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• Famous Key West buoy burned after 2 set tree on fire

  01-01-2022 23:06
  
  Two people who burned a part of Key West’s famous Southernmost Point buoy.
  
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• Classic BlackBerry phones will stop working January 4

  01-01-2022 23:00 via cnn.com
  
  You soon won't be able to use that old BlackBerry phone sitting at the bottom of your drawer somewhere.
  
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• WATCH: Countdown to 2022 from all over the world

  01-01-2022 22:32
  
  Highlights from New Year's Eve celebrations around the globe.
  
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• Watch how Miley Cyrus covers for NYE wardrobe malfunction

  01-01-2022 22:21 via cnn.com
  
  Singer Miley Cyrus was able to shake off a wardrobe mishap and improvise an outfit change during her live New Year's Eve performance.
  
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• Former NFL coach, player Dan Reeves dies at 77

  01-01-2022 21:53
  
  Former Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Reeves has died.
  
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• Pope Francis honors mothers, says violence against women is 'almost Satanic'

  01-01-2022 21:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis began the new year with a sermon on the Virgin Mary, saying that to hurt a woman is a direct insult to God and decrying the harm done to women around the world.
  
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• Watch out for 2022 -- Trump isn't finished just yet

  01-01-2022 21:11 via cnn.com
  
  Ever devoted to seeking power and attention, former President Donald Trump has announced he'll hold a rally January 15 in Arizona, a key state where his allies used lies about widespread voter fraud to contest the 2020 election results.
  
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• Map drawn from memory helps reunite kidnapped Chinese man with family

  01-01-2022 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Li Jingwei was kidnapped in Yunnan province in 1989 and sold to a family thousands of miles away.
  
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• Police release images of men wanted over violent clashes at Wiltshire hunt

  01-01-2022 20:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Scuffles broke out between anti-hunting protesters and supporters at the Avon Vale Hunt on 27 DecemberPolice have released images of three men wanted in connection with violent clashes at an annual hunt in Wiltshire.Scuffles broke out between anti-hunting protesters and supporters at the Boxing Day meet of the Avon Vale Hunt in the village of Lacock, which this year was held on 27 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Omicron is 'extraordinarily contagious' -- even a quick, transient encounter can lead to an infection

  01-01-2022 20:47 via cnn.com
  
  The US is ringing in the new year amid a Covid-19 surge that experts warn is exploding at unprecedented speed and could alter daily life for many Americans during the first month of 2022.
  
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• Covid live: England reports another record rise in cases; UAE to ban non-vaccinated from travelling abroad

  01-01-2022 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  England records 162,572 cases and 154 deaths; fully vaccinated would also require booster shotHospitals may have to reintroduce visitor bans, NHS chief saysFurther Covid restrictions in England would be ‘last resort’, says JavidUS experts question whether counting cases is still the right approachWhat are the current rules on self-isolation for Covid in UKSee all our coronavirus coverageRussia has reported 847 deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours. It also reported 19,751 new corona
  
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• They grew up surrounded by racism. But early on they chose a different path

  01-01-2022 20:40 via cnn.com
  
  He's been called a "racist P.O.S." and accused of indoctrinating students. He lost the job he loved. The constant attacks have reduced him to tears.
  
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• UK ministers eager to ease immigration rules for Indian citizens

  01-01-2022 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Offer could be on table in upcoming trade talks in Delhi in bid to access to country’s growing economyMinisters are keen to ease immigration restrictions in a bid to make it easier for thousands of Indian citizens to live and work in the UK as part of forthcoming trade talks.The potential offer will be under discussion when the international trade secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, travels to Delhi this month, reports the Times. Relaxing immigration rules for Indian citizens is a key demand
  
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• US judge delivers double setback to Prince Andrew’s abuse case battle

  01-01-2022 20:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Pressure grows on duke to settle alleged victim’s claim before key hearing this week
  Two of Prince Andrew’s avenues to prevent or stall the progression of Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s sex assault lawsuit against him were blocked on Saturday by a federal judge, increasing pressure to settle claims before a crucial court hearing this week.Judge Lewis A Kaplan, in a written order, told the prince’s lawyers they must turn over documents on the schedule that has been set in the
  
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• Three people are missing and feared dead after vicious Colorado wildfire

  01-01-2022 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  At least three people are missing and feared dead after a horrific wildfire tore through Boulder, County, Colorado, Thursday, leveling whole subdivisions and charring more than 6,000 acres.
  
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• The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel

  01-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In the charity’s storeroom sit the cremated remains of seven former visitors – unclaimed, contested or forgotten. Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman introduces an intimate story about three of themYou can read the original article here: The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel. Continue reading...
  
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• Is that really me? The ugly truth about beauty filters

  01-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Smoother skin, slimmer faces, plumper lips … how unattainable ideals are harming young usersPopping a beautifying filter on the TikTok video she was filming seemed harmless to Mia. It made it look as though she had done her makeup, took away the hint of a double chin that always bothered her, and gently altered her bone structure to make her just that bit closer to perfect.After a while, using filters on videos became second nature – until she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirr
  
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• FAA issues warning to travelers amid omicron surge: Delays will continue

  01-01-2022 18:46
  
  The agency is dealing with rising cases among air traffic control employees.
  
