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• Breyer calls Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling 'very, very, very wrong'

  09-09-2021 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  The 83-year-old justice, who sides with the court's liberal wing, deflected questions about his retirement.
  
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• President Biden imposes more stringent rules on federal workers, and encourages private businesses to do the same, to combat the coronavirus

  09-09-2021 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday will impose more stringent vaccine rules on federal workers, and take steps to encourage private businesses to do the same, during a major speech meant to lay out a new approach to combating the coronavirus.
  
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• Hear Biden's message to the unvaccinated

  09-09-2021 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden shared a message to unvaccinated Americans as the nation continues to fight rising coronavirus cases and deaths. He implored them to get the vaccine, noting "we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin."
  
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• Biden to the unvaccinated: 'Our patience is wearing thin'

  09-09-2021 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden shared a message to unvaccinated Americans as the nation continues to fight rising coronavirus cases and deaths. He implored them to get the vaccine, noting "we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin."
  
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• CNN uncovers evidence of torture, detention and execution in Tigray

  09-09-2021 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  A CNN investigation has uncovered evidence of the torture, mass detention and execution of residents in the the town of Humera in Ethiopia's Tigray region. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.
  
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• 'A horrible sight': CNN investigation reveals evidence of torture, detention and execution in Tigray

  09-09-2021 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  A CNN investigation has uncovered evidence of the torture, mass detention and execution of residents in the the town of Humera in Ethiopia's Tigray region. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports.
  
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• He's on the FBI's most-wanted list and is now a key member of the Taliban's new government

  09-09-2021 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  Nothing says you are renouncing al Qaeda quite like appointing a member of al Qaeda to a top cabinet position in your new government.
  
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• Biden announces new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans

  09-09-2021 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday will impose more stringent vaccine rules on federal workers, and take steps to encourage private businesses to do the same, during a major speech meant to lay out a new approach to combating the coronavirus.
  
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• As Covid hospitalizations spike, some overwhelmed hospitals are rationing care

  09-09-2021 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Covid-19 hospitalizations for those 17 and under peaked in late August at a rate approaching twice that of this year's early winter surge, according to CDC data, as many of the nation's schools returned to in-person learning.
  
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• Cheney says 'bring it' after Trump endorses her primary opponent in Wyoming

  09-09-2021 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  After being voted out of her leadership role, Cheney vowed to fight to keep Trump out of office if he runs for president again.
  
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• There is a safe, cheap abortion option. And it fits in the palm of your hand.

  09-09-2021 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ironically — and fortuitously — we are in the middle of a burst of innovation around abortion care.
  
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• Biden administration sues Texas for 'unconstitutional' abortion law – video

  09-09-2021 22:44
  
  The US attorney general has announced that the Biden administration is suing Texas over the state’s 'clearly unconstitutional' abortion law, which amounts to a near-total ban on abortion. Senate Bill 8 bans abortion around six weeks after a pregnancy starts, and is enforced by private citizens being invited to report any woman seeking an abortion after this time, with a prize of $10,000 (£72,000) for each report.Merrick Garland said the law that came into effect at the beginning
  
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• Justice Department sues Texas over six-week abortion ban

  09-09-2021 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday over its new six-week abortion ban, saying the state law is unconstitutional.
  
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• United Nations confirms hackers breached its systems earlier this year

  09-09-2021 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  Unidentified hackers breached computer systems at the United Nations in April and the multinational body has had to fend off related hacks in the months since, a UN spokesperson said Thursday.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel makes controversial comment on vaccinated vs unvaccinated

  09-09-2021 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Former White House Covid-19 adviser Andy Slavitt discusses recent comments made by comedian Jimmy Kimmel on whether hospitals should favor vaccinated patients over the unvaccinated.
  
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• Biden to announce new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans

  09-09-2021 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday will impose more stringent vaccine rules on federal workers, and take steps to encourage private businesses to do the same, during a major speech meant to lay out a new approach to combating the coronavirus.
  
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• Keanu Reeves back as Neo in new 'Matrix' trailer

  09-09-2021 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  The first trailer for "The Matrix Resurrections" has been released. The long-awaited sequel is the fourth film in the "Matrix" franchise and is set to premiere in December.
  
