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• Italy dominates in Euro 2020 opener

  11-06-2021 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  Italy laid down an early marker on the opening night of Euro 2020 with a dominant 3-0 victory over Turkey.
  
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• Italy cruises to victory with dominant performance against Turkey in Euro 2020 opener

  11-06-2021 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  Italy laid down an early marker on the opening night of Euro 2020 with a dominant 3-0 victory over Turkey.
  
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• We've been saying Alicia Silverstone's name wrong this whole time

  11-06-2021 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  Shout-out to TikTok for giving Alicia Silverstone a safe space to check us on being "Clueless" about her name.
  
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• Who is being hospitalized for Covid-19? The unvaccinated

  11-06-2021 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I haven't had anyone that's been fully vaccinated become critically ill," one doctor said.
  
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• Barr pushed investigators to finish leak probes

  11-06-2021 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department's leak investigation that targeted lawmakers was more than a year old when Attorney General William Barr took office in 2019. Barr had vowed early on to help answer lingering questions from conservatives about the fairness of the Justice Department's handling of politically sensitive investigations.
  
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• Canada truck attack: Loved ones describe family as 'the best among us'

  11-06-2021 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Canadian city is mourning the loss of a beloved family after an allegedly race-motivated attack.
  
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• Analysis: Wait. Trump's DOJ did what?

  11-06-2021 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  As President Joe Biden gears up to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, his effort to build his presidency around a theme of democracy vs. autocracy has been complicated by revelations trickling out about the US Department of Justice, which it turns out has been secretly collecting details about the communications of reporters and political adversaries of then-President Donald Trump.
  
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• Barr's answer draws scrutiny amid new scandal

  11-06-2021 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  William Barr's response to a question from Kamala Harris is under scrutiny after it came to light that DOJ prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from key Democrats as part of a leak investigation.
  
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• Opinion: Will Trump be held accountable this time?

  11-06-2021 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  It looks like former President Donald Trump was willing to go even further than we knew in his war against leaks. According to the New York Times, prosecutors in the Justice Department obtained, via subpoena from Apple, information from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Committee--Representatives Adam Schiff of California and Eric Swalwell of California-- and also looked into the metadata of their aides and family members (including at least one minor).
  
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• Italy delivers dominant performance in Euro 2020 opener

  11-06-2021 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Italy laid down an early marker on the opening night of Euro 2020 with a dominant 3-0 victory over Turkey.
  
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• DOJ internal watchdog to investigate Trump-era leak hunt that targeted lawmakers, journalists

  11-06-2021 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Intel Chairman Schiff, whose files were among those subpoenaed, has been unable to get Biden administration officials to provide details, a source said.
  
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• 'Timewasters' subverts the heroic white narratives of sci-fi by tossing out the heroes

  11-06-2021 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  World-changing science fiction has historically been a bastion of whiteness. This British import plays that fact for laughs while making some good points.
  
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• Watchdog to probe seizure of data from Trump's political enemies

  11-06-2021 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump's DOJ used its power to target sitting members of Congress
  • Swalwell says Trump weaponized Justice Department against enemies
  
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• Lawmakers unveil bipartisan antitrust reforms that could reshape Big Tech

  11-06-2021 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google could be forced to overhaul their business practices under a new expansive set of antitrust reforms.
  
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• Ex-con named James Bond jailed after threatening to 'shoot cops'

  11-06-2021 22:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A British ex-con who shares a name — and little else — with debonair spy 007 has been sentenced to 27 months behind bars after threatening to "shoot cops in the teeth" during a six-hour standoff, according to a report.
  
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• The depth of Trump's abuse of power

  11-06-2021 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  • Explaining the current scandal of Trump's Justice Department
  
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• New revelations surrounding the former US President amount to one of the gravest scandals of an administration steeped in corruption

  11-06-2021 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  New revelations suggesting that the Trump administration abused Justice Department powers to target his political enemies underscore just how far the ex-President went to destroy cherished principles of American republican government.
  
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• Analysis: The depth of Trump's abuse of power

  11-06-2021 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  New revelations suggesting that the Trump administration abused Justice Department powers to target his political enemies underscore just how far the ex-President went to destroy cherished principles of American republican government.
  
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• Cuba temporarily suspends cash deposits in dollars, cites embargo hurdles

  11-06-2021 21:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Cuba said Thursday that it would temporarily stop accepting cash bank deposits in dollars beginning on June 21.
  
