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• Mobile abortion clinic in Illinois to offer services on borders of states with bans

  03-10-2022 23:48 via theguardian.com
  Planned Parenthood will debut the traveling facility later this year to meet increased demand from neighboring statesPlanned Parenthood officials on Monday announced plans for a mobile abortion clinic – a 37ft recreational vehicle that will stay in Illinois but travel close to the borders of adjoining states that have banned the procedure since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade earlier this year.The announcement came 100 days after the supreme court ruling that stripped away const
  
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• Dating apps rife with sexual violence, Australian study reveals, amid calls for better user safeguards

  03-10-2022 23:48 via theguardian.com
  Study finds three-quarters of users surveyed experienced online sexual violence while one-third reported in-person incidentsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastA new study of dating apps has revealed high rates of sexual violence, stalking, assault and unwanted sharing of explicit images.The researchers behind the study said such apps need to protect users better, with precautions such as easier reporting pr
  
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• Australia announces plan to halt extinction crisis and save 110 species

  03-10-2022 23:42 via theguardian.com
  Priority targeting includes many of Australia’s best-known native animals but will also help others in the same habitats, environment minister saysFollow the latest updates with our live blogGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe federal government has set a goal to prevent any new extinctions of Australian wildlife.It is the first time a federal government has announced a zero extinctions target for the country’s plants and animals. The goal forms par
  
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• Right-wing disinformation ramps up on WeChat ahead of midterms, report finds

  03-10-2022 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Disinformation is saturating the widely used social media platform WeChat and poses a growing threat to Chinese American voters in the November midterm
  
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• Here is what we know so far about the victims of the possible serial killer in Stockton, California

  03-10-2022 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police on Monday continue to search for a person of interest in a series of five fatal shootings in Stockton, California, that are believed to be interconnected.
  
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• Biden visits Puerto Rico after Fiona, commits to recovery 'as long as it takes'

  03-10-2022 23:04
  President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday and plan to go to Florida Wednesday to survey damage from Hurricanes Ian and Fiona.
  
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• Emotional, sexual abuse were 'systemic' in women's soccer, new report finds

  03-10-2022 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Emotional abuse and sexual misconduct are "systemic" in women's soccer with exploitation rife at virtually every level of the sport, according to a damning report made public on Monday.
  
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• Prosecutors preemptively punch holes in Oath Keepers' defense on first day of trial

  03-10-2022 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: DOJ's response to January 6 meets one of its biggest tests yet
  • 'I was having meetings': Trump claims he wasn't watching TV on Jan. 6 in interview
  
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• Will Smith’s first project since Oscars fiasco gets December release date

  03-10-2022 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Will Smith’s upcoming film, “Emancipation,” will be released in theaters on Dec. 2 and on Apple TV+ a week later on Dec. 9.
  
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• Slippery tale: anglers accused of using weights and fish fillets to win top contest

  03-10-2022 22:16 via theguardian.com
  Accused men were in line for $30,000 first prizeTournament director found weights after suspicions raisedThe county prosecutor’s office in Cleveland has opened an investigation into an apparent cheating scandal during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie last week.A video posted to Twitter shows Jason Fischer, tournament director for the Lake Erie Walleye Trail, cutting open the winning catch of five walleye on Friday and finding lead weights and prepared fish filets inside them. Co
  
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• Woman in 60s attacked and killed by dogs in Liverpool

  03-10-2022 22:06 via theguardian.com
  Victim pronounced dead at scene after paramedics reported incident at 4.25pm on MondayA woman in her 60s has died after being attacked by dogs at a property in central Liverpool.Merseyside police said North West ambulance service paramedics reported the attack at St Brigids Crescent in Kirkdale at about 4.25pm on Monday. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and her relatives have been told. Continue reading...
  
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• Kwasi Kwarteng ‘to bring forward planned fiscal statement’ in another U-turn – as it happened

  03-10-2022 22:05 via theguardian.com
  Guardian understands chancellor will make statement later this month, rather than in November as originally planned. This blog is now closedTory MPs plot to avert welfare squeeze after humiliating U-turnsQ: Where does this leave your credibility?Kwarteng says he has been in parliament for 12 years. He says ministers do sometimes change their minds.I decided, along with the the prime minister, not to proceed [with the policy]. Continue reading...
  
