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- Columbia Researchers Say Trump’s Failures Led to at Least 130,000 Coronavirus Deaths
- California to Slash San Quentin Prison Population After Massive Coronavirus Outbreak
- Obama Blasts Trump’s Record as Candidates Head to Nashville for Final Presidential Debate
- NYT: Trump Maintains Chinese Bank Account and Paid Nearly $200,000 in Taxes to China
- DNI John Ratcliffe Claims Iran Is Meddling in 2020 Election to “Damage President Trump”
- Democrats to Boycott Senate Committee Vote on Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS Nomination
- Billionaire Sackler Family Gets No Jail Time in $8 Billion OxyContin Settlement
- In Historic Shift for Catholic Church, Pope Signals Support for LGBTQ Civil Unions
- Protesters at U.S. Border Decry Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” Policy for Asylum Seekers
- Leaders of National Strike in Colombia Demand Meeting with President Iván Duque
- Mass Grave Discovered in Tulsa May Be Linked to 1921 Racist Massacre
- Trump Rape Accuser E. Jean Carroll “Stunned” by DOJ’s Handling of Defamation Lawsuit
- Nigerian Soldiers Open Fire on Protesters Opposing Police Brutality
- As U.S. Faces Third Coronavirus Surge, CDC Reports 300,000 Excess Deaths in 2020
- Pope Wears Mask at Public Event for First Time as EU Coronavirus Cases Surge
- Justice Department and 11 States Sue Google in Biggest Antitrust Lawsuit in Decades
- ACLU Can’t Find Hundreds of Asylum-Seeking Parents Separated from Children by Trump Admin
- L.A. Times: Just Three of 265 Reported Crimes at California ICE Jails Led to Prosecutions
- Early Voting Opens for Pretrial Prisoners in Chicago’s Cook County Jail
- Armed Poll Watchers Deploy to Democratic Precincts as Trump Jr. Calls Up “Army for Election Security”
- Joe Biden Vets Republicans for Cabinet Positions, Won’t Disclose Names of Major Fundraisers
- First Lady Skips Campaign Rally in Erie, PA, Due to “Lingering Cough” from COVID-19
- Trump Cuts Short “60 Minutes” Interview, Demands AG Barr Investigate Bidens
- Fiancée of Slain Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Files Suit Against Saudi Crown Prince
- Two Colombian Social Leaders Assassinated in Latest Politically Motivated Killings
- Venezuelan Tanker Idled by U.S. Sanctions Puts Caribbean at Risk of Massive Oil Spill
- Grand Jurors in Breonna Taylor’s Killing “Not Given the Opportunity” to Bring Homicide Charges
- SCOTUS Nominee Barrett Was Trustee of School That Bans LGBTQ Students, Faculty
- Study Finds Lead in Tap Water of 80% of U.S. Homes, with African Americans Most Affected
- Trump Continues Attack on Fauci as U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surge and Death Toll Mounts
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