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• Reporter pushes back on Trump supporter's wild claim

  27-06-2021 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Donie O'Sullivan was on the scene at former President Donald Trump's rally in Wellington, Ohio, where he spoke with diehard supporters who remain convinced that Trump won the 2020 election (he didn't) and claim that Democrats and the FBI are to blame for the Capitol insurrection (they aren't).
  
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• In Ohio, Trump supporters refuse to accept truth about January 6

  27-06-2021 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Donie O'Sullivan was on the scene at former President Donald Trump's rally in Wellington, Ohio, where he spoke with diehard supporters who remain convinced that Trump won the 2020 election (he didn't) and claim that Democrats and the FBI are to blame for the Capitol insurrection (they aren't).
  
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• Thorgan Hazard stunner knocks reigning champions Portugal out of Euro 2020, qualifies Belgium for quarterfinals

  27-06-2021 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  A stunning long-ranged strike from Thorgan Hazard settled a hotly-contested game between Belgium and Portugal, and qualified Belgium for the quarterfinals of Euro 2020.
  
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• Teen says saving elderly woman was 'a blessing in disguise'

  27-06-2021 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Aguero family tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer how they made it to safety from the eleventh floor of the Champlain Towers South building that collapsed in Surfside, Florida.
  
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• 'Trump deserves to go to jail': Ex-Trump Organization exec on possible criminal charges

  27-06-2021 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  Barbara Res, former executive vice president for the Trump Organization, talks with CNN's Jim Acosta about the possibility of New York prosecutors filing criminal charges against her former employer.
  
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• 'Trump deserves to go to jail': Ex-Trump Org executive on possible criminal charges

  27-06-2021 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  Barbara Res, former executive vice president for the Trump Organization, talks with CNN's Jim Acosta about the possibility of New York prosecutors filing criminal charges against her former employer.
  
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• 'Trump deserves to go to jail': Ex-Trump Org. exec on looming criminal charges

  27-06-2021 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  Barbara Res, former executive vice president for the Trump Organization, talks with CNN's Jim Acosta about the possibility of New York prosecutors filing criminal charges against her former employer.
  
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• Belgium v Portugal: Thorgan Hazard strike sets up quarter-final with Italy

  27-06-2021 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belgium edge out Portugal in Seville as Thorgan Hazard's smart strike proves enough to reach the quarter-finals of Euro 2020.
  
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• Euro 2020: UEFA denies banning rainbow flags in Budapest for Netherlands vs. Czech Republic match

  27-06-2021 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  European football governing body UEFA has denied that it banned fans from bringing in rainbow flags for the Euro 2020 game between the Netherlands and Czech Republic in Budapest on Sunday.
  
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• British number one Konta out of Wimbledon because of Covid contact

  27-06-2021 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British number one Johanna Konta is out of Wimbledon because one of her team has tested positive for Covid.
  
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• Dutch lost because of what I did - De Ligt

  27-06-2021 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Netherlands suffered a shock Euro 2020 exit to the Czech Republic but one man took the blame.
  
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• US and Canada heatwave: Pacific Northwest sees record temperatures

  27-06-2021 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The National Weather Service has issued heat warnings for Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho.
  
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• Murray back and will Williams & Djokovic reach milestones? All you need to know as Wimbledon returns

  27-06-2021 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two-time champion Andy Murray makes a welcome comeback in the Wimbledon singles as one of the sporting highlights of the British summer returns.
  
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• France elections: Far-right National Rally loses key battleground states - poll

  27-06-2021 21:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marine Le Pen's National Rally had hoped to win a regional powerbase ahead of next year's election.
  
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• The US Northwest is baking under record heat

  27-06-2021 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  The Pacific Northwest is baking in a record-breaking heat wave, with an all-time high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit reported Saturday in Portland, Oregon.
  
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• Blinken meets Israel's new foreign minister who vows to fix mistakes

  27-06-2021 20:47 via cnn.com
  
  When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Rome, the Israeli foreign minister pledged to fix the politicized relationship between the two countries, even as he cited "serious reservations" over the Biden administration's efforts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.
  
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• Netherlands 0-2 Czech Republic: Tomas Holes and Patrik Schick goals shock Dutch

  27-06-2021 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Czech Republic shock 10-man Netherlands to book their place in the quarter-finals of the European Championship.
  
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• Bruce Springsteen reopens Broadway with first full-capacity show since pandemic

  27-06-2021 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  Broadway isn't dancing in the dark anymore.
  
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• UK financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance

  27-06-2021 19:56 via cnn.com
  
  The Financial Conduct Authority, a regulatory body in the United Kingdom, has banned Binance, a popular cryptocurrency exchange platform, from offering certain services in the country.
  
