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• Father says son with autism was slammed to ground, punched by officer

  23-04-2021 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  The incident happened on Wednesday in Vacaville, California, and was captured on a doorbell camera.
  
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• NASA's Mars helicopter shares first aerial color photo

  23-04-2021 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  The Ingenuity helicopter captured its first color image from 17 feet above the Martian surface during its second flight on April 22. And now, it's preparing for a third flight, scheduled for Sunday.
  
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• Why the 90's kids who were rooting for 'Mortal Kombat' are going to be disappointed

  23-04-2021 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Anyone who played the pixelated gore-fest knows the creativity of its fights and its characters were what made it rad. Both are missing from the film.
  
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• How the Milky Way likely grew to its massive size

  23-04-2021 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  A new study says the Milky Way probably consumed a dwarf galaxy in its younger days in order to grow to its current massive size.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell pleads not guilty to new sex trafficking charges

  23-04-2021 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein, pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges Friday in her first court appearance since her arrest last summer.
  
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• Biden tells Turkish President he will recognize 1915 massacre of Armenians as a genocide

  23-04-2021 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday he plans to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, according to a person familiar with the conversation.
  
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• 'What is the point?': Republican Sen. Ron Johnson questions Covid-19 vaccine push

  23-04-2021 23:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  "We are dealing with an emergency," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in response to the Wisconsin senator.
  
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• New book details Pelosi's 'complicated' relationship with 'The Squad' & tumultuous exchanges with Trump

  23-04-2021 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, joins The Lead to discuss her new biography "Madam Speaker".
  
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• Defense Secretary Austin orders aircraft carrier and bombers to guard U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

  23-04-2021 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Austin has extended the mission of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which is already in the Middle East, and two bombers have already arrived in the region.
  
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• Pediatric expert tells CNN he is hopeful that teens can get vaccinated next month

  23-04-2021 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Alexandra Field reports.
  
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• Gaetz probe includes scrutiny of potential corruption tied to medical marijuana industry

  23-04-2021 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas involving Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana, people briefed on the matter told CNN.
  
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• How the Bay of Pigs invasion began - and failed - 60 years on

  23-04-2021 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The story of the attempted overthrow of Castro's regime in Cuba, as told by the men who were there.
  
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• UK PM's former chief adviser denies leaking PM's text messages

  23-04-2021 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  The UK Prime Minister's former chief advisor Dominic Cummings has denied leaking Prime Minister Boris Johnson's text messages in a blog post published on Friday.
  
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• Boris Johnson's former chief adviser denies leaking PM's text messages

  23-04-2021 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  The UK Prime Minister's former chief advisor Dominic Cummings has denied leaking Prime Minister Boris Johnson's text messages in a blog post published on Friday.
  
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• India Covid crisis: Inside the Delhi hospital running low on beds and oxygen

  23-04-2021 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Covid-19 patients who get a hospital bed are being described as the lucky ones in India's deadly second wave.
  
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• Biden tells Erdoğan he plans to recognize Armenian genocide

  23-04-2021 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday he plans to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, according to a person familiar with the conversation.
  
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• Areas near beaches crawling with ticks that cause Lyme disease, new research finds

  23-04-2021 21:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  “We went into new habitats and found them in numbers we didn’t expect,” the lead author of a new study said.
  
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• Nevada fugitive caught in Mexico after 27 years on the run

  23-04-2021 21:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Samuel Gallardo had been on the run since his 1994 escape from the Nevada Department of Corrections, according to the U.S. Marshals Service
  
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• Teen girl's death after Ohio police encounter part of long history of misconduct, activists say

  23-04-2021 21:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Department of Justice has previously investigated Columbus police over use-of-force allegations. The latest fatal shooting has activists demanding a new investigation.
  
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• Black family to reclaim land nearly 100 years after it was seized under eminent domain

  23-04-2021 20:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  “Returning Bruce’s Beach would certainly repair the damage done to Charles and Willa’s family who lost out on generational wealth, but it can never repair the trauma inflicted by the KKK," a family spokesman said.
  
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• No, the new iMac isn't ugly. The design and colors are a breath of fresh air

  23-04-2021 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  When Apple unveiled its colorful new iMac line at a virtual product launch earlier this week, reactions were divided: They're beautiful. They're ugly. What is with that 'chin'?
  
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• Ryan Giggs charged with assault of two women and 'coercive and controlling behaviour'

  23-04-2021 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, who is the manager of the Welsh national football team, has been charged with assaulting two women and "coercive and controlling behaviour," police said on Friday.
  
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• Chernobyl radiation effects have not been passed on to next generation, study finds

  23-04-2021 20:29 via cnn.com
  
  Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found.
  
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• French officials open terror probe after police officer fatally stabbed, attacker shot dead

  23-04-2021 19:54 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The anti-terrorism office took charge due to statements the suspect made during the attack.
  
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• Justice Dept. now expects to charge more than 500 in Capitol riot probe

  23-04-2021 18:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Department lawyers have described the sprawling investigation as one of the largest in American history.
  
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• Biden sets date for first foreign trip

  23-04-2021 18:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden will embark upon his first foreign trip in June, the White House said on Friday, with plans to attend the Group of 7 summit in southwestern England and diplomatic meetings in Brussels.
  
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• The country's second Covid wave has devastated communities and hospitals across the country

  23-04-2021 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  • Covid-19 latest: India recorded the highest ever daily rise in cases worldwide
  
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• Missing Indonesian submarine: US, Australia help search for 53 crew members running low on oxygen

  23-04-2021 17:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Australia has committed two warships to the search effort, while the U.S. adds a reconnaissance plane to help Indonesia’s navy locate a missing submarine with 53 crew members aboard.
  
