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• Ryan Reynolds: More playing as Wrexham on Football Manager

  17-12-2021 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The club's takeover by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney has boosted their virtual popularity.
  
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• New results from vaccine trials will likely delay authorization for children's shots.

  17-12-2021 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Vaccine maker Pfizer said Friday that trials of its vaccine in children ages 2 to 5 show it did not provide the expected immunity in kids this age and it is adding a third dose to the regimen.
  
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• New results from vaccine trials will likely delay authorization for children.

  17-12-2021 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Vaccine maker Pfizer said Friday that trials of its vaccine in children ages 2 to 5 show it did not provide the expected immunity in kids this age and it is adding a third dose to the regimen.
  
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• Lewandowski breaks Muller's Bundesliga goals record for calendar year

  17-12-2021 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Robert Lewandowski scores his 43rd Bayern Munich goal of 2021 to break Gerd Muller's record for the most Bundesliga goals in a calendar year.
  
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• Lessons from countries where Omicron is surging

  17-12-2021 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  South Africa, the United Kingdom and Denmark are three of the countries where the Omicron variant is now surging, less than a month after it was first detected.
  
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• American Football: Three NFL games postponed because of Covid-19 outbreaks

  17-12-2021 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The National Football League postpones three games this weekend because of Covid-19 outbreaks.
  
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• Bradley Cooper paints a disturbing picture of male psychodrama in 'Nightmare Alley'

  17-12-2021 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Guillermo del Toro’s movie, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett, is unusually clear about how misogyny is as much about male psychodrama as it is about women.
  
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• Russia Ukraine: Moscow lists demands for defusing Ukraine tensions

  17-12-2021 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Moscow says Nato should abandon hopes of Ukraine joining and Nato states should get rid of weapons.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers call Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend as a witness

  17-12-2021 22:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Maxwell’s defense team rested their case on Friday, with closing arguments set to begin on MondayThis article contains depictions of sexual abuseGhislaine Maxwell’s lawyers called one of Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriends as a defense witness on Friday in the British socialite’s Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking trial.Maxwell’s defense team also rested their case on Friday afternoon and she declined to testify. Her trial will enter a new stage Monday when the pr
  
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• Juno flyby reveals stunning new images of Jupiter, sounds of its moon Ganymede

  17-12-2021 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  Flybys of Jupiter and its moon Ganymede conducted by the NASA Juno mission have revealed new Van Gogh-like images of the gas giant, as well as the sounds made by one of its moons.
  
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• Defense rests after Kim Potter describes ‘chaotic’ traffic stop that killed Wright

  17-12-2021 22:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The police officer who said she mistook her gun for Taser is charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte WrightThe defense has rested in the trial of a Minnesota police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright.Kim Potter, 49, is charged with manslaughter in Wright’s death during a traffic stop on 11 April in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Continue reading...
  
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• Pfizer vaccine fails to produce expected immunity in young kids

  17-12-2021 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Vaccine maker Pfizer said Friday that trials of its vaccine in children ages 2 to 5 show it did not provide the expected immunity in kids this age and it is adding a third dose to the regimen.
  
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• Premier League clubs to meet on Monday to discuss options as Covid impacts fixtures

  17-12-2021 22:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Premier League clubs will meet on Monday to discuss the escalating crisis around the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Hong Kong ‘patriots’ election casts doubt over democracy as city enters new era

  17-12-2021 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Critics describe Sunday’s vote as ‘illegitimate’ as Beijing tightens its crackdown on dissent and pro-democracy movement is wiped outDays before Hong Kong’s legislative council election, 15 months after it was supposed to be held, former legislator Ted Hui is on the phone from Adelaide railing against the government. In the southern Australian city he is far from the Hong Kong warrants for his arrest and instead in a place where, unlike many of his former colleagues, he c
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell confirms she won't testify in her sex trafficking trial

  17-12-2021 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell's defense team rested its case in her sex trafficking conspiracy trial on Friday without Maxwell taking the stand to testify.
  
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• 'I was missing for three and a half years' - why family helped draw Gerrard to Villa

  17-12-2021 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steven Gerrard has only been at Aston Villa for five weeks but has already made an impact and says the job offered a return to the Premier League and being closer to family.
  
