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• For small trucking companies, high price of diesel may be unsustainable

  06-04-2022 23:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  For some small trucking companies, the high price of diesel may force them to shut down operations.
  
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• Hear why Ukrainian mother is afraid for son as husband is away fighting war

  06-04-2022 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar takes a close look at one Ukrainian family's fight to survive and cope as the father is away fighting Russian forces.
  
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• Polish president: 'Hard to deny' genocide took place in Ukraine

  06-04-2022 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash sits down with Polish President Andrzej Duda to get his thoughts about the disturbing images from Ukraine showing dead civilians in areas once occupied by Russia.
  
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• Wisconsin mom with Russian heritage strangled son while ‘amped up’ over Ukraine war, officials say

  06-04-2022 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Natalia Aleksandrovna Hitchcock is charged with strangling her 8-year-old son, authorities say.She has Russian ties and was upset over war in Ukraine.
  
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• Judge deals blow to Steve Bannon’s legal defense in coming trial

  06-04-2022 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Steve Bannon cannot argue at his trial on contempt of Congress charges that he is not guilty because he was following the advice of his lawyer, a judge ruled.
  
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• 'Serious incident' on Air France flight probed

  06-04-2022 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  French aviation safety investigators have opened a probe after an Air France Boeing 777 airplane approaching Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was involved in a "serious incident," according to BEA, the French bureau that investigates air crashes and aviation safety.
  
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• French investigators open probe of 'serious incident' on Air France flight

  06-04-2022 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  French aviation safety investigators have opened a probe after an Air France Boeing 777 airplane approaching Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was involved in a "serious incident," according to BEA, the French bureau that investigates air crashes and aviation safety.
  
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• Chelsea suffers Champions League defeat against Real Madrid as club's future remains uncertain

  06-04-2022 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  While the future of Chelsea football club remains in turmoil off the field, the team suffered a torrid night on the pitch in its Champions League quarterfinal first leg tie against Real Madrid on Wednesday.
  
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• Asteroid the size of a house flies by Earth, creating 'precious' opportunity for scientists

  06-04-2022 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  An asteroid the size of a small house flew by Earth Tuesday evening.
  
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• Bucha residents describe litany of horror after Russian retreat

  06-04-2022 23:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Residents of Bucha described a litany of horrors meted out by Russian soldiers who occupied the town near capital Kyiv.
  
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• 'They are not getting the full story': See how China is boosting Russian propaganda

  06-04-2022 22:44 via cnn.com
  
  As the world watches in horror the shocking images of the war in Ukraine, China's state-run media is choosing to show a starkly different narrative. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
  
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• Exclusive: Russia was looking for false pretext to 'carry out a massacre,' Polish President says

  06-04-2022 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that it's "hard to deny" that Russian forces are committing genocide in Ukraine following the horrific images that have emerged from cities like Bucha showing civilians brutally killed.
  
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• Ukraine round-up: Putin's daughters sanctioned

  06-04-2022 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US announces sanctions against them, saying they could hold assets for the Russian leader.
  
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• El Salvador press cries censorship as anti-gang law targets media

  06-04-2022 22:13 via theguardian.com
  
  El Salvador’s congress has authorised sentences of 10-15 years for media spreading gangs’ messagesEl Salvador’s congress has authorised prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce or disseminate messages from gangs, prompting accusations of censorship from press freedom groups.The vote late on Tuesday was the latest in a flurry of legislative action against the gangs after 62 suspected gang killings on 26 March led President Nayib Bukele to seek and win a s
  
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• World's skinniest skyscraper completes

  06-04-2022 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  The world's skinniest skyscraper has been completed, adding a new landmark to Manhattan's famous skyline.
  
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• The world's skinniest skyscraper is ready for its first residents

  06-04-2022 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  The world's skinniest skyscraper has been completed, adding a new landmark to Manhattan's famous skyline.
  
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• Fleeing suspect rams Hummer into police cruiser to evade cops

  06-04-2022 21:31 via cnn.com
  
  Eight police vehicles were damaged after a suspect attempted to evade police in Waterbury, Connecticut by ramming a Hummer into police cruisers.
  
