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• NY assemblyman calls for Cuomo to be impeached for nursing home scandal

  23-02-2021 00:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NY Assemblyman Ron Kim who accused Andrew Cuomo of berating him during a phone call, has penned an op-ed calling for the governor to be impeached over the nursing home scandal.
  
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• Ant Middleton blasts 'reckless' Channel 4 after sacking as he denies treating female staff badly

  03-03-2021 10:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ant Middleton has branded Channel 4's handling of his departure from SAS: Who Dares Wins as 'reckless and desperate' as he dismisses claims he made inappropriate comments to female crew members.
  
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• Church of England allows Sylvia Plath fan to be buried alongside her 'literary heroine'

  03-03-2021 10:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Oxfordshire woman has won the right to be buried in the same churchyard as renowned poet and novelist Sylvia Plath - despite the site being 200 miles from her home.
  
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• Top criminal lawyer reveals how you can keep yourself safe from your abusive ex

  03-03-2021 10:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sydney lawyer Raymond Zhai gives his young followers legal advice in a series of videos, this one explaining how people can protect themselves from being stalked and harassed by an ex online.
  
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• Fall Guys planning cross-play, hints at free-to-play after Epic Games buyout

  03-03-2021 10:16 via metro.co.uk
  
  Fall Guys is under new ownership (pic: Mediatonic)Mediatonic is now the property of Fortnite creators Epic Games, although they’re insisting that won’t change anything just yet.Barely six months after it became a surprise success on PlayStation 4, after being given away free via PlayStation Plus, Fall Guys has become such a success that its developer has been bought out by creator Epic Games.Not even just developer Mediatonic but their parent company Tonic Games Group, which also inc
  
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• New York prepares for pilot to administer Johnson & Johnson single-shot doses 

  03-03-2021 10:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Huge lines spilled out from mass vaccination centers in New York state as they prepare to start running a pilot program to administer the singe-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to residents overnight.
  
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• Budget 2021: We give you the odds on Rishi's juggling act

  03-03-2021 10:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak faces a balancing act with his second budget. He risks a backlash if he hikes taxes too quickly, but is under pressure to indicate how he plans to plug the vast hole in Britain's finances.
  
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• Investigators recover 'black box' data from Tiger Woods' luxury SUV after executing a search warrant

  03-03-2021 10:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Investigators hope that the on-board data recorded will give them insight into the cause of the rollover on February 23 in Los Angeles that left Woods in hospital, such as the SUV's speed..
  
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• No, that isn’t Tom Cruise you’re watching on TikTok – it’s a scarily good deepfake

  03-03-2021 10:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  Pictured here – not Tom Cruise (Picture: TikTok)You’d be forgiven for thinking that Tom Cruise had joined TikTok if you stumbled across a new account that surfaced last month on the platform.In three videos uploaded to @deeptomcruise, the 58-year-old can be seen practising his golf swing, falling over in a store, telling an anecdote about Mikhail Gorbachev and performing a magic trick with a coin.Only… it isn’t Tom Cruise. These are highly slick deepfakes, which are eith
  
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• Covid restrictions could go on beyond June as furlough extended to September

  03-03-2021 09:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A minister admitted there needs to be a 'margin' in support in case 'there is any slippage', despite Boris Johnson's hope to lift all restrictions from June 21 at the earliest
  
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• Tracey Cox reveals the 8 things ALL men need to know about women to be good in bed

  03-03-2021 09:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tracey Cox wants to teach men to be better lovers on International Women's Day. Here, she busts myth, such as the idea that men have higher sex drives and find monogamy more difficult.
  
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• Hilaria Baldwin pumps breast milk while husband Alec does dishes in glimpse at domestic bliss as couple welcome sixth child

  03-03-2021 09:54 via metro.co.uk
  
  Hilaria and Alec Baldwin have a full house after the arrival of baby Lucia (Picture: Getty)Hilaria Baldwin has shared a glimpse at domestic bliss with husband Alex Baldwin after the couple welcomed their sixth child.They understandably have a full house and things are even busier following the birth of baby Lucia but a new Instagram post from Hilaria revealed they are juggling everything with ease.In the photo posted to her Stories, Hilaria – who had their fifth child in September –
  
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• Ant Middleton calls ‘inappropriate comments’ towards women on set ‘military banter’ and insists he quit SAS: Who Dares Wins

  03-03-2021 09:54 via metro.co.uk
  
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  Ant Middleton has spoken out about his SAS: Who Dares Wins exit, blaming ‘snowflakes’ on set and clashes with health and safety for why he left.
  Channel 4 announced this week that he would no longer be chief instructor on the endurance series, stating his ‘personal conduct’ meant they would not continue with him in the role.
  It was then reported by The Mirror the
  
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• Trans prisoners 'disproportionately likely to commit sexual assaults on women', High Court hears

  03-03-2021 09:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A policy of placing trans women in female prisons unlawfully discriminates against other women by exposing them to an increased risk of sexual assault, the High Court in London has been told.
  
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• Psychologist reveals what your pillow arrangement says about your personality

  03-03-2021 09:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Psychologist Lee Chambers, from Lancashire, has explained what the five most popularapproaches to arranging our pillows in the morning reveal about our personality traits.
  
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• JAN MOIR looks at work of Lulu Lytle, the designer who has inspired Carrie Symonds' No10 makeover

  03-03-2021 09:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAN MOIR: Carrie Symonds has clearly decided this is simply Not Good Enough and has embarked on a plan to bring a little glamour and class to the dowdy Downing Street digs.
  