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• Some Covid long-haulers return to college campuses — but for them, everything's changed

  09-09-2021 21:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  “I don't learn the same way from when I was healthy,” an incoming freshman said. “I feel like I’m a totally different person now.”
  
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• Justice Department sues Texas over restrictive abortion law

  09-09-2021 21:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  The law bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
  
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• Actor to plead guilty in $650 million Hollywood Ponzi scheme involving fake HBO, Netflix deals

  09-09-2021 21:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Actor Zachary Joseph Horwitz owes investors about $230.36 million.
  
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• Covid-19 is crushing this corner of rural America. Getting the vaccine can still feel like an act of treason

  09-09-2021 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  It felt like Covid-19 was closing in around us during the five days in August this CNN crew spent in Carter County, Missouri.
  
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• Covid-19 is crushing this corner of rural America

  09-09-2021 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  It felt like Covid-19 was closing in around us during the five days in August this CNN crew spent in Carter County, Missouri.
  
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• 'Shut up': Teen mocked over masks at school board meeting

  09-09-2021 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  Grady Knox was recalling the Covid-19 death of his grandmother at a school board meeting in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, when a group of people appear to laugh.
  
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• Microsoft indefinitely abandons plan to reopen US offices amid Covid worries

  09-09-2021 20:35 via cnn.com
  
  Microsoft announced Thursday that it's scrapping plans to fully reopen US offices early next month because of concerns about the Delta variant.
  
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• No major religious denomination opposes vaccination, but religious exemptions may still complicate mandates

  09-09-2021 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  In Northern California, the pastor of a megachurch hands out religious exemption forms to the faithful. A New Mexico state senator will "help you articulate a religious exemption" by pointing to the decades-old use of aborted fetal cells in the development of some vaccines. And a Texas-based evangelist offers exemption letters to anyone — for a suggested "donation" starting at $25.
  
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• Phil Collins suffering from health problems, can 'barely hold' drum sticks

  09-09-2021 20:12 via cnn.com
  
  Phil Collins says he is no longer able to play the drums due to health issues.
  
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• Analysis: Kellyanne Conway is seriously complaining about a 'break from presidential norms'

  09-09-2021 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  On Wednesday, the Biden administration requested that all Trump appointees appointed to boards at the nation's military academies -- a group that includes longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway -- resign. Conway, in a letter rejecting Biden's request, said that his call to resign would constitute a "break from presidential norms."
  
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• Analysis: Kellyanne Conway is complaining about a 'break from presidential norms'

  09-09-2021 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  On Wednesday, the Biden administration requested that all Trump appointees appointed to boards at the nation's military academies -- a group that includes longtime Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway -- resign. Conway, in a letter rejecting Biden's request, said that his call to resign would constitute a "break from presidential norms."
  
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• Return of migrant vessels: a violation of maritime law and moral duty

  09-09-2021 19:43
  
  Analysis: experts say blocking right to apply for asylum is an infringement of Universal Declaration of Human RightsGaspare, a fisher from Sciacca in Sicily, had rescued dozens of migrants attempting to reach Italy by boat from Libya when the Italian authorities threatened to arrest him and his crew for aiding illegal immigration. “I wonder if even one of our politicians has ever heard the desperate cries for help at high sea in the black of night,” he said in 2019. “I wonder w
  
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• McCarthy asks Supreme Court to reverse House proxy voting rules

  09-09-2021 19:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Proxy voting first took effect in May 2020 and allows lawmakers to cast votes remotely so that they don’t have to physically be inside the House chamber.
  
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• Workers are quitting in droves. Corporations like ours need to adapt.

  09-09-2021 18:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  We at Microsoft are embracing what employees have made clear: Hybrid workplaces will be a permanent foundation of the future of work.
  
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• $600-million art collection coming to market following high-profile divorce

  09-09-2021 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly three years after the high-profile divorce proceedings of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his wife, Linda, a large portion of their eye-popping billion-dollar art collection is coming to market.
  
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• Cuba begins vaccinating children as young as two for Covid-19

  09-09-2021 18:54 via cnn.com
  
  The Cuban government has begun to vaccinate children as young as two years old for COVID-19, the island's state media reported, in a bid to get kids back into classrooms.
  
