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• US country music legend Charley Pride dies

  12-12-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Country music legend Charley Pride has died at age 86, his representative announced.
  
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• Country music legend Charley Pride dies at 86

  12-12-2020 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Country music legend Charley Pride died Saturday at age 86, a representative for the singer announced.
  
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• Driver who crashed into crowd of people in NYC, injuring 6, is charged

  12-12-2020 23:17
  
  The woman who crashed into a crowd of people in New York City Friday has been charged with reckless endangerment, police said.
  
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• NYC's iconic 21 Club to close due to coronavirus pandemic

  12-12-2020 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  The restaurant said it is exploring opportunities so it can "remain a viable operation in the long term."
  
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• UPDATE: Sanofi, GSK say COVID-19 shot won't be ready until late 2021

  12-12-2020 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi said Friday that their potential COVID-19 vaccine won’ t be ready until late next year because they need to improve the shot’ s effectiveness in older people. GSK and Sanofi plan to produce up to 1 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine annually, and they have signed agreements to supply millions of doses to the U.S.,...
  
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• US surpasses 16 million Covid-19 cases

  12-12-2020 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  • Exclusive: US vaccine authorization is 'a most important milestone,' BioNTech CEO says
  • Quick OK of first US Covid-19 vaccine cut no corners, FDA officials promise
  
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• Undercover cops dressed as Santa and his elf fight crime at a California shopping center

  12-12-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  Cops dressed as Santa Claus and his elf jumped into action when they sawcar being stolen, said police in Riverside, California.
  
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• Authorities in Tennessee, Kentucky look for escaped inmates

  12-12-2020 22:02
  
  Authorities in Tennessee, Kentucky say the inmates are armed and dangerous.
  
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• Carol Sutton: Steel Magnolias actress dies from Covid-19

  12-12-2020 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The veteran actress appeared on stage and in films including Steel Magnolias and The Help.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton says he's still feeling the after-effects of Covid-19 ahead of season finale

  12-12-2020 21:48 via cnn.com
  
  Lewis Hamilton says he's still feeling the after-effects of Covid-19 ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday.
  
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• Covid-19 ravages the US as CDC committee votes to recommend Pfizer vaccine

  12-12-2020 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  • Exclusive: US vaccine authorization is 'a most important milestone,' BioNTech CEO says
  • Quick OK of first US Covid-19 vaccine cut no corners, FDA officials promise
  
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• What we know about Pfizer's vaccine

  12-12-2020 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  • US surpasses 16 million Covid-19 cases
  • LATEST: Vaccine hesitancy now 'biggest challenge' in Covid fight
  
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• Nigeria school attack: Hundreds missing in Katsina after raid by gunmen

  12-12-2020 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gunmen on motorbikes raid a boarding school, home to some 800 boys, in north-western Katsina state.
  
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• Here's what we know about Pfizer's vaccine -- including who could get it first

  12-12-2020 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee has voted to recommend the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for people 16 and older a day after the US Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for the vaccine.
  
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• 20 million people across the United States could get vaccinated in the next several weeks. Here's how the drug will be distributed and who will get it first.

  12-12-2020 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee has voted to recommend the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for people 16 and older a day after the US Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for the vaccine.
  
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• 'Not enough' climate ambition shown by leaders

  12-12-2020 21:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK minister Alok Sharma says world leaders are failing to show the necessary level of ambition.
  
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• Videos show packed crowds at Mexico art festival

  12-12-2020 20:31 via cnn.com
  
  The five-day Art With Me festival drew hundreds of attendees in mid-November. The organizers have apologized after images and video posted on social media revealed packed crowds of people without masks in Mexico's hipster resort town of Tulum. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
  
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• Organizers apologize after videos show packed crowds at Mexican art festival

  12-12-2020 20:31 via cnn.com
  
  The five-day Art With Me festival drew hundreds of attendees in mid-November. The organizers have apologized after images and video posted on social media revealed packed crowds of people without masks in Mexico's hipster resort town of Tulum. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.
  
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• Trump made big in-roads in Hispanic areas across the nation

  12-12-2020 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  One of the most notable early results on Election Night came from Florida's heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade county. President Donald Trump lost it to President-elect Joe Biden by just 7 points, after losing it by 29 points in 2016.
  
