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• Rapper Fetty Wap released on bond following drug trafficking charge

  05-11-2021 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  Rapper Fetty Wap, who was arrested on a drug trafficking charge last week, is being released from custody on $500,000 bond.
  
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• Activists from across the globe rally for Fridays for Future at Cop26 – video

  05-11-2021 23:37
  
  Youth climate activists appeared sceptical about how genuine the political will to change is when they spoke at the Fridays for Future protest in Glasgow discussing youth empowerment. Campaigners and pressure groups have been underwhelmed by the commitments made by governments during the Cop26 conference's first week, many of which are voluntary or set deadlines decades away'Cop26 is a failure': Greta Thunberg rallies climate activists in Glasgow – video Continue reading...
  
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• Coronavirus live: UK reports 193 deaths; Austria announces new Covid measures as cases rise

  05-11-2021 23:19
  
  Only those vaccinated or recovered from Covid will be allowed to frequent restaurants and cultural venues in Austria ; UK records 34,029 new infectionsEveryone in Germany should get booster, says health ministerPfizer pills highly effective at preventing Covid deaths, trial suggestsCovid infections dip among secondary schoolchildren in EnglandChinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting ‘close to death’, family sayAustralia’s hospitals overwhelmed and ‘about to get much
  
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• Marvel's 'Eternals' knows its superhero premise makes no sense

  05-11-2021 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  While the film flirts with self-awareness, it ends up dutifully fulfilling audience expectations.
  
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• Australia live news update: Victoria records 1,268 Covid cases and seven deaths; NSW reports 270 infections and three deaths

  05-11-2021 23:12
  
  Katherine in Northern Territory in three-day lockdown and lockout in Greater Darwin until midnight on SundayAboriginal people in NSW and ACT affected by Covid at twice the rate of other Australians, data showsWestern Australia to stay closed for Christmas with border not reopening until at least late JanuaryDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingScott Morrison’s appearance at the G20 and Cop26 was supposed to be about consolidating the Coalition’s climate pivot
  
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• Democratic standoff as progressives object to Pelosi infrastructure vote plan – live

  05-11-2021 23:09
  
  Progressives say vote cannot proceed without reconciliation votePresident tells members of Congress: ‘Let’s get this done’Memorial for Colin Powell held in national cathedralSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailJoe Biden noted that he would soon be returning to the Oval Office to keep making calls to House members, encouraging them to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package today.“I want to say very clearly: if y
  
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• Analysis: These Republicans are worried about Trump's attempted coup 2.0

  05-11-2021 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper uncovers the planning and motivations behind the January 6 insurrection in a new documentary airing Friday at 9 p.m. ET.
  
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• Southwest employee suspected white mom with Black daughter of human trafficking, called police

  05-11-2021 22:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mary MacCarthy is demanding an apology from the airline and says her daughter "clams up" when it comes to talking about the incident at the Denver airport.
  
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• FBI investigating Project Veritas links to Biden daughter's stolen diary

  05-11-2021 21:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  FBI agents executed search warrants in connection with its investigation into a burglary at Ashley Biden's home.
  
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• GOP wants to become 'the party of education.' Youngkin's win gives them a blueprint.

  05-11-2021 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pledged to "soon unroll a parents' bill of rights," while Senate candidate Jane Timken said she sees education becoming "more of a top of line issue."
  
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• Defendants in Ahmaud Arbery's murder trial chased and killed him based on assumptions, prosecution says

  05-11-2021 21:23 via cnn.com
  
  The trial for the three White men charged in the killing of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery is set to begin Friday morning, again drawing the nation's attention to the small-town Georgia case in which race has continued to be a central factor.
  
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• Republican truck driver defeats New Jersey's Senate president, CNN projects

  05-11-2021 21:21 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Ed Durr will defeat Democratic state Sen. Steve Sweeney, the Senate president, in New Jersey's state Senate district 3, CNN projects.
  
