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Thursday, 22 October 2020

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NewMarket Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend

The Galveston Daily News 23 Oct 2020

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include, but are not limited to, the availability of raw materials and distribution systems; disruptions at production facilities, including single-sourced facilities; hazards common to chemical ......

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Treasury sanctions Iran's ambassador to Iraq

The Hill 23 Oct 2020

and coalition forces in Iraq .” ... ADVERTISEMENT ... WaPo Brazil's OECD candidacy is best chance for reform Watch live ... The designation came as the department also sanctioned two leaders of Hezbollah, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization backed by Iran that operates both a political party and military wing in Lebanon ... ADVERTISEMENT ... Qassem Soleimani....

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Spammers and scammers using U.S. election to turn profit online, Facebook says

Yahoo Daily News 22 Oct 2020

After weathering fierce criticism over efforts by political and commercial groups to manipulate its users, Facebook now regularly announces takedowns of online influence operations - such as three networks tied to Russia which it said last month could be used to disrupt the U.S ... One network operated from Albania and posted about U.S....

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Iran takes center stage as US cites election hacking concerns

Herald Mail 22 Oct 2020

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe described Iran's efforts, elevating the Islamic Republic as a more prominent suspect in efforts to disrupt the American political process ... Cyber researchers with expertise in Iranian politics contend the operation fits Iran's agenda of supporting the campaign of Democratic challenger Joe Biden....

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Trump’s Vaccine Rush vs. the FDA: Inside Stephen Hahn’s “Existential Crisis”

Vanity Fair 22 Oct 2020

Operation Warp Speed was initially conceived of by Dr ... From its inception, Operation Warp Speed had political—not just pharmaceutical—goals, as best reflected by the previously undisclosed coordinating committee of five people who sit above its sprawling, also-previously-undisclosed org chart, which leaked last week to STAT News....

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UAE and US to work together to combat extremism and boost regional stability after forging strategic partnership

The National 22 Oct 2020

''The Strategic Dialogue will cover a number of key areas, from political co-ordination and defence co-operation to economic and cultural exchange, with the broad aim of advancing mutual policy interests, solving regional issues, promoting tolerance, and countering extremism."....

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UAE and US to work together to combat extremism and boost regional stability after agreeing strategic partnership

The National 22 Oct 2020

''The Strategic Dialogue will cover a number of key areas, from political co-ordination and defense co-operation to economic and cultural exchange, with the broad aim of advancing mutual policy interests, solving regional issues, promoting tolerance, and countering extremism."....

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Why Rishi Sunak’s most painful U-turn is the fault of George Osborne

New Statesman 22 Oct 2020

... the past), the metro-mayors (Andy Burnham, the most experienced political operator, has taken the headlines, but the quiet and effective lobbying of Andy Street, his Conservative West Midlands counterpart, has also been a factor), and, of course, the official Labour opposition....

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Once flush, Trump campaign cash-strapped

The Sharon Herald 22 Oct 2020

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s sprawling political operation has raised well over $1 billion since he took the White House in 2017 — and set a lot of it on fire ... impeachment proceedings, Trump has also relied on his political operation to cover legal costs for some aides....

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Susan Estrich: The confirmation hearings that weren't

The Joplin Globe 22 Oct 2020

Roberts has done everything he can to keep the Supreme Court out of partisan politics and to not make it an issue during presidential campaigns ... Why listen to them if it really is just all politics — about who has the votes? ... Susan Estrich is lawyer, political commentator and former political operative....

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YouTube is so flooded with political ads it can’t place them all

Detroit news 22 Oct 2020

election, some political campaigns are dealing with an unexpected obstacle on YouTube, the internet’s largest video site ... This makes political ads more lucrative for Google, which saw advertising revenue dip earlier this year and is set to announce its quarterly earnings next week ... political ads in the past month alone, according to the company data....

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Charlie Warzel: Our institutions have failed to rein in Trump, so people look to Big Tech

The Salt Lake Tribune 22 Oct 2020

Trump’s “position as president and his leadership of the Republican Party allow him to operate directly through political and media elites, rather than relying on online media,” the Harvard researchers argued ... The entire debacle is what happens when two broken systems — information distribution and American politics — collide....

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Why This Campaign Feels Like It's Stuck in a Time Loop

Politico 22 Oct 2020

The Democratic operative has been in the thick of presidential politics for years—working for the Democratic National Committee in 2008 and 2012, running a Super PAC for Hillary Clinton in 2016 ... vote in Maine.” It’s hard to be a political hand without a physical operation....