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• US House passes bill to expand supreme court security to justices’ families

  14-06-2022 23:55 via theguardian.com
  
  The bill comes after an armed man was arrested outside Brett Kavanaugh’s house as the court is due to rule on an abortion caseThe US House of Representatives has given final congressional approval to a bill to bolster supreme court security, ahead of an anticipated ruling curtailing abortion rights and in light of the arrest of a man charged with attempting to murder Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the court’s conservative majority.The legislation, which had already cleared the Senate,
  
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• WATCH: Group of Spix's macaws released in Brazil

  14-06-2022 23:39 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The last time the birds were seen in the wild of Brazil's Bahia state was in 2000.
  
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• Yellowstone National Park forced to close all entrances due to unprecedented floods

  14-06-2022 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  Yellowstone National Park will remain closed to visitors through at least Wednesday due to dangerous flooding conditions, which have prompted park evacuations and left some in surrounding communities trapped without safe drinking water, officials say.
  
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• WATCH: Dogs beat the Texas heat with the help of a hose

  14-06-2022 23:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Dozer and Captain are keeping it cool with a little help from their garden hose.
  
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• Ukraine war: 'Almost every family has lost someone close to them'

  14-06-2022 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Traumatised families from Mariupol reveal dire living conditions under Russian occupation.
  
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• Saudi Crown Prince outlasts America's moral outrage

  14-06-2022 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has outlasted the United States, nearly four years after the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
  
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• Turks and Caicos jury rejects bid to reclassify New York woman’s strangling at Club Med resort as an accident

  14-06-2022 22:55 via foxnews.com
  
  A jury upheld a medical examiner's findings in a controversial inquest into the 2018 death of New York lawyer Marie Kuhnla at Club Med Turkoise in Turks and Caicos.
  
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• FDA committee clears the way for authorization of Moderna vaccine for kids 6-17

  14-06-2022 22:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  It would be the second vaccine available to this age group, which is already eligible for Pfizer vaccines.
  
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• HomeGoods store evacuated after armed man makes threats

  14-06-2022 22:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  An armed man is in custody after officials say he threatened people inside a HomeGoods store in the Atlanta area.
  
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• Those pushing Ukraine to concede territory need to listen to Putin's recent words

  14-06-2022 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Russia-Ukraine war has Putin comparing himself to a tsar as the Russian military struggles against Kyiv. That comparison is risible, but scary.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Some of UK's top journalists barred from Russia

  14-06-2022 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia bans dozens of journalists and defence figures in response to UK sanctions imposed on Russians.
  
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• US defence contractor in talks to take over NSO Group’s hacking technology

  14-06-2022 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Deal – which would require approval from US and Israel – would give L3Harris control over controversial Pegasus toolThe US defence contractor L3Harris is in talks to take over NSO Group’s surveillance technology, in a possible deal that would give an American company control over one of the world’s most sophisticated and controversial hacking tools.Multiple sources confirmed that discussions were centred on a sale of the Israeli company’s core technology – or
  
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• Drugs are back in the EU: 'Everywhere. Everything. Everyone'

  14-06-2022 22:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Drugs are back in the EU at higher levels than before the pandemic. 29% of the European population are said to have used illicit drugs with more men than women report using.
  
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• Navalny moved to maximum-security prison

  14-06-2022 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he wasserving his term to a higher security prison facility, his lawyer told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Alexey Navalny transferred to maximum-security prison

  14-06-2022 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he wasserving his term to a higher security prison facility, his lawyer told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Democrats voice concerns over Biden’s Saudi trip: ‘Their values are not ours’ – as it happened

  14-06-2022 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  President to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia on first Middle East tripJanuary 6 panel postpones hearing over technical issuesAt least 108 Republican candidates back election lie – analysisGarland watching hearings amid pressure to investigate TrumpSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailSenate majority leader Chuck Schumer said the text of the gun control compromise reached by senators this weekend should come in the “coming days.”Before the chamber can
  
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• Body found in search for 6-year-old boy whose mother drowned trying to rescue him

  14-06-2022 22:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A 6-year-old boy has been missing since Thursday evening after he was swept away in a river. His mother drowned attempting to rescue him.
  
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• Man allegedly shoots, kills ex's 9-year-old daughter

  14-06-2022 22:05 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A 7-year-old boy was inside his home when he was shot and killed by outside gunfire, Harris County, Texas, authorities said.
  
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• 1st federal prison to experience COVID-19 outbreak now short-staffed: Officials

  14-06-2022 21:59 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Justice Department inspector general found the BOP mismanaged the facility.
  