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• Ministers resist calls for inquiry into hospital worker’s attacks on female corpses

  05-11-2021 21:00
  
  Victim’s mother calls for resignation of health boss as families consider suing over assaults on loved onesSenior ministers are resisting calls for an immediate independent inquiry into how a hospital worker was able to attack at least 100 female corpses in mortuaries, as Kent police said they had been inundated with over 200 calls from those fearing
  their loved ones may have been attacked after their death.Details of David Fuller’s unprecedented scale of offending emerged on Thursda
  
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• Republican Ed Durr will defeat New Jersey's Senate president, CNN projects

  05-11-2021 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Ed Durr will defeat Democratic state Sen. Steve Sweeney, the Senate president, in New Jersey's state Senate district 3, CNN projects.
  
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• Capitol police officer breaks down and says he's overcome with guilt

  05-11-2021 19:36 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Whitney Wild sits down with two Capitol police officers ten months after the attempted insurrection on January 6. They speak of the chaos on that day, and the trauma that has stayed with them.
  
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• Aaron Rogers confirms he is unvaccinated, says he is 'disappointed' by media

  05-11-2021 19:23 via cnn.com
  
  Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers confirmed he is unvaccinated against Covid-19 and is disappointed with the treatment he's been receiving in the media while appearing on The Pat McAfee Show on Friday.
  
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• Russian diplomat found dead in Berlin, embassy refused autopsy

  05-11-2021 19:20 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  German authorities found a Russian diplomat dead on the pavement outside the Russian embassy last month, according to reports made public Friday. 
  
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• Ahmaud Arbery murder followed attack based on wrongful ‘assumptions’, prosecutors say

  05-11-2021 18:58
  
  Lawyers played video showing Travis McMichael opening fire three times on Arbery, who was unarmed, as trial gets underwayProsecutors on Friday said the three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year placed the 25-year-old Black man under a sustained “attack” and made a series of “assumptions and driveway decisions” that led to shooting him dead.During highly charged opening statements in the closely watched trial, now infamous cellphone video of t
  
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• I'm a gay, Black, Houston writer. Will the Texas GOP keep my books from reaching students?

  05-11-2021 18:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Texas Republicans' attempt to ban books that help students understand race and sexuality is a political strategy that makes public menaces of the most marginalized.
  
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• Retiring Republican lawmaker has a warning about Trump

  05-11-2021 18:44 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), a staunchly conservative Republican congressman who says he is retiring due to the toxic divisions in Washington, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he is speaking out against former President Donald Trump's lie because the country "cant survive torching the constitution."
  
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• Retiring Republican has warning about Trump

  05-11-2021 18:44 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), a staunchly conservative Republican congressman who says he is retiring due to the toxic divisions in Washington, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he is speaking out against former President Donald Trump's lie because the country "cant survive torching the constitution."
  
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• Retiring GOP lawmaker warns Trump will try to steal the next election

  05-11-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  Retiring Rep. Anthony Gonzalez has a warning for his fellow Republicans: former President Donald Trump will try to steal the next election.
  
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• Retiring GOP lawmaker warns Trump will try to steal next election

  05-11-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  Retiring Rep. Anthony Gonzalez has a warning for his fellow Republicans: former President Donald Trump will try to steal the next election.
  
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• 'A great lion with a big heart': Powell's son pays tribute to his dad

  05-11-2021 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Powell, son of the first Black US Secretary of State Colin Powell, makes a heartfelt tribute to his father during his funeral service.
  
