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• Officials identify Nashville bomber

  27-12-2020 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake named Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, of Antioch, Tennessee, as a key person in the investigation into the explosion of a recreational vehicle in Nashville early Christmas morning.
  
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• Benefits for millions of Americans have lapsed. What happens now?

  27-12-2020 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Trump's dark mood is worsening, leaving Americans in need in limbo
  • Kinzinger: Trump's refusal to sign relief bill 'shows the chaos of the whole thing'
  • Opinion: Nero fiddled. Trump plays golf
  
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• 'Believe in science': EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign

  27-12-2020 22:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The new vaccines come at a time when Europe continues to face surging numbers as hospitals struggle with the strain.
  
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• Master bluegrass picker Tony Rice dies aged 69

  27-12-2020 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Fans including Steve Martin, Ricky Skaggs and Jason Isbell have paid tribute to Grammy-winning Rice, who collaborated with Jerry Garcia and Dolly PartonTony Rice, the master bluegrass picker, has died at the age of 69.Rice, famous for the quick, fluid sounds conjured from his Martin D-28 guitar, died on Friday at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina, according to International Bluegrass Music Association spokesperson Casey Campbell. Rice lived in Reidsville with his wife, Pamela Hodges Rice. C
  
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• British government plans to approve Oxford vaccine, distribute starting Jan. 4

  27-12-2020 22:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The plan to distribute the vaccine includes both the Pfizer and Oxford vaccines.
  
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• Opinion: Nero fiddled. Trump plays golf

  27-12-2020 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  America is clearly suffering the wrath of Donald Trump's dark mood after his election loss. We don't have to look far for examples.
  
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• Nashville blast: officials identify Anthony Warner as the bomber

  27-12-2020 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Man suspected of blast died in the explosion that rocked center of city on Christmas day as officials reportedly examine whether he had 5G paranoia Authorities in Tennessee on Sunday named a 63-year-old Nashville resident as the perpetrator of the Christmas morning bombing that injured three people and destroyed sections of the city’s historic downtown.Anthony Quinn Warner, an information technology contractor from the south eastern suburb of Antioch, instigated and was killed in the explo
  
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• Analysis: Why Trump is already the 2024 GOP frontrunner

  27-12-2020 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds that 87% of self-identified Republican voters approve of President Donald Trump's job performance.
  
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• West Brom stuns Liverpool with late equalizer

  27-12-2020 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  Reigning Premier League champion Liverpool missed the chance to go five points clear at the top of the table as West Bromwich Albion salvaged a precious point for new manager Sam Allardyce in a 1-1 draw at Anfield on Sunday.
  
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• Kinzinger: Trump's refusal to sign relief bill 'shows the chaos of the whole thing'

  27-12-2020 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday that President Donald Trump's refusal to sign a $900 billion relief package Congress passed last week and allow critical benefits to lapse for millions of jobless Americans "shows the chaos of the whole thing."
  
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• Police identify 'person of interest' in Nashville explosion

  27-12-2020 20:20 via cnn.com
  
  Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake named Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, of Antioch, Tennessee, as a key person in the investigation into the explosion of a recreational vehicle in Nashville early Christmas morning.
  
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• 12 climbers killed after blizzards trigger avalanche in Iran

  27-12-2020 19:57 via cnn.com
  
  The bodies of 12 mountain climbers have been recovered following an avalanche caused by blizzards north of the Iranian capital, Tehran, according to a Red Crescent official and Iran's state-run Iran News Agency (IRNA).
  
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• German pilot traces massive syringe in recent flight to honor coronavirus vaccination campaign

  27-12-2020 19:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A pilot in Germany had some fun during a recent flight to honor the start of coronavirus vaccination campaign in Europe on Sunday.
  