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• Professor explains how to manage the return to office

  11-06-2021 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  As more businesses welcome employees back into workspaces, psychology professor Jean Twenge, author of "iGen," explains to how manage the transition.
  
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• Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden share a moment after G7 leaders' photo – video

  11-06-2021 21:24
  
  Emmanuel Macron made a beeline for Joe Biden after the G7 summit photo call in Cornwall. Biden, on whom Boris Johnson expended considerable energy attempting to politically woo ahead of the summit, warmly embraced the French president. Johnson was left lingering with Angela Merkel as he waited for the pair to catch up.Jilted Johnson: Biden in beeline for Macron and Carrie at G7‘Quite a show’: G7 razzmatazz in the air as Carbis Bay hosts world leaders Continue reading...
  
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• Socialite Jasmine Hartin walks past shrine to top Belize cop she is charged with fatally shooting

  11-06-2021 21:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Socialite Jasmine Hartin checked into a Belize police station as part of her bail conditions this week — strolling right past a shrine to the cop she is charged with shooting dead, photos obtained Friday by The Post show.
  
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• Car prices have soared, and it's not over yet

  11-06-2021 21:05 via cnn.com
  
  Car dealer lots have only a fraction of the vehicles — both new and used — that they typically have. That's helping send prices to record levels and lifting the nation's overall inflation rate.
  
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• Volkswagen hacked as 3 million customers have their information stolen

  11-06-2021 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Volkswagen and Audi, VW's luxury brand, have been hit by a data breach that exposed the contact information and, in some cases, personal details, like driver license numbers, of customers in the United States and Canada.
  
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• How a nation of just 11 million people became world's top-ranked soccer team

  11-06-2021 20:50 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Euro 2020: Everything you need to know
  
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• FDA tells Johnson & Johnson to toss 60 million Covid vaccine doses

  11-06-2021 20:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  The doses were produced at a plant in Baltimore that was previously found to have contamination issues.
  
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• 'Fishing expedition': CNN's Honig slams Trump's DOJ

  11-06-2021 20:13 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Elie Honig reacts to reports that Trump administration DOJ prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of House Intelligence Committee Democrats as part of a leak investigation.
  
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• Democrats claim to care about truth — until it's something they got wrong about Trump

  11-06-2021 20:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats can't be for truth only when they're calling out Trump’s lies. Not admitting error amid new evidence debases the truth they claim to revere.
  
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• DOJ probe of Trump's political enemies under investigation

  11-06-2021 19:48 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department's inspector general will investigate the department's handling of a leak investigation into former President Donald Trump's political enemies that included a subpoena to collect metadata of lawmakers, staff and some family members, the office announced Friday.
  
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• Kim Jong Un: K-pop is a ‘vicious cancer’ that merits work camp, execution

  11-06-2021 19:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Amid increasing cultural influence from South Korea, the 37-year-old North Korean leader is imposing harsher penalties on citizens caught listening to "perverse" K-pop music.
  
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• US-Russia relations are so poor that only a summit can sort them out, Putin's spokesman says

  11-06-2021 19:00 via cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to Geneva, Switzerland, not merely to appear on the same platform as US President Joe Biden, but because "the poor state of relations" between both countries demands a summit, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN in an exclusive interview on Friday.
  
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• From 5% to nearly 60%, here's how states rank in vaccination rates among teens

  11-06-2021 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  An NBC News analysis shows far fewer teens are getting their Covid-19 shots in the South, while teens in the Northeast are surging ahead.
  
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• Euro 2020: How to watch and everything you need to know about European tournament

  11-06-2021 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  It has been delayed by a year, but that seems to have only ramped up the excitement levels for the 2020 European football championships.
  
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• What to do -- and not do -- when you meet the Queen

  11-06-2021 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  • China may not be a G7 member, but it's dominating the agenda at the summit
  
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• Analysis: What to do -- and not do -- when you meet the Queen

  11-06-2021 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  A version of this story appeared in the June 11 edition of CNN's Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on the royal family, what they are up to in public and what's happening behind palace walls. Sign up here.
  
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• Obama's awkward moment with Queen

  11-06-2021 18:07 via cnn.com
  
  As President Joe Biden becomes the 12th sitting US president to meet Britain's Queen Elizabeth during her reign, CNN looks back at the other presidents she has met.
  
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• Lifting restrictions in England on 21 June: what are the alternatives?