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• Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The secrets of a 'Jeopardy!' guest host

  27-06-2021 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  One day earlier this year, in the midst of all the darkness surrounding the pandemic, I received a wonderful phone call.
  
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• Van der Poel wins stage two of Tour de France

  27-06-2021 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mathieu van der Poel produces a superb ride to win stage two of the Tour de France and claim the yellow jersey in Brittany.
  
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• Netherlands v Czech Republic: Euro 2020 last 16 – live!

  27-06-2021 19:15
  
  Euro 2020 last-16 updates from the 5pm BST game in BudapestThe Fiver: sign up now and get our free daily football emailAnd email any match thoughts to [email protected] 6.15pm BST Netherlands substitution: Needing to adjust following De Ligt’s sending off, the Dutch replace Malen with Quincy Promes. 6.14pm BST 56 min: Coufal curls the freekick into the Dutch wall ... and then chops down Dumfries to thwart a counter-attack. That’s a blatant booking for Coufal.Continue reading
  
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• Florida building collapse: More than 150 missing, nine dead

  27-06-2021 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Days into the search for survivors in Florida, 150 people remain missing, with nine confirmed dead.
  
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• Miami condo collapse: death toll rises to nine as crews search pile for survivors

  27-06-2021 19:11
  
  Progress against fire and international help boosts effortAnxiety grows among residents of neighbouring tower Officials in Florida insisted on Sunday there was still hope of finding survivors in the rubble of a collapsed oceanfront condominium building, as firefighters finally controlled a large blaze inside the wreckage that hampered three days of rescue efforts. Related: Engineer reportedly warned in 2018 of ‘major damage’ at Miami condo complexContinue reading...
  
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• Tour de France: Police seek spectator after crash

  27-06-2021 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A spectator holding a sign causes a multi-rider pile-up during the first stage of the race.
  
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• Covid live news: Luxembourg PM ‘tests positive for Covid’; UK records 14,876 new cases

  27-06-2021 19:02
  
  Xavier Bettel in isolation after self-test result, according to reports; UK’s daily cases figure falls slightly from SaturdayScientist warns of spread of Delta variant across EuropeSouth Africa expected to tighten Covid rules as third wave gathers paceAustralia: NSW reports 30 new infectionsSports fans in UK warned: you will be guinea pigs at summer eventsSee all our coronavirus coverage 6.02pm BST Here’s AFP’s report on Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettel testing positive
  
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• US journalist says he was tortured during detention in Myanmar

  27-06-2021 18:59
  
  Nathan Maung says security forces punched, slapped and beat him, and kept him blindfolded for over a weekMyanmar’s security forces punched, slapped and beat a US journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after being deported to the United States following more than three months in detention.Nathan Maung, 44, the editor-in-chief of the online news platform Kamayut Media, was detained in a raid on 9 March and freed on 15 June. He said his colleague Ha
  
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• Stelter: Fox News host isn't doing opinion, he's spouting poison

  27-06-2021 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brian Stelter says the content coming from pro-Trump media, led by Fox News host Sean Hannity, softens the ground for conspiracies and makes their audience comfortable with violence.
  
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• CNN's Brian Stelter binge watches Hannity's show. See what he found

  27-06-2021 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brian Stelter says the content coming from pro-Trump media, led by Fox News host Sean Hannity, softens the ground for conspiracies and makes their audience comfortable with violence.
  
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• Brian Stelter watched an entire week of Fox News. Here's what he found

  27-06-2021 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brian Stelter says the content coming from pro-Trump media, led by Fox News host Sean Hannity, softens the ground for conspiracies and makes their audience comfortable with violence.
  
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• Springboks chief says 'no threat' to Lions Tests despite positive Covid results

  27-06-2021 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus says there is "no threat" to July's British and Irish Lions Tests after three of his players returned positive Covid-19 results.
  
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• Multiple arrests after thousands gather at illegal rave in West Sussex

  27-06-2021 18:52
  
  Police called as crowds gather in field at Steyning in breach of Covid guidelinesThousands of people gathered at an illegal rave on farmland in West Sussex overnight, breaching Covid guidelines.Sussex police said the unlicensed rave had taken place in a remote field forcing multiple road closures in the rural town of Steyning. At least 23 people have been arrested on suspicion of offences including drink and drug-driving, possession of drugs and theft, and have been taken into custody, the force
  
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• Keith Ellison urges Congress to act on stalled police reform after Chauvin sentencing

  27-06-2021 18:50
  
  Minnesota attorney general secured conviction and sentencing of former police officer who murdered George Floyd last yearChauvin sentenced to 22.5 years for murder of George FloydThe Minnesota attorney general who secured the conviction and sentencing of Derek Chauvin said on Sunday Congress must pass stalled policing reform named for George Floyd, the African American man the former officer murdered in May last year. Related: ‘I have begged for justice’: key moments from the Derek C
  
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• 'Sensitive' UK defense documents reportedly found at bus stop

  27-06-2021 18:44 via cnn.com
  
  Defense officials are investigating after an employee from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) lost several "sensitive" documents that were later found by a member of the public, a ministry spokesperson said.
  
