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• Why Fox started covering the Jan. 6 hearings

  13-06-2022 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  After declining to air the January 6 committee's prime time hearing, Fox News decided to run day two of the panel's proceedings.CNN media analyst Bill Carter joins Victor Blackwell to discuss why the outlet shifted its stance.
  
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• Study finds German Catholic priests sexually abused over 600 victims

  13-06-2022 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  At least 610 children were documented as having been sexually abused by Catholic priests between 1945 and 2020 in the diocese of the west German city of Münster, according to a study released Monday.
  
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• ‘Incel’ who killed 11 in Toronto van murders sentenced to life in prison

  13-06-2022 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Witnesses at Monday hearing describe devastation from 2018 attack in which Alek Minassian ploughed rented van into sidewalkA self-described “incel” who killed 11 people when he plowed a rented van into a busy Toronto sidewalk in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison.Alek Minassian – who was motivated by a hatred of women – was convicted in March of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, after a judge found that he drove a white rental van
  
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• Defending the Amazon is a dangerous undertaking. Critics say Bolsonaro is making it worse

  13-06-2022 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  Fears are mounting over the fates of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira -- who have been missing in the Brazilian Amazon for over a week -- after the discovery of what appeared to be human remains and revelations that the pair had received death threats.
  
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• Analysis: Defending the Amazon is a dangerous undertaking. Critics say Bolsonaro is making it worse

  13-06-2022 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  Fears are mounting over the fates of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira -- who have been missing in the Brazilian Amazon for over a week -- after the discovery of what appeared to be human remains and revelations that the pair had received death threats.
  
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• Analysis: Defending the Amazon brings danger. Some say Bolsonaro makes it worse

  13-06-2022 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  Fears are mounting over the fates of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira -- who have been missing in the Brazilian Amazon for over a week -- after the discovery of what appeared to be human remains and revelations that the pair had received death threats.
  
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• Fox Sports doesn't show 'Jeopardy' champ Amy Schneider throwing out first pitch

  13-06-2022 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fox Sports didn't show "Jeopardy" champion Amy Schneider throwing out a first pitch during the networks coverage of a baseball game in San Francisco.
  
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• Key takeaways from second Jan. 6 hearing: Barr emerges as central figure

  13-06-2022 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Key takeaways from the second day of the January 6 committee hearings focus on former AG Barr's assessment of Trump.
  
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• TikTok star says a ranch wouldn't allow her to ride their horses due to her weight

  13-06-2022 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Remi Bader claimed that during a recent trip with other influencers, a ranch wouldn't allow her to ride their horses due to her weight.
  
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• American Airlines regional carriers hike pilot pay more than 50 percent as shortage persists

  13-06-2022 23:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two American Airlines-owned regional carriers will hike pilot pay by 50 percent through the end of August 2024.
  
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• No, Google's AI is not sentient

  13-06-2022 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  Tech companies are constantly hyping the capabilities of their ever-improving artificial intelligence. But Google was quick to shut down claims that one of its programs had advanced so much that it had become sentient.
  
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• Google engineer claims an unreleased AI is conscious

  13-06-2022 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  Tech companies are constantly hyping the capabilities of their ever-improving artificial intelligence. But Google was quick to shut down claims that one of its programs had advanced so much that it had become sentient.
  
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• Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner distance themselves from Trump’s election claims in Jan. 6 testimonies

  13-06-2022 22:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner told the Jan. 6 committee that he urged the then-president not to take advice from Rudy Giuliani, who
  
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• Gorillas chase unwanted guest in zoo enclosure

  13-06-2022 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  A German shepherd became trapped inside a gorilla habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. According to park officials, it was one of two dogs running loose inside the zoo.
  
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• Gorillas chase German shepherd guest in zoo enclosure

  13-06-2022 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  A German shepherd became trapped inside a gorilla habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. According to park officials, it was one of two dogs running loose inside the zoo.
  
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• US markets nosedive on worries of drastic rate hikes

  13-06-2022 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  US stocks have plunged into a bear market as Wall Street investors grew increasingly nervous about the prospect of even harsher medicine from the Fed to take the sting out of inflation.
  
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• Dow tumbles nearly 900 points on worries of drastic rate hikes

  13-06-2022 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  US stocks have plunged into a bear market as Wall Street investors grew increasingly nervous about the prospect of even harsher medicine from the Fed to take the sting out of inflation.
  
