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• Disney+ is getting more expensive... unless you want ads

  10-08-2022 23:41 via cnn.com
  
  Disney+ just got more expensive. Unless you're willing to watch ads.
  
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• The FBI engineered the Mar-a-Lago search to avoid a spectacle. Some Justice Department and FBI officials have argued internally that the silence is harmful

  10-08-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Some Justice Department officials believe the department should provide a public statement about the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump's home and club in Florida, a view that so far hasn't changed the silence from the top.
  
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• The FBI engineered the Mar-a-Lago search to avoid a spectacle. Some Justice and FBI officials have argued internally that the silence is harmful

  10-08-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Some Justice Department officials believe the department should provide a public statement about the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump's home and club in Florida, a view that so far hasn't changed the silence from the top.
  
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• Some Justice Department officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search

  10-08-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  • Informant tipped off investigators about more documents at Mar-a-Lago, WSJ reports
  • Trump refuses to answer questions from New York attorney general at deposition
  
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• Some DOJ officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search

  10-08-2022 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Some Justice Department officials believe the department should provide a public statement about the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump's home and club in Florida, a view that so far hasn't changed the silence from the top.
  
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• Pompeo and Bolton targeted in Iranian assassination plot

  10-08-2022 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The US Justice Department announced criminal charges Wednesday against a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for allegedly trying to orchestrate the assassination of John Bolton, who served in senior national security positions during the Trump and Bush administrations.
  
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• Biden faces October deadline to decide whether to help Trump avoid questions in Strzok lawsuit

  10-08-2022 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden's White House has until mid-October to decide if he wants to assert executive privilege and hinder an effort to obtain testimony from former President Donald Trump about Trump's pressure campaign to get a then-top FBI agent fired.
  
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• A new reality for women seeking an abortion in Texas

  10-08-2022 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This is what happened when a woman considering an abortion walked into a crisis pregnancy centre.
  
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• WATCH: Dozens of wildfires burn in southwestern France

  10-08-2022 22:48 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Dozens of wildfires are burning in southwestern France amid Europe's successive heatwaves and drought, destroying homes and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate.
  
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• White House warns 'Iran will face severe consequences' if any US citizens are attacked

  10-08-2022 22:29 via foxnews.com
  
  The White House warned Iran against attacking U.S. citizens on Wednesday after the Justice Department revealed that a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) hatched plans to assassinate former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton. "We have said this before and we will say it again: the Biden Administration will not waiver in protecting and defending all Americans against threats of violence and terrorism," national security adviser Jake Sulliva
  
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• Curfew declared in Sierra Leone's capital amid violent anti-government protests

  10-08-2022 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone on Wednesday, protesting inflation and the rising cost of living in the West African country, according to people that CNN spoke to.
  
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• Canadian police arrest 22 in crackdown on gun and drug smugglers

  10-08-2022 22:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Canadian police arrested 22 people, seized 27 handguns and drugs worth C$1.3 million ($1 million) during a 10-month investigation into a gun- and drug-trafficking network operating in Canada and the United States, authorities said on Wednesday. The seized guns were obtained illegally and with criminal intent, Ontario Provincial Police Chief Superintendent Paul Mackey told reporters. He said Canadian authorities worked with U.S. law enforcement officials on the crackdown. SHOOTING BEHIND RESTAURA
  
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• Spain imposes regulation curbing air conditioner use as temperatures soar

  10-08-2022 21:56 via foxnews.com
  
  A new energy-saving rule in Spain that limits the use of air conditioning in public spaces in order to curb dependence on Russian energy is going into effect despite sweltering temperatures. The regulation requires air conditioning be set no lower than 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit during the warmest months of the year in public spaces such as shops, offices, and movie theaters, even though temperatures routinely eclipse 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer months, Agence France Press reported.&nb
  
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• North Korea soldiers in Ukraine would be logistical 'mess’ Putin won’t 'allow': Russia expert

  10-08-2022 21:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Climbing Russian casualties and reports suggesting that Russia is now looking to North Korea to aid its flagging troops raised eyebrows this week as some began to question whether Moscow would drag Pyongyang into its war in Ukraine. Russia expert and former intelligence officer in Russian doctrine and strategy for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Rebekah Koffler, threw cold water on these claims and said they were "implausible.""The Russian propaganda machine could say that 100,000 No
  
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• COVID vaccine production from South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare to end due to low demand

  10-08-2022 21:50 via foxnews.com
  
  South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will stop making COVID-19 vaccines from the end of this month due to a lack of orders, a senior executive said, further undermining Africa's already meager capacity to produce doses. Aspen currently produces vaccines for Johnson & Johnson. In March, it struck a deal to produce, price and sell its own-brand version of the shot for African markets. That deal was considered a game-changer for a continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts. But while only a f
  
