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• Nasa astronaut Jeanette Epps set to become first black woman to live on International Space Station

  26-08-2020 23:59
  
  Nasa astronaut Jeanette Epps looks set to be the first black woman to live on the International Space Station after being chosen for a 2021 mission.Epps’ trip will be her first spaceflight, as well as being a pioneering mission for Nasa.
  
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• President Trump weighs executive action to avoid US airline layoffs amid COVID stimulus stalemate

  26-08-2020 23:54
  
  Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, joins Neil Cavuto to discuss how coronavirus is impacting the airline industry.
  
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• Crimewatch Roadshow Live returns to BBC One next month

  26-08-2020 23:54
  
  The programme asks for the public's help in solving some of the UK's biggest unsolved cases.
  
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• Key events following the death of teenager Harry Dunn

  26-08-2020 23:46
  
  A timeline of key events since motorcyclist Harry Dunn died after colliding with a Volvo driven by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US diplomat, on August 27, 2019. Sacoolas has been charged with causing the 19-year-old's death by dangerous driving, following the crash outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire. But the 42-year-old claimed diplomatic immunity and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international controversy. Since then, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secreta
  
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• ‘It’s heartbreaking’: 18 dolphins wash up dead in Mauritius weeks after oil spill

  26-08-2020 23:46
  
  Eighteen dolphins have been found dead on the shores of Mauritius less than three weeks after a large oil spill caused by the grounding of a cargo ship.More dolphins were found close to the shore, alive but in distress, and were carried into deeper waters by local inhabitants and the authorities.
  
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• 'It's heartbreaking': 25 dolphins wash up dead in Mauritius weeks after oil spill

  26-08-2020 23:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Autopsies to be carried out to establish if deaths linked to grounding of cargo ship 10 miles away
  
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• 'It's heartbreaking': 18 dolphins wash up dead in Mauritius weeks after oil spill

  26-08-2020 23:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Autopsies to be carried out to establish if deaths linked to grounding of cargo ship 10 miles away
  
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• Boy, 8, becomes youngest to solo pilot hot air balloon

  26-08-2020 23:39
  
  JT Tarp, from Georgia, rose to an altitude of 400ft (122m) during his 20-minute flight.
  His parents, who own a hot air balloon company, say he has been flying with them since he was two weeks old.The previous record-holder for this feat was nine years old.JT says it wasn't 'as scary' as he thought it would be.
  
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• Damage from whopper hurricanes rising for many reasons

  26-08-2020 23:36
  
  America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which is menacing the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of increased coastal development, natural climate cycles, reductions in air pollution and man-made climate change, experts say.It's a mess at least partially of our own making, said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Institute at the University of South Carolina.In all of the 1980s, there we
  
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• UGC: Third night of unrest in Kenosha over the shooting of Jacob Blake by police

  26-08-2020 23:34
  
  UGC footage shows police officers in riot gear ordering protesters to leave a park in front of the courthouse in the city of Kenosha. Two people were shot dead in Kenosha as groups clashed during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
  
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• New Zealand court to announce sentence for mosque shooter

  26-08-2020 23:34
  
  A gunman who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year in New Zealand's deadliest shooting will be sentenced on Thursday, after three days of emotionally charged statements from his victims in court.Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist, told the court in the city of Christchurch on Wednesday that he will not speak ahead of Justice Cameron Mander handing down his sentence, but will instead make a comment through a court-appointed lawyer.The decision eased some concerns that Tarrant, who had elected
  
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• Computer pioneer Arnold Spielberg, Steven's dad, dies at 103

  26-08-2020 23:32
  
  Arnold Spielberg, father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and an innovating engineer whose work helped make the personal computer possible, has died at 103.Spielberg died of natural causes while surrounded by his family in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a statement from his four children.Spielberg and Charles Propster designed the GE-225 mainframe computer in the late 1950s while working for General Electric.
  