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• BTS will take a break to pursue solo projects

  14-06-2022 21:43 via cnn.com
  
  BTS will be pressing pause to pursue solo projects, the K-Pop group announced Tuesday.
  
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• Fisher-Price, US regulators warn of infant deaths in rockers

  14-06-2022 21:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Fisher-Price and U.S. product safety regulators are telling parents not to let their infants fall asleep in the company’s rockers after 13 infants died in the devices between 2009 and 2021
  
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• Real-life 'Squid Game' competition coming to Netflix

  14-06-2022 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  Netflix's smash-hit "Squid Game," a fictional South Korean series in which contestants compete in a series of schoolyard games that will kill them if they lose, all for a few billion won, is bleak, dystopian and searingly political.
  
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• Quick-thinking staffers save camp children from suspected gunman

  14-06-2022 21:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  No children or staff were harmed after counselors at an athletic complex in Texas ushered kids to safety after a man entered the facility with a gun.
  
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• Bulk of Tory MPs stand firm behind Northern Ireland protocol bill

  14-06-2022 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Feared backlash fails to emerge despite leading Conservative warning of international law breachMinisters believe they have largely muted Conservative opposition to the Northern Ireland protocol bill, even though one leading Conservative critic has said no MP should be voting for a breach of international law.Leading opponents of Boris Johnson held off from publicly rejecting the legislation after it was published, despite the government’s fears beforehand that it would provoke a backlash.
  
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• Brazil Indigenous agency staff strike over Bruno Pereira disappearance

  14-06-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Employees walk off the job amid anger over statements criticising the former Funai employee who went missing with Dom PhillipsEmployees with Brazil’s national Indigenous foundation (Funai) have launched a one-day strike, amid anger over what they say is the dismantling of a key government agency and official statements criticising Bruno Pereira, the former Funai employee who went missing along with the British journalist Dom Phillips last week.Funai staff and related civil service employee
  
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• ‘Where is Liz Truss?’: sister of activist held in Cairo jail urges UK to act

  14-06-2022 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Sanaa Seif says UK government is not standing up for her brother Alaa Abd El Fattah, on hunger strike and facing deathThe sister of a British dual national human rights activist held in a Cairo jail and on the 74th day of a hunger strike, on Tuesday urged the UK foreign secretary to publicly demand that Alaa Abd El Fattah is saved from death by being released.Sanaa Seif was speaking at an event attended by Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the released British-Iranian
  
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• Russian separatists ask Moscow for ballistic missiles to counter Ukrainian artillery

  14-06-2022 20:28 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian-backed separatist forces urge Moscow to send ground and air-launched munitions to counter Ukrainian artilery strikes in the eastern regions.
  
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• ‘Betrayal’: critics condemn Biden’s plan to visit Saudi Arabia

  14-06-2022 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Trip comes after Biden labeled the kingdom a ‘pariah’, as questions also emerge over president’s trip to IsraelJoe Biden will visit Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia next month, the White House said on Tuesday. The announcement immediately put the administration on the defensive, given the president’s previous stance that the Saudi regime was a “pariah” because of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other human rights abuses.One Saudi human rights
  
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• Björn Ulvaeus on new ABBA show: 'It's absolutely mind-blowing'

  14-06-2022 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  ABBA founding member Björn Ulvaeus speaks with Bianna Golodryga about the group's groundbreaking new stage show and becoming an "ABBA-tar".
  
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• WATCH: Duckling’s friendship with goats is the sweetest thing you'll see all day

  14-06-2022 19:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Goats Alex and Junior got to meet a silver appleyard duckling on their farm in Ohio.
  
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• Ryanair Afrikaans test: Why South Africa loves and loathes the language

  14-06-2022 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ryanair stirred emotions over South African passport holders pass a test in the language.
  
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• 1-in-4 Japanese 30-somethings refuse to get married, government reports

  14-06-2022 19:47 via foxnews.com
  
  A significant portion of Japanese singles in their 30s are not interested in matrimony and want to stay single.
  
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• David Gergen: "Dumbfounded" by Biden's Saudi trip

  14-06-2022 19:43 via cnn.com
  
  David Gergen, former adviser to four U.S. Presidents, talks to Bianna Golodryga about President Biden's struggle to message on the economy.
  
