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In the Breonna Taylor Case, a Battle of Blame Over the Grand Jury

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By BY SHAILA DEWAN, WILL WRIGHT AND JOHN ELIGON from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3kYO1AO

Cuomo and De Blasio Need a United Front on Coronavirus Hot Spots

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By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2G2aIW0

Chris Christie helped run Trump’s debate prep. He’ll also be a debate pundit for ABC.

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By BY MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/34970Sm

Presidential debate season begins with an unpredictable and unnerving first matchup.

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By BY GLENN THRUSH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2HEBF2d

Coronavirus

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By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/30haLDW

Crocs Won 2020

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By BY SANDRA E. GARCIA AND JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH from NYT Style https://ift.tt/30kVD8F

Judge Scrutinizes Justice Dept. Request to Drop Michael Flynn Case

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By BY CHARLIE SAVAGE AND ADAM GOLDMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3mYRMYR

Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers

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By BY NOAM SCHEIBER from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3kVevDd

The Very Jewish R.B.G.

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By BY JENNIFER WEINER from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/30jqTFj

Veteran GOP strategist predicts Trump's debate performance will suffer thanks to tax bombshell

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GOP political consultant Mike Murphy predicts President Trump will be distracted at tonight's debate as a result of reports on his taxes. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jg4HDk

White nationalist from Charlottesville rally nicknamed ‘Crying Nazi’ is charged with threatening to rape a woman

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Christopher Cantwell sent a series of threatening text messages in bid to uncover information about leader of a far-right group from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36gE0un

State of emergency in 3 California counties as fire scorches wine country

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Large pieces of ash rained down on Napa Valley early Tuesday and a bright orange glow was visible in the hills above the city. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3igezM1

Why a Biden blowout is still the most likely result

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Five weeks out from the 2020 presidential election, significant media attention is being given to the small possibility that President Donald Trump could again pull off a narrow Electoral College victory while losing the popular vote, or that even an Electoral College tie could push the election to the House. Those scenarios, though, are mainly making headlines because they're interesting fodder for the pundit class. All the data point to a big blowout victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.The major recent polls (Economist/YouGov: Biden +7, CNBC: Biden +9, Quinnipiac: Biden +10, NYT: Biden +8) show Biden with a truly commanding lead nationally. Equally important is how Biden leads. The 2016 election was always a much closer and more dynamic race, Trump was facing a much more unpopular opponent, and a much larger number of voters were undecided. None of those are the case this time.This year we have experienced a global pandemic which has so far killed over 200,000 Americans, a m...

Explainer: Who's fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and why does it matter?

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WHERE AND WHAT IS NAGORNO-KARABAKH? It's a mountainous, forested patch of land that sits inside the territory of ex-Soviet Azerbaijan and is recognised under international law as part of that country. Nagorno-Karabakh survives almost totally on budget support from Armenia and donations from the worldwide Armenian diaspora. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3mZGUtK

EPA ridicules California's proposed ban of new gas cars

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3kVWnJs

John Oliver concedes sad defeat on the Supreme Court, urges Democrats to go big to save U.S. democracy

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Maybe there's some irony in a British immigrant preaching pro-democracy revolution in America, but these are strange times. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, "was distressing enough" before President Trump rushed to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by "a liberal icon with an extremely conservative justice who's being called 'the female Antonin Scalia,'" Amy Coney Barrett, 48."Look, this has been a very dark week for a lot of people," Oliver said. "The Supreme Court is about to lurch to the right for the foreseeable future. And if things seem hopeless right now, it's because -- to be completely honest -- they basically are.""The fact is, when Barrett is confirmed, a president who lost the popular vote will have picked a quarter of the federal judiciary and a third of the Supreme Court, and his choices will have been rubber-stamped by a Senate Republican majority repres...

