| Barr announces 1,000 arrests, including suspects in 90 murders under Operation Legend Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:02 PM PDT  Suspects in 90 homicides have been arrested under Operation Legend, the Trump administration deployment of federal officers to nine U.S. cities so far
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| Portland protesters set fire to county government building Posted: 18 Aug 2020 10:55 PM PDT  Protesters in Portland broke out the windows of a county government building, sprayed lighter fluid inside and set a fire in a demonstration that started Tuesday night and ended Wednesday morning with clashes with police, officials said. The fire at the Multnomah Building damaged the county government's office of community involvement, where Oregon's first gay marriage took place and where protective gear has been distributed to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, said Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury. "This is the heart of our County, where people in our community come to get married, get their passports, and celebrate their cultural traditions and diversity," she said in a statement.
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| Portland riots rage as protesters set fires, attack government building Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:03 AM PDT  Protesters lit fires, threw rocks and smashed windows at county government offices in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday, prompting police to declare a riot, after weeks of mostly peaceful antiracism demonstrations.
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| Jill Biden says Trump attacks over husband Joe Biden's mental faculties are 'ridiculous' Posted: 19 Aug 2020 10:21 AM PDT  Jill Biden has dismissed as "ridiculous" suggestions that her husband Joe Biden, 77, is less sharp-minded than he was in the past as the Donald Trump campaign released an advert attacking his mental faculty. Mr Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, would be the oldest person ever elected to the US presidency if he wins in November and has faced relentless questions from his political opponents about his mental acuity given his age. Mrs Biden starred in the second night of the Democratic convention on Tuesday, giving the closing address and being featured in a short film about her life, and then did a round of TV interviews on Wednesday morning. Asked in one about Trump campaign claims that her husband has "lost a step or two in the last few years" and whether that was a fair issue to raise in an election race, Mrs Biden said: "No, it's ridiculous." She went on: "I mean, Joe's on the phone every single minute of the day talking to governors who are calling him and Nancy Pelosi [the House of Representatives speaker], he's on the Zoom, he's doing fundraisers. He's doing briefings. I mean he doesn't stop from nine in the morning to eleven at night."
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| Pencils or PPE: Teachers say they're forced to choose between buying school supplies or protective equipment to keep kids safe Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:47 PM PDT  Teachers with in-person classes are turning to the public for help collecting personal protection equipment (PPE)— if they are any left to go around.
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| Trump fires off furious all-caps tweet as Obama warns successor working to 'tear our democracy down' Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:19 PM PDT  Donald Trump issued a series of furious tweets – in all-caps – as Barack Obama delivered a stunning takedown of his successor in a speech at the Democratic National Convention.The 44th president laid out a thorough rebuke of Mr Trump as he made a pitch for Joe Biden, saying democracy itself was at stake.
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| MSC Cruises says family denied reboarding after they broke COVID-19 'social bubble' Posted: 19 Aug 2020 03:01 PM PDT  MSC Cruises cracked down on passengers who broke newly implemented health and safety protocols during a shore excursion.
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| These Black Lives Matter Protesters Had No Idea How One Arrest Could Alter Their Lives Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Young protesters, particularly those of color, arrested at protests can face chilling consequences
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| Iowa governor's push to reopen schools descends into chaos Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:35 PM PDT  An aggressive push by Iowa's pro-Trump governor to reopen schools amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak has descended into chaos, with some districts and teachers rebelling and experts calling the scientific benchmarks used by the state arbitrary and unsafe. At issue is Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds' mandate in July that districts offer at least 50% classroom instruction. The conflict intensified Wednesday when the statewide teachers union announced a lawsuit challenging the governor's ability to make such decisions for local districts.
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| The Air Force Recovered a Live French Missile in Florida Posted: 19 Aug 2020 05:45 AM PDT  The missile was "like having a gun with a bullet in the chamber, but on safety."
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| You may want to grab honey the next time you have a cold, study finds. Here’s why Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:20 PM PDT  Grandma knows what she's doing.
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| How Ukraine's audacious secret service successfully scammed Putin and his mercenaries Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:30 AM PDT  Ukraine tricked 32 Russian mercenaries into confessing their jobs and almost flying straight into Ukrainian custody.
