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• Actor released from custody after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction

  30-06-2021 23:20 via cnn.com
  
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• Cosby accusers and their attorneys express outrage and betrayal

  30-06-2021 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  News of Bill Cosby's release from prison shocked many across the United States, especially his accusers.
  
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• Confirmed death toll rises in Florida condo collapse as rescuers fight dwindling odds and bad weather

  30-06-2021 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A seventh day of scouring wreckage from the Florida condo collapse has resulted in only sobering news so far.
  
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• How Pelosi's partisan Jan. 6 committee can (maybe) turn the tables of the GOP

  30-06-2021 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats need to stop worrying about what the GOP thinks and start worrying about what will happen if Republicans believe they can get away with pretty much anything.
  
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• High level of prejudice among younger people toward Jews

  30-06-2021 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  Young Americans say they are seeing a new face of anti-Semitism among their progressive college classmates, who are bullying and shunning them purely for their Jewish faith. CNN's Nick Watt reports.
  
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• US House votes to create select committee to investigate January 6 insurrection

  30-06-2021 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  The House is voting Wednesday to create a select committee that will investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, while House Republican leaders still aren't saying whether they will participate in the panel.
  
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• SpaceX launches 88 satellites in rideshare mission

  30-06-2021 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 88 satellites into orbit in one fell swoop on Wednesday, marking the company's second dedicated rideshare mission.
  
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• 'Cosby Show' costar Phylicia Rashad celebrates ruling

  30-06-2021 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  Phylicia Rashad has long been one of Bill Cosby's staunchest supporters and on Wednesday she shared her reaction to his sentence being overturned.
  
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• Billionaire Carlos Slim to rebuild collapsed Mexico City overpass at no cost

  30-06-2021 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City's subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
  
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• There are roughly two dozen lesbian bars in the United States. The ones that are left are evolving to survive

  30-06-2021 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  It's just about closing time on Thursday in early June and the regulars are catching up and winding down after a busy night of darts league.
  
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• Hear Bill Cosby accuser's reaction to his release from prison

  30-06-2021 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  Victoria Valentino, one of the women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, says that the decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to vacate Cosby's conviction was a "gut punch" and came out of the blue.
  
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• Former US defense chief Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88

  30-06-2021 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88, according to a statement from his family.
  
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• Attorney for three of Cosby's accusers: Decision is 'a slap in the face'

  30-06-2021 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Cosby will be released after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated his conviction and judgment of sentence, according Stacey Witalec, spokesman for Pennsylvania's highest court.
  
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• Chilling voicemail captures resident's escape after Surfside tower collapse

  30-06-2021 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  CNN obtained a distressed voicemail from 59-year-old Raysa Rodriguez, a survivor of the Champlain Towers collapse. She left the voicemail for her brother after she was awoken by the sound of the building falling down.
  
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• Chilling voicemail captures resident's escape after collapse

  30-06-2021 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  CNN obtained a distressed voicemail from 59-year-old Raysa Rodriguez, a survivor of the Champlain Towers collapse. She left the voicemail for her brother after she was awoken by the sound of the building falling down.
  
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• Bill Cosby released from prison after sexual assault conviction overturned

  30-06-2021 20:43 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Cosby will be released after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated his conviction and judgment of sentence, according Stacey Witalec, spokesman for Pennsylvania's highest court.
  
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• The Mexican rescuers joining the search for survivors in Florida

  30-06-2021 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Rescue specialists from Mexico are joining the massive search for survivors in the wreckage of the Surfside, Florida partial building collapse.
  
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• Putin: US and Britain both behind Black Sea 'provocation'

  30-06-2021 20:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that an incident involving a British destroyer in the Black Sea couldn't have triggered a global conflict even if Russia had sunk the warship because the West knows it can't win such a war.
  
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• Kim Jong Un berates North Korea's top officials over 'great crisis' in COVID response

  30-06-2021 19:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has berated his country's top officials for creating a "great crisis" through failures in coronavirus prevention, according to state media.
  
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• Virgin Orbit launches its first commercial satellites into space

  30-06-2021 19:20 via cnn.com
  
  A 70-foot rocket blasted off from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 over the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, marking the second successful orbital flight for rocket startup Virgin Orbit.
  
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• Bill Cosby to be released from prison after sexual assault conviction overturned

  30-06-2021 19:16 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Cosby will be released after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated his conviction and judgment of sentence, according Stacey Witalec, spokesman for Pennsylvania's highest court.
  
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• Facial recognition tech has been widely used across the US government for years, a new report shows

  30-06-2021 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  As George Floyd's death sparked protests in cities across the country, six federal agencies turned to facial-recognition software in an effort to identify people in images of the civil unrest, according to a new report from a government agency.
  
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• European troops quietly return from Afghanistan

  30-06-2021 19:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Most European troops have already pulled out of Afghanistan, quietly withdrawing months before the U.S.-led mission was officially expected to end — part of an anticlimactic close to the "forever war" that risks leaving the country on the brink of civil war.
  
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• Ethiopia is at war with itself. Here's what you need to know about the conflict

  30-06-2021 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide and has the potential to destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region.
  
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• US veterans launch dig for missing WWII airmen in England

  30-06-2021 18:59 via cnn.com
  
  A team of US veterans have begun digging up a field in England in the hope of finding the remains of three missing airmen -- 77 years after their deaths in World War Two.
  
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• US veterans launch dig for missing World War Two airmen in England

  30-06-2021 18:59 via cnn.com
  
  A team of US veterans have begun digging up a field in England in the hope of finding the remains of three missing airmen -- 77 years after their deaths in World War Two.
  