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• Coronavirus test centre hit by explosion as site 'deliberately targeted'

  03-03-2021 09:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The explosive at the Covid test centre in Bovenkarspel near Amsterdam "must have been placed" there, according to police
  
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• Contactless payment limit to be increased to £100

  03-03-2021 09:49 via metro.co.uk
  
  The contactless payment limit is to be increased to £100, Rishi Sunak will announce in the Budget today, according to reports.It is the second rise to the limit, which went up from £30 to £45 last spring.This is a breaking story – more follows.
  
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• Derek Pringle: Why Axar Patel has got England’s batsmen in a spin

  03-03-2021 09:47 via metro.co.uk
  
  England’s batsmen had no answer to the spin bowling of Axar Patel in the third Test (Picture: Sportzpics for BCCI)Whatever the outcome of the final Test between India and England in Ahmedabad this week, and a series-levelling win for the latter would certainly salvage some pride, you cannot escape the shortcomings of Joe Root’s side in conditions that favour spin bowling.It has been a failure of the batting, too, not the bowling. England could have picked Shane Warne or Muttiah Mural
  
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• Doctor, 30, writes book to son as heartbreaking last gift before dying of brain tumour

  03-03-2021 09:41 via metro.co.uk
  
  This dad wrote one last heartbreaking book for his son (Picture: PA Real life)A doctor who died from a rare brain tumour aged just 30 has written two children’s books for his three-year-old son.Paediatrician Aria Nikjooy, from Manchester, explained illness in parents and the importance of family – as a final heartbreaking gift to his little boy Eliyas.The dad was only 27 when he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour, called a grade 4 cerebellar medulloblastoma, in November 2018
  
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• South Korea Covid: Two nursing home patients die after having vaccine

  03-03-2021 09:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 63-year-old South Korean man with a condition affecting blood vessels in his brain died Tuesday, four days after getting the jab, while a man in his 50s with heart problems died Wednesday.
  
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• Kotara, Newcastle six-hour siege after alleged kidnapping from Armidale leads to a man on the run

  03-03-2021 09:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There has been a six and a half standoff on a suburban Newcastle street after an alleged three day kidnapping. A man and woman have been arrested, while another is on the run.
  
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• Armed police smash 'rent-a-gun' gang in dawn raids on 11 addresses across London, Essex and Kent

  03-03-2021 09:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In total, 10 people aged between 16 and 20 have been arrested after dawn raids were executed this morning. The operation was launched after a number of shootings and stabbings last year.
  
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• Prince Philip, 99, begins second full day at specialist cardiac centre

  03-03-2021 09:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 99-year-old is now receiving continuing treatment for an infection, as well as 'testing and observation' for a pre-existing heart condition, Buckingham Palace said.
  
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• Denmark becomes first European country to tell Syrian refugees to return home

  03-03-2021 09:35 via metro.co.uk
  
  A girl looks out of her apartment on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, which the Danish government says is a safe zone (Picture: AFP)Denmark has been criticised for telling Syrian refugees that it is safe for them to go home.The Scandanavian country became the first European nation to decide that the area around the capital Damascus was now safe, before stripping some 94 people from Syria of their residency permits.Now the Danish Government has extended the safe zone to the
  
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• Eddie McGuire in bad way after resigning from Collingwood and death of friend Michael Gudinski

  03-03-2021 09:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The media personality has rarely been sighted since fighting back tears as he announced his sudden resignation on February 9 in the wake of a report which found systematic racism at Collingwood.
  
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• Rishi splashes the Covid cash AGAIN in crunch Budget

  03-03-2021 09:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In a crucial Budget that could set the country's path for years to come, Rishi Sunak will go big by extending furlough for an extra five months, as well as keeping self-employed and business bailouts.
  
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• Rishi Sunak admits ‘I’m a total coke addict’ to two boys – then corrects himself

  03-03-2021 09:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak didn’t let the potentially embarrassing connotations stop him from extolling the virtues of his favourite drink (Picture: Youtube/ Big George)Rishi Sunak accidentally admitted to being a ‘total coke addict’ before spending an inordinate amount of time clarifying that he meant the drink, not the drug.
  In unearthed footage, said to be from summer 2019, the chancellor is seen making awkward conversation with two schoolboys, confessing: ‘I’m a coke addict, a
  
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• Rishi Sunak accidentally says ‘I’m a total coke addict’ in unearthed footage

  03-03-2021 09:25 via metro.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak didn’t let the potentially embarrassing connotations stop him from extolling the virtues of his favourite drink (Picture: Youtube/ Big George)Rishi Sunak accidentally admitted to being a ‘total coke addict’ before spending an inordinate amount of time clarifying that he meant the drink, not the drug.
  In unearthed footage, said to be from summer 2019, the chancellor is seen making awkward conversation with two schoolboys, confessing: ‘I’m a coke addict, a
  
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• Ruben Dias names Manchester United legends Rio Ferdinand & Nemanja Vidic among his heroes

  03-03-2021 09:22 via metro.co.uk
  
  Ruben Dias has been sensational this term (Photo by Alex Livesey – Danehouse/Getty Images)Manchester City defender Ruben Dias admits his path to to the top has been inspired by Manchester United legends Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.The Portuguese ace has been a sensation in the blue half of Manchester this term, following a £62million arrival from Benfica.
  Dias has been instrumental in a fantastic 21-match winning run for Pep Guardiola’s side and the defender is leading the
  
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