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• Former Wisconsin judge killed in 'targeted' attack; suspect had hit list that included Mitch McConnell, Gov. Whitmer

  04-06-2022 23:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  A retired Wisconsin judge was shot and killed in his home Friday by a gunman who had an apparent hit list targeting three prominent politicians and other
  
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• Tropical system moves off Florida shore toward Bahamas, leaves flooding behind

  04-06-2022 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Heavy rains, strong winds and flooding are hitting South Florida on Saturday morning, with up to 11 inches falling in some spots since Friday and cars stalled on streets in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
  
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• NBA Finals between Celtics and Warriors least-viewed Game 1 in 15 years

  04-06-2022 23:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics was the least-viewed Game 1 held in June in 15 years.
  
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• Hundreds mourn Texas family killed by escaped inmate

  04-06-2022 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Hundreds of mourners filled a baseball diamond about 30 miles south of downtown Houston Friday to remember Mark Collins and his four grandsons -- "bright, shinning stars" in the words of a family friend.
  
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• Nigeria clash: Abuja mob burns man to death over row with Muslim cleric

  04-06-2022 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nigerian police say a mob burnt the man to death in the capital after he rowed with a Muslim cleric.
  
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• $1 billion has been lost in cryptocurrency scams since 2021, FTC warns

  04-06-2022 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  Cryptocurrency scammers have stolen over $1 billion from 46,000 people since the start of 2021, a new Federal Trade Commission report says.
  
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• Man breaks into Dallas Museum of Art and damages several artworks, including 2,000-year-old Greek vases

  04-06-2022 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  Several ancient works of art at the Dallas Museum of Art, including Greek vessels crafted thousands of years ago, were damaged by an intruder Wednesday night.
  
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• Man breaks into art museum and damages ancient artworks including 2,000-year-old Greek vases

  04-06-2022 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  Several ancient works of art at the Dallas Museum of Art, including Greek vessels crafted thousands of years ago, were damaged by an intruder Wednesday night.
  
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• Man breaks into art museum and damages 2,000-year-old Greek vases

  04-06-2022 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  Several ancient works of art at the Dallas Museum of Art, including Greek vessels crafted thousands of years ago, were damaged by an intruder Wednesday night.
  
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• 6 mistakes that led to the 1972 Watergate burglars being caught

  04-06-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  Their mission was to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, bug the room and photograph documents. If everything had gone as planned, no one would have ever known.
  
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• At 17, she was her family's breadwinner on a McDonald's salary. She just went to space

  04-06-2022 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  A rocket built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey.
  
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• Abbott Nutrition restarts production on infant formula amid nationwide shortage

  04-06-2022 18:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Abbott Nutrition restarted production on infant formula at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant Saturday amid a nationwide shortage of the product.
  
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• Abbott restarts production of specialty formulas at Michigan plant

  04-06-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  Specialty formula production restarted Saturday at the Abbott plant in Sturgis, Michigan, that has been at the center of a recall and a factor in a nationwide formula shortage.
  
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• 8 killed, 15 injured in factory fire in India

  04-06-2022 18:25 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The fire broke out after a boiler exploded in the chemical factory, police said.
  
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• Desert Crown wins 243rd Epsom Derby as Princess Anne steps in for the Queen

  04-06-2022 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  Desert Crown won the 243rd Epsom Derby on Saturday as Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, stepped in for Queen Elizabeth II.
  
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• Iran’s enemies are to blame for protests over collapsed building, says leader

  04-06-2022 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei uses televised speech to condemn ‘psychological war’ waged on countryIran’s supreme leader, ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has blamed recent protests in Iran on foreign “enemies” seeking to overthrow the government in the Islamic republic.He said enemies were waging a “psychological war” against Iran by accusing it of piracy for seizing two Greek ships after the US confiscated Iranian oil from a tanker. Continue reading...
  
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• Scouts sell off camps under strain from sex abuse suits

  04-06-2022 17:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The financially struggling Boy Scouts are selling off a number of campgrounds.
  
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• Inside New Zealand's rehab center for sassy, endangered penguins

  04-06-2022 17:15 via cnn.com
  
  "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
  
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• Two future kings set to honor Elizabeth at jubilee concert

  04-06-2022 16:52 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Diana Ross, Queen + Adam Lambert and Alicia Keys will perform at the event.
  
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• Biden's meeting with Saudi crown prince pushed back to July

  04-06-2022 16:51 via cnn.com
  
  A meeting between President Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is now expected to happen next month, according to an administration official.
  
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• Woman testifies Cosby forcibly kissed her when she was 14

  04-06-2022 16:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A woman testified that she was 14 when Bill Cosby took her into a trailer on a movie set in 1975, grabbed her so she couldn’t move her arms, and kissed her
  
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• Frustration mounts in Uvalde over shifting narratives about school shooting

  04-06-2022 16:37 via cnn.com
  
  The lack of clarity surrounding authorities' response to the mass shooting at a South Texas elementary school could hinder efforts to prevent such massacres from happening again, a state lawmaker told CNN on Friday.
  