Fact check: False claim that Biden and Harris said the other 'wasn't fit to run the country'

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A post claims that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris questioned each other's fitness to be president during the Democratic debates. They did not. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jgpwhW

We want our shark tooth back, Malta tells Prince George

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It was the sort of kind, grandfatherly gesture that brings a bit of light and joy to these dark, worrying times. When David Attenborough gave an ancient shark’s tooth to Prince George at the weekend, the little boy’s face lit up with delight. The seven-year-old was thrilled to be told the tooth once belonged to a megalodon, an extinct species of giant shark that could grow to a length of more than 50ft. He was given the tooth when Sir David attended a private viewing of his latest documentary, A Life On Our Planet, with members of the royal family. As any parent knows, tantrums and tears await anyone who has the temerity to try to take back such a precious gift. But that’s exactly what Malta apparently plans to do. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/345KqtF

Democrats introduce new $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill

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The bill, which is unlikely to pass the GOP-led Senate, is an updated version of earlier legislation. House Democrats introduced a new $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill aimed at breaking the impasse with Republicans on how to get financial assistance to Americans before the November election. The package, which is unlikely to pass the Republican-led Senate, is an updated version of earlier legislation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3ijp29j

With EU help, Taiwan gets rare win in China naming dispute

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Taiwan said on Monday the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to get international groups and companies to refer on their websites and in official documents to democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as being part of China, to the ire of Taiwan's government and many of its people. Over the weekend, Taiwan officials expressed anger after the Brussels-based Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy began listing on its website its six Taiwan member cites as belonging to China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jcSEXl

Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House

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President Trump ignored every pressing topic Monday as he welcomed one of his favorite things to the White House.The New York Times dropped a bombshell report Sunday evening revealing Trump leveraged business losses to avoid paying taxes for years, as well as using other dubious financial strategies to lower his tax bills. Trump denied the report in a Sunday press conference, and on Monday, avoided questions about his tax returns altogether as he praised an electric pick-up truck.The White House unexpectedly called reporters to the South Lawn on Monday, where they found Trump inspecting a Lordstown Motors 2021 electric pick-up truck. "We've all done a good job," Trump said after praising the truck's manufacturers, and then, out of nowhere, said "it's hotter now than it was before, and that's something really different." But before he could get too close to acknowledging fossil fuels' role in warming the Earth, he pivoted to call the truck "a...

'He has dementia': Rudy Guiliani makes unfounded claims about Biden during rambling Fox News interview

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The president’s lawyer left Fox News hosts looking uncomfortable as he ramped up his fake conspiracies against Joe Biden from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cI3bYa

A 3-Michelin star restaurant in Napa has burned down in California's latest wildfire

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The Restaurant at Meadowood was engulfed by Napa Valley's Glass Fire on Monday morning and couldn't be saved. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3kZGxgG

The Morning

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By Unknown Author from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/3jcf9LT

Trump’s Debt, His Future and Ours

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By BY PAUL KRUGMAN from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3jexrw9

The Picture of a Broken Tax System

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By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3kTkoAM

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

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By BY LARA TAKENAGA AND JONATHAN WOLFE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3cG3DWS

California wine country wildfire forces evacuation of hospital, hundreds of homes

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A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of northern California's Napa Valley wine country to spread across nearly 2,000 acres (809 hectares), forcing the evacuation of a hospital and hundreds of homes, authorities said. Fire crews were out in force, scrambling to fend off flames threatening neighborhoods and vineyards at the northern end of the famed wine-growing valley and surrounding hillsides, about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco. The blaze, dubbed the Glass Fire, broke out before dawn near Calistoga and raced toward the adjacent communities of Deer Park and St. Helena, with flames reaching within a mile of the Adventist Health St. Helena hospital. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30b0oS4

Anti-Trump and former GOP strategists join Hispanic groups targeting Florida voters

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The effort to defeat President Donald Trump in Florida and mobilize the Hispanic vote for former Vice President Joe Biden has led to some strange bedfellows. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3josrFa

