| Militias targeting Michigan and Virginia governors show rise of 'boogaloo' violence Posted: 14 Oct 2020 08:25 AM PDT  Recent arrests stemming from an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offer an example of the growing — and increasingly violent — antigovernment faction of the "boogaloo" movement.
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| Live: Dr. Anthony Fauci joins Yahoo News to discuss the coronavirus pandemic Posted: 14 Oct 2020 10:32 AM PDT  Tune in on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 8 a.m. ET.
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| Man Who Reportedly Gave Hunter’s Laptop to Rudy Speaks Out in Bizarre Interview Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:52 PM PDT  On Wednesday morning, the New York Post published a story alleging that Hunter Biden dropped off a laptop at a Delaware computer store for repair and that the device contained nefarious emails and photos.The item was immediately viewed with suspicion, both for the timing of it—coming less than three weeks before the elections—and the path the laptop supposedly took. The Post said that "before turning over the gear," the owner of the computer repair shop, "made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, Robert Costello." The story alleged that the Biden son was setting up a meeting between a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm on which he served and his father, who was then the Vice President. The Biden campaign has said no such meeting was scheduled.On Wednesday afternoon, a group of reporters, among them a journalist for The Daily Beast, spoke with the owner of the shop, a man named John Paul Mac Isaac who lives in Wilmington, Delaware. The audio of that nearly hour-long question and answer session is below.rptrbnd · Mac Shop 10 - 14 - CmMac Isaac appeared nervous throughout. Several times, he said he was scared for his life and for the lives of those he loved. He appeared not to have a grasp on the timeline of the laptop arriving at his shop and its disappearance from it. He also said the impeachment of President Trump was a "sham." Social media postings indicate that Mac Isaac is an avid Trump supporter, and voted for him in the 2016 election.Mac Isaac said he had a medical condition that prevented him from actually seeing who dropped off the laptop but that he believed it to be Hunter Biden's because of a sticker related to the Beau Biden Foundation that was on it. He said that Hunter Biden actually dropped off three laptops for repair, an abundance of hardware that he chalked up to the Biden son being "rich."Throughout the entire interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation that reached out to him. At one point, Mac Isaac claimed that he was emailing someone from the FBI about the laptop. At another point he claimed a special agent from the Baltimore office had contacted him after he alerted the FBI to the device's existence. At another point, he said the FBI reached out to him for "help accessing his drive."Mac Isaac referenced the infamous Seth Rich conspiracy theory—which holds that a DNC staffer who police say was murdered in a botched robbery was actually killed off by Clinton allies because he leaked committee emails—as reason for his paranoia. He said he made a copy of the hard drive for purposes of personal protection."They probably knew I had a copy because I was pretty vocal about not wanting to get murdered," he said, "so I'm going to have a copy."Mac Isaac refused to answer specific questions about whether he had been in contact with Rudy Giuliani before the laptop drop-off or at any other time before the Post's publication. Pressed on his relationship with Giuliani, he replied: "When you're afraid and you don't know anything about the depth of the waters that you're in, you want to find a lifeguard."Seeming to realize he'd said too much, he added: "Ah shit."So, Rudy was your lifeguard, the reporters asked. "No comment," he replied.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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| Another pro-Trump campaign ad caught using footage from Russia and Belarus Posted: 14 Oct 2020 03:37 AM PDT  Advert supporting Republican president is fourth in three months to use Russian footage
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| No phone, abandoned car, pleas for public help: California woman missing at Zion National Park in Utah Posted: 14 Oct 2020 06:38 AM PDT  A press conference on Tuesday afternoon led to more information released to the public on the disappearance of Holly Courtier in Zion National Park.
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| Alaska mayor to resign after TV news anchor posts what she says is partially nude photo of him Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:16 PM PDT  The resignation comes after Ethan Berkowitz, who was first elected in 2015, acknowledged an "inappropriate messaging relationship."
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| Harris questions Barrett about recusal from Obamacare case Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:27 PM PDT  Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, pressed Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett about the process for recusal in a case before the court concerning the Affordable Care Act.