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• Biden campaign calls China's treatment of Uighur Muslims 'genocide' and pressures Trump to 'take action'

  26-08-2020 23:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  White House has yet to announce any policy moves towards Beijing as president sours on trade deal
  
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• Guilfoyle's loud RNC speech makes her the comics' favorite

  26-08-2020 23:30
  
  The former Fox News personality was fortunate that her high-decibel speech at the Republican National Convention came on a week when two of television's top three late-night comics — Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel — were off.A marginal celebrity headed into the convention, the lawyer and girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. had an indelible moment with a cheerleading speech that concluded with her shout of “the best is yet to come” to an empty theater.Stephen Colbert mimicked po
  
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• Joe Biden finally condemns 'needless violence' after violence turns deadly in Kenosha, Wisconsin

  26-08-2020 23:27
  
  'The Five' breaks down the political fallout from deadly violence in Kenosha.
  
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• Fox News refuses to run anti-Trump ad during RNC, teachers' union claims

  26-08-2020 23:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The union planned to spend $180,000 to run the ad during primetime breaks in the convention
  
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• Cam Newton slowly making his way into Patriots' culture

  26-08-2020 23:27
  
  Cam Newton isn’t concerned with whether he’s the front-runner to be the Patriots’ starting quarterback.“We all have indirect and direct ways to hold each other accountable, and it keeps you locked in practices so we can keep everybody’s energy level at an all-time high.”
  
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• Trump news – live: President demands Biden takes drug test, as NBA teams announce strike over Jacob Blake shooting

  26-08-2020 23:26 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Satellite Imagery Shows Wildfires, Hurricane Laura From Space

  26-08-2020 23:26
  
  Satellite imagery showed wildfire smoke on the United States’s west coast on August 25, as well as Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico.Video from the NOAA’s satellite Instagram account shows smoke plumes and hurricane clouds, as taken from the GOES-West satellite.Wildfires have raged across California for several weeks.As of August 26, Hurricane Laura was approaching landfall in Texas and Louisiana as a Category 4 storm.NOAA wrote on the post: “This #ImageOfTheDay from the GO
  
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• NBA postpones playoff games as teams protest police shooting of Jacob Blake

  26-08-2020 23:26
  
  NBA postpones playoff games as teams protest police shooting of Jacob Blake
  
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• Hamas extends Gaza lockdown for 72 hours as virus spreads

  26-08-2020 23:26
  
  Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Wednesday extended a full lockdown in the Palestinian enclave for three more days as coronavirus cases climbed following the detection this week of the first community transmissions of the virus in the densely populated, blockaded territory.The Health Ministry reported three deaths and at least 22 infections among Gaza’s population of 2 million people since Monday, raising fears of a wider outbreak that could overwhelm a health system already battered by years
  
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• US alleges Russian armoured car rammed American vehicle, injuring soldiers

  26-08-2020 23:22
  
  US alleges Russian armoured car rammed American vehicle, injuring soldiers. White House said alleged move was ‘unprofessional’ when patrols from two countries’ militaries confronted each other in Syria
  
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• Armed white men patrolling Kenosha protests organized on Facebook

  26-08-2020 23:21
  
  Armed white men patrolling Kenosha protests organized on Facebook. Prior to shooting that left two dead, presence of militia prompted criticism from protesters – and some support from police
  
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• McConnochie makes it three in row for motoring Bath at Northampton

  26-08-2020 23:18
  
  McConnochie makes it three in row for motoring Bath at Northampton
  
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• White Sox hit 4 more homers, rip Pirates 10-3

  26-08-2020 23:17
  
  José Abreu homered again, Dallas Keuchel followed Lucas Giolito’s no-hitter with six dominant innings, and the surging Chicago White Sox pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-3 on Wednesday for their ninth win in 10 games.Abreu’s 12th home run and seventh in five games, a two-run shot in the seventh, was Chicago’s fourth of the game and broke it open.Eloy Jiménez slugged a three-run homer, Danny Mendick lined a two-run drive and Edwin Encarnacion added a solo shot for
  
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• Teen charged in killings of BLM protesters considered himself a militia member

  26-08-2020 23:15
  
  Teen charged in killings of BLM protesters considered himself a militia member. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, appears to have long been interested in law enforcement and claimed he was at protest to protect businesses
  
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• The GOP Didn’t Always Gaslight Away Pandemics At Their Conventions