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• Why poor countries could lose $1.4 trillion this year

  30-06-2021 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  The collapse in international tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic could cost the global economy as much as $2.4 trillion this year, as the uneven rollout of vaccines devastates developing countries that are highly dependent on overseas visitors.
  
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• Analysis: America's longest war is ending. A nation is left wondering whether it was all worth it

  30-06-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  America's "forever war" in Afghanistan outlasted the first three commanders in chief of this century. But this week, Joe Biden is set to become the president who imposes closure on the US' role in the bloody, intractable conflict.
  
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• Ed Sheeran keeps pulling the same prank on Courteney Cox

  30-06-2021 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  Courteney Cox may want to rethink letting her pal Ed Sheeran crash at her Los Angeles pad.
  
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• A trans woman was assaulted in a N.J. prison. Now the state is making some big changes.

  30-06-2021 18:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  New Jersey has adopted a policy that requires state prisons to house transgender people according to their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at
  
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• NFL proudly declares 'football is gay' in new video

  30-06-2021 18:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  The National Football League declared, "Football is gay," in a video shared on Twitter on Monday in response to player Carl Nassib's coming out.
  
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• Watch CNN's Sanjay Gupta host 'Jeopardy!'

  30-06-2021 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta fulfilled a lifelong dream by hosting "Jeopardy!" He is one of several guests hosts for the show since Alex Trebek's death.
  
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• Netflix's 'America: The Motion Picture' knows its audience. It just doesn't respect it.

  30-06-2021 18:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  There are some laughs to be had in the patriotic-themed animated feature. But much of it feels like its creators just threw jokes at my demographic.
  
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• Billions pledged to tackle gender inequality at UN forum

  30-06-2021 18:00
  
  Generation Equality Forum in Paris announces plans to radically speed up progress on women’s rightsBillions of pounds will be pledged to support efforts to tackle gender inequality this week at the largest international conference on women’s rights in more than 25 years.The Generation Equality Forum, hosted in Paris by UN Women and the governments of France and Mexico, will launch plans to radically speed up progress over the next five years. Continue reading...
  
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• Woman who allegedly caused Tour de France crash arrested

  30-06-2021 17:59 via cnn.com
  
  The woman who allegedly held out a banner causing the crash of dozens of cyclists during the first stage of the Tour de France last Saturday has been identified and is undergoing police questioning, the Brest prosecutor's office told CNN.
  
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• 'We have to act and act fast:' Biden says climate change is driving wildfires and historic heat wave

  30-06-2021 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Wednesday will meet with governors from Western states about the threat of wildfires and announce new wildfire response initiatives amid a record-breaking heat wave in the region, a senior administration official said.
  
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• Kim Jong Un warns of 'grave consequences' after Covid incident

  30-06-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea's stringent Covid-19 prevention, a dereliction of duty which the young dictator said will have "grave consequences" for the impoverished and isolated nation, state media reported Wednesday.
  
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• Robinhood slapped with biggest-ever penalty by Wall Street regulator

  30-06-2021 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  Robinhood is being ordered to pay about $70 million for harming millions of customers. It's the largest penalty ever imposed by Wall Street's self-regulator.
  
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• White House to raise federal firefighter pay to $15 an hour

  30-06-2021 17:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden focusing on increased threats from climate change as wildfires, heat waves beset parts of the U.S.
  
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• 16 now dead in Miami condo collapse

  30-06-2021 17:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  In addition to the bodies, crews found other human remains, Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah said.
  
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• Putin: US sanctions 'even did us good'

  30-06-2021 17:43 via cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on the sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country in recent years on Wednesday. There are, he claimed, positive sides to them.
  
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• Putin says US sanctions on Russia 'even did us good'

  30-06-2021 17:43 via cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on the sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country in recent years on Wednesday. There are, he claimed, positive sides to them.
  
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• CNN reporter: Here's what to expect in Trump Organization charges

  30-06-2021 17:19 via cnn.com
  
  The Wall Street Journal reports that the Manhattan District Attorney is expected to file tax-related charges against the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg. CNN's Kara Scannell has more.
  
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• New movie 'Zola' recounts the real-life story of a road trip gone wrong

  30-06-2021 16:45 via cnn.com
  
  If classic genres are like roadmaps, the new movie "Zola" -- steered by two exotic dancers who go on a whirlwind weekender in Florida -- is what happens when you turn off the navigation. Directed by Janicza Bravo, "Zola" starts out as an impromptu American road trip and descends into chaos.
  
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• Flying car completes 35-minute test flight between cities

  30-06-2021 16:44 via cnn.com
  
  A prototype flying car has completed a test flight between two cities in Slovakia, spending 35 minutes airborne.
  
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• Trump Organization expected to be charged with tax-related crimes on Thursday

  30-06-2021 16:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  It is not clear whether the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, will also be charged.
  
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• Quentin Tarantino's last movie is now a novel

  30-06-2021 16:35 via cnn.com
  
  "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is now a book.
  
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• UNC board set to vote on tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones amid outcry from Black faculty and students

  30-06-2021 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is expected to vote Wednesday on whether it will grant tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones as tension mounts among Black students and faculty who say the board's initial failure to do so reflects a history of systemic racism at the school.
  
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• Covid-19 is killing children in Brazil at alarming rates

  30-06-2021 16:27 via cnn.com
  
  "Who's mommy's little girl?" 22-year-old Brazilian Sameque Gois asks as she plays with her baby's tiny hand, in one of the several videos she showed CNN. In the footage, little Sarah responds to her mother with an ear-to-ear smile.
  
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• CNN tours the surviving sister building to the collapsed tower

  30-06-2021 16:25 via cnn.com
  
  As the search through debris at Champlain Towers South continues, there are lingering questions about the safety of its sister building, Champlain Towers North, with a nearly identical design. CNN's Brian Todd has an inside look at Towers North.
  
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