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Fire destroys lobster pound in Nova Scotia as tensions continue between Mi’kmaq and commercial fishers
Canada news 1 hour ago
One man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a large fire completely destroyed a lobster pound being used by Mi’kmaw fishers in Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, on early Saturday morning. The blaze comes just days after police confirmed two raids took place on lobster pounds by commercial fishers protesting a "moderate livelihood' fishery launched by Sipekne'katik First Nation last month. Officials do not yet know the cause of the fire, but RCMP are calling it "suspicious."
Thousands attend Trump rally in Wisconsin where COVID-19 cases soar
US elections 4 hours ago
Thousands of Trump supporters have gathered to see the President and attend a campaign rally in Janesville, WI. "Attendees were given temperature checks and provided masks if they didn't have them," The Milwaukee Sentinel Journal reports. However, many attendees are not wearing masks.
McConnell announces Senate will vote next week on GOP-crafted COVID-19 relief bill
COVID-19 3 hours ago
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday the Senate will vote on Wednesday on a Republican-led COVID-19 relief bill. He also announced the Senate will vote Tuesday on funding for a program that aids small businesses.
Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious
Reviving his Borat character and playing the political activist Abbie Hoffman, Sacha Baron Cohen tells Maureen Dowd that feels he “had to ring the alarm bell and say that democracy is in peril this year.”
Covid-19 hits the old hardest, but the healthy longest
While we’re fighting to suppress a second wave, the number of people with so-called long Covid is mounting.
Joe Biden's proposed tax increase will mostly impact the very wealthy, Washington Post and PoltiFact report
Politics This morning
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has pledged to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 per year, a claim that "holds up well, especially when considering the impact on individual taxpayers," The Washington Post reports.
Beheading of a teacher near Paris has been called a terror attack
World news This morning
A knife-wielding man decapitated a history-geography teacher near a school in a suburb north of Paris on Friday. The teacher had recently shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, leading to a terror attack on the publication in 2015. The attacker was shot and killed by police.
Asian womxn on normalizing the conversation around mental health
On Made In this week, we talk about the importance of unlearning the silence around addressing our feelings and mental health that are upheld in a lot of Asian cultures.
Evacuations ordered near Boulder, Colorado as new wildfire breaks out
Weather 3 hours ago
A new wildfire known as the CalWood Fire caused evacuation orders and closures in Boulder County on Saturday. The western US has been experiencing a record year for wildfires.
Movie theaters in parts of New York State, not including NYC, will reopen next week
COVID-19 Earlier today
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Saturday that movie theaters can reopen at 25% capacity in counties that have positive COVID-19 rates below 2 percent and do not have COVID-19 clusters. Movie theaters in New York City will not be allowed to reopen.
Alabama broke its absentee voting record three weeks before Election Day
US elections 4 hours ago
As of last Tuesday, Alabamans had cast more than 90,000 absentee ballots, setting a record for the state with three weeks still to go before Election Day, according to Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill. Absentee voting began in Alabama on September 9 and the most populous county in the state has had to open its courthouses for accommodate the number of people absentee voting on two Saturdays.
Women's March 2020 draws thousands of protesters across the US
Politics Earlier today
Thousands of protesters gather at the Women’s March in Washington DC and at sister marches across all 50 states. Many are honoring the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett and urging people to vote.
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Trevor Lawrence throws 404 yards as the Tigers stomp Georgia Tech
NCAA football Earlier today
Lawrence threw five touchdowns in the first half, leading Clemson to a monster 73-7 victory over Georgia Tech. It's the biggest win in a conference game in Atlantic Coast Conference history.
The Pope Meme: Greatest Hits
Haha This morning
Might as well collect these before it's too late.
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Steve McQueen: "It’s not Black British culture, it’s British culture"
At this year's virtual Esquire Townhouse, film-maker and artist Steve McQueen discussed the Black experience, the critical importance of context, and why the stories in his new film series 'Small Axe' needed to be told.
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon prove their bromance is still going strong
This hilarious video proves why these two are Hollywood's favourite BFFs.
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HARD TRUTHS DEEP DIVE: Race and voting in America
Many Americans believe that all citizens have equal access to our fundamental democratic right: voting. But the fact is racial politics still suppress votes.
That Photo Of Billie Eilish Isn’t Brave. It’s Just Typical.
In the pursuit of body positivity, we’ve tipped over into an absurd place — where merely existing in a body larger than a size 0 is considered courageous.
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Joe Biden participates in ABC town hall in Philadelphia
US elections Yesterday
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for a town hall meeting moderated by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. The town hall is being hosted in place of what would have been the second presidential debate following President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis. The discussion with the former vice president will last for 90 minutes. ⬇️ Follow along here for real-time news and updates on Thursday's town hall event.
Joe Biden did not push out a Ukrainian prosecutor for investigating his son, The Washington Post reports
Politics Yesterday
A series of emails obtained by the New York Post were published on Wednesday alleging that Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, introduced his father to a top executive at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. However, according to The Washington Post, then-Vice President Biden played no role in pressuring Ukraine officials into firing a prosecutor who failed to investigate the energy firm. It also doesn't detail whether the elder Biden actually met with Hunter’s Ukrainian business associate.
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