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• Universities overhaul spring semester plans as omicron surges

  29-12-2021 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  With the uptick in Covid-19 cases, colleges and universities are making spring semester changes to keep the highly transmissible omicron variant away from campus
  
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• WATCH: Golden retriever enjoys snowfall

  29-12-2021 23:54
  
  An excited golden retriever enjoyed his time in the backyard during the season's first snowfall in Chicago, Illinois.
  
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• CNN reporter: Do you consider this a success when you raid a news organization and they close down?

  29-12-2021 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  Hong Kong news outlet Stand News shut down hours after around 200 police officers raided its newsroom. It was one of the last independent media organizations in Hong Kong. The raid led to the arrest of staff members and has stirred dissent from pro-democracy activists, reports CNN's Ivan Watson.
  
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• Maxwell faces up to 65 years in prison

  29-12-2021 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  A jury has reached a verdict in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and close associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Juror in Kim Potter trial speaks about how jury found ex-officer guilty in Daunte Wright's death

  29-12-2021 23:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Minneapolis juror is speaking out about the trial of former police officer Kim Potter and how the jury ultimately found her guilty in the death of Daunte Wrig
  
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• CNN legal analyst breaks down Maxwell's verdict

  29-12-2021 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  A jury found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004.
  
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• French daily Covid cases above 200,000 as Italy introduces stricter green pass

  29-12-2021 23:46 via theguardian.com
  
  France sets European record, as Italy tightens measures against the unvaccinatedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrance has registered a national and European record for new coronavirus infections as the Omicron variant fuels a surge in cases across the continent, with multiple countries hitting new highs.France on Wednesday reported 208,000 cases in the previous 24 hours, up from its previous record of almost 180,000 set the day before. Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Andrew emerges with barely a mention in Ghislaine Maxwell trial

  29-12-2021 23:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: there was no cross-examination of the prince’s friend and his accuser was not called to give evidenceFor the Duke of York, the fact he was barely mentioned in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial will have been an undoubted relief. With Maxwell declining the stand, no opening of her “little black book” of society contacts and, crucially, no sign of his accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew was a mere footnote in the New York proceedings.Maxwell opted not to give
  
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• WATCH: Oregon DOT worker avoids falling tree

  29-12-2021 23:35
  
  An Oregon DOT responder narrowly drove under and past a huge falling tree just before it crashed down the road.
  
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• France seeing Covid numbers 'that give you vertigo' as Omicron smashes records across Europe

  29-12-2021 23:31 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • How long can you spread Omicron?
  
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• California man driving to White House to kill leaders on 'hit list' arrested in Iowa, officials say

  29-12-2021 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  A heavily armed California man was arrested in Iowa after he told law enforcement officers that he would "do whatever it takes" to kill government leaders on
  
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• Prosecutors argued Maxwell and Epstein conspired to lure young girls into sexual relationships with Epstein

  29-12-2021 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  A jury has reached a verdict in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and close associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Victims’ testimony: how Ghislaine Maxwell lured girls into Epstein’s orbit

  29-12-2021 23:13 via theguardian.com
  
  In a Manhattan courtroom, four of Maxwell’s accusers painted a powerful story of sexual abuseThis article contains descriptions of sexual abuseFour of Ghislaine Maxwell’s accusers testified against the British socialite at her Manhattan federal court trial, painting a compelling and powerful story of sexual abuse.These women – Jane, Kate, Carolyn and Annie Farmer – all testified they met Maxwell as teens, and that she lured them into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit. While t
  
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• Front-line workers describe symptoms they've observed in latest Covid wave

  29-12-2021 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Physicians facing the latest surge of Covid-19 cases, driven by the omicron variant, described what they are seeing in their emergency rooms.
  
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• 'We must adapt': CDC defends new isolation guidance amid omicron surge

  29-12-2021 23:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  CDC defends Covid isolation guidelines amid omicron variant surge.
  
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• Remains of missing amateur MMA fighter found by man searching for deer antlers

  29-12-2021 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Police in Branson, Missouri, say they've identified the remains of David Koenig, an amateur mixed martial arts fighter, who had been missing for almost two years.
  