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• How China views the future

  27-06-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  Elizabeth Economy, Rana Mitter, Jiayang Fan and Fareed on what lies ahead for China as it celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of its ruling party.
  
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• Beaumont & Sciver star as England cruise to one-day win over India

  27-06-2021 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver help England cruise to an eight-wicket win over India in the first one-day international in Bristol.
  
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• China releases footage from its Mars rover – video

  27-06-2021 18:22
  
  China's National Space Administration has released footage captured by the country's Mars probe. The videos and photos taken by the camera installed on the Zhurong rover of the Tianwen-1 spacecraft show the lander deploying a parachute before touching down on the surface of Mars and the rover driving away from its landing platform. State broadcaster CCTV said Zhurong had been working on the red planet for 42 days and had moved 236 metres so farChina’s Mars rover drives across planet a week
  
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• Euro 2020: Uefa says rainbow flags allowed in stadium for Netherlands v Czech Republic

  27-06-2021 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Uefa says rainbow flags are allowed into the stadium for the Netherlands' last-16 tie with the Czech Republic in Budapest, following reports such items were being confiscated.
  
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• Global report: rise in Delta variant cases forces tougher restrictions

  27-06-2021 17:53
  
  Moscow has reported the highest death toll of any Russian city, while the Delta variant is forcing tighter restrictions in the Asia-Pacific regionMoscow has recorded the highest Covid-19 daily death toll of any Russian city so far, as the highly contagious Delta variant forced tougher restrictions on countries across the Asia-Pacific region and fuelled mounting concern over holiday travel in Europe.Vaccinations have brought infection numbers down in many wealthy countries, and curbs on daily lif
  
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• Police identify all 5 people killed in a hot-air balloon crash in New Mexico

  27-06-2021 17:43 via cnn.com
  
  All five victims in Saturday's fatal hot-air balloon wreck have been identified, authorities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said.
  
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• Republicans will ‘move forward’ on infrastructure after Biden veto threat

  27-06-2021 17:37
  
  Portman says GOP will back bill after Biden climbdown ‘We have a deal’: but will the Biden infrastructure bill pass?A lead Republican negotiator has welcomed Joe Biden’s withdrawal of his threat to veto a $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure bill unless a separate Democratic spending plan also passes Congress. Related: White House seeks to put infrastructure deal back on track after Biden blunderContinue reading...
  
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• Max Verstappen wins Styrian Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton second

  27-06-2021 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Red Bull's Max Verstappen beats Lewis Hamilton to take a dominant victory in the Styrian Grand Prix and extend his championship lead to 18 points.
  
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• Pet lion confiscated in Cambodia after TikTok videos

  27-06-2021 17:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 18-month-old animal, weighing 70kg, is discovered at a villa in the capital Phnom Penh.
  
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• Five people are dead after a hot-air balloon crashes in Albuquerque, New Mexico

  27-06-2021 17:04 via cnn.com
  
  Five people have died following a hot-air balloon crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday.
  
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• Somalia's Puntland region executes 21 al-Shabab fighters

  27-06-2021 16:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It may be the highest number of members of the group sentenced to death in semi-autonomous Puntland.
  
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• Police identify three more victims of Florida building collapse

  27-06-2021 16:31 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Some families frustrated by pace of search
  
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• Portland, Oregon, sets high-temperature record as heat wave bakes the Northwest

  27-06-2021 16:25 via cnn.com
  
  The Pacific Northwest is baking in a record-breaking heat wave, with an all-time high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit reported Saturday in Portland, Oregon.
  
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• South Africa expected to tighten Covid rules as third wave gathers pace

  27-06-2021 16:24
  
  Economic heartland hit by rise in infections driven by Delta variant and faltering vaccination campaignCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in South Africa appeared set to impose new restrictions on Sunday in a belated attempt to stem a rise in Covid-19 that is ravaging the country’s economic heartland.The wave of infections has been driven by the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, weak countermeasures and public fatigue with existing r
  
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• Madison Cawthorn, self-described 'big history buff,' keeps getting historical facts wrong

  27-06-2021 16:13 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a freshman Republican from North Carolina, has called himself a "big history buff" and a "lover of history."
  
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• Romney 'totally confident' Biden will sign infrastructure after attempted walk back

  27-06-2021 16:09 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney, a key Republican negotiator in infrastructure talks, said Sunday that he's "totally confident" President Joe Biden will sign a bipartisan bill a day after the President attempted to clean up comments that threatened the deal.
  
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