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• Afghanistan: Biden was advised to keep 2,500 troops, say generals

  28-09-2021 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Top US generals recommended keeping 2,500 troops, but the president said he did not recall this advice.
  
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• Daniel Craig's last film as James Bond has royal premiere

  28-09-2021 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Daniel Craig joins his co-stars - including members of the royal family - on the red carpet for his final outing as James Bond.
  
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• Hottest homes, coolest prices: Why cash-strapped families are moving to regions with extreme climates

  28-09-2021 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  “People are much more fixated on budget and being close to family or work than thinking about climate risk,” one housing expert said.
  
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• Limited edition Pokémon Oreo cookies are being listed for thousands on eBay

  28-09-2021 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  How much would you pay for an Oreo cookie? For some, the answer could be thousands of dollars -- as one hard-to-find Oreo cookie featuring a rare Pokémon is fetching a hefty price tag on eBay.
  
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• NASA's Lucy mission will observe the earliest 'fossils' of the solar system

  28-09-2021 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  The first NASA mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms is getting ready to launch.
  
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• Messi scores superb first PSG goal in win over Man City

  28-09-2021 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lionel Messi scores his first Paris St-Germain goal in stunning fashion as they beat Manchester City in the Champions League.
  
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• 'Problematic': Borger on Biden's relationship with generals

  28-09-2021 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Gloria Borger breaks down President Joe Biden's "problematic" history with the nation's top generals following testimony on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  
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• 'Goofiest little weirdo' now a Guinness World Record holder

  28-09-2021 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Check out the world's longest dog ears as the hound checks out herself. Lend CNN's Jeanne Moos your ears.
  
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• The story behind Trump's mysterious 2019 Walter Reed trip revealed

  28-09-2021 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump's secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine colonoscopy, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former press secretary and first lady Melania Trump's chief of staff. CNN's Kate Bennett and Jake Tapper discuss.
  
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• Here's everything Amazon announced at its big product event — including a $999 robot

  28-09-2021 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon is continuing its quest to cover our homes and bodies with Amazon devices.
  
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• Contradicting Biden, top generals say they recommended a small force stay in Afghanistan

  28-09-2021 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden has received fierce criticism over his administration’s handling of the withdrawal and failure to predict the Taliban’s quick return to power.
  
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• Dow drops more than 550 points as inflation concerns rattle investors

  28-09-2021 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  The US stock market took it on the chin again Tuesday, plummeting on worries about sustained high inflation that pushed bond yields higher. The debt ceiling debate raging in Washington didn't help market sentiment either.
  
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• Progressive Democrats vow to defy Pelosi, vote no on infrastructure bill

  28-09-2021 22:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  House Progressives have starkly warned congressional leadership that they will block infrastructure bill Thursday.
  
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• Housing market so hot, burned house going for almost $400K

  28-09-2021 21:59 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A home in Massachusetts seriously damaged by fire has been listed on the market with an asking price of $399,000
  
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• Petito's dad: Give same attention to all missing people

  28-09-2021 21:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The family of slain traveler Gabby Petito has implored the public and news media to put the same energy into helping find other missing people as they did Petito, a 22-year-old woman who vanished on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend
  
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• Florida sues Biden administration over immigration policy

  28-09-2021 21:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Florida is suing President Joe Biden’s administration claiming his immigration policy is illegal
  
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• Ohio State sex abuse survivors plan appeals, defend motives

  28-09-2021 21:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  After a judge dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State over decades-old sexual abuse by a long-dead team doctor, plaintiffs say they'll keep pressing their cases against the university via appeals
  
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• 'Best Trump impersonator' joins 'SNL' cast

  28-09-2021 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  New "Saturday Night Live" featured player James Austin Johnson has gone viral in recent years for his top-notch impression of former President Donald Trump. A 2020 Vanity Fair article called him "The best Trump impersonator of all."
  
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• Afghanistan updates: Generals say they opposed Biden decision to withdraw all troops

  28-09-2021 21:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Top Pentagon leaders appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday amid sharp criticism of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  
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• Tense scene at London gas station after driver cuts in line

  28-09-2021 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  A shortage of tanker drivers in the UK has caused gas stations to run out of fuel and long lines at those stations that have it available.
  
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• Man pulls knife after driver skips gas line in London

  28-09-2021 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  A shortage of tanker drivers in the UK has caused gas stations to run out of fuel and long lines at those stations that have it available.
  
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• Milley: Trump officials knew about China calls

  28-09-2021 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  • Five takeaways from US military leaders' testimony on Afghanistan
  • Fact check: Military testimony appears to contradict Biden's previous statements on troop levels
  
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• The United States is heading for a cliff -- and taking the world with it

  28-09-2021 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  It's a game of chicken with the global economy.
  
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• Former first daughter Barbara Bush gives birth to baby girl

  28-09-2021 20:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former first daughter Barbara Bush has given birth to her first child, a baby girl
  
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• The new Marvel plot: Why these artists are taking on billion-dollar companies

  28-09-2021 20:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Marvel knows that the rights to many of its characters are on shaky legal ground, and it takes preventive measures to avoid hashing that out in public.
  
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• IPL: Hardik Pandya stars as Mumbai beat Punjab to maintain play-off hopes

  28-09-2021 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard share an unbroken 45 to help Mumbai Indians to victory over Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League.
  
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• Dutch police arrest and release former far-right party member amid reports of plan to attack PM

  28-09-2021 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  Police in the Netherlands have arrested and released a former member of a far-right political party after Prime Minister Mark Rutte's security detail suspected him of behaving suspiciously, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Hague.
  