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• Russia resumes oil pipline after Hungary's MOL paid transit fees

  10-08-2022 21:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian oil pipeline flows resumed to Central Europe on Wednesday, ending a six-day halt, after Hungarian group MOL paid transit fees owed to Ukraine, providing a temporary solution to the latest disruption of Russian energy supplies. MOL said oil was again flowing through the southern branch of the Druzhba, or Friendship, pipeline, that it had reached Slovakia and should reach Hungary on Thursday. Oil flows, however, are not expected to resume to the Czech Republic. On Tuesday, Russian pipeline
  
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• Trump supporters and critics gather outside Mar-a-Lago after FBI search

  10-08-2022 21:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Supporters of former President Donald Trump continued to gather outside Mar-a-Lago two days after it was searched by the FBI.
  
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• New image of colliding galaxies previews the fate of the Milky Way

  10-08-2022 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now -- and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.
  
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• Man initially given life without parole in 2 murders freed

  10-08-2022 20:59 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison without parole in a 1979 double murder is being released after 42 years behind bars — after his sentence was commuted
  
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• Michigan: Company released industrial chemicals into water

  10-08-2022 20:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Michigan environmental have issued violation notices against an auto trim maker following the release of industrial chemicals into a river system northwest of Detroit
  
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• Man who performed illegal autopsies can't work in Kansas

  10-08-2022 20:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Kansas man convicted of performing illegal autopsies has been fined more than $700,000 and is permanently banned from doing business in the state
  
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• Biden begins summer vacation with family in South Carolina

  10-08-2022 20:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Joe Biden left Washington on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be at least a seven-day vacation in South Carolina with members of his family
  
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• Iraq's Sadr tells judiciary to dissolve parliament in a week

  10-08-2022 20:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday called on the country's judiciary to dissolve parliament by end of next week, threatening unspecific consequences if it does not do what he says. The populist leader has helped inflame tensions in Iraq over the last two weeks by commanding thousands of followers to storm and occupy parliament, preventing the formation of a government nearly 10 months after elections. His political opponents, mostly fellow Shi'ites backed by Iran,
  
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• Rory McIlroy welcomes defeat of LIV trio's legal bid to play FedEx Cup Play-offs

  10-08-2022 20:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rory McIlroy says "common sense prevailed" after three players from the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series lost a court bid against the PGA Tour to play in the FedEx Cup Play-offs.
  
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• Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law fuels anti-LGBTQ hate online

  10-08-2022 20:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people surged online after Florida passed a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade
  
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• Wisconsin woman in Slender Man attack drops release request

  10-08-2022 20:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  One of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man has withdrawn her petition for release
  
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• Taiwan accuses China of sending 17 fighter jets across Strait median line

  10-08-2022 20:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Taiwanese officials say 17 Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait Wednesday as tensions over the disputed Island continue to flare. "In the face of military intimidation created by China, Taiwan will not be afraid nor back down, and will more firmly defend its sovereignty, national security, and free and democratic way of life," Taiwan's foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday, according to Reuters. The statement comes as China has continued military drills in t
  
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• What past cases reveal about Trump's legal exposure following FBI raid

  10-08-2022 20:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Following the FBI's raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, experts assess Trump's potential legal exposure related to his alleged mishandling of government documents.
  
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• Ukraine looks to end 'active' phase of war ahead of winter months

  10-08-2022 20:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukraine is looking to end the "active phase" in the war against Russia ahead of the winter months amid fears Moscow could target its thermal infrastructure as temperatures drop, one top official said Wednesday.  "The Russian army continues to attack our infrastructure facilities. This is one of their goals, they don't even hide it," head of the President’s Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak told Interfax. "This is one of the reasons why we want to take maximum measures to end the active
  
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• Ron DeSantis, unconstrained by constitutional checks, is flexing his power in Florida ahead of 2024 decision

  10-08-2022 20:20 via cnn.com
  
  When Gov. Ron DeSantis abruptly suspended Tampa's elected prosecutor last week, it was not accomplished in a late-night sacking or buried in a 5 p.m. Friday press release. Rather, DeSantis summoned reporters and cameras for a midday media event, as he does several times a week, stood before officers in uniform and elected allies and matter-of-factly walked through his decision to kneecap a twice-elected Democratic official.
  
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• Global COVID update: Are we out the woods yet?