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• Idaho officers getting death threats after arresting 31 Patriot Front white nationalists near Pride event

  13-06-2022 22:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  31 men affiliated with white nationalist group Patriot Front who arrested near an annual LGBTQ+ event Saturday in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
  
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• 'Apparently inebriated' Giuliani told Trump to declare victory on election night, Cheney says

  13-06-2022 21:40 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Former AG Barr portrayed as debunker-in-chief
  • Analysis: 14 most compelling lines from Monday's hearing
  
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• Barr said Trump claimed major fraud before there was 'any potential of looking at evidence'

  13-06-2022 21:07 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Former AG Barr portrayed as debunker-in-chief
  • Analysis: 14 most compelling lines from Monday's hearing
  
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• ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ author sentenced to life in prison for murdering husband

  13-06-2022 20:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced Monday to life in prison with the
  
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• All entrances to Yellowstone National Park are temporarily closed due to 'extremely hazardous conditions'

  13-06-2022 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  Yellowstone National Park announced on Monday that all entrances to the park are temporarily closed due to "extremely hazardous conditions" caused by "unprecedented" rainfall and flooding.
  
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• Key takeaways from the second Jan. 6 hearing

  13-06-2022 20:01 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Former AG Barr portrayed as debunker-in-chief
  
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• Bolsonaro says ‘something wicked’ done to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

  13-06-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil president comments on journalist and Indigenous expert’s fate amid unconfirmed claims bodies have been found in AmazonThe Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has said he believes “something wicked” was done to the missing British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, amid unconfirmed claims their bodies had been found in the Amazon.British relatives of Phillips said they had been contacted by the Brazilian embassy in London on Monday
  
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• Panel probing attack on the Capitol detailed how those around Trump told him he lost the 2020 election -- but he refused to listen

  13-06-2022 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election -- but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that the election was stolen.
  
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• House committee detailed how those around Trump told him he lost the 2020 election -- but he refused to listen

  13-06-2022 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election -- but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that the election was stolen.
  
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• Analysis: 14 most compelling lines from today's hearing

  13-06-2022 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  For the second time in the last five days, the January 6 committee met publicly to make its case that former President Donald Trump knew he was lying about fraud in the 2020 election -- and did it anyway.
  
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• Top GOP attorney: Trump campaign did not produce any credible claims of fraud

  13-06-2022 19:20 via cnn.com
  
  Top Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg testifies in the January 6 Special Committee hearing, discussing the credibility of the Trump campaign's election fraud claims.
  
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• Paralyzed hockey player walks across stage to accept diploma

  13-06-2022 19:19 via cnn.com
  
  With help from a walker and leg braces, hockey player Jake Thibeault walked across the stage to accept his high school diploma, nearly 9 months after becoming paralyzed. HLN's Robin Meade reports.
  
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• 5 key takeaways from the second January 6 hearing

  13-06-2022 19:18 via cnn.com
  
  The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol detailed Monday how those around then-President Donald Trump told him he lost the 2020 election -- but he refused to listen, turning instead to his attorney Rudy Giuliani to embrace false claims that the election was stolen.
  
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• Trump's former campaign manager: What was happening was not 'honest or professional'

  13-06-2022 19:02 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Stepien, the former campaign manager of former President Donald Trump, shares why he decided to leave the 2020 Trump campaign in video testimony provided to the House Select Committee investigating January 6th.
  
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• Missing pair in remote Amazon were likely victims of 'malice', says Brazil's president

  13-06-2022 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  The vanished British journalist and Indigenous affairs expert who went missing in a remote region of the Amazon are unlikely to be found alive, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday, adding that he believes some "malice" was done to them.
  
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• UN appeals to public for $20m to stop feared catastrophic oil spill from tanker

  13-06-2022 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Vessel off Yemen with more than 1m barrels of oil aboardhas been stranded for six years and is close to breaking upA rare UN appeal to the public to raise $20m is to be launched on Tuesday in an attempt to prevent an environmental catastrophe caused by the potential break-up of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen.The money is needed to offload more than 1.14m barrels of oil that have been sitting in the decrepit cargo ship, Safer, for more than six years because of an impasse between Houthi gro
  
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• Trump officials recount what happened at White House on election night

  13-06-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  In recorded testimony released by the House January 6 committee, Trump administration officials, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Bill Stepien recount how election night unfolded at the White House.
  
