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Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Thursday, August 13, 2020

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Senate leaves until September without coronavirus relief deal
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Michael Cohen book claims Trump colluded with Russia and will 'never leave office peacefully'
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Trump requests mail-in ballot in Florida despite rhetoric
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Fact check: Trump promotes another birther lie, this time about Kamala Harris
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Trump assails, misrepresents Biden on mask mandate in partisan White House briefing
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Trump suggests he'd oppose USPS funding to hurt mail-in voting, then says he won't
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Trump hits back at Biden after call for national mask mandate: ‘Stop playing politics with the virus’
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Fox's Baier pushes back after Pirro says Biden might not be on Democratic ticket
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Pentagon to launch task force to investigate UFO sightings
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Michael Cohen previews tell-all Trump book, alleges Russia collusion, other sordid scandals
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Fox News Poll: Voters pick Biden, yet more think their neighbors back Trump
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Susan Collins asks postmaster general to address delays of 'critically needed mail'
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Harris bringing energy, dollars and more to Biden’s campaign
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Hillary Clinton says if Trump loses, he won't go 'silently into the night'
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Pompeo, Pentagon warned Russia against offering bounties for killing U.S. troops
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Biden, Harris call for nationwide mask mandate amid coronavirus pandemic...

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26-year-old mother charged in alleged murder of 4-month-old son

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A mother in Alabama has been arrested and charged with the alleged murder of her 4-month-old son after an autopsy found that he had been severely injured, police said.
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Elon Musk calls for US government to 'delete entire agencies'

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Elon Musk has called to “delete entire agencies” from the United States’ federal government
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Trump's third-term musings seem more a tease than a pledge

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President Donald Trump has just started his second term, the last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution
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Hegseth sets out hard line on European defence and Nato

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US defence secretary tells Europe to spend more and take responsibility for Ukraine's future defence.
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Moment SUV driver narrowly escapes train collision

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The driver managed to flee with seconds to spare after their vehicle was pushed on to a train track in Utah.
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Israel seeks another extension for Lebanon withdrawal, source says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israeli forces were due to pull out next Tuesday, but the source says they want to stay for another 10 days.
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'On a power trip' or 'obviously brilliant'? Americans weigh Musk's influence

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The world's richest man is leading a sweeping cost-cutting drive. What do voters in a key swing state make of his role?
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Department of Education in limbo amid Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump's Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon will appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday as the future of the agency that she could potentially lead hangs in the balance.

Mr. Trump has long teased the possibility of closing the Department of Education, but he could be closer to making good on his pledge. Since taking office, the president has signed several education-related executive orders and multiple sources confirm he is considering executive action that would dismantle the...
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White House says about 75K federal workers have accepted ‘deferred resignation' offer

  • News source: Garrett Haake and Megan Lebowitz | NBC News
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About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House's "deferred resignation" offer to resign but receive pay through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management.

The offer's deadline closed on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program.

NBC News cannot independently verify the number of employees who took the White House's offer.

The number of federal employees who are reported to have taken the offer amounts to less than 5% of the federal workforce. The administration...
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X reaches $10 million settlement with Trump over prior Twitter suspension

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The social media platform X will pay President Trump $10 million to settle a lawsuit over the nearly two-year-long suspension of his account in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a person familiar with the matter told CBS News Wednesday.

The White House declined to comment when reached by CBS News.

X, then known as Twitter, banned Mr. Trump from the platform in January 2021, two days after the Capitol riots. At the time, Twitter said the permanent suspension was "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

In July 2021, Mr. Trump...
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Lawyers for inmates ask judge to take over health care services in Arizona prisons

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Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them
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Aid groups tell judge that Trump's foreign aid pause has 'devastated' operations

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A coalition of aid groups said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that the Trump administration's 90-day pause on foreign aid had already "devastated" their operations.
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WATCH: Astronaut's view of Northern Lights from International Space Station

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Footage from the International Space Station as it soars above an aurora dancing over Canada
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Sicily's gangsters complain they can't get the staff

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An investigation reveals a crime group having to adapt to modernity and displaying a nostalgia for past ambitions.
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‘You're next': DOJ files lawsuit against New York, Hochul, Letitia James over immigration

  • News source: Tom Shea and Melissa Russo
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President Donald Trump's newly installed U.S. attorney general used her first official press conference to announce that she will sue New York, as well as the governor and top state figures, over policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday the Department of Justice had filed charges against the state of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, state Attorney General Letitia James and Marc Schroeder, the commissioner of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles.

"This is a new DOJ, and we are...
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