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• Navy engineer's wife pleads guilty in nuclear submarine spy scheme

  18-02-2022 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  Diana Toebbe, the wife of a US Navy nuclear engineer who earlier this week pleaded guilty in a scheme to sell US naval secrets to a foreign country, pleaded guilty Friday in a federal courtroom in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
  
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• Asian American Olympians often framed through ‘strict’ parent narrative. Why that’s damaging.

  18-02-2022 23:43
  
  The members of Team USA are thrust into the spotlight every Olympic Games, but when it comes to coverage of Asian American athletes, experts say the media
  
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• Storm Eunice: Three people killed as strong winds sweep across UK

  18-02-2022 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Powerful winds have brought down trees and spread debris, killing three people and injuring others.
  
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• At least 9 more deaths as 2nd major storm hits north Europe

  18-02-2022 23:40 via foxnews.com
  
  The second major storm in three days smashed through northern Europe on Friday
  
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• White House records taken by Trump contained classified information, National Archives confirms

  18-02-2022 23:32
  
  The National Archives and Records Administration confirmed on Friday that it found classified material among the boxes of White House documents that former Pres
  
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• Democrats and Republicans avoided a government shutdown. Only one side wanted that.

  18-02-2022 23:32
  
  The Senate passed a spending extension to avoid a government shutdown, but it's only a temporary fix for a very real problem: Democrats want to govern and the GOP wants to wallow.
  
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• Consider this before you celebrate the government avoiding a shutdown

  18-02-2022 23:32
  
  The Senate passed a spending extension to avoid a government shutdown, but it's only a temporary fix for a very real problem: Democrats want to govern and the GOP wants to wallow.
  
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• Vatican pulls representatives from Taiwan, Hong Kong without explanation

  18-02-2022 23:24 via foxnews.com
  
  The Roman Catholic Church has shuffled its representatives in key East Asian countries, drawing speculation that the Vatican is making good faith moves to appease the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), an accusation that Catholic prelates deny.
  
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• Trump can be held accountable for January 6 in court, judge rules

  18-02-2022 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Civil lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump accountable for the January 6 insurrection can move forward in court, and the ex-President doesn't have absolute immunity from litigation, a federal judge ruled Friday.
  
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• Russia: Who is winning the propaganda war over Ukraine conflict

  18-02-2022 22:31 via foxnews.com
  
  The information war is a critical one as it will help determine which way the people of Russia feel about Putin's personal war as it potentially unfolds in Ukraine.
  
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• Sofía Jirau, Victoria's Secret model with Down syndrome, on historic first

  18-02-2022 22:26
  
  Sofía Jirau, a Latina who’s Victoria’s Secret’s first model with Down syndrome, spoke to NBC News from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she's based.
  
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• Olympic Committee chief gives rare rebuke of China for political statements

  18-02-2022 22:10
  
  President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach pushed back Friday against political statements made by a Chinese official.
  
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• Trump improperly took away classified material, National Archives says

  18-02-2022 21:59
  
  Archives says it has alerted Department of Justice about former president’s removal of files from White HouseThe US National Archives confirmed on Friday that officials found classified materials in boxes of documents Donald Trump improperly removed from the White House – and that they had alerted the Department of Justice (DoJ).The disclosure is expected to escalate an investigation by the House oversight committee into whether Trump violated the Presidential Records Act of 1978 by
  
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• New York City will begin removing homeless people from subways at night

  18-02-2022 21:52
  
  Mayor says public fear of subways is driving riders from the system and announces more mental health support to homelessNew York leaders on Friday released a plan to strictly enforce rules on the New York City subway as part of an aggressive effort to remove homeless people from the city’s sprawling transit system.“No more just doing whatever you want,” said the New York City mayor, Eric Adams, at a press conference announcing the plan on Friday in a subway station in lower Man
  
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• Judge allows lawsuits against Trump for Jan. 6 to go forward and rules he doesn't have absolute immunity

  18-02-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Civil lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump accountable for the January 6 insurrection can move forward in court, and the ex-President doesn't have absolute immunity from litigation, a federal judge ruled Friday.
  
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• Classified documents found in boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago, National Archives says

  18-02-2022 21:36 via cnn.com
  
  The National Archives acknowledged Friday it has discussed with the Department of Justice that classified records were found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago after former President Donald Trump left office, according to a letter from Archivist David Ferriero to the House Oversight Committee.
  
