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Trump administration bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores beginning on Sunday

The White House will take action to curb WeChat’s use beginning Sunday, and will give TikTok until Nov. 12 until further bans kick in. The move is expected to sharply raise tensions with Beijing.
Giancarlo Granda's accusations of a marital affair helped lead to Jerry Falwell's resignation from Liberty University. (Toni L. Sandys/The Post)
Giancarlo Granda's accusations of a marital affair helped lead to Jerry Falwell's resignation from Liberty University. (Toni L. Sandys/The Post)

The Falwells, the pool attendant and the double life that brought them all down

Giancarlo Granda says Becki and Jerry Falwell preyed on him sexually. The evangelical couple says their young business partner tried to extort money from them.

Rarefied air: Taking a healthy breath is now a luxury in California

Western wildfire smoke has blanketed the state, but its ill effects are not evenly distributed. Wealthier families can get away for a while, or at least hunker down in air-purified homes.
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Watchdog urges probe of Trump donations tied to head of USPS

In a complaint to the Federal Election Commission, the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center said contributions made by relatives and employees of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy as recently as 2018 merit scrutiny.

Barr’s attack on his own prosecutors is said to be fed by frustration with both sides of aisle

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Huma Abedin (center) with then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn on April 17, 2016. (Melina Mara/The Post)

Book excerpt: An FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger 2016’s ‘October Surprise’

John Robertson, an agent investigating Anthony Weiner, repeatedly pressed his superiors to deal with the Hillary Clinton emails he found on the former congressman’s laptop.
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Mail-in primary election ballots are processed on May 28 at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP)
Mail-in primary election ballots are processed on May 28 at the Chester County Voter Services office in West Chester, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Election Night 2020 could go on for weeks. Just look at the primaries.

The pandemic has forced dozens of states to quickly expand absentee voting. The increased number of mail-in ballots to be counted means election results are unlikely to be determined on election night, Nov. 3.

Former model accuses Trump of assault during 1990s tennis tournament

Trump claims ‘rigged election’ after some N.C. voters got two ballots. They can still only vote once.

Giuliani associate Parnas faces new criminal charges

China launches combat drills in Taiwan Strait, warns U.S. not to ‘play with fire’

The menacing tone from Beijing came as a senior U.S. official visited Taipei and as military tensions escalate in the flash point region.
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The front of the Ghattas Bakery in Beirut after explosions rocked the city’s port. (Karine Pierre/Hans Lucas for The Post)

A baker’s tale: A Beirut landmark struggles to survive unending crises

Last month’s enormous explosion essentially left the Ghattas Bakery and other small businesses with two options: abandon their life’s work or scramble to put together the money to rebuild — without any help from a cash-strapped government.
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U.S. is sliding into autocracy under Trump, scholars say

Academics who study how democracies die offered dire warnings about a second term for President Trump.

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An off-campus fraternity house for the San Diego State University chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon. (Bloomberg News)

Fall of the frat house: Students target Greek life amid America’s racial reckoning

Hundreds of people at more than a dozen elite colleges and universities nationwide have cut ties with fraternities and sororities over the past three months, saying the organizations are out of line with growing demands for social justice.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell has said a stable turnaround must be in place before the central bank unwinds its pandemic interventions. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell has said a stable turnaround must be in place before the central bank unwinds its pandemic interventions. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Recession tests limits and shortfalls of Federal Reserve’s toolkit

The central bank has pushed into uncharted territory with a vast emergency response that has grown its balance sheet by roughly $3 trillion.
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Businesses with ‘windfall’ pandemic profits shower them on investors, study finds

The worsening inequality crisis is fueled by an economic model that allows large corporations to prioritize shareholder payouts over worker wages, Oxfam says.

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“Let Russ cook” became a rallying cry for Seattle fans who want the team to lean more heavily on its star quarterback.

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Nick Chubb and backfield mate Kareem Hunt powered a Cleveland running game that amassed more than 200 yards. (Getty Images)
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Cleveland leaned on a productive running game and beat the Bengals, 35-30, in an entertaining Thursday night clash in Cleveland in which rookie Joe Burrow threw three touchdown passes for Cincinnati.

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