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• Here's what Elon Musk may be aiming for as he puts Twitter deal on hold

  17-05-2022 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk says his deal to acquire Twitter is on hold until the social media company proves the accuracy of its user numbers, citing spam bots. CNN's Brian Stelter reports.
  
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• Pastor at Calif. church describes takedown of gunman, how wife helped

  17-05-2022 22:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Rev. Billy Chang was only about a dozen steps away from the gunman when shots erupted Sunday, he recalls in a group message.
  
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• Congress is finally paying attention to UFOs. But it's still missing the point.

  17-05-2022 22:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Congress UFO hearing reveals 400 UFO reports and has Pentagon exploring UAP military threats. But science was shortchanged.
  
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• 'I was scared for my mom': 8-year-old mass shooting survivor shares her story

  17-05-2022 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Londin Thomas, an 8-year-old survivor of the Buffalo, New York, mass shooting, remembers the terrifying moments in the Tops store when a gunman opened fire.
  
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• 'I was scared for my mom': 8-year-old Buffalo shooting survivor shares her story

  17-05-2022 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Londin Thomas, an 8-year-old survivor of the Buffalo, New York, mass shooting, remembers the terrifying moments in the Tops store when a gunman opened fire.
  
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• Tucker Carlson says Buffalo shooter's document is 'not really political'

  17-05-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson is trying to distance himself from the document allegedly written by the shooter who killed 10 people in Buffalo, which endorses the "great replacement" theory. The conspiracy idea has been embraced and promoted by the host and far-right extremists.
  
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• Doctor brings malnourished baby back from the brink of death

  17-05-2022 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with families in Afghanistan dealing with malnutrition as the country's struggling economy under the Taliban has adverse effects on food access. Amanpour also goes inside a hospital where doctors are treating malnourished babies and young children.
  
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• World's largest aircraft owner lost 113 planes to Russia due to sanctions

  17-05-2022 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  AerCap Holdings, the aircraft leasing giant that is the world's largest owner of jets, lost 113 planes when Russia seized them in response to sanctions triggered by the war in Ukraine.
  
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• US and allies struggle to get vital grain supplies out of Ukraine

  17-05-2022 21:14 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration is working closely with European allies to try to develop routes to get Ukrainian wheat and corn out of the country after Russia blocked Ukrainian ships from departing with grain that is vital for food supplies around the world, particularly in Africa and the Middle East.
  
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• Largest aircraft owner lost 113 planes to Russia due to sanctions

  17-05-2022 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  AerCap Holdings, the aircraft leasing giant that is the world's largest owner of jets, lost 113 planes when Russia seized them in response to sanctions triggered by the war in Ukraine.
  
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• How Australia wasted a decade to act against climate change

  17-05-2022 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  In recent years, Australia has been battered by record-breaking rains, floods and wildfires, causing loss of lives and damage to the country's environment. Yet Australia has one of the weakest targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the world. CNN looks back at how Australia's government has tried -- and failed -- to tackle the climate crisis.
  
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• Decreasing power will end the NASA InSight lander's Mars mission this summer

  17-05-2022 20:30 via cnn.com
  
  The NASA InSight lander, which has been revealing the mysterious interior of Mars since 2018, is coming to an end.
  
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• China air crash that killed 132 may have been deliberate, says US report

  17-05-2022 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  WSJ sources suggest black box recorders from Boeing 737-800 indicate intentional input from cockpitA China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March, killing 132 people, appears to have been intentionally flown into the mountainside below by someone at the controls, according to reports.Analysis by US officials of the black box flight recorders found amid the wreckage suggests deliberate input from the cockpit forced the Boeing 737-800 plane into its catastrophic dive. Continue reading...
  
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• Death toll in blast near school in Kano, Nigeria rises to nine amid allegations of a cover up

  17-05-2022 20:22 via cnn.com
  
  The death toll in an explosion that rocked the city of Kano in northwest Nigeria has risen to nine. authorities say.
  
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• Death toll in blast near Nigeria school rises to nine amid allegations of a cover up

  17-05-2022 20:22 via cnn.com
  
  The death toll in an explosion that rocked the city of Kano in northwest Nigeria has risen to nine. authorities say.
  
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• Eric Clapton postpones some concert dates after testing positive for Covid-19

  17-05-2022 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  Eric Clapton, the famed guitarist who has expressed skepticism about Covid-19 vaccine mandates and lockdowns, has postponed some tour dates after testing positive for Covid-19.
  