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• Millions lose benefits as Trump refuses to sign Covid relief package

  27-12-2020 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  11 million people will lose aid from expiration of unemployment programs as Trump heads to the golf course instead of signing billMillions of Americans battling the financial hardships of the coronavirus pandemic lost their unemployment benefits on Sunday as Donald Trump continued to refuse to sign a relief package agreed in Congress and headed instead to the golf course.The president’s belligerence over the bipartisan Covid relief and spending bill, that would have extended the benefits a
  
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• Wars, instability pose coronavirus vaccine challenges in poor nations

  27-12-2020 19:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Developing countries face supply chain issues as well as armed conflicts that make it difficult to distribute the vaccines.
  
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• Sunak suggests EU access for financial services will exceed Brexit deal

  27-12-2020 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Chancellor aims to firm up agreements that would allow institutions to trade as if still in EURishi Sunak has offered financial services firms the prospect of closer access to EU markets than outlined in the Brexit trade deal, after Boris Johnson conceded that this aspect of the agreement fell short of UK hopes.With MPs and experts still poring over the 1,246-page details of the agreement ahead of votes in the Commons and Lords on Wednesday, increasing focus has fallen on the relative lack of pr
  
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• Covid poses 'greatest threat to mental health since second world war'

  27-12-2020 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  UK’s leading psychiatrist predicts impact will be felt for years after pandemic endsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus crisis poses the greatest threat to mental health since the second world war, with the impact to be felt for years after the virus has been brought under control, the country’s leading psychiatrist has said.Dr Adrian James, the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said a combination of the disease, its social
  
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• Syrians refugees flee Lebanon camp after tents set on fire

  27-12-2020 18:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Three people wounded in clash between camp residents and youths near coastal city of TripoliHundreds of Syrian refugees have fled their makeshift camp in north Lebanon after their tents were set alight when fighting broke out between local youths and camp residents.At least three people were wounded in the clash on Saturday in the Miniyeh region near the coastal city of Tripoli, after which youths set fire to the camp, Lebanon’s state-owned National News Agency said. Continue reading...
  
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• Europe launches mass vaccination program as countries race to contain new variant

  27-12-2020 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  A pilot took to the skies above Germany using his flight path to draw a syringe, ahead of the launch of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign across Europe, according to data from FlightRadar24.
  
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• Doug Scott obituary | Letter

  27-12-2020 17:54 via theguardian.com
  
  The mountaineer Doug Scott was a founder of Nottingham Moderns RFC, whose formation arose from the grip that grammar schools often held over rugby union in England. When you left school and wanted to play the game, but had attended a secondary modern school rather than a grammar, there was often nowhere to go. This was particularly the case in Nottingham, where a group of rugby-mad former secondary modern pupils, including Doug, and a motley crew of trainee Welsh school teachers formed their own
  
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• Clemson's Dabo Swinney defends coaches' poll, says 4 teams 'punished'

  27-12-2020 17:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was on the defensive Saturday when he explained why he put Ohio State in 11th place in his final coaches’ poll, sparking criticism.
  
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• Pompeii dig uncovers secrets from unearthed fast-food restaurant

  27-12-2020 17:47 via foxnews.com
  
  A supposed fast-food restaurant at Pompeii has been completely unearthed, helping to reveal dishes that might have been popular for the citizens of the ancient Roman city.
  
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• Fauci claims herd immunity numbers were 'guestimates,' settles on 75-80%

  27-12-2020 17:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday dismissed accusations that he deliberately moved the goalposts on when the country would vaccinate enough people against COVID-19 to reach herd immunity, saying he was previously offering "guestimates."
  
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• What the #)$*#@)($ is happening with Bitcoin's insane record run?

  27-12-2020 17:37 via cnn.com
  
  Bitcoin is crashing -- upward. It just passed $28,000 and shows no signs of stopping.
  
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• What is happening with Bitcoin's insane record run?

  27-12-2020 17:37 via cnn.com
  
  Bitcoin is crashing -- upward. It just passed $28,000 and shows no signs of stopping.
  