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• Chicago denies permit for scrapyard at heart of 'environmental injustice' battle

  18-02-2022 21:20
  
  City health officials on Friday denied a key permit to a scrap metal facility planned for a largely Latino neighborhood, handing a victory to residents who had
  
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• Judge appears to choke up while delivering ex-police officer's sentence

  18-02-2022 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  Judge Regina M. Chu appeared to get choked up in her remarks after delivering Kim Potter's sentence. The former police officer was sentenced to two years in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright.
  
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• A 6-year-old girl was found hidden under the stairs. How to help her heal.

  18-02-2022 21:12
  
  The case of the abducted girl, 4 years old when she was kidnapped from her legal guardian, puts the spotlight on confinement trauma.
  
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• National Archives acknowledges it found classified documents in boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago

  18-02-2022 21:11 via cnn.com
  
  The National Archives acknowledged Friday it has discussed with the Department of Justice that classified records were found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago after former President Donald Trump left office, according to a letter from Archivist David Ferriero to the House Oversight Committee.
  
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• Ex-police officer Kim Potter jailed for killing Daunte Wright

  18-02-2022 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Daunte Wright's father calls Kim Potter's two-year sentence for manslaughter a "slap on the wrist".
  
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• Baby formula supply issues send parents scrambling

  18-02-2022 20:40
  
  A new baby formula warning threatens to strain already stretched supplies even more, leaving desperate parents scrambling.
  
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• Cheney primary prompts sharp GOP divide in Washington

  18-02-2022 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  Republican lawmakers are starting to choose sides in the fight to defeat Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, placing high-stakes bets in a divisive primary that is widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump and cementing deep rifts in the GOP over the direction of the party.
  
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• Cheney primary prompts sharp GOP divide

  18-02-2022 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  Republican lawmakers are starting to choose sides in the fight to defeat Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, placing high-stakes bets in a divisive primary that is widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump and cementing deep rifts in the GOP over the direction of the party.
  
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• US lifts ban on Mexican avocados

  18-02-2022 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  The United States is resuming its avocado inspection program in Mexcio's Michoacán state a week after imposing a temporary ban in response to a US inspector receiving a death threat.
  
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• Rams, Matthew Stafford to pay hospital bills of photographer who fell at Super Bowl parade

  18-02-2022 19:56
  
  Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matt Stafford and his wife said they will pay the medical bills of a photographer who fell off a stage and was injured during the team’s Super Bowl victory parade.
  
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• Ukraine crisis brings British intelligence out of the shadows

  18-02-2022 19:44
  
  Analysis: warnings of Russian invasion issued in bid to shape the narrative and win information war with KremlinBritish intelligence, so used to operating in the shadows, has been thrust into the spotlight during the Ukraine crisis, cited by Boris Johnson on Wednesday to warn that Russian troop numbers were still increasing or by the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, last month to warn of a possible coup in Kyiv.As the crisis has intensified, the warnings have, if anything, become even less subtle.
  
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• Wife of Navy nuclear engineer pleads guilty in submarine spy case

  18-02-2022 19:38
  
  Diana Toebbe will serve up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband in what both believed was a plot to sell closely guarded American secrets to a foreign power.
  
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• Greece: 2 men trapped in burning ferry, 11 others missing

  18-02-2022 19:37 via foxnews.com
  
  Firefighters and rescuers raced to free two truck drivers still trapped in a burning ferry off northwestern Greece Friday after most of the nearly 300 people on board were evacuated, while authorities said another 11 people were reported missing.
  
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• Elliot Page will talk trans identity, Hollywood and mental health in upcoming memoir

  18-02-2022 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  Elliot Page will talk about his trans identity, mental health and his journey to Hollywood in an upcoming memoir published by Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan Books.
  
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• Why are world leaders balking at giving Vladimir Putin their DNA?

  18-02-2022 19:00 via foxnews.com
  
  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused to let Russia conduct a PCR test — while French officials said President Emmanuel Macron balked at some of the requirements to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, leading to speculation he didn’t want the Russian swab either.
  
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• What does it mean to ‘plead the fifth’ – and will Donald Trump do it?

  18-02-2022 18:53
  
  The ex-president has been ordered to testify in a New York fraud case. Will he invoke his constitutional right to remain silent?Donald Trump and his two eldest children have been ordered by a New York judge to appear for a deposition within 21 days, as part of an investigation into the Trump family finances. The development presents the former US president with a dilemma: should he invoke his right to silence by pleading the fifth? Continue reading...
  
