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• Opinion: Whatever happened to Jared Kushner's peace plan?

  14-05-2021 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  Last year, former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled their peace plan for the Middle East at the White House. Now, 16 months later, the question that begs to be asked is whether that plan has worked at all.
  
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• U.S. marshal charged in twisted 'rape fantasy' plot against ex-girlfriend

  14-05-2021 23:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ian Diaz was arrested five years after prosecutors say he framed his ex-girlfriend in a scheme that resulted in her spending 88 days in jail.
  
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• What's the science behind CDC's decision to say fully vaccinated people don't need masks?

  14-05-2021 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  A fresh batch of data from a big study of health care workers across the country helped prompt the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to say fully vaccinated people can go without masks in most circumstances, the agency said Friday.
  
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• Unclaimed $26 million lottery ticket may have been washed with laundry

  14-05-2021 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  It looks like a $26 million dollar lottery jackpot will go unclaimed in California because no one came forward with the winning ticket.
  
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• Cat jumps five storeys to safety from burning building

  14-05-2021 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The daring feline leapt from a burning building in Chicago, Illinois, and landed on grass.
  
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• Biden revokes controversial Trump orders on monuments, immigration

  14-05-2021 23:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president has been reversing many of the executive actions taken by his predecessor since his first day in office.
  
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• Reckoning with lethal violence in Colombia's prolonged wave of protests

  14-05-2021 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  How much pain can one bear in the fight for a worthy cause?
  
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• Liz Cheney says she regrets voting for Trump in 2020

  14-05-2021 23:16
  
  Liz Cheney said she regrets voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, speaking in a "This Week" interview with ABC Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
  
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• Florida man wrestles alligator to save his dog

  14-05-2021 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fortunately, both the man and the dog were able to escape the attack with no serious injuries.
  
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• 'The Woman in the Window' asks if Amy Adams is an unreliable narrator, or if her meds are

  14-05-2021 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amy Adams stars in a film that is as much a "Rear Window" knock-off as a recreation of the side effects of trying to find the right psychiatric medication.
  
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• US warns extremists may strike as virus restrictions ease

  14-05-2021 22:45
  
  A new national terrorism alert is warning that violent extremists may take advantage of the easing of pandemic restrictions to conduct attacks
  
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• 'Told the bully what I thought': Swalwell chides Marjorie Taylor Greene aide in mask dispute

  14-05-2021 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Swalwell said the aide yelled at him, demanding he take his mask off, so, "I told the bully what I thought of his order."
  
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• Why Hawaii's governor is keeping state's mask mandate

  14-05-2021 22:34 via cnn.com
  
  Gov. David Ige (D-HI) says he's keeping his state's mask mandate despite CDC guidance that it's safe for vaccinated individuals to go maskless in most indoor and outdoor situations.
  
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• Boris Johnson is using culture wars to cement his grip on power. That's a big risk

  14-05-2021 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson's having a pretty great spring. The success of the UK Prime Minister's coronavirus rollout coupled with the fast-approaching end of lockdown undoubtedly played a significant role in his Conservative party exceeding expectations at local elections last week.
  
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• Boris Johnson is deliberately dividing his country

  14-05-2021 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson's having a pretty great spring. The success of the UK Prime Minister's coronavirus rollout coupled with the fast-approaching end of lockdown undoubtedly played a significant role in his Conservative party exceeding expectations at local elections last week.
  
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• Analysis: Boris Johnson is deliberately dividing his country

  14-05-2021 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson's having a pretty great spring. The success of the UK Prime Minister's coronavirus rollout coupled with the fast-approaching end of lockdown undoubtedly played a significant role in his Conservative party exceeding expectations at local elections last week.
  
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• Ireland's health service hit by 'significant' ransomware attack

  14-05-2021 22:10
  
  Ireland's health service hit by major ransomware attack
  
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• ‘Have a little empathy’: Bali tires of badly behaved foreign influencers

  14-05-2021 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tourists threaten the island’s economic recovery by ignoring Covid protocols, including refusing to wear masks and even making a porn film A Russian Instagrammer who launched his motorbike off a dock, crashing into the sea. Two YouTube pranksters who fooled a supermarket guard with drawn-on face masks, violating the island’s health rules. A couple allegedly filming porn on a sacred mountain.Bali has hosted a range of badly behaved influencers during the pandemic. And now it’s h
  
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• McConaughey on iconic unscripted moment from 'Wolf of Wall Street'

  14-05-2021 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey speaks to Christiane about his memoir 'Greenlights' and his three decade career in Hollywood.
  