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• Man gets longest jail sentence handed out for a Capitol rioter so far

  17-12-2021 21:36 via cnn.com
  
  A Florida man who enthusiastically attacked police at the US Capitol on January 6 with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank and a pole was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Friday, the longest sentence for a Capitol rioter thus far.
  
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• The nominees for quirkiest stories of 2021 are...

  17-12-2021 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  The nominees for quirkiest stories of 2021 are ... CNN's Jeanne Moos has the envelope. From the guy who swallowed an airpod to the teen smacked by a seagull while on an amusement park ride we look back at some of the videos that won over the internet in 2021.
  
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• Gardener Omar Raddad wins fight to re-open notorious murder case

  17-12-2021 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Moroccan gardener convicted of the notorious killing of a French heiress is fighting to clear his name.
  
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• Rod Stewart and his son plead guilty to battery in 2019 Florida altercation case

  17-12-2021 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The singer entered the plea to ‘avoid the inconvenience’ of a high profile court trial. Neither will do jail time or pay any finesBritish rock icon Rod Stewart and his son have pleaded guilty to battery in an assault case stemming from a New Year’s Eve 2019 altercation with a security guard at an exclusive Florida hotel.Court records released on Friday show that the singer and his son, Sean Stewart, 41, entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of simple battery. Continue rea
  
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• Melania Trump announces NFT venture

  17-12-2021 21:30
  
  Former first lady Melania Trump launched a venture this week selling non-fungible tokens that must be paid for with Solan cryptocurrency, currently valued around $180 each
  
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• Booster at least 80% effective against severe Omicron - study

  17-12-2021 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Preliminary estimates by researchers suggest the top-up shot should help keep many people out of hospital.
  
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• How Alisyn Camerota and her mom celebrate an Italian-American tradition

  17-12-2021 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  Alisyn Camerota and her mother make linguini in white clam sauce, a dish that's often included in Italian-American "Feast of the Seven Fishes" celebrations on Christmas Eve.
  
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• Julia Roberts crashed George Clooney's appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

  17-12-2021 21:10 via cnn.com
  
  Julia Roberts delivered the ultimate photo bomb while George Clooney was appearing virtually on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
  
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• Couple charged over death of two-year-old boy in gas explosion

  17-12-2021 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Sharon and Darren Greenham charged with manslaughter of George Arthur Hinds after blast caused by severed gas pipeA couple has been charged over the death of a two-year-old boy in a gas explosion.Sharon Greenham, 51, and Darren Greenham, 44, are accused of the manslaughter of George Arthur Hinds. Continue reading...
  
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• Southwest CEO tests positive for Covid after testifying unmasked

  17-12-2021 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly, who testified unmasked at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, has since tested positive for the coronavirus, the airline said in a statement.
  
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• Flash floods in northern Iraq kill 12 people

  17-12-2021 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  At least 12 people have died in flash floods caused by heavy rains overnight in northern and northeastern Iraq, Erbil mayor Nabz Abdulhamid told CNN Friday.
  
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• Flash floods in Iraq kill 12 people

  17-12-2021 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  At least 12 people have died in flash floods caused by heavy rains overnight in northern and northeastern Iraq, Erbil mayor Nabz Abdulhamid told CNN Friday.
  
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• US Capitol rioter gets 5 years in jail after throwing fire extinguisher at police

  17-12-2021 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  A Florida man who enthusiastically attacked police at the US Capitol on January 6 with a fire extinguisher, a wooden plank and a pole was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Friday, the longest sentence for a Capitol rioter thus far.
  
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• Former Minnesota officer Kim Potter cries during testimony in her manslaughter trial

  17-12-2021 20:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kim Potter, a former officer in Minnesota charged with manslaughter in April's fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, testified Friday in her manslaughter trial.
  
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• Weekend sport hit by rapid rise in Covid cases - list of games and events affected

  17-12-2021 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A surge in Covid-19 cases wreaks havoc on the weekend's sporting fixtures.
  
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• Florida man gets 5 years for assault in Capitol riot, the longest sentence yet

  17-12-2021 20:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Robert Palmer, of Tampa, was sentenced to 63 months for repeatedly assaulting police officers at the Capitol.
  
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• Son's tribute to 'bawdy, fertile matriarch' goes viral

  17-12-2021 20:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A son's colourful tribute to his mother, Renay Mandel Corren, has been shared widely on social media.
  
