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• Lawmaker flees 'sex party' by climbing down drainpipe, then resigns

  01-12-2020 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  A senior member of the European Parliament from Hungary's ruling Fidesz party has resigned after he admitted to breaching Belgium's coronavirus lockdown to attend a private gathering described by mnational media as a "sex party."
  
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• Hungarian lawmaker resigns after fleeing 'sex party' by climbing down drainpipe

  01-12-2020 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  A senior member of the European Parliament from Hungary's ruling Fidesz party has resigned after he admitted to breaching Belgium's coronavirus lockdown to attend a private gathering described by mnational media as a "sex party."
  
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• CDC committee votes on who gets coronavirus vaccines first

  01-12-2020 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  • A young family faces financial ruin trying to protect their baby from Covid-19
  • LIVE UPDATES: Cases are surging across US
  
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• No evidence of widespread election fraud, Barr says

  01-12-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department hasn't found evidence to support allegations of widespread fraud that could have changed the result of last month's presidential election, Attorney General William Barr said in an interview with the Associated Press published Tuesday.
  
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• Trump associates, including Giuliani, are asking for pardons

  01-12-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's associates are making appeals to him in the hopes of obtaining pardons before he leaves office, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Tuesday.
  
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• This is how airlines are preparing to transport vaccine

  01-12-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Pete Muntean got to take a look at how airlines are preparing to transport the coronavirus vaccine at below freezing temperatures.
  
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• After urging small Thanksgiving, San Jose mayor sorry for gathering that broke Covid rules

  01-12-2020 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  “I understand my obligation as a public official to provide exemplary compliance with the public health orders," Mayor Sam Liccardo said.
  
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• Saudi Arabia openly terrorizes women like Loujain al-Hathloul. Trump doesn't care.

  01-12-2020 23:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Al-Hathloul’s fate is another reminder of the harrowing plight of women in the Gulf region — and the underbelly of the empowerment feminism myth pushed by women like Ivanka Trump.
  
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• State election official: Someone's going to get killed

  01-12-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  Gabriel Sterling, the Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said that he has police protection around his home after threats came in the aftermath of election results.
  
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• State election official loses his temper with Trump for not condemning violent actions

  01-12-2020 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  Gabriel Sterling, the Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said that he has police protection around his home after threats came in the aftermath of election results.
  
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• Inside Japan's new Super Nintendo World

  01-12-2020 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  Universal Studios Japan gave a sneak peek into the newest addition to its theme park, set to open in February 2021
  
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• Instagram influencer found dead near Houston highway, police say

  01-12-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Alexis Robinault, a 26-year-old Instagram influencer with over 30,000 followers, was found dead off a Houston interstate last week, police said.
  
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• How bad are pharmaceutical patents for your health? Ask LGBT people about Truvada.

  01-12-2020 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Outrageous drug prices are not a necessary evil. They're a result of political cowardice and systems that prioritize profits over people.
  
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• 911 system in U.S. 'at a breaking point,' ambulance group says

  01-12-2020 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  In a letter obtained exclusively by NBC News, the American Ambulance Association told the Department of Health and Human Services that“the 911 emergency medical system throughout the United States is at a breaking point.”
  
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• Keilar calls out GOP senator rattled by Biden's OMB pick

  01-12-2020 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar fires back at Republican Senator John Cornyn over his opposition of President-elect Joe Biden's decision to nominate Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
  
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• Massive telescope from Bond film collapses ahead of planned demolition

  01-12-2020 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  The instrument platform of the 305-meter telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed overnight, according to the National Science Foundation.
  
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• Real Madrid shocked by Shakhtar Donetsk for second time in Champions League

  01-12-2020 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  For the second time this season, Spanish giant Real Madrid has been stunned by Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.
  
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• Rolls-Royce's new Ghost: Still plenty posh, but more laid back

  01-12-2020 21:31 via cnn.com
  
  Rolls-Royce's new Ghost is for those buyers who want something more along the lines of a regular automobile than the one-car coronation parade that is the ultra-luxury automaker's flagship Phantom sedan.
  
