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CDC panel meets Tuesday to vote on COVID-19 vaccine priority

A panel of U.S. advisers will meet Tuesday to vote on how scarce, initial supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine will be given out once one has been approved.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 7:53 PM

Experts: Virus numbers could be erratic after Thanksgiving

The coronavirus testing numbers that have guided much of the nation’s response to the pandemic are likely to be erratic over the next week or so, experts said Friday, as fewer people get tested during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and testing sites observe shorter hours.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 6:12 PM

Virus keeps Black Friday crowds thin, shoppers shift online

In normal times, Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year, drawing millions of shoppers eager to get started on their holiday spending.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 4:30 PM

New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions

The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 4:08 PM

Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania race

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals echoed a string of other courts in finding the Trump campaign offered no evidence of any election fraud. Instead, the court said “the campaign’s claims have no merit.”

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Published November 27, 2020 at 2:39 PM

Female soccer player poised to play for Vandy’s football team

“Let’s make history,” senior Sarah Fuller wrote Friday on Twitter with a photo of herself wearing a football jersey with a soccer ball between her feet while holding a football in her hands.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 2:13 PM

US colleges mull new virus protocols for students’ return

The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning, including some that took a battering from outbreaks.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 1:47 PM

Disney to lay off 4,000 more at California, Florida parks

The company has been limiting attendance at its parks and changing protocols to allow for social distancing.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 1:21 PM

Iran scientist linked to military nuclear program killed

The Iran state TV report Friday cited sources confirming the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 12:46 PM

Trump may be coming to terms with loss, won’t acknowledge

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake."

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Published November 27, 2020 at 11:02 AM

Egg Bowl: Everything you need to know for Saturday’s matchup

The game two years ago was marred by a fight that led to four ejections in the second half as the Bulldogs romped 35-3.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 11:01 AM

Lawmakers throw pig guts, punches on Taiwan parliament floor

President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration lifted a longstanding ban on imports of U.S. pork and beef in August, in a move seen as one of the first steps toward possibly negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with the U.S. The ban is due to be lifted in January.

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Published November 27, 2020 at 7:37 AM

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes flight in virus times

Instead of the usual path through Manhattan, this year’s parade was kept to the area in front of Macy’s flagship store and aimed at a television audience instead of live crowds.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 10:20 PM

Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil execs, orders prison

A Venezuelan judge has found six American oil executives guilty of corruption charges and immediately sentenced them to prison.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 9:39 PM

Thanksgiving travelers try to reach destinations, miss virus

Thanksgiving travel is especially dicey this year as people fearful of rising coronavirus cases and deaths in some parts of the U.S. attempt to social distance while navigating crowds.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 6:17 PM

Empty seats, delivered feasts as virus changes Thanksgiving

Americans are marking the Thanksgiving holiday amid an unrelenting pandemic that has upended traditions at dinner tables all around the country.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 5:44 PM

Thousands bid farewell to soccer legend Maradona in Argentina amid clashes

Maradona died on Wednesday of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he recovered from a brain operation on Nov. 3.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 4:42 PM

Supreme Court blocks NY coronavirus limits on houses of worship

The court’s action could push New York to reevaluate its restrictions on houses of worship in areas designated virus hot spots.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 11:42 AM

Schools struggle to stay open as quarantines sideline staff

It’s another layer of the “tremendous stress” faced by administrators and educators navigating the pandemic, said Dan Domenech, executive director of AASA, the nation’s leading school superintendents association.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 10:18 AM

Longtime judge, pioneer for Mississippi women leaders, dies

After running at age 70, she was the first woman elected justice court judge in Lee County, a position she held for 16 years.

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Published November 26, 2020 at 8:14 AM

Scotland to make period products freely available to all

Under the bill, the Scottish government must set up measures to allow anyone who needs period products to get them free of charge. Schools and universities must make the products available for free in their bathrooms.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 11:20 PM

Americans risk traveling over Thanksgiving despite warnings

Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways ahead of Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire, disregarding increasingly dire warnings that they stay home and limit their holiday gatherings to members of their own household.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 7:22 PM

Pandemic postpones national math, reading tests until 2022

Federal officials say national reading and math tests used to track what U.S. students know are being postponed from next year to 2022 over concerns about whether such testing would be feasible or produce valid results amid the pandemic.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 6:11 PM

Trump pardons Flynn despite guilty plea in Russia probe

Flynn is the second Trump associate convicted in the Russia probe to be granted clemency by the president.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 5:48 PM

AstraZeneca manufacturing error clouds vaccine study results

AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Wednesday acknowledged a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 5:10 PM

Justice Department appeals, seeking to replace Trump in suit

The Justice Department says it's appealing a judge's refusal to let the United States replace President Donald Trump as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit by a woman who says he raped her in the 1990s.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 4:39 PM

27 veterans die in COVID-19 outbreak at Illinois VA home

State officials are investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans nursing home in rural Illinois that has infected nearly 200 residents and staff, and killed 27 veterans.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 4:35 PM

Rocky the Christmas tree stowaway owl returns to the wild

Rocky the stowaway owl is back in the wild.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 4:14 PM

Picture of US economy is worrisome as virus inflicts damage

A flurry of data released Wednesday suggested that the spread of the virus is intensifying the threats to an economy still struggling to recover from the deep recession that struck in early spring.

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Published November 25, 2020 at 3:11 PM

Biden seeks unity as Trump stokes fading embers of campaign

Biden said that, until there’s a vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing and limiting the size of gatherings “are our most effective tools to combat the virus.”

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Published November 25, 2020 at 2:47 PM

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