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| McConnell laughs in debate when challenger Amy McGrath slams his COVID stimulus 'dereliction' Posted: 12 Oct 2020 08:39 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his Democratic challenger, Amy McGrath, faced off in their first and perhaps only debate Monday night. McGrath, a retired Marine combat pilot, criticized McConnell for blocking a new round of COVID-19 economic support, calling it a "dereliction of duty" and failure of leadership. McConnell, oddly, laughed.> Trying to figure out what he is laughing about. pic.twitter.com/1bF0TuOBzy> > — Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) October 13, 2020McConnell blamed congressional Democrats for blocking another coronavirus relief package, even though he publicly shot down negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the White House. He also noted that he brings home the bacon in a way McGrath could not from the "back bench" of the Senate. "I allow Kentucky to punch above its weight," McConnell said. "My last term $17.5 billion for the commonwealth that would not have been there had I not been the majority leader of the Senate.""I think her entire campaign is: she's a Marine, she's a mom, and I've been there (the Senate) too long," McConnell said. McGrath didn't disagree: "Senator, you've been there for 36 years. How's it looking, Kentucky?" McConnell's "one job is to help America through this crisis right now in passing legislation to keep our economy afloat so that people can make ends meet," she added. "And instead of doing that, he is trying to ram through a Supreme Court nominee right now, instead of negotiating, which is what he should have been doing all summer long to make that happen."McConnell also took several shots at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — and also President Trump, perhaps, who is famously from New York as well.> McConnell said some version of this a number of times in tonight's debate: "Do you want somebody from New York setting the agenda" — referring to Schumer leading a dem senate majority.> > — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 12, 2020The debate was held in the studio of WKYT in Lexington. The station "took a number of precautions in response to the coronavirus," The Associated Press reports. "Kentucky is in the midst of another spike of COVID-19 cases."More stories from theweek.com Biden's post-election tightrope walk The Democrats' desperate SCOTUS scaremongering An anxious poll-watcher's guide to 2020
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| Men accused of plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer also discussed "taking" governor of Virginia: FBI Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:26 AM PDT  Both Whitmer and Ralph Northam were targeted by President Trump for their efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19
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| Mexican president's anti-corruption drive buffeted by scandals Posted: 14 Oct 2020 04:03 AM PDT  Three months after taking charge of a new office created by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to compensate Mexicans for years of public sector embezzlement, its director quit, complaining the organization was tainted by corruption. The blow to the Institute for Returning to the People What Was Stolen (INDEP) is one of several recent cases to blot Lopez Obrador's image and undercut the message that his December 2018 investiture marked a sea change for a country awash in graft. On Sept. 22, INDEP director Jaime Cardenas submitted his letter of resignation, raising concerns over alleged misuse of proceeds from auctions of stolen assets, and the suspected theft of diamonds, emeralds and sapphires from the institute.
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| Trump campaign events linked to new coronavirus cases in Minnesota Posted: 14 Oct 2020 05:04 AM PDT  State officials connect Trump campaign events to new coronavirus cases, as new one-high day recorded on Saturday
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| A spacecraft flying by Venus on Wednesday night could confirm recently found signs of alien life Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:27 AM PDT  The BepiColumbo spaceship is scheduled to fly by Venus twice on its way to Mercury, first this week, and then next August.