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• Doctors and nurses in the US: 'We don't feel like heroes anymore'

  01-12-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  From running out of room at the morgue to caring for critically ill colleagues, many doctors and nurses on the frontlines of America's Covid-19 outbreak say they are at a breaking point.
  
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• Man suspected of murdering dozens of elderly women detained in Russia

  01-12-2020 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  Russian authorities have detained a man suspected of killing dozens of elderly women in several regions across Central Russia nearly a decade ago.
  
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• DOJ and Homeland Security have found no evidence to support Trump's allegations, attorney general tells AP

  01-12-2020 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department hasn't found evidence to support allegations of widespread fraud that could have changed the result of last month's presidential election, Attorney General William Barr said in an interview with the Associated Press published Tuesday.
  
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• $908B bipartisan relief bill excludes stimulus checks, lacks leadership support

  01-12-2020 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  With negotiations deadlocked, the new proposal faces a steep uphill climb in Congress without support from leadership.
  
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• Elliot Page: Juno star announces he is transgender

  01-12-2020 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Oscar-nominated actor says he feels lucky "to have arrived at this place in my life".
  
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• Joe Biden: President-elect seen in protective boot on fractured foot

  01-12-2020 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Joe Biden is seen wearing a protective boot on his right foot, which he fractured playing with his dog.
  
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• Nine-month-old baby among 5 killed in Germany after car hits pedestrians

  01-12-2020 21:14 via cnn.com
  
  Several people have been killed and left injured in Germany after a car was driven into a pedestrian zone in the town of Trier, according to the local police force.
  
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• The faces of Egypt's crackdown on human rights

  01-12-2020 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights founder Hossam Bahgat and human rights activist Jess Kelly discuss her husband and other activists' arrests.
  
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• What he knew: Why Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was marked for death

  01-12-2020 20:53 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 59, was dubbed everything from Iran's “shadow man” and the “father” of its forthcoming bomb to Tehran’s weapons guru and the “pervasive thread” to the beleaguered nation’s nuclear aspirations.
  
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• William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in presidential election

  01-12-2020 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department hasn't found evidence to support allegations of widespread fraud that could have changed the result of last month's presidential election, Attorney General William Barr said in an interview with the Associated Press published Tuesday.
  
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• Baby born from 27-year-old embryo believed to have broken record set by her big sister

  01-12-2020 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  Though Molly Gibson is just over one month old, she could've been born at any point in the last 27 years.
  
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• 'Help is on the way': Biden introduces economic team as pandemic rages

  01-12-2020 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Janet Yellen calls for urgent action amid ‘American tragedy’Team demonstrates Biden’s commitment to diversityJoe Biden, the US president-elect, formally introduced his top economic advisers on Tuesday, as his incoming administration prepares to deal with the worst financial crisis in decades and a resurgent coronavirus pandemic. Related: Bipartisan group pitches $908bn Covid-19 relief to break deadlock in CongressContinue reading...
  
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• See the lunar eclipse during the full beaver moon

  01-12-2020 20:44 via cnn.com
  
  November's full moon brought with it an iconic visual spectacle, seen around the world.
  
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• 5 killed, including a 9-month-old, after car drives into pedestrian area in Germany

  01-12-2020 20:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 51-year-old local man has been arrested and one vehicle seized, Trier police said.
  
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• Trump attorney issues call for violence against ex-election cybersecurity official

  01-12-2020 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  An attorney for the Trump campaign on Monday issued a call for violence against Chris Krebs, a former cybersecurity official who was unceremoniously ousted from his post by President Donald Trump after he rejected the President's unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
  
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• Couple married for 47 years die of coronavirus within a minute of one another

  01-12-2020 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  Patricia and Leslie McWaters spent 47 years together, raising their children, then grandchildren and then great-grandchildren. And last week, they died together of Covid-19, within the same minute.
  
