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McConnell And McGrath Debate Tonight

Amy also said during the debate, "Sen". "I mean, you just don't do that. I have a plan to get us through this coronavirus so that our schools are opened up s...

Federal Bureau of Investigation agent: Groups that plotted to kidnap Whitmer also discussed kidnapping Northam

William Null , a member of the Michigan Liberty Militia group, was arrested along with 12 others last Friday for allegedly conspiring to kidnap the governor f...

Senate confirms eight Supreme Court Justices

Material from the Associated Press was also used. Before that, she was a law professor at Notre Dame and was once a clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia. The Sena...

Trump says he feels 'powerful' after COVID recovery

Trump promised a "safe" vaccine for the virus and insisted on the US's recovery rate as a success in his government's battle against the pandemic. Trump ...

OH elections board identifies almost 50,000 incorrect absentee ballots

Officials announced Friday in a news release that out of 115,260 vote-by-mail ballots sent out this week, 581 voters in 371 homes received incorrect ballots for...

EU leaders to insist on tough enforcement powers in Brexit deal - FT

The European Commission said talks were continuing but played down speculation they were now in what has been dubbed the "tunnel" or "submarine" - the final sta...

United States demands Turkey end 'calculated provocation' of ship

Tensions came to a head earlier this year when each side made overlapping claims to swaths of the Eastern Mediterranean, and Turkey dispatched the Oruc Reis t...

Ambulance arrives for Georgia voters 'passing out' in long lines

Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins said the morning had brought a couple of hiccups, including a scanning machine issue at Wellington Elementary that was quickl...

Americans Milgrom, Wilson win Nobel Prize for economics

He said that his interest in auction theory dated back to the 1950s and that he thought the time for winning a Nobel Prize had already passed. Wilson, who...

Two Stanford University professors win Nobel Prize for economics

Milgrom and Wilson (with help from Preston McAfee, now at Google) designed an auction format in which all the licenses were sold in one go. The economics pr...

Two Stanford University professors win Nobel Prize for economics

Milgrom and Wilson (with help from Preston McAfee, now at Google) designed an auction format in which all the licenses were sold in one go. The economics pr...

Americans Paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson win Nobel prize in economics

In practice, this was adopted by American authorities in 1994 as a method to sell radio frequencies to telecom operators. Before the 1990s, the US government ...

Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson win Nobel Prize 2020 in economics

Using auction theory , it is possible to explain how these three factors govern the bidders' strategic behaviour and thus the auction's outcome. Since their ...

Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson win Nobel Prize 2020 in economics

Using auction theory , it is possible to explain how these three factors govern the bidders' strategic behaviour and thus the auction's outcome. Since their ...

Beijing joins WHO-backed COVAX program to support initiative against ‘vaccine nationalism’

The vaccine under development by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is also being reviewed under this new, speedier framework by the EMA. Foreign minist...

Mexico Makes Nearly $160 Million Down Payment For COVAX Vaccine Plan

According to the study, when respondents were asked if they were willing to accept less rigorous testing and faster approval of a coronavirus vaccine, almost ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Trump Ad Took His Words 'Out of Context'

The others in the President's inner circle who have also tested positive for the virus are First Lady Melania Trump, White House Press Secretary Kayley McEnany,...

Police break up Belarus protest with water cannon, stun grenades

A violent crackdown on unrest in the days following the disputed poll saw thousands of people detained, and hundreds beaten by police. His key political rival...

Girl to take charge as Dist. Collector for a day

The United Nations declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child on December 19, 2011, with the aim to empower girls around the world to overco...

Shooting amid Denver protests leaves man dead; 9News guard detained

A Denver Post photo captures a man spraying a substance at a masked person with a gun. The suspected gunman, identified by police as Matthew Dolloff , 30, ...

Mumbai Returns to Normal After Worst Power Failure in Decades

The outage has also affected the suburban train service in the city. In a statement, Adani Electricity said that there is a major power grid failure due t...

Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation Hearings to Proceed on Monday

Similar to Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, Barrett has not directly said how she would rule in abortion-related cases. During her 2017 confirmation hearing ...

India's Infection Cases Rise to 7.12 Million

Deaths from COVID-19 rose by 918 in the last 24 hours to 108,334, the ministry said. The Health Ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths oc...

Virtual 5K draws awareness for World Mental Health Day

The World Health Organization's Digital Stress Management Guideline, which provides easy-to-follow techniques created to reduce stress and promote mental health...

Armenia continues shelling the civilian settlements with heavy artillery and missiles

Armenia's defence ministry said Sunday evening that the breakaway region's defenders were responding "resolutely" as Azerbaijani forces were "undertaking assaul...

South Korea concerned over North’s display of new weaponry

A senior USA administration official on Saturday called North Korea's display of a previously unseen intercontinental ballistic missile "disappointing" and ca...

#EndSARS: Ozil, Rashford, Rudiger, Abraham, Kanoute join Nigeria protest against police brutality

Protesters demanded the unit be disbanded, rather than just reformed, because previous commitments to change police behavior had had no effect on their actions....

Azerbaijan, Armenia report shelling of cities despite truce

Bitter fighting in the central Asian region has claimed hundreds of lives, forced thousands to flee, and stirred fears of a full-blown war that could suck in re...

Texas judge blocks governor's order limiting ballot drop-off sites

The state immediately filed an appeal of the injunction, and the appeals court temporarily stayed the judge's ruling, meaning the governor's limitation on ballo...

Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia and Azerbaijan report shelling of cities despite truce

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter the deal was a step towards peace. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of the...

Daily COVID-19 case count tops 900 in Ontario

York region is also reporting 76 new cases. This is followed by the 30-39 age group with 967 active cases and the under 20 with 810 active cases. A fifth unre...

23 new COVID-19 cases reported in Waterloo Region

This brings the new total up to 1,881 for the region since March. In the Outaouais, there were 53 new cases reported, the highest one-day total since the 66 c...

Dead, Several Injured in Beirut Fuel Tank Explosion

Lebanese media had earlier reported, citing witnesses, that a fuel oil tank had exploded in the Tarik al-Jadida residential area in western Beirut , with pre...

Trump to resume campaign rallies, but 2nd presidential debate scrapped

The debate's cancellation comes after President Trump earlier this week rejected a virtual debate format that had put in place for the safety of both candi...

Kyrgyzstan president declares state of emergency amid protests

The president said the state of emergency would be in effect beginning 8 p.m. Friday through October 21. Opposition groups have also forced the Cabinet to res...