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Saturday, 31 October 2020
दिल्ली हाफ मैराथन 29 नवंबर को, जैविक रूप से सुरक्षित माहौल का तैयार करने का वादा
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US Covid Infections Cross 9 Million, Record 1-Day Spike Of 94,000 Cases
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Kerala Best Governed State: Bengaluru Non-Profit Headed By Ex-ISRO Chief
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France Back In Virus Lockdown As Europe Cases Top 10 Million
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अलेक्सिस वेस्टाइन मुक्केबाजी टूर्नामेंट के फाइनल में पंघाल, कविंदर और संजीत, स्वर्णिम पंच से एक जीत दूर
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"It Was Chaos...": 22 Dead As Major Quakle Hits Turkey, Greece
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Amid Trump's Bid To Ban TikTok, US Judge's Fresh Roadblock
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Rahul Gandhi Should Apologise Over Stand On Pulwama Attack: JP Nadda
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The puzzle isn’t complete. Pennsylvania is the last piece for Biden.
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What Keeps Facebook’s Election Security Chief Up at Night?
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Do Dunkin’ and Arby’s Go Together? Private Equity Group Bets $11 Billion They Do
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15 साल बाद फिर रिंग में उतरेंगे 54 वर्षीय मुक्केबाज टायसन, 28 नवंबर को होगा मुकाबला
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वियना ओपन से बाहर हुए जोकोविच, क्वार्टर फाइनल में लोरेंजो से मिली मात
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खेलों के साथ नहीं चली गणित व विज्ञान की पाठशाला, राष्ट्रीय शिविर में खिलाड़ियों को ट्यूशन की योजना नहीं चढ़ी सिरे
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एटीके मोहन बागान व केरल के मुकाबले से होगा आईएसएल का आगाज
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A judge orders the Postal Service to take ‘extraordinary measures’ to deliver ballots on time in 22 districts.
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N.E.H. Funds Restoration of Statues Toppled During Protests
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Trump, in Minnesota, lashes out at Democrats for limiting crowd sizes.
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Nursing Homes, Racked by the Virus, Face a New Crisis: Isolation
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Voters suing Minnesota over a mask mandate are asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
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Time Running Short, Trump and Biden Return to Northern Battlegrounds
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Woman Who Mailed Threat to Susan Collins Gets 30 Months in Prison
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Friday, 30 October 2020
Late iPhone Launch Temporarily Wiped $100 Billion Off Apple's Stock Value
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Talks With China Have No Link To "Extraneous Issue": India On 2+2 Query
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Amid Protests, Walmart Removes Guns From Display At US Stores
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This App Can Detect Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases, Say Scientists
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KBC 12: The Rs 1 Crore Question Big B Asked On Tonight's Episode
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Will ‘Mank’ Be Netflix’s First Best-Picture Winner?
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Clemson’s star quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, tests positive for the virus
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रोनाल्डो के घर में चला मेसी का मैजिक, मेजबान टीम नहीं दिखा पाई कोई करिश्मा
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सारलोलक्स ओपन में खेलने से रोके गए दोनों शटलरों को 10 नवंबर तक अपने खर्च पर एकांतवास में भेजा
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The Original Nachos Were Crunchy, Cheesy and Truly Mexican
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A focus on Florida, and waiting for Pennsylvania.
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Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
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A vote-counting official in Florida who gave money to Trump’s campaign resigns.
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Appeals court rules Minnesota must segregate ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day.
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Trump’s Hard-Line Immigration Policies Go Before Voters
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Trump and Biden Converge in Florida, an Elusive Prize Still Up for Grabs
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A Californian is battling both influenza and Covid-19 in an early case of ‘co-infection.’
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Appeals court rules Minnesota cannot count ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day.
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Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85
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Thursday, 29 October 2020
"Disgusting": Erdogan Vows Action Against Charlie Hebdo Cartoon On Him
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Quotation of the Day: Tools of the Trail: Masks, Zoom, Thermometers
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‘Perception hacks,’ minor incursions that could be exaggerated, are the latest cybersecurity target.