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• Biden pledges support to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico: ‘All of America is with you’ – as it happened

  03-10-2022 22:02 via theguardian.com
  President tours damage from Hurricane Fiona two weeks agoSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailAs Puerto Rico prepares for Joe Biden’s visit this afternoon, a grassroots collective known as Queremos Sol (we want sun) has published an open letter (in Spanish) in the La Perla online daily urging the president to not waste federal taxpayer dollars on rebuilding the storm vulnerable fossil fuel dependent grid. “As you know, the absence of electricity after Hur
  
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• Retired colonel explains what Russia's military strategy is now

  03-10-2022 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton explains what Russia's current military strategy in Ukraine.
  
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• Iran’s supreme leader breaks silence on Mahsa Amini, blaming U.S. and Israel for violent protests

  03-10-2022 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Iran’s supreme leader broke his silence on the unrest that has rocked his country and accused the United States and Israel of planning the protests.
  
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• Tories accuse police of failing to protect conference delegates from protesters

  03-10-2022 21:22 via theguardian.com
  West Midlands police blame shortchanging by Home Office as party officials report abuse and assaults on delegatesSenior Conservative officials have accused West Midlands police of failing to do enough to keep protesters away from delegates at the party conference, a leaked letter reveals.The disclosure comes just hours after the police were forced to lock down the conference in central Birmingham for several hours after a security scare. Police say they have been shortchanged by over £500,
  
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• Kevin Spacey is going on trial in federal court. Here's what you need to know.

  03-10-2022 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Anthony Rapp sued Kevin Spacey over an alleged sexual assault in 1986, when Rapp was 14.
  
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• Kim Kardashian charged for promoting crypto asset

  03-10-2022 20:56 via cnn.com
  
  Kim Kardashian agreed to pay a $1.26 million fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle civil charges after the reality TV star touted a crypto asset, EthereumMax, on Instagram.
  
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• Judge agrees to delay Elizabeth Holmes’ sentencing over prosecutor misconduct concerns

  03-10-2022 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  The judge in Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal case has agreed to delaysentencing the former Theranos executive to consider whether federal prosecutors committed misconduct.
  
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• Justice Jackson wades into questioning on murky wetlands dispute as Supreme Court opens new term

  03-10-2022 20:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on board as its newest member, opens its nine-month term on Monday by hearing a conservative challenge
  
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• Gold coins hidden in 7th Century found in wall

  03-10-2022 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The 44 coins found in Israel date to the Muslim conquest of the area in 635, archaeologists say.
  
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• Hurricane Orlene strikes Mexico’s Pacific coast with 80mph winds

  03-10-2022 20:46 via theguardian.com
  Nearby ports are closed and emergency shelters open as 10in of rain and dangerous surf are expectedHurricane Orlene has made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of Mazatlán, with winds of more than 80mph (130km/h).Electrical cables swayed and sent off showers of sparks in the town of El Rosario, about 40 miles (65km) south of Mazatlán, close to where the hurricane hit. Continue reading...
  
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• Supreme Court upholds bump stock ban in big win for gun safety advocates

  03-10-2022 20:31
  The government's ban on devices that allow a semiautomatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger will remain.
  
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• Adviser to Brazil's presidential candidate weighs in on rundoff

  03-10-2022 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  Celso Amorim, former Brazilian foreign minister and current adviser to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, says he believes the former president will secure an outright victory on October 30th.
  
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• Cost of insuring against Credit Suisse defaulting reaches record high

  03-10-2022 20:23 via theguardian.com
  Investors rush to buy credit default swaps as worries grow over solidity of bank’s balance sheetThe cost of buying insurance against Credit Suisse defaulting on its debt soared to a record high on Monday, amid fears on markets about the solidity of the balance sheet at the globally significant Swiss bank.There was a sell-off in the bank’s shares and bonds while investors rushed instead to buy credit default swaps (CDS) – insurance against the bank failing to meet its debts. Con
  
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• Russian court sets Griner appeal hearing for Oct. 25

  03-10-2022 20:21
  A Russian court has set a date for American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession
  
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• Country singer Hardy treated for 'significant injuries' after tour bus flips over

  03-10-2022 20:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Country singer and songwriter Hardy was hospitalized with "significant injuries" after his tour bus flipped over following a performance in Bristol, Tennessee, on Saturday, he said in a tweet Sunday.
  