  10-08-2022 20:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Finally over his coronavirus infection, U.S. President Joe Biden departs to spend most of the next week on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, an oceanfront golf resort that he has visited in the past. Deaths and Infections * Eikon users, click on COVID-19: MacroVitals for a case tracker and summary of news.  Asia-Pacific * Strong winds from Tropical Storm Mulan are expected to whip across the South China Sea towards Hainan Island on Wednesday, raising the possibility of disruption to mass testi
  
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• Soldier's assault suit against officers can proceed to trial

  10-08-2022 20:14 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A federal judge says a U.S. Army lieutenant can go to trial against police officers in Virginia whose traffic stop drew national attention and outrage
  
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• Biden: US knows ‘with certainty’ Syria holding missing journalist Austin Tice

  10-08-2022 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  President urges regime, which denies involvement, to release Tice, who disappeared in 2012 covering Syrian warJoe Biden has said that the US knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government is holding Austin Tice – an American journalist who has been missing for a decade – and called on Damascus to release him.Ten years after the freelance reporter disappeared while reporting on the Syrian war, Biden said the US government knows “that [Tice] has been held by the Sy
  
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• If you're planning to travel to the US with food items from overseas, read this

  10-08-2022 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  United States border officials have a message for travelers who bring food items from overseas: Violations will cost you.
  
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• WATCH: Plane crash-lands on California freeway

  10-08-2022 19:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Dramatic dashcam video captured the moment a single-engine plane burst into flames after crash-landing on a California freeway.
  
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• WATCH: Cat loves to get hair brushed

  10-08-2022 19:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The face she makes when her fur stops getting brushed...
  
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• Western Europe enters fourth summer heat wave as wildfires return to parched France

  10-08-2022 19:53 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of hectares have been destroyed as a new fire rages in the Gironde area of southwestern France, barely two weeks after two major blazes destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of forests in the same region, according to official data.
  
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• French freediver breaks deep dive world record

  10-08-2022 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arnaud Jerald took 3 minutes and 34 seconds to complete the dive during the Vertical Blue competition.
  
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• London kids to be offered polio shot after more virus found

  10-08-2022 19:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to London children age 1 to 9 after finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple regions of the city
  
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• WATCH: Toddler herds sheep in a fairy costume

  10-08-2022 19:11 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The young fairy is a fifth generation sheep herder.
  
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• Amanda Seyfried opens up about past pressure to appear nude on screen as stars clash over role of intimacy coordinators

  10-08-2022 19:10 via cnn.com
  
  Amanda Seyfried has described coming under pressure to appear in nude scenes when she was just 19 years old and starting out in show business.
  
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• Inflation slows significantly as gas prices drop in July

  10-08-2022 19:04 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The slowdown coincides with a series of rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.
  
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• See Samsung's latest foldable phones

  10-08-2022 19:03 via cnn.com
  
  Samsung unveiled its latest generation of foldable smartphones: the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4. Updates include longer battery life, smaller hinges, and, of course, camera improvements.
  
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• Rochdale car thief tried to hide from police inside teddy bear

  10-08-2022 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officers searching for Joshua Dobson spotted "a large bear breathing" and found him inside, police say.
  
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• Iran tried to arrange the murder of Trump WH adviser as retaliation: Prosecutors

  10-08-2022 18:39 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly tried to arrange the murder of Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, the Justice Department said
  
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• Trump's shadow looms over last ditch effort to revive Iran nuclear deal

  10-08-2022 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  After yet another round of talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal last week, the country's negotiators are now consulting with the leadership in Tehran on how to proceed. European Union officials say they have presented a "final," take-it-or-leave it text for the US and Iran to consider.
  
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• Trump invokes Fifth Amendment rights and declines to answer questions from NY attorney general

  10-08-2022 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions from the New York attorney general at a scheduled deposition Wednesday.
  
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• Opinion: This WhatsApp change is one step toward the healthier lives we deserve

  10-08-2022 17:47 via cnn.com
  
  On Tuesday, WhatsApp announced new privacy features that will allow users to leave group chats without sending notifications to all members -- and to control who sees when they are active on the app. These features are a reminder to all of us that we need to be more thoughtful about the ways in which we're letting technology control our lives.
  
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• Gergen on Trump pleading the Fifth: In the end, he will have to come clean

  10-08-2022 17:45 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions from the New York attorney general during a deposition concerning the Trump Organization. CNN's senior political analyst David Gergen explains why Trump's stance offers him and his allies only temporary protection.
  
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• Wildfires return to France as much of Europe suffers drought conditions

  10-08-2022 17:31 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of hectares have been destroyed as a new fire rages in the Gironde area of southwestern France, barely two weeks after two major blazes destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of forests in the same region, according to official data.
  
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