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Total Early Votes: 97,665,370 • In-Person Votes: 35,467,903 • Mail Ballots Returned: 62,197,467 • Mail Ballots Outstanding: 29,775,860
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mass shooting in Austria. seven dead
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8906871/Shots-fired-near-synagogue-Vienna-police-say-major-operation-underway.htmlSeven dead' and several injured in Austrian terror rampage: Police launch huge manhunt for 'multiple suspects' after gunman rampages through streets near synagogue and 'another blows himself up' with claims HOSTAGES have been taken in restaurant
Several people are thought to have been killed in a shooting rampage across six different places in Vienna
Police are urging people to avoid public transport and the Vienna city centre as they deal with the incident
There are reports of several attackers, with one accomplice said to have 'blown themselves up' amid rampage
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told Austrian broadcaster ORF: 'At the moment I can confirm we believe this is an apparent terror attack'
Is student loan discharge in bankruptcy now within reach?
https://mooresvilletribune.com/business/investment/personal-finance/is-student-loan-discharge-in-bankruptcy-now-within-reach/article_7c80eac1-8f46-5805-9531-f3816167ad63.htmlAnna Helhoski, NerdWallet
Student loan borrowers who seek to have their debt canceled in bankruptcy — what's known as discharge — typically find it an expensive process with standards that can be difficult to meet. But recent bankruptcy court rulings and lawmakers' support of relief for overburdened borrowers may signal a change is coming.
In January, a New York court discharged over $200,000 of student loan debt for one borrower. Then, in August, a federal appeals court ruling eliminated $200,000 for a Colorado couple who held 11 private student loan accounts. And in September, a New York judge ruled to enforce a prior bankruptcy discharge of a borrower’s $400,000 of federal student loans that a servicer had failed to carry out.
These decisions could serve as a precedent for future bankruptcy cases involving student loans, says John Rao, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center.
"A lot of people, even some of the lawyers who represent consumers, thought for years that you really shouldn’t even try because there's not a chance you’ll win, but I think everyone is looking at it now with sort of a fresh look," Rao says.
Courts aren’t the only example of potentially easing standards. The House of Representatives recently took up a bill that would expand bankruptcy relief to more student loan borrowers. And the platform of former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, included a bankruptcy reform proposal to end rules that make it "nearly impossible" to discharge private student loan debt.
A possible reason for a shift toward dismissing these loans in bankruptcy is the student loan debt crisis in the U.S.
Trump revives 'The Snake' reading at North Carolina rally.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/523920-trump-revives-the-snake-reading-at-north-carolina-rallyTrump revives 'The Snake' reading at North Carolina rally
President Trump revived his use of a late left-wing activist's song called "The Snake" during a rally in North Carolina on Sunday while warning supporters his opponent would undo his immigration policies.
Trump recited the song's lyrics at his Hickory, N.C., rally. Trump once regularly recited "The Snake" at his rallies to warn about what he saw as the ills of immigration but the president hasn't used it since February. He said Sunday that supporters had asked him to reprise it.
The piece, originally released in 1963 by singer-songwriter and activist Oscar Brown, is based on an Aesop's fable called "The Farmer and the Viper" and is meant to teach how kindness can be exploited by malicious people.
Brown's daughters told CNN in 2017 that they had sent cease-and-desist orders to the Trump campaign urging the president to stop using the lyrics, claiming that he was misconstruing the song's meaning.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1323055458328973312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1323055458328973312%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fcampaign%2F523920-trump-revives-the-snake-reading-at-north-carolina-rally
Hate crime against Black couple jolts beach town known for tolerance
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hate-crime-against-black-couple-jolts-beach-town-known-tolerance-n1245602Hate crime against Black couple jolts beach town known for tolerance
Johnny and Ann Parham have received a groundswell of support from residents across Fire Island but are still grappling with the incident and its aftermath.
Even though they were the only Black homeowners in town, Johnny and Ann never felt even a tinge of racism in Ocean Beach.
“This has always been a magnificent place for us,” Johnny, now 83, said.
But then came the weekend of Aug. 22.
Just before 5:30 p.m., Ann Parham returned from a walk with her 12-year-old grandson to find a racial epithet scrawled on the footpath in front of their home.
“F--- [N-word],” read the words written in yellow chalk.
Ann was shocked. “It didn’t seem real that that would happen to us,” she said. “We’ve always felt so very comfortable here.”
The incident has shaken not just the Parham family and the nine-block town where they are seen as community pillars. Residents across Fire Island have expressed support for the Parhams and denounced the racist act.
But the police have yet to make any arrests despite the existence of surveillance footage that captured blurry images of the presumed suspects: three young white men. The Parham family, meanwhile, is still rattled by the act of hate as well as a series of other incidents that followed.
For Johnny, who was active in the civil rights movement, the most troubling aspect of the crime is the likelihood that it was committed by someone who was not a day-tripper or short-term renter.