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In Maine, Senator Susan Collins and her rival, Sara Gideon, defend their records in a final debate.
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Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike
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Trump’s Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters’ Lives
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New top story from Time: Justice Department Charges 8 in Chinese Harassment Plot in U.S.
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has charged eight people with working on behalf of the Chinese government in a pressure campaign aimed at coercing a New Jersey man who was wanted by Beijing into returning to China to face charges, officials said Wednesday.
The prosecution, which Justice Department officials said was the first of its kind, accuses the defendants of participating in a Chinese government operation known as “Fox Hunt” that was ostensibly created to help Beijing locate fugitives abroad but that U.S. officials say in practice relied on intimidation and bullying to go after dissidents and political opponents.
Five of the eight, including an American private investigator who was hired as part of the effort, were arrested Wednesday. The other three are believed to be in China. All eight were charged with conspiring to act as illegal agents for China in a case filed in federal court in Brooklyn.
“Without coordination with our government, China’s repatriation squads enter the sovereign territory of the United States, surveil and locate the alleged fugitives and deploy intimidation and other tactics to force them back into China, where they would face certain imprisonment or worse following illegitimate trials,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official, said at a news conference announcing the charges.
The arrests are among a series of recent actions the Trump administration has taken against China, a country that President Donald Trump has said he regards as a prime adversary and that he blames for the coronavirus outbreak.
In July, for instance, the Justice Department charged hackers working with the Chinese government with targeting firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus. The administration also ratcheted up tensions over the summer by ordering China to close its consulate in Houston.
“Today’s charges reflect yet another example of China’s ongoing and widespread lawless behavior — and our refusal to tolerate it,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Simply put: It’s outrageous that China thinks it can come to our shores, conduct illegal operations, and bend people here in the United States to their will.”
In this case, prosecutors said, the defendants over a period of several years harassed the family of man who had been a city government official in China before arriving in the U.S. 10 years ago. The man and his family were not identified by name by prosecutors, but a 43-page criminal complaint says the Chinese government had accused them of violating bribery and abuse-of-power laws in that country.
Between 2016 and continuing through last year, a group of Chinese citizens working with a private investigator and at the behest of the Chinese government sought to bully the man into returning to China through an intimidation campaign that included surveillance and online harassment of the man’s adult daughter, unsolicited packages sent to the man’s home as well as a threatening note left taped to his front door.
The note, written in simplified Chinese characters, said: “If you are willing to go back to the mainland and spend 10 years in prison, your wife and children will be all right. That’s the end of this matter!”
At one point, according to prosecutors, several conspirators coerced the man’s father into from China to the United States to persuade his son to return to China to protect his family from physical harm.
There was no immediate response to an email seeking comment from the Chinese embassy in Washington.
In another case similar to the one announced Wednesday, the Chinese government sent a message to relatives in the U.S. of a target it could not locate, Wray said. The message explained that the target had two options: either return to China promptly or commit suicide.
“These are not the actions we would expect from a responsible nation-state. Instead, it’s more like something we’d expect from an organized criminal syndicate,” Wray said.
Three of the five defendants were arrested Wednesday morning in New York or New Jersey, and the other two were arrested in California, said Seth DuCharme, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
As of Wednesday evening, three of the defendants had appeared in federal court in Brooklyn and were released on bond.
New top story from Time: Former Homeland Security Official Reveals He Wrote ‘Anonymous’ Trump Critique
(WASHINGTON) — A former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” revealed himself Wednesday as a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.
The official, Miles Taylor, said in a tweet six days before Election Day that Donald Trump is “a man without character” and “it’s time for everyone to step out of the shadows.”
Taylor has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s in recent months and had repeatedly denied he was the author of the column — even to colleagues at CNN, where he has a contributor contract. He left the Trump administration in June 2019 and endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president this summer.