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• Trump officials recount how election night unfolded

  13-06-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  In recorded testimony released by the House January 6 committee, Trump administration officials, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Bill Stepien recount how election night unfolded at the White House.
  
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• Kevin Spacey to face UK court over sexual assault charges

  13-06-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  US actor Kevin Spacey is set to appear before a UK court later this week after being charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, London's Metropolitan Police Service said on Monday.
  
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• Pop star Kris Wu tried in China for alleged rape

  13-06-2022 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Announcement of closed trial coincides with uproar over unrelated assault at restaurant in TangshanThe Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has gone on trial for alleged rape and other offences in Beijing, as China is in uproar over a video showing a group of men physically assaulting four women in the city of Tangshan.Wu’s closed trial on Friday at the Chaoyang people’s court was reported late on Friday night by Chang’An Net, which belongs to China’s Central Political and L
  
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• How meditation could change the brain

  13-06-2022 17:54 via cnn.com
  
  In a time when traumatic events such as pandemics, shootings and loss seem never-ending, mindfulness can be a tool for feeling capable during periods of uncertainty.
  
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• First UK flight sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda to go ahead after appeal fails

  13-06-2022 17:39 via cnn.com
  
  The United Kingdom's controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda as early as Tuesday is set to go ahead after the Court of Appeal in London confirmed an earlier decision to deny an injunction to block the first flight.
  
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• Think you're OK because you only drink on weekends? Think again, study says

  13-06-2022 17:36 via cnn.com
  
  You consider yourself a light-to-moderate drinker, having the occasional cocktail or glass of wine with dinner and only tossing back a few extra glasses of liquid refreshment at social gatherings on weekends. By most standards, you'd be right -- because drinking is typically tracked as an average over the week.
  
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• Think you're a moderate drinker? Not if you binge, study finds, and that's a health problem

  13-06-2022 17:36 via cnn.com
  
  You consider yourself a light-to-moderate drinker, having the occasional cocktail or glass of wine with dinner and only tossing back a few extra glasses of liquid refreshment at social gatherings on weekends. By most standards, you'd be right -- because drinking is typically tracked as an average over the week.
  
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• Over 235 million people set to experience temperatures 90 degrees or hotter this week

  13-06-2022 17:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  It was a weekend of punishing heat across the Central and Southern Plains with even more blistering temperatures ahead for much of the rest of the country.
  
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• 'Squid Game' season 2 teaser drops, Netflix reveals which characters return

  13-06-2022 17:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Netflix teased a new round of both fear and excitement with a trailer for its hit Korean drama series “Squid Game” and a statement from its creator.
  
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• Men want pearls and they're not afraid to wear them

  13-06-2022 17:17 via cnn.com
  
  Watch your pearls, ladies. The fellas are coming for them.
  
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• Strange tsunami-like quakes shake some of the stars in our galaxy, Gaia spacecraft reveals

  13-06-2022 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  Strange and unexpected tsunami-like starquakes -- movements on stars' crusts similar to earthquakes we experience on our planet -- have been revealed by the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory.
  
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• 'We have a job too': The volunteers rebuilding Kyiv's suburbs

  13-06-2022 17:07 via cnn.com
  
  Men in hard hats enter a child's bedroom decorated with pink wallpaper that features two bejeweled elephants, a little one and big one.
  
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• As Russian attacks continue to pound Ukraine, volunteers are rebuilding Kyiv's suburbs

  13-06-2022 17:07 via cnn.com
  
  Men in hard hats enter a child's bedroom decorated with pink wallpaper that features two bejeweled elephants, a little one and big one.
  
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• Dow sinks 800 points and stocks enter bear market on worries of drastic rate hikes

  13-06-2022 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  US stocks plunged into bear market territory Monday morning as Wall Street investors grew increasingly nervous about the prospect of even more harsh medicine from the Fed to take the sting out of inflation.
  
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• Iraq's most powerful politician has just caused a 'tectonic shift'

  13-06-2022 16:50 via cnn.com
  
  After eight months of political paralysis, the kingmaker of Iraqi politics has ordered his bloc to withdraw from parliament.
  
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• How meditation can help with stress, longevity, relationships and more

  13-06-2022 16:45 via cnn.com
  
  In a time when traumatic events such as pandemics, shootings and loss seem never-ending, mindfulness can be a tool for feeling capable during periods of uncertainty.
  
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