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| Dear Joe Biden: The filibuster will stop all your ideas Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:58 PM PDT  On the third night of the Democratic National Convention, a couple rather neglected topics came first in the proceedings — namely, gun control and climate change. Gabby Giffords, a former Democratic member of Congress from Arizona who was shot in the head in 2011, spoke movingly about her long and difficult recovery, and the need for reasonable gun control laws. Several scientists and activists similarly spoke about the stark need for aggressive climate policy to protect America from climate change.It's nice to see the Democratic Party making room for these issues alongside newsier problems like the coronavirus pandemic and the economic collapse. A future President Biden will have more crises on his plate than any president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.However, we should remember that unless the Democrats get rid of the Senate filibuster, there will be little or no progress on any of these issues, big or small. Republicans will almost certainly retain more than 40 seats in the Senate and, if the filibuster remains, be able to bottle up almost all legislation there as Mitch McConnell did for nearly the entirety of the Obama presidency. Moderate Democratic senators have long expressed reluctance about getting rid of the filibuster, but the truth is that unless it is abolished, America will remain nearly impossible to govern.More stories from theweek.com 5 bitingly funny cartoons about the Democratic National Convention Joe Biden is already planning a failed presidency Kamala Harris' grand finale involved awkward pointing, an empty auditorium, and a Zoom mistake
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| Bolton says he's 'troubled' by Trump suggesting he would only lose a 'rigged' election Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:07 AM PDT  The former adviser drew parallels between Trump's comment and undemocratic regimes that seek to stay in power.
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| Warning issued after bar patron had COVID-19 at Sturgis Motorcycle Rally that drew 460,000 vehicles Posted: 19 Aug 2020 10:31 AM PDT  Authorities say a patron of a bar in Sturgis, South Dakota, tested positive for COVID-19 and was able to transmit the virus while attending the Sturgis Rally.
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| California wildfires: Helicopter pilot dies after crash while fighting massive blaze Posted: 19 Aug 2020 05:16 PM PDT  A pilot battling a fire in central California died after his helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning. Crews have been battling wildfires in the state and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate as hundreds of fires blazed across California amid a blistering heatwave now in its second week. Cal Fire said in a statement that the helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in western Fresno County while on a water dropping mission. The pilot was the only one on board. As fires raged across the state, smoke over San Francisco and the Bay Area, with atmospheric testing revealing that Northern California's air quality is currently the worst in the world. Authorities have told residents to stay inside and shut their windows. Governor Gavin Newsom has blamed "this extraordinary weather we're experiencing and all of these lightning strikes" for 367 known fires, including 23 major fires or groups of fires. He said the state has recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours. Police and firefighters went door-to-door before dawn on Wednesday in a frantic scramble to warn residents to evacuate as fire encroached on Vacaville, a city of about 100,000 between San Francisco and Sacramento. At least 50 structures were destroyed, including some homes, and 50 damaged.
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| Senator: 'I will be vindicated' in Confederate monument case Posted: 18 Aug 2020 03:04 PM PDT  A Virginia state senator charged with damaging a Confederate monument said Tuesday that she will beat the case against her. Police in the city of Portsmouth said Monday that they charged Lucas and several others with conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1,000. The charges stem from a June 10 protest that drew hundreds of people to a Confederate monument in Portsmouth.
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| Amazon removes shirts with derogatory slogan about Kamala Harris Posted: 19 Aug 2020 09:36 AM PDT  The removal of the items followed pressure from Twitter users who urged people to complain to the retail giant * 2020 DNC live updates: Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speak at Democratic National ConventionAmazon has removed a clothing line emblazoned with an offensive slogan referring to Kamala Harris from its website after complaints from Twitter users who branded it "unacceptable".The T-shirts, tank tops and hoodies which had the words "Joe and the hoe" written in red, white and blue in the style of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Harris's campaign logo, were on sale for between $24.99 and $42.99.The derogatory phrase was also recently adopted by the conservative radio host and friend of Donald Trump Rush Limbaugh, who has a history of making abusive comments about the senator.The removal of the items followed pressure from Twitter users who urged people to complain to the retail giant."Let @amazon know this is unacceptable," wrote @LesaPamplin, a criminal defence attorney from Texas, with a screengrab of the clothing. "We are not sitting idly by and taking this bullshit."An Amazon spokesperson said on Wednesday that the products had been removed, adding: "All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action including potential removal of their account."While the products appear to have been removed, the seller, "The Oxygen Bandit", still seems to be active on the site with a range of politically themed garments including a "Byedon 2020" hoodie and "Kamala smelled best" and "I'm an AmeriKaren" T-shirts.Later on Wednesday Harris is due to make US history as the first woman of colour on a major party ticket when she accepts her party's vice-president nomination at the Democratic national convention.
