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StoryGraph Biggest Story 2020-08-11 -- new york (7), would be a rigged election (6), was announced as presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden's running (6), presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden's running mate (6), 2020 trump (6)

A news brief made from 10/85 recently archived news articles
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new york (7), would be a rigged election (6), was announced as presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden's running (6), presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden's running mate (6), 2020 trump (6)

US weighs more restrictions on border with Mexico that could include citizens


The Trump administration is considering ways to restrict entry on the US-Mexico border that could include US citizens and lawful permanent residents over coronavirus concerns, according to a source familiar with the matter.


Protester dies in Belarus protests after explosive device detonates in his hands


A protester in Belarus died after an unidentified explosive device blew up in his hands.


Mauritius preparing for 'worst-case scenario' as it grapples to contain oil spilling from crashed ship


Officials in the island nation of Mauritius are working to stop a cargo ship from leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Indian Ocean as fears grow about the vessel breaking in half.


Seattle City Council votes to scale back police department funding as officer pay on chopping block


The Seattle City Council approved steep cuts to the city's police department but avoided the 50% scale back in funding social justice activists had sought.


Trump weighing temporary ban on reentry for US citizens who may have coronavirus: Report


President Trump is reportedly considering changes to immigration rules that would allow officials to deny entry to U.S. citizens returning from abroad if they are suspected of having COVID-19.


Liberty University appoints acting president as Jerry Falwell Jr. takes leave of absence


Liberty University has tapped Jerry Prevo to be acting head of the university as Jerry Falwell Jr. takes an indefinite leave of absence.


‘This Race Resets’: Ari Fleischer Describes ‘What The Democrats Have To Fear’


Fmr White House press secretary Ari Fleischer described a scenario where the presidential race could reset during a Monday night segment on Fox News' "Hannity."


U.S. Secret Service on Officer Involved Shooting Outside White House


The U.S. Secret Service issued a report on the officer involved shooting that ocurred Monday outside of the White House.


Exclusive — Trump: Pelosi ’Wasn't Interested' in Helping People in Need


Trump told Breitbart News that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are “obstructionists” who were not “interested” in helping people in need.


Georgia school district reports 826 students in quarantine since opening


The Cherokee County School District in Georgia reported Monday that 826 students are in quarantine due to possible exposure to Covid-19.


This story was constructed with the SHARI Process:

  1. The StoryGraph Toolkit extracted URIs from the biggest story of the day from the StoryGraph service
  2. Hypercane performed the following steps:
    1. It accepted the list of original resource URIs from the output of the StoryGraph Toolkit, and queried the Memento Aggregator to find as many mementos as possible
    2. For resources that were not already mementos, it submitted them to web archives with ArchiveNow
    3. It analyzed all mementos to automatically discover the most frequent sumgrams and named entities present in the overall story
    4. It analyzed all images in these mementos to automatically select the best image for the overall story
    5. It then formatted the data for the story based on all of this input
  3. Raintale took the input from Hypercane and rendered the final product with information supplied by MementoEmbed
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