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| Burisma Adviser Thanked Hunter for ‘Opportunity’ to Meet Then-Vice President Joe Biden; Biden Campaign Issues Denial Posted: 14 Oct 2020 05:13 AM PDT  Update 1 p.m.: The Biden campaign released a statement denying that a meeting between Joe Biden and the Burisma adviser took place. The statement did not deny the veracity of the emails and other documents revealed by the New York Post."The New York Post never asked the Biden campaign about critical elements of this story," Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told Politico. "Moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place."> .@JoeBiden spox Andrew Bates responds to @nypost story on Hunter Biden pic.twitter.com/DNT3odmANv> > -- John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) October 14, 2020A Ukrainian adviser to Burisma Holdings thanked Hunter Biden for the "opportunity" to meet with then-vice president Joe Biden in an email obtained by the New York Post.Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company, from 2014 to 2019 while his father headed the Obama administration's Ukraine policy. Some Obama administration officials were concerned that the position could create the appearance of a conflict of interest, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report released in September.The author of the email is Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskiy, who has met with U.S. lawmakers in the past. If the meeting did in fact occur, it would contradict claims by Joe Biden that he has "never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.""Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together," Pozharskiy wrote to Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015. "It's realty [sic] an honor and pleasure."The email was part of a trove of documents provided to the Post by Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor and attorney to President Trump. The documents were recovered from a laptop computer dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019, and include sexually-explicit photos and video of Hunter Biden.A lawyer for Hunter Biden commented to the Post that Giuliani "has been pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories about the Biden family."President Trump has repeatedly alleged that Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government in December 2015 to fire former head prosecutor Victor Shokin, who had conducted a probe of Burisma over alleged corruption, in order to protect Burisma from scrutiny. Biden has vehemently denied the allegation.However, Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings have drawn increased scrutiny. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on the matter showed that Hunter Biden engaged in "potential criminal activity" with financial transactions between "Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh and Chinese nationals."
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| Sweet 16 party turns ‘superspreader’ event — 37 positive for COVID, NY officials say Posted: 14 Oct 2020 07:23 AM PDT  The venue was slapped with a $12,000 fine.
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| Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia's wife, a recent White House guest, tests positive for COVID-19 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:31 PM PDT  Trish Scalia, the wife of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday afternoon, the Labor Department told staffers in an email on Tuesday night.Trish Scalia is "experiencing mild symptoms but doing well," the Labor Department said, while the secretary has tested negative for the virus and has not shown any symptoms.Trish Scalia, Eugene Scalia, and his mother, Maureen Scalia, all attended the Rose Garden ceremony last month where Trump officially introduced his Supreme Court pick, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. In the 1990s, Barrett served as a law clerk for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Eugene Scalia's father.A Politico analysis has found that as of last Thursday, 35 White House aides and allies of President Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. Many of those people were at the Rose Garden ceremony and an indoor reception that followed.More stories from theweek.com Biden's post-election tightrope walk The Democrats' desperate SCOTUS scaremongering An anxious poll-watcher's guide to 2020
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| Michigan man accused of fracturing Black teen’s jaw with lock: ‘Black lives don’t matter’ Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:55 PM PDT  A Michigan man is facing a federal hate charge after allegedly fracturing a Black teen's jaw with a lock and declaring that "Black lives don't matter." Lee James Mouat, 42, is alleged to have hit a Black teen with a bike lock which not only fractured his teeth but broke his jaw, Buzzfeed reports. A criminal complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan declared that Mouat was charged on Tuesday with one count of willfully causing bodily injury to the victim because of his race.
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| Election 2020: Trump’s polling freefall may cost the GOP more than the White House Posted: 14 Oct 2020 09:42 AM PDT  Polls have grown so one-sided that Republicans fear a Democratic 'blue wave' in November, with control of the Senate also at stake
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| 1987 Chevy Camaro reported stolen 32 years ago finally recovered in Indiana reservoir Posted: 14 Oct 2020 11:06 AM PDT  Police said a fisherman used sonar to find the retro ride upside down in several feet of silt.
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| Hong Kong takes back seat as China's Xi promotes neighbor as future 'model city' Posted: 14 Oct 2020 04:31 AM PDT  "The Shenzhen model is political zero tolerance and business on China's terms," said Kent Deng, professor of Chinese economic history.
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| Saudi Arabia failed to win a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, while China and Russia were voted in Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:41 AM PDT  China and Russia were elected to the council in a secret ballot on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia did not receive enough votes to join.