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• Trump wants Supreme Court to read Washington Post interview with Jan. 6 panel chair

  29-12-2021 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  As the Supreme Court considers whether to take up former President Donald Trump's January 6 White House records case, Trump's attorney submitted to the court a new filing Wednesday making the court aware of a Washington Post interview with Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House select committee seeking the records.
  
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• Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson calls out Vin Diesel's 'manipulation'

  29-12-2021 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has plenty of reasons to toast 2021 with some Teremana.
  
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• Her sister didn't want to get vaccinated until debate on the way to bury their grandmother

  29-12-2021 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  After recently laying her unvaccinated grandmother to rest, losing her to Covid-19, Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia joins CNN's Poppy Harlow to explain how the vaccine has divided her family.
  
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• The January 6 committee formed 6 months ago. Here's what it's uncovered.

  29-12-2021 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  It's been a dramatic six months since the establishment of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.
  
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• Lawmakers brawl after heated debate over women's rights

  29-12-2021 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Jordanian Parliament members traded punches after a debate over amending the constitution to explicitly recognize female citizens.
  
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• At least 32 killed in gold mine collapse in Sudan

  29-12-2021 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  Rescue workers in Sudan are working to recover the bodies of dozens of workers who were killed in a gold mine that collapsed in the remote West Kordofan province, a mining official said.
  
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• 'Not going to sit particularly well with Putin': CNN reporter previews Biden-Putin call

  29-12-2021 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Nic Robertson takes a look ahead of President Joe Biden's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a wide range of topics including diplomatic engagement.
  
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• Amazon's Alexa tells 10-year-old child to touch penny to exposed plug

  29-12-2021 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon's Alexa has been developed over the years to offer ever-improving access to information and knowledge.
  
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• WHO chief worried about ‘tsunami’ of omicron, delta COVID cases

  29-12-2021 21:36 via foxnews.com
  
  Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a “tsunami” of cases between them.
  
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• Melania Trump steps back into the public eye

  29-12-2021 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  After months of relative public silence, former first lady Melania Trump before Christmas emerged from private life to announce a new project: A piece of artwork, a watercolor closeup of her eyes, in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) was now available for purchase.
  
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• How China dismantled Hong Kong's democracy in 2021

  29-12-2021 21:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Again and again throughout 2021, the Hong Kong authorities and the central government in Beijing stamped out nearly everything the pro-democracy movement had stood for.
  
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• Amanda Gorman releases a new poem

  29-12-2021 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Poet Amanda Gorman has released a new work, just in time for the year's end. And like her most famous poem, "The Hill We Climb," her latest aims to uplift its listeners during a challenging time.
  
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• Asian American groups call on Biden to end controversial China Initiative

  29-12-2021 20:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Over the past 28 months, Feng “Franklin” Tao and his family have been driven to the cusp of bankruptcy as they try to prove he isn’t a tech spy for the Chinese
  
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• Iowa teens ambushed teacher on her daily walk, dragged her into woods, official says

  29-12-2021 20:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The county attorney prosecuting the case of two southeast Iowa teens charged with murder in the death of their high school Spanish teacher said in court documents they surveilled her pattern of life, ambushed her along her daily walk and dragged her into the woods, returning later to better hide her lifeless body.
  
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• Fossil discovery of 5 mammoths along with Neanderthal tools reveals life in ice age

  29-12-2021 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  The bones of five mammoths were discovered with Neanderthal stone tools at a quarry near Swindon, providing a revealing look at life in Britain during the ice age 200,000 years ago.
  
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• The standouts: A year of illustrations and photography at NBC News

  29-12-2021 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  See a sampling of our most striking original art from 2021 from illustrators and photographers.
  
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• Trump endorses Alaska governor, but there's a catch

  29-12-2021 19:57 via cnn.com
  
  Trump backs Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, so long as he doesn't endorse Senator Lisa Murkowski.
  
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• N.Y. enacts ‘groundbreaking’ law to change how Asian American populations are counted

  29-12-2021 19:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  State agencies in New York will now be required to break down data for individual ethnic groups under the Asian American Pacific Islander umbrella.
  