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• Alexey Navalny's legal team 'searching' for him after prison transfer

  14-06-2022 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he wasserving his term to a higher security prison facility, his lawyer told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Brazil envoy apologises to Dom Phillips’ family for saying bodies had been found

  14-06-2022 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Ambassador ‘deeply sorry’ for ‘information that did not prove correct’ as search continues for missing journalist and colleagueThe Brazilian ambassador to the UK has apologised to the family of Dom Phillips for incorrectly telling them his body had been found in the Amazon along with that of his missing travelling partner Bruno Pereira.On Monday morning an embassy official called Phillips’s brother-in-law and sister to inform them that the bodies of the British jour
  
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• Russian tennis players will be allowed to compete at US Open

  14-06-2022 19:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine
  
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• City installing 100 cameras near schools in effort to curb gun violence

  14-06-2022 19:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Philadelphia officials announced they will spend $1.8 million on installing security cameras near city high schools and middle schools in high crime neighborhoods.
  
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• Ethiopia forms body to negotiate with Tigray rebels amid deadly civil war

  14-06-2022 19:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his government had formed a committee to establish negotiations with the Tigrayan regional forces to end the war.
  
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• ‘Situation is urgent’: treat housing crisis like a natural disaster, Queensland government told

  14-06-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Advocates call for a leaders’ meeting to coordinate support for people displaced by floods, pandemic and soaring house pricesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Queensland government should respond to the deepening housing crisis as it would a natural disaster and invest billions in new housing stock, advocates say.It should also convene leaders from the sector to form that response and guarantee the 2032 Brisbane Olympics do not fuel homelessness and housing stress.Si
  
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• Fastest-growing black hole of past 9bn years may have been found, Australian-led astronomers say

  14-06-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists spot extremely luminous object powered by supermassive black hole using Coonabarabran telescopeGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAstronomers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past 9bn years.The supermassive black hole consumes the equivalent of one Earth every second and has the mass of 3bn suns, they estimate.Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading...
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg plan to axe EU laws sparks cabinet row

  14-06-2022 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: At least two ministers have railed against proposal while others say goal is impossibleA cabinet row has broken out over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s plans to axe all remaining EU laws in under four years, given concerns about the feasibility of combing through at least 2,000 pieces of legislation while the civil service faces severe cutbacks.The Brexit opportunities minister is pushing for the laws carried over after Brexit to expire by a “cliff-edge” deadline of 23 June 2026,
  
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• Barcelona to install sound level monitors in bid to beat noise pollution

  14-06-2022 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Noise meters will be deployed to confirm ‘acoustically stressed’ areas where action will be takenBarcelona’s streets and plazas have long been home to a raucous cacophony of restaurant patios, buskers and throngs of residents and tourists. Now the city is on a mission to find out just how noisy these spaces can get, with the installation of sound level monitors in 11 areas.“It’s an absolute priority,” said Eloi Badia, the Barcelona city councillor for climate
  
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• The 22 wildest lines from Trump's 12-page statement on the Jan. 6 committee

  14-06-2022 19:16 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Suddenly the Jan. 6 committee looks divided
  • William Barr's stunning evolution from Trump loyalist to nemesis
  
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• ‘Please stop the plane’: asylum seekers plead before Rwanda deportation flight

  14-06-2022 19:11 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Mentally exhausted’ expected deportees launched last-minute legal bids to avoid removal from UKAn Albanian asylum seeker and suspected victim of trafficking has told the Guardian he is in a “very bad mental state” as he expects to board a deportation flight to Rwanda, a country of which he knows “nothing”.The 26-year-old Albanian man is one of seven asylum seekers who have launched last-minute legal challenges to avoid being forcibly flown to the east African
  
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• Golf leagues quarrel over new Saudi project

  14-06-2022 19:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A new golf tournament, which attracted some of the biggest players in the game, has become the latest example of what detractors call "sportswashing."
  
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• Brittney Griner's detention in Russia extended through at least July 2, Russian state news reports

  14-06-2022 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  US basketball star Brittney Griner -- who has been held in Russia since February on accusations of drug smuggling -- will remain in Russian custody through at least July 2, after a Russian court extended her detention, Russian state news agency TASS reported Tuesday.
  
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• Trevor Reed files petition against Russia with UN, asking his detention be declared unlawful, he tells CNN

  14-06-2022 18:51 via cnn.com
  
  Trevor Reed, the American veteran who spent nearly three years in a Russian prison, has filed a petition with the United Nations declaring Russia violated international law with his detention and poor treatment, he told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Heat wave continues in 27 states across the country

  14-06-2022 18:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A third of the U.S. population will experience heat advisories on Tuesday and Wednesday.
  
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• Elon Musk to take questions from Twitter employees for first time

  14-06-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk is set to field questions directly from Twitter employees later this week for the first time since he agreed to buy the social media company.
  
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• Elon Musk is set to take questions from Twitter employees for first time

  14-06-2022 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk is set to field questions directly from Twitter employees later this week for the first time since he agreed to buy the social media company.
  
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