When the Chicks sat down several months ago to hear the latest cut of songs for their upcoming album — their first in 14 years — a fourth voice appeared in the background of one track.

It was Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose words from a 2018 discussion about the #MeToo movement were mixed into the song “For Her,” an empowerment anthem written to their former selves, to their daughters and to women worldwide, urging them to stand up, “dig a little bit deeper, and be whole lot louder.”

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Across the globe, new cases of the coronavirus have climbed to an all-time high of more than 330,000 per day. Continental Europe is facing unprecedented spread, but conditions are worsening in the United Kingdom and in parts of Latin America, as well. Nick Schifrin and special correspondents Lucy Hough, Malcolm Brabant and Mary Triny Mena have a worldwide look at the worsening pandemic.

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After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.

The drama unfolds Tuesday as the U.S. takes its first crack at collecting asteroid samples for return to Earth, a feat accomplished so far only by Japan.

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The campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are rallying people in a place where U.S. citizens cannot cast ballots but have the ear of hundreds of thousands of potential voters in the battleground state of Florida.

The candidates are targeting Puerto Rico in a way never before seen, with the U.S. territory suddenly finding itself in the crosshairs of a high-stakes race even though Puerto Ricans on the island cannot vote in presidential elections despite being U.S. citizens since 1917.

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Twitter blocked a post Sunday from an adviser to President Donald Trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Scott Atlas, who joined the White House in August as a science adviser, had tweeted “Masks work? NO,” and said widespread use of masks is not supported.

The tweet violated a Twitter policy that prohibits sharing false or misleading misinformation about COVID-19 that could lead to harm, a company spokesperson said. The policy bans statements that have been confirmed to be false or misleading by experts such as public health authorities.

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Egoe nest created the award-winning Nestbox, a multi-part box that can be placed in the trunk of a vehicle to turn an everyday driver into a motorhome equipped with a kitchen, bed, and storage.

The idea for the modular Nestbox came when one of Egoe nest's founders purchased a motorhome, but found several restrictions with its large size and clunky handling, according to the company's website. To address these issues, the Czech Republic-based company built easily installable modular boxes of varying sizes that contain the typical camper van and motorhome amenities, all inside of one unit.

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After weeks of stalled negotiations in Congress, President Donald Trump took it upon himself to issue a series of presidential executive orders, or memorandums, designed to reinvigorate the U.S. economy.

One of those executive measures, called the "Memorandum on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations in Light of the Ongoing COVID-19 Disaster," includes a directive to suspend certain payroll taxes for American workers earning less than $4,000 on a pretax biweekly basis, or about $104,000 annually.

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The law of unintended consequences contends that positive and purposeful actions always have unanticipated effects. This law has been made malodorously clear over the past six months. Wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus – an unambiguously positive action – has revealed to many of us our own bad breath.

The mask itself is not causing or exacerbating bad breath, says Dr. Melissa Santilli, a dentist in Cross Roads, Texas. “Mask-wearing is just making many become aware of it. The bad breath has always been there,” she says.

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A swimmer has broken the men's record for the number of cross-Channel crossings - and been assured her fears of falling foul of the UK-France quarantine rules are unfounded.

Australian Chloe McCardel took 10 hours and 40 minutes to complete her 35th Channel crossing, after setting off from Kent on Saturday evening.

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