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• Jennifer Lopez says she's not upset over Ben Affleck's comments regarding his ex-wife Jennifer Garner

  19-12-2021 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  Jennifer Lopez has nothing but love for Ben Affleck.
  
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• WATCH: Motorist drives out from tunnel filling with snow

  19-12-2021 23:30
  
  Snow piled up and blocked the entrance of a tunnel in the Pyrénées mountains, forcing a motorist to throw their vehicle in reverse as the tunnel rapidly became filled.
  
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• WATCH: Ice chunks crash against shore of Lake Superior

  19-12-2021 23:27
  
  Chunks of ice crashed against the shoreline of Lake Superior amid bitter cold temperatures in the region.
  
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• Tiger Woods and his son Charlie finish 2nd at PNC Championship

  19-12-2021 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  Tiger Woods and his son Charlie blazed their way to a second place finish at the PNC Championship, Woods' first time competing on a golf course since a car crash that crushed his leg in February.
  
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• A Texas teen couldn't speak with his sister, so he created an app to give her a voice

  19-12-2021 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  Archer Calder spent his childhood unable to talk with his younger sister, Della, his only sibling.
  
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• International banks in UAE to switch to Monday to Friday work week

  19-12-2021 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Societe Generale SA are changing to a Saturday-Sunday weekend from the New Year in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which is aligning its working week with most global markets.
  
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• See Bill Nye's warning about 'doomsday' glacier

  19-12-2021 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  Scientist and TV personality Bill Nye discusses climate change and Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, which scientists say could collapse in the next five years.
  
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• Hear Bill Nye's warning about 'doomsday' glacier

  19-12-2021 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  Scientist and TV personality Bill Nye discusses climate change and Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, which scientists say could collapse in the next five years.
  
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• Joe Manchin says he 'cannot get there' on Build Back Better bill – video

  19-12-2021 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who is key to President Joe Biden's hopes of passing a $1.75tn domestic investment bill, has said he will not support the package.Manchin has been a key holdout on the White House's Build Back Better plan, which aims to bolster the social safety net and fight climate change, and is the cornerstone of Biden's legislative agenda.'I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation,' Manchin told Fox News, citing concerns about inflation. 'I just can't. I have
  
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• White House issues damning statement against Manchin after saying he won't vote for Build Back Better

  19-12-2021 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he's a no on the Build Back Better Act, effectively ending negotiations on this version of legislation that would expand the nation's social safety net.
  
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• White House issues damning statement against Manchin after he says he won't vote for Build Back Better

  19-12-2021 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he's a no on the Build Back Better Act, effectively ending negotiations on this version of legislation that would expand the nation's social safety net.
  
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• Death toll from Super Typhoon Rai climbs to at least 75 people in the Philippines

  19-12-2021 18:05 via cnn.com
  
  The death toll from Super Typhoon Rai has climbed to at least 75 people, local officials reported Saturday, after the storm wreaked havoc across the Philippines late last week.
  
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• Premier League roundup: Manchester City extends lead at the top as Chelsea loses ground in title race

  19-12-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Manchester City extended its lead at the top of the Premier League to four points with a 4-0 hammering of relegation-threatened Newcastle United.
  
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• Manchester City extends lead at the top as Chelsea loses ground in title race

  19-12-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  Manchester City extended its lead at the top of the Premier League to four points with a 4-0 hammering of relegation-threatened Newcastle United.
  
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• From the Siau scops-owl to the Cuban kite: A global hunt aims to find 10 birds long feared extinct

  19-12-2021 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  If you've never heard of the Siau scops-owl, there's a good reason why -- and it's not because your knowledge of birds isn't quite up to scratch. Nobody has seen the elusive owl since 1866, and it's not the only such missing species.
  
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• Manchin says he won't vote for Build Back Better Act

  19-12-2021 17:11 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said he's a no on the Build Back Better Act, effectively ending negotiations on this version of legislation that would expand the nation's social safety net.
  
