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• US OKs $1B arms sale to Taiwan as tensions rise with China

  02-09-2022 23:44
  The Biden administration has announced a more than $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan as U.S.-China tensions escalate over the status of the island
  
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• Wisconsin GOP candidate calls for 'pitchforks and torches'

  02-09-2022 23:34
  The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up “pitchforks and torches” in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups and others
  
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• Fake Florida doctor sentenced to 9 years for dating scam

  02-09-2022 23:31
  A Florida man will spend nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding more than 30 women of more than $1.3 million by pretending to be a doctor on online dating services
  
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• FDA still skeptical of ALS drug ahead of high-stakes meeting

  02-09-2022 23:28
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has posted another negative review of a closely watched drug for the deadly neurodegenerative disease ALS
  
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• NASA is returning to the moon 50 years later with Artemis I

  02-09-2022 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  • Artemis I will deliver the first biology experiment to deep space
  • NASA is ready to 'go' for a second launch attempt of Artemis I today
  
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• Jane Fonda announces she's been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma

  02-09-2022 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  Oscar-winning actor Jane Fonda announced Friday that she's been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma — but vowed that chemotherapy will not slow her political
  
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• Argentina: Attempt to kill VP fails when handgun misfires

  02-09-2022 23:23
  The gunman was quickly overpowered by her security officers.
  
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• Monkeypox cases on the decline in the nation's largest city: Data

  02-09-2022 23:17
  City data shows monkeypox cases are declining, a sign that the outbreak is starting to ease.
  
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• Dave Chappelle says Will Smith 'did an impression of a perfect man for 30 years'

  02-09-2022 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  On stage in Liverpool on Thursday night, Dave Chappelle delivered a stinging assessment of the Oscars slap heard 'round the world.
  
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• Missing 4-year-old girl believed to be in 'extreme danger'

  02-09-2022 23:11
  Fiedwenya Fiefe was last seen around 1 p.m. Thursday after she left her home in the Legacy Farms neighborhood in Plainfield, authorities said.
  
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• Jane Fonda says she's been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

  02-09-2022 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and has begun chemotherapy treatment, the legendary actress and activist said in post shared on her official social media account.
  
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• Gotabaya Rajapaksa: ousted former president returns to Sri Lanka

  02-09-2022 22:31 via theguardian.com
  Rajapaksa touched down in Colombo seven weeks after he fled the extraordinary protests triggered by an economic meltdown that many lay at his feetSri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis, has returned to the country after seven weeks.Rajapaksa flew into Colombo’s Bandaranaike international airport early on Saturday from
  
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• Biden targets Trump and says ‘anyone who fails to condemn violence is a threat to democracy’ – live

  02-09-2022 22:15 via theguardian.com
  Biden speaks at White House and takes swipe at former president, but says not all Trump supporters are threat to AmericaSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailAt the White House press briefing just now, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke on Joe Biden’s speech last night where he warned that Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” are a threat to democracy. “The president was trying to give the American people a choice: how do we move forward i
  
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• Biden targets Trump and says ‘anyone who fails to condemn violence is a threat to democracy’ – as it happened

  02-09-2022 22:15 via theguardian.com
  Biden speaks at White House and takes swipe at former president, but says not all Trump supporters are threat to AmericaSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailAt the White House press briefing just now, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke on Joe Biden’s speech last night where he warned that Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” are a threat to democracy. “The president was trying to give the American people a choice: how do we move forward i
  
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• A notorious fringe message board is facing calls for its shutdown after life-threatening harassment

  02-09-2022 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Clara Sorrenti and those supporting her are hoping to open up Kiwi Farms to debilitating virtual attacks by demanding Cloudflare, one of its internet security service vendors, drop the site.
  
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• Former Trump campaign aide reacts to Trump financially supporting Jan. 6 rioters

  02-09-2022 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  Gavin Smith, former campaign aide to Donald Trump, reacts to the former president's claim he's financially supporting Jan. 6 rioters and will look "very, very favorably on full pardons" if he runs and wins in 2024.
  
