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• Meet Dobby, newborn aardvark who looks like 'Harry Potter' character

  13-02-2022 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  The first-ever aardvark born at the Chester zoo in England was named Dobby for his "uncanny resemblance" to the Harry Potter character.
  
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• Aardvark calf named 'Dobby' for uncanny resemblance to 'Harry Potter' character

  13-02-2022 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  The first-ever aardvark born at the Chester zoo in England was named Dobby for his "uncanny resemblance" to the Harry Potter character.
  
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• Chinese diplomat claims tennis star Peng Shuai is too strong to have been sexually assaulted

  13-02-2022 23:14 via foxnews.com
  
  A Chinese diplomat cast doubt on claims made by missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, arguing that the athlete was unlikely to have been sexually assaulted by a high ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party due to her physical strength and size
  
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• WATCH: Fans gather outside stadium ahead of Super Bowl LVI

  13-02-2022 23:06
  
  Football fans arrived at the SoFi Stadium in California to join pre-game festivities ahead of Super Bowl LVI.
  
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• WATCH: Controlled avalanche sends snow down mountain

  13-02-2022 23:04
  
  A controlled avalanche was carried out in Austria as a precautionary measure, sending snow tumbling down a mountain.
  
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• Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America review – a terrifying meeting with the new far right

  13-02-2022 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rape threats and racism feature in this alarming encounter with white nationalists who spread hate online while denying they’re fascists. Might this documentary do more harm than good?Nick J Fuentes, the 23-year-old founder of the America First Foundation, wants there to be no more immigration to the US. “White men founded this country. It wouldn’t exist without white men and white men are done being bullied … Genocide is being perpetrated against the white man.” H
  
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• Ransomware gang says it has hacked 49ers football team

  13-02-2022 22:51
  Cyber criminals claim they stole some of the football team’s financial data.
  
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• 3 fatally shot during fight outside South Texas sports bar

  13-02-2022 22:36
  Two of the men died at the scene, while the third died at a hospital.
  
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• 'This is Canada it's supposed to be a free country', bridge blockade protesters speak out after police move in

  13-02-2022 22:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Ambassador Bridge blockade protesters in Windsor, Canada, speak out after police clear the area.
  
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• From campus to Congress, colleges urged to end legacy boost

  13-02-2022 22:03
  
  America’s elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the relatives of alumni
  
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• Most Americans have come out ahead economically in the pandemic, despite inflation

  13-02-2022 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  Public discontent with America's pandemic-battered economy obscures the good news: Even after inflation, most of the country has been coming out ahead.
  
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• US 'actively working' for release of American held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Sullivan says

  13-02-2022 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  The US is "actively working" for the release of an American citizen who was detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan in early December, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday.
  
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• Second of five whales brought from Canada to US aquarium dies

  13-02-2022 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Female was receiving intensive care for multiple health issues but died early Friday morning, and a male beluga died in AugustThe second of five whales brought from Canada to Connecticut’s Mystic aquarium last year for research purposes has died.The aquarium announced on its website that the female had been receiving intensive care for the past several months for multiple health issues but died early Friday morning. A necropsy was to be performed to determine the cause of death. Continue r
  
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• Bipartisan members on Capitol attack panel say they expect Giuliani to testify

  13-02-2022 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Comments come after report that Trump ally is in talks about options, including in-person interview or submitting a depositionBipartisan figures on the congressional committee investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat said on Sunday they expected the former president’s close ally, Rudolph Giuliani, would comply with a subpoena to give testimony.Giuliani is among a number of Trump sphere insiders who have so far refused to cooperate with the bipartisan
  
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• Valérie Pécresse rally focuses on immigration as threat from rivals grows

  13-02-2022 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Les Républicains’ presidential choice promises crackdown after defections to Macron and rise in far-right’s pollingThe rightwing French presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse vowed to crack down on immigration as she held her first big rally on Sunday amid competition from the growing far right and defections from her party to the centrist leader Emmanuel Macron.“There is no sovereignty without borders,” Pécresse said on stage in Paris as more
  
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• Saudi Arabia transfers $80bn in shares to wealth fund for green projects

  13-02-2022 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said move was part of efforts to recalibrate the oil-led economySaudi Arabia has transferred shares worth $80bn to its sovereign wealth fund as the oil-rich nation hopes to rival Norway and Singapore’s state-managed funds and invest in green projects.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, said 4% of shares in Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil exporter, would be transferred to the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fun
  
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• Broadway's most popular role will finally be played by a Black actress

  13-02-2022 19:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  In Act one of the Broadway musical "Wicked," the character Glinda makes a dramatic entrance, floating onstage in a magic bubble.
  