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• 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' swings to third biggest opening in box office history

  19-12-2021 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  Theaters needed a hero, and Spider-Man swung in just in time.
  
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• Sanders reacts to Manchin's bombshell

  19-12-2021 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacts to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announcing he will vote no on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan.
  
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• Hear Bernie Sanders' reaction to Manchin's announcement

  19-12-2021 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacts to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announcing he will vote no on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan.
  
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• Bernie Sanders reacts to Manchin's bombshell

  19-12-2021 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacts to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announcing he will vote no on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan.
  
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• Manchin says he is a 'no' on Biden's big social welfare bill, puncturing hopes for its passage

  19-12-2021 15:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there," the West Virginia senator said.
  
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• Manchin says he is a 'no' on Biden's Build Back Better legislation

  19-12-2021 15:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there," the West Virginia senator said.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes trial: What you should know as the jury begins deliberations

  19-12-2021 15:32 via cnn.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes' fate is now in the hands of a jury of eight men and four women. The jury is set to deliberate on Monday and is tasked with determining whether the onetime billionaire who claimed to have revolutionized blood testing knowingly misled investors, doctors, and patients about her startup in order to take their money.
  
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• See Dr. Fauci's prediction about where pandemic is headed with Omicron

  19-12-2021 15:25 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses where the Covid-19 pandemic is headed amid the emergence of the Omicron variant.
  
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• Fauci makes prediction about where pandemic in the US is headed with Omicron

  19-12-2021 15:25 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses where the Covid-19 pandemic is headed amid the emergence of the Omicron variant.
  
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• Dr. Fauci makes prediction about where pandemic is headed with Omicron

  19-12-2021 15:25 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses where the Covid-19 pandemic is headed amid the emergence of the Omicron variant.
  
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• The Netherlands enters strict lockdown and UK minister won't rule out new measures, as the continent braces for a surge in infections over the festive period

  19-12-2021 15:18 via cnn.com
  
  The Netherlands entered a strict new lockdown Sunday due to fears over the Omicron coronavirus variant, and the UK's health minister wouldn't rule out further restrictions, as Europe braces for a surge in Covid-19 infections over the usually busy festive period.
  
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• Months after Ida flooded New York City, some residents still have no real homes for the holidays

  19-12-2021 15:00 via cnn.com
  
  Mario Gamiño was startled awake by the panicked-sounding bark of his pet cockapoo. When he got up, he realized water was rising quickly in his basement apartment in Flushing, Queens, so he immediately shook his wife awake.
  
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• 'Humanity cannot live': The Amazon’s destruction has brutal effects. Is Bolsonaro to blame?

  19-12-2021 14:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Since President Jair Bolsonaro took office, the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon has increased, rising nearly 60 percent from 2020.
  
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• 'There's a tsunami coming' for unvaccinated people

  19-12-2021 14:52 via cnn.com
  
  Forget the waves of Covid-19, one expert says "there's a tsunami coming" for unvaccinated Americans as the Delta variant continues to fuel new cases and hospitalizations and the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly and could soon swamp hospital systems.
  
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• The year Reddit changed Wall Street forever

  19-12-2021 14:51 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly a year ago, a bunch of day traders from the fringes of the internet figured out how to beat Wall Street at its own game. Or so they thought.  
  
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• Medical marijuana and autism: 'I'm getting my boy back,' mom says

  19-12-2021 14:51 via cnn.com
  
  At first, Joann Fouquette's son, Ezra, was hitting all the milestones. It's what every new mom hopes for: a happy, healthy baby.
  
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• As Omicron looms, here are 5 ways to ease anxiety

  19-12-2021 14:51 via cnn.com
  
  Just when we thought we could exhale and enjoy the holidays, the newest coronavirus variant Omicron has given us another gut punch. With this renewed uncertainty hitting when we are already depleted, it's increasingly hard to keep calm and carry on.
  
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• Former Marine's family stays focused on his release as he nears 3 years in Russian detention

  19-12-2021 14:30 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly three years after her brother was detained in Moscow, Elizabeth Whelan is keeping her eye on the goal: bringing him home.
  
