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Court Orders Census Counting To Continue Through Oct. 31; Appeal Expected
by Hansi Lo Wang on September 25, 2020 at 3:58 am
After the Trump administration made last-minute changes that shortened the 2020 census schedule, a federal judge in California has ordered it to extend counting for another month.
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Pac-12 Reversal: Football To Start In November
by Vanessa Romo on September 25, 2020 at 3:06 am
The conference will play a seven-game season with the championship slated for December. The Big Ten made a similar decision earlier this month. Both say players will receive daily Covid-19 tests.
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‘It’s Still Breonna Taylor For Me’: Taylor Family Plans Friday Press Conference
by Vanessa Romo on September 25, 2020 at 12:31 am
Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, broke her silence in an Instagram post on Thursday. “It’s still Breonna Taylor for me,” Palmer wrote. The family will respond to the grand jury’s decision on Friday.
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Report: Satellite Images Reveal Suspected Detention Sites In China’s Xinjiang Region
by Laurel Wamsley on September 24, 2020 at 10:18 pm
The centers have apparently been built and expanded since 2019, even as Chinese officials claimed most of the ethnic Uighurs and others sent to the facilities had “returned to society.”
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Facebook, Twitter Remove More Russian-Backed Fake Accounts Ahead Of Election
by Shannon Bond on September 24, 2020 at 9:14 pm
The social media companies said the accounts and pages were linked to Russian actors that had launched “hack-and-leak” operations to hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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