Trump and White House officials moved quickly to describe Taylor as someone with little standing and clout.
“This guy is a low-level lowlife that I don’t know. I have no idea who he is, other than I got to see him a little while ago on television,” Trump told a campaign rally crowd in Arizona. As he belittled Taylor as a “sleazebag” and called for his prosecution, the crowd broke into cheers of “drain that swamp.”
But as DHS chief of staff, Taylor was in many White House meetings with the president on his border policy and other major Homeland Security issues. During Taylor’s time as chief of staff, Trump threatened to shut down the border and his administration developed the policy to force asylum seekers to wait across the U.S.-Mexico border.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows called Taylor’s revelation “a monumental embarrassment,” tweeting, “I’ve seen more exciting reveals in Scooby-Doo episodes.”
Taylor’s anonymous essay was published in September 2018 by The New York Times, infuriating the president and setting off a frantic White House leak investigation to try to unmask the author.
In the essay, the person, who identified themselves only as a senior administration official, said they were part of a secret “resistance” force out to counter Trump’s “misguided impulses” and undermine parts of his agenda.
The author wrote, “Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.”
The Times identified the author as a “senior official” in the administration and received some criticism online Wednesday for inflating Taylor’s credentials. The newspaper, which said it had granted Taylor anonymity because his job would be jeopardized if his identity was revealed, on Wednesday confirmed Taylor was the author because he has waived his right to confidentiality, and had no other comment.
The allegations incensed the president, bolstering his allegations about a “deep state” operating within his government and conspiring against him. And it set off a Beltway guessing game that seeped into the White House, with current and former staffers trading calls and texts, trying to figure out who could have written the piece.
Trump, who had long complained about leaks in the White House, also ordered aides to unmask the writer, citing “national security” concerns to justify a possible Justice Department investigation. And he issued an extraordinary demand that the newspaper reveal the author.
Instead, the author pressed forward, penning a follow-up book published last November called “A Warning” that continued to paint a disturbing picture of the president, describing him as volatile, incompetent and unfit to be commander in chief.
To a certain extent, he’s since been overshadowed by other former government officials, both during the impeachment hearings and after, who went public condemning Trump’s behavior with their names attached.
Taylor’s behavior also leaves questions for CNN. He was asked directly by the network’s Anderson Cooper in August whether he was “Anonymous” and answered: “I wear a mask for two things, Anderson, Halloween and pandemics. So, no.”
Josh Campbell, a national security correspondent for CNN, tweeted that he had also asked Taylor if he was “Anonymous” and was told no.
CNN said Taylor would remain a contributor.
In an essay published Wednesday on Medium.com, Taylor said he published the op-ed and book anonymously because he wanted the focus to be on the arguments, instead of who was writing them.
“We got the answer,” he wrote. “He became unhinged. And the ideas stood on their own two feet.”
Taylor said the nation could no longer rely on bureaucrats to steer Trump toward what’s right since “he has purged most of them anyway.”
“He doesn’t deserve a second term in office,” he wrote, “and we don’t deserve to live through it.”
Former GOP consultant Reed Galen, one of the founders of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, tweeted that Taylor “isn’t a hero.” He added: “He sat in those rooms, in those councils of power and allowed the banality of evil to work. … Heroism isn’t silence until it’s convenient and personally advantageous to stand up.”
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AP Media Writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report.
Assam Law Soon To End Doorstep Harassment By Microfinance Lenders
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An F-16 fighter jet used flares to intercept a plane flying near a Trump rally in Arizona.
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The polls are here, and they tell a clear story.
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First a Sweet 16 party, now a wedding and a birthday: Long Island has more superspreading events.
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Cuba Says U.S. Restrictions Will Force Western Union Offices to Close
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New top story from Time: Supreme Court Delivers Two Major Voting Victories to Democrats. But the Battle May Not Be Over
The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed Democrats major victories in election legal battles in two critical swing states, letting extended deadlines for mail-in ballots in North Carolina and Pennsylvania remain in place for now.