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• It’s shameful that it took so long to bring down the statue of Robert E Lee

  09-09-2021 18:35
  
  Let’s hope Richmond makes its removal more than an empty gesture When they lifted the enormous statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee from his pedestal and set him on the ground in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, it was symbolically huge to me. On high, he was undeservedly venerated.And for years of walking under him on Monument Avenue, going about my day, I always felt the city was in an embarrassing time warp, unable to completely shake its status as the former capital of the C
  
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• Facebook and Ray-Ban are rolling out smart glasses that actually look cool. Will anyone buy it?

  09-09-2021 18:00 via cnn.com
  
  On a sunny May day in 2012, Google cofounder Sergey Brin walked down King Street in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood with a pair of black, lens-free smart glasses on his face.
  
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• Trump endorses Harriet Hageman in GOP primary challenge to Liz Cheney

  09-09-2021 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump has endorsed a Republican primary challenger to Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a vocal critic of the former president who voted to impeach him earlier this year.
  
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• 'Don't Look Up' trailer is here and it's filled with every celebrity imaginable

  09-09-2021 17:54 via cnn.com
  
  The "Don't Look Up" trailer is finally here.
  
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• 'We had a great life': Soccer player remembers life before the Taliban

  09-09-2021 17:32 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Becky Anderson speaks with Nadia Nadim, an Afghan-Danish footballer, who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban killed her father in 2000.
  
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• WATCH: Stubborn snake snagged from inside wall

  09-09-2021 17:30
  
  A particularly stubborn python hiding inside the wall of a home in Queensland gave this snake catcher some trouble before it was safely removed.
  
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• WATCH: Bride and groom dive into the ocean in wedding outfits

  09-09-2021 17:29
  
  A bride and groom raised eyebrows taking the plunge into the ocean in their full wedding outfits.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence expecting first child with husband Cooke Maroney

  09-09-2021 17:17 via cnn.com
  
  Oscar winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is pregnant and expecting her first child with her art dealer husband Cooke Maroney.
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence expecting first child

  09-09-2021 17:17 via cnn.com
  
  Oscar winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is pregnant and expecting her first child with her art dealer husband Cooke Maroney.
  
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• Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk despite smoke, alarm on space station

  09-09-2021 17:04 via cnn.com
  
  Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will conduct their second spacewalk in less than a week as they continue configurations for the new Nauka module for operations on the International Space Station.
  
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• Afghanistan is now one of very few countries with no women in top government ranks

  09-09-2021 17:00 via cnn.com
  
  The Taliban announced the formation of an interim government for Afghanistan this week, with a hardline group of veteran militants at the helm.
  
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• California QAnon believer indicted in killings of his 2 children

  09-09-2021 16:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Matthew Taylor Coleman is charged with two counts of foreign first-degree murder of United States nationals and could face the death penalty.
  
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• Lorde rerecorded five 'Solar Power' songs in Māori language

  09-09-2021 16:48 via cnn.com
  
  Lorde's sunny, contemplative new album, "Solar Power," celebrates natural wonders and the singer's beloved New Zealand. That idea of the restorative power of nature, though, is one the album shares with her home country's Indigenous Māori people.
  
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• Wall Street's hottest investor is cooling on China

  09-09-2021 16:15 via cnn.com
  
  Cathie Wood, the CEO of Ark Invest, is reportedly slashing her exposure to China, and switching to stocks that are in Beijing's good books.
  
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• Ford is ending production in India and taking a $2 billion hit in the process

  09-09-2021 16:15 via cnn.com
  
  Ford is ending production in India and taking a hit of $2 billion as it retrenches from the country.
  
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• Australia's Scott Morrison doesn't deny pressuring UK to drop climate asks from trade deal

  09-09-2021 15:52 via cnn.com
  
  Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison all but admitted Thursday that his country had asked UK negotiators to exclude particular climate commitments from a free trade deal agreed in principle in June.
  
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• Watch: CNN was covering these stories just before the 9/11 attack

  09-09-2021 15:42 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Jordan's possible return to the NBA was one of the stories dominating the news cycle on the morning of September 11, 2001. But that changed at 8:49am when CNN broke in with a shot of the Twin Towers.
  
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