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• Meet the members of Team USA's first-ever Surfing team

  26-07-2021 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  As surfing makes its debut as an Olympic sport in Japan, CNN's Will Ripley talks to members of the US team about the challenges of making Olympic history during a pandemic.
  
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• What this Florida man's Capitol riot sentence means for his fellow defendants

  26-07-2021 23:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  It’s very possible Paul Hodgkins’ reduction is one that federal law doesn’t recognize yet: the absence of moronic online behavior.
  
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• Tesla reports record quarterly earnings, blowing past Wall Street's expectations

  26-07-2021 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla reported stronger-than-expected second quarter, with a record net income of $1.1 billion.
  
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• Largest known comet has been traveling for millions of years

  26-07-2021 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  Astronomers have discovered the largest known comet, and it's about a thousand times more massive than others.
  
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• Analysis: What Sarah Sanders gets wrong about the Covid-19 vaccine

  26-07-2021 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Here's the headline out of an op-ed Sarah Sanders wrote in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on Sunday: She got vaccinated "a few months ago" against the Covid-19 virus.
  
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• Parents of British teen killed in hit-and-run slam US over suppressing work details of woman accused in death

  26-07-2021 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  The parents of a British teenager killed in 2019 said Monday that they will strenuously oppose an attempt by the US government to keep secret the employment details of the woman accused in the traffic death.
  
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• How US military pullback in Iraq could benefit Iran

  26-07-2021 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The withdrawal of remaining US combat troops could help Iran achieve its ambitions.
  
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• Working from home has done nothing to stop the discrimination of 'lookism'

  26-07-2021 20:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  How to cope post-quarantine with this age-old reality? Accept it for the gift it can be.
  
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• Floods in London are the latest sign big cities aren't ready for climate change

  26-07-2021 20:13 via cnn.com
  
  Cars stranded in streets turned to rivers. Bus passengers rescued by raft. Train stations submerged, sparking travel chaos.
  
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• Canada's first Indigenous governor general is installed

  26-07-2021 19:40 via cnn.com
  
  Indigenous leader and advocate Mary Simon has been installed as Canada's governor general.
  
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• Analysis: Why Macron's 'Covid pass' wouldn't fly in the US

  26-07-2021 19:12 via cnn.com
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron has had enough.
  
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• See disaster-stricken lagoon turned pink

  26-07-2021 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  A lagoon in Argentina has turned pink after experts and activists say the water was polluted from a nearby factory.
  
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• UK mom says she killed pedophile neighbor because he preyed on her son

  26-07-2021 18:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A UK woman who was convicted of fatally stabbing her neighbor after learning he was a pedophile has reportedly revealed that her son was one of his victims.
  
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• What Sarah Sanders gets wrong about the Covid-19 vaccine

  26-07-2021 18:36 via cnn.com
  
  Here's the headline out of an op-ed Sarah Sanders wrote in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on Sunday: She got vaccinated "a few months ago" against the Covid-19 virus.
  
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• The Math PhD who pulled off one of the biggest shocks in Olympics history

  26-07-2021 18:36 via cnn.com
  
  • Philippines gets its first ever gold medal• Who else won gold medals on Monday
  
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• Math genius pulls off one of the biggest shocks in Olympics history

  26-07-2021 18:36 via cnn.com
  
  Nobody was speaking about Anna Kiesenhofer ahead of the Tokyo 2020 women's road race, but they certainly are now.
  
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• Anna Kiesenhofer is a math genius who just pulled off one of the biggest shocks in Olympics history

  26-07-2021 18:36 via cnn.com
  
  Nobody was speaking about Anna Kiesenhofer ahead of the Tokyo 2020 women's road race, but they certainly are now.
  
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• Issa Rae is married

  26-07-2021 18:15 via cnn.com
  
  We may still be waiting to see who (if anyone) her character on "Insecure" ends up with, but in real life, Issa Rae is now a married woman.
  
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• Argentinian fencer lost her match but won a proposal of marriage

  26-07-2021 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  Argentinian fencer Maria Belen Perez Maurice may have lost the chance of a medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, but she is definitely still winning at life.
  
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• Biden to announce end of combat mission in Iraq as he shifts US foreign policy focus

  26-07-2021 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden will agree Monday to formally conclude the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, another step toward winding down the two prolonged military engagements that began in the years following the September 11 terror attacks.
  
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• As wildfires worsen, firefighters are on the front lines of climate change

  26-07-2021 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  Firefighters in the West have witnessed loss beyond measure and are yet again gearing up for another devastating fire season, especially in California.
  
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• Women, children casualties on the rise in Afghanistan: UN

  26-07-2021 17:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since the United Nations began systematically keeping count in 2009.
  
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• UK weather: Warnings remain after homes, roads and hospitals in England flooded in deluge of rain

  26-07-2021 17:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Torrential rain has flooded parts of London and the South after thunderstorms struck.
  
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• Vatican trial opens into financial scandal rocking papacy

  26-07-2021 17:16 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The trial is the culmination of a two-year investigation to a 350 million-euro London real estate venture.
  
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• With virus surge, US to keep travel restrictions for now

  26-07-2021 17:11 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The United States will keep existing COVID-19 travel restrictions on international travel in place for now because of concerns about the surging infection rate due to the delta variant
  
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• Fox News viewers are less likely to get vaccinated, poll shows

  26-07-2021 17:08 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Harry Enten analyzes data from the Axios/Ipsos tracking poll comparing vaccination rates of the Fox News audience to people who get their news from other sources.
  