Missouri man faces prison for assault after police officer broke hand punching him

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Officer injured in fight to arrest suspect after speeding stop from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3l3GEIr

Pakistan's top court accepts appeal by Daniel Pearl's family

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Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday accepted an appeal by the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl seeking to keep a British-born Pakistani man on death row over the beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter. The court delayed until next week hearing the appeal over the lower-court acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row since his conviction in 2002 over Pearl's killing. The Supreme Court ordered Sheikh to remain in custody but Faisal Siddiqi, the lawyer for Pearl's family, told The Associated Press on Monday the court will decide next week whether Sheikh will remain imprisoned during the course of the appeal, which could be years. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gjcceg

Prehistoric shark's tooth gifted to Prince George by David Attenborough demanded back by Malta

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It was the sort of kind, grandfatherly gesture that brings a bit of light and joy to these dark, worrying times. When David Attenborough gave an ancient shark’s tooth to Prince George at the weekend, the little boy’s face lit up with delight. The seven-year-old was thrilled to be told the tooth once belonged to a megalodon, an extinct species of giant shark that could grow to a length of more than 50ft. He was given the tooth when Sir David attended a private viewing of his latest documentary, A Life On Our Planet, with members of the royal family. As any parent knows, tantrums and tears await anyone who has the temerity to try to take back such a precious gift. But that’s exactly what Malta apparently plans to do. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/345KqtF

Fauci says Florida lifting restrictions on bars and restaurants is 'very concerning'

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is calling for the United States to "double down" on public health measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic and expressing concern over Florida letting bars and restaurants fully reopen.Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to Good Morning America on Monday after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced last week he would be lifting restrictions on bars and restaurants and allowing them to operate at 100 percent capacity."That is very concerning to me," Fauci told GMA. "We have always said that ... that is something we really need to be careful about, because when you're dealing with community spread, and you have the kind of congregate setting where people get together, particularly without masks, you're really asking for trouble."Fauci went on to say that "now's the time" to "double down" on "common sense" public health measures, while the U.S. is reportin...

Positive COVID-19 test rates top 25% in some U.S. Midwest states

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The positivity rate has risen to 26% in South Dakota, up from 17% the previous week, according to the analysis using testing data from The COVID Tracking Project. The World Health Organization considers rates above 5% concerning because it suggests there are more cases in the community that have not yet been uncovered. Several states such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have positive test rates of less than 1%. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36cbIl1

Fact check: Thousands of ballots were not sent to dead people or pets in Nevada, Virginia

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A viral Facebook post falsely claims 500,000 mail-in ballots in Virginia and 200,000 in Nevada were sent to dead people and pets. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33aifKY

Don Jr. Didn’t Get the Memo About Raising Biden Expectations Before Debate

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After weeks and months of President Donald Trump characterizing former Vice President Joe Biden as an senile old man who can’t string two sentences together, his campaign has finally realized that they should start raising expectations for his performance at the first debate this Tuesday night.Apparently, Donald Trump Jr. didn’t get the memo.The president’s eldest son kicked off his Fox & Friends appearance by attacking CNN’s Jake Tapper for not pressing Jill Biden harder on her husband’s history of making “gaffes” during an interview on State of the Union Sunday. “Once a Democrat operative, all of it—always a Democrat operative,” he said, unconvincingly.“Joe Biden can’t remember where he is 50 percent of the time,” Trump Jr. declared. “He forgets the office that he’s running for.” He added, with no sense of irony, “If Donald Trump made one Joe Biden-type error, once, it would be all over! Joe does it every day.”“So that’s why he’s in debate prep,” he continued, mocking his father’...

