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• Katty Kay: Why inflation in US is bad for Ukraine

  21-04-2022 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Most Americans support Ukraine - but as the war drives up US petrol prices, is there a limit?
  
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• The selfish and extreme reactions in response to Biden's student debt relief

  21-04-2022 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden is forgiving student loans for certain students, helping them under piles of debt. But not everyone's happy about it.
  
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• The rise and fall of RT America, the Russia-backed TV network

  21-04-2022 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  RT America sold conspiracy theories and alternative facts under the slogan "Question More." Now it's a casualty of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Reality Check's John Avlon talks with CNN media correspondent Oliver Darcy about how RT America pushed misinformation to the far right and far left - and what can be done to stop propaganda from spreading.
  
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• The rise and fall of RT America, a Russia-backed TV network

  21-04-2022 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  RT America sold conspiracy theories and alternative facts under the slogan "Question More." Now it's a casualty of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Reality Check's John Avlon talks with CNN media correspondent Oliver Darcy about how RT America pushed misinformation to the far right and far left - and what can be done to stop propaganda from spreading.
  
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• 'We don't believe you': Ukrainian woman interrogated by Russian soldiers

  21-04-2022 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  A Ukrainian woman fled her home in Kherson after five Russian soldiers stormed her apartment. She shares how they questioned her and searched her phone with CNN's Julia Chatterley.
  
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• Disney to lose special tax status for opposing Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill

  21-04-2022 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Governor Ron DeSantis is set to sign bill revoking 1967 law allowing Disney to self-govern a roughly 25,000-acre Orlando areaFlorida legislators passed a bill on Thursday that would revoke Walt Disney Co’s special tax status in a move widely seen as tit-for-tat for the company’s opposition to a new “don’t say gay” state law limiting discussion of LGBTQ+ issues in schools.The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Ron DeSantis, who is all but guaranteed to sign it. C
  
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• Carl Icahn slams McDonald's over animal welfare practices in fiery letter to investors

  21-04-2022 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  In a scathing open letter to McDonald's shareholders, legendary investor Carl Icahn said the company's leadership was "failing" its investors and misleading the public about its animal welfare practices.
  
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• Lamborghini's last Aventador Coupé with an NFT sold for $1.6M

  21-04-2022 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  Lamborghini auctioned off the last Aventador Ultimate Coupé it will ever produce for $1.6 million, along with an exclusive NFT designed for the metaverse.
  
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• US Air Force creates new weapons system 'Phoenix Ghost'

  21-04-2022 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  The additional $800 million aid package for Ukraine announced by President Biden will include a new drone system designed by the US Air Force called the "Phoenix Ghost." CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
  
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• US Air Force creates new weapons system called 'Phoenix Ghost' for Ukraine

  21-04-2022 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  The additional $800 million aid package for Ukraine announced by President Biden will include a new drone system designed by the US Air Force called the "Phoenix Ghost." CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
  
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• US Air Force creates brand new weapons system called 'Phoenix Ghost' for Ukraine

  21-04-2022 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  The additional $800 million aid package for Ukraine announced by President Biden will include a new drone system designed by the US Air Force called the "Phoenix Ghost." CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
  
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• Ex-president of Honduras extradited to US on drugs charges

  21-04-2022 22:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Juan Orlando Hernández accused of involvement with drug cartels and related weapons chargesUS Drug Enforcement Administration agents have extradited the Honduran former president Juan Orlando Hernández to New York, where he will face federal drug trafficking and weapons charges.Honduran national police delivered a handcuffed Hernández to DEA agents at the Tegucigalpa airport just over two months after he was arrested outside his home on 15 February following an extradition r
  
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• Biden announces another $800m in military aid for Ukraine: ‘We’re in a critical window’ – as it happened

  21-04-2022 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  President also announces ‘Unite for Ukraine’ refugee programUS will take in 100,000 refugees, says BidenRussia-Ukraine blog – follow the latest newsSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailHere are some more details from the defense department on the new $800m military assistance package to Ukraine: For those keeping track on how much the US has provided Ukraine so far in military assistance: Continue reading...
  
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• Larry Nassar victims seek $130M in claims, accuse FBI of turning 'blind eye' to abuse allegations

  21-04-2022 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  Thirteen sexual assault victims of disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar on Thursday filed claims against the FBI totaling $130 million.
  
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• Amazon to let other online retailers offer Prime delivery service directly on their sites

  21-04-2022 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon announced Thursday that it will let third-party merchants offer Prime membership benefits such as free and fast shipping directly to Prime customers through their own online stores rather than solely through the e-commerce giant's platform.
  
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• WATCH: Rescued fox cubs tour their new home at sanctuary

  21-04-2022 22:12
  
  The tiny cubs will stay at the sanctuary until they can move to an outdoor play area for foxes.
  