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• Reporters and pollsters say vaccine hesitancy is devolving into vaccine refusal

  26-07-2021 17:06 via cnn.com
  
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• Some French health workers resent, resist mandatory vaccines

  26-07-2021 17:05 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A small but vocal minority is holding out.
  
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• Vaccine maker BioNTech to use mRNA tech to target malaria

  26-07-2021 17:04 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Pharmaceutical company BioNTech says it wants to use the mRNA technology behind its coronavirus vaccine to target malaria
  
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• Tokyo Olympics Day 3: US men's swimming takes gold, COVID-19 cases climb

  26-07-2021 17:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Here's what you missed from Day 3 of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
  
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• NYC to require vaccines or weekly testing for city workers

  26-07-2021 16:53 via abcnews.go.com
  
  New York City will require all municipal workers to get coronavirus vaccines by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing
  
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• She can't hug her nephews because millions of Americans refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccine

  26-07-2021 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  All Kimberly Cooley wants to do is hug her 6-year-old nephews -- and she can't because tens of millions of Americans are choosing not to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
  
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• Biden administration announces resources to support people with long Covid

  26-07-2021 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration on Monday released guidance and resources to support people experiencing long-term effects of Covid-19, known as "long Covid," as the condition shapes up to be a major, long-term public health issue.
  
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• COVID-19 live updates: US faces summer surge as delta variant spreads

  26-07-2021 16:49 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 194 million people worldwide and killed over 4.1 million of them.
  
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• WATCH: Snow leopard at San Diego Zoo catches COVID-19

  26-07-2021 16:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  An unvaccinated snow leopard tested positive for COVID after a test of his stool confirmed the virus's presence.
  
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• WATCH: Huge sandstorm engulfs China city

  26-07-2021 16:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A sandstorm over 300 feet high enveloped the Chinese city of Jiuquan on Sunday.
  
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• John Travolta honors Kelly Preston's last role

  26-07-2021 16:40 via cnn.com
  
  John Travolta remembered his late wife over the weekend by posting a clip from her final film.
  
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• 8 US attorney picks by Biden would include historic firsts

  26-07-2021 16:39 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of defendants in the Capitol insurrection
  
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• 'The Simpsons' is doing something it's never done before

  26-07-2021 16:34 via cnn.com
  
  "The Simpsons" will kick of its 33rd season with an all-musical episode.
  
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• Why Germany's gymnasts are wearing body-covering unitards at the Tokyo Games

  26-07-2021 16:24 via cnn.com
  
  The German women's gymnastics team has forgone bikini-cut unitards in favor of full-body versions at the Tokyo Olympics, in what the German Gymnastics Federation has branded a statement against "sexualization."
  
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• UN chief: World hunger worsened by climate change, conflict

  26-07-2021 16:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that climate change and conflict are both consequence and driver of poverty, income inequality and the high cost of food
  
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• As Jan. 6 probe begins, Dem vows: 'We have to get it right'

  26-07-2021 16:19 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson is about to pick up his duties as chairman of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
  
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• Philip Morris wants cigarettes banned in the UK by 2030

  26-07-2021 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  Philip Morris International says it will stop selling Marlboro cigarettes in Britain within a decade as it called on the UK government to ban the sale of its tobacco products.
  
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• Confusion besets new police reform laws in Washington state

  26-07-2021 16:14 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Washington state is embarking on a massive experiment in police reform and accountability following the racial justice protests that erupted after George Floyd’s murder last year, with nearly a dozen laws taking effect Sunday
  
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• Deconstructing common myths about the vaccine

  26-07-2021 16:06 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's John Avlon sets the record straight on the Covid-19 vaccine by deconstructing and disproving common myths that are keeping vaccine-hesitant Americans from getting the shot.
  
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• Bipartisan infrastructure talks sputtering along with little time left

  26-07-2021 16:05 via cnn.com
  
  After spending the weekend negotiating, lawmakers have yet to clinch a bipartisan infrastructure deal, a precarious sign for senators who have months trying to cement a massive, bipartisan win for President Joe Biden.
  
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• Huge sandstorm engulfs city in China

  26-07-2021 15:54 via cnn.com
  
  A sandstorm as high as 100 meters (328 feet) hit Dunhuang City in northwestern China on July 25. Local police imposed traffic controls on the city's expressway as visibility reduced to less than five meters.
  
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• Russian Olympic Committee win gymnastics gold

  26-07-2021 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Russian Olympic Committee hold on to take gymnastics men's team gold as Great Britain finish fourth.
  
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• This is the most unhinged Trump rant about the 2020 election yet

  26-07-2021 15:36 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has set a pretty high bar for himself when it comes to wild rants. And yet, over the weekend in a speech to Turning Point USA in Arizona, he managed to outdo himself.
  
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• Wildfires raging across south-west Sardinia force evacuations – video

  26-07-2021 15:30
  
  Firefighters are working to put out wildfires that have spread quickly across parts of south-western Sardinia, destroying 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of forest and forcing 1,500 people to be evacuated from their homes. On Sunday the EU sent four firefighting planes, including two Canadair planes provided by France, to support 11 aircraft working to extinguish the fires raging close to 13 towns. Efforts have been hampered by strong and hot windsFirefighters battle wildfires raging across south
  
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