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• How much longer can China keep up its zero-Covid strategy?

  01-01-2022 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  As Beijing pursues its solitary path, observers are asking whether the policy is about protecting public health – or social orderCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDesperate residents in China’s western Xi’an city are running out of food after they were barred from grocery shopping in a fierce lockdown. In the southern province of Guangxi, people who broke Covid laws were recently publicly shamed by being paraded through the streets in Hazmat suit
  
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• Desmond Tutu's daughter leads tributes at Archbishop's funeral

  01-01-2022 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  Archbishop Desmond Tutu's family and friends gathered for his official state funeral on New Year's Day in Cape Town, capping a week of events honoring a man long considered the moral compass of South Africa.
  
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• Mourners pay tribute to Desmond Tutu

  01-01-2022 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  Family, friends and dignitaries gathered for Archbishop Desmond Tutu's official state funeral on New Year's Day in Cape Town, capping a week of events honoring a man long considered to be the moral compass of South Africa.
  
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• Illinois woman in custody in killing of cop, wounding of 2nd

  01-01-2022 18:23
  
  Xandria Harris, 26, of Bradley, Illinois, turned herself in Friday afternoon.
  
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• Miley Cyrus handled a New Year's wardrobe malfunction like a total pro

  01-01-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  Miley Cyrus rang in the New Year with a live performance in Miami and didn't let a small wardrobe malfunction stop the show.
  
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• Colorado wildfire: up to 1,000 buildings destroyed as Biden declares disaster

  01-01-2022 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  At least seven reported injured while cause of the blaze remains under investigationUp to 1,000 buildings may have been destroyed in the record wildfire that swept through a Colorado area abutting the Rocky Mountains, as Joe Biden declared the situation a disaster and experts warned that the climate crisis and suburban expansion contributed to the devastation.After declaring that it was a miracle, based on the latest information, that no one was killed in the fire that roared with little notice
  
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• Sands of time are slipping away for England’s crumbling coasts amid climate crisis

  01-01-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Along the eastern shore, seaside attractions are being demolished and millions of homes are at risk as rising sea levels speed erosionFrom a distance, the beach at Winterton-on-sea in Norfolk looks like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, with hundreds of grey bodies lying motionless across the sand. On closer inspection, it becomes clear they are not fallen soldiers but a huge colony of seals taken to the land for pupping season.It’s an amazing annual sight that draws tourists and n
  
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• 874 cars were torched in France on New Year's Eve -- fewer than in previous years

  01-01-2022 18:00 via cnn.com
  
  A total of 874 vehicles were set ablaze across France on New Year's Eve as part of a decades-old tradition.
  
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• Alvin Bragg sworn in as Manhattan DA, taking over Trump case

  01-01-2022 17:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Cyrus Vance Jr. passed the decision on whether to bring criminal charges against Trump to his successor, Bragg, a former federal prosecutor.
  
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• Grief, needle phobia, lack of trust: why we refused Covid jabs – and what changed our minds

  01-01-2022 17:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Three former refuseniks reveal their misgivings about having the vaccination and what finally convinced them to take the plungeThe UK’s vaccine rollout has largely been a success: more than 90% of the population aged 12 and over has now had at least one dose, with just over half having had a second dose and the booster. However, there are thousands of people who still haven’t had a jab, despite estimates suggesting that 90% of the most severely ill Covid patients in hospital at the m
  
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• This year, NASA will launch a mission to a valuable, unexplored world

  01-01-2022 17:17 via cnn.com
  
  "Where we're going, we don't need roads."
  
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• A French retreat brought into sharp focus

  01-01-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer Serge Anton has updated his great-grandfather’s home and made it his ownHaving spent three decades travelling the world, enjoying a nomadic lifestyle, French-Belgian photographer Serge Anton finally felt the need to settle down. And he found his personal oasis of quiet in a house he inherited, a retreat called Mon Desir. Built by his great-grandfather about a century ago in Sedan, in the heart of the French Ardennes, the house sits in a landscape full of calm – a million
  
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• Dan Reeves, former NFL coach and player, has died

  01-01-2022 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  Dan Reeves, the former National Football League head coach and Dallas Cowboys running back, has died, according to NFL.com. He was 77.
  
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• Fish fall from sky in odd weather event

  01-01-2022 16:41 via cnn.com
  
  Residents of Texarkana, Texas, reported small fish falling from the sky. The city told residents on Facebook the fish were likely picked up by a waterspout.
  
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• Ja Morant helps Grizzlies beat Spurs for 4th straight win

  01-01-2022 16:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Ja Morant had 30 points, eight assists and six rebounds, leading the Memphis Grizzlies to a 118-105 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night.
  
