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A staffer on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign on Monday suggested that Orthodox Catholics, Jews and Muslims should not be allowed to serve on the Supreme Court because of their “intolerant” beliefs.The comments came during a Twitter conversation between Biden campaign deputy data director Nikitha Rai and Brookings Institute senior fellow Shadi Hamid in which Rai attacked Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholic beliefs. A search for Rai's Twitter account now yields a message saying, "This account doesn't exist."Hamid had responded to a tweet that said Barrett was a trustee at a Catholic school that opposed same-sex marriage as homosexual acts are "at odds with Scripture." Hamid replied, “Wait, why is this news? Isn’t this the standard position for any orthodox Catholic?” “Unfortunately yes,” Rai said. When Hamid pointed out that Orthodox Muslims and Jews generally hold the same view, Rai said, “True. I’d heavily prefer views lik

The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker polls show how Americans are responding to the first presidential debate. CBS News Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto joined CBSN's Elaine Quijano on "Red and Blue" to discuss the results. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33ihsHX via IFTTT

President Donald Trump’s campaign still won’t clarify the status of its erstwhile campaign manager Brad Parscale, who was taken into custody by police outside of his Florida home over the weekend. But the campaign is quietly purging its website of Parscale’s presence.Since Tuesday, the campaign has removed a video of Parscale from the homepage of its “Army for Trump” election monitoring operation. It also deleted a page on the main campaign website featuring a video of Parscale and Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and senior campaign adviser. The video of their discussion, billed as a Q&A on the state of the campaign, has also been removed from YouTube. Those deletions were first flagged on Twitter by the writer Jeryl Bier.One Trump campaign page discussing the event with Lara Trump remained online as of Wednesday morning. After The Daily Beast flagged it in a comment request sent to the campaign, that page was removed as well.The campaign did not respond to that comment

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Telecoms company Huawei Technologies is part of China's surveillance state, complicit in human rights abuses, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington renewed pressure on Europe to ban the company from fifth-generation (5G) networks. Keith Krach, the undersecretary of state for economic affairs, stepped up warnings as Germany and Italy consider their next-generation mobile networks, in his first tour of European capitals since the COVID-19 pandemic hindered travel in March. Huawei [HWT.UL] is "an arm of the CCP surveillance state and a tool for human rights abuse," Krach told a German Marshall Fund think-tank event, referring to the Chinese Communist Party. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S5VWjk via IFTTT

The Senate majority leader refused to answer if Ms Barrett should recuse herself from election-focused cases from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/348uCGO via IFTTT

These days, foreign journalists are facing unprecedented challenges in China.A March report from the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) finds that in 2019, “82% of [foreign] reporters [in China] experienced interference or harassment or violence while reporting. . . . 43% said digital/physical surveillance affected reporting. And 70% reported interviews cancelled due to actions taken by Chinese authorities.” The FCCC also finds that Chinese authorities continue to restrict foreign journalists’ access to certain parts of China, including Xinjiang, where millions of Uighur Muslims languish in internment camps. The most striking finding of the report, however, is that not even a single foreign journalist said working conditions in China had improved from 2018 to 2019.It seems that this state of affairs has only gotten worse in 2020. Just this week, the Washington Post’s Anna Fifield published a story about the difficulties she’d faced as a foreign reporter in China. “Reporting i

A loud blast heard throughout Paris on Wednesday briefly caused panic as edgy residents feared a bombing five days after a terrorist attack outside the former offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The noise was caused by a sonic boom as a military jet broke the speed of sound, police said. Pierre Duclos, who was in a café around the corner from the site of the attack on Friday when the explosion-like noise was heard, said: “Everyone looked at each other and a few people got up and went outside. For a while, we thought another terrorist attack was coming and we were all shocked. Some people asked the café owner to close and lock the door. I was here on Friday and frankly I was really worried again today. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36iDoED via IFTTT

The woman's death after she was gang raped allegedly by upper-caste men has caused huge anger in India. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/349fJ6Y via IFTTT

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Italy was the first country in Europe to be overwhelmed by the virus but is so far keeping it in check. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3cWPWmJ

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Nigeria's greatest challenge on its 60th anniversary remains its diversity, writes Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3cNmUFH

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As the African nation continues to ban the import of used US clothes, China takes advantage. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3jm74Vk

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Firms face higher furlough costs from Thursday, as Labour warns millions of jobs hang in the balance. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Gh7Ggp via IFTTT

