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• CDC advisory group recommends extra shot for immunocompromised patients

  13-08-2021 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on the recommendation shortly after the vote, allowing providers to start administering the shots.
  
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• Teacher allegedly attacked by parent over face masks on first day of school

  13-08-2021 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  An elementary school teacher in Northern California was hospitalized after being attacked by a parent during a verbal argument over the use of face masks, the district superintendent said.
  
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• Teacher allegedly attacked by parent over face masks

  13-08-2021 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  An elementary school teacher in Northern California was hospitalized after being attacked by a parent during a verbal argument over the use of face masks, the district superintendent said.
  
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• Will I ever be able to fly without feeling guilty again?

  13-08-2021 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More efficient planes and sustainable fuels could lower air travel's impact, but not for a while.
  
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• CNN reporter enters US base captured by the Taliban. See what she found

  13-08-2021 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  A former US military base is now in the hands of the Taliban as the future of Afghanistan is unclear. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports exclusively from what remains of Combat Outpost Andar in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
  
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• CNN reporter enters US base captured by Taliban. See what she found

  13-08-2021 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  A former US military base is now in the hands of the Taliban as the future of Afghanistan is unclear. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports exclusively from what remains of Combat Outpost Andar in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
  
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• CNN gets access to US military base seized by the Taliban

  13-08-2021 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  A former US military base is now in the hands of the Taliban as the future of Afghanistan is unclear. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports exclusively from what remains of Combat Outpost Andar in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
  
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• Olympic sprinter explains her decision to flee to Poland

  13-08-2021 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya, who refused to her country's orders to return home after she refused to run in an event she hadn't trained for at Tokyo 2020, spoke out about seeking refuge in Poland and the video that made it dangerous to return to Belarus.
  
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• Belarusian Olympic sprinter speaks out on taking refuge in Poland

  13-08-2021 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya, who refused to her country's orders to return home after she refused to run in an event she hadn't trained for at Tokyo 2020, spoke out about seeking refuge in Poland and the video that made it dangerous to return to Belarus.
  
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• Authorities take 2nd child from 'American Idol' contestant, prompting outrage

  13-08-2021 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  Syesha Mercado, who is fighting to get her toddler back, recorded deputies taking her newborn from her in an Instagram Live video.
  
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• U.S. envoy's years of peace negotiations go up in flames in Afghanistan. What went wrong?

  13-08-2021 22:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Analysis: The U.S. lost any leverage with the Taliban once it made clear it was eager to pull out American troops, experts say.
  
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• South Park creators purchase popular Casa Bonita restaurant featured on show

  13-08-2021 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Casa Bonita is a popular Mexican restaurant and entertainment center in Lakewood, Colorado, that has been featured on South Park.
  
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• When Covid came to the anti-vax capital of Australia

  13-08-2021 22:00
  
  A noisy minority in NSW’s northern rivers are pushing back against Covid-19 restrictionsBenny Zable has lived in Nimbin on and off since 1973, when he arrived in town for the Aquarius festival – the event that seeded counterculture and escapist lifestyles into the northern rivers of New South Wales.The 75-year-old artist and activist is a storied figure in this part of Australia, now a heartland for alternative health and wellness advocates, and notorious for low immunisation rates.
  
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• Case of the mystery sea snakes: why are reptiles washing up on New Zealand’s shores?

  13-08-2021 22:00
  
  A famously snake-free country, Aotearoa and its beaches are wrangling with the sporadic arrival of yellow-bellied sea snakesIt looked like a rope or a question mark – a black scribble on the sand. The creature had washed up on a Northland beach in May and was found by a steely local 11-year-old, who popped it into a bag, took it to his local corner shop and requested a box. The purveyor told him it was a sea snake, so the boy put it in a bucket and took it home. The snake did not survive t
  
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• Building a bare-bones home gym: ‘A small bar with weights and two dumbbells can do a lot’

  13-08-2021 22:00
  
  With a few cheap items and a good routine it’s possible to start or continue a fitness regimen at homeThe longer lockdown progresses, the more ovals and homes around Sydney resemble makeshift gyms. Some trainers have shifted everything but treadmills and ellipticals outside, while others rely on a few key items to train themselves and others while the gyms are closed.So what do you need if your gym is shut and you want to keep training? Not much. And what you do need won’t break the
  
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• Bali was our playground. Now Fortress Australia has turned its back on Indonesia | Brigid Delaney

  13-08-2021 22:00
  
  Covid has hastened Australia’s inward drift, but now is not the time todisengage from our struggling neighbour The effects of living in Fortress Australia are profound on the psyche. Yes, many of us may feel safer, but the longer we stay locked away from the world, the more our horizons shrink.Every bar or beach around the world used to ring with the sound of an Australian accent. Now it’s so strange to encounter an Australian abroad that an expat friend recently told me, almost exci
  
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• NYC woman arrested after walking dogs without leash prompts police confrontation

  13-08-2021 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dora Marchand, 29, was brought into custody after she could not provide identification to officers, which she left at home.
  