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• What 'Succession' got right about 2021

  19-12-2021 14:00 via cnn.com
  
  "You're so merry," says Tom Wambsgans in the "Too Much Birthday" episode of "Succession," the television series that depicts the desperately unhappy lives of a media mogul family.
  
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• The economic catastrophe that wasn't: How Washington found a way to quietly raise the debt ceiling

  19-12-2021 14:00 via cnn.com
  
  Even as the partisan battle lines for the next epic political clash were being drawn, President Joe Biden had no desire to engage.
  
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• Millions of Americans enrolled in Medicaid could lose their eligibility next month

  19-12-2021 13:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  Up to 15 million Americans, including nearly 6 million children, could be at risk of losing their Medicaid eligibility next month when the public health emergency expires.
  
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• ICYMI: Eel-powered Christmas lights and a Messi mural

  19-12-2021 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Copenhagen's 700 festive kayaks and some of the stories you might have missed this week.
  
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• With fewer cast, crew 'SNL' outlasts omicron for a few more laughs

  19-12-2021 13:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  "SNL" outlasted the omicron variant for one final show of 2021, a year that started with hope and ended with a new pandemic wave impacting weekend laughs again.
  
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• Sajid Javid: 'no guarantees' over further Covid curbs before Christmas – video

  19-12-2021 13:21 via theguardian.com
  
  The UK health secretary refused to rule out imposing tougher Covid restrictions in England before Christmas, after warnings that hospitalisations could peak at up to 10,000 a day without further action. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Javid acknowledged that the data on Omicron remained incomplete - but suggested it might be necessary to make decisions before a full picture is availableSajid Javid refuses to rule out further Covid curbs before ChristmasCoronavirus – latest upd
  
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• Ranchers and farmers are destroying the rainforest. Is Bolsonaro to blame?

  19-12-2021 12:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Since President Jair Bolsonaro took office, the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon has increased, rising nearly 60 percent from 2020.
  
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• Indonesia's Mount Semeru volcano erupts, spews high ash column into the sky

  19-12-2021 12:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Early morning eruption resulted in dense white and grey ash clouds, according to Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
  
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• Typhoon deaths in Philippines top 100

  19-12-2021 12:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 63 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 112.
  
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• These former Stanford students are building an app to change your accent

  19-12-2021 12:01 via cnn.com
  
  The Stanford students heard the sadness in their friend's voice when he shared the news.
  
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• I regret feeding my children the myth of Santa

  19-12-2021 11:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  I should have thought more critically about the messages I was sending by going all-in on this problematic but culturally accepted story.
  
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• Winner of the 'Nobel Prize of architecture' dies at 88

  19-12-2021 11:26 via cnn.com
  
  Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, whose landmark buildings include the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the 3 World Trade Center tower in New York, has died aged 88. Rogers "passed away quietly" on Saturday evening, his representative Matthew Freud of Freud Communications confirmed to CNN on Sunday.
  
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• Bouncy castle tragedy claims sixth child after 11-year-old boy dies in hospital

  19-12-2021 11:05 via cnn.com
  
  A sixth child has died in hospital after a bouncy castle was lifted into the air at a school event in Australia late last week, police said Sunday.
  
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• Burlington, Vermont, decided to cut its police force 30 percent. Here’s what happened next.

  19-12-2021 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Burlington, Vt., decided to slash 30 percent of its police force by attrition. Since then, city leaders have been reckoning with the unintended consequences.
  
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• Why Republicans, moderates see ranked choice voting as an opportunity in a post-Trump era

  19-12-2021 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Progressives embraced the system early on as a way to box out establishment-friendly candidates. But several recent and higher profile elections have rendered a different reality.
  
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• Rapper Kangol Kid dies at 55 after battle with cancer

  19-12-2021 10:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kid was known for often sporting the popular Kangol headwear and being a member of UTFO, which stands for Untouchable Force Organization.
  
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