Who are they, and what can and can’t they do? Yahoo News Explains [Video]

President Donald Trump has recently urged his supporters to go to the polls and “watch very carefully.” With less than three weeks until Election Day, many are learning about poll watchers for the first time. Yahoo News spoke to a voting rights and elections expert, who explains who can serve as a poll watcher, what their role is and what they can and can’t do at the polls. Source link

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Andy Dalton time for Cowboys

Week 6 is shaping up to be the first soul-crushing bye week on the schedule. The Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks are all on rest. That takes a lot of high-end fantasy talent off the board, forcing fantasy managers to turn to their bench for help. Here are my half-point PPR fantasy football rankings for Week 6. 1. Kyler Murray, Arizona Cardinals (at Dallas Cowboys) 2. Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs (at Buffalo Bills) 3. Josh Allen, Buffalo… Source link

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Biden email episode illustrates risk to Trump from Giuliani

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son has raised some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens, developing relationships with shadowy figures, including a Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidential… Source link

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Yandex and TCS Group terminate takeover talks for online bank Tinkoff – Latest News

Plans for Russia’s biggest corporate deal of 2020 fell apart on Friday as talks over a $5.48 billion cash-and-shares sale of online bank Tinkoff to internet giant Yandex were terminated after failure to agree transaction terms. The potential deal – which would have provided competition for Sberbank in the technology and banking sectors – stalled less than four weeks after it was announced by Tinkoff parent TCS Group Holding. TCS founder Oleg Tinkov claimed responsibility for halting the… Source link

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Chiefs, Bills set for Monday AFC showdown

After the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills each started 4-0, one team is staring down the barrel of a two-game losing streak. In a game that was originally slated for Thursday night, the Bills and Chiefs will face off on Monday in an AFC showdown that can be live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app. Monday’s game slated for 5 p.m. ET and is one of several the NFL rescheduled thanks to a COVID-19 outbreak across the league. This one got pushed back after the Bills played the Tennessee… Source link

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No Deal For Yandex Merger With Tinkoff Group

Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email Russian search giant Yandex said in a statement on Friday (Oct. 16) that merger talks with TCS Group Holding (Tinkoff) have fallen apart.  “Yandex regrets to confirm that it has not been able to agree to definitive transaction terms with the core shareholders of Tinkoff, and accordingly that the parties have mutually agreed to terminate discussions regarding a possible offer by Yandex for 100% of the share capital of Tinkoff,” Yandex said in a Source link

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Google’s latest smartwatch app skipped its own watches for Apple’s

YouTube Music launched yesterday on the Apple Watch, arriving before an official Wear OS version and only further illustrating Google’s ongoing issues with its competing wearable platform. The app — available to YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium subscribers — mirrors all the same features it launched with on iOS, but now in compact watchOS form. Users can stream, control playback, and even cast music from their wrist, complete with a nice complication for Apple Watch… Source link

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Russian online bank Tinkoff pulls out of $5.5bn Yandex sale

Tinkoff, Russia’s leading online bank, has pulled out of a $5.5bn sale to search giant Yandex that would have represented a major shake-up to the country’s tech and finance industries. Yandex said on Friday that “it has not been able to agree definitive transaction terms with the core shareholders of Tinkoff” and that the parties had decided to conclude the negotiations. The collapse ends a year and a half of talks over what would have been a substantial tie-up at a… Source link

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Yandex’s $5.5 Billion Deal for TCS Collapses as Tinkov Balks – BloombergQuint

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