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• New body cam video shows man telling officers 'I can't breathe' before he died in 2017

  06-03-2021 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  Newly-released police body camera footage shows a California man telling Fresno police officers, county sheriff's deputies and paramedics that he can't breathe as they restrain him in the moments before he died in 2017.
  
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• 12-year-old arrested for four carjacking incidents

  06-03-2021 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  A 12-year-old boy was arrested Thursday evening after a series of attempted armed carjackings and one successful one in Washington, DC.
  
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• Opinion: Palace hypocrisy is brutally exposed

  06-03-2021 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  If you've ever pondered the merits of going into business with your husband's grandmother, the events of the last week may have given you pause.
  
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• Obama congratulates Biden on Senate passage of his relief bill

  06-03-2021 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama on Saturday congratulated President Joe Biden on the successful passage of the Covid-19 relief bill through the Senate, the administration's top legislative priority as millions of Americans continue to struggle financially amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Murder inquiry launched over missing woman and child as Dundee man charged

  06-03-2021 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Bennylyn Burke, 25, from Gloucestershire, and her daughter last seen on 17 FebruaryThe disappearances of Bennylyn Burke and her two-year-old daughter, Jellica, are now being treated as a murder investigation, Police Scotland said. A 50-year-old man from Dundee has been arrested and charged in connection with the deaths of Burke and her daughter. Officers are still searching for their bodies.The 25-year-old mother and her two children were reported missing from their south Gloucestershire home on
  
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• Coronavirus live news: UK reports a further 158 deaths and 6,040 new cases; France tightens regional restrictions

  06-03-2021 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Contradictory death figures in Russia; WHO warns against relaxing guard due to vaccinesSchool Covid tests: pupils in England ‘very likely’ to get false positivesDalai Lama urges people to get Covid vaccine after having first doseFrom Pfizer to Moderna, the companies making billions from vaccinesEU indecision led Cyprus to allow in UK visitors, says ministerSee all our coronavirus coverage 8.19pm GMT Joe Biden hailed “one more giant step forward on delivering on that promise tha
  
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• UK Statistics Authority rebukes Gove over Brexit figures

  06-03-2021 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cabinet Office used ‘unverifiable data’ to rebut a Road Haulage Association survey showing export volumes dropped by 68%The Cabinet Office run by Michael Gove has been officially reprimanded by the UK Statistics Authority for using unpublished and unverifiable data in an attempt to deny that Brexit had caused a massive fall in volumes of trade through British ports.The criticism follows a story in the Observer on 7 February that cited a survey by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) of
  
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• Asian American man attacked and robbed amid disturbing trend

  06-03-2021 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  A 67-year-old victim was attacked and robbed in San Francisco. It's the latest in a series of assaults against Asian Americans that have spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic across the US.
  
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• Biden hails 'giant step' as Senate passes $1.9tn coronavirus relief bill

  06-03-2021 20:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Republican opposition holds through marathon ‘vote-a-rama’
  Speaker Pelosi has said measure should be law by 14 MarchJoe Biden hailed “one more giant step forward on delivering on that promise that help is on the way”, after Democrats took a critical step towards a first major legislative victory since assuming control of Congress and the White House, with a party-line vote in the Senate to approve a $1.9tn coronavirus relief bill. Related: Biden urged to 'go big' on New D
  
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• Chuck Schumer speaks after Senate passing Covid relief package

  06-03-2021 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer addresses the media following the Senate's vote to pass the $1.9 trillion Covid relief package.
  
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• Mark Pavelich, player on 'Miracle on Ice' Olympic hockey team, dies

  06-03-2021 20:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  “We are saddened to hear about the passing of 1980 Olympic gold medalist Mark Pavelich,” USA Hockey said. "Forever a part of hockey history.”
  
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• Food scarcity fears prompt plan to ease post-Brexit checks on EU imports

  06-03-2021 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Ministers considering ‘lighter touch’ regime to avoid disruption to supplies from blocMinisters are preparing to relax post-Brexit plans for border checks on food and other imports from the European Union because of fears that they will further damage trade and could lead to severe shortages in UK supermarkets.The Observer has been told by multiple industry sources that Boris Johnson’s new Brexit minister, Lord Frost, is considering allowing “lighter touch” controls
  
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• Mexico's president defends decision to barricade palace ahead of women's march

  06-03-2021 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrés Manuel López Obrado claims the measure is only intended to avoid provocation
  The Mexican president has claimed that a metallic barrier to wall off the presidential palace ahead of a planned women’s march is intended to avoid provocation and protect historic buildings from vandalism.In a country where femicides rose nearly 130% between 2015 and 2020, critics said the decision to erect the three-metre-high (10ft) barriers was symptomatic of Andrés Manuel Ló
  
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• Opinion: Biden's historic victory for America -- no thanks to GOP

  06-03-2021 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden is on the cusp of a major legislative victory. If all goes according to plan and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is signed into law, Biden will have scored an early triumph in his presidency. The Covid-19 relief bill will provide a wide range of benefits, from direct payments to American families, money for vaccine development and distribution, small business relief, more substantial subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, a child tax credit, a higher Earned Income Tax
  
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• Crash that killed 13 undocumented migrants highlights perils of desperate border crossings

  06-03-2021 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  Hours after 13 undocumented migrants were killed in a collision on a desolate stretch of California's Imperial Valley, Hugo Castro said a prayer and planted small crosses on the sandy, rocky edge of the cordoned off highway.
  
