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• ‘Hustler’ founder and porn magnate Larry Flynt dead at 78

  10-02-2021 23:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  The adult entertainment impresario built an empire of magazines, films, and even a casino
  
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• Undersea earthquake strikes in South Pacific, triggering tsunami warnings

  10-02-2021 23:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tsunami alert stood down but residents of coastal New Zealand warned danger of 'unusual waves may continue'
  
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• Alexei Navalny: Wife of jailed Kremlin critic flies back to Germany

  10-02-2021 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lawyers refuse to verify details of 'private visit' which came hours after arrest of senior opposition ally
  
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• Idaho man pleads guilty to rape and murder after innocent suspect spent 20 years behind bars

  10-02-2021 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  'Today was a good day in that there's some finality to it,' says Angie Dodge's brother Brent
  
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• California deputy drops suit against Toronto Raptors' boss

  10-02-2021 22:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  A law enforcement officer in California who sued the president of the Toronto Raptors over a 2019 scuffle following the team’s NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors has dropped his lawsuit
  
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• Garbage men rescue missing 10-year-old girl from accused kidnapper

  10-02-2021 21:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Their employer congratulated them for their heroic act
  
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• Woman who put Gorilla Glue in hair travels to LA for surgery

  10-02-2021 21:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Beverly Hills surgeon has offered to perform $12,500 procedure for free
  
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• NBA orders Mavericks to play anthem before games

  10-02-2021 21:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The NBA will return to enforcing its policy of having teams play the national anthem before games, following controversy over the Dallas Mavericks dropping the tradition at the direction of owner Mark Cuban.
  
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• New York sports venues will be allowed to welcome fans back at 10% capacity after Cuomo ruling

  10-02-2021 21:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  First game with fans back is Brooklyn Nets against Sacramento Kings on 23 February
  
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• Twins finalize $13M contract with DH Nelson Cruz

  10-02-2021 20:53
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins finalized their $13 million, one-year contract with designated hitter Nelson Cruz on Wednesday, retaining the most valuable player from the AL Central champion teams of the last two seasons. The 40-year-old...
  
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• Trump consolidates votes for acquittal

  10-02-2021 20:53
  A divided Senate voted on Tuesday to proceed with Donald J. Trump’s second impeachment trial, narrowly rejecting constitutional objections after House prosecutors opened their case with a harrowing 13-minute video capturing the deadly Capitol riot he stands accused of inciting. Though the presentation stunned senators who lived through the rampage into silence, only six Republicans joined Democrats in clearing the way for the case to be heard. The 56-to-44 vote was the second indication in
  
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• ‘There’s nothing left’: Why thousands of Republicans are leaving the party

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the phone lines and websites of local election officials across the country were jumping: Tens of thousands of Republicans were calling or logging on to switch their party affiliations. In California, more than 33,000 registered Republicans left the party during the three weeks after the Washington riot. In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 voters left the GOP in the past month, and more than 10,000 Republicans changed their registration in Arizon
  
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• The Witcher: Old World Is a New Board Game Set Before Geralt’s Time

  10-02-2021 20:53
  The Witcher universe is getting a board game called The Witcher: Old World in April 2022. CD Projekt Red is making the project in cooperation with publishing company Go On Board and Łukasz Woźniak, who authored the Valhalla and Titans board games. The game gathers groups of two-to-five players to take on the role of...
  
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• Russian Jehovah's Witness sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Jehovah’s Witnesses say a member of the religious denomination that is banned in Russia has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison, the harshest punishment in scores of cases. ......
  
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• Report: TikTok sale pushed by Trump is shelved

  10-02-2021 20:53
  The Biden administration has...
  
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• President Biden orders sanctions against Myanmar after military coup, preventing generals from accessing $1 billion ...

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians. Biden said...
  
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• Pebble Beach holding tournament without fans, celebs, buzz

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Pebble Beach is one of the few PGA Tour stops where the course is the star of the show regardless of who's playing. And that's about all the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am has going for it this year. Golf is approaching the one-year anniversary of when the COVID-19 pandemic led to a shutdown and then changed so much about every tournament, at least those that were not postponed or canceled. Pebble is feeling it this week. No spectators. No amateurs, who bring thei
  
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• Merkel, governors agree to extend Germany's virus lockdown

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 governors are largely extending the country’s coronavirus lockdown until March 7 amid concern that new virus variants could reverse a decline in new confirmed cases. After Merkel met with governors in a video conference, the government released their agreement on Wednesday. It says there will be some exceptions made during the extended lockdown, including
  
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• Liberty trade No. 1 pick to Seattle for Natasha Howard

  10-02-2021 20:53
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty acquired Natasha Howard from the Seattle Storm as part of a three-team trade Wednesday. The three-time WNBA champion goes to the Liberty for the overall No. 1 pick in the draft this year and the Phoenix Mercury's first-round pick next year. The Liberty acquired that pick from Phoenix by sending Kia Nurse and Megan Walker to the Mercury for the sixth pick this...
  