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• Johnson's premiership facing moment of peril. Amanpour discusses with NYT's London bureau chief

  21-04-2022 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  The British Prime Minister will face an inquiry into claims he misled parliament over Partygate. Can he save his premiership? New York Times London Bureau Chief, Mark Landler evaluates.
  
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• Pandemic disrupted routine vaccinations of US kindergarteners

  21-04-2022 21:53 via theguardian.com
  
  About 350,000 fewer children were vaccinated against preventable diseases such as measles and whooping cough, CDC reportsYet another hidden cost of Covid-19 was revealed on Thursday as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented new data showing how the pandemic has dramatically impeded the US effort to vaccinate kids for other diseases.According to the CDC’s report, national vaccine coverage among American children in kindergarten dropped from 95% to below 94% in the past yea
  
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• College pitcher levels baserunner after giving up home run

  21-04-2022 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  A pitcher from a junior college baseball team in Texas is facing potential expulsion after he attacked an opposing baserunner during a game.
  
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• Mariupol: Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near besieged city

  21-04-2022 20:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Satellite images appear to show more than 200 graves, as Ukraine accuses Russia of mass killings.
  
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• More than 160 passengers still missing from train attacked in Nigeria

  21-04-2022 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Boko Haram and local bandits suspected to have bombed rail tracks in Kaduna as dozens remain unaccounted forMore than 160 passengers who were on a train that was attacked in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna last month remain missing or unaccounted for, as details of possible collaboration between Boko Haram jihadists and local bandits have emerged.Ten people were killed, two in the weeks since the attack on 28 March, when gunmen bombed the rail tracks, derailing the train before gunning down
  
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• Opinion: The biggest threat to American democracy

  21-04-2022 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  The most urgent policy change needed to help dismantle racism in 2022 and going forward is ending the largely unchecked voter suppression that has targeted Black and low-income voters since the 2013 Shelby v. Holder Supreme Court decision gutted section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which expressly prevented states from enacting punitive voting laws that disproportionately disenfranchise historically marginalized groups.
  
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• White House brings on retired three-star general to help coordinate Ukraine assistance

  21-04-2022 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  The White House has brought on a retired three-star general to help coordinate the hundreds of millions in military assistance that the United States is sending to Ukraine.
  
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• This movie's Asian American metaphor is a message to the not-so-United States

  21-04-2022 20:13 via cnn.com
  
  In the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once," iconic actress Michelle Yeoh -- whom you've surely seen in "Shang-Chi," "Crazy Rich Asians," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and, if you're lucky, a slew of Hong Kong action masterpieces -- plays Evelyn Wang, a hardworking Asian American midlifer dealing with the overwhelming demands of an aging parent and a high-maintenance child. It's a story that feels like nonfiction, because many of us (myself included!) are actually living it.
  
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• Florida legislature approves end of Disney's special status

  21-04-2022 20:12 via cnn.com
  
  The Florida legislature on Thursday gave final passage to a pair of bills aimed at Disney, weeks into the company's feud with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over its objections to a new law that limits certain classroom discussion on sexual orientation and gender identity.
  
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• WATCH: Dog rescued from window ledge by police officer

  21-04-2022 20:10
  
  The dog found itself trapped on a ledge and was rescued by police officers with a ladder in the Spanish city of Seville.
  
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• The harmful trope that's still haunting queer TV

  21-04-2022 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  For four seasons, "Killing Eve" seduced fans with a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between the titular Eve, a British intelligence agent, and the assassin Villanelle --two women bound by blood and crime who shared a sexy mutual obsession.
  
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• 'The Northman' goes heavy on blood-soaked style and light on substance

  21-04-2022 19:46 via cnn.com
  
  Part "Hamlet," part "Conan the Barbarian" and a whole lot of "Vikings," "The Northman" is a gorgeously shot exercise in visceral thrills that goes heavy on atmospherics and very, very light on story. Director/co-writer Robert Eggers ("The Lighthouse") has sought to make the definitive Viking movie, and while the film issues a guttural cry for theatrical viewing, it is built around such a basic revenge plot as to blunt those simple charms.
  
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• Analysis: How Piers Morgan just handed Donald Trump an easy win

  21-04-2022 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  The clip seemed shocking.
  
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• Perseverance rover watches eclipse of Mars' doomed 'potato' moon

  21-04-2022 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  The Perseverance rover just witnessed a unique kind of eclipse while sitting on the surface of Mars -- and the robotic explorer captured video of it.
  
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• Explosions in northern Afghanistan kill at least 15 people, ​injure ​dozens

  21-04-2022 18:48 via cnn.com
  
  Separate explosions in northern Afghanistan on Thursday have killed at least 15 people and left dozens more injured, local officials said.
  
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• CNN+ will shut down at the end of April

  21-04-2022 18:06 via cnn.com
  
  CNN+, the streaming service that was hyped as one of the most significant developments in the history of CNN, will shut down on April 30, just one month after it launched.
  
