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Today's Top News Compilation - Wednesday, Feb 5th, 2020

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Harris’s Team, With a Wink, Insists She’s an Underdog

  • News source: Reid J. Epstein
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Days before the debate that ended up cutting off President Biden’s path to a second term, his campaign chief, Jen O’Malley Dillon, defiantly set expectations: “We are going to win,” she said in an interview with the news site Puck.

Fast-forward 10 weeks. Democrats have a more popular nominee in Vice President Kamala Harris, torrents of grass-roots campaign cash that Mr. Biden could have only dreamed of, a well-received convention and a running mate who has energized the party’s liberal base.

Ms. O’Malley Dillon somehow seems less optimistic.

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Gaza children being given polio vaccine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The aim is to vaccinate 640,000 children, weeks after the first polio case was detected in Gaza in 25 years.
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Harris doesn't get convention bounce, but widens gap with women: POLL

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains close, with no overall bounce in support for Harris out of the DNC, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows.
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Russia says it downed over 150 drones in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks of the war

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Russian Ministry of Defense says air defenses intercepted and destroyed 158 drones overnight into Sunday, including two over the city of Moscow and nine over the surrounding Moscow region
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Others Have Politicized Arlington, but Trump’s Approach Has No Precedent

  • News source: Chris Cameron
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In November 1999, Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former prisoner of war in Vietnam who was widely considered a military hero, said that his newly launched presidential campaign had made “a very bad mistake.”

Mr. McCain, who at the time was trailing far behind George W. Bush in the race for their party’s nomination, had produced a campaign ad highlighting his career as a Navy pilot and his reverence for his fellow service members. At one moment, the ad showed Mr. McCain walking solemnly through Arlington National Cemetery.

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Second Time’s the Charm? Rematches Could Sway the Fight for Congress.

  • News source: Robert Jimison
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Joe Kent, a far-right Republican and former Army Special Forces officer, ran for Congress two years ago as a partisan warrior. He denied that President Biden had won the 2020 election, supported rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress and favored banning abortions nationwide.

He lost.

Now Mr. Kent is approaching a rematch against the Democrat who vanquished him in a competitive district in southern Washington, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, with a starkly different tone, emphasizing local issues and his personal story.

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1 dead in shooting at Michigan State Fair, police say

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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One person was killed and another hospitalized in a shooting at the Michigan State Fair on Saturday, police said.
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California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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California lawmakers have approved a host of proposals on artificial intelligence
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Poland marks the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion at the start of World War II

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Solemn ceremonies have started in Poland to mark the 85th anniversary of German Nazi forces invading and bombing Polish territory at the start of World War II
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Israel says bodies of six Hamas hostages recovered

  • News source: BBC News - World
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US President Joe Biden confirms an American citizen was among them, expressing his outrage.
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Far-right AfD eyes big gains in German elections

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party is expected to perform strongly in Saxony and Thuringia.
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Rapper Fatman Scoop dies at 53 after suffering medical emergency on stage

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The New York-born artist, whose real name is Isaac Freeman III, was headlining the "Green & Gold Party" in Hamden when he suffered a medical emergency Friday.
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49ers' Ricky Pearsall shot in 'attempted robbery' in San Francisco: Police

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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San Francisco 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall shot in an attempted robbery in San Francisco,
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Police say a man will face charges after storming into the press area at a Trump rally

  • News source: The Associated Press
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Police said Saturday that a man will face misdemeanor charges after he stormed into the press area at former President Donald Trump's rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before being surrounded by authorities and eventually subdued with a Taser as the former president spoke at the campaign stop.

The incident Friday came moments after Trump had criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage and had dismissed CNN as fawning for its interview Thursday with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz.

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Gold Star families slam Kamala Harris for 'playing politics' over Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery

  • News source: FOX News
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Vice President Kamala Harris was recently excoriated by Gold Star family members who accused the Democratic presidential candidate of politicizing an incident at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

The messages were posted on former President Trump's Instagram account. Eight videos, each featuring different parents of service members killed by ISIS-K terrorists amid the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021, were published in total.

The videos were released in the wake of a statement published by Harris on Saturday, where the vice...
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