“This had to be manifested by someone who knew this was a house owned by African Americans, which would suggest to us that this was someone local,” Johnny said.
Walt Disney World "bloodbath" - layoffs slash entertainment, leaving big shows in limbo.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-disney-world-actors-laid-off-shows-20201028-kj25sqz7fnfjhekptminkzjfey-story.htmlWalt Disney World laid off entertainers from its highest-profile shows Tuesday night in what some described as a “bloodbath” as the scale of the layoffs rocked the Central Florida arts community.The deluge of pink slips showed the theme park has no foreseeable plans to remount marquee attractions such as “Festival of the Lion King” or “Finding Nemo: The Musical,” both of which have been dark since COVID-19 shut the parks this spring.
Even the cast of the venerable “Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue” dinner show, which has run since 1974, wasn’t immune from the latest round of Disney dismissals.
“Claire DeLune, you were a dream come true,” wrote performer Nicolette Quintero, referring to one of the “Hoop-Dee-Doo” characters.
“My dream role at my dream company on one of my favorite stages,” Quintero posted on Facebook. “Today is a very hard day.”
The entertainment cuts — which number in the hundreds — are part of the 28,000 companywide layoffs announced by Disney in late September. As more and more performers took to social media to report receiving “that email” from Disney, the mood turned grim. One commenter likened it to the Red Wedding — the notoriously horrifying massacre from “Game of Thrones.”
Among those cut: Performers who chatted with guests on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom and performed as the Citizens of Hollywood at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Some who lost their jobs reported that nearly the entire cast and crew of such attractions as “Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor” at Magic Kingdom and “Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage” and “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular,” both at Hollywood Studios, had been laid off.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-disney-world-actors-laid-off-shows-20201028-kj25sqz7fnfjhekptminkzjfey-story.html
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How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual 'Games,' Self-Dealing
‘They All Got Careless’: How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual ‘Games,’ Self-Dealing
The deposed university president secured backing by ousting critics and hiring the family members and businesses of loyalists.
Illustration featuring Becki Falwell, Jerry Falwell Jr., Donald Trump and Jerry Falwell Sr.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/01/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-becki-self-dealing-sex-430207
When Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki strolled around the Lynchburg, Va., campus of Liberty University, the evangelical school which Falwell led as president, they would play a secret game called “Would you rather.”
The middle-aged couple would point to students, men and women, and imagine what it would be like to have sex with them, according to a former student who said Becki told him about the game.
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Now, following an episode this summer in which Falwell posted a photo of himself with his pants unzipped and arm around his wife’s assistant, Falwell has left his job and withdrawn from public life. Supporters of the university, which boasts it has more than 100,000 students, are left to wonder how to disentangle its reputation from that of the Falwell family, given that the two were synonymous for generations. And some are wondering why it took so long — and until a direct act by Falwell like posting a photo — for the university’s trustees to take any action.
A POLITICO investigation, including interviews with dozens of Liberty officials from Falwell’s time as president, found a university community so committed to the Falwell legacy that even trustees considered it unthinkable to exert power over the son and namesake of the university’s revered founder. Plus, the university employed at least 20 relatives of stakeholders — defined as senior administrators and the 32-member Board of Trustees, according to federal tax disclosures — which gave many leaders an incentive to stay on Falwell’s good side.
“I didn’t think there was proper oversight, or enough governance by the board,” said Glen Thomas, a Liberty alumnus and former board member whose father was a multi-million-dollar donor to the university. “The president, or the CEO, of a nonprofit should be working for the board to fulfill the mission of the nonprofit — not the opposite. I feel like the board was mostly on the sidelines. I call it having accountability with no authority.”
reality tv star commits suicide in public
60 Days In star Nate Burrell, 33, 'shoots himself dead in public' just hours after posting message to Facebook saying 'I can't keep going on'
Nate Burrell committed suicide on Saturday night, fatally shooting himself out in public in downtown Allegan, Michigan
Burrell posted a message on Facebook writing that he ‘can’t keep going on’
The reality TV star, who had just turned 33, had been expecting a child with his wife, who he had recently split from, Walker said
Burrell was a veteran, having served in the military as a Marine from 2006-2010
He was in the infantry and served two tours of Iraq
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8902969/60-Days-star-Nate-Burrell-33-shoots-dead-public.html
The reality TV star, who had just turned 33, had been expecting a child with his wife, who he had recently split from, Walker said.
‘I can only imagine how bad this would all turn out, all of the legal crap that would ensue after this with custody and everything else,’ Burrell’s post continued. ‘You win! You have promised for weeks, you will ruin my life and I had no idea who I was messing with. You are right, I didn’t know who I was messing with.’
His post continued: ‘For those who are mourning know I'm in such a better place. I'm no longer fighting the battles that have been causing so much pain in my mind and life. Waking up feeling worthless, lost, confused, and tired/exhausted. I know you all have told me that's not who I am and I'm talented and have a good head on my shoulders, I appreciate you, but it doesn't help how I feel.’
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