WATCH: Pelosi holds news conference amid coronavirus relief talks
House Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds news conference amid coronavirus relief talks with the White House. Read more: https://wapo.st/3jpQIKd. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 22, 2020
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Biden Island, AOC's 'Among Us' stream and other political gaming events in 2020
Within a week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the Biden campaign held events in currently popular games. It's probably not a coincidence, but rather the start of a trend. The Washington Post's video game team at Launcher analyzes and recounts the most recent political events held in video games.
Watch the full Biden Island KindaFunnyGames stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/772259978
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October 22, 2020
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WATCH: Senate Judiciary Committee votes on Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Read more: https://wapo.st/2TdeKOd. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 22, 2020
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Former CIA director John O. Brennan with David Ignatius (Full Stream 10/22)
John O. Brennan was named CIA director in 2013. In his new memoir, “Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad,” the former spy chief claims the biggest threat to the nation is now from within, not from a foreign adversary. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius interviews Brennan on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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October 22, 2020
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Judiciary Committee approves Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination as Democrats boycott
Judge Amy Coney Barrett secured Senate Judiciary Committee approval on Oct. 22 with only Republican votes. Democratic senators boycotted the proceedings. Read more: https://wapo.st/31t0hC8. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 22, 2020
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WATCH: FBI holds news conference on election security
The FBI will speak to reporters on Oct. 21 about issues surrounding election security. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 21, 2020
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Obama on Trump: ‘This is not a reality show. This is reality’
Former president Barack Obama on Oct. 21 gave a fiery rebuke of President Trump while campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Philadelphia. Read more: https://wapo.st/34j7whZ. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 21, 2020
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Free to State and the future of free expression in the U.S. (Full Stream (10/21)
Attitudes toward free expression are evolving as more of our discourse takes place online and concerns about the growing preponderance of “lawful but awful” content and discourse mount. Today’s young adults struggle to reconcile the value of a radically permissive free speech culture on the one hand, and support for inclusivity on the other. At the same time, many young activists have found agency and voice in recent protests for racial equality, a right enshrined by the First Amendment and its interpretation by American jurisprudence.
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October 21, 2020
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DOJ announces $8.3 billion settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
Department of Justice officials announced results on criminal investigations into opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma. Read more: https://wapo.st/2LqS2OY. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 21, 2020
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Biden is ahead in national polls. That doesn't mean he will win the election.
After the 2016 presidential election, many Americans are mistrustful of polls. Here’s how to read the poll numbers heading into Nov. 3. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 21, 2020
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Is AOC sus? Top moments from Ocasio-Cortez's 'Among Us' Twitch stream
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) streamed to Twitch for the first time ever to play with popular streamers like Pokimane and HasanAbi and encourage people to vote. Here are a few of the best moments. Stay up to date on the latest video game news with Launcher, the Washington Post's video game coverage team: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/
FULL AOC STREAM: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/776770697
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October 20, 2020
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Obama hits the campaign trail for Biden in Pennsylvania
Former president Barack Obama is campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Oct. 21 in swing state Pennsylvania. Here’s what it means for the Biden campaign. Read more: https://wapo.st/2FRwCes. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 20, 2020
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Will latest coronavirus relief deal pass before Election Day? Rep. Steny Hoyer weighs in.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer talks to Capitol Hill Video Reporter, Rhonda Colvin, on whether current negotiations are working.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the White House until Oct 20 to come to an agreement on a bill that can be passed before Election Day. Read more: https://wapo.st/35fFgfj. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 20, 2020
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on her book & creating change (Full Stream 10/20)
Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, joins Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan to discuss what it means to do the work of organizing a movement and creating change. Join Washington Post Live on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 2:00 pm ET.
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October 20, 2020
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12 destructive hours of wildfire exposed Oregon's resource crisis
Oregon’s Almeda Fire started as a brush fire on the morning of Sept. 8 and quickly became an urban fire. Strong winds from the east pushed the flames into the cities of Talent and Phoenix, destroying 3,000 structures. The small force of firefighters from the Rogue Valley quickly engaged the blaze, but in a state where more than 10 large fires were already burning, they were on their own. Read more: https://wapo.st/34czjAz. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 20, 2020
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Opinion | Trump is fueling a covid-19 anti-vaccine movement, but the problem is far bigger
Distrust in the Trump administration has turned into distrust of science, adding to an already powerful anti-vaccine movement. But infectious-disease epidemiologists Dr. Syra Madad and Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, say even in this muddled information environment, we need to trust the science.
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October 20, 2020
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Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir on the coronavirus (Full Stream 10/20)
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir speaks with Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius about what other countries can learn from the small island nation’s crisis management and how it is preparing to handle the resurgence of the virus in Europe and possible second wave across the globe.