  26-08-2020 23:14
  
  Political conventions don’t often take place against the backdrop of a global pandemic that has claimed tens of thousands of American lives. But it is not unprecedented. In the summer of 1992, the parties convened as the AIDS crisis was near its peak. The disease, like COVID now, was still a source of immense confusion and fright then. But it was also the subject of a burgeoning activist movement and the convention planners planned accordingly. Before Bill Clinton accepted the nominat
  
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• 'Unite and heal': Democratic nominee Joe Biden speaks about Jacob Blake shooting – video

  26-08-2020 23:13
  
  Democratic nominee Joe Biden says he has spoken to the family of Jacob Blake, the African American man who was repeatedly shot in the back by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
  'What I saw in that video makes me sick,' Biden said of the footage of Blake being shot while three of his children looked on in a nearby car.The Democratic nominee went on to urge protesters to remain peaceful and avoid 'needless violence'. Biden repeated the words of Blake’s mother, Julia Jackson, who sai
  
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• Fauci Says He Was Under Anesthesia When CDC Changed COVID-19 Testing Guidelines

  26-08-2020 23:09
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its COVID-19 testing guidelines this week to exclude people without symptoms of coronavirus, even if they’ve recently been in contact with infected individuals. Studies, meanwhile, find nearly half of infections are from asymptomatic transmissions. Amid reports that the sudden change in guidelines came from the “top” of the Trump administration, CNN reported on Wednesday that top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci
  
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• Sometime soon, your car will park itself in urban garages

  26-08-2020 23:08
  
  You get to the parking garage, and using an app on your phone, you link your SUV to the garage's computers and sensors, and the SUV finds a spot on the fourth floor and parks itself while you catch batting practice.“The goal is as soon as practically possible to deliver a safe experience,” says Kevin Bopp, vice president of parking and mobility for Bedrock, the real estate arm of Detroit-based mortgage giant Quicken Loans.Bedrock owns the parking garage just west of downtown where Fo
  
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• Alaska attorney general resigns after sending flirtatious texts to junior staffer

  26-08-2020 23:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kevin Clarkson sent more than 550 text messages to female state employee's personal phone
  
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• Peter: The Human Cyborg review – a heartrending transformation

  26-08-2020 23:00
  
  Peter: The Human Cyborg review – a heartrending transformation. Scientist Peter Scott-Morgan’s attempts to offset the effects of his developing motor neurone disease are truly incredible – as is the love story behind it
  
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• Omission of climate crisis at RNC risks losing voters, some conservatives warn

  26-08-2020 23:00
  
  Omission of climate crisis at RNC risks losing voters, some conservatives warn. Republicans at the convention did not lay out a plan for climate change, nor even acknowledge it
  
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• Morning mail: teen arrested over Kenosha killings, aged care failures, shark victim speaks

  26-08-2020 23:00
  
  Morning mail: teen arrested over Kenosha killings, aged care failures, shark victim speaks. Thursday: A 17-year-old is in police custody over the murder of two Black Lives Matter protesters in Wisconsin. Plus: Australia to be the ‘Saudi Arabia of renewable energy’
  
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• This is how Donald Trump leveraged his business empire and political career to make millions of dollars

  26-08-2020 22:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  President's personal businesses have made $23m from political groups — including his own campaign — since 2015
  
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• Gov. John Bel Edwards on Hurricane Laura: We've got a very serious storm on our hands

  26-08-2020 22:55
  
  Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards urges residents to pay close attention to emergency officials as the powerful storm approaches the Gulf Coast.
  
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• Comey hits out at Trump for appointing 'personal defense lawyer' as Attorney General

  26-08-2020 22:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  'If Trump-style justice becomes our tradition, nobody is safe,' says the former FBI director
  
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• Woods faces a new, stern test to get to FedEx Cup finale

  26-08-2020 22:54
  
  Tiger Woods at Olympia Fields brought concerns about the state of his game.Never mind that Woods was the defending champion.Not much has changed this week at the BMW Championship, with a slight change in the narrative.
  