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• Jeff Bezos’ successor as CEO runs Amazon Web Services. What, exactly, is that?

  10-02-2021 20:53
  In the popular imagination, Amazon is a big huge store run by Jeff Bezos, a smiling man with a clean-shaven head who is, sometimes, the richest person in the world. You order and Amazon delivers. Because it’s a big, huge store that wants to be bigger and huger, you can also stream TV shows and buy Amazon-branded personal gadgets and Amazon-branded home security devices. You can order groceries there, too. This is a version of the story Amazon has been telling about itself, to customers, si
  
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• Here’s what researchers learned about COVID-19′s origins after their trip to Wuhan

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  WUHAN, CHINA — A World Health Organization team is leaving China on Wednesday after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide — but with the major questions still unanswered. The visit was politically sensitive for China — which is concerned about any allegations it didn’t handle the initial outbreak properly — and has been closely watched around the world. Advertisement Team mem
  
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• Government investigating massive counterfeit N95 mask scam

  10-02-2021 20:53
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are...
  
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• Germany to extend virus lockdown until March 7, with earlier reprieve possible for schools, hairdressers

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany to extend virus lockdown...
  
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• Georgia prosecutors open criminal investigation into Trump’s call to pressure secretary of state over election

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  ATLANTA — Prosecutors in Fulton County have initiated a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results, including a phone call he made to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump pressured him to “find” enough votes to help him reverse his loss. On Wednesday, Fani Willis, the...
  
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• Childhood colds do not prevent coronavirus infections, study finds

  10-02-2021 20:53
  The theory was simple and compelling: Children are less vulnerable to the new coronavirus because they carry antibodies to other common coronaviruses that cause the common cold. The idea might also explain why some people infected with the new virus have mild symptoms while others — presumably without antibodies to common cold coronaviruses — are much more severely affected. The notion gained traction particularly among people who claimed that this existing protection would swiftly b
  
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• Catalytic converters contain precious metals more valuable than gold. Thieves nationwide have taken notice.

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  Michael Kevane, an economics professor in San Jose, California, didn’t give a second thought to parking his 2005 Toyota Prius in his driveway one rainy evening last month. But the next morning, when his son Elliot went to start up the car, “it sounded like a jackhammer,” Kevane said. “The whole block could hear the noise.” The reason for the ruckus: A thief in the night had made off with the car’s catalytic converter, a critical emissions-control device that c
  
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• Biden orders sanctions against Myanmar after military coup

  10-02-2021 20:53
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe...
  
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• U.S. announces sanctions against Myanmar's military leaders

  10-02-2021 20:52
  
  WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced sanctions against military leaders in Myanmar. Biden said his administration was...
  
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• Powell stresses commitment to full employment and low rates

  10-02-2021 20:52
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday underscored the Fed's commitment to reducing unemployment to multi-decade lows, where it stood before the pandemic, while signaling little concern about the risk of potentially high inflation or financial market instability. Powell stressed in prepared remarks for a webcast to the Economic Club of New York that the job market remains weak despite having recovered from the depths of the...
  
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• NYS COVID-19 hospitalizations down to 7,593, positivity rate 4.02 pct: governor

  10-02-2021 20:52
  
  NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Total COVID-19 hospitalizations reached 7,593 on Tuesday in New York State, down from 7,875 on Monday, tweeted Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday. Of the 176,750 COVID-19 tests reported on Tuesday in the state, 7,101 were positive, or 4.02...
  
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• Merkel, governors debate extending German virus lockdown

  10-02-2021 20:52
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel...
  
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• Governor: Transgender athletes will 'destroy women's sports'

  10-02-2021 20:52
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday advocated for banning transgender girls from playing on middle and high school sports teams, saying transgender athletes will “destroy women's sports.” “I do believe that transgenders participating in women’s sports will destroy women’s sports,” Lee, who is up for reelection next year, told reporters. “It will ruin the opportunity for...
  
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• Blart Your Engines: James stars in new Netflix NASCAR comedy

  10-02-2021 20:52
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kevin James fancies himself an everyman in his comedic roles. He’s worked as a mall cop and delivery driver. An unlucky zoo keeper and a retired police officer. So it took the actor a moment to figure out how he might fit in a series set in a NASCAR garage. “I don’t know how it would work as a comedy,” James said. James said the light went off -- or is it, the green flag of an idea dropped -- when the show was framed as less about the inne
  
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• Boeing to continue assisting with investigation in Sriwijaya Air flight crash

  10-02-2021 20:51
  
  SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Boeing said on Wednesday that its technical experts will continue to assist with the...
  