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• 'Serious incident' on Air France flight under investigation

  06-04-2022 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  French aviation safety investigators have opened a probe after an Air France Boeing 777 airplane approaching Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was involved in a "serious incident," according to BEA, the French bureau that investigates air crashes and aviation safety.
  
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• Peru president at bay as fuel and fertiliser prices detonate political crisis

  06-04-2022 20:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Pedro Castillo lifted a curfew in Lima but is still facing calls to resign after a rash of bad decisions and allegations of corruptionPeru’s beleaguered president, Pedro Castillo, is at the centre of a spiralling political crisis caused by rising fuel and fertiliser prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – and his own heavy-handed efforts to quell the unrest.On Tuesday Castillo lifted a curfew in Lima that he had decreed less than a day earlier in an attempt to quell
  
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• Why Sarah Palin isn't the clear favorite to win the Alaska special election

  06-04-2022 20:33 via cnn.com
  
  My columns are often about which candidates are most likely to win elections. But every so often, there are elections that are so difficult to handicap that I throw my hands up in frustration.
  
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• The Fed is ready to move faster on interest rates

  06-04-2022 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  The Federal Reserve is ready to raise interest rates at a faster pace to get a handle on America's pervasive inflation problem, according to minutes from the central bank's March meeting released Wednesday.
  
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• Roberts joins with liberal justices to criticize 'shadow docket'

  06-04-2022 19:36 via cnn.com
  
  A 5-4 Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule Wednesday that restricts the authority of states to reject federal permits under the Clean Water Act in another ruling putting the court's emergency docket in the spotlight.
  
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• Study reveals how Covid infections can set off massive inflammation in the body

  06-04-2022 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 -- the ones that landed people in the hospital on ventilators with shredded lungs -- most of the internal wreckage wasn't being directly inflicted by the virus itself but by a blizzard of immune reactions triggered by the body to fight the infection.
  
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• Covid-19 infection triggers a 'fiery death' for certain cells in your body, study reveals

  06-04-2022 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 -- the ones that landed people in the hospital on ventilators with shredded lungs -- most of the internal wreckage wasn't being directly inflicted by the virus itself but by a blizzard of immune reactions triggered by the body to fight the infection.
  
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• Who are Putin's daughters? What we know about his family

  06-04-2022 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Russian president says he has daughters, but has given little information about them.
  
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• H&M says you can compost its new line of baby clothes

  06-04-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  H&M is coming out with a new line of baby clothes that can be recycled in an unexpected way once they're worn out — composting.
  
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• Why Selena Gomez hasn't been on Instagram in over four years

  06-04-2022 19:10 via cnn.com
  
  Selena Gomez, once crowned 'The Queen of Instagram,' tells ABC's Good Morning America how her mental health factored into her decision to stay off the social media platform.
  
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• The most-viewed episodes of 'Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown'

  06-04-2022 18:48 via cnn.com
  
  The legacy of the late Anthony Bourdain is a long and complicated one.
  
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• Janet Yellen warns of 'enormous' economic repercussions from war in Ukraine

  06-04-2022 18:46 via cnn.com
  
  US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Wednesday about the economic shock waves set off by the war in Ukraine, including disruptions to the global flow of food and energy.
  
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• Analysis: How Twitter -- and Elon Musk -- could rescue Trump

  06-04-2022 18:35 via cnn.com
  
  The news that Elon Musk is now the single-largest holder of Twitter shares and is set to join the social media giant's board is interesting for lots (and lots) of reasons.
  
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• Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker only kind of got married

  06-04-2022 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker got married.
  
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• Cutting off Russia: US pushes Russia to the brink of default

  06-04-2022 18:27 via cnn.com
  
  Russia is in imminent danger of default after the United States cut off the country's ability to pay its debt using frozen dollars sitting in American banks.
  
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• Russia's lies may be catching up with it faster than it ever imagined

  06-04-2022 18:23 via cnn.com
  
  Russia's lies may be catching up with it faster than it ever imagined.
  
