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• Taliban issues attack warning as May 1 deadline for US troop removal passes

  01-05-2021 23:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Taliban sent a warning of "counteraction" to the U.S. Saturday, as the original May 1 date for U.S. and NATO troop removal from Afghanistan passed.
  
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• Washington Post, New York Times retract reports on Giuliani

  01-05-2021 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Washington Post and The New York Times on Saturday issued significant corrections, retracting earlier reporting that said Rudy Giuliani had been directly warned by the FBI that he was the target of a Russian disinformation campaign.
  
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• Oscar-winning actor Olympia Dukakis, star of Moonstruck, dies aged 89

  01-05-2021 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Dukakis won best supporting actress Academy AwardFilm, TV and stage actor also starred in Steel MagnoliasOlympia Dukakis, the Oscar-winning actor whose hit films included Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, has died. She was 89. Related: Olympia Dukakis: 'My character is described as a foul-mouthed lesbian Walther Matthau? I love that!'Continue reading...
  
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• Actress Esmé Bianco sues Marilyn Manson months after she accused him of sexual assault

  01-05-2021 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  Actress Esmé Bianco is accusing singer Marilyn Manson of sexually assaulting, coercing through drugs and beating her multiple times during their relationship a decade ago, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
  
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• Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning 'Moonstruck' actress, has died

  01-05-2021 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  Olympia Dukakis, an Oscar-winning actress for her role in "Moonstruck," died Saturday in New York City. She was 89 years old.
  
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• Colorado woman killed in rare black bear attack, authorities say

  01-05-2021 22:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Boyfriend of 39-year-old victim finds body near DurangoOfficials say sow and two cubs found and killed near sceneA 39-year-old Colorado woman died in an apparent black bear attack, just the fourth fatal mauling in the state since records began in 1960, authorities said on Saturday. Related: Montana guide mauled to death in grizzly bear attack outside YellowstoneContinue reading...
  
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• ‘I’m not selling’: what happens when an Australian town is consumed by a US coalminer?

  01-05-2021 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Col Faulkner, 68, owns the only house in Wollar that hasn’t been bought up by US-based miner PeabodyBev Smiles usually turns up at least an hour before the start of any functions at Wollar’s community hall – a spot for many a dance and committee meeting over the years.“We have to get in early with leaf blowers to get an inch of dust off the floor – every surface in the hall is black,” Smiles says. “That’s what people’s kitchens are like.&rdqu
  
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• Mexico expects US to send 5m more Covid vaccine doses, president says

  01-05-2021 21:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Mexican production of AstraZeneca jab suffers setbacksLópez Obrador: “it’s probable that they’ll help us with a loan’Mexica’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Friday the US will probably send his country 5m more doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, as the company admitted production in Central and South America had suffered multiple setbacks. Related: US cites Indian variant in implementing travel ban from TuesdayContinu
  
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• Why Delta airlines is resuming selling middle seats

  01-05-2021 21:06 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Pete Muntean reports on Delta airlines lifting capacity limits on their flights by resuming the sale of middle seats.
  
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• Two pandemics: as we ease up, virus sweeps the world’s poor

  01-05-2021 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Latin America and Africa face new wave as politicians and scientists urge rescue packagesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWorld leaders have been warned that unless they act with extreme urgency, the Covid-19 pandemic will overwhelm health services in many nations in South America, Asia, and Africa over the next few weeks.Only billions of pounds of aid and massive exports of vaccines can halt a humanitarian catastrophe that is now unfolding rapidly across the pla
  
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• Riot police break up illegal party in Brussels park using tear gas and water cannon – video

  01-05-2021 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Clashes erupted as riot police in Belgium used tear gas and water cannon to disperse revellers at an illegal party in Brussels' Bois de la Cambre park.The event, dubbed 'La Boum 2', was a sequel to the fake festival arranged as an April Fools' Day joke at the same park on 1 April – and was held in defiance of the government's Covid-19 restrictions. A collective called 'L'abîme Team', the organiser of the event on social media, unsuccessfully tried to seek permission for the gathering
  
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• Myanmar swimmer Win Htet Oo: 'Genocidaires do not deserve to be in the Olympics'

  01-05-2021 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  A leading Myanmar swimmer has called for the country's Olympic committee to be expelled from the Olympic Movement, saying "genocidaires do not deserve to be in the Olympics."
  