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• United: Small electric aircraft will zip people to airports

  10-02-2021 20:49
  CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines said Wednesday it will buy up to 200 small electric aircraft to help customers in urban areas get to the airport. The...
  
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• Nun appointed to Vatican voting position says 'patriarchal mindset is changing'

  10-02-2021 20:49
  A French nun who became the first woman named to a voting position in the Vatican said Wednesday that the “patriarchal mindset is changing." Nathalie Becquart, 52, also described her appointment as a “brave signal and prophetic decision” by the pope, The Associated Press reports. “What I hope is that...
  
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• No sign of Grand Slam drought ending soon for American men

  10-02-2021 20:49
  
  The all-American matchup at the Australian Open between Taylor Fritz and Reilly Opelka...
  
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• German drug firm to pay $50M in US purity case at India site

  10-02-2021 20:49
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — An international pharmaceutical company has agreed to plead...
  
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• WHO expert group recommends use of AstraZeneca vaccine

  10-02-2021 20:48
  GENEVA (AP) — Independent experts advising the World Health Organization about immunization on Wednesday recommended the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine even in countries that turned up worrying coronavirus variants in their populations. ......
  
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• Millions in U.K. face financial ruin while stuck in "death trap" homes

  10-02-2021 20:48
  As an official inquiry reveals a U.S. company's link to the deadly Grenfell Tower disaster in London, flammable building materials continue to pose a threat to people across Britain. ......
  
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• Georgia prosecutor opens election probe after Trump call

  10-02-2021 20:48
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor...
  
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• Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to block statewide mask order

  10-02-2021 20:45
  FILE - In this April 7, 2020 file...
  
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• Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul freed from jail, relatives say

  10-02-2021 20:45
  
  DUBAI (REUTERS) - Prominent women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from a Saudi prison after nearly three years behind bars, her family said on Wednesday (Feb 10), a case that has drawn international condemnation. Hathloul, 31, was detained in May 2018 and sentenced in December to nearly six years in prison on charges that UN human rights experts called "spurious" under broad counter-terrorism laws. The court had suspended two years and 10 months of her sentence,...
  
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• Unmuted Lawmaker Calls Colleague Vulgar Name During Hearing

  10-02-2021 20:42
  
  A New Hampshire state...
  
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• Two Masks Better Than One in Fight Against Coronavirus, Shows New US Study

  10-02-2021 20:42
  Adding a cloth mask over a...
  
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• Russian Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 7½ years in prison

  10-02-2021 20:42
  56 minutes ago MOSCOW — The Jehovah’s Witnesses say a member of the religious denomination that is banned in Russia has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison, the harshest punishment in scores of cases. The denomination’s European office said 63-year-old Alexander Ivashin was sentenced on Wednesday in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia. Authorities said he had conducted religious discussions with friends in another city by video link. Russia banned the Jehovah’
  
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• Nun named to voting position at Vatican praises 'brave' pope

  10-02-2021 20:42
  
  ROME (AP) — A French nun who has become the first woman to hold a voting position at the Vatican said Wednesday that her appointment is evidence the “patriarchal mindset is changing” as more and more women assume high-level decision-making ......
  
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• Mavericks owner Mark Cuban stops playing national anthem at home games

  10-02-2021 20:42
  50 minutes ago DALLAS — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, a Mt. Lebanon native, said Tuesday he decided before this season began not to play the national anthem before the team’s home games. The Mavericks played their first 10 regular-season home games without fans. The club had fans for the first time in Monday’s 127-122 win over Minnesota. Dallas is allowing 1,500 vaccinated essential workers to attend games for free. Cuban didn’t elaborate on his decision not to play
  
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• Majority Americans in favour of convicting Trump: poll

  10-02-2021 20:39
  Washington: A majority of Americans support convicting former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge over his role in the Capitol riot on January 6, according to the CBS-YouGov poll released on Tuesday (local time). The survey found 56 percent favor the former president’s conviction, the same percentage who said they supported it in an ABC News-Ipsos poll released on Sunday, as reported by The Hill. Pollsters surveyed 2,508 American adults from February 5 to 8. The survey has a 2.
  
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• Germany to let citizens store ID cards on smartphone

  10-02-2021 20:39
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany says its citizens will be able to use smartphones to store their government-issued ID cards and prove their identity online. The move is part of a broader effort to haul Germany's...
  
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