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• Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs tax rise on companies

  06-04-2021 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Comments by the world's richest man come amid a fierce debate over raising the tax rate on companies.
  
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• GOP lawmakers stumped when asked about anti-transgender bill they are pushing

  06-04-2021 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reports on the trend across the country with 26 Republican-lead states proposing anti-transgender sports bills.
  
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• Foden scores late winner as Man City edge Dortmund in first leg

  06-04-2021 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Phil Foden scores a late winner as Manchester City beat Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie at the Etihad.
  
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• Young people are driving the latest Covid surge, especially in Michigan

  06-04-2021 23:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  "We're seeing more and more young people get into serious trouble," Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
  
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• The cynical political reality behind Mitch McConnell's warning to corporate America

  06-04-2021 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  • McConnell warns of 'serious consequences' for businesses over voting law backlash
  
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• 'Smarten up': Biden admonishes restrictive voting laws

  06-04-2021 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden says that it is reassuring to see corporations speak up about restrictive voting laws and admonished states that are pushing new measures that make voting more difficult.
  
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• Biden admonishes voting laws

  06-04-2021 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden says that it is reassuring to see corporations speak up about restrictive voting laws and admonished states that are pushing new measures that make voting more difficult.
  
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• CNN anchor gets surprise tribute from co-anchor

  06-04-2021 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  "New Day" co-host John Berman wishes farewell to Alisyn Camerota before she moves to her new role anchoring CNN's weekday coverage with Victor Blackwell.
  
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• Analysis: Why vaccine passports are so politically complicated

  06-04-2021 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  Many millions of Americans are now vaccinated and itching to get on with something resembling their pre-pandemic lives, but new Covid strains are afflicting younger people who have had less access to vaccines and are less likely to maintain social distance.
  
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• George Floyd death: Chauvin 'trained to stay away from neck'

  06-04-2021 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Minneapolis Police Department training officers testify on use of force in George Floyd's death.
  
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• Reporter's Notebook: Amy Kellogg flips the switch on Florence's streetlights

  06-04-2021 22:43 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Renaissance city of Florence is proud of its heritage but not only proud. The people in charge of lighting this set-piece city hold onto another tradition: manually turning on the streetlights every night. It's the only city in Italy that does it this way. 
  
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• Alexei Navalny ‘seriously ill’ in prison, moved to sick ward: report

  06-04-2021 22:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is “seriously ill” at the penal colony where he’s been locked up and was recently transferred to the prison’s sick ward to be treated for a respiratory illness, reports said Tuesday. 
  
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• The temporary halt comes as UK regulators review the occurrence of rare blood clots in adults

  06-04-2021 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  A pediatric trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been paused pending a review by the UK's medicines regulator of rare blood clot cases in adults, a University of Oxford spokesperson told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Kim Kardashian West joins billionaire club

  06-04-2021 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Forbes business magazine adds the US reality TV star to its list of the super-rich.
  
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• California says it will fully reopen in June

  06-04-2021 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  California, the first state to implement a lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen activities and businesses beginning June 15, state officials said Tuesday.
  
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• Border patrol finds 10-year-old migrant child alone crying for help

  06-04-2021 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  A 10-year-old unaccompanied migrant child was found alone in a field on the morning of April 1. A farmer spotted the boy and alerted Border Patrol authorities. The child had been traveling with a group, without parents, according to US Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings, who provided the video to CNN. Hastings said the boy had been left for approximately four hours and "when he woke up, he didn't know where he was or where to go." The full circumstances of the 10
  
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• Masters 2021: Bryson DeChambeau excited by 'secret' club for Augusta National title tilt

  06-04-2021 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bryson DeChambeau says he has a "secret" club for this week's Masters as he continues to "go down numerous rabbit holes" in his quest to win a Green Jacket.
  
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• Dutch police arrest suspect in thefts of Van Gogh, Frans Hals paintings

  06-04-2021 21:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A 58-year-old man has been arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly swiping two paintings by Dutch masters Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums shuttered by  the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
  
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• Police officials deal direct blows to Chauvin's defense

  06-04-2021 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  In opening statements last week, Derek Chauvin's defense attorney said the former Minneapolis Police officer "did exactly what he had been trained to do" when he restrained George Floyd last May.
  
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• Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck is not an authorized use of force, lieutenant testifies

  06-04-2021 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  The training coordinator for the Minneapolis Police Department's crisis intervention program testified Tuesday in Derek Chauvin's criminal trial about the importance of recognizing when someone is in crisis and deescalating the situation.
  
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• Norwegian Cruise Lines wants to let vaccinated passengers sail

  06-04-2021 21:04 via cnn.com
  
  Norwegian Cruise Line wants to start US cruises again on July 4, and it's willing to require all passengers and staff to be vaccinated before it sets sail.
  
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• Jordan Prince Hamzah: How Saudi Arabia fits into the crisis

  06-04-2021 21:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Saudi officials categorically deny suggestions their country had any role in an alleged coup attempt.
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan's first Netflix series announced

  06-04-2021 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have announced their first Netflix project after signing a production deal last year.
  
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• Harry and Meghan set their first series at Netflix

  06-04-2021 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have announced their first Netflix project after signing a production deal last year.
  
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• Woman thriving after first-of-its-kind transplant

  06-04-2021 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  Sonia Sein is breathing freely again after the first successful human trachea transplant repaired her airway, which was damaged after she suffered a severe asthma attack.
  
