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^Pierre Delecto? Romney’s secret Twitter account is unmasked
ROMNEY-TWITTER:BLO Sen., Mitt Romney uses the alter ego “Pierre Delecto” to lurk on political debates and occasionally defend himself on Twitter.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor, who’s said he’s not running for president again, confirmed to the Atlantic on Sunday he was behind the Twitter handle @qaws9876.
The account has since been locked.
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^US Supreme Court overturns ruling in Michigan gerrymandering case: What it means
SCOTUS-MICH-GERRYMANDERING:DE _ The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday morning officially overturned a ruling that had called for nearly three dozen congressional and legislative districts in Michigan to be redrawn because they unfairly helped one political party.
The decision _ which vacated an earlier ruling made by a three-judge panel by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati _ had been widely expected since the Supreme Court decided in June that it would allow state courts to decide questions about political boundary lines rather than ruling on them itself.
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^POLITICS
^Facebook identifies Iranian, Russian foreign influence campaigns
FACEBOOK-MISINFORMATION:BLO _ Facebook Inc. discovered four separate misinformation networks _ three tied to Iran and one to Russia _ that the social network said it shut down as part of an ongoing effort to counter “foreign influence campaigns.”
Facebook said that the “coordinated inauthentic behavior” took aim at the U.S., North Africa and Latin America and included “proactive work ahead of the U.S. elections.” The company said it shared the findings with “law enforcement and industry partners.”
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^Castro says he’ll drop out if he can’t raise $800,000 by end of month
CASTRO:AU _ Democratic presidential candidate Juli n Castro, one of two Texans in the race, said on Monday that he will end his campaign if he can’t raise $800,000 before the end of the month.
“If I can’t raise $800,000 in the next 10 days _ I will have no choice but to end my race for President,” Castro wrote in an email to supporters. “My presidential campaign is in dire need of financial resources to keep going.
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^Tornado leaves heavy damage, power outages in its wake after moving through Dallas
WEA-DALLAS-TORNADO:DA _ A tornado left a miles-long trail of heavy damage from northwest Dallas to Richardson, Texas, late Sunday, and the National Weather Service was investigating reports that other funnel clouds had hit the area.
The city of Dallas said early Monday that there had been no reports of deaths or serious injuries. First responders had been going door to door in some neighborhoods to check on residents. Police and fire crews began assessing damaged structures through the night.
Parts of northern Dallas, including the Love Field area, were hit especially hard.
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^Ex-PIMCO chief pleads guilty in college admissions scandal; three more parents to follow
CMP-ADMISSIONS-FRAUD:LA _Douglas Hodge, the former chief executive of global investment giant PIMCO, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering, the first of four parents who will reverse their not-guilty pleas on Monday after coming under new pressure from federal prosecutors in the college admissions scandal.
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^2-year-old killed in second shooting of a child in Philly in two days
PHILLY-VIOLENCE-CHILDRENSHOT:PH _ On a rain-soaked block, Philadelphia’s acting police commissioner, Christine Coulter, struggled Sunday to understand the second grievous shooting of a child in less than 24 hours.
“No child should be murdered in their living room. It’s just terrible,” Coulter said at the corner of Ontario and Water Streets. “The wanton gun violence, the disregard for people’s lives or safety. To shoot into an occupied house is something I can’t comprehend.”
A 2-year-old girl was killed on that block about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, when an unidentified gunman fired a rifle into her family’s home, according to Coulter. The child was shot once in the back of the head, and pronounced dead at the scene minutes later.
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^5 killed, 35 others wounded by gunfire during Chicago’s most violent weekend since Labor Day
CHICAGO-VIOLENCE:TB _ At least five people were killed and 35 others were wounded by gunfire in Chicago over the weekend, the city’s most violent since the long Labor Day holiday.
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^9-year-old boy _ his feet barely touching ground from his chair _ hears judge explain murder charges brought against him in central Illinois fire that killed 5
FATALFIRE-BOYCHARGED:TB _ A 9-year-old boy accused of murder and arson in the deaths of five people appeared Monday morning in Woodford County juvenile court, and a judge tried to explain the charges being brought against him.
The boy wore blue slacks and a red and black checkered shirt. He walked in with his hands in his pockets. When he sat, his feet only touched the ground if he slid forward in his chair, and his head barely reached above the top of the seat.
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^Florida Senate opens session to decide fate of Broward sheriff
FLA-BROWARD-SHERIFF:MI _ Emotions were high and security tight Monday as the Florida Senate convened a three-day special session to decide whether or not to uphold Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
At an early morning press conference, the parents of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victims urged Israel to withdraw his petition asking the Florida Senate to reinstate him to his post.
