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Thursday, October 29, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter — by far the largest quarterly gain on record — rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the eruption of the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work.

U.S. economy grew at 33% rate in third quarter but recovery is incomplete

The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter -- by far the largest quarterly gain on record -- rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the eruption of the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work.
A darkened Bourbon Street is illuminated only by people with lights and car headlights in the French Quarter Wednesday in New Orleans. Hurricane Zeta passed through today leaving much of the city and metro area without power.

Zeta barrels northeast after battering storm-weary coast

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A fast-moving Zeta weakened to a tropical storm as it ripped through the South on Thursday morning, killing at least two, knocking out power to more than 2 million across the region and prompting a rare tropical storm warning for Atlanta. And officials said life-threatening conditions would last into the day.
Bishop Duane Royster sits on a bench Wednesday in a park in Philadelphia. Royster is the interim executive director of POWER Interfaith, a group of religious leaders from more than 50 congregations in Pennsylvania that focuses on social justice issues, and has been active in the community following the police shooting death of Walter Wallace, Jr.

Philadelphia shooting brings policing, racism back into campaign

The fatal shooting of another Black man on America's streets by police -- with subsequent unrest -- has brought the fraught issues of policing and racism in the nation back to the fore of the presidential election in its closing days.
Supporters of President Donald Trump listen to him speak Wednesday during a campaign rally at Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Goodyear, Arizona. Trump is painting an apocalyptic portrait of American life if Democrat Joe Biden gets elected. The president claims that if the Democrat takes over, the suburbs wouldn’t be the suburbs anymore, the economy would slump into its worst depression ever and police departments would cease to exist.

Trump paints apocalyptic portrait of life in U.S. under Biden

The suburbs wouldn't be the suburbs anymore, the economy would sink into its worst depression ever and police departments would cease to exist. Even America's older adults would be left to figure out how to get by without heat, air conditioning or electricity.
The ruling party CCM presidential candidate Dr. John Magufuli, stands in line to cast his vote at Chamwino in Dodoma Wednesday. Oct. 28, 2020. The populist Magufuli, who made his name in part by targeting corruption, now seeks a second five-year term in one of Africa's most populous and fastest-growing economies. (AP Photo)
Tanzanian opposition leader rejects presidential election
Tanzania's leading opposition candidate is rejecting Wednesday's presidential vote after alleging widespread irregularities, saying that whatever happened was not an election and was like 'spitting in the face of democracy.'
A bulldozer clears out the road damaged by landslide to access a village swamped by another landslide in Quang Nam province, Vietnam on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. Typhoon Molave slammed into Vietnam with destructive force Wednesday, sinking two fishing boats with 26 crew members in what was feared to be the most powerful storm to hit the country in 20 years. (Bui Van Lanh/VNA via AP)
Typhoon, landslides leave 35 dead, 59 missing in Vietnam
Vietnam's state media say landslides set off by Typhoon Molave have killed at least 19 people and left 45 others missing in the country's central region
Bishop Duane Royster sits on a bench in a park in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Royster is the interim executive director of POWER Interfaith, a group of religious leaders from more than 50 congregations in Pennsylvania that focuses on social justice issues, and has been active in the community following the police shooting death of Walter Wallace, Jr. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
Philly shooting brings policing, racism back into campaign
The fatal shooting of another Black man on America's streets by police has brought the fraught issues of policing and racism back to the fore of the presidential election in its closing days
Health care workers transport a COVID-19 patient from an intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in Kyjov to hospital in Brno, Czech Republic, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. With cases surging in central Europe, some countries are calling in soldiers, firefighters, students and retired doctors to help shore up buckling health care systems. Many faced a shortage of medical personnel even before the pandemic, and now the virus has sickened many health workers, compounding the shortfall. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Short of medics as virus surges, central Europe sounds alarm
With coronavirus cases surging in many central European countries, soldiers, firefighters, students and retired doctors are being asked to help shore up buckling health care systems
With the U.S. Capitol dome visible, a voter drops a ballot into an early voting drop box, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, at Union Market in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Taking a stand has new meaning in heavily litigated election
The United States is barreling toward Election Day in what is believed to be the most litigated race in American history
FILE - This Thursday, June 14, 2018, file photo, shows the FBI seal at a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. In an alert Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, the FBI and other federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system that could lock up their information systems just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system
Federal agencies say cybercriminals are unleashing a major ransomware assault against the U.S. healthcare system
An election officer checks the temperature of a voter before allowing voters to pass at a polling station, during the first phase of state elections at Paliganj, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. With an overall declining coronavirus positive trend, Indian authorities decided to hold the first state legislature election since the outbreak of COVID-19. People began voting Wednesday in the country's third largest state Bihar with of a population of about 122 million people. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)
India's coronavirus cases cross 8 million, behind US
India's confirmed coronavirus toll has crossed 8 million with daily cases dipping to the lowest level this week
A passing car's headlights illuminate a darkened Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Hurricane Zeta passed through Wednesday leaving much of the city and metro area without power. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Zeta barrels northeast after battering storm-weary coast
A fast-moving Zeta has weakened to a tropical storm as it barrels northeast after causing havoc along the coast
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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