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• Poll shows DeSantis on solid ground as Democrats try to find openings - POLITICO

  12-05-2021 23:47 via news.google.com
  
  Poll shows DeSantis on solid ground as Democrats try to find openings  POLITICOGov. DeSantis grants clemency to Florida business owners arrested for not enforcing masks  Fox NewsNot if, but ‘when’: Florida governor signs bills bracing state for sea rise flooding  Miami HeraldGov. DeSantis should meet with transgender children | Opinion - South Florida Sun Sentinel  South Florida Sun SentinelGas shortages not expected in Central Florida despite
  
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• Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters’ Rock Hall Induction: ‘None of Us Imagined This Would Happen’ - Rolling Stone

  12-05-2021 23:19 via news.google.com
  Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters’ Rock Hall Induction: ‘None of Us Imagined This Would Happen’  Rolling StoneTina Turner, the Go-Go's, Jay-Z lead historically diverse Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2021 inductees  Yahoo EntertainmentRock and Roll Hall of Fame 2021 inductees are....  CNN Foo Fighters, Jay-Z and Tina Turner among 2021 Rock Hall inductees  WJW FOX 8 News ClevelandThe Go-Go’s on Entering the Hall of Fame: ‘The Fi
  
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• NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Is Designed to Tear Off Its Own Wheels - Futurism

  12-05-2021 23:11 via news.google.com
  
  NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Is Designed to Tear Off Its Own Wheels  FuturismPerseverance rover is ready to unlock the history of Mars  CNN Seeing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D – NASA's Mars Exploration Program  NASA Mars ExplorationPerseverance Mars rover's robotic arm starts conducting science  Fox NewsHave humans already contaminated Mars with Earth-born microbes?  SYFY WIREView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres, departing syndicated TV, once again finds herself at the center of cultural change

  12-05-2021 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Analysis: The talk show host symbolized important social shifts in the 1990s. She’s now a key figure in changes sweeping business and society.
  
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• Alex Rodriguez's Cheeky Response to J Lo and Ben Affleck's Reunion Speaks Volumes - POPSUGAR

  12-05-2021 22:17 via news.google.com
  Alex Rodriguez's Cheeky Response to J Lo and Ben Affleck's Reunion Speaks Volumes  POPSUGARBen Affleck Made the FIRST Move in Jennifer Lopez Reunion (Source)  Entertainment TonightAlex Rodriguez Was Asked About Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck—And His Answer Is Interesting  Yahoo LifestyleBen Affleck chats with security in upscale LA neighborhood after an intruder was on his property  Daily MailDid ARod Shade JLo & Ben Affleck?  AccessVie
  
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• Santa Barbara, California college students rescued when boat made of buckets, kiddie pools floats out to sea - KTRK-TV

  12-05-2021 22:15 via news.google.com
  Santa Barbara, California college students rescued when boat made of buckets, kiddie pools floats out to sea  KTRK-TVView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Judge rejects plea deal for darknet child porn purveyor

  12-05-2021 21:59
  A federal judge in Maryland has rejected a plea agreement that called for 15 to 21 years in prison for a man who authorities say was the world’s largest purveyor of child pornography
  
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• NASA's fifth attempt to launch Black Brant XII sounding rocket will be visible in Northeast Ohio - News 5 Cleveland

  12-05-2021 21:29 via news.google.com
  NASA's fifth attempt to launch Black Brant XII sounding rocket will be visible in Northeast Ohio  News 5 ClevelandNASA rocket launch could bring 'glowing phenomenon' to Florida sky  WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlandoNASA Hopes Rocket Will Launch Tonight!  13 ON YOUR SIDELight makes viewing tonight's rocket launch, trio of planets challenging  WWMT-TVNASA rocket launch again postponed  The Morning CallView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• State's daily coronavirus case average falls below 500 - WBAY

  12-05-2021 21:27 via news.google.com
  
  State's daily coronavirus case average falls below 500  WBAYPfizer vaccine and kids: Wisconsin preps for younger age group | FOX6 News Milwaukee  FOX6 News MilwaukeeVirginia to begin vaccinating kids 12-15  WSLS 10COVID-19: Wisconsin could pay residents to get vaccine  WISN MilwaukeeWisconsin will start giving vaccines to 12- to 15-year-olds Thursday  Milwaukee Journal SentinelView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• California Police Arrest Serial Backseat Tesla Driver for Abusing Autopilot - The Drive

  12-05-2021 20:49 via news.google.com
  
  California Police Arrest Serial Backseat Tesla Driver for Abusing Autopilot  The DriveMan Riding in Driverless Tesla Is Arrested in California  The New York TimesCalifornia police arrest backseat Tesla 'driver'  Fox NewsTesla driver arrested after being seen riding in backseat on Bay Area freeway: CHP  KTLA Los AngelesTesla 'Backseat Driver' Nabbed By CHP sfist.com  SFistView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Arizona won’t require COVID shot for children returning to school - KTAR.com

  12-05-2021 20:40 via news.google.com
  Arizona won’t require COVID shot for children returning to school  KTAR.comNews Update: CDC approves use of Pfizer vaccine for kids  azfamily powered by 3TV & CBS5AZState sites will start vaccinating ages 12 to 15 on Thursday, May 13  KOLDIn Arizona, doctors are ready to vaccinate young children against COVID-19  FOX 10 News PhoenixPfizer vaccine approved for kids 12+  ABC15 ArizonaView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Colonial Pipeline posted a cyber security manager job weeks before the attack

  12-05-2021 20:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Colonial Pipeline was looking for a cyber security manager even before it got hacked
  
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• Scramble on for new fuel routes after Colonial Pipeline hack

  12-05-2021 20:05
  
  State and federal officials are scrambling to find alternate routes to deliver gasoline in the Southeast U.S. after a hack of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline led to panic-buying that contributed to more than 1,000 gas stations running out of fuel
  
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• Bird pioneered scooter sharing. Now it's going public

  12-05-2021 19:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Bird, the startup that pioneered shared electric scooters, plans to go public as soon as this summer.
  