South Carolina TV anchor hit man with beer bottle in fight over politics, police say

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The victim was left with cuts on his face, police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36duDvw

Former paramilitary leader deported to Colombia

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from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S78Cq3

Remains of 117 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War returned

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The remains of 117 Chinese soldiers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China on Sunday in an annual repatriation delayed this year by the coronavirus outbreak. South Korea handed over the remains at a ceremony at Incheon airport outside Seoul, and a Chinese military transport plane flew them to Shenyang, a northeastern Chinese city near the North Korean border. Chinese soldiers fought on the North Korean side against US-led forces in the South during the war on the Korean Peninsula. Most of the 117 remains were found in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. It was the seventh annual repatriation, and the largest since the 437 returned in the first one in 2014. In all, the remains of 716 Chinese soldiers have been sent back. This year's return, originally planned for the spring, was postponed for several months because of the spread of Covid-19. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/346Lf5L

Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row

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The top Huawei executive's closely watched extradition case returns to court on Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SaOCTj

Angry about Breonna Taylor? Do what Barack Obama said in 2016: 'Don't boo. Vote'

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There's only one thing to do now that the we know the outcome of the Breonna Taylor case: 'Don't boo. Vote.' from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cyMyho

Why a Biden blowout is still the most likely result

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Five weeks out from the 2020 presidential election, significant media attention is being given to the small possibility that President Donald Trump could again pull off a narrow Electoral College victory while losing the popular vote, or that even an Electoral College tie could push the election to the House. Those scenarios, though, are mainly making headlines because they're interesting fodder for the pundit class. All the data point to a big blowout victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.The major recent polls (Economist/YouGov: Biden +7, CNBC: Biden +9, Quinnipiac: Biden +10, NYT: Biden +8) show Biden with a truly commanding lead nationally. Equally important is how Biden leads. The 2016 election was always a much closer and more dynamic race, Trump was facing a much more unpopular opponent, and a much larger number of voters were undecided. None of those are the case this time.This year we have experienced a global pandemic which has so far killed over 200,000 Americans, a m...

Haunted house shooter thought someone had cut in line, Michigan police say

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Police are searching for the suspect, who they say fled the scene in a blue sedan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2FYfXpE

Tucker Carlson says 'every story' about Jacob Blake and George Floyd is a lie, the same day a federal judge wrote that viewers don't take Carlson's statements seriously

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Carlson's allegations of dishonesty came after Fox News argued in court that he's prone to hyperbole, exaggeration, and "loose, figurative" language. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cHjXGY

NFL legend Joe Montana confronts intruder 'who grabbed grandchild’

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The alleged culprit now faces kidnapping and burglary charges. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/369Jes0

With EU help, Taiwan gets rare win in China naming dispute

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Taiwan said on Monday the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to get international groups and companies to refer on their websites and in official documents to democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as being part of China, to the ire of Taiwan's government and many of its people. Over the weekend, Taiwan officials expressed anger after the Brussels-based Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy began listing on its website its six Taiwan member cites as belonging to China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3jcSEXl

Napa County brush fire rapidly grows to at least 1,200 acres, forcing hospital to evacuate - CNN

Napa County brush fire rapidly grows to at least 1,200 acres, forcing hospital to evacuate    CNN California Orders Evacuations as Napa County's Glass Fire Spreads 'Dangerously Fast'    Bloomberg QuickTake: Now Napa County Glass Fire Over 1000 Acres, Smoke and Ash Spreading    KQED Wildfire with 'dangerous rate of spread' burning in Napa County    SF Gate GLASS WILDFIRE: Raw Video Of Rapidly Spreading Glass Fire Near St. Helena    KPIX CBS SF Bay Area View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3i7UGGQ

Stock futures rise in overnight trading following a 4-week losing streak - CNBC

Stock futures rise in overnight trading following a 4-week losing streak    CNBC 1 Must-Have Investment If You're Worried About a Stock Market Crash    Motley Fool Markets Week Ahead: US Dollar, Gold , Dow Jones, Sterling, US Stimulus, NFPs    DailyFX How TV networks will make election projections in 2020    CNN US stocks futures rising in Asia, a sign of a bullish start to week    FXStreet View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3cFHIir