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• Kentucky man gets life in prison for the rape of 2 children

  28-09-2021 20:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Authorities say a Kentucky man has received a life sentence for his convictions in the rape of two children under 12
  
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• WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuses in Ebola crisis, report says

  28-09-2021 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  More than 80 aid workers including some employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) were involved in incidents of sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an independent commission said on Tuesday.
  
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• Amazon announces Astro the home robot

  28-09-2021 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astro can patrol the home when you're not there, or be remotely controlled.
  
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• Boris Johnson's Brexit choices are making Britain's fuel and food shortages worse

  28-09-2021 19:45 via cnn.com
  
  • A really stressful situation': The people stranded by Britain's fuel crisis
  • China's power shortage threatens more supply chain chaos
  
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• Police in Georgia shoot suspect in bow and arrow carjacking

  28-09-2021 19:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Police in Georgia say they shot and wounded a man suspected of using a bow and arrow to carjack a woman in Atlanta before crashing the stolen car and pointing the weapon at police
  
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• 'A little bit of comedy': John King on Gen. Milley's reply to senator

  28-09-2021 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  Hear Gen. Mark Milley reply after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked him to confirm whether he had spoken with several journalists for their books in the waning days of Donald Trump's administration.
  
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• Prince Andrew acknowledges he faces US sex assault lawsuit

  28-09-2021 19:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Prince Andrew has acknowledged through his lawyer that he's been served with a lawsuit by a U.S. woman who says he sexually assaulted her
  
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• Russia reports its worst single-day Covid-19 death toll

  28-09-2021 19:13 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: We've reached the 'Red Covid' phase of the pandemic
  
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• WHO horrified over sexual exploitation by aid workers in DR Congo

  28-09-2021 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The agency apologises to victims after inquiry finds abuse by aid staff tackling the Ebola outbreak.
  
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• EXPLAINER: Why and how the UK is experiencing a fuel crisis

  28-09-2021 18:49 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The U.K. is experiencing its fifth day of fuel shortages, with supply hobbled by a shortage of truck drivers
  
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• Milley defends Trump-era calls to Chinese counterpart in congressional Afghanistan hearing

  28-09-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  Top US General Mark Milley offered a full-throated defense of his behavior during the last days of the Trump administration, including a phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart, as he and other senior military officials appeared before lawmakers on Tuesday for a hearing about the withdrawal fromAfghanistan.
  
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• Gen. Milley details his phone calls with Chinese counterpart

  28-09-2021 18:34 via cnn.com
  
  Top US General Mark Milley offered a full-throated defense of his behavior during the last days of the Trump administration, including a phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart, as he and other senior military officials appeared before lawmakers for a hearing about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  
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• Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders' words at Youth4Climate

  28-09-2021 18:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greta Thunberg, the climate activist, uses a speech to mock world leaders, including UK PM Boris Johnson.
  
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• Atlanta spa gunman Robert Long pleads not guilty to 4 murder charges

  28-09-2021 18:12 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Robert Aaron Long pleaded not guilty to four murder charges in Fulton County stemming from the March 16 shooting that killed eight at three Atlanta-area spas.
  
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• Trump told Putin at G20 he would act tough just 'for the cameras', new book reveals

  28-09-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump's secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine colonoscopy, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former press secretary and first lady Melania Trump's chief of staff.
  
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• After Stormy Daniels claims against Trump, Melania Trump was 'liberated,' new book says

  28-09-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump's secret visit to Walter Reed in 2019 appeared to be for a routine colonoscopy, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump's former press secretary and first lady Melania Trump's chief of staff.
  
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• Capital Gazette shooter sentenced to life in prison

  28-09-2021 17:52 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Jarrod Warren Ramos, the gunman who killed five Capital Gazette employees in June 2018, was sentenced life in prison Tuesday.
  
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• Tesla's 'full self-driving' could be days away. Here's what you need to know.

  28-09-2021 17:39 via cnn.com
  
  A wider group of Tesla owners who paid up to $10,000 for what the company calls its "full self-driving" software can now ask the automaker for access to a test version of the feature. But they'll first have to show that they're a sufficiently safe driver by allowing Tesla to analyze data on their driving behavior.
  
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• ‘Humbled and heartbroken’: WHO finds its Ebola staff abused women and girls

  28-09-2021 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Inquiry commissioned by WHO details sexual abuse, including rape allegations, during DRC outbreakThe World Health Organization has described itself as “heartbroken” after an independent inquiry it commissioned said scores of women and girls were sexually abused by aid workers during the devastating 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The findings were described as “harrowing reading” by the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes
  
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• The world's tallest palm trees reach for the skies

  28-09-2021 17:33 via cnn.com
  
  The longest continental mountain range in the world may be one of the last places you would expect to find a palm tree. High above the foliage of the Andean mountains, Colombia's National Tree, the wax palm, has been intriguing scientists for decades.
  
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• China tells NATO to play 'constructive' security role instead of listening to ‘lies and rumors’

  28-09-2021 17:31 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  China’s top diplomat warned NATO to stop believing “lies and rumors” when it comes to Chinese policies in Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific region and said it should instead play a “constructive role” in securing stability.
  
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• Explosion and fire with 'no natural explanation' injures 16 in Sweden, as police hunt for clues

  28-09-2021 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Sixteen people have been injured -- including four critically -- after an explosion led to a large fire in an apartment building in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, emergency services told CNN Monday.
  
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• 'A really stressful situation': The people stranded by Britain's fuel crisis

  28-09-2021 17:12 via cnn.com
  
  As well as dropping people off at nightclubs, train stations and shopping centers, David Lawrie's taxi drivers are relied upon to transport disabled passengers, and drive children to school. But as fuel stations across the UK run dry, those drivers are having to make difficult decisions about who does and doesn't get to travel.
  
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