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• TikTok says US school shooting threats not credible

  17-12-2021 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Security around some US schools is stepped up in response to supposed violent threats going viral.
  
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• Ex-officer Kim Potter weeps on stand as she recalls fatally shooting Daunte Wright

  17-12-2021 19:37 via cnn.com
  
  Former police officer Kim Potter, who's said she mistook her firearm for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop this year near Minneapolis, could take the stand Friday in her trial over the 20-year-old Black man's killing.
  
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• ‘The process has been rigged’: Inside the fight to regulate one of the country’s deadliest products

  17-12-2021 19:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Portable generators, which emit carbon monoxide, are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, people are left vulnerable by a system that lets the industry regulate itself.
  
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• 'The party is over': Voters punish scandal-hit Boris Johnson with shock by-election loss

  17-12-2021 19:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of a previously safe parliamentary seat in North Shropshire to the Liberal Democrats on Friday.
  
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• The biggest stories of 2021

  17-12-2021 19:13 via cnn.com
  
  CNN takes a look back over the biggest stories of the year of 2021, focusing on some of the shocking, surprising, and optimistic numbers they've produced.
  
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• Look back on the biggest stories of 2021

  17-12-2021 19:13 via cnn.com
  
  CNN takes a look back over the biggest stories of the year of 2021, focusing on some of the shocking, surprising, and optimistic numbers they've produced.
  
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• See delivery driver's brave move when dog attacks

  17-12-2021 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  An amazon driver in Las Vegas rushed in to save the day when a stray dog attacked a family's pet. CNN affiliate WVVU has the report.
  
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• See Amazon driver's brave move when dog attacks

  17-12-2021 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  An amazon driver in Las Vegas rushed in to save the day when a stray dog attacked a family's pet. CNN affiliate WVVU has the report.
  
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• Trump White House made 'deliberate efforts' to undermine Covid response, report says

  17-12-2021 19:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The White House repeatedly overruled public health and testing guidance from the nation’s top infectious disease experts and silenced officials, the report found.
  
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• Northern Ireland: what are EU and UK proposing and will deal be done?

  17-12-2021 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  EU law on medicines may be rewritten and UK has climbed down over ECJ. Here’s what we knowEU and UK at odds over Northern Ireland renegotiationThe UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020 and all EU rules fell away at the start of 2021. Soon after, a row broke out over the Northern Ireland protocol, the tortuously negotiated agreement to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU single market and customs union. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit: EU and UK at odds over Northern Ireland renegotiation

  17-12-2021 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Brussels remains mistrustful of British government, which objects to ECJ being final arbiter of EU lawWhat are the EU and UK proposing and will deal be done?An uneasy Christmas truce has been called over the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland, even as the EU said it would not negotiate over a key British demand in the rancorous talks.Maroš Šefčovič, the EU Brexit commissioner, said there was “momentum” behind discussions after a major British U-turn
  
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• ‘A wave of joy’: babies born from world’s first HIV positive sperm bank

  17-12-2021 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sperm Positive launched in New Zealand in 2019 in an effort to reduce the stigma faced by HIV-positive people Olivia and Amy are sitting outside in the shade, trying to escape from New Zealand’s early-summer humidity. Amy, 10 months old, burbles happily in the background as her mother talks. She is healthy, happy, and oblivious to her status as a world first: one of a handful of babies born from the first sperm bank for HIV-positive donors.The bank, Sperm Positive, launched in New Zealand
  
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• WATCH: Watch this hilarious toddler hyping up an entire restaurant

  17-12-2021 18:59
  
  In June 2021, this toddler had the best time ever flexing his muscles as an enthusiastic group of restaurant-goers cheer him on.
  
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• Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment in appearance before Jan. 6 committee

  17-12-2021 18:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Stone said he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination "to every question" posed by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
  
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• Hamilton may be punished for boycotting FIA awards ceremony

  17-12-2021 18:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem refuses to rule out punishing Lewis Hamilton for boycotting its awards ceremony.
  
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• This politician had a large spider on her. See how she reacted

  17-12-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  A huntsman spider interrupted Queensland's health minister as she held a briefing on the Covid-19 situation across the state.
  
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• Spider interrupts Australian news conference

  17-12-2021 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  A huntsman spider interrupted Queensland's health minister as she held a briefing on the Covid-19 situation across the state.
  
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