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| A Yale administrator told students to prepare for 'possibly deaths' — and it shows what a predictable disaster reopening is Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:39 AM PDT  "We all should be emotionally prepared for widespread infections," a residential college head wrote in early July, the Yale Daily News reports.
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| Sally Yates, acting attorney general fired by Trump, says he 'treats our country like it's his family business' Posted: 18 Aug 2020 06:42 PM PDT  Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was an unusual speaker at Tuesday's Democratic National Convention.Yates, who served as a deputy attorney general under former President Barack Obama, stayed on in the Trump administration to help transition the Justice Department and was quickly fired. With her legal background, "speaking at a political convention is something I never expected to be doing," Yates acknowledged. "But the future of our democracy is at stake," she continued before calling out the president's alleged transgressions.Yates started with Democrats' latest fight, saying Trump is "even trying to sabotage our postal service to keep people from being able to vote." She went on to call out Trump's "constant attacks on the FBI, the free press, inspectors general, federal judges," saying "they all have one purpose: to remove any check on his abuse of power.""Put simply, [Trump] treats our country like it's his family business -- this time bankrupting our nation's moral authority at home and abroad," Yates continued. "But our country doesn't belong to him. It belongs to all of us." > Former U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates on Pres. Trump: "His constant attacks on the FBI, the free press, Inspectors General, federal judges - they all have one purpose: to remove any check on his abuse of power." https://t.co/g2aifw44ZR DemConvention pic.twitter.com/QdkBZBHtsz> > -- ABC News (@ABC) August 19, 2020More stories from theweek.com Joe Biden is already planning a failed presidency The elephant in the room at the DNC 5 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's assault on the Post Office
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| Disappointed UNC students are making tragic TikToks about their dorm rooms, bills, and roommates after campus housing closed due to COVID-19 outbreaks Posted: 19 Aug 2020 09:27 AM PDT  After the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill switched to remote learning, its students took their frustrations to TikTok.
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| Neilia Hunter Biden, the brains behind Joe Biden's first political victories Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:02 AM PDT  Neilia Hunter Biden is known more for her tragic death, but she was "the brains" behind Biden's first Senate race.
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| Goodyear distances itself from viral image that drew Trump's ire Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:24 AM PDT  The giant tiremaker responded to a local news report with an image that purported to show a "zero-tolerance policy" that does not allow political messaging, including MAGA attire.
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| Inspectors Said Her Toxic Leadership Was 'Worst Seen in 20 Years.' She Just Became a 1-Star Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:02 AM PDT  Investigators interviewed more than 60 witnesses, according to the report obtained by Military.com.
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| Washington tourist breaks quarantine and spends part of Hawaii vacation in jail, cops say Posted: 19 Aug 2020 04:54 PM PDT  Hawaii requires travelers to quarantine for 14 days when they arrive to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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| Brooklyn mother traveling with 6 children forced off JetBlue flight when her 2-year-old daughter wouldn't wear mask Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:59 PM PDT  NEW YORK - A Brooklyn mother traveling alone with her six children was forced off a JetBlue flight in Orlando, Florida, Wednesday when her 2-year-old daughter wouldn't wear her mask. Flight attendants ordered Chaya Bruck of Midwood to get off the Newark, New Jersey-bound plane after her daughter Dina refused to keep the face covering on - and when the desperate mom tried to explain the tot ...
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| US tells Russia that China has secret and rapidly expanding nuclear warhead arsenal Posted: 19 Aug 2020 10:01 AM PDT  Arms control discussions between the US and Russia concluded Tuesday in Vienna, with both countries walking away from the table with concerns unaddressed.The most contentious element of the discussions involved China, and whether or not the country should be included in any future arms treaties.
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| More than half of California's incarcerated firefighters are under lockdown as coronavirus sweeps through state prisons, resulting in a shortage of crews in fire season Posted: 19 Aug 2020 10:46 PM PDT  With prisons across the state on lockdown for COVID-19, California is dealing with a shortage of inmate fire crews to battle the extreme conditions.