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• London killings: ‘It’s like a war zone. How did it come to this?’

  01-05-2021 19:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The shooting and stabbing of a teenager in broad daylight on a street in Canning Town is just the latest chapter of what has become Britain’s most violent gangland feudRachid has no idea what the future holds, apart from the certainty that he’ll never visit east London’s Canning Town. “If I set foot there, I’ll get stabbed.” He has just turned 19, and two of his friends have already been murdered on the streets.A trip to the nearest corner shop has become a da
  
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• Tory poll lead slashed as key elections loom across Britain

  01-05-2021 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Stories of Conservative sleaze appear to be having an impact as Keir Starmer faces his first electoral test as Labour leader on 6 MayLabour has slashed the Tories’ poll lead in half as more voters conclude that Boris Johnson is corrupt and dishonest ahead of this week’s bumper set of local and devolved elections.The latest Opinium poll for the Observer shows the Conservative lead has fallen from 11 points to five points after a week in which the prime minister was at the centre of al
  
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• George Floyd: New Jersey teacher suspended over rant to pupils

  01-05-2021 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Profanity-laced comments to pupils aired by local TVHoward Zlotkin refers to Floyd as a ‘criminal’A New Jersey high school teacher was suspended with pay for making profanity-laced comments to students about George Floyd. Related: Teargas, flash-bangs: the devastating toll of police tactics on Minnesota childrenContinue reading...
  
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• Why it's not yet time to 'move on' from Covid

  01-05-2021 19:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  We understand the desire to look to brighter days ahead. But the uninterrupted focus on those yet untouched by this virus leaves too much work unfinished.
  
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• Thousands march through London in biggest ‘kill the bill’ protest yet

  01-05-2021 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Critics of the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill say it would curb the right to protestThousands of protesters have marched through central London against the new police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, in the biggest protest under the “kill the bill” banner to have taken place so far.After gathering in Trafalgar Square from midday, protesters marched past Buckingham Palace then through Victoria, past the Department for Education and the Home Office, and finally across the
  
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• At least 10 children and teens among dead in crush at festival in Israel

  01-05-2021 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Partial list records 45 deaths at ultra-Orthodox event as identification of bodies continuesAt least 10 children and teenagers were among 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a crush at a religious festival in northern Israel, according to a partial list of names published on Saturday as the identification of victims in Israel’s deadliest civilian disaster continued.Four Americans, a Canadian and a man from Argentina were also among those killed. Two families each lost two children. The younge
  
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• May Day protesters in Paris demand more job protections amid pandemic

  01-05-2021 19:08 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Workers and union leaders dusted off bullhorns and flags that had stayed furled during coronavirus lockdowns for slimmed down but still boisterous — and at times violent — May Day marches on Saturday.
  
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• DA asks feds to probe unlawful strip searches in NYC suburb

  01-05-2021 19:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah cited “potentially unlawful conduct by several former and current” Mount Vernon Police Department officers in her request.
  
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• Disneyland reopening marks California's Covid-19 turnaround

  01-05-2021 18:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  California’s world-famous theme park, which reopened after an unprecedented 13-month closure, is admitting only state residents and operating under a limited capacity for now.
  
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• Sheriff's office fires deputy who punched teen, another who pulled gun on driver

  01-05-2021 17:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bert Dillow and Eric D. Sanchez were terminated from the Harris County Sheriff's Office for violating department policies.
  