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• Russia’s hybrid war on Ukraine extends to new terrain as Gazprom cuts supply to Europe

  02-09-2022 22:08 via theguardian.com
  Energy war with west has exploded after weeks of tensionThe energy war between Russia and the westhas suddenly exploded, threatening an all-out power struggle in which the west seeks to cap the price of Russian oil and the Kremlin cuts off the supply of gas to Europe.The unpredictable dispute, in which both sides deploy unconventional weapons of economic warfare, shows the extent to which Russia’s hybrid war in Ukraine has been extended into new terrain. President Vladimir Putin is testing
  
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• He fled the country and went into hiding. Why has Sri Lanka's deposed leader come back now?

  02-09-2022 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  After more than 50 days, he's back.
  
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• Mysterious pneumonia cases, including 3 deaths, investigated in Argentina

  02-09-2022 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  Three people have died and several others in Argentina have become sick after developing pneumonia with no clear cause, the World Health Organization said Friday.
  
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• Barr suggests Trump 'deceived' the government over classified records

  02-09-2022 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Attorney General William Barr suggested Friday that Donald Trump mislead the Justice Department in its investigation of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
  
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• Former Trump attorney general says government was being 'jerked around' over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

  02-09-2022 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  Former Attorney General William Barr appeared on Fox News to say there is no "legitimate reason" for classified documents to have been at Mar-a-Lago and cast doubt on the idea that they had somehow been declassified.
  
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• Black Lives Matter grassroots chapters sue global foundation over funds

  02-09-2022 21:29 via theguardian.com
  Coalition sues foundation, alleging mismanagement: ‘The assets that we built are under control of consultants’A coalition of Black Lives Matter chapters has filed a lawsuit against the BLM Global Network Foundation, a non-profit organization that grew out of the protest movement, accusing the foundation of defrauding the local activist groups.The complaint was filed on Thursday by BLM Grassroots, an entity made up of 26 BLM chapters in the US, UK and Canada. Continue reading...
  
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• Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81

  02-09-2022 21:18 via theguardian.com
  Writer of the 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed died on 1 September, her son announcedBarbara Ehrenreich, the author of more than 20 books on social justice themes ranging from women’s rights to inequality and the inequities of the American healthcare system, has died at the age of 81.The news that Ehrenreich had died on 1 September was released by her son, Ben Ehrenreich, on Friday. He accompanied the announcement with a comment redolent of his mother’s spirit: “She was never m
  
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• Biden taps Podesta to implement climate and energy spending in Inflation Reduction Act

  02-09-2022 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden revamped his climate change team on Friday, announcing that longtime political operative and climate advocate John Podesta would join the Wh
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Russia says gas pipeline suspended indefinitely; G7 nations agree price cap for Russian oil – as it happened

  02-09-2022 21:15 via theguardian.com
  State-owned Gazprom announces NordStream 1 pipeline to stay out of action citing turbine engine damage after EU announces upper limit on oil pricesRussian news agency Tass is carrying a quote from Alexander Volga, head of the Russian-imposed occupation administration of Enerhodar, the city where the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) is located.It reports he said on Russian television that eight people from the IAEA mission remain at the ZNPP, alongside four more people, who he described as
  
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• Iran forced to return US sail drones seized at sea for second time

  02-09-2022 21:05 via theguardian.com
  US defence official says Iranian navy warship had pulled two sail drones out of water and covered them with tarpsThe US has for the second time this week compelled Iran to release US military sail drones that it tried to seize at sea, according to officials.The US military has not officially commented on the incident. But a US defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, suggested the Iranians had sought to secretly seize the drones. Continue reading...
  