The Supreme Court declined to expedite a decision on Pennsylvania’s extended deadline for receiving mail-in ballots, virtually guaranteeing it will remain in place through the election, and, in a separate ruling, declined to halt an appeals court ruling that kept the North Carolina deadline in place.
Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented in both of the rulings. The Court’s newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, who was confirmed on Monday, did not participate because she did not have adequate time to review the filings, according to the court’s public information officer.
As a result of the rulings, mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day can be received through Nov. 6th in Pennsylvania and Nov. 12 in North Carolina, instead of being cut off on Nov. 3. Thousands more ballots are likely to be counted as a result.
The battle over the North Carolina deadline stemmed from a settlement agreement between the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans and the North Carolina Board of Elections. The group had sued the Board of Elections to ease mail-in voting restrictions, and part of the agreement included extending the ballot receipt deadline to Nov. 12.
Republicans, including the Trump campaign, challenged that in court, and subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who had fought for the extended deadline, called the Supreme Court decision “a victory for voting rights.”
The fate of the Pennsylvania ballots, however, may still be uncertain. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a statement that while the court would not expedite the decision before Nov. 3, “additional opinions may follow,” and left open the possibility of the court taking up the case at a later date.
In September, Pennsylvania’s State Supreme Court issued a ruling extending the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots to Nov. 6. The state’s Republican Party has already tried to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court once before. The first time, the court deadlocked in a 4-4 tie, leaving the state court’s ruling in place. Days later the party appealed the case, requesting the court expedite the decision, perhaps hoping that Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s upcoming confirmation would change the outcome.
The sagas surrounding both of these states’ mail-in ballot provisions has been among the most-watched legal battles of this election cycle, in no small part because they are both critical in determining who wins the presidency. Voting is already underway in both of these states. Millions of ballots have been mailed to voters, and in Pennsylvania the final receipt deadline was already listed as Nov. 6.
State officials argued that changing the rules at this late date would disenfranchise voters.”The election is now only eight days away,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro wrote in a filing to the court urging them not to expedite the case. “Time has run out.”
Alito argued in his statement that there was a “strong likelihood” the Pennsylvania court’s decision violated the federal constitution, but there was simply no time left before the election for the court to take up the case.
Several hours before the court issued the decision, Shapiro’s office submitted a filing to the court stating that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar had told the election boards to segregate all ballots received from 8 pm on Nov. 3 through 5 pm on Nov. 6. Alito said segregating those ballots is critical to providing a “targeted remedy” in the event the state court’s decision is ultimately overturned.
Shapiro said in a statement after the court’s decision on Wednesday denying expedited review was “good for Pennsylvania voters, who will not have the rules changed on them on the eve of the election without proper review.” But, he cautioned, “we know this fight may not be over and we are prepared.”
Even though the decision means the Nov. 6 cutoff for Pennsylvania will almost certainly remain in place, the Trump campaign claimed the state’s willingness to segregate the ballots as a victory and predicted the fight would continue.
“The Supreme Court deferred the important issue in this case—whether state courts can change the times, places, and manners of elections contrary to the rules adopted by the state legislature—until after November 3,” Trump campaign deputy campaign manager and senior counsel Justin Clark said in a statement.
These rulings came two after the Justices ruled 5-3 to uphold the election-day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots in Wisconsin, which was a blow for Democrats.
‘Perception Hacks’ and Other Potential Threats to the Election
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M.L.B. says the Dodgers’ Justin Turner insisted on celebrating with teammates despite his positive coronavirus test.
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$300 Million Telemarketing Scheme Preyed on Older People, U.S. Says
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Take This Trump Election Day Quiz Before It’s Too Late
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Manish Tewari Slams Changes To Election Rules, Citing Threat to Electoral Integrity: “Unfortunate…”
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