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The unrest roiling Portland, Ore., and other cities this year has been a powerful recruiting tool for organizations like the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and the Three Percenters. But not everyone who supports them is draped in camo and AR-15s.
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A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to lift an injunction barring President Trump from shutting down the census count early.
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Pompeo made the appeal at a conference on religious freedom organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, with top Vatican officials in the audience.
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Genes that some people have inherited from their Neanderthal ancestors may increase their risk of suffering severe forms of COVID-19, a new study suggests.
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Timothy Ray Brown, who as the anonymous “Berlin patient” was the first person known to be cured of HIV infection, has died of cancer at 54.
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Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman is sentenced to almost seven years in prison in the conspiracy case involving the NXIVM self-improvement group.
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A study of 660,000 Indians finds that a few individuals spread most new infections and that children transmit the coronavirus just as well as adults.
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Kentucky’s attorney general is granted a delay in the release of grand jury transcripts. He says he wants to redact the personal information of those involved.
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With interest in the U.S. election running high worldwide, foreign observers took note of the ‘chaos’ and ‘rancor’ of the first debate.
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A new study of how COVID-19 spreads through communities highlights the role of super-spreaders in passing along the virus.
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The first presidential debate devolved into angry insults and accusations as President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden clashed over the pandemic, the future of the Supreme Court and more.
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A zoo in England has had to separate five foul-mouthed parrots that keepers say were encouraging each other to swear.
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Following a tip, a distraught mother digs into the foundation of a house, hoping to find the body of her son.
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An Indian court has acquitted 32 people accused of crimes in the 1992 demolition of a mosque that sparked riots in which 2,000 people were killed.
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A judge says a revised Oct. 5 date for the end of the 2020 census may violate an order she issued allowing the count to finish at the end of October.
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Chris Wallace tried pleading, placating, interrupting back. Nothing stopped President Trump from ignoring all the rules in his first debate with Joe Biden.
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When debate moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump to condemn white supremacists, he instead called on the Proud Boys hate group to ‘stand back and stand by!’
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Our special-edition newsletter breaks down the latest coronavirus news, including a new CDC study on the coronavirus and children.
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President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off in Cleveland in their first presidential debate.
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Fact-checking the debate: President Trump unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods; Joe Biden hewed closer to the truth, but strayed at times.
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A study of 660,000 Indians finds that a few individuals spread most new infections and that children transmit the coronavirus just as well as adults.
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Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman is sentenced to almost seven years in prison in the conspiracy case involving the NXIVM self-improvement group.
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The unrest roiling Portland, Ore., and other cities this year has been a powerful recruiting tool for organizations like the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and the Three Percenters. But not everyone who supports them is draped in camo and AR-15s.
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Kentucky’s attorney general is granted a delay in the release of grand jury transcripts. He says he wants to redact the personal information of those involved.
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A zoo in England has had to separate five foul-mouthed parrots that keepers say were encouraging each other to swear.
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The World Health Organization and partners have agreed to roll out 120 million rapid COVID-19 tests to help poorer countries fight the disease.
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The global COVID-19 death toll surpassed 1 million, one measurement of a scourge that has ravaged lives and economies and evoked an era of plagues.
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President Trump has announced the shipment of millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week