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• Anne Heche was trapped in burning house for 45 minutes after crash

  02-09-2022 20:57 via theguardian.com
  Firefighters battled flames and smoke to extract Hollywood actor after her car crashed into building in Los Angeles last monthFirst responders could not reach Anne Heche to begin treating the actor as she was trapped, mortally injured, for 45 minutes after her car crashed into a house in Los Angeles last month, according to a report.Amid appalling flames and smoke from the crash, firefighters could not reach the car for 20 minutes and then couldn’t get it out of the building to extract her
  
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• WATCH: These puppies have an adorable nighttime routine

  02-09-2022 20:49
  Now this is one nighttime routine I can get behind.
  
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• William Barr, on Fox, says there's no legitimate reason for classified docs to be at Mar-a-Lago

  02-09-2022 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  Former Attorney General William Barr appeared on Fox News on Friday to say there is no "legitimate reason" for classified documents to have been at Mar-a-Lago and cast doubt in the idea that they had somehow been declassified.
  
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• No 10 spending £130,000 of public money scrutinising Partygate inquiry

  02-09-2022 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Boris Johnson accused of trying to ‘intimidate and bully’ inquiry into claims he misled MPsPolitics live – latest updatesBoris Johnson has been accused of trying to “intimidate and bully” an inquiry into claims he misled MPs over Downing Street parties, after No 10 took the highly unusual step of commissioning a senior QC to scrutinise the legal basis for the process at a public cost of almost £130,000.The crossbench peer David Pannick had argued that the Comm
  
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• From Kyle Rittenhouse to a taekwondo master, who's been in Trump's Mar-a-Lago office?

  02-09-2022 20:30
  The discovery of top secret documents stored in Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago office means that recent visitors may have been in close proximity to classified material.
  
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• Britney Spears responds to son's comments on her mental health and conservatorship

  02-09-2022 20:30 via cnn.com
  
  Britney Spears has posted an open letter to her sons.
  
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• Boy finds giant earthworm in his backyard

  02-09-2022 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  Barnaby Domigan revealed what he named his "amazing discovery" in an interview with Radio New Zealand.
  
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• Witnesses say dozens killed in new ethnic attack in Ethiopia

  02-09-2022 20:21
  Residents in Ethiopia’s largest federal state, Oromia, say dozens of civilians were killed in an attack by an armed group on Monday, the latest mass violence along ethnic lines that challenges one of Africa's most populous countries
  
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• Officer who wrote Met’s drug strategy smoked cannabis daily, panel told

  02-09-2022 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Commander Julian Bennett refused to take a drug test in 2020 after his lodger contacted police alleging drug useA senior Metropolitan police commander who wrote the force’s drug strategy allegedly smoked cannabis in front of his lodger every day, a gross misconduct hearing has been told.Commander Julian Bennett later threatened to resign when he was asked to take a drug test on 21 July 2020, a disciplinary panel heard. Continue reading...
  
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• New Zealand’s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson faces criticism for response to UN report on Uyghurs

  02-09-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is ‘dealing with a terrorist problem’New Zealand’s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson said a UN report on the human rights abuses of Uyghurs includes recognition that China is “dealing with a terrorist problem essentially”, in remarks criticised by China analysts.“It’s good that it acknowledges that there has been a terrorism problem in the particular part of China that t
  
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• Tory-run Thurrock council faces inquiry over ‘exceptional’ debt levels

  02-09-2022 19:55 via theguardian.com
  External commissioners to take charge of finances amid ‘grave concerns’ local services could be at risk The government has launched an urgent investigation into the finances of a Tory-run council amid “grave concerns” that local services are at risk from the authority’s exposure to more than a billion pounds in loans it took out to fund a series of commercial investments.The communities secretary, Greg Clark, said government-appointed commissioners would take full c
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 191 of the invasion

  02-09-2022 19:53 via theguardian.com
  Gazprom delays reopening Nord Stream pipeline 1; UN nuclear agency team plans to remain at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plantSee all our Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...
  
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• Russia cuts off gas exports to Europe via Nord Stream indefinitely

  02-09-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Russia won't immediately resume exports of natural gas to Europe through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline, worsening a shortage that threatens to tip the continent into an energy crisis this winter.
  