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• 'Hollywood forgot me': McConaughey opens up about his career

  14-05-2021 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey speaks to Christiane about his memoir 'Greenlights' and his three decade career in Hollywood.
  
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• Stefanik's win shows old GOP conservative purity tests replaced by a new one

  14-05-2021 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Analysis: The New York Republican cruised to victory in a leadership race against a more conservative rival for one reason — she had Trump's endorsement.
  
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• How two brothers went from nearly jobless to multi-millionaires with a bizarre crypto bet

  14-05-2021 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  On the morning of April 17, two brothers in Westchester, New York, woke up to learn that they had become millionaires overnight, thanks to an unlikely wager on a cryptocurrency that was originally created as a joke.
  
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• One of Kenya's top scientists has a warning for the world

  14-05-2021 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  Covid-19 vaccine supplies are nearly depleted in Kenya, prompting fears among health experts. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.
  
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• Israel-Gaza: 'We are afraid and cannot bear it any more'

  14-05-2021 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israel has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel.
  
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• Man arrested in wife's murder accused of voting for Trump in her name

  14-05-2021 21:16
  
  A Colorado man arrested this month for allegedly murdering his missing wife has also been accused of voting for former President Donald Trump in her name.
  
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• Gaetz ally expected to plead guilty, cooperate with feds in sex-trafficking probe

  14-05-2021 21:16
  
  A one-time close ally of Rep. Matt Gaetz will plead guilty to multiple federal crimes including sex trafficking of a minor and has agreed to cooperate with investigators.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez speaks about Marjorie Taylor Greene confrontation

  14-05-2021 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) "deeply unwell" after Greene confronted Ocasio-Cortez in the halls of Congress.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez addresses MTG confrontation

  14-05-2021 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) "deeply unwell" after Greene confronted Ocasio-Cortez in the halls of Congress.
  
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• 'Deeply unwell': Ocasio-Cortez addresses MTG confrontation

  14-05-2021 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) "deeply unwell" after Greene confronted Ocasio-Cortez in the halls of Congress.
  
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• Federal agent charged in cyberstalking plot against ex-lover

  14-05-2021 20:41
  
  A deputy U.S. marshal has been charged in a cyberstalking scheme that authorities said he perpetrated with his ex-wife to have a former lover thrown in jail
  
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• Matt Gaetz associate will cooperate with federal investigators as part of guilty plea

  14-05-2021 20:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Joel Greenberg agreed to plead guilty to sex trafficking and to cooperate with the federal investigators who've been probing Gaetz.
  
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• 'This is not just a protest that will fade away'

  14-05-2021 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  Anger over a controversial tax hike has turned into a protest movement against police violence in Colombia. Weeks of protests and clashes with police have seen more than 42 people killed and police stations vandalized. For one activist, it's about defending the right to protest; for a police officer, it's about finding a solution. CNN's Stefano Pozzebon reports from Bogota.
  
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• Emily Ratajkowski's 'reclaimed' self-portrait sells for $175,000

  14-05-2021 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  In April, model and actress Emily Ratajkowski announced on Twitter that she was "reclaiming" her image by selling a photograph of herself through a major auction house, Christie's. The "conceptual artwork," titled "Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution" sold Friday in New York for $175,000 after fees.
  
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• These are some of the children killed in Gaza

  14-05-2021 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  A family cries out questioning why their 11-year-old boy was killed. Another family lost several children, including a boy who was just two years old. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
  
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• $10M settlement in Andre Hill shooting case

  14-05-2021 19:42
  
  The city of Columbus reached a $10 million settlement with Andre Hill's family.
  
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• Terrified families huddle together in Gaza as Eid festivities turn into nights of death and destruction

  14-05-2021 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  The family of 30-year-old journalist Reema Saad gathered to sleep in a single room on Wednesday night to comfort each other as Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza.
  
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• CNN correspondent reports in midst of tear gas and hurled rocks in West Bank

  14-05-2021 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Ben Wedeman reports in the midst of violent clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, describing the tense scene as the "curse of the Holy Land."
  
