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Tesla's rapid rise to become the world's most valuable car maker could mark the start of a new era for the global auto industry, defined by a Silicon Valley approach to software.
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How Can Working Parents Still Teach Their Kids at Home Fall? — The Sacramento Observer
OPINION (CBM) - Last Friday, Gov. Newsom held a press briefing to announce his “Pandemic Plan for Learning and Safe Schools.” Although his plan offers clear guidance on when and how schools should reopen, it doesn’t answer some pressing questions. The governor’s plan incorporates the California
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'Things could get very ugly': Experts fear post-election crisis as Trump sets the stage to dispute the results in November | The Atlanta Voice
Voting experts and political strategists from across the political spectrum are increasingly alarmed about the potential for a disputed presidential election in November, one in which one candidate openly questions the legitimacy of the results or even refuses to concede. These experts are keenly
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Ghana coronavirus: 28,989 cases; capital Accra accounts for over 50% | Africanews
Ghana is West Africa’s most impacted nation behind Nigeria, at a point in May 2020, Ghana led the regional case load. June has started with progressive lifting of more virus
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Federal force sparking alarm in cities
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) - President Donald Trump is using the Department of Homeland Security in unprecedented ways as he tries to bolster his law and order credentials by making a heavy-handed show of force in cities around the nation in the lead-up to the November elections.
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Australia ditching 'crystal ball' for new funding model - Stabroek News
MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) - Australia's cricket board said yesterday it has given up trying to use a 'crystal ball' to predict the impact of COVID-19 on revenues and is drawing up a new model after a backlash from state associations over proposed funding
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Farm mechanisation debt: New details emerge
BY ANDREW KUNAMBURA FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via the Debt Assumption Act of 2015. He said this in response to United
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More in the mortar than the pestle - Stabroek News
Stephen Kinzer of Brown University USA, who has chronicled a century of USA regime change and whose video has recently been doing the rounds on social media in Guyana, claimed that the lesson his research teaches is that Americans love democracy when it throws up leaders that do their
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Over Half Of Americans Oppose Removing Confederate Statues, WaPo Poll Finds
… poll found. Three-quarters of black Americans support removing statues of General … U.S. presidents who enslaved African Americans, with 68% of Americans opposing … points since 2014. Nearly all black Americans – 97% – believe there is unequal …
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Touchstone makes largest land based natural gas find in T&T’s history - Stabroek News
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South African shares set to erase 2020 losses, thanks to Naspers - TechCentral
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Michigan judge denies release of teenage girl who was jailed after not doing homework | The Crusader Newspaper Group
'I miss my mom. I can control myself. I can be obedient,' the 15-year-old girl known as Grace reportedly said during a hearing Monday. By Erik Ortiz, NBC News A 15-year-old Black girl who has been incarcerated in Michigan since mid-May after she failed to do her online schoolwork won't be returning
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Kansas City Mayor Faces Racism Lynching After Issuing COVID-19 Mask Mandate - Voice and Viewpoint
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas, 35, says he has been the target of racism and falsely photoshopped tweets showing him holding a T-shirt saying “F*** the Police.” The accurate photos were displayed by Lucas side by side in a social
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Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green Takes Defense Skills to New Arena: Politics - Black Voice News
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Detroit Woman Facing Charges For $2 Million Unemployment Fraud Scheme
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FILM REVIEW — John Lewis: Civil Rights Lion Gets into Good Trouble in Dawn Porter Documentary - Free Press of Jacksonville
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10 Things to Know Before You Take Out Student Loans - Milwaukee Community Journal
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150 federal agents to be deployed to Chicago: report : TheGrio
President Donald Trump is preparing to send as many as 150 federal agents to Chicago in efforts to reduce violence in the city. The post 150 federal agents to be deployed to Chicago: report appeared first on TheGrio.
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Peru protesters attack Las Bambas mining group’s convoy, burn vehicles - Stabroek News
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