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• Taylor Swift keeps us from theorizing what 'Anti-Hero' is about

  03-10-2022 20:12 via cnn.com
  
  Let's be honest: part of the fun of Taylor Swift music is figuring out who or what she's talking about.
  
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• Daughter of American released from Venezuela rips Rubio over criticism of detainee swap

  03-10-2022 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  The relative of two Americans freed this weekend in a prisoner swap with Venezuela tore into GOP Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday over his criticism of the exchange, blasting his comments as "unpatriotic and unhelpful" and questioning his support for the seven wrongfully detained US citizens.
  
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• Oath Keepers leader regretted not having guns on Jan. 6, prosecutors say at seditious conspiracy trial

  03-10-2022 19:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes said after Jan. 6 that the group "should have brought rifles," prosecutors revealed in a seditious conspiracy trial Monday.
  
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• Brazilians shocked as Bolsonaro’s strong election showing defies expectations

  03-10-2022 19:43 via theguardian.com
  Far-right president forces second round after closely trailing Lula, disappointing those who had hoped to turn a page on his influenceTears filled Beatriz Simões’s eyes as she digested Jair Bolsonaro’s startlingly strong performance in Sunday’s Brazilian election.Hours earlier the 34-year-old publicist had been convinced a hope-filled dawn was coming with the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s next leader. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It was a warzone': Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained university students, witnesses say

  03-10-2022 19:37 via cnn.com
  
  When Farid's friend called crying for help on Sunday, he jumped on his bike and quickly rode to Tehran's Sharif University.
  
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• Iranian protester speaks out: 'We are not going to stop'

  03-10-2022 19:32 via cnn.com
  
  Many students at a prominent university in Tehran are protesting against the regime in Iran as part of a nationwide movement triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who died after being apprehended by the country's morality police. CNN correspondent Jomana Karadsheh speaks with a protester who says he will not stop demonstrating.
  
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• Republican nominee for governor repeats an internet hoax claiming kids are using litter boxes in schools

  03-10-2022 19:23 via cnn.com
  
  The Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota repeated last week a bizarre hoax claim which has been debunked that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and are being allowed to use litter boxes to urinate in schools.
  
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• Drax: The Green Energy Scandal exposed

  03-10-2022 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada
  
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• Cop27 host Egypt warns UK not to backtrack from climate agenda

  03-10-2022 18:56 via theguardian.com
  Unusual diplomatic intervention prompted by fears over Liz Truss’s commitment to net zeroThe Egyptian government, host of the next UN climate summit, has warned the UK against “backtracking from the global climate agenda”, in a significant intervention prompted by fears over Liz Truss’s commitment to net zero.The warning before the Cop27 conference, which will take place in just over a month in Sharm el-Sheikh, to the host of Cop26, which took place in Glasgow last Novemb
  
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• Burkina Faso coup fuels fears of growing Russian mercenary presence in Sahel

  03-10-2022 18:35 via theguardian.com
  North Africa analysts believe new leader Ibrahim Traoré may seek help from Moscow in fight against Islamic extremistsRussian mercenaries may be poised for further expansion in Africa’s strategically important Sahel region after the latest coup d’etat in the region, western officials and analysts fear.Ibrahim Traoré, a 34-year-old army captain, took power in Burkina Faso on Friday, overthrowing Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, whom he accused of failing to effectively
  
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• Why did the Brazil election pollsters get Bolsonaro’s vote so wrong?

