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• Watch 10-story building go up in nearly one day

  16-06-2021 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  Using a pre-fab, modular design, BROAD Group was able to construct a 10-story apartment building in 28 hours and 45 minutes.
  
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• Biden rejects Putin's 'ridiculous comparison' between Capitol rioters and Alexei Navalny – video

  16-06-2021 22:29
  
  Joe Biden has responded to Vladimir Putin comparing his jailing of political opponents such as Alexei Navalny with the charges filed against those who carried out the Capitol Hill riots. 'I think that’s a ridiculous comparison,' Biden told reporters after meeting with the Russian president in Geneva. During his own press conference after the summit, Putin used that comparison to deflect a question about why so many of his critics are either imprisoned or deadFive things we learne
  
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• Biden apologises for being 'short' with reporter at Putin summit press conference – video

  16-06-2021 22:24
  
  Speaking to reporters by Air Force One in Geneva, Joe Biden has expressed regret for some sharp words to a journalist who questioned him about the success of his summit with Vladimir Putin. Frustrated by a question from CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at the end of his press conference, he told her she was 'in the wrong business'. Biden later apologised for being 'short', adding: 'To be a good reporter, you’ve got to be negative. You’ve got to have a negative view of life
  
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• Morgan Stanley CEO gives employees a work-from-home ultimatum

  16-06-2021 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  The CEO of one of Wall Street's top investment banks has a message for employees in its New York offices. You need to come back to work this fall.
  
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• Biden admin extends protections to transgender students

  16-06-2021 22:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday expanded its interpretation of federal sex protections to include transgender and gay students
  
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• Dead 'murder hornet' near Seattle is 1st found in US in 2021

  16-06-2021 21:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Scientists have found a dead Asian giant hornet north of Seattle, the first so-called murder hornet discovered in the country this year
  
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• Reporter confronts Putin: 'What are you so afraid of?'

  16-06-2021 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  ABC News reporter Rachel Scott on Wednesday confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about his crackdown on political opponents.
  
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• 5 key takeaways from the Biden-Putin summit

  16-06-2021 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden's meeting Wednesday with his Russian counterpart came after months of diplomatic wrangling over the details, days of preparation with reams of research and the elaborate construction of two separate lakeside venues for the leaders to appear afterward.
  
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• Italian authorities defuse car bomb ahead of soccer match with Switzerland

  16-06-2021 21:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A car bomb was discovered near an Olympic stadium in Rome Wednesday evening shortly before the Euro 2020 soccer match between Italy and Switzerland, according to local reports.
  
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• After meeting with Harris, Texas Dems concede federal voting rights battle in Senate

  16-06-2021 21:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Democratic Texas lawmakers met with Vice President Harris, but conceded that while the administration wants to see federal voting reform pass, the hurdle is the Senate.
  
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• Biden gave Putin custom aviator sunglasses

  16-06-2021 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden gifted Russian President Vladimir Putin a pair of custom aviator sunglasses made by Randolph USA during their summit on Wednesday, according to a White House official.
  
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• Spanish man sentenced to 15 years for killing, eating his mother

  16-06-2021 21:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Police arrested Alberto Sanchez Gomez in 2019 after a friend called them, concerned over Alberto’s 68-year-old mother, Maria Soledad Gomez.
  
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• No amount of friendly words will stop the Russian leader from forcefully pursuing his agenda both at home and abroad with near total impunity

  16-06-2021 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  Even before US President Joe Biden met with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, expectations were low.
  
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• Israeli airstrikes target Gaza sites, first since cease-fire

  16-06-2021 21:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The airstrikes targeted facilities used by Hamas militants to plan attacks.
  
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• Little left to chance in carefully-curated Geneva summit

  16-06-2021 21:23
  
  Meeting goes as well as could be expected as Biden and Putin speak language of diplomacy– but hardly one of affectionJoe Biden and Vladimir Putin hadn’t even sat down before tensions boiled over at the 18th-century Villa La Grange, a fine Swiss manor house besieged on Wednesday by a 21st-century press pool. The two men looked cordial enough as they shook hands for the first time as leaders. But the sun-struck journalists behind them pushed and shouted, some knocked to the floor, as t
  
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• Town, state jockey over renaming racialized waterway name

  16-06-2021 21:13 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Vermont town is divided about whether and what to rename a brook that has an outdated, racialized name
  
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• Capitol rioter used charity to promote violence, feds say

  16-06-2021 21:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A California man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol is accused of using a tax-exempt charity as a platform to protest that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and to advocate for violence against political opponents
  