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• Brett Favre asks Chargers' Justin Herbert 'what's the secret' to his play this season

  27-12-2020 17:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is in contention for the Offensive Player of the Year award after putting together a statistically solid season.
  
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• Adm. Giroir: Coronavirus vaccines will be 'effective' against new strain

  27-12-2020 17:23 via foxnews.com
  
  Adm. Brett Giroir, the White House coronavirus testing czar, expressed confidence that newly developed coronavirus vaccines will work against all strains, including one discovered in the United Kingdom that has proven to be highly contagious.
  
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• Mysterious gingerbread monolith appears over San Francisco on Christmas, crumbles by the next day

  27-12-2020 17:20 via foxnews.com
  
  This is a truly festive mystery.
  
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• 'Let's get vaccinated': Europe rolls out Covid-19 vaccine – video report

  27-12-2020 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  European nations launched a massive vaccination drive on Sunday, with pensioners and medics lining up to take the first shots to see off the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide. With surveys pointing to high levels of hesitancy about the vaccine in countries from France to Poland, leaders of the EU27 are promoting it as the best chance of getting back to something like normal life in 2021Coronavirus news – live updates
  EU launches mass Covid-19
  
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• Incoming congresswoman has strong words for Trump

  27-12-2020 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  Representative-elect Cori Bush (D-MO) and Representative-elect Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called for President Trump to sign the far-reaching $900 billion Covid-19 relief package and pushed for Congress to allocate more money for further financial aid.
  
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• Tony Rice, bluegrass music legend, dead at 69

  27-12-2020 17:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Tony Rice, known as one of the leading bluegrass music legends of the 1970s, died on Christmas Day at age 69. 
  
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• Jon Huber, pro wrestler known as Brodie Lee and Luke Harper, dies at 41

  27-12-2020 17:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Huber died of a "non Covid related lung issue," his wife Amanda wrote on Instagram.
  
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• Loeffler, Perdue back leniency for US teen jailed in Cayman Islands for breaching coronavirus regs

  27-12-2020 16:59 via foxnews.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are backing calls for leniency for a U.S. teenager jailed in the Cayman Islands for violating the British territory’s COVID-19 quarantine regulations.
  
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• Facebook to close Irish holding companies at centre of tax dispute

  27-12-2020 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Intellectual property to be repatriated to the US after IRS said it was owed $9bn in taxesFacebook is winding up Irish holding companies it has used to channel billions of profits to avoid paying taxes in the US, the UK and hundreds of other countries.The company’s main Irish subsidiary paid $101m (£75m) in tax while recording profits of more than $15bn in 2018, the last year for which records are available. Facebook companies around the world paid the Irish holding company for use o
  
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• Vehicle plunges off San Francisco cliff, driver 'miraculously' survives: fire department

  27-12-2020 16:36 via foxnews.com
  
  A woman in California was in serious condition after her vehicle plunged off a cliff onto a beach on Christmas morning.
  
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• 'Club kid' killer Michael Alig dies at 54

  27-12-2020 16:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  His story was turned into the 2003 movie “Party Monster,” in which Macaulay Culkin played Alig. Police say a drug overdose is suspected in his death.
  
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• McCollum scores 44 to lift Trail Blazers past Rockets in OT

  27-12-2020 16:09 via foxnews.com
  
  CJ McCollum scored 44 points, including a 3-pointer with 6.3 seconds left that gave the Portland Trail Blazers a 128-126 win over the Houston Rockets on Saturday night.
  