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• Drone images of mass cremations as India battles Covid-19

  23-04-2021 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  With a rising death toll in a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, authorities in India have been forced to hold mass cremations at makeshift sites. The country has seen more than 16 million confirmed cases since the pandemic began.
  
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• Police: 1 dead, 4 wounded in downtown San Diego shooting

  23-04-2021 17:55
  
  Police say one person has died in a shooting in downtown San Diego and that four other people were wounded
  
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• 'I'm in': Caitlyn Jenner announces bid for California governor amid recall effort

  23-04-2021 17:50
  
  Caitlyn Jenner, a former Olympian and celebrity reality TV star, filed paperwork to run for governor of California.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner launches bid for California governor

  23-04-2021 17:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  The former Olympian, reality TV star and transgender activist announced her run as the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom moves forward.
  
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• Video captures police tasing Marine veteran in daughter's hospital room

  23-04-2021 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Marine veteran CJ Andersen was tased by police while at his daughter's bedside in the hospital, 2019 body camera video from the Colorado Springs Police Department appears to show. Andersen has sued the Colorado Springs Police Department who told CNN they were unable to comment on this matter because it is under litigation.
  
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• 'The worst of all the catastrophes' recedes in Vegas

  23-04-2021 17:44 via cnn.com
  
  On a recent Wednesday night, the famous Las Vegas strip was teeming with tourists. Families crowded around the Fountains of Bellagio, enthralled by the light show as geysers of water soared hundreds of feet into the air while Frank Sinatra's "Luck Be a Lady" blasted over the loudspeakers.
  
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• Chad rebels prepare offensive as president Idriss Déby is buried

  23-04-2021 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Front for Change and Concord heads towards capital, N’Djamena, where memorial took placeRebels were preparing a new offensive towards the capital of Chad on Friday as dignitaries and supporters paid their final respects to Idriss Déby, the veteran ruler of the central African state, who died earlier this week from wounds sustained “on the battlefield”.The Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) said its forces were about 190 miles (300km) north of N’Djamena, th
  
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• Biden sets date for maiden foreign trip

  23-04-2021 17:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden will embark upon his first foreign trip in June, the White House said on Friday, with plans to attend the Group of 7 summit in southwestern England and diplomatic meetings in Brussels.
  
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• Police official killed in knife attack at station near Paris

  23-04-2021 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  A female police official has been fatally stabbed in a knife attack at a police station in Rambouillet, a suburb of Paris, the French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday.
  
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• FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

  23-04-2021 17:03
  
  Medical providers may soon return to using one medical N95 mask per patient, a practice that was suspended during the pandemic due to deadly supply shortages
  
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• Russell Crowe has revealed his role in 'Thor: Love & Thunder'

  23-04-2021 16:58 via cnn.com
  
  Russell Crowe has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the Greek god Zeus.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner announces run for California governor in likely recall election

  23-04-2021 16:58 via cnn.com
  
  Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympian and reality TV star, announced Friday she plans to run to replace California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in an expected recall election later this year.
  
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• Search intensifies for missing submarine as oxygen supplies dwindle

  23-04-2021 16:56 via cnn.com
  
  An unidentified object has been spotted at the site of the ongoing search for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew members on board as authorities warn oxygen on the vessel will run out within 24 hours. CNN's Blake Essig reports.
  
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• Simone Biles drops Nike and signs with Athleta

  23-04-2021 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast ever and one of the world's greatest athletes, is leaving endorsement powerhouse Nike for a deal with Athleta, the athletic clothing unit of Gap Inc.
  
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• Infertility and my path to surrogacy

  23-04-2021 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  I'll never forget the look on my fertility doctor's face, her eyes saddening as she gently turned toward my husband and me, looking away from the ultrasound scan.
  
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• DOJ weighs charging Chauvin for 2017 incident involving Black teen: Source

  23-04-2021 16:52
  
  Federal investigators probing Derek Chauvin's use of force against George Floyd are also weighing charging him for a 2017 incident involving a Black teen, a source said.
  
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• SpaceX rocket soars in pre-dawn launch of 4 astronauts

  23-04-2021 16:50
  
  Four astronauts from three countries launched from the Florida coast early Friday morning as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission.
  
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• Coronavirus on Mount Everest: Norwegian climber is first to test positive

  23-04-2021 16:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Norwegian climber became the first to be tested for COVID-19 in Mount Everest base camp and was flown by helicopter to Kathmandu, where he was hospitalized.
  
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• Capitol rioter arrested after being turned in by match on online dating app Bumble

  23-04-2021 16:38 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department has charged a Capitol rioter who was turned in by someone he matched with on the dating app Bumble, after he bragged about his exploits on January 6.
  
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• Why Tim Scott is a low-key 2024 favorite

  23-04-2021 16:28 via cnn.com
  
  The announcement on Thursday night that Tim Scott has been chosen to deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday ensures that the South Carolina senator will get a big moment in the national spotlight even as his party continues to wrestle with its future direction and leaders.
  
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• A short history of the world's tallest buildings

  23-04-2021 16:20 via cnn.com
  
  When New York's Equitable Life Building opened in 1870, the businessman behind the project, Henry Baldwin Hyde, was berated for having delusions of grandeur. Costing more than $4 million (around $81 million in today's money), his insurance company's headquarters soared a then-astonishing seven stories above the streets of Manhattan.
  
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• Superyacht towed through narrow canal in Netherlands – video

  23-04-2021 16:06 via theguardian.com
  
  A Dutch superyacht has completed its four-day passage through a narrow canal en route to the North Sea for testing. At 94 metres long, it is the largest possible vessel which can pass through.Tom van Oossanen, a superyacht photographer who captured the footage, said: ‘The designers face limitations due to the narrow waterways and bridges. It’s always a tight squeeze. The locals usually love it. It’s very instagrammable’ Continue reading...
  
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