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• The end of detention: 'We are free but we need to recover from all those years'

  06-03-2021 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Released from years of detention without explanation, dozens of asylum seekers have abruptly been left to fend for themselves in an unfamiliar landThe last time Ebrahim Obeiszadeh had a job was in 2013, when he was working at a sugar factory in southern Iran.It was the first and only job he had before he embarked on a dangerous journey to Australia, where he hoped to be granted protection from the political persecution he says he suffered in his homeland. Continue reading...
  
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• Texas power regulator rejects request to cut $16 billion in charges during freeze

  06-03-2021 19:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  “As a result, $16 billion in costs are being passed to all electric providers - retail electric, municipal providers and cooperatives,” one executive said.
  
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• Biden's FDR moment? President in New Deal-like push that could cement his legacy

  06-03-2021 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The president is planning a multi-trillion effort to fix America’s infrastructure and kickstart the economy. But can he get Republicans on board?Joe Biden came to power promising a New Deal-like economic agenda that would not only combat the Covid-19 pandemic, which has now claimed more than half a million lives in the US and caused unemployment not seen since the Great Depression, but also confront the deep-rooted disparities it has exposed. Related: Senate passes $1.9tn coronavirus relie
  
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• Italian prosecutor asks for life sentence for two Americans charged with police murder

  06-03-2021 19:32 via cnn.com
  
  An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked for life sentences for two American students charged with murdering a police officer in an alleged drug deal gone wrong.
  
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• Here's what's in the Senate stimulus plan

  06-03-2021 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  The Senate on Saturday passed its version of the Democrats' massive coronavirus relief package, after the House passed its package last week.
  
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• Analysis: Democratic divides sharpen even as Biden's Covid relief package passes the Senate

  06-03-2021 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  The honeymoon is over for President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, whose unified front has been thrown into doubt during the final stages of negotiations on the White House's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill.
  
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• Utah man falls to his death from Angels Landing at Zion National Park

  06-03-2021 19:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  The body of Jason Hartwell, 43, was found Friday morning at the base of the summit.
  
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• Trump sends cease-and-desist letters to GOP campaign committees

  06-03-2021 19:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  The former president has asked the committees, including the RNC, to stop using his name and likeness in fundraising appeals, a Trump adviser said.
  
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• Viet Thanh Nguyen: 'I always felt displaced no matter where I was’

  06-03-2021 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Pulitzer-winning author on difficult second novel syndrome, using humour to explore trauma, and the return to a ‘more efficient version of American imperialism’The Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s second novel, The Committed, is the sequel to his celebrated debut, The Sympathizer, a spy thriller set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war that was both a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer prize for fiction. The Sympathizer established Ng
  
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• Three dads, a baby and the legal battle to get their names added to a birth certificate

  06-03-2021 18:51 via cnn.com
  
  Meet Ian Jenkins and his partners, Alan and Jeremy.
  
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• Trump reportedly told Republican party to stop using his name for fundraising

  06-03-2021 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Party bodies have used former president’s name while fundraising for Republicans who voted for his impeachmentDonald Trump has told the Republican National Committee and other party bodies to stop using his name and likeness in fundraising efforts, it was reported on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• In court filing, ICE says it is effectively ending use of family detention

  06-03-2021 18:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  ICE disclosed that it is transitioning family detention centers to short-term facilities that will release families after no more than 72 hours.
  
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• Senate passes Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan after all-night votes

  06-03-2021 18:30 via cnn.com
  
  West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin brought the Senate to a standstill on Friday over a policy dispute that threatened to upend President Joe Biden's top agenda item -- a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill -- and prompted a furious lobbying effort behind the scenes after Democrats thought they had party unity.
  
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• Diana's chief of staff on royal rift

  06-03-2021 18:30 via cnn.com
  
  Patrick Jephson, Princess Diana's private secretary and chief of staff, says it's important to remember the royals are also people—and that 'there's a lot of blame to go around' for the current rift.
  
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• What you can expect to get from the Senate stimulus

  06-03-2021 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  The $1.9 trillion coronavirus package passed by the Senate contains a wide range of proposals to help Americans still struggling with the economic fallout of the pandemic.
  
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• Senate passes $1.9T Covid relief bill, with no GOP support

  06-03-2021 18:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House will vote Tuesday on this version of the legislation before it goes to President Joe Biden, who called the aid "urgently needed," for his signature.
  