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• Canada: trial of white men who killed two Indigenous hunters in 2020 begins

  17-05-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Roger Bilodeau and his son Anthony Bilodeau believed that Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal were thieves, court hearsTwo white Canadian men followed and then shot dead two Indigenous hunters because they believed they were thieves, prosecutors have told a court at the start of a murder trial in Alberta.Roger Bilodeau, 58, and his son Anthony Bilodeau, 33, have both pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder over the deaths of Jacob Sansom and his uncle, Maurice Cardinal in March 2020. Continue r
  
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• Over 100,000 people officially missing or disappeared in Mexico

  17-05-2022 19:59 via cnn.com
  
  Mexico has officially registered more than 100,000 people as missing or disappeared, according to data from the Interior Ministry's National Registry of Missing People.
  
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• Mexico disappearances reach record high

  17-05-2022 19:59 via cnn.com
  
  Mexico has officially registered more than 100,000 people as missing or disappeared, according to data from the Interior Ministry's National Registry of Missing People.
  
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• Mexican farmers demand redress for illegal mining and violence on their land

  17-05-2022 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Owners of community land bought shares to join annual meeting of Fresnillo, a Mexican FTSE 100 companyMexican farmers have travelled to London to demand that a FTSE 100 company compensates them for illegal mining on their land and explain violence against anti-mining activists.Penmont mining, a subsidiary of Fresnillo, was ordered by an agrarian court in Mexico in 2013 to pay members of El Bajío community, co-owners of common land in Sonora, north-west Mexico, for the gold extracted and t
  
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• Stanley Tucci's 'Searching for Italy' is back. Watch a clip from season 2

  17-05-2022 19:53 via cnn.com
  "The salami here really is incredible," said Stanley Tucci during "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy" as he swung by a butcher in Norcia, Italy.
  
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• Europe still confused about how to pay its Russian gas bills

  17-05-2022 19:47 via cnn.com
  
  Europe can't make up its mind on how to pay for Russia natural gas imports that continue to fuel homes, businesses and power stations.
  
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• Amber Heard questioned about drug use after accusing Johnny Depp of becoming a 'monster' when under the influence

  17-05-2022 19:46 via cnn.com
  
  Amber Heard returned to the witness stand on Tuesday to continue testifying under cross-examination in the $50 million defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
  
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• The fall of Mariupol could conceal war crimes evidence from the world and give Russia's offensive a boost

  17-05-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  After almost three months of intense bombardment, thousands of reported deaths and countless tales of horror and starvation, the battle for the city of Mariupol is nearing its conclusion.
  
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• Analysis: Fall of Mariupol could hide the truth from the world

  17-05-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  After almost three months of intense bombardment, thousands of reported deaths and countless tales of horror and starvation, the battle for the city of Mariupol is nearing its conclusion.
  
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• Cave discovery in Laos could unlock more about human evolution's biggest mystery

  17-05-2022 19:02 via cnn.com
  
  A tooth unearthed from a remote cave in Laos is helping to sketch an unknown chapter in the human story.
  
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• Wedeman: Lebanon may face a long period of stalemate

  17-05-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  The Iran-backed political and militant group Hezbollah has lost its parliamentary coalition majority in a Lebanese election that delivered significant gains to its rivals as well as to a protest movement that swept the country in a 2019 uprising.
  
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• WATCH: ABC News’ Rachel Scott’s message on failure to the class of 2022

  17-05-2022 18:52 via abcnews.go.com
  
  After being rejected from USC twice, ABC News Congressional correspondent, Rachel Scott delivers an inspirational commencement speech to USC Annenberg’s 2022 graduates.
  
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• Madrid show explores graphic art’s role as tool of resistance in Latin America

  17-05-2022 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Graphic Turn: Like the Ivy on a Wall at Reina Sofía looks at calls for social justice and responses to repression Forty-three kites bearing 43 black-and-white faces hang from the ceiling of the Reina Sofía, each one a mute appeal for answers, remembrance and justice.Close by, T-shirts and posters clamour for equality, a forest of placards commemorates the detained, disappeared and dead of Uruguay’s military dictatorship, and an icon of the struggle for Peruvian independence u
  
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• Jeff Bezos and Joe Biden are having the stupidest fight ever

  17-05-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Among the many silly, mind-numbing, agenda-pushing exchanges happening on Twitter at any given moment, the one playing out between the President of the United States and the world's second-richest person stands out for both its dullness and its deliberate oversimplification.
  
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• DeSantis signs bill banning protests outside any residence

  17-05-2022 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that makes it illegal to protest or picket outside a person's home and gives police the authority to arrest violators who don't disperse after a warning.
  
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• Maye Musk becomes oldest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model

  17-05-2022 18:15 via cnn.com
  
  Her billionaire son may have dominated headlines recently, but 74-year-old Maye Musk is now in the spotlight after becoming the oldest model to feature on the Sports Illustrated (SI) Swimsuit cover.
  