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• Exploding New Year’s Eve fireworks kill two in Germany and Austria

  01-01-2022 16:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Several more injured in separate incidents despite Germany introducing ban this year on sale of fireworks for personal useExploding fireworks killed two men on New Year’s Eve, one in Germany and the other in Austria, according to local media.A 37-year-old man died in Hennef, near Germany’s western city of Bonn. A 39-year-old was severely injured in the same incident and taken to hospital. Continue reading...
  
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• Frozen in time: clock that tells tale of Jewish resistance in wartime Amsterdam

  01-01-2022 16:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Artefacts from hideout of family sent to Auschwitz death camp with Anne Frank and her family are put on display in NetherlandsA clock that is the sole surviving object from a second world war Jewish hideout will go on display at Amsterdam’s Dutch Resistance Museum this year.The round mantelpiece clock may have been one of the last things people saw as they were seized by the Nazis and sent to death camps. Continue reading...
  
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• Utah ‘millionaire’ carved deadline into kidnapping victim’s hand to ‘love him or be killed,’ police say

  01-01-2022 16:23 via foxnews.com
  
  A self-declared “millionaire” medical cannabis mogul in Utah has been charged with holding a woman against her will for weeks inside his home, beating her repeatedly and using a knife to carve the number six into her hand – allegedly meant to represent the six months she had to “love him or be killed.”
  
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• Rangers win shootout, end Lightning's 7-game home win streak

  01-01-2022 16:23 via foxnews.com
  
  Mika Zibanejad scored the lone goal in a shootout, Barclay Goodrow scored twice, and the New York Rangers stopped Tampa Bay's seven-game home winning streak by beating the Lightning 4-3 on Friday night.
  
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• Trae Young scores 35, Hawks rally to beat Cavaliers

  01-01-2022 16:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Trae Young scored 35 points, Clint Capela had 18 points and a season-high 23 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks rallied from a 16-point deficit for a 121-118 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.
  
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• Philadelphia’s record violence spills into new year after at least 3 killed, 7 wounded in shootings

  01-01-2022 16:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Just hours into the new year, at least three people were killed and seven others wounded in shootings across Philadelphia early Saturday, according to local reports.
  
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• Jimmy Butler scores season-high 37, Heat beat Rockets

  01-01-2022 16:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Jimmy Butler scored a season-high 37 points and the short-handed Miami Heat built a big lead early and held on for a 120-110 win over the Houston Rockets on Friday night.
  
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• FDA close to booster authorization for kids 12-15: report

  01-01-2022 16:13 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reportedly planning to expand eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots on Monday.
  
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• The person who got me through 2021: Miss J and America’s Next Top Model transported me to carefree times

  01-01-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Three years after it ended, scandal surrounds the show, but its familiarity and formula provided a comfort blanket. I really hope they bring it backIt sounds troublingly shallow, but when I saw the tweet that said “Holy shit, ANTM [America’s Next Top Model] is on Amazon Prime” my heart soared. I am not one who can pretend the pandemic isn’t still raging but, in that fleeting moment, I felt a spiritual lightness I hadn’t experienced since 2019.I dropped everything to
  
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• On my radar: Moses Sumney’s cultural highlights

  01-01-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The singer-songwriter on Balenciaga’s visions, the mountains of North Carolina, and the haunting power of Eve’s BayouSinger-songwriter Moses Sumney, 29, grew up between Ghana and California and studied creative writing and poetry at UCLA. His piercing falsetto and genre-defying music have brought him critical acclaim, starting with his self-recorded 2014 EP Mid-City Island, followed in 2017 by his debut album, Aromanticism, and the 2020 double album Græ. Sumney has collaborated
  
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• In the New Year, set aside just 5 minutes a day to have your best year ever

  01-01-2022 16:00 via foxnews.com
  
  What if one daily practice could end up helping you with all your goals. And what if it could be done in just five minutes each day?
  
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• Rodri seals win for Premier League leader in controversial thriller

  01-01-2022 15:57 via cnn.com
  
  Premier League leader Manchester City moved 11 points clear of Chelsea after a 2-1 win over 10-man Arsenal in a game filled with drama and controversy.
  
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• Several California beaches close after sewage spill

  01-01-2022 15:51 via foxnews.com
  
  After the 48-inch sewer main line located in the city of Carson failed Thursday afternoon, as many as 7 million gallons of sewage may have been discharged into the waterway.
  
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• Central Michigan beats Washington State in Sun Bowl

  01-01-2022 15:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Central Michigan came to the desert southwest to play in one bowl game and ended up in another.
  
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• DeMar DeRozan hits buzzer-beating three, Bulls beat Pacers

  01-01-2022 15:47 via foxnews.com
  
  DeMar DeRozan made a 28-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Chicago Bulls a 108-106 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday.
  
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• Sam Hartman leads Wake Forest to Gator Bowl win

  01-01-2022 15:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Sam Hartman's big day capped Wake Forest's best season in 15 years.
  
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• Dan Reeves, former NFL head coach and running back, dead at 77

  01-01-2022 15:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Dan Reeves, the longtime NFL head coach and former player, died Saturday, his family said in a statement, He was 77.
  
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