Posted: 05 Nov 2020 09:49 PM PST  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) delivered about 40,000 ballots on Thursday as it continues to conduct court-ordered twice-daily sweeps before various state deadlines to receive ballots, a lawyer said Friday. In a court filing early Friday, USPS said 1,076 ballots, had been found at the USPS Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center. About 300 were found at the Pittsburgh processing center, 266 at a Lehigh Valley facility and others found at other Pennsylvania processing centers.
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| Ancient skeleton find in Germany offers clues on prehistoric era Posted: 05 Nov 2020 07:12 PM PST  German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines.
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| 'It was a failure': Furious House Democrats unload as leadership promises answers after election losses Posted: 05 Nov 2020 07:36 PM PST  House Democrats talked through the aftermath on a private caucus call, where lawmakers blamed the media, polling and one another for the losses.
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| Cruise companies hope for dialogue with Key West after voters ban big ships Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  More than 60% of Key West voters sent a message to the cruise industry on election day: keep your big ships away from our city.
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| The futuristic US Army goggles built to make soldiers unstoppable in the dark are almost ready for troops to take into combat Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:21 AM PST  The US Army hopes its new mixed-reality heads-up display will give its soldiers an edge on future battlefields. Check out what all it can do.
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| Littoral combat ship Detroit is being towed into port after another engineering failure Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:31 AM PST  It's the latest setback for the hobbled LCS.
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| Trump administration fires three agency heads in wake of US election Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:25 PM PST  The Trump administration has fired the heads of three federal agencies, in the wake of the 2020 US election. The administration fired Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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| WHO looks at mink farm biosecurity globally after Danish coronavirus cases Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:08 AM PST  The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further "spillover events" after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals. Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead for COVID-19, told a briefing in Geneva on Friday that transmission of the virus between animals and humans was "a concern". The risk was much lower in other farm animals than mink, which appear to be much more susceptible to infection, a second WHO expert said.
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| Biden win sets off rush for Harris’ Senate seat in California Posted: 07 Nov 2020 02:43 PM PST  Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make history with his Senate appointment and faces pressure to pick another woman of color.
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| First otter trapping season opens in South Dakota after 'threatened' species makes rebound Posted: 06 Nov 2020 09:51 AM PST  While river otters were once on the state's threatened species list, they've now rebounded enough to have a short trapping season on the east side of the state.
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