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• Two passengers trapped as fire breaks out on Italian ferry

  18-02-2022 18:51 via cnn.com
  
  Rescue operations are underway to free two people trapped on a ferry in Greece after it caught fire, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of passengers and crew, the Hellenic Coast Guard told CNN on Friday.
  
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• Unsent text message and desperate phone calls detail family's last moments before they died while hiking

  18-02-2022 18:45 via cnn.com
  
  Family selfies, nature photos, an unanswered text and several calls that were never connected detail the final hours of a California couple and their child before they died on a hiking trail near Yosemite last August.
  
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• Highest ever recorded winds rips roof from London landmark

  18-02-2022 18:40 via cnn.com
  
  The UK MET office issued a rare 'red' warning as the highest ever wind gusts in England were recorded
  
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• UK still my home, says Prince Harry in security row

  18-02-2022 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Duke of Sussex is challenging a government decision to refuse police security during visits.
  
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• False flags: What are they and when have they been used?

  18-02-2022 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nato allies suspect that Russia will use a false flag attack as a pretext to invade Ukraine
  
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• Maëlys de Araujo: Ex-soldier jailed for life for French girl's murder

  18-02-2022 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eight-year-old Maëlys de Araujo was abducted and then killed at a wedding five years ago.
  
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• Donald Glover on why 'Atlanta' is ending after its fourth season

  18-02-2022 18:35
  
  Donald Glover originally wanted to end “Atlanta” after season two.
  
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• Colorado plastic surgeon arrested in teen patient’s death after botched surgery

  18-02-2022 18:27
  
  A Colorado plastic surgeon and nurse behind a botched surgery in 2019 that led to the death of teenage patient Emmalyn Nguyen have been charged, officials announced.
  
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• Fan photos of British royals to go on exhibition at Kensington Palace

  18-02-2022 18:21 via cnn.com
  
  Photographs of the British royal family captured by members of the public will go on display alongside the work of world-renowned photographers in London next month, at a new exhibition that promises to examine the evolution of the family's "image across three centuries."
  
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• Former police officer Kim Potter sentenced to two years for fatal shooting of Daunte Wright

  18-02-2022 18:18 via cnn.com
  
  The former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer convicted in the death of Daunte Wright is due back in court Friday to be sentenced.
  
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• Ferry fire: Eleven missing as hundreds rescued off Corfu

  18-02-2022 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greek and Italian boats rush to rescue 290 people from a ferry but not everyone is accounted for.
  
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• Antarctica will likely set an alarming new record this year, new data shows

  18-02-2022 18:01 via cnn.com
  
  As surging global temperatures alter the landscape of the Arctic, scientists are observing what's shaping up to be a new record at the other end of the globe.
  
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• ‘Most harmful thing’ – how spyware is stifling human rights in Bahrain

  18-02-2022 18:00
  
  Growing evidence shows Gulf state’s friends and enemies are being targeted by NSO Group softwareMohammed al-Tajer was caught off guard when his iPhone pinged last November with a warning that said his phone had been targeted by a nation state.The 55-year-old lawyer from Bahrain had been known among dissidents for his “fearless” defence of opposition leaders and protesters after the 2011 pro-democracy uprising in the tiny Gulf state, when a series of demonstrations and protests
  
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• Storm Eunice: Big Jet TV turns plane-watching into a phenomenon

  18-02-2022 17:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A live YouTube stream of planes attempting to land at Heathrow during Storm Eunice goes viral.
  
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• A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target

  18-02-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  A year ago, two robots landed on Mars and forever changed the way we explore the red planet.
  
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• WATCH: Dramatic footage shows moment Brazil mudslide begins

  18-02-2022 17:32
  
  The video shows the moment extremely heavy rains set off a mudslide down a hill in the Brazilian city of Petropolis.
  
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• 'Someone wants to create a problem' - Spurs boss Conte criticises media over coverage of interview

  18-02-2022 17:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham boss Antonio Conte criticises media coverage of a recent interview he gave and believes "someone is trying to create a problem".
  
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• Separatists order evacuations to Russia amid shelling

  18-02-2022 17:19 via cnn.com
  
  Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine's breakaway regions ordered the evacuation of civilians to Russia Friday, accusing Ukraine of planning a large military offensive against the two self-declared republics.
  
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