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• Boris Johnson is to face another 'Partygate' investigation

  21-04-2022 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson will face a third investigation into whether he knowingly misled parliament when he denied that any rules were broken in Downing Street after stories emerged of lockdown breaking parties and gatherings taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans don't have constitutional right to some federal benefits

  21-04-2022 17:23 via cnn.com
  
  Congress can exclude residents of Puerto Rico from some federal disability benefits available to those who live in the 50 states, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
  
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• How Piers Morgan just handed Trump an easy win

  21-04-2022 17:16 via cnn.com
  
  The clip seemed shocking.
  
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• Robert Morse, star of 'Mad Men' and Broadway, dies at 90

  21-04-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Robert Morse, a Broadway star best known to TV viewers as "Mad Men" boss Bertram Cooper, has died. He was 90.
  
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• Quiz of the week: Which Doctor Who companions will be back in the Tardis?

  21-04-2022 17:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on over the past seven days?
  
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• Captured Britons being looked after, Russia says

  21-04-2022 16:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were captured last week while defending the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
  
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• Mitch McConnell calls Donald Trump's bluff in Alaska

  21-04-2022 16:55 via cnn.com
  
  In today's episode of The Point, CNN's Chris Cillizza breaks down how Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell isn't backing down from his standoff with former President Donald Trump in Alaska's Senate race.
  
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• McCarthy was going to tell Trump to resign, new book reports

  21-04-2022 16:46 via cnn.com
  
  In their new book 'This Will Not Pass' co-authors Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin reveal that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wanted then-President Donald Trump to resign after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  
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• Outcry in India as Boris Johnson visits JCB plant amid demolitions row

  21-04-2022 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Observers criticise optics of PM at factory while bulldozers seen in TV coverage of razing of settlementsBoris Johnson’s attempt to use his India visit to hail the success of JCB, the digger firm owned by a Tory donor, was met with a backlash on Thursday over the use of its machinery in the mass demolition of homes.The prime minister arrived in India as a fierce row rages in Delhi over the demolition of mainly Muslim settlements in an area of the capital hit by communal violence – an
  
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• Why Patrick Lyoya's death is a tragedy, but not a surprise

  21-04-2022 16:41 via cnn.com
  
  A police officer shot Patrick Lyoya, killing him instantly. It happened during a physical encounter following a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on April 4. Lyoya's family commissioned an autopsy, and the forensic pathologist who performed it said at a news conference that Lyoya "died as a result of a single gunshot wound with entrance wound in the back of the head."
  
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• Navalny's daughter gets emotional talking about her father's return to Russia

  21-04-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  "Navalny" premieres Sunday, April 24, at 9 p.m. ET on CNN and CNN+. The fly-on-the-wall documentary follows Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny through his political rise, poisoning and search for the truth.
  
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• Biden announces new program for Ukrainian refugees to enter US on humanitarian grounds

  21-04-2022 16:37 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new program called "Uniting for Ukraine" that will provide a streamlined process for Ukrainian refugees seeking to come to the United States.
  
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• WATCH: Queen Elizabeth gets her own Barbie doll for Platinum Jubilee

  21-04-2022 16:34
  
  Queen Elizabeth II is being honored with a Barbie doll in her likeness to mark her Platinum Jubilee.
  
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• Johnny Depp cross-examined in defamation case against Amber Heard

  21-04-2022 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  Johnny Depp is testifying for a third day in a Fairfax, Virginia court in his defamation case against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
  
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• Biden announces new Ukraine security assistance: 'We will speak softly and carry a large javelin'

  21-04-2022 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday announced another package of weapons and other aid will be sent to to Ukraine in the administration's latest efforts to reinforce the country's forces battling against Russia's invasion.
  
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• Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton join consortium to buy Chelsea

  21-04-2022 16:18 via cnn.com
  
  Twenty-three-time grand slam champion Serena Williams and seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton have joined Martin Broughton's bid to buy Premier League club Chelsea, a source close to the bid told CNN Sport on Thursday.
  
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• Ex-CIA head reacts to audio purporting Russian troops feeling abandoned

  21-04-2022 16:17 via cnn.com
  
  Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus (Ret.) reacts to purported intercepted communication between Russian soldiers expressing their frustration towards their commanders.
  
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• Prince Edward and Sophie postpone visit to Grenada at short notice

  21-04-2022 16:14 via theguardian.com
  
  No explanation given for change, with royals due to begin platinum jubilee tour of Caribbean on FridayA planned visit by the Earl and Countess of Wessex to Grenada has been postponed at the 11th hour, just one day before the couple embark on their six-day platinum jubilee tour of the Caribbean and weeks after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s controversial visit to the region.No explanation for the late postponement was given by Buckingham Palace, which followed a consultation with the g
  
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