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• Congress designating Pulse massacre site a national memorial

  16-06-2021 21:05 via abcnews.go.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken a formal step toward sending a bill to President Joe Biden that designates the site of the deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in American history as a national memorial
  
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• Utah state attorney sorry for email rant to LGBT councilman

  16-06-2021 21:04 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Utah state attorney angry about being awakened from a nap has apologized for sending an expletive-laden email to an LGBT politician campaigning to be the first Asian American elected to the Salt Lake City council
  
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• Liberal-funded ads call for Justice Stephen Breyer to retire

  16-06-2021 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Calls for liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to retire when the annual Supreme Court session ends in a few weeks are intensifying, following Sen. Mitch McConnell's warning this week that he may block a Democratic Supreme Court nominee should Republicans win the Senate in the November 2022 midterm elections.
  
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• 'Devastating' consequences for Russia if Navalny dies in prison, Biden warns

  16-06-2021 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday of consequences if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were to die in prison, though he declined to specify which actions he would take.
  
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• Analysis: Biden's message to Putin? The adults are in charge

  16-06-2021 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden had one single and simple goal at his press conference in the wake of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva: Project absolute and utter normality.
  
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• Biden apologizes for lashing out at CNN's Kaitlan Collins after question on Putin's behavior

  16-06-2021 20:44 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden responds to CNN's Kaitlan Collins' question regarding his meeting with Russian President Vladmir Putin, firing back that he's "not confident" Putin will change his behavior. President Biden later apologized
  
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• Biden apologizes for lashing out at CNN's Kaitlan Collins

  16-06-2021 20:44 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden responds to CNN's Kaitlan Collins' question regarding his meeting with Russian President Vladmir Putin, firing back that he's "not confident" Putin will change his behavior. President Biden later apologized
  
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• Putin faces question about cyber attacks against the US

  16-06-2021 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Matthew Chance asks Russian President Vladimir Putin if he was committed to stopping cyber attacks on the United States. Hear Putin's response.
  
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• Five things we learned from the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva

  16-06-2021 20:26
  
  Cool normality helped exorcise ghost of 2018’s disastrous Helsinki summit but what else was achieved?1) The weird and unpredictable Trump era is over. In 2018 Donald Trump held a disastrous summit with Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The then US president said he believed Putin’s assurances that Moscow did not interfere in the 2016 US election with a joint press conference that was so humiliating for America that Trump’s senior adviser Fiona Hill considered bringing it t
  
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• You get a live chicken if you get a shot in Indonesia

  16-06-2021 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  An Indonesian town has found a creative way to motivate people to get vaccinated. Authorities are giving away live chickens to elderly people receiving their first shot.
  
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• Indonesian town giving away free chickens for vaccine

  16-06-2021 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  An Indonesian town has found a creative way to motivate people to get vaccinated. Authorities are giving away live chickens to elderly people receiving their first shot.
  
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• Israel halts nighttime 'mapping' of Palestinians' West Bank homes

  16-06-2021 19:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli military says it is reining in a controversial practice of conducting late-night raids of Palestinian homes in the West Bank aimed at gathering information about the houses and their inhabitants.
  
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• Boris Johnson described his health secretary as 'totally f**king hopeless,' ex-aide says

  16-06-2021 19:54 via cnn.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described his health minister as "totally f**king hopeless" during the early days of the pandemic, text messages published by his disaffected former chief adviser revealed on Wednesday.
  
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• ABC News reporter confronts Putin: 'What are you so afraid of?'

  16-06-2021 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  ABC News reporter Rachel Scott on Wednesday confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about his crackdown on political opponents.
  
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• Israeli military: Palestinian shot and killed after trying to ram car into group of soldiers

  16-06-2021 19:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli military on Wednesday shot and killed a Palestinian woman who it said tried to ram her car into a group of soldiers guarding a West Bank construction site.
  
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• Zara under fire after top designer sends Palestinian model inflammatory messages

  16-06-2021 19:02 via cnn.com
  
  Fashion giant Zara is under fire after its head women's designer, Vanessa Perilman, sent inflammatory messages to Palestinian model Qaher Harhash on Instagram.
  
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• Watch Joe Jonas crash a Jonas Brothers-themed spin class

  16-06-2021 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  A SoulCycle in Atlanta class got a celebrity surprise during a "Jonas Brothers vs. One Direction" themed workout.
  