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• Mend your clothes and do yourself some good

  01-05-2021 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Care and repair is an invaluable mantra for your wardrobe, your mental health, your wallet and the planetIn today’s society, many of us go through our whole lives without ever working with our hands; we live, we work, we eat, we buy, we repeat. Everything is made and delivered at a blistering rate, from fast food to fast fashion and, although this may keep the economy buoyant, it’s not necessarily good for our mental health, or for our planet.But during the past year of lockdown, we
  
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• ‘Stop the Breast Pest’: MP’s ‘horror’ at being photographed while breastfeeding

  01-05-2021 16:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Stella Creasy launches campaign to change law after a boy took pictures of her feeding her baby on a trainAn MP has described her “horror” after she was photographed while breastfeeding on public transport, as she and a fellow MP launch a campaign to criminalise the taking of such pictures.Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, said she was breastfeeding her then four-month-old on a overground train near Highbury and Islington in north London when she noticed a teenage boy lau
  
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• Harvey Weinstein's transfer to L.A. on rape, sexual assault charges could be delayed

  01-05-2021 16:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Prosecutors are seeking his transfer on charges of assaulting five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.
  
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• At least 4 U.S. citizens among the dead in stampede at religious festival in Israel

  01-05-2021 16:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  "There are four families that are in the New York area that we are in touch with," a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs told NBC News.
  
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• Federal judge says Columbus police ran 'amok' during peaceful protests

  01-05-2021 16:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Peaceful protesters alleged that "officers engaged in collective punishment by indiscriminately pepper-spraying, tear-gassing, or shooting wooden bullets."
  
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• How Holbein left clever clue in portrait to identify Henry VIII’s queen

  01-05-2021 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  New evidence shows miniature long held to be of Catherine Howard could depict Henry’s fourth wife, Anne of ClevesCreated in around 1540 by Hans Holbein, court painter to Henry VIII and one of the greatest portraitists of all time, the miniature is a prized treasure in the Royal Collection. But the sitter is unknown, with the artefact long catalogued merely as “Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Catherine Howard”, Henry VIII’s fifth queen.Now, as a result of fresh research, she h
  
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• How to solve problem of vaccine hesitancy?

  01-05-2021 15:34 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Leana Wen worries that America is not going to get to herd immunity, and says, 'we need to address concerns of people who change their minds' and show people what a return to normal looks like.
  
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• Modi could have prevented Covid crisis, critics say. He didn't

  01-05-2021 15:06 via cnn.com
  
  On April 17, ahead of a state election, a maskless Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a sea of cheering supporters: "I've never ever seen such huge crowds at a rally."
  
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• Indian PM Modi held rallies as cases rose

  01-05-2021 15:06 via cnn.com
  
  On April 17, ahead of a state election, a maskless Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a sea of cheering supporters: "I've never ever seen such huge crowds at a rally."
  
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• Bush: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ ideals show pro-Trump Republicans ‘want to be extinct’

  01-05-2021 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Former president speaks as lone anti-Trump Republican seeks House seat in Texas special electionAhead of a special election on Saturday to replace a Texas congressman who died after contracting Covid-19, former president George W Bush said the ascendancy of supporters of Donald Trump suggest Republicans “want to be extinct”. Related: George W Bush on Trump’s Republicans: ‘Isolationist, protectionist, nativist’Continue reading...
  
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• CNN speaks to doctor on the front lines of India's Covid-19 crisis

  01-05-2021 14:33 via cnn.com
  
  As the coronavirus situation worses in India, hospitals are full and lacking oxygen while only two percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. CNN's Sam Kiley speaks to a doctor in New Delhi who says the losses are incomprehensible.
  
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• CNN speaks to doctor on the front lines in India's Covid-19 crisis

  01-05-2021 14:33 via cnn.com
  
  As the coronavirus situation worses in India, hospitals are full and lacking oxygen while only two percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. CNN's Sam Kiley speaks to a doctor in New Delhi who says the losses are incomprehensible.
  
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• CNN speaks to doctor on front line of India's crisis

  01-05-2021 14:33 via cnn.com
  
  As the coronavirus situation worses in India, hospitals are full and lacking oxygen while only two percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. CNN's Sam Kiley speaks to a doctor in New Delhi who says the losses are incomprehensible.
  