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• South Florida gets soaked as potential tropical storm prepares to cross state

  04-06-2022 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  Heavy rains, strong winds and flooding are hitting South Florida on Saturday morning, with up to 11 inches falling in some spots since Friday and cars stalled on streets in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
  
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• Iga Swiatek wins second grand slam title with victory against Coco Gauff in French Open final

  04-06-2022 16:24 via cnn.com
  
  Iga Swiatek has been nearly unstoppable this season -- and now she has a second grand slam title to prove it.
  
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• Monkeypox may have been spreading 'under the radar' for years

  04-06-2022 16:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Monkeypox symptoms in the U.S. Monkeypox symptoms may be confused for other infections, allowing it to spread undetected. What does monkeypox look like?
  
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• A traveler flew to North Carolina with 23 pounds of cocaine hidden in his wheelchair

  04-06-2022 16:13 via cnn.com
  
  A traveler arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina with a motorized wheelchair and a secret cargo hidden in its cushions: 23 pounds of cocaine.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine says Russian forces suffering ‘huge losses’ as it fights back in Sievierodonetsk – live

  04-06-2022 16:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Local governor says Ukrainian military has ‘pushed back’ Russian forces in battle for control of the cityUkraine ‘fighting back in Sievierodonetsk’Eastern Ukrainians reject their Russian birth languageUkraine ponders how to punish collaborators‘We need the truth’: the campaign to ‘de-Russify’ OdesaThis week’s must-read news and analysisRussian forces have combined airstrikes and massed artillery fires to bring its “overwhelming” f
  
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• ‘Cheeky’ Queen jokes as she congratulates Australians of the Year

  04-06-2022 16:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Monarch recalls ‘little pond’ in Parliament House during newly released video call made in MayThe Queen displayed a “cheeky” sense of humour when she met virtually with several Australians of the Year and the country’s governor general as part of her platinum jubilee celebrations.During the Zoom call with the six Australians, which included the recently retired wheelchair tennis player Dylan Alcott, the 96-year-old monarch remarked on the “splendid” tech
  
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• How Texas boys’ dream trip ended in family massacre at hands of fugitive

  04-06-2022 16:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Collins took his four grandsons to his ranch but within hours they fell victim to an escaped prisoner on a murderous rampageMark Collins had brought his four grandsons Waylon, Karson, Hudson and Bryson up to his ranch north-west of Houston on Thursday for what sounded like a southern boy’s dream: shooting guns, taking boats on big ponds and fishing.While Collins knew authorities had been looking in the general area for a convicted murderer with ties to a Mexican drug cartel who had br
  
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• Elif Shafak: there’s a scream building up in young people

  04-06-2022 16:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Author cites Brexit and the climate crisis as examples of previous generations ‘breaking’ their futureThe author Elif Shafak has said she thinks “there’s a scream building up” inside many young people, because they feel their future “is being shaped by older generations”.“It’s difficult to be young, in this age in particular,” the Turkish-British novelist told the Hay festival. “It’s their future that’s been broken by
  
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• At 83, Japanese becomes oldest to sail solo across Pacific

  04-06-2022 15:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  An 83-year-old Japanese adventurer has returned home after a milestone trip.
  
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• Platinum jubilee celebrations enter third day as Queen misses Epsom Derby

  04-06-2022 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Saturday’s festivities will culminate in an open-air concert for 22,000 people headlined by Diana Ross Members of the royal family are attending events as the UK marks its third day of platinum jubilee celebrations, with Princess Anne attending the Epsom Derby on the Queen’s behalf.Buckingham Palace announced on Friday that the monarch, 96, would pull out of attending the Epsom Derby, where she is being officially represented by her daughter. The Queen is expected to watch the event
  
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• Off-the-charts gas price hikes are a big problem for Democrats

  04-06-2022 15:44 via cnn.com
  
  Whether you go by the holiday or meteorological calendar, summer is on! That doesn't only mean heat, it also means road trips to a lot of Americans.
  
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• Shakira and footballer Gerard Piqué announce split

  04-06-2022 15:40 via cnn.com
  
  Colombian pop star Shakira and her longtime partner, Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué, are separating.
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko assassination suspect dies of Covid

  04-06-2022 15:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Dmitry Kovtun was one of two Russian men accused over poisoning death of ex-spy in London in 2006Dmitry Kovtun, one of the two Russian men accused of assassinating the former spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London, died of Covid in a Moscow hospital on Saturday.Litvinenko died in 2006, weeks after drinking tea laced with the radioactive isotope polonium 210 at a London hotel, where he met Kovtun and the other suspect, Andrei Lugovoi. The case has since weighed on relations between
  
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• "Heartstopper" is the queer teen love story I didn't know I needed

  04-06-2022 15:36 via cnn.com
  
  I am happily paired off with my partner, out to my family and in my workplace, and to you, dear reader. And yet I am sitting in my house with my family, holding back tears while watching "Heartstopper," the queer teen love story I didn't know I needed.
  