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• Well-preserved 28,000-year-old lion cub found in Siberian permafrost

  13-08-2021 21:08
  
  Female cave lion cub named Sparta in Russia’s Yakutia region may even have traces of mother’s milk in itScientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even have traces of its mother’s milk in it.The female cub, named Sparta, was found at the Semyuelyakh River in Russia’s Yakutia region in 2018 and a second lion cub called Boris was found the year before, according to a study publis
  
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• Plymouth shooting: police reinstated gunman’s firearms licence last month

  13-08-2021 20:31
  
  Jake Davison had licence revoked in December but it was restored after he attended anger management courseA gunman who killed his mother and four passersby, including a three-year-old girl, had his firearms licence revoked in December, but police reinstated it last month after he attended an anger management course.Police will face an investigation over their dealings with Jake Davison, 22, who expressed sympathy for the “incel” movement and a keen interest in mass shootings. One res
  
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• July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm

  13-08-2021 20:25
  
  Global land and ocean surface temperature last month was 0.9C hotter than 20th-century average, beating July 2016 recordJuly was the world’s hottest month ever recorded, US government scientists have confirmed, a further indication of the unfolding climate crisis that is now affecting almost every part of the planet. Related: Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN reportContinue reading...
  
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• The politicization of the CDC didn't end with Trump

  13-08-2021 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The mechanism used to help these tenants comes at the expense of the rule of law.
  
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• Canada has big decisions to make on China

  13-08-2021 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  In what Canadian officials have described as "arbitrary" decisions, Chinese courts this week have handed down a harsh sentence to Michael Spavor, accused of espionage, and upheld a death sentence for Robert Schellenberg, convicted of drug smuggling in the Asian country in 2018. The decisions come as the extradition trial of the Chinese tech giant Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is entering its final stages in a Vancouver courtroom.
  
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• After wildfire smoke blanketed the West, Covid-19 cases and deaths rose

  13-08-2021 20:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The findings add a concerning new element to the ways wildfire smoke can wreak havoc on health.
  
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• Calls for violence online similar to before January 6 Capitol attack, DHS Intel chief says

  13-08-2021 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  Online extremist rhetoric is strikingly similar to the build-up to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, with increasing calls for violence linked to conspiracy theories and false narratives, Homeland Security Intelligence chief John Cohen said in an interview with CNN.
  
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• 'Jeopardy!' champ rises to top 3 on all-time winnings list

  13-08-2021 20:03 via cnn.com
  
  Matt Amodio has won over $500,000 and vaulted himself into the "Jeopardy!" Hall of Fame as the 3rd all-time highest winner in regular season play.
  
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• Afghanistan translator 'just waiting for Taliban to kill me' after he risked his life for US

  13-08-2021 19:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Afghan translator fears for his life and could be at the top of a kill list if the Taliban were to fully take over the country. 
  
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• Woman fatally shot by toddler while on Zoom work call, police say

  13-08-2021 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  A Florida woman died after being shot by her toddler while she was on a Zoom conference call, police say.
  
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• Washington state confirms first live ‘murder hornet’ sighting of the year

  13-08-2021 19:48
  
  Asian giant hornet spotted about two miles from where first US nest was found last yearWashington state has confirmed its second “murder hornet” sighting of 2021 – the first glimpse of a live one, officials reported.A statement released by the Washington state department of agriculture (WSDA) confirms the first report of a live Asian giant hornet in the state this year. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Superman' cyclist shows off Colombia's underrated Boyacá region

  13-08-2021 19:34 via cnn.com
  
  These Colombian mountains have forged the iron legs of the top Colombian cyclists. Movistar team member Miguel Angel Lopez grew up in Pesca, Boyacá -- training on the unforgiving hills of the Andean Mountains amid colonial architecture and colorful small towns.
  
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• Gov. Cuomo may be exiting, but ethical concerns still swirl around Chris Cuomo, CNN

  13-08-2021 19:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  The spotlight on Chris Cuomo comes at a potential moment of transition for CNN and other major cable news outlets.
  
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• UN ‘gravely concerned’ by reports of mass rape in DRC

  13-08-2021 19:27
  
  Hundreds of sexual assaults reported in south-eastern Tanganyika province as armed groups fight over goldminesThe UN has raised the alarm over widespread, systematic sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), saying there have been reports of armed groups carrying out mass rape.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN refugee agency, said its staff had heard horrific testimonies from forcibly displaced people in south-eastern Tanganyika province. Cont
  
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• Former model Carré Sutton sues Gérald Marie over rape accusation

  13-08-2021 19:21
  
  Lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, says Sutton was ‘trafficked’ by ex-Elite Model boss to ‘wealthy men across Europe’Ex-model Carré Sutton has filed a lawsuit alleging that Gérald Marie, the French former modeling agency boss, repeatedly raped her at his Paris apartment when she was just 17 years old.The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, also maintains that Sutton was “trafficked by Marie to other wealthy men around Europe&
  
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• Three volcanoes are erupting at the same time in Alaska

  13-08-2021 19:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three volcanoes in Alaska's Aleutian Islands are erupting at the same time, with at least two spewing low levels of ash and steam.
  