  11-06-2021 18:00
  
  As doubt grows that government will end Covid controls on planned date, we look at the other options
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDowning Street is due to announce its decision on the next stage of Covid reopening in England by Monday, a week ahead of 21 June, which was set as the earliest date to bring in what is officially stage four of the Covid unlocking process. The original aim was to remove “all legal limits on social contact”, allowing the
  
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• Government pledges to raise legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales

  11-06-2021 17:54
  
  Commitment from justice ministry seen as victory by rights campaigners, who say current law is exploited to coerce childrenThe government has committed to raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales in a victory for campaigners.Currently, 16 and 17-year-olds can marry with parental consent, but a coalition of charities has warned that this legal loophole is being exploited to coerce young people into child marriage. Continue reading...
  
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• Young Ugandans suffer most in second wave as country grapples with severe vaccine shortages

  11-06-2021 17:45 via cnn.com
  
  Three men wearing white hazmat suits carry a dark blue body bag into the back of an ambulance parked next to a soccer field in Uganda's main stadium -- the latest victim of the virulent second wave of Covid-19 that has hit the East African country.
  
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• Key figures will discuss tax rates, Covid and the climate crisis, followed by a dinner hosted by the Queen

  11-06-2021 17:44 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Carrie Johnson steps onto global stage with G7 role
  • 'Jill from Philly' to meet the Queen
  • Biden joins the world leaders club at G7 with call for wartime effort against Covid-19
  
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• G7 leaders in Cornwall – in pictures

  11-06-2021 17:26
  
  G7 leaders have opened their first in-person talks in nearly two years. Welcomed by Boris Johnson to the beachside summit venue in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, the leaders posed for a photograph before opening their first session of talks Continue reading...
  
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• Norway to proceed with sound experiment on whales, despite protests

  11-06-2021 17:19 via cnn.com
  
  A group of international scientists has called on Norway to halt plans for acoustic experiments on minke whales.
  
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• How does inflation affect my standard of living?

  11-06-2021 16:56 via cnn.com
  
  Use this calculator to determine the impact inflation may have on your standard of living, and what your living expenses might cost you in the future.
  
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• Giant blinking star spotted near center of Milky Way galaxy

  11-06-2021 16:56 via cnn.com
  
  A giant star is blinking near the center of our Milky Way galaxy like a stellar beacon, according to new observations by astronomers. The star is located more than 25,000 light-years away from Earth.
  
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• Giant blinking star near center of Milky Way

  11-06-2021 16:56 via cnn.com
  
  A giant star is blinking near the center of our Milky Way galaxy like a stellar beacon, according to new observations by astronomers. The star is located more than 25,000 light-years away from Earth.
  
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• Can I give you a hug?

  11-06-2021 16:20 via cnn.com
  
  Who among us hasn't had the recent experience of running into a friend we haven't seen in a year and not knowing what to do. Our social interactions these days so often start out with an awkward question: "Can I give you a hug?" Or, "You okay with a handshake?" Or even just, "Vaccinated?"
  
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• McDonald's hit by data breach

  11-06-2021 16:15 via cnn.com
  
  McDonald's is the latest high-profile company to be affected by a data breach, leading to the exposure of private information of customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan.
  
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• History shows just how ugly it can get when people don't want you to vote

  11-06-2021 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  As a curator of political history at the Smithsonian, I've spent years studying the bad old days of American politics. Leafing through contested election trial transcripts, constable's reports and boxes of fraudulent ballots, I've studied the voter suppression and violence that was once a common feature of our democracy in the 19th century. It always seemed distant to me, with a consoling "it used to be worse" appeal. But recently, this past has been reanimated by new, partisan state laws design
  
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• See Jill Biden and the Duchess of Cambridge host school roundtable

  11-06-2021 15:53 via cnn.com
  
  First Lady Jill Biden and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are participating in a roundtable about early childhood education and will tour a school in Hayle, England. CNN's Max Foster reports.
  
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• Pikachus, politicians and pollution art: how activists are protesting at the G7 summit – video

  11-06-2021 15:44
  
  As world leaders flocked to the G7 summit at Carbis Bay in Cornwall to discuss the Covid pandemic recovery and the climate emergency, activists have also taken the chance to demonstrate to the leaders of seven of the wealthiest global democracies.From a swarm of 300 drones creating 3D images of endangered species to protesters running around in Pikachu costumes, demonstrators have got creative to get the attention of politicians and the press. Here are some of the most impressive stuntsTell
  
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