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• Blue Origin launches first Mexican-born woman to go to space

  04-06-2022 15:27 via cnn.com
  
  A rocket built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey.
  
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• Mariah Carey sued over hit track 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'

  04-06-2022 15:22 via cnn.com
  
  Mariah Carey was sued on Friday over her 1994 Christmas classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by a songwriter who said he co-wrote a song with the same title five years earlier.
  
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• At least 3 people wounded in shooting outside Houston nightclub, police say

  04-06-2022 15:14 via cnn.com
  
  At least three people were shot early Saturday when a suspect opened fire from a U-Haul truck on a parking lot outside a Houston nightclub, police said.
  
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• 'Fire Island' heats up a Jane Austen classic

  04-06-2022 15:12 via cnn.com
  
  The classics never get old, but that doesn't mean they can't serve as inspiration for something modern.
  
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• Dr. Preston Phillips, Tulsa shooting victim, mourned by close community of Black surgeons

  04-06-2022 15:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  The fatal shooting of Dr. Preston Phillips, one of the four people killed this week during a shooting at St.
  
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• Ukraine fighting back in Sievierodonetsk, according to Luhansk governor

  04-06-2022 14:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Serhiy Haidai says counterattack has recaptured a fifth of frontline city from Russian invadersRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesUkraine has staged a counterattack on the frontline city of Sievierodonetsk and recaptured a fifth of the city it had previously lost to Russian invaders, according to the head of the region.Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk oblast, told Ukrainian television that Russian forces were forfeiting recent gains in the city, the easternmost held by Kyiv in the Donbas re
  
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• WATCH: Rare albino tortoise in Switzerland zoo

  04-06-2022 14:48 via abcnews.go.com
  
  RARE SIGHTING: A baby albino Galapagos Giant Tortoise made its debut at Switzerland’s Tropiquarium in Servion.
  
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• Mariah Carey being sued for $20m over All I Want for Christmas Is You

  04-06-2022 14:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Songwriter Andy Stone claims he co-wrote hit in 1989 and has never given permission for it to be usedMariah Carey is being sued for $20m (£16m) for alleged copyright infringement over her festive megahit All I Want for Christmas Is You – nearly three decades after it was released.Since it came out in 1994, the song, which features on her album Merry Christmas, has become a global classic and a firm favourite in the pop Christmas canon. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Hateful' anti-LGBTQ graduation speech at Ohio high school sparks outrage

  04-06-2022 14:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  A high school graduation speech telling students to “choose a spouse” based on “biblical principles”  is sparking outrage online. “Choose a spouse, I suggest,”
  
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• Deborah James describes anger and fear over dying of bowel cancer

  04-06-2022 14:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigner says death is ‘life’s last taboo’ and that she hopes talking about may bring comfort to othersDeborah James has said she is angry at the fact she is terminally ill, and scared of dying.The campaigner, 40, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016 and has documented her experiences since on social media, revealed that in the weeks since moving to end-of-life care she keeps “shouting at people and pushing them away”. Continue reading...
  
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• As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it keep up the fight?

  04-06-2022 14:08 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine is losing 60 to 100 soldiers each day in combat
  
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• Number of people to reach UK in small boats in 2022 nears 10,000

  04-06-2022 14:03 via theguardian.com
  
  People continuing to cross Channel to reach UK, figures show, with a vessel of 40 brought ashore on FridayNearly 10,000 people have arrived in the UK on small boats from across the Channel so far this year, according to new government figures.A total of 9,988 have reached the UK after leaving the French coast in vessels such as dinghies since New Year’s Day. Continue reading...
  
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• UK warned it is failing to adapt as terror threat shifts from groups to lone attackers

  04-06-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Five years after London Bridge and Borough Market attacks, watchdog says psychologists should feature in counter-terrorismPsychologists and behavioural scientists should be deployed more frequently to counter-terrorism operations as the number of neurodivergent individuals under investigation rises, a watchdog has advised.The government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation told the Observer that evaluating the threat from individuals with conditions like autism was becoming an i
  
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• Antony Gormley to become German citizen due to ‘tragedy’ of Brexit

  04-06-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Acclaimed sculptor calls leaving the EU ‘a practical disaster’ and a ‘betrayal’ as major retrospective opensThe acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley is to become a German citizen because of the “tragedy” of Brexit.Speaking at a major retrospective of his work at the Museum Voorlinden near The Hague, Gormley, who is half-German, said his strong feelings about Britain’s departure from Europe had prompted him to apply for German nationality. Continue r
  
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