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• Car plows into protesters at New York City Black Lives Matter demonstration – video

  12-12-2020 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Footage shows a vehicle driving into a crowd of about 50 people at a protest on Friday afternoon in the middle of Manhattan, injuring multiple people. The incident happened after 4pm at the corner of 39th Street and Third Avenue in midtown east, police said, adding that the woman behind the wheel of the BMW sedan who drove into the crowd was detained for questioning by law enforcement.Multiple people injured after vehicle plows into crowd at New York protest Continue reading...
  
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• Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca to buy rare disease firm Alexion for $39 billion

  12-12-2020 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  Leading Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca agreed on Saturday to buy Boston pharmaceutical firm Alexion for $39 billion.
  
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• Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca agrees to buy rare disease firm Alexion for $39 billion

  12-12-2020 19:39 via cnn.com
  
  Leading Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca agreed on Saturday to buy Boston pharmaceutical firm Alexion for $39 billion.
  
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• Driver who survived horror crash is Google's most-searched for athlete of 2020

  12-12-2020 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  NASCAR driver Ryan Newman, who survived a horror crash earlier this year, was the most-searched for athlete of 2020, according to Google.
  
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• Virgin Galactic unexpectedly aborts test flight of space plane

  12-12-2020 18:47 via cnn.com
  
  Virgin Galactic's supersonic rocket plane was scheduled to fire into the upper atmosphere Saturday, but after climbing more than 40,000 feet over New Mexico attached to its mothership, the space plane made an unexpected turn toward home rather than shooting skyward.
  
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• Trump deal with Morocco is yet another headache for Biden team

  12-12-2020 18:34 via cnn.com
  
  On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab state this year to announce it would establish relations with Israel. It was another diplomatic win for the Trump administration, with US President Donald Trump tweeting that it was "a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!"
  
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• Analysis: Trump deal with Morocco is yet another headache for Biden team

  12-12-2020 18:34 via cnn.com
  
  On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab state this year to announce it would establish relations with Israel. It was another diplomatic win for the Trump administration, with US President Donald Trump tweeting that it was "a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!"
  
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• Analysis: Trump deal is yet another headache for Biden team

  12-12-2020 18:34 via cnn.com
  
  On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab state this year to announce it would establish relations with Israel. It was another diplomatic win for the Trump administration, with US President Donald Trump tweeting that it was "a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!"
  
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• The emergency alert Biden should send on Inauguration Day

  12-12-2020 17:45 via cnn.com
  
  Meteorologists learned long ago that an accurate forecast or severe weather warning is useless if it doesn't reach its intended audience. The same is true for public health guidance.
  
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• UN chief António Guterres urges countries to declare climate emergencies – video

  12-12-2020 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Every country should declare a state of climate emergency until the world has reached net-zero carbon emissions, the UN secretary general told a virtual summit of world leaders on Saturday. António Guterres said countries had a responsibility to young people to reduce and eliminate high-carbon activities after borrowing trillions to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemicUN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergenciesUK to stop f
  
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• Pentagon official who spread conspiracies, disparaged immigrants and refugees gets spot on influential West Point advisory board

  12-12-2020 17:01 via cnn.com
  
  A senior adviser at the Pentagon with a history of disparaging refugees and immigrants, spreading conspiracies, and other controversial rhetoric was nominated by President Donald Trump on Tuesday for a spot on West Point's advisory board.
  
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• North Korea accused of using coronavirus to crack down on human rights

  12-12-2020 17:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Seven members of the U.N. Security Council voiced their concerns during a private, virtual meeting.
  
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• Why the stock market feels immune to the pandemic

  12-12-2020 16:42 via cnn.com
  
  Unless you've been studying birds on a remote island in the South Pacific since last February, you know there's a worldwide pandemic going on that's ground large portions of the economy to a halt.
  
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• Portland family evicted from 'Red House' at center of protests reportedly staying at second home

  12-12-2020 16:40 via foxnews.com
  
  The family insisted that any questions from local outlets had to be asked through an official interview.
  
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• NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is Google's most-searched for athlete of 2020

  12-12-2020 16:35 via cnn.com
  
  NASCAR driver Ryan Newman, who survived a horror crash earlier this year, was the most-searched for athlete of 2020, according to Google.
  