Boris Johnson's statement about a "critical moment" in the pandemic dominates most front pages. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/34sHwQb via IFTTT

A 19-year-old woman begins a campaign to ban unpaid work trials after working a shift for no pay. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/34fqvsm via IFTTT

A nurse is sacked after Joyce Echaquan filmed herself in hospital apparently being insulted by staff. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3i9FGIA

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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation calls on the chancellor to extend an increase to Universal Credit. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3n5Orab via IFTTT

UK ethics body says it would give women worried about declining fertility more time and options. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36j8dZO via IFTTT

Sir Lenny Henry is among a variety of figures to feature on the postboxes in Black History Month. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/33cmjdy via IFTTT

Scientists explain how the biggest deep-sea study of two marine parks led to exciting discoveries. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GfTfZM via IFTTT

How female Muslim Koran reciters are making their voices heard. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/33cJzYT via IFTTT

The Hydroflex made a 25-mile round-trip in Warwickshire, reaching speeds of up to 50 mph. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3mZVKQJ via IFTTT

Experts keep discussing the value of R, but what is it and why does it matter? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3d8GpYw via IFTTT

Dejection over latest government help for business has left many small firms fearing for their futures. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/33fNRyR via IFTTT

'Flabbergasted' Marina Udgodskaya only entered the race as her boss needed someone else to stand. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/349pceH via IFTTT

Many have struggled to get to grips with working from home, but would surveillance technology help? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3igFPd7 via IFTTT

The Chinese artist and dissident says the West should have worried about China decades ago. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/3cEqwd4 via IFTTT

BBC One drama Life follows residents of Manchester whose lives intertwine unexpectedly. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/30hjBSb via IFTTT

The music industry is trying to clampdown on the latest form of music piracy known as stream-ripping. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Gb8ALk via IFTTT

The bill reauthorizes the $600 federal boost to unemployment benefits and sends out another round of $1,200 stimulus checks. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EGW9pX via IFTTT

While we vary about how to best interpret statutes and the Constitution, we agree on this: The nation could not ask for a more qualified candidate. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36a992F via IFTTT

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Candice Parscale called 911 on Sunday, saying her husband had loaded a firearm and threatened to hurt himself, according to a police report. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cEwB9p via IFTTT

Donald Trump has attempted to justify minimising his tax payments as the Democrats argued reports he contributed nothing in federal income taxes for a decade showed he was out of step with ordinary Americans. The US president said in a tweet he was “entitled” to leverage business losses and tax credits to limit his tax payments “like everyone else” as he tried to contain the fallout from the New York Times investigation. Mr Trump continued to deny the reporting was accurate, claimed the information was illegally obtained and said he had paid “millions of dollars” in taxes. He also hinted he could release financial statements showing his wealth, though gave no timeline. The comments suggested a two-pronged strategy: To both delegitimise the reporting, which said he paid no federal income taxes in 11 of the 18 years the paper scrutinised, and argue that limiting tax payments showed business savviness. The campaign of Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, released an attack adve

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Another prosecutor "let out a freewheeling hoot" when she saw the evidence, Weissmann writes. "If this holds up," Weissmann told them, "he's dead." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cEB5Nj via IFTTT

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’

Northern California's wine country was on fire again Monday as strong winds fanned flames in the already scorched region, destroying homes and prompting overnight evacuation orders for more than 50,000 people. In Sonoma County, residents of the Oakmont Gardens senior living facility in Santa Rosa boarded brightly lit city buses in the darkness overnight, some wearing bathrobes and using walkers. The fire threat forced Adventist Health St. Helena hospital to suspend care and transfer all patients elsewhere. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2FYjnsw via IFTTT

Reverend June Major has gone on hunger strike twice to demand that the church take action against her alleged attacker who still practises as a priest from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33a1wHQ via IFTTT

China's ambassador to London has told Britain that it will suffer "setbacks" in its relationship with Beijing if it continues to raise issues about human rights. The warning came after a junior Foreign Office minister took Beijing to task at a Chinese embassy function on Monday, held to mark the 71st anniversary of the People's Republic. In his remarks, James Duddridge said that while Britain wanted to retain good relations with China, it was also concerned about Beijing's erosion of democracy in Hong Kong and its treatment of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang. Mr Duddridge’s comments drew a cool response from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador, who is understood to have replied pointedly that as Hong Kong was no longer under British rule, Beijing was not obliged to listen to British concerns. Mr Liu added that China's policies in Xinjiang, where the government has been accused of putting up to two million people into "re-education" camps, wer

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