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• A tooth found in a remote cave is revealing more about a group of mysterious early humans

  17-05-2022 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  A tooth unearthed from a remote cave in Laos is helping to sketch an unknown chapter in the human story.
  
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• Europe is still confused about how to pay its Russian gas bills

  17-05-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  Europe can't make up its mind on how to pay for Russia natural gas imports that continue to fuel homes, businesses and power stations.
  
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• Azovstal: Unit commanders ordered to save lives of personnel

  17-05-2022 17:54 via cnn.com
  
  Ukrainian forces have completed their "combat mission" in the besieged city of Mariupol, according to a statement by the country's military.
  
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• She was lost in the woods until this furry hero saved her

  17-05-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  A woman in her late 60s, who suffers from dementia, wandered away from her home and was reported missing. A police K-9 unit found her.
  
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• 'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon official shows video of unidentified object

  17-05-2022 17:23 via cnn.com
  
  Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified video of an unidentified object during a House subcommittee hearing on "unidentified aerial phenomena," popularly known as UFOs.
  
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• 'I do not have an explanation': Pentagon official shows video of UFO

  17-05-2022 17:23 via cnn.com
  
  Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified video of an unidentified object during a House subcommittee hearing on "unidentified aerial phenomena," popularly known as UFOs.
  
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• How Russians reacted to McDonald's decision to leave

  17-05-2022 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  The burger chain, which became a symbol of openness towards the West when it launched its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, said it will sell all its restaurants in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
  
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• How Russians reacted to McDonald's closing

  17-05-2022 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  The burger chain, which became a symbol of openness towards the West when it launched its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, said it will sell all its restaurants in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
  
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• Meet the chef Tucci asked to cater his wedding

  17-05-2022 17:05 via cnn.com
  
  Stanley Tucci visits one of his favorite restaurants in London: Sartoria. Chef Francesco Mazzei made him Scottish scallops with 'nduja (a spicy spreadable sausage) and salsa verde. Don't miss all-new episodes of "Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy" on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
  
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• Gravity-defying feats on display at the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final

  17-05-2022 17:02 via cnn.com
  
  A standard 65-seat school bus spans about 35 feet long.
  
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• Knowing the signs of a stroke and getting help quickly can make all the difference, experts say

  17-05-2022 16:49 via cnn.com
  
  When it comes to a stroke, acting fast is key.
  
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• The life-changing transformation many men will experience but is still taboo

  17-05-2022 16:45 via cnn.com
  
  Karamo Brown is something of a self-esteem guru. Whether giving motivational speeches, campaigning for mental health or life-coaching on hit makeover show "Queer Eye," he has built a career on his seemingly infectious sense of confidence.
  
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• Painting traded for a cheese sandwich in 1973 sold at auction for C$350,000

  17-05-2022 16:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Maud Lewis sold her paintings on Nova Scotia roadsides but found a larger audience after a 2016 biopic chronicled her life and workA Canadian painting that was swapped 50 years ago for a grilled cheese sandwich has sold at auction for an “astounding” C$350,000 (US$272,000).Black Truck by the folk artist Maud Lewis sold for 10 times its assessed value, setting a new high mark for a painter whose popularity has surged in recent years. Continue reading...
  
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• Not lovin' it: How Russians reacted to McDonald's closing

  17-05-2022 16:36 via cnn.com
  
  The burger chain, which became a symbol of openness towards the West when it launched its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, said it will sell all its restaurants in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth makes surprise appearance at opening of new London train line

  17-05-2022 16:35 via cnn.com
  
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made a surprise public appearance at the opening of a long-awaited train line in London on Tuesday.
  
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• Biden to host leaders of Sweden and Finland at White House as countries look to join NATO

  17-05-2022 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday will welcome the Prime Minister of Sweden and the President of Finland to the White House in a key show of support days after both countries announced they would seek to join NATO.
  
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• How President Biden can win the energy war with Russia — and lower gas prices

  17-05-2022 16:30 via cnn.com
  
  As energy tensions continue to rise in Europe amidst the war in Ukraine, Americans are feeling the effect at home. Russia shut off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria last month, and the European Union recently proposed a ban on Russian oil imports. Meanwhile, just last week, the US Consumer Price Index showed that gas prices were up 44% (on an unadjusted basis) in the 12 months ended in April, and the national average is currently hovering around $4.52 a gallon.
  
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• ‘We’re fed up with scary dreams’: thieves return temple treasures in India

  17-05-2022 16:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Gang who stole statues from Hindu temple in India return most items, with note saying they had suffered nightmaresA gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple in India, saying they had been haunted by nightmares since the crime, according to police.Last week, the group stole 16 statues from a 300-year-old temple to Lord Balaji – an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu – in Uttar Pradesh, police inspector Rajiv Singh told Agence France
  
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