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| Kamala's private army: Why Harris' HBCU, AKA affiliations could help Biden's campaign Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:56 PM PDT  Some expect Joe Biden's vice presidential pick to have an edge among the Black electorate that even President Barack Obama did not enjoy.
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| An overwhelming majority of Americans say the US response to coronavirus makes them feel embarrassed Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:49 AM PDT  A strong majority of Americans (58%) in a new poll disapproved of President Donald Trump's handling of the pandemic; 68% expressed embarrassment.
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| American Airlines will drop flights to 15 cities in October Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:06 AM PDT  American Airlines will drop flights to 15 smaller U.S. cities in October when a federal requirement to serve those communities ends. The airline blamed low demand during the coronavirus pandemic, which has triggered a massive slump in air travel and huge losses for the carriers. Airlines and their labor unions are seeking billions in new taxpayer relief.
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| Opinion: The Boston Marathon bombing was a horrific crime, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should not be executed Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The Justice Department must decide whether to appeal a court decision blocking a death sentence of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. It should not.
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| 'Put your masks on': Mom warns others about COVID-19 before dying Posted: 18 Aug 2020 01:08 PM PDT  The family hopes that by hearing about their mother's experience with coronavirus, others will protect themselves from the coronavirus.
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| Coronavirus cases reported in fraternities, sororities at 2 universities Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:58 AM PDT  Auburn University and North Carolina State reported the outbreaks Tuesday, a day after Oklahoma State University began its semester with an entire sorority under quarantine.
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| History Keeps Proving John Kerry Wrong Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:30 AM PDT  It took approximately 20 seconds for former secretary of state John Kerry to drop the first flagrant lie in his Democratic National Convention speech on Tuesday, when he claimed that the Obama administration's so-called Iran deal had "eliminated the threat of an Iran with a nuclear weapon." It didn't get any better from there.Kerry knows well that sunset provisions in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) provided Iran's government with a pathway to building nuclear weapons in a few years. He knows well that Israel uncovered a giant cache of documents with instructions on how to jumpstart a program to build a nuclear arsenal, which undermined both the spirit and the rationale of the nonproliferation agreement Iran signed. He knows that Iran was developing ballistic-missile programs meant to deliver nuclear weapons.Kerry's big accomplishment was to destroy a sanctions program that was working, thereby saving the Islamic Republic from economic ruin. This allowed the Islamist government to strengthen its proxies in Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Yemen, and Iraq.Now Kerry says Trump "doesn't know how to defend the troops"? Well, I'm not sure that the man who oversaw the billions in direct cash payments to a government that had a hand in murdering and maiming hundreds of American troops has the moral authority to level that criticism. Kerry himself acknowledged that sanctions relief would likely end up in the coffers of Iran's Revolutionary Guard -- now a designated terror group. Surely, then, he knew that the pallets of euros and Swiss francs he was shipping to Tehran in an unmarked cargo plane would also find their way to the groups triggering conflicts across the Middle East -- not to mention subjugating people at home.While many argued for a maximum-pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic, Kerry preferred the no-pressure route. The Iran deal, in fact, often seemed to be the Obama administration's top obsession. Nothing would stand in the way. And while the media echo chamber was misleading the public at home, Kerry was placating Russia and allowing a humanitarian disaster to unfold in Syria in an effort to save the deal.Around the time the Obama administration was chasing an Iran deal, the Syrian government, backed by the Islamic Republic, was crossing the president's Red Line and gassing civilians. Michael Doran, a former senior director of the National Security Council, noted that from the beginning of the crisis Obama "showed deference to Iran on the nuclear front" and "the same deference to the Iranian interest in Syria." Even when the Unites States began funding rebel forces in Syria, the administration reportedly wouldn't allow Iranian's ally to be touched.When pressed on the matter by some Syrian civil-society workers in London, then Secretary Kerry snapped, "What do you want me to do, go to war with Russia?" Obama officials -- led by Kerry -- long peddled this false choice: the Iran deal or war. Well, we are no longer a party to Iran deal, and there is no war. Meanwhile, there is a highly weakened Iran, and there are growing alliances among our Sunni allies and Israel.Kerry would continue to entertain Iranian officials even after he was out of government. When Trump ordered a drone strike of the terrorist Qasem Soleimani, a man who masterminded the killing of American soldiers and thousands of Iraqi civilians, Kerry said the world was in "no way at all" safer, and claimed that Trump was risking an "outright war." All Iran did was launch a performative counterstrike.Kerry was wrong about Iran. Kerry was also wrong about Israel -- a nation he doesn't ever seem to consider an "ally" in his speeches about Obama's alleged foreign-policy successes. And when the U.S. embassy was about to be moved to Jerusalem, Kerry warned it would lead to "an explosion" in the Middle East -- more specifically, "an absolute explosion in the region, not just in the West Bank and perhaps even in Israel itself, but throughout the region." Moreover, Kerry declared, it would have a serious and negative repercussions on relations between Israel and the Arab world, making peace far less likely.Of course, outside of some typical Palestinian noise, the opposite has happened. Only recently, Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to a historic deal that normalized relations between them. They were no doubt partly brought together by the Obama administration's unprecedented coddling of the mullahs. Other Arab Gulf states are expected join the UAE, though it is well-known that many of them already have clandestine working relationships with Israel. This week, Sudan, the third-largest Arab nation, announced it was close to reaching its own peace deal with the Jewish state.All of this seems pretty significant. It would surely have been massive news if the Obama administration had helped forge the pacts. Right now, though, Obama has one more Nobel prize than he does a peace agreement. And time keeps proving John Kerry wrong.