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• Hunter Biden requested keys for new 'office mates' Joe Biden, Chinese 'emissary' to CEFC chairman, emails show

  12-12-2020 16:34 via foxnews.com
  
  Hunter Biden requested in 2017 that keys be made for his new "office mates," listing his father, President-elect Joe Biden, Jill Biden and his uncle, Jim Biden, for space he planned to share with an "emissary" for a chairman of a Chinese energy company, according to an email obtained by Fox News. 
  
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• John Wall back on floor, NBA opens preseason in empty arenas

  12-12-2020 16:24 via foxnews.com
  
  John Wall was back on the floor for the first time in nearly two years. DeMarcus Cousins played for the first time since the 2019 NBA Finals.
  
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• Garza scores 34 in 17 minutes, No. 3 Iowa thumps Iowa State

  12-12-2020 16:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Luka Garza was angry as he sat, and it showed in the second half.
  
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• Territorial rout: Arizona State blows out rival Arizona 70-7

  12-12-2020 16:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Arizona State scored on the opening kickoff and had a 14-point lead in the opening minute. Turnovers came by the bunches and so did the touchdowns.
  
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• Dad gets huge tattoo identical to son’s birthmark on his chest

  12-12-2020 16:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Derek Prue Sr., of Alberta, Canada, spent 30 hours getting a tattoo replica of his son’s birthmark, which covers a significant part of his chest.
  
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• No. 8 Creighton uses 2nd-half surge, puts away Huskers 98-74

  12-12-2020 16:12 via foxnews.com
  
  This time Creighton's big run against Nebraska came in the second half.
  
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• New Phillies boss Dombrowski plans retool, not rebuild

  12-12-2020 16:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Dave Dombrowski wants to win again sooner rather than later.
  
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• No. 11 West Virginia rallies, escapes North Texas 62-50

  12-12-2020 16:04 via foxnews.com
  
  The uncertainty of playing amid a pandemic is weighing on West Virginia, to the point where the 11th-ranked Mountaineers trailed at halftime to unheralded North Texas and coach Bob Huggins had to light a fire under his team.
  
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• 76ers fan to give memorabilia back to Johnny Bench

  12-12-2020 16:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The winning bidder on over $1 million worth of memorabilia from a recent auction of Johnny Bench’s personal collection is returning the items to the Hall of Fame catcher, with whom he’s been friends since 1967.
  
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• Smerconish: This is what Supreme Court should have done

  12-12-2020 15:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Michael Smerconish argues that President Trump was always going to lose the Texas lawsuit challenging President-elect Biden's win, but the Supreme Court did not go far enough in its explanation why.
  
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• The 30 retailers and restaurant chains that filed for bankruptcy in 2020

  12-12-2020 15:27 via cnn.com
  
  There's no way to sugarcoat it: 2020 was a brutal year for restaurants and stores. The pandemic, massive amounts of debt and a shift in shopping as well as dining habits created a lethal cocktail of bankruptcies and closures.
  
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• China flamethrower drone burns wasp nests

  12-12-2020 15:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests.
  
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• Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court

  12-12-2020 15:12 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's effort to unravel democracy hit a dead end at the Supreme Court Friday night, capping five weeks in which he dragged the country along on his narcissistic quest to stay in power after President-elect Joe Biden overwhelmingly won the election.
  
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• ICYMI: Whales in New York to crossing the border for a haircut

  12-12-2020 14:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In this week's In Case You Missed It, we round up some of the video stories that might have passed you by.
  
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• Santa visits look different this Christmas. Here's what to expect

  12-12-2020 14:56 via cnn.com
  
  Santa Claus is offering virtual calls from the North Pole and socially distanced visits at malls across the country this Christmas, giving families a personalized and safe experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• After the fact: the five ways Trump has tried to attack democracy post-election

  12-12-2020 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Republicans in 2020 have established what may be a new template for subverting the vote that could haunt elections for yearsThe decisive rejection by the US supreme court of an attempt by one state, Texas, to throw out election results in four other states might prevent the recurrence of such an effort in future presidential elections.But the Texas lawsuit was not the only unprecedented attack to be leveled on US democracy during the November presidential election, and other such efforts could e
  
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