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| Message of unity replaces torched Biden-Harris farm display Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:09 AM PDT  A stack of hay bales on a Massachusetts farm decorated in support of the Democratic presidential ticket that was burned down has been replaced with a similar display with a different message. The original display at Holiday Brook Farm in Dalton featured 19 wrapped hay bales painted with the words "USA" and "VOTE" along with the names of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The new, nearly identical stack of hay bales now says "Love, Unity, Respect" and features a pair of U.S. flags, a globe and the word "VOTE."
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| Cheerleader in hospital after goalpost falls on her head at Oklahoma field, family says Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:06 AM PDT  The teenager's grandmother said she "shouldn't have survived" the incident.
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| After yearlong delay, the US Air Force is ready to field Raytheon’s new smart bomb Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:28 PM PDT  Raytheon took a timeout to redesign a key component after problems were discovered during testing.
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| Peru opens Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after almost 7-month wait Posted: 12 Oct 2020 07:26 PM PDT  Peru opened the ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after he waited almost seven months to enter the Inca citadel, while trapped in the Andean country during the coronavirus outbreak. Jesse Katayama's entry into the ruins came thanks to a special request he submitted while stranded since mid-March in the town of Aguas Calientes, on the slopes of the mountains near the site, said Minister of Culture Alejandro Neyra on Monday. "He had come to Peru with the dream of being able to enter," Neyra said in a virtual press conference.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell 'may be a victim too', suggests judge deciding whether to unseal tranche of secret documents Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:41 AM PDT  A judge weighing whether to unseal sworn testimony given by Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has suggested that the socialite "may be a victim too." The British heiress is urging a panel of judges in a federal appeals court in New York to overturn a lower court decision ruling to make public the documents, which Maxwell claims will jeopardise her ability to defend against criminal charges she enabled Epstein's sexual abuse of girls. Ms Maxwell, 58, who is currently in a Brooklyn prison awaiting trial, has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped the billionaire recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 years old to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid-1990s. The evidence in question relates to a deposition she gave in 2016 in a civil case brought by Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says the late billionaire forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew, and others, when she was 17. The Duke of York denies all allegations.
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| Thai protests: Thousands gather in Bangkok as king returns to country Posted: 14 Oct 2020 08:32 AM PDT  A motorcade carrying the king and queen had to push through crowds of pro-democracy protesters.
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| Some Democrats are urging Nancy Pelosi to accept the White House's $1.8 trillion stimulus offer. But Senate Republicans pose a big obstacle to a coronavirus relief deal. Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:37 PM PDT  We're not that far apart and the last few things should be negotiated. We should be able to get something done," Rep. Ro Khanna of California said.
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| Clarence Thomas Suggests Section 230 Immunities Applied Too Broadly to Tech Companies Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:02 AM PDT  Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas suggested in a statement on Tuesday that some legal immunities granted to internet platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could be narrowed or eliminated in future court cases.Section 230 grants internet platforms immunity from prosecution if a third party uploads defamatory or otherwise illegal content. For example, a blog website currently cannot be held legally liable if a third-party blogger writes a libelous post. (Such immunity does not generally apply in more extreme cases of illegal activity, such as when a website displays child pornography.)However, both conservatives and liberals have threatened to revoke this immunity and open large internet platforms like Facebook and Twitter to lawsuits. Joe Biden stated in a New York Times interview in January 2020 that Facebook should lose Section 230 immunity because of the prevalence of political "misinformation" on the platform.Some conservatives have bristled at what they perceive as anti-conservative bias on sites including Twitter, and have called to revoke Section 230 and threaten those sites with lawsuits over the perceived bias, which they claim reflects editorial decision making that makes the platforms no different from journalistic outlets.Justice Thomas indicated on Tuesday that the Supreme Court could also consider, in future cases, whether the judicial system has interpreted Section 230 immunity too broadly."Courts have…departed from the most natural reading of the text by giving Internet companies immunity for their own content," Thomas wrote in a statement. "Section 230(c)(1) protects a company from publisher liability only when content is 'provided by another information content provider.' Nowhere does this provision protect a company that is itself the information content provider."According to Thomas, courts may have interpreted Section 230 in such a way as to grant immunity to internet platforms even when those platforms are primarily responsible for the creation of their content. "An information content provider is not just the primary author or creator; it is anyone 'responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development' of the content," Thomas wrote.A reinterpretation of Section 230 immunities could carry widespread ramifications for internet platforms, potentially forcing companies to narrow the types of posts allowed on a given website. The Justice Department has already proposed legislation to Congress that would curb some immunities in order to better crack down on illegal content.
