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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony Monday after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of the White House White House in Washington. Barrett was confirmed to be a Supreme Court justice by the Senate earlier in the evening.

Barrett sworn in at court as issues important to Trump await

Amy Coney Barrett was formally sworn in Tuesday as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, her oath administered in private by Chief Justice John Roberts. Her first votes on the court could include two big topics affecting the man who appointed her.
Evelio Mancera and his daughter, Jennifer Mancera, both residents of Madison, Wisconsin, fill out their ballots on the first day of the state’s in-person absentee voting window for the Nov. 3 election outside the city’s City-County Building.

Worst place, worst time: Trump faces virus spike in Midwest

The virus is getting worse in states that the Republican president needs the most, at the least opportune time. New infections are raging in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the upper Midwest. In Iowa, polls suggest Trump is in a toss-up race with Biden after carrying the state by 9.4 percentage points four years ago.
Clouds gather Monday over Playa Gaviota Azul as Tropical Storm Zeta approaches Cancun, Mexico. A strengthening Tropical Storm Zeta is expected to become a hurricane Monday as it heads toward the eastern end of Mexico’s resort-dotted Yucatán Peninsula and then likely move on for a possible landfall on the central U.S. Gulf Coast at midweek.

Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aim

Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday after Zeta raked across the Yucatan Peninsula on a track that forecasters said would likely bring it ashore south of New Orleans as a hurricane.
See-through barriers separate gamblers and a dealer at a card table at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first day it reopened after being closed for four months due to the coronavirus outbreak. American Gaming Association President Bill Miller said Tuesday the industry is adapting to the pandemic but needs assistance from the government for its casinos and workers.

Still hampered by virus, U.S. casinos want aid in recovering

The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, which cost states more than $2 billion in lost tax revenue while casinos were shut down for four months this year.
Police patrol Monday outside the central train station during a protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Milan Italy. Italy’s leader has imposed at least a month of new restrictions to fight rising coronavirus infections, shutting down gyms, pools and movie theaters and putting an early curfew on cafes and restaurants.
New protests loom as Europeans tire of virus restrictions
Italy braced Tuesday for more nationwide protests against virus-fighting measures like regional curfews, evening shutdowns for restaurants and bars and the closures of gyms, swimming pools and theaters -- a sign of growing discontent across Europe with renewed coronavirus restrictions.
An Associated Press analysis in Democratic primaries in South Dakota showed that turnout was 10% lower among voters who lived in counties with a majority American Indian population and at least 95% of the county on reservation land. Voter advocates say that long trips to access polling places and the fact that some people lack reliable transportation has led to low voter turnout.
Voting by mail isn't so easy on Native American reservations
With limited polling places on a reservation that's roughly 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) and officials pushing people to vote by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic, cramped post offices such as this one are a lifeline to preserving Native Americans' right to vote. But voting rights advocates fear it's not enough.
U.S. Census Director Steven Dillingham departs a census news conference to urge Arizonans to participate in the nation’s once-a-decade population count in Phoenix. Ending the 2020 census at the end of September instead of the end of October, could cost Florida and Montana congressional seats and result in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina losing $500 million in federal funding for health care for its neediest residents.
After high court ruling, DOJ wants census challenges stopped
Now that the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 census count, the courts should not interfere with efforts to meet a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by state, Department of Justice attorneys said recently in court papers.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Erdogan, who has been railing against France for condoning caricatures of the prophet of Islam, called on Turkish citizens for the first time on Monday to boycott French products.(Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)
Turkey's Erdogan sues Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker for insults
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders after the anti-Islam politician posted a series of tweets against the Turkish leader, including one that described him as a 'terrorist.'
People move fishing boats to save place ahead of Typhoon Molave in Danang, Vietnam on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. National agency forecasts the typhoon to hit Vietnam on Wednesday morning in the central region where 1.3 people could face evacuation. (Tran Le Lam/VNA via AP)
Vietnam evacuating low-lying areas as strong typhoon nears
Vietnam is scrambling to evacuate more than a million people in its central lowlands as a strong typhoon approached while some regions are still dealing with the aftermath of deadly recent floods
200-pound tortoise is back home after escaping Alabama pen
A 200-pound tortoise named Sparkplug that escaped from a pen in Alabama is back home after a few days on the lam
A Kyrgyz boy pets a donkey as other people launch a balloon at sunset outside Tash-Dyobyo village, 12 kilometers (7,5 miles) south of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The political turmoil that has gripped Kyrgyzstan hasn't reached this quiet village in the mountains near the capital, where residents talk about the country's feuding elites with resignation and disdain.(AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)
AP PHOTOS: Kyrgyzstan village untouched by political unrest
The political turmoil that has gripped Kyrgyzstan hasn't reached this quiet village in the mountains near the capital, where residents talk about the country's feuding elites with resignation and disdain
Hoffman Estates death under investigation
Hoffman Estates police are investigating after finding a body in a home Tuesday morning.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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