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• Pope holds historic meeting with Shiite cleric in Iraq, visits Abraham's birthplace

  06-03-2021 18:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  "He has come to help us get to a better day," Iraqi President Barham Salih told NBC News.
  
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• Why is Harry and Meghan's TV interview so controversial?

  06-03-2021 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harry and Meghan have given Oprah Winfrey an exclusive interview, which will be shown in the UK on Monday.
  
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• How did it go from royal romance to palace rift?

  06-03-2021 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: Palace hypocrisy is brutally exposed
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• Harry and Meghan: From royal romance to palace rift

  06-03-2021 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  •Opinion: Harry and Meghan expose palace hypocrisy
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• From royal romance to palace rift in just 3 years

  06-03-2021 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: Palace hypocrisy is brutally exposed
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• The epic battle with cancer's 'Death Star'

  06-03-2021 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Forty years after the mutant genes that cause the deadliest cancers were discovered, drugs that target them could be approvedIn the early 1980s, Channing Der was just beginning his career as a scientist at Harvard Medical School when he happened upon a discovery that would change the course of cancer research. At the time, the holy grail of cancer biology was discovering so-called oncogenes – genetic switches that can turn a normal cell into a cancer cell – in the genomes of tumours.
  
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• The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi is the end result of the state's racism

  06-03-2021 17:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The state's condescension to and contempt for the city's Black leaders isn't new and wasn't earned. But it is the root cause of this current disaster.
  
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• Tiger Woods told deputies after crash that he did not remember driving

  06-03-2021 17:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  There is no evidence that Tiger Woods was impaired by alcohol or drugs at the time of the crash, according to court documents.
  
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• Mardi Gras marches on in Sydney

  06-03-2021 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands gathered for the event, which was scaled back over Covid-19 safety concerns.
  
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• Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2021 – in pictures

  06-03-2021 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Rita Ora is among the performers at the 43rd annual parade, held at the Sydney Cricket Ground Thousands turn out for Sydney’s Covid-adapted Mardi Gras Continue reading...
  
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• US Senate reaches deal to move Covid-19 relief bill forward

  06-03-2021 16:23 via cnn.com
  
  West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin brought the Senate to a standstill on Friday over a policy dispute that threatened to upend President Joe Biden's top agenda item -- a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill -- and prompted a furious lobbying effort behind the scenes after Democrats thought they had party unity.
  
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• Multiple cracks found in engine that caught fire on United Airlines flight over Denver

  06-03-2021 16:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The broken blade on the Pratt & Whitney engine had been used on 2,979 flights since its last inspection in 2016, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
  
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• Pope, top Iraq Shiite cleric hold historic, symbolic meeting

  06-03-2021 16:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The meeting lasted for 40 minutes, with some concerns over the cleric's safety as he has yet to be vaccinated.
  
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• Spanish farmers deeply split as ban on hunting wolves is extended

  06-03-2021 15:58 via theguardian.com
  
  The predators, protected in the south, are widely blamed for attacks on livestock but some think coexistence is possible“There have always been wolves. We humans have hunted and killed all the animals around us because we want everything for ourselves,” says Laura Serrano Isla, who tends her flock of 650 sheep near Burgos in north-west Spain.“We think we rule the world but if we kill all the rest of the animals, the wolf will come for our livestock.” Continue reading...
  
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• Amanda Gorman, inaugural poet, says she was 'tailed' by security guard on her walk home

  06-03-2021 15:51 via cnn.com
  
  Amanda Gorman, the nation's first youth poet laureate, said she was "tailed" and told "you look suspicious" by a security guard as she walked home Friday night.
  
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• Amanda Gorman, Biden's inauguration poet, says she was 'tailed' by security guard on her walk home

  06-03-2021 15:51 via cnn.com
  
  Amanda Gorman, the nation's first youth poet laureate, said she was "tailed" and told "you look suspicious" by a security guard as she walked home Friday night.
  
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• The legendary Iditarod sled dog race is going ahead amid the coronavirus pandemic

  06-03-2021 15:29 via cnn.com
  
  The Iditarod, Alaska's legendary long-distance sled dog race, is set to begin Sunday despite the threat of coronavirus.
  
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• Harry and Meghan expose palace hypocrisy

  06-03-2021 15:11 via cnn.com
  
  •Analysis: Harry and Meghan steal the show before its even aired
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• Disneyland and baseball stadiums to reopen as California eases Covid rules

  06-03-2021 15:03 via theguardian.com
  
  State relaxes guidelines for outdoor venues after long pauseCoronavirus – live news coverageCalifornia has cleared a path for fans to attend opening-day baseball games and for tourists to return to Disneyland, nearly a year after coronavirus restrictions shuttered major entertainment spots.Related: California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions, study saysContinue reading...
  
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