  03-10-2022 18:32 via theguardian.com
  One expert says many surveys overrepresented poor voters, and far-right supporters may just not respondNot for the first time, the pollsters got it wrong. Far from being a sweeping win for the left, the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections was much closer than expected, with the country’s far-right president significantly outperforming predictions.With almost all votes counted on Monday, Jair Bolsonaro’s veteran leftist rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had sec
  
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• ‘Unspeakable trauma’: police in Queensland and NSW failed to investigate alleged gang rape of 14-year-old girl, records show

  03-10-2022 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: A senior officer told Karen Iles they believed her statement, including names, photos, maps and diary excerpts, had been destroyedFollow the latest updates with our live blogGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastPolice in Queensland and New South Wales failed to investigate a series of alleged sexual assaults against a 14-year-old girl, lost key documents related to the case, and later told the alleged victim that her formal statement had been “destr
  
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• UK Prime Minister forced into embarrassing retreat over tax cut plans

  03-10-2022 18:23 via cnn.com
  
  The British government has announced it will reverse plans to scrap the highest rate of income tax, following a major backlash to its proposed "growth plan."
  
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• Russia no longer has full control of any of four ‘annexed’ Ukrainian provinces

  03-10-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Kyiv’s troops advanced in southern Kherson province and made additional gains in eastRussia-Ukraine war – live updatesRussia no longer has full control of any of the four provinces of Ukraine it says it annexed last week after Ukrainian troops reportedly advanced dozens of kilometres in Kherson province in the south of the country and made additional gains in the east.On Monday, the Russian military acknowledged that Kyiv’s forces had broken through in the Kherson region. It sa
  
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• Indonesia football stadium disaster: police chief sacked as investigation launched

  03-10-2022 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Officers investigated after teargas fired and at least 125 people, including 32 children, killed in crushAn Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from their posts and 18 others were being investigated for responsibility in the firing of teargas inside a soccer stadium that led to a crush, killing at least 125 people, officials said.Indonesian police are facing increasing pressure over their management of crowds during the Kanjuruhan stadium disaster. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazilian left celebrates election wins for trans and Indigenous candidates

  03-10-2022 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Successes in congress as progressive standard bearer Lula is favourite to defeat Bolsonaro in second round of presidential voteBrazil’s election result was a disappointment for those hoping to see a first-round win for the presidential challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva but there were still some reasons to be cheerful for the country’s left.Not only is Lula favourite to win the 30 October runoff – he need only increase his vote share from 48.4% to 50+1 – but dive
  
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• KFC is bringing back a fan-favorite menu item

  03-10-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Kentucky Fried Chicken is bringing back a fan favorite after a nearly decade-long hiatus.
  
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• Russian woman behind on-air war protest reportedly escapes house arrest

  03-10-2022 17:04 via theguardian.com
  Journalist Marina Ovsyannikova gained international attention after holding up ‘no war’ poster on live TVRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesRussia has put Marina Ovsyannikova, the former state TV editor who interrupted a news broadcast to protest against the Ukraine war, on a wanted list after she reportedly escaped house arrest.The Ukrainian-born Ovsyannikova, 44, gained international attention in March after bursting into a studio of Channel One, her then employer, to denounce the U
  
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• Supreme Court allows lawsuit seeking $1.3 billion in damages against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell

  03-10-2022 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell can move forward after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider Lindell's attempt to block the case.
  
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• SCOTUS allows $1.3 billion lawsuit against MyPillow CEO to proceed

  03-10-2022 16:59 via cnn.com
  
  Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell can move forward after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider Lindell's attempt to block the case.
  
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• Supreme Court to hear cases that could decide future of internet speech and social media

  03-10-2022 16:53 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court will hear two pivotal cases later this term about online speech that could significantly shape the future of social media, the court announced on Monday.
  
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• See people compete in human-tower contest

  03-10-2022 16:52 via cnn.com
  
  Some 11,000 spectators packed Tarragona's bullring on October 2 for the Catalan tradition, according to Reuters.
  
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• 'Are you okay with this?': Bash asks Sen. Scott about Trump's racist insult

  03-10-2022 16:51 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Dana Bash asks Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) about former President Donald Trump's social media post threatening Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with a "death wish" for supporting "Democrat sponsored bills." He also mocked his former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who is McConnell's wife.
  
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