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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Monday, October 26, 2020

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Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:

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Trump fights in court to block pandemic food aid for lowest-income Americans
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Pelosi says White House rejecting Democrats' COVID-19 testing plan
Kushner says Black people must 'want to be successful'
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Trump charges into battleground states despite rising virus
U.S. lawmakers: Special Counsel probing possible Pompeo campaign law violation
Trump and Pence defy pandemic for political gain
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'It's pathetic': Clinton knocks Pompeo for vowing to release more of her emails
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Trump mocks Biden to Pennsylvania crowd over oil comment: 'He blew it'
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Jared Kushner criticized after saying Black Americans need to 'want to be successful'
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Fact check: Trump continues to falsely claim that spike in coronavirus cases is due to heightened testing
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Democratic AGs urge Supreme Court to deny Trump bid to block North Carolina mail-vote extension
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Poll: Trump ahead of Biden by single digits in Texas
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Vice-President Mike Pence to miss Trump Supreme Court vote
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Trump pushes across Pennsylvania as he courts voters in pivotal state
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Clarence Thomas to administer constitutional oath to Amy Coney Barrett
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A timeline of Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

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Tariffs issued this week upended U.S. trade relationships and roiled markets.
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$10M reward offered for arrest of former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug lord

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Ryan Wedding, 43, a Canadian national, has also been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office revealed Thursday.
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Trump tells Cabinet they're in charge, not Musk: Sources

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Trump convened a Cabinet-level meeting to tell the heads of the agencies that they are in charge of the agencies and departments they oversee -- not Elon Musk.
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Following pardon, Hunter Biden is mired in debt and without a permanent home

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Hunter Biden may have his freedom, but the son of former President Joe Biden now finds himself mired in debt and without a permanent home, according to a court filing.
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RFK Jr. warns vaccinating poultry for bird flu could backfire

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Federal health agencies oppose the use of bird flu vaccines in poultry right now, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, weighing in publicly on it for the first time in his new role. The Trump administration has been considering poultry vaccination as it seeks to combat the outbreak that is fueling a record surge in egg prices.

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said last month that they were ramping up planning on potentially deploying a vaccine for poultry, with the hopes of putting a draft of the plan before...
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Judge rules Trump's firing of head of labor board was illegal

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Washington — A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday that President Trump's firing of the chair of the National Labor Relations Board was unlawful and said she must be allowed to continue in her role.

In a 36-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who sits on the U.S. District Court in Washington, said that the Constitution and past cases make clear that Congress can limit the president's removal power. She ruled that the president's firing of Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board violated federal law that allows for a...
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Trump FDA nominee turns vaccine question on Dem, recalling controversial Biden decision

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President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) flipped a question about vaccine processes around onto a top Democratic senator during his confirmation hearing on Thursday, advising them to ask former President Joe Biden why he skipped a key step when it came to the COVID-19 booster.

Dr. Marty Makary, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor and former Fox News medical contributor, went before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), during which he answered questions regarding vaccines...
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Trump orders Cabinet secretaries to work with DOGE on staffing, use a 'scalpel' on personnel decisions

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President Donald Trump on Thursday said he's ordered all of his Cabinet secretaries to work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and to use a "scalpel" when deciding which workers will remain in their jobs.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the Elon Musk-led group has "been an incredible success."

"And now that we have my Cabinet in place, I have instructed the Secretaries and Leadership to work with DOGE on Cost Cutting measures and Staffing," he wrote. "As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people...
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Muslim journalist warns Senate of antisemitism ‘industry’, calls for DOJ probe of ‘malign foreign influence'

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A Muslim journalist warned the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that antisemitism has become an "industry" in the United States, and called for the Justice Department to investigate the "malign foreign influence" behind it.

"Antisemitism is now an industry. It is an industry that is being perpetuated, unfortunately, by organizations that even have nonprofit status in America – 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s," Asra Nomani, founder of the Pearl Project, told Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. "And these are organizations that are belying their own...
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Fetterman dismayed by Dems dissing 'touching moment' at Trump speech

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., bucked his party this week, criticizing fellow Democrats for not standing for 13-year-old cancer survivor DJ Daniel during President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.

"I don't know why we can't fully celebrate," Fetterman told Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital. "I mean, I have a 13-year-old myself, and thank God she's never had cancer, but I think that's something we can all celebrate there. And I think it was a touching moment. And, like I said, that's part of the best of the American...
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Trump's bipartisan-backed labor pick clears last hurdle before Cabinet confirmation

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President Donald Trump's Labor secretary nominee, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, advanced past her last procedural vote on Thursday, teeing up a final confirmation vote next week.

The nominee easily got past the last hurdle by a 66-30 bipartisan vote. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against the motion, the only Republican to do so.

Chavez-DeRemer is now one step closer to becoming the secretary of the Department of Labor, and she will face a final vote on Monday.

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Trump's 'Golden Dome' will need Manhattan Project-scale whole-of-government effort, Space Force general warns

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President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense project will require a whole-of-government effort on par with the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, according to a Space Force general.

"This is on the order of magnitude of Manhattan Project, and it’s going to take concerted effort from the very top of our government. It's going to take a national will to bring all this together," Gen. Michael Guetlein, vice chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, told a gathering of defense industry experts on Wednesday.

The ‘Golden...
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Five jailed over plot to kidnap German minister

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The group wanted to create civil war-like conditions in Germany and overthrow the government.
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Players union welcomes life ban for Gabon football coach over sexual abuse

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Patrick Assoumou Eyi has been found guilty of sexually abusing multiple young footballers.
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FDA nominee sidesteps questions on abortion pill, agency layoffs and other issues

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President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration largely sidestepped questions Thursday from senators about how he would handle numerous pressing issues before the agency, including recent layoffs, a canceled vaccine meeting and the continued availability of the abortion pill.

Dr. Marty Makary — a surgeon, author and researcher — lauded the FDA’s “gold-standard science” in testimony before the Senate’s health committee, which must vote on whether to advance his nomination. A professor at Johns Hopkins University, Makary is...
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