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• Biden tells Zelenskyy U.S. will respond 'swiftly and decisively' if Russia invades Ukraine

  13-02-2022 19:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone on Sunday, reaffirming that the U.S. and its allies would respond "swiftly and
  
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• Biden tells Ukraine's Zelensky that US would respond 'swiftly and decisively' to any further Russian aggression

  13-02-2022 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a roughly hour-long call Sunday that the US would respond "swiftly and decisively" if Russia takes further steps toward invasion, according to a White House readout of the call.
  
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• German leader to head to Moscow amid fears time is running out

  13-02-2022 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Olaf Scholz will make economic case for peace to defuse ‘extremely dangerous’ situation in UkraineUkraine crisis – live updatesOlaf Scholz will use his trip to Moscow on Tuesday to press home the economic cost of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, German government sources have said in what some European leaders fear could be a last opportunity to defuse the “extremely dangerous” situation on the border between the two eastern countries.The German chancellor, who has fa
  
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• Why the Ambassador Bridge is crucial to two nations' economies

  13-02-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  The United States' largest trading partner isn't China, or Mexico. It's Canada.
  
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• Why shrugging off the n-word is so dangerous

  13-02-2022 18:38 via cnn.com
  
  The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word.
  
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• Why shrugging off Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is so dangerous

  13-02-2022 18:38 via cnn.com
  
  The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word.
  
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• LeBron James passes Abdul-Jabbar for most points scored all-time

  13-02-2022 18:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  LeBron James has scored more points than any player in NBA history.
  
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• Former Fox anchor finds network's coverage of Canada protests 'ironic'

  13-02-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson reacts to the network's extensive coverage of the trucker-inspired protests in Canada.
  
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• Glove hurled into stands by Antonio Brown during meltdown sells for more than $16K

  13-02-2022 18:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  A glove thrown to fans by former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown during an epic on-field meltdown sold for thousands over the weekend.
  
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• Erin Jackson brings home gold, first Black woman to win speed skating medal at the Winter Olympics

  13-02-2022 18:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 29-year-old Florida native and lifelong rollerblader became the first Black woman to win Team USA a gold medal in speed skating Sunday.
  
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• Man lynched by villagers over blasphemy allegation, say Pakistani police

  13-02-2022 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  A mob lynched a man because he had allegedly burnt pages of Muslim holy book the Quran in central Pakistan, and dozens of people have been arrested, police and officials said Sunday.
  
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• ‘Zero tolerance’: Multiple arrests made as police clear protesters blockading Canada-U.S. bridge

  13-02-2022 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police in Canada moved in to remove and arrest protesters opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates who have been blocking the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge on the U.S. border.
  
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• Erin Jackson wins speed skating gold after teammate gave up spot

  13-02-2022 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  • Live updates: Day 10 of the Beijing Games
  
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• Erin Jackson wins 500m speed skating gold after teammate gave up spot

  13-02-2022 17:50 via cnn.com
  
  US speed skater Erin Jackson won the women's 500m gold medal at the Winter Olympics in a time of 37.04 on Sunday.
  
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• 'Don't you have an obligation, sir?': Jake Tapper hits at Biden on probe dismissal

  13-02-2022 17:37 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper criticizes President Biden's dismissal of the US Army probe outlining failures with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
  
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• Delayed diagnoses and self-imposed lockdown: Australians living with cancer during Covid

  13-02-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Two years of the pandemic have meant drops in essential screening and detection, while cancer patients undergo treatments alone and isolate to avoid Covid risksWhen Claire Simpson turned 50 in early 2020, she received a letter telling her to get a mammogram. Then the pandemic hit, and Victoria went into lockdown.“Like many people, I put it off until we were coming out of that lockdown, but by then it was September and I couldn’t get an appointment until December,” she says. Con
  
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• Teenager tracking Elon Musk's jet explains why he's doing it

  13-02-2022 17:22 via cnn.com
  
  A teenager figured out how to track the movements of Elon Musk's private jet and posted the information on Twitter. Musk personally reached out to ask him to stop. Jack Sweeney says he is holding out for a free Tesla.
  