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• Fireworks and family time: readers on their Diwali celebrations

  05-11-2021 18:29
  
  Readers share how they spent festival of lights I have lived in the Algarve for the last two years, so it was lovely to come home with the diyas (oil lamps) lit in the hallway, and the rangoli (beautiful designs using bright colours) already put out by my mum. Since Tuesday, we’ve been praying together in the evenings. The first day of celebrations begin with Dhanteras, which was marked with Laxmi Pooja to the goddess of health and wealth to usher in prosperity for the year to come. This d
  
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• Labour calls on ethics watchdog to look into PM’s flat refurbishment

  05-11-2021 18:23
  
  Angela Rayner accuses Boris Johnson of trying to install a ‘sham group of Tory stooges’ Parliament’s ethics watchdog has been urged to investigate Boris Johnson’s Downing Street finances after this week’s sleaze scandal, as Kathryn Stone was said to be undeterred by government attempts to undermine her.Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, called on Stone, the parliamentary standards commissioner, to open a new investigation into the refurbishment of the prim
  
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• Succession-style feud gripping Canada to be finally settled in court

  05-11-2021 18:20
  
  The fight for Rogers Communications has riven one of Canada’s richest families – and began with an accidental butt dialFor weeks, Canadians have been gripped by a messy public feud splintering one of the country’s richest families. Kicked off by an accidental pocket dial that revealed an executive-level coup attempt, the battle has pitted mother against son, ensnared Toronto’s mayor and drawn comparisons to the HBO show Succession.Two separate groups of directors have pro
  
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• Succession-style feud gripping Canada settled as court sides with Edward Rogers

  05-11-2021 18:20
  
  The fight for Rogers Communications has riven one of Canada’s richest families – and began with an accidental butt dialFor weeks, Canadians have been gripped by a messy public feud splintering one of the country’s richest families. Kicked off by an accidental pocket dial that revealed an executive-level coup attempt, the battle has pitted mother against son, ensnared Toronto’s mayor and drawn comparisons to the HBO show Succession.Two separate groups of directors have pro
  
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• Joe Biden calls on 'every House member' to support economic agenda – video

  05-11-2021 18:15
  
  Joe Biden called on 'every House member' to support the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $1.75tn reconciliation package, as some centrist Democrats raise concerns about the latter. The president argued that the reconciliation package would provide American families with 'just a little more breathing room' by lowering their healthcare and childcare costsUS politics: latest updates Continue reading...
  
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• Greta Thunberg: Who is the climate campaigner and what are her aims?

  05-11-2021 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Swedish teenager started a climate change protest that grew into a global movement.
  
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• Russian diplomat found dead in Berlin

  05-11-2021 18:11 via cnn.com
  
  A Russian diplomat found dead on the sidewalk outside the embassy in Berlin last month is believed by German authorities to have been a secret agent for a Russian intelligence agency, Der Spiegel magazine reported Friday.
  
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• Michael Vaughan dropped from BBC show after racist comment allegations

  05-11-2021 18:03
  
  Two players say they heard slur from former England captainVaughan has denied allegations that he made the commentsMichael Vaughan has been stood down by the BBC from Radio 5 live’s Tuffers and Vaughan Show on Monday after two cricketers said they heard the former England captain make racist comments while playing for Yorkshire in 2009.The decision came after Vaughan, who has worked as an expert summariser and analyst on Test Match Special for 12 years, was accused of telling three players
  
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• Alliance of Ethiopian factions puts government at risk of overthrow

  05-11-2021 17:58
  
  Bloc includes Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which has been fighting Abiy Ahmed’s forces for a yearNine anti-government factions in Ethiopia have said they had formed an alliance amid growing fears that they will attempt to overthrow the government of Abiy Ahmed by marching on the country’s capital, Addis Ababa.The alliance, the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces, includes Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and brings together members of
  
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• My Day at COP26: 'By helping out delegates I'm remembering granddad'

  05-11-2021 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harjot Singh Kambo is one of an army of volunteers helping COP26 visitors find their way around. Here he explains why the task is a very personal one for him.
  
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• Thunberg calls climate summit a 'global greenwash festival'

  05-11-2021 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  Young climate activists have poured into Glasgow and surrounded the site of the COP26 summit to demand action from global leaders, as the focus of the event turns toward the impact of climate change on future generations.
  