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• 'I was always, I can, and I will': Isha Johansen on rise to FIFA corridors of power

  01-05-2021 14:04 via cnn.com
  
  For Isha Johansen, a journey that began by helping to give kids displaced by war a semblance of a normal childhood, has led her to become the first West African woman elected to the council of soccer's world governing body, FIFA.
  
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• Bin Laden was killed a decade ago. How would Biden have handled it?

  01-05-2021 14:02 via cnn.com
  
  To most Americans, the main foreign policy accomplishment of former President Barack Obama's time in office was the killing of Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader who evaded justice for 10 years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and met his end in a raid by US special operations forces on May 1, 2011.
  
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• Practically perfect? How a new kind of nanny novel nails parents’ angst and anger

  01-05-2021 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Class, race, politics and power are at the heart of modern nanny novels that explore the complex relationship between working mothers and the women they pay to look after their childrenThere’s a line at the opening of Kiley Reid’s hit debut, Such a Fun Age, that encapsulates the drama at the heart of the recent spate of nanny novels. Emira, a young black woman dressed for a night out, is stopped by a security guard in an upscale supermarket with Briar, the white child she looks after
  
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• Revelers gather for UK rave experiment without social distancing

  01-05-2021 13:37 via cnn.com
  
  Crowds of revelers descended on the city of Liverpool in northwest England on Friday for a live music event held without masks or social distancing.
  
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• Sailor spent nightmarish 4 years trapped aboard Egyptian cargo ship

  01-05-2021 13:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Syrian sailor spent a frightening four years trapped aboard a cargo ship off the Egyptian coast – two of them alone — before he was finally allowed to go home earlier this month, according to reports.
  
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• Brothers meet after nearly 60 years apart

  01-05-2021 13:18 via cnn.com
  
  CNN affiliate WXII reports on two North Carolina brothers who met for the first time after 60 years apart.
  
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• L.S. Lowry's 'Going to the Match' painting set to sell for $4 million

  01-05-2021 13:15 via cnn.com
  
  British artist L.S. Lowry's "Going to the Match" painting is expected to sell at auction for up to $4 million in June, Sotheby's auction house said on Friday.
  
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• There's a reason the GOP's ridiculous beef conspiracy won't go away

  01-05-2021 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  There’s a reason why this faux warning cry about a meat ban conjures such fury and fear.
  
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• Gender-affirming surgery linked to better mental health, study finds

  01-05-2021 12:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  “We should be expanding gender-affirming care, not limiting it,” the report's lead author said.
  
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• Return to pre-pandemic life seems close, but Covid-19 confusion remains for many Americans

  01-05-2021 12:26 via cnn.com
  
  100M fully vaccinated people are helping the US reopen. But many millions more are needed
  
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• A 330-ton fatberg is clogging an English city's sewer. It won't move for weeks

  01-05-2021 11:36 via cnn.com
  
  A massive fatberg, weighing more than 300 tons, is clogging a sewer in an English city -- and authorities say it is unlikely to move for weeks.
  
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• A 330-ton fatberg is clogging a city's sewer. It won't move for weeks

  01-05-2021 11:36 via cnn.com
  
  A massive fatberg, weighing more than 300 tons, is clogging a sewer in an English city -- and authorities say it is unlikely to move for weeks.
  
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• Australians could face jail or fines if they return from India

  01-05-2021 11:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The temporary emergency determination is the first time Australia has made it a criminal offence for its citizens to return home.
  
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• Elliot Page tells Oprah that transition surgery was 'life-saving'

  01-05-2021 11:07 via cnn.com
  
  Elliot Page has said that transition surgery was "life-saving" and led him to feel comfortable in his body for the first time, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
  
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• Actor Elliot Page tells Oprah that transition surgery was 'life-saving'

  01-05-2021 11:07 via cnn.com
  
  Elliot Page has said that transition surgery was "life-saving" and led him to feel comfortable in his body for the first time, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
  
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