Tesla’s new 4680 battery cells have been deployed in working vehicles for months - Teslarati

Tesla’s new 4680 battery cells have been deployed in working vehicles for months    Teslarati Elon Says Great Deliveries, But Calls the Quarter Toughest in Global Logistics    Torque News EV Market Share Is Up, But What Is Holding Most People Back From Getting An EV?    CleanTechnica Elon Musk is redefining the ‘ICE age,’ turning combustion engine cars into museum relics    Teslarati Elon Musk's Aspiration for Giga Shanghai To Make 1 Million Tesla Cars Yearly    Torque News View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/33Zervg

AirPods Pro Are Even Better One Year Later - The Wall Street Journal

AirPods Pro Are Even Better One Year Later    The Wall Street Journal View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3cAFIYH

Report: Joaquin Phoenix And Rooney Mara Welcome Baby Boy Named After Joaquin’s Late Brother River - ETCanada.com

Report: Joaquin Phoenix And Rooney Mara Welcome Baby Boy Named After Joaquin’s Late Brother River    ETCanada.com Joaquin Phoenix And Rooney Mara Have "A Beautiful Son Called River," Says Director Viktor Kossakovsky    BuzzFeed Rooney Mara Gives Birth, Welcomes 1st Child With Fiance Joaquin Phoenix    Us Weekly Joaquin Phoenix 'welcomed his first child with Rooney Mara'    msnNOW Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix welcome baby named River, in memory of his brother, director says    NJ.com View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3mYKnsg

Sophie Turner Just Shared Rare Photos From Her Pregnancy And, Yup, I'm Emotional - BuzzFeed

Sophie Turner Just Shared Rare Photos From Her Pregnancy And, Yup, I'm Emotional    BuzzFeed Sophie Turner shares never-before-seen pregnancy photos 2 months after welcoming daughter with Joe Jonas    Yahoo Entertainment Sophie Turner Shares Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Her Pregnancy    E! NEWS Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner Share a Rare, Goofy New Selfie Two Months After Baby's Birth    Yahoo Lifestyle View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3i9A0y4

Packers missing injured Davante Adams, Kenny Clark for showdown at Saints - Packers News

Packers missing injured Davante Adams, Kenny Clark for showdown at Saints    Packers News Aaron Rodgers Appears To Send Clear Message After Danica Breakup    The Spun Fantasy Football Picks: Packers vs. Saints DraftKings NFL DFS SNF Showdown Strategy    DraftKings Nation Dave Schroeder's 'Fast 5 Pack Facts': Packers at Saints    WBAY Davante Adams and Kenny Clark inactive vs. Saints in Week 3    Acme Packing Company View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/30buntc

Texans Crumble in 4th, Fall to Steelers 28-21 - State of The Texans

Texans Crumble in 4th, Fall to Steelers 28-21    State of The Texans Steelers facing several injuries following their Week 3 win over Texans    Behind the Steel Curtain Steelers defeat Texans, 28-21    Steelers.com Ben Roethlisberger breaks Mike Webster's record for most games played with Steelers    CBS Sports Final Score: Tale of two halves equates to a 28-21 Steelers win    Behind the Steel Curtain View Full Coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2GiCBsE

Trump uses a news conference to defend his Supreme Court nominee and attack Biden’s fitness for office.

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By BY NEIL VIGDOR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2S6gyYO

A significant national lead for Biden.

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By Unknown Author from NYT The Upshot https://ift.tt/3i4kNOR

The Morning

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By Unknown Author from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/3jcpsQq

Trump Wants to Discredit the Election. This Nerd Could Stop Him.

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By BY BEN SMITH from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2SaI9rv

Joe Montana and Wife Confront Intruder Who Tried to Kidnap Their Grandchild

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By BY CONCEPCIÓN DE LEÓN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3mSPxWZ