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• Greta Thunberg slams non-binding action at COP26 a 'failure'

  05-11-2021 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  Young climate activists have poured into Glasgow and surrounded the site of the COP26 summit to demand action from global leaders, as the focus of the event turns toward the impact of climate change on future generations.
  
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• House leadership strategy at risk of collapsing as Pelosi presses for infrastructure vote

  05-11-2021 17:19 via cnn.com
  
  In the wake of jarring election results in several states on Tuesday, the one thing Democrats appeared to agree on was that they needed action in Congress.
  
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• See Harry Styles help fan come out during concert

  05-11-2021 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  The British pop star helped fan McKinley McConnell come out to her mom during his concert in Milwaukee after he saw her holding a sign saying "My mom is in section 201. Help me come out."
  
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• Sally Rooney novels pulled from Israeli bookstores after translation boycott

  05-11-2021 17:14
  
  Following the acclaimed author’s decision not to have Beautiful World, Where Are You translated by an Israeli publisher, two major retailers have removed her work from their shelvesBooks by Sally Rooney will no longer be sold in two Israeli bookshop chains, after the acclaimed writer’s decision not to sell translation rights for her most recent novel to an Israeli publisher.Rooney’s novels were previously available from Steimatzky and Tzomet Sefarim, but the books have now been
  
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• 'Lisa, she's gay:' See Harry Styles help fan come out to her mom

  05-11-2021 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  The British pop star helped fan McKinley McConnell come out to her mom during his concert in Milwaukee after he saw her holding a sign saying "My mom is in section 201. Help me come out."
  
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• 'Lisa, she's gay:' Harry Styles helps fan come out to her mom

  05-11-2021 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  The British pop star helped fan McKinley McConnell come out to her mom during his concert in Milwaukee after he saw her holding a sign saying "My mom is in section 201. Help me come out."
  
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• Harry Styles stops concert to help fan with her life-changing moment

  05-11-2021 17:14 via cnn.com
  
  The British pop star helped fan McKinley McConnell come out to her mom during his concert in Milwaukee after he saw her holding a sign saying "My mom is in section 201. Help me come out."
  
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• A flurry of good news for the US economy

  05-11-2021 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  Friday gave Joe Biden something smile about, for a change: a flurry of good news for the US economy.
  
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• Russian diplomat found dead outside Berlin embassy

  05-11-2021 16:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reports of last month's death have only just emerged and suggest the man fell from an upper floor.
  
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• Democrats needed wins. They could be on the cusp of exactly that in hours

  05-11-2021 16:44 via cnn.com
  
  In the wake of jarring election results in several states on Tuesday, the one thing Democrats appeared to agree on was that they needed action in Congress.
  
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• Brexit: 'Serious consequences' if Article 16 triggered, warns EU

  05-11-2021 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  EC Vice-President Maros Sefcovic says the move would lead to instability in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Ethiopia urges ex-soldiers to join fight against Tigray rebels

  05-11-2021 16:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The army has called on ex-personnel to join it as rebel forces close in on the capital.
  
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• New Zealand couple accidentally grow a titanic tuber

  05-11-2021 16:30 via cnn.com
  
  A couple in New Zealand may have grown the world's largest potato without even trying.
  
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• I am 16 and identify as an ace lesbian – but I don’t want to ‘come out’ to my parents | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

  05-11-2021 16:30
  
  It sounds as if your sexuality and orientation will be no surprise to them, says Annalisa BarbieriI am 16, and identify as an ace lesbian (NMLNM, or non-men loving non-men). I have questioned my sexuality since the age of 12 or 13, thinking I was bisexual. I downloaded TikTok, which allowed me to explore my identity more and interact with other queer young people. Until this summer, I questioned my identity multiple times a day (exhausting and not affirming), but I slowly began to feel confident
  
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• Covid: Pfizer says antiviral pill 89% effective in high-risk cases

  05-11-2021 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company stopped clinical trials early because initial results for the drug were so positive.
  
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