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• GOP rebels move to impeach Ohio's Republican governor over Covid restrictions

  01-12-2020 19:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  DeWine has assumed 'dictatorial powers,' state Rep. Becker told NBC News.
  
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• N.J. hospital faced superbug outbreak amid Covid surge

  01-12-2020 19:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Normal measures used to prevent and control infections were brushed aside as hospitals struggled to withstand a surge of Covid-19 cases.
  
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• China spacecraft lands on previously unvisited area of the moon

  01-12-2020 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  China has successfully landed a lunar probe on the surface of the moon, the country's National Space Administration said Tuesday.
  
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• China lands probe on surface of the moon to collect lunar rocks

  01-12-2020 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  China has successfully landed a lunar probe on the surface of the moon, the country's National Space Administration said Tuesday.
  
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• Elliot Page, 'Juno' star, shares transgender identity

  01-12-2020 18:54 via cnn.com
  
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• Brazilian city seized by armed bandits, bank looted

  01-12-2020 18:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Dozens of criminals armed with assault rifles invaded a city in southern Brazil overnight and took control of the streets as they assaulted a local bank.
  
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• Iceland visitors don't need to quarantine if they've had Covid

  01-12-2020 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  Travelers hoping to enter Iceland will be able to do so without going into quarantine or taking a test if they have already contracted and recovered from coronavirus.
  
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• Exxon faces $20 billion hit from 'epic failure' of a decade ago

  01-12-2020 18:08 via cnn.com
  
  ExxonMobil's nightmarish 2020 just got worse.
  
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• Leaked Chinese documents reveal chaotic early Covid-19 response

  01-12-2020 18:01 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • China document leak shows flawed pandemic response
  
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• The world's largest sand island is burning

  01-12-2020 17:49 via cnn.com
  
  Firefighters in Australia are battling a massive bushfire that has been burning out of control for six weeks across the popular tourist spot of Fraser Island, as parts of the country's east swelter through a record-breaking heat wave following the hottest November on record.
  
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• A unique ecosystem is on fire

  01-12-2020 17:49 via cnn.com
  
  Firefighters in Australia are battling a massive bushfire that has been burning out of control for six weeks across the popular tourist spot of Fraser Island, as parts of the country's east swelter through a record-breaking heat wave following the hottest November on record.
  
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• Home Office faces legal challenge over asylum seeker payments during Covid

  01-12-2020 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Those in emergency accommodation struggling to meet basic needs as government fails to pay agreed increase in supportThe Home Office is still failing to provide thousands of asylum seekers in emergency hotel accommodation with basic cash support and essentials more than a month after being instructed by the high court to fulfil their legal requirements to do so.In October, law firm Duncan Lewis challenged the government’s failure to provide adequate asylum support in the high court. The ju
  
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• Sailor rescued by rival after yacht 'folded in two' during round-the-world race

  01-12-2020 17:29 via cnn.com
  
  French sailor Kevin Escoffier has been rescued by fellow competitor and compatriot Jean Le Cam in a round-the-world race after spending over 11 hours in a life raft.
  
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• French sailor Kevin Escoffier is rescued by rival after yacht 'folded in two' during round-the-world race

  01-12-2020 17:29 via cnn.com
  
  French sailor Kevin Escoffier has been rescued by fellow competitor and compatriot Jean Le Cam in a round-the-world race after spending over 11 hours in a life raft.
  
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• Biden's first 100 days will include flurry of orders to undo 'damaging' Trump actions

  01-12-2020 17:28 via cnn.com
  
  • LIVE UPDATES: Biden says he hasn't spoken to Mitch McConnell yet
  • The fates of millions of Americans rest on Biden's economic team
  
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• Biden readies major stimulus push and flurry of executive actions in first 100 days

  01-12-2020 17:28 via cnn.com
  
  • Biden expected to introduce key members of economic team Tuesday
  
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