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• How YouTube's Bob and Brad got 430 million views by relieving pain

  06-04-2022 18:21 via cnn.com
  
  Bob Schrupp and Brad Heineck, known simply as Bob and Brad, are two Midwesterners who film pain relief videos from a storefront in Minnesota. CNN went to find out how they used simple and direct advice to gain over 4 million subscribers on YouTube.
  
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• The fight for Sloviansk may be 'the next pivotal battle' of Russia's war in Ukraine

  06-04-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been far costlier and less successful than most analysts expected over its first six weeks -- and experts now believe that Moscow is changing its military approach.
  
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• Russia's changing military approach: This may be 'the next pivotal battle'

  06-04-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been far costlier and less successful than most analysts expected over its first six weeks -- and experts now believe that Moscow is changing its military approach.
  
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• Russia's changing military approach signals that this may be 'next pivotal battle'

  06-04-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  • Exclusive: 'Hard to deny' genocide in Ukraine, Polish President says
  
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• Russia's changing approach: This may be 'next pivotal battle'

  06-04-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  • Exclusive: 'Hard to deny' genocide in Ukraine, Polish President says
  
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• US imposes new sanctions on Putin's daughters

  06-04-2022 18:07 via cnn.com
  
  The US announced new sanctions Wednesday on Russia's largest financial institutions and number of individuals tied to the Kremlin, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters, as it looks to increase economic pressure on Russia and Putin himself following horrific images from the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
  
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• Nigerian atheist jailed 24 years for blasphemy

  06-04-2022 18:07 via cnn.com
  
  A Nigerian atheist and outspoken critic of religion was sentenced to 24 years in jail on Tuesday after pleading guilty to blasphemy charges in the largely Muslim northern state of Kano, in a ruling that puts a spotlight on religious freedoms in the country.
  
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• Burkina Faso's ex-president handed life sentence in absentia over predecessor's murder

  06-04-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday.
  
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• What sanctions are being imposed on Russia over Ukraine invasion?

  06-04-2022 17:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Western nations have imposed severe sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
  
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• Boris Johnson says transgender women should not compete in female sports

  06-04-2022 17:16 via cnn.com
  
  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that transgender women should not compete in female sports in comments he said he knew could be seen as "controversial."
  
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• What to know about Axiom Space, the company behind the first all-private mission to the ISS

  06-04-2022 16:51 via cnn.com
  
  In a historic first, a crew of four civilians are set to launch to the International Space Station this week as part of an inaugural mission for the commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space.
  
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• Burkina Faso’s ex-president guilty of complicity in murder of predecessor

  06-04-2022 16:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Blaise Compaoré sentenced to life imprisonment at military tribunal over role in 1987 killing of Thomas SankaraBurkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, concluding a landmark trial and a decades-long quest for justice.Sankara, a Marxist icon of pan-Africanism hailed across Africa and beyond, was gunned down along with 12 colleagues in the
  
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• US Justice Department unveils charges against Russian oligarch for sanctions violations

  06-04-2022 16:43 via cnn.com
  
  The US Justice Department is charging Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev with sanctions violations, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, the first criminal charges against an oligarch since Russia invaded Ukraine.
  
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• What Yemen's first nationwide truce in 6 years means for the world's worst humanitarian crisis

  06-04-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a nationwide truce for the first time since 2016. Meant to last for two months but eligible for renewal, it is the most significant step towards ending the hostilities since the war began seven years ago, and a win for United Nations and United States mediators who for the past year have been trying to engineer a permanent peace deal.
  
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• US to announce sanctions on Putin's adult children

  06-04-2022 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  The US is expected to announce it is sanctioning Russian President Vladimir Putin's adult children when it rolls out a new sanctions package on Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the package.
  
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• Biden administration imposes new sanctions on Putin's daughters and Russian banks

  06-04-2022 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  The US is expected to announce it is sanctioning Russian President Vladimir Putin's adult children when it rolls out a new sanctions package on Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the package.
  
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• Janet Yellen's warning: 'Enormous' economic repercussions

  06-04-2022 16:16 via cnn.com
  
  US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Wednesday about the economic shock waves set off by the war in Ukraine, including disruptions to the global flow of food and energy.
  
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