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October 20, 2020
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Tracking COVID-19 with Vaughn Cooper & Vin Gupta (Full Stream 10/19)
U.S health officials are warning Americans to brace for a harsh second wave of COVID-19 this winter. Washington Post Live will talk with Vaughn Cooper, PhD, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh, who is leading the way in utilizing cutting-edge technology to track the coronavirus’s genetic code to control the spread. Vin Gupta, MD, a pulmonologist and global health policy expert, will also join the program to examine the outlook on the vaccine race and what lies ahead in 2021. Join Washington Post Live on Monday, Oct. 19 at 11 a.m. ET for conversations moderated by national political reporter Robert Costa.
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October 19, 2020
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Google's search evolution from oracle to advertiser
Compare Google search engine results over nearly two decades and a trend emerges: Results are filled with advertising and non-Google results are lower down. Read more: https://wapo.st/3jcr4sv. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 19, 2020
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Democrats slam 'Trump virus response' as president's surrogates defend him
Trump and Biden campaign surrogates traded blame over the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Oct. 18. Read more: https://wapo.st/31l4ZSl. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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October 18, 2020
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As President Trump entered the final stretch of the election season, he began making more than 50 false or misleading claims a day. It’s only gotten worse, according to our Fact Checker team. As of Aug. 27, when he gave his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, our tally that tracks every errant claim by the president stood at 22,247 claims in 1,316 days. Just in the first 27 days of August, the president made 1,506 false or misleading claims, or 56 a day. Some days were extraordinary: 189 claims (a record) on Aug. 11, 147 claims on Aug. 17, 113 claims on Aug. 20. The previous one-day record was 138 claims — on Nov. 5, 2018, the day before the midterm elections. The previous monthly record was 1,205 in October 2018. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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Thanks to the pandemic, loneliness is becoming a dire public health issue. But it can be hard to reach out in this new time-warped reality. After all, our past lives feel distant, and the future comes in two-week chunks of dread. How can we take care of ourselves and our friendships? Here are a few tips from our new 7-day newsletter series, What Day Is It? This quick, breezy email course will help you recover your sense of time and redefine your week. Sign up now by clicking the link in our bio and get expert tips on conquering time distortion, regaining control of your routines and more in your inbox.
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Federal health officials issued new guidance on Wednesday that greatly expands the pool of people considered at risk of contracting the novel coronavirus by changing the definition of who is a “close contact” of an infected individual. The CDC had previously defined a “close contact” as someone who spent at least 15 consecutive minutes within six feet of a confirmed coronavirus case. The updated guidance, which health departments rely on to conduct contact tracing, now defines a close contact as someone who was within six feet of an infected individual for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period, according to a CDC statement Wednesday. The update comes as the United States is “unfortunately seeing a distressing trend, with cases increasing in nearly 75 percent of the country,” Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases, said Wednesday at CDC headquarters in Atlanta. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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At a roundtable conversation with Black male elected officials in Philadelphia, former president Barack Obama explained why he has maintained hope over the past four years of Trump’s presidency. “Hope is not blind optimism, it’s not ignoring problems. Hope is believing in the face of difficulty that we can overcome and get a better world,” Obama said. “And so, I’ve never lost hope over these last four years. I’ve been mad. I’ve been frustrated, but I haven’t lost hope, and the reason is because I never expected progress to move directly in a straight line.” The conversation with local Black leaders in an area of Philadelphia still facing deep racial injustices was the former president’s first in-person campaign event of the 2020 election. Obama spoke to the men about the importance of engaging young people in voting and government. “If you don’t vote, then you are not at the table and then stuff is done to you,” Obama said. He urged them not to allow the setbacks of the past four years to discourage them but warned that the country can’t afford another four years like these. “What we’ve seen over the last four years — with my election, we probably got over-optimistic about how much change had happened in the country,” Obama said, “but that change was real, and there was pushback — and that was real, too.” Read more by clicking the link in our bio. (Photo by Matt Slocum/AP)
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Cities that have adopted so-called “sanctuary” policies did not record an increase in crime as a result of their decision to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, according to a new Stanford University report. The findings appear to refute the Trump administration’s rhetoric about the policies’ dire effects on public safety. The study is one of the first to measure those effects by looking at data on violent crime and property crime. The data show that the policies were effective at limiting deportations of nonviolent offenders but did not result in higher crime rates in those cities. “Sanctuary policies do serve a protective role, but there’s not the cost to public safety that critics claim,” Researcher David K. Hausman said in an interview with The Post. ICE has targeted sanctuary jurisdictions in recent weeks with a campaign called “Operation Rise” that has led to more than 300 arrests and dovetailed with the president’s campaign attacks on Democratic mayors. ICE officers have the authority to make immigration arrests anywhere in the United States, but sanctuary jurisdictions typically do not fulfill the agency’s requests to detain suspects long enough for ICE to pick them up inside local jails. Instead, ICE officers have to find out when the suspects will be released or track them down at their homes and workplaces, requiring more time and effort. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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Pope Francis, in a new documentary, has called for the creation of civil union laws for same-sex couples, in what amounts to his clearest support to date for the issue. In the documentary, according to the Catholic News Agency, Francis says same-sex couples should be “legally covered," adding: “what we have to create is a civil union law." Francis has long expressed an interest in outreach to the church’s LGBT followers, but his remarks have often stressed general understanding and welcoming — rather than substantive policies. The documentary, “Francesco,” is premiering this week in Rome and later in the United States. The pope gave an interview to the filmmaker, Evgeny Afineevsky, saying that “homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family.” Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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The “unprecedented” speed and intensity of New Zealand’s response to the coronavirus in recent months has set it apart from all other countries, according to a recent article in the Lancet that highlights some of the lessons to be learned from the island nation’s success. New Zealand announced its border restrictions before confirming its first local case of covid-19 and before being advised to do so by the World Health Organization, the study notes. Authorities in the country have seen ups and downs in their fight against the virus, facing their most recent challenge on Wednesday, when they confirmed a small new cluster of cases linked to a port worker who had tested positive over the weekend. The study’s authors, drawn from universities and scientific institutes across New Zealand, point out that the country started out at an advantage: It has a centralized health system, an emergency management system accustomed to dealing with disaster in the form of frequent earthquakes, and was still in the middle of summer when the pandemic began, which meant that it didn’t have to simultaneously deal with a seasonal flu. But it also had the strictest lockdown in the world, as judged by Oxford University’s Government Response Stringency Index, and moved faster than other countries like Italy, Australia and Britain to ramp up restrictions. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden entered October with nearly three times as much cash as President Trump, amassing a major financial advantage for his campaign committee thanks to an injection of cash from Democratic donors in the final sprint to Election Day. Biden’s campaign committee entered October with an estimated $180 million compared with Trump’s $63 million, according to federal filings made public Tuesday night. The latest figures reveal the scale of the money imbalance in the final month of the campaign and the extent of the Trump campaign’s financial woes, which have coincided with his drop in the polls over his handling of the coronavirus. An increasing number of donors have met the maximum amount they can contribute to the Trump campaign, and the campaign in recent months has maintained a virtual fundraising schedule that has been less aggressive than Biden’s. This cash on hand is crucial as both candidates look to blanket the airwaves, social media and Internet search engines with ads to sway undecided voters at the last minute and make sure their supporters cast their ballots. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges revealed Monday night that he has been diagnosed with lymphoma. “As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light,” tweeted Bridges, referring to his beloved stoner character from “The Big Lebowski.” “… Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good.” In an emotional note widely shared on social media, the 70-year-old Bridges did not offer further details about his cancer diagnosis other than that he was starting treatment. Bridges was in the middle of working on “The Old Man,” an action-drama series set to premiere next year for FX on Hulu, in which the actor is the star and executive producer. In a joint statement, Hulu, FX, Touchstone Television and FXP said Bridges has their full support as he undergoes treatment. It remains unclear what type of lymphoma Bridges is facing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hodgkin lymphoma spreads in an orderly manner through lymph nodes and generally becomes more common as people get older. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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A man who has funneled thousands of dollars in donations to President Trump’s campaign warned his employees of layoffs and a bleak future for their company if the president is not reelected. George Daniels, the president of Orlando-based Daniels Manufacturing Corporation, wrote a letter placed in pay stub envelopes that said some employees might lose their jobs if Trump loses the election Nov. 3, WESH 2 News in Orlando reported. “If President Trump and the Republicans win, DMC will hopefully be able to continue operating, more or less as it has been operating lately,” the letter reads. “However, if Biden and the Democrats win, DMC could be forced to begin permanent layoffs, beginning in late 2020 and/or early 2021." In the letter, Daniels informed employees that because of industry-wide reductions in airline travel and civilian aircraft construction, the company is “more dependent than ever before” on military contracts. He then argued that Democrats have historically cut military funding and a Biden victory would lead to lower profits and a need to reduce the workforce. The incident prompted mixed reactions among the employees and raised questions over the appropriateness of the message. It was seen by some workers as an attempt to coerce their votes. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
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Eric Hale’s childhood was marred by abuse and poverty. His mother struggled with drug addiction, and his stepfather had schizophrenia. “It was a tough cycle,” said Hale, 40, adding that as a child, he had little hope for his future.
After years of struggle, though, he did succeed: Hale was recently named 2021 Texas Teacher of the Year, becoming the first Black man to receive the honor out of the state’s more than 360,000 teachers. “I’m the first to win it, but I’m not the first to deserve it,” he said. Hale teaches first and second grade at David G. Burnet Elementary School in Dallas, where 98 percent of students live below the national poverty line. Hale’s own childhood trauma steeled him, he said, supplying him with the necessary tools to reach out to children living through similar circumstances. Beyond demonstrating significant acts of kindness, Hale has also been mobilizing for the school on a broader scale, raising more than $100,000 — mostly from community members and businesses he approached directly — to repair the school gym after it was destroyed in a tornado. He also secured 16 used laptops for his students to use during the pandemic after reaching out to the Texas A&M University at Commerce in search of spare devices. Hale also created YouTube videos for his students to watch over the summer in the hopes of avoiding a “summer slide” — a decline in reading skills and other academic abilities. Read more by clicking the link in our bio. (Photo via Marcel Rodriguez)
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