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• Russia cuts off gas exports to Europe via Nord Stream

  02-09-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Russia won't immediately resume exports of natural gas to Europe through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline, worsening a shortage that threatens to tip the continent into an energy crisis this winter.
  
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• Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says

  02-09-2022 19:50 via theguardian.com
  Austin Bellamy has awoken from a medically induced coma after mistakenly cut into a bees’ nest while trimming a treeAn Ohio man who was stung at least 20,000 times by bees – and even ingested some of the insects – during a mishap while he was cutting tree branches is expected to recover, according to his family.Austin Bellamy, 20, climbed high into a lemon tree in Ripley, Ohio, last Friday to help trim it when he mistakenly cut into a bees’ nest, his mother, Shawna Carter
  
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• Move expected to worsen a shortage that threatens to tip the continent into energy crisis this winter.

  02-09-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Russia won't immediately resume exports of natural gas to Europe through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline, worsening a shortage that threatens to tip the continent into an energy crisis this winter.
  
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• Nord Stream 1: Gazprom announces indefinite shutdown of pipeline

  02-09-2022 19:40 via theguardian.com
  Russian energy company had been due to resume gas delivery to Germany on Saturday morningThe Russian energy major Gazprom extended the shutdown of gas flows through its key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany on Friday evening, providing no timeframe for a reopening.The move came hours after G7 countries agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil in an attempt to stem the flow of funds to Vladimir Putin’s regime. Continue reading...
  
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• VA will now provide abortions in cases of rape, incest or medical danger

  02-09-2022 19:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  The VA medical system will provide access to abortions when the health of a beneficiary is endangered by pregnancy or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
  
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• What we do and don't know about the FBI search of Trump's home

  02-09-2022 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Agents took classified documents from the former president's home as part of an unprecedented investigation.
  
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• Eight arrested after climate activists superglue themselves around Commons Speaker’s chair

  02-09-2022 19:29 via theguardian.com
  Extinction Rebellion protesters calling for a citizens’ assembly also locked themselves to gates of parliamentEight arrests have been made after climate protesters glued themselves in a chain around the Speaker’s chair in the chamber of the House of Commons.Extinction Rebellion said its supporters launched the protest in parliament in support of a “citizens’ assembly” to help deliver action on the climate crisis. Continue reading...
  
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• Ex-prosecutor identifies a big concern after learning what FBI found in Trump's home

  02-09-2022 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  Nick Akerman, a former prosecutor during the Watergate scandal, discusses the classified documents law enforcement found in former President Donald Trump's home, including empty folders marked "classified."
  
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• Transgender man dies after Pride parade assault in Germany

  02-09-2022 19:23 via theguardian.com
  Malte C, 25, died in hospital a week after being struck by assailant at parade in MünsterA 25-year-old transgender man has died of his injuries in hospital almost a week after he was assaulted while helping people at a Pride parade in western Germany, police have said.The man, who police have named only as Malte C in accordance with privacy conventions, intervened when the attacker aimed homophobic slurs at other participants during the Christopher Street Day parade in Münster, police
  
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• EU warns next PM unilateral action on Brexit deal is of ‘great concern’

  02-09-2022 19:18 via theguardian.com
  European Commission vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, says it is ‘legally and politically inconceivable’The EU has warned the incoming British prime minister, likely to be Liz Truss, that any unilateral action to scrap part of the Brexit deal is legally and politically of “great concern” across the continent.The warning by the European Commission vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, comes just days before the new prime minister is
  
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• Scotland school and waste service strikes called off after ‘credible’ pay offer

  02-09-2022 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Unison, GMB and Unite suspend industrial action day after Nicola Sturgeon hosted talks A wave of strikes across waste services and schools in Scotland has been called off after a “credible” new pay offer.Hundreds of schools and nurseries were set to close over three days next week as support staff joined industrial action, along with a second wave of strikes by refuse workers that had already seen bins overflowing and piles of accumulated rubbish in Scotland’s major cities. Con
  
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