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• Why balloons strapped to explosives are the latest flashpoint in Israel-Hamas tensions

  16-06-2021 18:39 via cnn.com
  
  The Israeli military launched airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza overnight after militants floated dozens of so-called "incendiary balloons" over the border fence into Israel.
  
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• Pogba follows Ronaldo's lead by removing display drink during a press conference

  16-06-2021 18:30 via cnn.com
  
  Some of the brands sponsoring Euro 2020 -- Europe's ongoing international football tournament -- aren't having an easy time of it.
  
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• Austria player banned for one game after 'insulting' opposition at Euro 2020

  16-06-2021 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Austria national footballer Marko Arnautovic has been handed a one-match ban by UEFA for "insulting another player" during his team's 3-1 win against North Macedonia at Euro 2020 on Sunday.
  
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• Rihanna's lingerie line is offering crotchless, butt-revealing leggings. The internet isn't sure it wants them

  16-06-2021 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  Whether at the Met Gala or in the pages of Vogue, Rihanna has never played it safe with her own fashion choices.
  
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• Amanpour: Biden did something very different than Trump

  16-06-2021 18:05 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Christiane Amanpour provides analysis following a summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Windows 11 has leaked. It's a bunch of BS

  16-06-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Windows 10 was supposed to be Microsoft's ultimate PC operating system. The promise: Windows 10 would forever get updated twice a year, bringing tweaks, the occasional fresh coat of paint and new features to keep your computer up to date.
  
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• Historic summit between Biden and Putin over

  16-06-2021 17:53 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden convenes the highest-stakes talks of his long career Wednesday when he joins Russia's Vladimir Putin for a summit, an encounter set to test his decades of experience on the world stage and lay down an early marker of his diplomatic skills.
  
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• Spanish man jailed for killing and eating his mother

  16-06-2021 17:51 via cnn.com
  
  A Spanish man has been jailed for 15 years and five months for killing and eating his mother at the apartment they shared in Madrid.
  
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• ‘Millennial Bonnie and Clyde’ arrested for murder in Hungary after monthslong manhunt

  16-06-2021 17:43 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A glamorous young Canadian couple wanted for murder have been arrested in Hungary following a months-long international manhunt.
  
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• Why did 21 Republicans oppose honoring those who protected the Capitol on January 6?

  16-06-2021 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  The stated purpose of HR 3325 seemed pretty uncontroversial: "To award four congressional gold medals to the United States Capitol Police and those who protected the US Capitol on January 6, 2021."
  
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• Matt Hancock says Delta variant accounts for 96% of new UK Covid cases – video

  16-06-2021 17:22
  
  The health secretary tells the House of Commons that the spread of the variant led the government to delay step four of its roadmap for easing restrictions in England. He said it spread more easily than the Alpha variant, and that there was some evidence that the risk of hospital admission was also higherUK politics – live Continue reading...
  
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• Extravagant hats on display at Royal Ascot 2021

  16-06-2021 17:05 via cnn.com
  
  A pink and yellow rose the size of a satellite dish blooms out of the head of one guest. Another is engulfed by a canopy of cascading feathers. Perched on the hairline of one blonde attendee sits an enormous sequined strawberry. These are the zany hats currently on show at the prestigious Royal Ascot 2021, an annual horse racing event and high point of the British social calendar.
  
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• Schumer apologizes for using offensive term to describe children with intellectual disabilities

  16-06-2021 17:02 via cnn.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has apologized for calling children with intellectual disabilities "retarded" after receiving criticism for using the term, which is medically outdated and offensive to many.
  
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• The 1970s moon buggies are still up there. GM and Lockheed Martin want to make new ones

  16-06-2021 17:01 via cnn.com
  
  There are three 50-year-old cars parked on the moon. Now, General Motors and Lockheed Martin wants to build some new ones and put them on the moon, too.
  
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• Joe Biden meets Vladimir Putin at Geneva summit – video

  16-06-2021 16:50
  
  The meeting got off to a frosty start as Putin told Biden in front of a chaotic press pool jostling to put questions to the leaders that their two countries had 'a lot' of issues that required talks at the highest level. 'I think it's always better to meet face to face,' Biden said, adding that he hoped they could find 'predictable and rational ways to disagree'Biden and Putin begin talks at highly anticipated Geneva summitUS politics live Continue reading...
  
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• A Jane Austen scholar uncovered new evidence of the author's family ties to the anti-slavery movement

  16-06-2021 16:27 via cnn.com
  
  The study of Jane Austen's novels, many of them about 200 years old, is never complete. And neither is the excavation of the beloved author's personal life.
  
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