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• ‘Maestro of humanity’: Italian surgeon Gino Strada dies at 73

  13-08-2021 19:10
  
  Tributes paid to doctor whose NGO set up world-class hospitals in war zones such as Iraq, Yemen and SudanTributes have been paid to Gino Strada, the Italian surgeon and “maestro of humanity” known for setting up world-class hospitals for the victims of war, who has died aged 73.The medic, who in 1994 co-founded the humanitarian organisation Emergency to provide free, quality healthcare for those injured in conflict, died on Friday in France, reports said. Continue reading...
  
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• Tropical depression Fred is approaching Florida with another storm close behind

  13-08-2021 19:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fred is forecast to make landfall in Florida on Monday as a tropical storm. Another tropical system could also be aiming for a U.S. landfall.
  
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• Drive-in theaters fueled Hollywood's box office last year. They could be here to stay

  13-08-2021 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  During a pandemic that upended lives, broke routines, and mothballed most forms of in-person activities, a funny thing happened in the entertainment business: The drive-in theater saved the cinema. But while it might have been dismissed as another anomaly in a year full of unusual economic blips, the renewed interest in drive-in theaters looks like it's here to stay.
  
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• Aerial footage shows floods' destruction

  13-08-2021 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  More than 20 people have died in the floods and nearly 2,000 have been evacuated from three coastal provinces, according to the country's Natural Disaster and Emergency Directorate.
  
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• UK mass shooter was a virgin ‘incel’ who warned he was ‘a Terminator’

  13-08-2021 18:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Jake Davison, a 22-year-old apparent fan of the New York Giants football team, was identified Friday as the gun-obsessed man behind Thursday’s bloodbath in Plymouth that a local MP decried as "unspeakably awful."
  
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• Drone footage shows aftermath of Evia wildfires in Greece – video

  13-08-2021 18:34
  
  Greek and foreign firefighters continued to tackle flare-ups in northern Evia from a blaze which has already burned more than 50,000 hectares of forest. Drone footage shows kilometres of charred, blackened hillsides and damaged homes in a region known for agricultural production as well as tourismTurkey flood deaths rise as fresh fires erupt on Greek island of Evia Continue reading...
  
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• Federal judge won't block Biden administration's new eviction moratorium

  13-08-2021 18:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Landlord groups had opposed the moratorium, which applies to counties with high rates of coronavirus transmission.
  
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• See the street art that makes this city a destination

  13-08-2021 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  Colombia's capital Bogotá has embraced street art and has been fostering urban artists like never before. Self-proclaimed neo-muralist, Ledania, delivers bright colors and stylized strokes that adorn high rise buildings, hotel lobbies and city blocks.
  
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• Booster jabs for rich countries will cause more deaths worldwide, say experts

  13-08-2021 17:29
  
  Oxford Vaccine Group and Gavi say western leaders must not ‘reject their responsibility to the rest of humanity’We shouldn’t be giving Covid boosters while millions wait for first doseSee all our coronavirus coverageMany more people around the world will die of Covid if western political leaders “reject their responsibility to the rest of humanity” by prioritising booster shots for their own populations instead of sharing doses, the head of the Oxford vaccine group
  
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• Mars on Earth: Apply for NASA's simulated Martian mission

  13-08-2021 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  If you've ever dreamed of what it might be like to live on another world, here's your chance. Applications are now open to participate as a crew member in NASA's first one-year simulation of living on Mars.
  
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• An anonymous hacker stole $600 million in cryptocurrency, then gave it back

  13-08-2021 17:07 via cnn.com
  
  An anonymous hacker who stole more than $600 million from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network this week has returned virtually all of the money — and apparently turned down a half-million-dollar reward offered by the company for exposing its security vulnerability.
  
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• Airbnb warns that the Delta variant could disrupt travel

  13-08-2021 17:07 via cnn.com
  
  Airbnb had a blockbuster second quarter, with revenue soaring nearly 300% and topping expectations. But it also reported some bad news: The company is worried about the Delta variant's impact on consumers' future travel plans.
  
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• How to make the days that you're in the office really count

  13-08-2021 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  For many workers, the office is going to play a different role when they return.
  
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• First live 'murder hornet' of 2021 spotted attacking a wasp nest in Washington

  13-08-2021 16:47 via cnn.com
  
  Entomologists in Washington state are setting up traps and urging people to be on the lookout after a "murder hornet" was spotted attacking a paper wasp nest this week near the US-Canadian border.
  
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• The Taliban now control half of Afghanistan's provincial capitals

  13-08-2021 16:36 via cnn.com
  
  The Taliban has taken control of the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, Afghan Member of Parliament Gul Ahmad Kamin told CNN on Friday, as the insurgent group continues its rapid advancement toward the capital Kabul.
  
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• Big Tech embraced hybrid work. It's more complicated for some startups

  13-08-2021 16:19 via cnn.com
  
  Starting any business is full of challenges. Starting one in the middle of a global pandemic is on a whole other level. That reality didn't stop serial entrepreneur Rami Essaid from starting Finmark last June, but it did force him to take a different approach.
  
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• Paulina Porizkova shares tearful selfie

  13-08-2021 16:14 via cnn.com
  
  Paulina Porizkova got vulnerable on Instagram Thursday.
  
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