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• Trump says his campaign will demand Joe Biden be drug tested ahead of Presidential debates

  26-08-2020 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  President offers no medical evidence to support his latest bold claim about a political opponent
  
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• Kanye West sues Ohio election head to get on November ballot

  26-08-2020 22:53
  
  Rapper Kanye West sued Ohio’s election chief Wednesday in an effort to be placed on the November presidential ballot after the Secretary of State deemed him unqualified as an independent candidate.West's emergency filing against Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose comes days after the election's chief rejected the nearly 15,000 signatures and other paperwork the rapper submitted earlier this month in an attempt to run for president, citing mismatched information on the signature-gat
  
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• Here's What We Know About The Kenosha, Wisconsin, Shooting

  26-08-2020 22:53
  
  A 17-year-old from Illinois has been charged in a shooting that left two dead and another injured.
  
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• Kanye West takes legal action in bid to be on presidential ballot

  26-08-2020 22:51
  
  Kanye West has sued Ohio’s election chief in a bid to be placed on the US presidential ballot.The rap star’s West's filing comes after Secretary of State Frank LaRose deemed him unqualified as an independent candidate.
  
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• Ken Cuccinelli: Time to bring peace to Kenosha with responsible, overwhelming law enforcement presence

  26-08-2020 22:50
  
  President Trump says he will send federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, Wisconsin to restore 'law and order' amid days of unrest in the city; Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli joins Neil Cavuto with insight on 'Your World.'
  
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• Bucks boycott NBA playoff game in protest at police shooting of Jacob Blake

  26-08-2020 22:45
  
  Bucks boycott NBA playoff game in protest at police shooting of Jacob Blake* Bucks home of Milwaukee is close to site of shooting* George Hill says team is ‘tired of killings and injustice’
  
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• Texas Emergency Management chief urges Texans in Hurricane Laura's path to evacuate while it's still safe

  26-08-2020 22:41
  
  Chief Nim Kidd, head of Texas Emergency Management, joins Neil Cavuto with insight on 'Your World.'
  
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• Lyon reaches 5th straight women’s Champions League final after beating PSG

  26-08-2020 22:39
  
  Lyon reached the final of the women's Champions League for the fifth straight time Wednesday after Wendie Renard scored with a 67th-minute header to secure a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain.Lyon will seek its fifth consecutive title in Sunday's final against Wolfsburg, which defeated Barcelona in the other semifinal on Tuesday.Both teams finished the match with 10 players. PSG's Grace Geyoro was sent off in the 66th and Lyon's Nikita Parris was ejected in the 75th, both with second yellow cards
  
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• Kellyanne Conway hails Trump's empowerment of women despite widespread accusations of misogyny

  26-08-2020 22:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kellyanne Conway has claimed Donald Trump thinks "women are equal" despite widespread accusations of misogyny and having rolled back women's rights.
  
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• Ian Wright hits out at 'racially-driven' abuse towards black pundits after Sky Sports cut Soccer Saturday trio

  26-08-2020 22:38
  
  Ian Wright has launched a passionate defence of black pundits such as Micah Richards and Alex Scott after identifying "racially-driven" abuse towards them online.Sky Sports confirmed on Tuesday they would not be retaining Matt Le Tissier, Phil Thompson and Charlie Nicholas on Soccer Saturday, with only Paul Merson staying on.
  
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• Boycott: NBA playoff games called off amid player protest

  26-08-2020 22:38
  
  All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, with players around the league choosing to boycott in their strongest statement yet against racial injustice.The NBA said all three games would be rescheduled, yet did not say when.The dramatic series of moves began when the Bucks — the NBA’s team from Wisconsin, a state rocked in recent days by the shooting by police officers of Jacob Blake, a Black man — didn’t take the floor for their playoff game
  
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• Meghan tells Gloria Steinem she is glad to be home in interview on voting as she continues US political tour

  26-08-2020 22:37
  
  One is the doyenne of American feminists, blazing a trail in the 1960s and still idolised by a new generation. The other, an outspoken Duchess who recently fled the British Royal Family in favour of using her “voice”. Gloria Steinem and the Duchess of Sussex teamed up on Wednesday to convince young women to use their vote, as Meghan disclosed she was glad to be home in California “for so many reasons”. The 86-year-old activist presented the Duchess with a bracelet with th
  
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