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Belarus Protesters Call for General Strike Against Lukashenko

ByadminOctober 27, 2020

2020-10-26 20:30:42 {widget1} MOSCOW — For close to three months, protesters in Belarus have been beaten, jailed, pepper-sprayed, fined and exiled. But Oksana Koltovich, a bar and beauty salon owner in the country’s capital, Minsk, is undeterred. “I get the feeling that

Supreme Court Won’t Extend Wisconsin’s Deadline for Mailed Ballots

ByadminOctober 27, 2020

2020-10-27 02:47:41 {widget1} WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to revive a trial court ruling that would have extended Wisconsin’s deadline for receiving absentee ballots to six days after the election. The vote was 5 to 3, with the court’s more conservative

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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Sector

ByadminOctober 27, 2020

2020-10-26 22:45:08 {widget1} WASHINGTON — The Trump administration imposed sweeping economic sanctions against Iran’s oil sector on Monday as tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to escalate in the days leading up to the American presidential election. The

Amy Coney Barrett is Confirmed by Senate, Reshaping the Supreme Court

ByadminOctober 27, 2020

2020-10-27 00:19:21 {widget1} WASHINGTON — Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative appeals court judge and protégée of former Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed on Monday to the Supreme Court, capping a lightning-fast Senate approval that handed President Trump a victory

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The Trump Economy

ByadminOctober 26, 2020

2020-10-26 22:00:16 {widget1} Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Spain orders a curfew. The Senate prepares to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. And we look at the good and bad of Trump’s economy. President Trump is not running a re-election

How Georgia Went From Red to Battleground State

ByadminOctober 26, 2020

2020-10-26 22:55:25 {widget1} WATKINSVILLE, Ga. — For years, state House District 119 was a safely Republican seat in the Georgia Legislature, having been carved out of conservative suburbs along the south side of Athens, a liberal college town, to maximize Republican votes.

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Cage Match or P.R. Opportunity? Boris Johnson Bets on Live Press Briefings

ByadminOctober 26, 2020

2020-10-26 18:21:29 {widget1} LONDON — Britain and the United States have been living under the same political weather vane for the past four years, so it is fitting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is borrowing one of the White House’s most familiar daily rituals, the

How the Virus Slowed the Booming Wind Energy Business

ByadminOctober 26, 2020

2020-10-26 20:47:12 {widget1} Even as businesses around the world shut down this spring, executives at EDF Renewables were hopeful they would finish installing 99 wind turbines in southern Nebraska before a year-end deadline. Then, in early April, the pandemic dealt a big

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You can get a 3-D printed studio (yes, a printed apartment) for just over $100K

ByadminOctober 26, 2020

2020-10-26 20:02:45 {widget1} A tiny California start-up is looking to printers to solve the housing crisis—actually, a very large 3-D printer. The company, Mighty Buildings, has been showcasing small (350 square foot) studio apartment models of its new “ADU”

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Gaza Court Convicts Peace Activists for Video Call With Israelis

ByadminOctober 26, 2020

2020-10-26 18:43:58 {widget1} JERUSALEM — A military court in the Gaza Strip convicted three Palestinian peace activists of “weakening revolutionary spirit” on Monday for their role in holding a video call with Israelis in April, but it ordered the authorities to release the