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• China cries foul on returned Delta flight over COVID entry requirements: 'not consistent with the facts'

  29-12-2021 19:29 via foxnews.com
  
  A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman on Wednesday pushed back against crew member claims that pandemic-related cleaning requirements forced a Delta Air Lines flight to reverse course were.
  
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• US flies reconnaissance aircraft over eastern Ukraine

  29-12-2021 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  The US Air Force flew a reconnaissance mission this week over eastern Ukraine to gather intelligence about the situation on the ground -- two days after Russia announced it would withdraw 10,000 troops from its border with that nation.
  
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• The pop culture moments of 2021 we couldn't forget if we tried

  29-12-2021 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  We laughed, we cringed, we tweeted -- these are the pop culture moments that we'll remember fondly as the year comes to an end. From the most meme-worthy moment of "House of Gucci" to the best resurrection of an early-2000s touchstone -- Bennifer tried, but was bested by another music diva -- we revisit the pop culture moments that got us through another "unprecedented" year.
  
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• The mistake we make when we talk about breakthrough Covid infections

  29-12-2021 18:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Breakthrough infections are part and parcel of immunization as long as a disease is circulating. If the vaccines are saving lives, they're doing their job.
  
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• Speed of Stand News shutdown sends chilling signal to Hong Kong’s media

  29-12-2021 18:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: the police raid and closure of the pro-democracy website has left journalists wondering who will be nextThe Christmas attack on Hong Kong website Stand News was no great surprise in a city where all forms of political opposition are being dismantled wholesale, but the scale, speed and nature of the operation to shutter this pro-democracy website were still shocking.Over 200 police officers swept into the newsroom, and others fanned out over the city making arrests under a harsh seditio
  
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• NASA will launch mission to an unexplored world in 2022

  29-12-2021 18:22 via cnn.com
  
  Some of the most exciting space missions are ready to kick off in 2022.
  
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• Biden, Putin to speak Thursday amid growing tensions over Ukraine

  29-12-2021 18:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The administration said this month that it was weighing sweeping sanctions against Russia if it invades Ukraine.
  
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• COVID-19: Greece bans New Year's music at venues amid surge in cases

  29-12-2021 18:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Greece’s health minister said Wednesday that music will be banned at all commercial venues for New Year’s celebrations as part of new restrictions announced in response to a surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the omicron variant.
  
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• Biden to speak with Putin at Russian leader's request

  29-12-2021 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Why Biden isn't likely to find much political relief abroad in 2022
  
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• Amazon's Alexa tells 10-year-old child to touch penny to exposed plug socket

  29-12-2021 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon's Alexa has been developed over the years to offer ever-improving access to information and knowledge.
  
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• Challengers say 'race blind' redistricting maps are anything but

  29-12-2021 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  In states like Texas and North Carolina, Republican lawmakers in charge of redrawing the political maps for the next decade say that the new plans are "race blind." Their opponents in court say that the claim is implausible and one that, in some situations, is at odds with the Voting Rights Act.
  
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• Jada Pinkett Smith shares alopecia update

  29-12-2021 17:51 via cnn.com
  
  Jada Pinkett Smith is making the best of her hair loss.
  
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• It's winter in Alaska -- and warmer than some parts of Southern California

  29-12-2021 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  This holiday season has been quite unseasonal, at least as far as temperatures go.
  
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• 67-degree day in Kodiak, Alaska, sets new statewide temperature record

  29-12-2021 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  This holiday season has been quite unseasonal, at least as far as temperatures go.
  
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• Jada Pinkett Smith embraces hair loss: 'Me and this alopecia are going to be friends'

  29-12-2021 17:40 via cnn.com
  
  Jada Pinkett Smith is embracing the hair loss caused by her alopecia. The actress and Red Table Talk host plans to bedazzle her newest bald spot and make it look like 'a little crown.'
  
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• Russia says 'plan B' for certification of Nord Stream 2 pipeline is not an option

  29-12-2021 17:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A top Russian official said Wednesday that the Kremlin will not accept a "plan B" option when it comes to the certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
  
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