Warren Leads Tight Iowa Race as Biden Fades, Poll Finds

Ms. Warren garnered 22 percent in a New York Times/Siena College poll, to 19 percent for Bernie Sanders. Pete Buttigieg has surged, while Mr. Biden’s travails have put the race in flux.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/politics/iowa-poll-warren-biden.html
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Breath Tests Aim to Stop Drunk Driving. Can We Trust the Results?

More than 1 million people a year are arrested for drunk driving and most are asked to blow into a breath test machine to see how impaired they might be.

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What to Watch For in the October Jobs Report

The Labor Department’s monthly data is expected to be the weakest in a while, held down in part by the General Motors strike. The General Motors strike will cast a shadow over the coming jobs report. But the outlook was darkening even without it.

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‘Mistreated, Intimidated and Underpaid’: City Council Workers Rebel

Dozens of New York City Council employees say the legislative body has a “de facto policy of tolerance around misconduct, harassment and abuse.”They say they have been habitually mistreated and intimidated, and have few meaningful ways to make their complaints heard without fear of reprisal.

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Trump Breaks Up With New York

It’s Friday. Weather: Sunny, breezy and cool today and through the weekend, topping out in the low to mid-50s.

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Your Friday Briefing

Good morning. We have the results of a Times/Siena College poll for the Iowa caucuses, a new home for President Trump and a new leader for the Islamic State. And it’s Friday, so there’s a new news quiz.

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Maids for Sale: Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market - BBC News

Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing and approving apps used for the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf. BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposes app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on mo

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