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| Did a cougar ‘stalk’ a hiker in viral Utah video? Here’s what experts say happened Posted: 14 Oct 2020 01:48 PM PDT  The cougar followed the hiker for 6 minutes, but was it dangerous?
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| Duterte wants entire Philippine population vaccinated for COVID-19 Posted: 14 Oct 2020 09:36 AM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday his government has the money to procure coronavirus vaccines but he would need more as he wants to inoculate the country's entire population. The government aims to get vaccines to all Filipinos, which Duterte said now number around 113 million, but priority will be given to the poor, the police and military personnel. "All should have the vaccine without exception," Duterte said in a late-night televised address.
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| Mexico shootout: Fourteen gunmen killed and three police wounded Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:46 PM PDT  The gun battle capped off the most violent weekend in the country's recent history
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| Blood type may affect severity of COVID-19 infection, new study suggests Posted: 14 Oct 2020 10:20 AM PDT  In a new study published Wednesday, researchers in Canada found that, among 95 critically ill COVID-19 patients, 84 percent of those with the blood types A and AB required mechanical ventilation compared to 61 percent of patients with type O or type B, CNN reports. The former group also remained in the intensive care unit for a median of 13.5 days, while the latter's median stay was nine days.Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, an intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital and the author of the study, said blood type has been "at the back of my mind" when treating patients, but "we need repeated findings across many jurisdictions that show the same thing" before anything definitive is established.It's still unclear what may be behind the possible distinction; Sekhon said one explanation could be that people with blood type O are less prone to blood clotting, which can often lead to more severe cases.Either way, Sekhon doesn't believe blood type will supersede other "risk factors of severity" like age or comorbidities, and he said people should not behave differently based on their group. "If one is blood group A, you don't need to start panicking," he said. "And if you're blood group O, you're not free to go to the pubs and bars." Read more at CNN.More stories from theweek.com Biden's post-election tightrope walk The Democrats' desperate SCOTUS scaremongering An anxious poll-watcher's guide to 2020
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| Fact check: Post misrepresents Biden-Harris event turnout in at Phoenix museum Posted: 14 Oct 2020 05:22 AM PDT  A post on social media claiming a Biden-Harris event at a museum had no turnout ignores the fact it wasn't intended to be a campaign rally.
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| In English, please? Barrett asked to explain legalese Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — "What does it mean?" and "Can you explain?" were questions President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, was asked repeatedly Wednesday on her second day of answering questions from lawmakers. Lawmakers sought at various points to have Barrett explain legal terms in plain English. Just minutes into Wednesday's hearing Barrett was asked to explain the doctrine of "severability."
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| Family hike turns tragic after mom plunges 300 feet off Georgia mountain, officials say Posted: 14 Oct 2020 11:18 AM PDT  The family had hiked there before and was familiar with the area.
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| Vapes containing nicotine are more effective in helping to quit smoking than patches or gum, review finds Posted: 14 Oct 2020 06:45 AM PDT  Electronic cigarettes containing nicotine are more effective in helping people quit smoking than patches or gum, and safer than cigarettes, although more evidence is needed on their potential long-term impacts, a new review of evidence found on Wednesday.
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| Wisconsin hits record number of coronavirus cases and deaths after Republicans try to overturn mask mandate Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:38 PM PDT  Wisconsin has become a hotspot for Covid-19 cases in the US, and the new numbers are sobering
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| Gifted classes drive inequality. But what happens when schools get rid of them? Posted: 14 Oct 2020 02:59 AM PDT  Districts are eliminating gifted classes and instead trying to teach all students together. In some places, it's working — but schools also face challenges.
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