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| ‘Jurassic Park experiment’: 750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes to be released in Florida Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:28 AM PDT  US authorities have approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes across the Florida Keys, despite objections from local residents.British-based firm Oxitec are behind the project, that will test whether the altered mosquitoes can work as an alternative to pesticides to control the spread of diseases, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, according to CNN.
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| Percentage of Americans who say they'd get a COVID-19 vaccine declines 10 percent in 3 months Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:25 AM PDT  Fewer Americans say they'd get a vaccine against COVID-19 than about three months ago, an alarming new poll has found.In a poll released by CNN on Wednesday, when respondents were asked if they would personally try to get a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 if one was made widely available at a low cost, only 56 percent said they would, while 40 percent said they wouldn't. The percentage of Americans who say they would get vaccinated is down 10 percentage points from May, when 66 percent in the same CNN poll said they'd get the vaccine.CNN reports the decline "seems to be concentrated among Trump supporters, 51 percent of whom said they would seek out a vaccine in May compared with 38 percent who say the same now." In response to the poll's finding, CNN's Jim Sciutto tweeted, "The attack on science has consequences."> According to the new CNN poll, the number of Americans that would be willing to take a coronavirus vaccine has dropped by 10% since May 10th.> > Will take the vaccine: 56% (66%) > Won't take the vaccine: 40% (33%)> > — Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) August 19, 2020Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, previously warned that if too many Americans refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine, it's "unlikely" the U.S. will get to herd immunity.That's why, he explained to CNN, it's important for "people to understand that we're doing everything we can to show that it's safe and that it's effective, and it's for the good of them as individuals and in society to take the vaccine." Fauci added, however, that keeping in mind the "anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country," health officials, unfortunately, have "a lot of work to do."The poll was conducted by SSRS by speaking to a random national sample of 1,108 adults over the phone from Aug. 12-15. The margin of error is 3.7 percentage points. Read more at CNN.More stories from theweek.com Joe Biden is already planning a failed presidency 5 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's assault on the Post Office Biden-voting former Trump DHS official says Trump was serious about swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland
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| UK government faces more criticism after latest school exam problem Posted: 20 Aug 2020 12:26 AM PDT  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was facing fresh criticism on Thursday over its handling of grading for school exams after results for hundreds of thousands of students were pulled. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has been accused of overseeing a fiasco over how grades have been awarded to teenagers who were unable to take their exams because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its decision came days after the government bowed to pressure from angry pupils, teachers and lawmakers and ditched an algorithm that had downgraded A-level results for almost 40% of school leavers last week, with those in disadvantaged areas more adversely affected.
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| Trump again accused Twitter of anti-Republican bias after #TrumpMeltdown appeared to be trending on the site: 'Only negative on Republican voices, especially mine!' Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:10 AM PDT  President Trump, who has long accused companies like Twitter of anti-Republican bias, went after Twitter's "Trending" section on Thursday morning.
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| FDA halts emergency approval of blood plasma COVID-19 treatment Posted: 19 Aug 2020 02:03 PM PDT  The emergency approval of blood plasma as a potential COVID-19 treatment by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now been put on hold, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two senior administration officials.
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