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• Girl Scouts accuse Boy Scouts of ‘damaging’ recruitment war tactics

  27-12-2020 16:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawyers say the organization is now directly competing with the Boy Scouts for female recruits and that it’s not a fair fight The Girl Scouts are in a “highly damaging” recruitment war with the Boy Scouts after the latter opened its core services to girls, leading to marketplace confusion and some girls unwittingly joining the Boy Scouts, lawyers for the century-old Girl Scouts organization claim in court papers. The competition, more conjecture than reality two years ago, has
  
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• Kiley Reid: 'The premise that literary fiction has to be a drag is so silly'

  27-12-2020 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The novelist’s hit debut, a witty spin on race, feminism and sex based on her time as a nanny in New York, has even won fans among her former employers…This time last year, Kiley Reid was a tantalising rumour, the truth of which was known only to her publishers and to the film company that had optioned her debut novel two years before it was ready to see the light of day. When Such a Fun Age was published – on New Year’s Eve in the US and a week later in the UK – t
  
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• Hundreds of Syrians flee Lebanon camp as tents torched

  27-12-2020 15:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lebanon has over one million Syrian refugees who fled since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
  
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• Fauci predicts when general public will receive vaccine

  27-12-2020 15:47 via cnn.com
  
  • Live updates: US surpasses 19 million Covid-19 cases
  • Fauci says he believes worst is still to come in the pandemic
  • NY health care provider may have fraudulently obtained vaccines, state says
  
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• Liu Xiaoming to quit his role of Chinese ambassador to Britain

  27-12-2020 15:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Critic of UK decision to ban Huawei from 5G networks to be replaced by China’s vice-foreign minister
  China’s long-serving envoy to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, a staunch defender of closer UK-China economic ties and the imposition of new security laws in Hong Kong, is standing down, marking the end of an era in relations between the two countries that hit a high in 2015 but has since worsened markedly.He is being replaced by his country’s vice-foreign minister, Zheng Zeguang, a forme
  
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• Vaccination begins for 450 million in Europe as mutated coronavirus strain spreads

  27-12-2020 15:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  The coordinated vaccination campaign of unprecedented scale in the European Union is a crucial step in curbing a pandemic.
  
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• If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport

  27-12-2020 15:12 via cnn.com
  
  Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.
  
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• Tom Brady lifts Buccaneers into playoffs with record-breaking performance

  27-12-2020 15:07 via cnn.com
  
  Tom Brady marked his 300th regular season game with a stellar performance to lift the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into the NFL playoffs for the first time since 2007 with a 47-7 rout of the Detroit Lions.
  
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• I'm a consultant in infectious diseases. 'Long Covid' is anything but a mild illness | Joanna Herman

  27-12-2020 15:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Nine months on from the virus, I am seriously debilitated. This is how the new NHS clinics need to help thousands of usWith the excitement of the Covid vaccine’s arrival, it may be easy to forget and ignore those of us with “long Covid”, who are struggling to reclaim our previous, pre-viral lives and continue to live with debilitating symptoms. Even when the NHS has managed the herculean task of vaccinating the nation, Covid-19 and the new mutant variants of the virus will cont
  
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• The great opportunity: how Covid transformed global crime

  27-12-2020 14:32 via theguardian.com
  
  2020 led to surges in everything from domestic abuse to black markets in fake vaccinesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBy the end of March, one week into the UK’s first lockdown, recorded crime in Lancashire had dropped by a startling 40% compared with the four-year average.“At first there was some mild panic,” says DCI Eric Halford, of Lancashire Constabulary. “Most senior officers expected a surge in demand.” Continue reading...
  
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• Why Donald Trump is already the 2024 GOP frontrunner

  27-12-2020 14:30 via cnn.com
  
  Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll finds that 87% of self-identified Republican voters approve of President Donald Trump's job performance.
  
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• Canada, Japan among nations reporting infections with fast-spreading UK coronavirus strain

  27-12-2020 14:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The fast-spreading coronavirus strain first identified in the United Kingdom has now reached Canada and Japan, after cases cropped up in some European counties.
  
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• Black Lives Matter: My year as an accidental anti-racism activist

  27-12-2020 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Covid and Black Lives Matter take wedding photographer Tash Jones in an unexpected direction.
  
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