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• AstraZeneca Covid vaccine: weighing up the risks and rewards

  06-04-2021 20:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite scientific advice to continue getting the jab, answers about fatal blood clots are urgently neededCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVaccines have side-effects, as do all medicines. Most often, jabs cause sore arms, a headache or a bit of nausea – none of which would be very significant when weighed against the toll of a serious virus such as Covid-19.But sometimes the risk-benefit calculation may look less simple, as in the case of Oxford/AstraZeneca
  
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• In pictures: Volcano erupts in Iceland

  06-04-2021 20:34 via cnn.com
  
  A recent volcanic eruption has people flocking to see it in Iceland — and some have even gotten close enough to roast hot dogs on it.
  
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• 3-year-old boy, 7 adults wounded in latest Chicago shootings

  06-04-2021 20:28
  
  Police say a 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head while riding in a car along Chicago's famed Lake Shore Drive
  
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• Video shows Paris elite enjoying secret dinner parties amid pandemic

  06-04-2021 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  An undercover report showing members of the Paris elite enjoying secret dinner parties in luxury restaurants and flouting Covid-19 restrictions has sparked fury in France, and prompted the city's prosecutor to launch an investigation.
  
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• The UK needs a robust border policy, but right now we can’t see if it is working

  06-04-2021 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: it is incredibly challenging to scrutinise the system because data on movement is so opaque
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage The official response to coronavirus at the UK border has been problematic from the start. It was not until February this year that the government introduced mandatory hotel quarantine – 11 months after coronavirus was first recorded the UK – despite it being used in countries such as New Zealand from the off.Even now
  
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• McConnell warns of 'serious consequences' for corporate America over voting law backlash

  06-04-2021 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned big businesses they would face "serious consequences" after accusing them of employing "economic blackmail" in attempts to influence voting laws as the backlash over Georgia's elections law that imposes voting restrictions intensifies.
  
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• Dustin Johnson to serve pigs in a blankets, filet mignon at Masters Champions Dinner

  06-04-2021 19:49 via cnn.com
  
  Besides the green jacket, the adulation and the acclaim, one of the greatest honors for a Masters winner is putting on a spread for his fellow champions at the next year's tournament.
  
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• Kremlin defends Arctic military build-up

  06-04-2021 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the presence of Russian troops in the Arctic an "absolutely necessary" part of military development, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
  
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• Dutch arrest over Van Gogh and Frans Hals museum thefts

  06-04-2021 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The two paintings were stolen in separate raids on museums last year but have not yet been recovered.
  
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• Rangers star Kamara's lawyer criticises Uefa after Slavia Prague's Kudela suspended

  06-04-2021 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The one-match ban issued to Slavia Prague defender Ondrej Kudela "does little to instil confidence" in Uefa's approach to eradicating racism, says Rangers player Glen Kamara's lawyer.
  
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• 'Chernobyl' and 'Harry Potter' actor Paul Ritter dies at 54

  06-04-2021 19:13
  
  Versatile British actor Paul Ritter, whose roles ranged from a hapless suburban patriarch in sitcom “Friday Night Dinner” to a Soviet engineer who helps cause a nuclear disaster in “Chernobyl,”  has died at 54
  
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• US looking into reports of Ethiopian military executing unarmed men after CNN investigation

  06-04-2021 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  The US State Department said Monday it was looking into reports of extrajudicial executions committed by the Ethiopian army following a CNN investigation.
  
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• Iran nuclear deal: US joins Vienna talks aimed at reviving accord

  06-04-2021 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Diplomats in Vienna are discussing how the US can lift sanctions and Iran return to compliance.
  
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• Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe

  06-04-2021 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Bronze Age engravings are a map of part of Brittany, north-west France, researchers believe.
  
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• Prison break that freed nearly 2,000 inmates decried as 'act of terrorism'

  06-04-2021 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly 2000 inmates broke free from a prison in southeast Nigeria Monday after armed men invaded the site and used explosives to blast parts of the prison, authorities said.
  
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• Senate Dems now have more room to pass bills without GOP support

  06-04-2021 18:36
  
  The move gives an unexpected boost to Biden amid his infrastructure proposal.
  
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• Neighbours: Aboriginal actors allege racist incidents on set

  06-04-2021 18:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The set was "culturally unsafe", Shareena Clanton says, accusing other actors of using racist slurs.
  
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• Deputy stabbed to death at Georgia jail; another deputy hurt

  06-04-2021 18:29
  
  Authorities say a sheriff's deputy has been stabbed to death with his own knife by an inmate at a Georgia jail
  
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• Suspect arrested in theft of Van Gogh art

  06-04-2021 18:28 via cnn.com
  
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing two paintings, one by Vincent van Gogh and one by Frans Hals, from museums in the Netherlands, police said.
  
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• Suspect arrested in theft of Van Gogh and Hals paintings

  06-04-2021 18:28 via cnn.com
  
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing two paintings, one by Vincent van Gogh and one by Frans Hals, from museums in the Netherlands, police said.
  
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• Most kids with serious inflammatory illness had mild COVID

  06-04-2021 18:27
  
  The best way to prevent it is to prevent COVID-19 infections.
  
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• Picasso's portrait of a young lover to sell for $55 million at auction

  06-04-2021 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Pablo Picasso's 1932 "Femme Assise Près d'une Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)" ("Woman Sitting Near a Window"), a portrait of his teenage lover and "golden muse" from a critical point in his career, will be offered in Christie's newly rebranded 20th Century Art Evening Sale in New York on May 11, with an estimate of $55 million.
  
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• Manchester City post £126m loss for disrupted 2019-20 season

  06-04-2021 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Premier League leaders Manchester City report a loss of £126m for the 2019-20 season which was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• How to talk to believers of COVID-19 conspiracy theories

  06-04-2021 18:12
  
  Psychology experts offer several suggestions for talking to friends and family who believe conspiracy theories about COVID-19
  
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• 2 injured in Maryland shooting, Navy suspect killed on military base: Officials

  06-04-2021 18:10
  
  Two people are in critical condition after a shooting near Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, on Tuesday morning.
  
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