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    Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong says he has been arrested again for allegedly participating in an unauthorized assembly last October.

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    NEW NYT / Siena College state polls show a tight race in three Republican-leaning states: Texas: Trump 46% Biden 43% Georgia: Biden 45% Trump 45% Iowa: Biden 45% Trump 42%

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    This stopped me. “The effects of global warming in the Arctic are so severe that the climate there is already shifting from one dominated by ice & snow to one characterized by open water & rain.” Greenland has warmed by 3C since 1980.

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    Alarming developing story in . South Korean authorities accuse North Koreans of brutally shooting, then setting fire to body of South Korean fisheries official who had been missing since Monday.

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Ok 2020. Go home. You’re drunk.

    North Korea shot dead South Korean in its waters: Seoul
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    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger is retiring as chairman of the New York Times Co. and will hand the reigns of the family-controlled business to his son at the end of this year

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    . on Trump not committing to the peaceful transfer of power post-election: "What country are we in? I'm being facetious. I said what country are we in? Look, he says the most irrational things. I don't know what to say." h/t

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    Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable.

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    🚨NEW🚨 Looking at data from the 2018 midterms, and I found that absentee by-mail ballots cast by Black voters in NC were more than twice as likely as ballots cast by white voters to be rejected ‼

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  10. 10 hours ago

    There seems to be a major mismatch between the widespread belief on the left that American democracy is at stake in this election, and a candidate who calls a lid at 9:30 a.m. several days a week.

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    19 hours ago

    The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party is on the record saying he's discussed appointing loyal electors with the Trump campaign: "It is one of the available legal options set forth in the Constitution.”

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    FDA declines to comment when asked if the White House would have to approve changes to vaccine approval standards, as President Trump claimed during his briefing tonight.

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    New: U.S. intel officials are weighing additional public disclosures about election interference, 41 days out from Election Day, according to Rubio and Warner. Senate Intel met with Ratcliffe for more than two hours this afternoon.

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  14. 10 hours ago

    Imagine hearing that answer about refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, and then following up with a question about a pair of former British royals

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    11 hours ago

    There’s a reason Democratic leaders aren’t leaning into the possibility of adding judges to the Supreme Court: they might not have the votes to do it

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  16. 12 hours ago

    A roll of the dice for a president facing an election and a puzzling gift of a talking point to Democrats

    Congress poised to leave town until after the election without passing coronavirus stimulus - CNNPolitics
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    . wanted to get support at UNGA for his prioritization of religious rights & property rights, but European diplomats didn’t want to back him. Officials fear Pompeo wants to erode support for LGBTQI rights & reproductive rights. By .

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    Missouri Governor Mike Parson says he's tested positive for covid-19, following a preliminary test. His wife has tested positive as well.

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    New report on a unique habit of Benjamin Netanyahu --> When he travels to the U.S. on diplomatic trips, he often brings bags & suitcases full of dirty laundry for his U.S. hosts to clean, said U.S. officials. It has caused much eye-rolling at Blair House
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    The unfortunate irony of all this is that Lukashenko, who has always been leery of being too beholden to Moscow, will now draw even closer to Russia.

    NEW: "The United States cannot consider [Alexander Lukashenko] the legitimately elected leader of Belarus,” a spokesperson tells News. This comes after Lukashenko's secret inauguration ceremony in Minsk earlier today.
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