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• CNN's Jake Tapper presses national security adviser on skepticism around Russia intel

  13-02-2022 16:54 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper asks national security adviser Jake Sullivan why skeptical Americans should trust US claims that Russia could stage a false flag operation as its military surrounds Ukraine.
  
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• Empathy, not argumentation, is how Democrats try to focus economic message

  13-02-2022 16:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama in a closed-door meeting on Thursday evening advised House Democrats to recognize the pain and struggle American families are
  
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• Ukraine crisis: miscalculation could trigger unintended wider conflict

  13-02-2022 16:50 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Risk of something going down like a mid-air collision, or a trigger-happy Russian or American, can really escalate things quickly’The unprecedented Russian military encirclement of Ukraine has not only brought closer the prospect of a devastating war in that country, it has also raised the risks of triggering an unintended wider conflict.The US and Nato have been adamant that their troops will not enter Ukraine no matter what happens, and the Pentagon has pulled out the 160 national
  
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• Flushed or just lost to history? Trump leaves hole in the record

  13-02-2022 16:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump says he never flushed history down a White House toilet
  
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• Former Nicaragua guerrilla who helped free Daniel Ortega dies in jail

  13-02-2022 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Hugo Torres, 73, was among 46 opposition figures jailed by Ortega last year to clear way for his re-electionA former Sandinista guerrilla who once led a raid that helped free Daniel Ortega from prison has died, eight months after the now-president jailed him and dozens of other Nicaraguan opposition leaders.Government prosecutors said Hugo Torres, 73, died at a hospital in Managua, the capital, “of illnesses he had”. It was unclear if his death was hastened by conditions in prison, a
  
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• Why the queen's Camilla announcement was about more than just a title

  13-02-2022 16:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  For many, Queen Elizabeth II is synonymous with the British monarchy. But as the country celebrated her platinum jubilee, she set the stage for the next royal era.
  
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• The rap star of Karachi: ‘My veil cannot take away the talent I have’

  13-02-2022 16:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Eva B, who was brought up in a notorious slum, has become Pakistan’s latest music sensationHer phone has been buzzing with non-stop messages and calls. Eva B, once a little-known rapper from the Karachi urban-slum settlement of Lyari, has become Pakistan’s newest music sensation, racking up millions of views on YouTube.She is not just the first female rapper from Pakistan, she is the first veil-wearing female rapper from Pakistan’s Baloch minority. She says her brother had told
  
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• Canadian police begin arresting protesters blocking US-Canada bridge

  13-02-2022 15:56 via foxnews.com
  
  Canadian police begin arresting Canadian trucking protesters on Ambassador Bridge, which connects Canada and Detroit.
  
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• WATCH: Super Bowl Sunday only a few hours away

  13-02-2022 15:24
  
  The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals face off tonight, and both teams are making last-minute preparations.
  
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• Democrats in battleground states zero in on a midterms pitch: Defending elections

  13-02-2022 15:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats seeking high office in battleground states this year are increasingly pitching themselves to voters as a bulwark against any efforts that Republican
  
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• The call will take place amid US warnings that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen as soon as this week

  13-02-2022 15:23 via cnn.com
  
  • Biden's national security adviser says Russia could invade Ukraine 'any day now'
  • Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides. Here's where an invasion could be launched
  
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• NFT marketplace suspends most sales, citing 'rampant' fakes and plagiarism

  13-02-2022 15:08 via cnn.com
  
  The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million has halted most transactions because people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them, its founder said, calling this a "fundamental problem" in the fast-growing digital assets market.
  
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• 'Lovely...innit?': See Adele get grilled over diamond on her ring finger

  13-02-2022 14:33 via cnn.com
  
  The singer stopped by The Graham Norton show, where Norton pointed out the large diamond on Adele's finger and probed for a relationship update.
  
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• Winter Olympics: Netherlands win emotional short track speed skating gold

  13-02-2022 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reigning world champions the Netherlands win an emotional short track speed skating gold in the women's 3000m relay at the Winter Olympics.
  
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• Ukraine tensions: US defends evacuating embassy as Zelensky urges calm

  13-02-2022 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The "imminent" threat of Russian invasion justifies action, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says.
  
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• Super Bowl 2022: Everything you need to know

  13-02-2022 14:02 via cnn.com
  
  It's that time of year again... Super Bowl Sunday is upon us! Whether you're in it for the game, the commercials, or the halftime show, here's everything you need to know about Super Bowl LVI.
  
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