“Mr. Israel, you have drug our families back through all of the emotions and pain of Feb. 14,” said Ryan Petty, father of Alaina, 14, who was slain in the 2018 shooting. “Do the honorable thing. Withdraw your petition and resign.”
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^28-year-old man taking photos atop waterfall slips to his death in North Carolina
NC-WATERFALL-DEATH:CH _ A hiker died after falling off the infamously dangerous Big Bradley Waterfall in Western North Carolina over the weekend, according to first responders and news outlets.
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^’We could end this within a couple days,’ Chicago Teachers Union president says at beginning of third day without classes
CHICAGO-TEACHERS-STRIKE:TB _ Monday was the third day without classes in Chicago public schools, with picket lines remaining up around the city as union officials reported some progress during weekend talks.
Teachers and support staff were out in front of Chicago schools again Monday morning after staying out of school starting Thursday. The strike has sent about 25,000 teachers and 7,000 support staff to pickets line and kept about 300,000 students out of class and extracurricular activities, although school buildings staffed by principals and non-striking staff have been open for child care and meals.
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^How did booze bandit stick $1,000 worth of scotch down his pants?
STOLENBOOZE:FL _ If at first you succeed try again _ and again.
A thief who did just that was able to get away with bottles of scotch worth more than $1,000 from a liquor store in Boynton Beach, Fla., according to police.
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^THE WORLD
^A group of Latina women are building a shelter for Muslim migrants in Tijuana
MIGRANTS-MEXICO-MUSLIMS:SD _ Fridays are for prayer in Tijuana.
Every week, Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East gather in the Playas de Tijuana neighborhood to worship in the city’s only mosque.
Asylum seekers from Syria pray alongside migrants from Togo, Somalia and Ghana. Among them are Bala, 33, his wife and their 2-year-old daughter.
The Ghanaian family has spent four months in Tijuana, and the mosque reminds them of their community back home in Accra.
“We all feel very happy to see each other,” said Bala, who declined to share his last name due to his immigration status in Mexico.
The mosque helps Tijuana’s Muslim migrants feel at home in a foreign land, he added. For some migrants _ particularly women who wear a hijab _ Mexico can be a confusing place.
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^Investigation into misuse of medical lane passes prompts potential changes
BORDER-MEDICAL-LANE:SD _ Drivers, hoteliers and medical professionals in Tijuana are possibly abusing a fast lane pass originally meant for people with medical issues to bypass hours-long border traffic at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, a recent city investigation found.
Each year, millions of Americans cross into Baja California to undergo weight loss surgery, visit the dentist or have blood work done at a fraction of the U.S. cost. The number has nearly tripled in recent years with 800,000 medical tourists in 2014 to 2.4 million in 2018.
A special medical “Fast Lane” program opened in 2011 to allow the growing number of U.S. patients of registered Mexican doctors to pass through the San Ysidro border by crossing in a special fast lane and avoiding the notoriously long border waits.
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^The size of a bus, rare and endangered whale shark spotted off Florida coast
^ENV-WHALESHARK:OS_
The endangered species of shark that can normally grow to more than 40 feet does is not normally seen in Florida, staying mainly in more tropical waters closer to the equator, but has been spotted all the way up to New York on occasion, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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^Space mice and robots among latest science heading into space from Wallops Island
SCI-SPACE-MICE-ROBOTS:NN _ Space mice, radiation vests, robotic avatars and recycling polymers for 3D printers are among the science experiments bound for the International Space Station on the next commercial resupply mission from Virginia.
Northrop Grumman’s 12th robotic mission _ and its first under a new NASA contract _ is set to launch no earlier than 9:59 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, from the state-owned Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island.
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^How the Supreme Court’s review of a Louisiana abortion case could revive an overturned Texas law
TEXAS-ABORTION:DA _ Texas abortion supporters and opponents are awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could have ripple effects on women’s access to the procedure nationwide.
The high court agreed this month to review a Louisiana law enacted in 2014 that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30-mile radius.
It’s the same requirement the court struck down in 2016, the landmark Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt decision that overturned a 2013 Texas law. The 5-3 ruling set a new legal standard requiring courts to weigh the benefits of abortion restrictions against the burden they impose on women.
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^Glitches in California embolden automatic voter registration foes
VOTER-REGISTRATION:SH _ California’s rollout of automatic voter registration didn’t go as planned.
It seemed like a good idea: Cut the bureaucracy by adding voters automatically and welcome more residents to political participation. Since April 2018, when California residents go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to register a car or get a license, they are added to the state voter rolls _ unless they opt out.
But DMV officials later found more than 100,000 registration errors in the first year.
Across the country, proponents of automatic voter registration often laud its ability to dramatically increase a state’s voter rolls, bringing more people into the political process.
But at a time when momentum around automatic voter registration is building, the latest struggles in California have emboldened critics.
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