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• FCC emergency program to give people $50 off internet bill

  12-05-2021 18:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Americans can begin applying for $50 off their monthly internet bill on Wednesday as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected.
  
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• Reality show 'Unicorn Hunters' is looking for the next $1 billion company

  12-05-2021 18:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new reality TV show called "Unicorn Hunters" borrows the pitch-for-fame-and-fortune concept popularized by "Shark Tank" but adds an unusual twist: It's not just the judges throwing money at the businesses. Viewers at home can invest, too.
  
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• Who's in charge? Hack of America's largest gas pipeline reveals cyber defense flaws

  12-05-2021 17:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The government, said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, can't say for sure which agency is in charge of securing its own networks, let alone private ones vital to the economy.
  
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• Police: California Tesla driver riding in backseat arrested

  12-05-2021 17:32
  The California Highway Patrol says a Tesla driver was arrested after an officer saw him in the backseat as the car drove on a San Francisco Bay Area freeway
  
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• Technates: Building Private Cities Outside Of U.S. Government Control

  12-05-2021 17:27 via technocracy.news
  
  Emboldened Silicon Valley billionaires are ramping up efforts to build completely automous cities in the U.S., outside of traditional government control and rule of law. Instead, they will rule themselves as a Technate, the city building-block of Technocracy.
  Historically, every Technate built from the early 1930s onward, have been dismal failures; only vague remnants remain. Today’s Technocrats have no regard for history however, believing their new tech can solve all their problems.
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• The Insidious Technocrat War On Food And Human Diet

  12-05-2021 17:05 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrat Bill Gates wants to control your body with gene therapy and to control what you eat with synthetic food products. What started in the early 1970s as a radical, crackpot idea is now going mainstream throughout the Western world. Controlling food is controlling people. ⁃ TN EditorAs you may have heard, Bill Gates has been buying up farmland across 18 U.S. states through various subsidiary companies.1 In all, he now owns about 242,000 acres of farmland.2 He&rsqu
  
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• Vaccine Passport Rebellion: ‘You’re Not Going To Brand Us!’

  12-05-2021 16:43 via technocracy.news
  
  The Orange County protest was filled with people who are waking up to Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, and taking it out on county officials who are trying to sneak in vaccine passports to further fracture society. The officials couldn’t fathom why anyone would protest their policies. ⁃ TN Editor
  On the same day that Orange County recorded some of its most positive coronavirus statistics to date — nearing the least restrictive yellow tier in the state’s reopening
  
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• Scientists offer look into life as Caribbean volcano erupted

  12-05-2021 16:35
  
  The three scientists credited with helping save lives ahead of a volcanic eruption on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent are known to locals simply as Richie, Rod and TC
  
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• Digital coin ether hits record high as 2021 gains near 500 percent

  12-05-2021 15:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Cryptocurrency ether hit a record high on Wednesday, taking gains this year to almost 500 percent on the back of a growing interest in decentralized finance.
  
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• US agrees to lift Trump-era ban on China's Xiaomi

  12-05-2021 15:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The US government will no longer blacklist Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, lifting a short and contentious ban on Americans investing in the company that was introduced by the Trump administration.
  
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• Instagram adds new pronoun section to user profiles

  12-05-2021 15:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  The new feature is now available in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia with "plans for more" countries ahead.
  
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• After attacking the West, China's online nationalists find another target: Feminists

  12-05-2021 13:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  “For them, feminism becomes a crime,” said Lü Pin, a prominent feminist whose Weibo account was among those shut down.
  
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• What an ancient poem says about China's fearful tech tycoons

  12-05-2021 12:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A thousand-year-old poem just cost Chinese delivery giant Meituan tens of billions of dollars in market value, further rattling a tech industry that is already on edge.
  
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• Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode

  12-05-2021 06:56
  A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily
  
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• Beyond vaccines, UNESCO wants more global science shared

  12-05-2021 03:20
  
  While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan
  
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• California judge dismisses Twitter lawsuit against Texas AG

  12-05-2021 03:06
  A California judge has dismissed a Twitter lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
  
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• Bloomberg Gives $150 Million to Help Universities Diversify STEM Doctorates

  12-05-2021 02:38 via nytimes.com
  
  The initiative, which will benefit Johns Hopkins and six other institutions, will be named in honor of Vivien Thomas, best known for his work treating “blue baby syndrome.”
  
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• Trump's blog isn't lighting up the internet

  12-05-2021 01:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The ex-president’s blog has drawn a considerably smaller audience than his once-powerful social media accounts, according to engagement data.
  
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• The Social Challenge: Rise in internet addiction amid pandemic isolation

  12-05-2021 01:11 via nbcnews.com
  Overseas studies have shown a sharp increase in internet addiction during the pandemic with links to anxiety and depression. NBC News’ Lester Holt speaks with an expert about the troubling rise and hears from a man whose health suffered as a result of his dependence on the internet.
  
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