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• Johnson: India Covid variant could jeopardise June reopening – video

  14-05-2021 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The Indian Covid variant could pose a threat to England's roadmap out of lockdown, Boris Johnson warned, as he announced that second vaccinations for the over-50s would be accelerated to combat its spread. 'The race between our vaccination programme and the virus may be about to become a great deal tighter,' the prime minister said. While he insisted the planned easing of restrictions on 17 May would go ahead as planned, Johnson said, 'This new variant could pose a serious disruption to our prog
  
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• Wealthy Indians fleeing Covid are shut out of Maldives

  14-05-2021 19:08 via cnn.com
  
  Maldives has banned tourists from South Asia, cutting off an escape route for wealthy Indians fleeing their own country's Covid-19 crisis.
  
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• Depression almost killed him. Food, fitness and fortitude brought him back

  14-05-2021 18:52 via cnn.com
  
  Ever since he was a child, Kevin Curry would pray for God to "fix" him and take away his sadness. Now the author of "Fit Men Cook," Curry shares six strategies for people struggling with depression and anxiety.
  
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• At least 9 wounded in shooting between feuding groups, police say

  14-05-2021 18:51
  
  At least nine people were wounded in Rhode Island's capital on Thursday evening in what police believe to be the largest shooting in the city's history.
  
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• Monica and Rachel's 'Friends' apartment is on Booking.com

  14-05-2021 18:37 via cnn.com
  
  "Friends" fans are being given the chance to crash for a night at Monica and Rachel's apartment.
  
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• India variant could lead to serious third wave of Covid in UK

  14-05-2021 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: If B.1.617.2 proves highly transmissible, hospitalisations could peak again, models showCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was all looking so good. After a brutal second wave in the winter, the lockdown combined with the swift rollout of vaccines forced infections, hospitalisations and deaths down to levels not seen since last summer. The vaccines performed better than expected, not only in preventing deaths, but in hampering the spread of the virus. S
  
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• China says its Mars rover could land this weekend

  14-05-2021 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  China could soon join the United States as the second country to land and operate a rover on Mars.
  
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• Russia announces actor and director for first-ever movie made in space

  14-05-2021 17:25 via cnn.com
  
  Russia is racing to become the first nation to shoot a movie in space, after it announced plans to send an actress and a director to the International Space Station (ISS) -- 250 miles above earth -- in October.
  
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• Iranian asylum seeker cleared of Channel smuggling charges

  14-05-2021 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Man who took turn steering boat ‘because he didn’t want to die’ freed, with case opening way for others to appeal their sentences
  An asylum seeker jailed on smuggling charges for helping to steer a boat filled with migrants from France to England has had his conviction overturned at a retrial after spending 17 months in jail.Lawyers and campaigners say the verdict could lead to other migrants currently in jail on smuggling charges being freed, allowing the Home Office policy of
  
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• Gaza residents flee homes as Israeli attacks intensify – video report

  14-05-2021 17:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli ground and air forces have attacked targets in Gaza, forcing residents to flee their homes, in a significant escalation during the worst bout of fighting for seven years. Red flames illuminated the skies above Gaza in the early hours of Friday as the deafening blasts from the outskirts of Gaza City, which lies about a mile from the frontier, jolted people awakeIsraeli air and ground forces hit targets in Gaza Strip as death toll climbsMob violence a bigger threat to Israel than Gaza, say
  
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• Dump Trump? Kicking him off NYC golf course may not be easy

  14-05-2021 16:44
  
  Donald Trump has a rich history of fighting back when he’s down and making others pay, and that’s exactly how he intends to deal with New York City over its plans to fire his company from running a city golf course in the Bronx
  
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• China vows 'countermeasures' against US journalists as diplomatic dispute escalates

  14-05-2021 16:33 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  China is threatening to further retaliate against American journalists overseas following claims that the U.S. has expelled dozens of Chinese media personnel and denied visas to others.
  
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• UK may start vaccinating young people in hotspots to combat spread of India variant

  14-05-2021 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  Growing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus variant first identified in India may force the United Kingdom to tweak its Covid-19 vaccination program to prioritize people in the most affected areas, a top health official said Friday.
  
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