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• FBI found documents containing classified intel on Iran and China at Mar-a-Lago

  21-10-2022 23:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The FBI found documents containing classified intelligence regarding Iran and China at ex-President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, say two people familiar with the matter.
  
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• 'Black Adam' is a wooden CGI fest embodying everything wrong with superhero films

  21-10-2022 23:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  “Black Adam” has a lot riding on Dwayne Johnson’s muscled shoulders. But as the credit scene proves, this Marvel knockoff is more Justice League than Avengers.
  
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• A gruesome quadruple killing is rocking a small Oklahoma town. Here's what we know.

  21-10-2022 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The desperate pleas appeared online shortly after the four friends disappeared last week — a man asking if anyone had seen his cousins.
  
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• Whale's majestic move brings dramatic end to marine rescue off Canada

  21-10-2022 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  A marine crew battled for hours to free a whale from fishing gear. Then they got some help from the creature itself.
  
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• Money rains on highway after Chile burglary

  21-10-2022 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  A shop burglary in Chile ended in a car chase and money showering onto a highway.
  
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• Steve Bannon sentencing: Jail term shows January 6 risks for Trump

  21-10-2022 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  This sentence for contempt of Congress comes as Donald Trump faces a subpoena from the same committee.
  
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• Trump subpoena: Former president ordered to testify to January 6 committee

  21-10-2022 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  If Mr Trump does not comply with the subpoena he could face criminal charges and imprisonment.
  
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• Javid backs Rishi Sunak, Sharma supports Boris Johnson and Penny Mordaunt is first to declare Tory leadership run – UK politics live

  21-10-2022 22:53 via theguardian.com
  Former health secretary backs former chancellor for PM; Cop26 president backs ex-PM; leader of the Commons announces candidacyMeanwhile, two out of five maternity units in England are providing substandard care to mothers and babies, the NHS watchdog has warned.“The quality of maternity care is not good enough,” the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said in its annual assessment of how health and social care services are performing. Continue reading...
  
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• Who is Giorgia Meloni? The rise to power of Italy's new far-right PM

  21-10-2022 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Politically active since she was a teenager, she has come to power partly by fortune.
  
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• Reporter breaks down the severity of the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago

  21-10-2022 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  Documents containing highly sensitive intelligence about Iran and China were among those recovered by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. CNN talks to Devlin Barrett, one of the Washington Post reporters that broke the story.
  
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• Steve Bannon vows ‘very vigorous appeal’ to four-month prison sentence – as it happened

  21-10-2022 22:09 via theguardian.com
  Former lead Trump strategist sentenced to prison and $6,500 in finesBannon says ‘I fully respect’ judge’s decision but vows to appealSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailSteve Bannon has just spoken with reporters outside the courthouse in Washington DC, telling them he “respects” the judge’s sentence, and veering off quickly into an attack on Joe Biden’s administration.In a brief, and chaotic appearance at the microphone, Ba
  
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• Donald Trump formally subpoenaed by January 6 committee

  21-10-2022 21:37 via theguardian.com
  Former US president will be compelled to provide accounting under oath about his potential foreknowledge of the Capitol attackThe House January 6 select committee has formally transmitted a subpoena to Donald Trump, compelling the former president to provide an accounting under oath about his potential foreknowledge of the Capitol attack and his broader efforts to overturn the 2020 election.The subpoena made sweeping requests for documents and testimony, dramatically raising the stakes in the hi
  
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• Ukraine war: US and Russian defence ministers discuss Ukraine in rare talks

  21-10-2022 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Lloyd Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu for the second time since the war began.
  
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• Should you let Halloween be a candy free-for-all? Maybe, experts say

  21-10-2022 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  Limiting your child's candy this Halloween might be more of a trick than a treat, experts say.
  
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• Kevin Spacey trial wrongly put #MeToo on the stand

  21-10-2022 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Anthony Rapp-Kevin Spacey verdict exonerates Spacey in child sex abuse suit. But it unfairly implicates #MeToo and hurts silent survivors.
  
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• This mother-daughter duo trapped Han Solo in bread dough

  21-10-2022 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  A family bakery in California, One House Bakery, made a life-sized Han Solo sculpture from bread for a local contest. Affectionately called "Pan Solo", the sculpture has already won the hearts of "Star Wars" fans near and far.
  
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• It's not clear if former President will comply and sit for deposition under oath about actions around Capitol riot

  21-10-2022 21:03 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol announced on Friday that the panel has officially sent a subpoena to former President Donald Trump as it paints him as the central figure in the multi-step plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Ukraine war: 'I'd rather go to jail than fight in Ukraine', Russian man says

  21-10-2022 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Russia has mobilised many thousands of men to fight in Ukraine. But Mikhail Ashichev refuses to go.
  
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• Victoria Greens spruik family ties in election pitch as ageing millennials defy drift to conservatism

  21-10-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Reproductive rights and parenting become hot topics in state election as parties on the left court women and young familiesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastKissing babies may be an election campaign trail cliche but for the Victorian Greens, it might also be sign their party – just like their supporter base – has grown up.Announcing a plan for five days of reproductive leave for public sector workers this week, leader Samantha Ratnam, deputy El
  
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• Handwritten notes, door-knocking, recipes: real estate agents turn ‘desperate’ across Australia

  21-10-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Amid falling house prices and interest rate rises, agents are turning to increasingly frenzied measures to hunt for sellersGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThe first time Neha Samar received a handwritten note in her letterbox asking if she would be willing to sell her home, she threw it in the bin and forgot about it. The third time she received a similar note, it felt “creepy”.Samar has lived in her Shepparton property, north-east of Melbourne, sin
  
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• Steve Bannon sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress

  21-10-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  A sentence of four months in prison that ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced was shorter than the six months prosecutors were seeking, but still a noteworthy punishment and a boost to the House January 6 committee's efforts.
  
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• Bannon sentenced to four months in prison, a warning shot to reluctant Jan. 6 witnesses

  21-10-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  A sentence of four months in prison that ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced was shorter than the six months prosecutors were seeking, but still a noteworthy punishment and a boost to the House January 6 committee's efforts.
  
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• Balenciaga cuts partnership with Kanye West

  21-10-2022 20:44 via cnn.com
  
  Fashion powerhouse Balenciaga has officially severed ties with Kanye West following a series of antisemitic posts and other controversial comments from the rapper, according to a report from Women's Wear Daily citing a statement from Balenciaga's parent company.
  
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• Truss resignation: Global media ask what's happened to Britain

  21-10-2022 20:43 via bbc.co.uk
  After Liz Truss's resignation, media around the world are asking where the UK's politics went wrong.
  
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• Lloyd Austin pledges 'unwavering' commitment to Ukraine but vows Washington will keep communication with Moscow open

  21-10-2022 20:42 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Italy's Berlusconi boasts about friendship with Putin in leaked audio
  
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• WATCH: Schnauzer and bear have tense standoff at Minnesota home

  21-10-2022 20:36 via abcnews.go.com
  This 12-year-old Schnauzer named Liebs clearly has no fear of bears.
  
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• White House denies talk of national security review of Elon Musk ventures

  21-10-2022 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Report cites concerns over foreign investors funding Twitter takeover and increasingly strategic role in Ukraine of StarlinkUS officials are considering whether to subject some of Elon Musk’s business ventures to national security reviews, including his proposed acquisition of Twitter and his satellite internet company Starlink, according to a report.Bloomberg wrote on Friday that Biden administration officials were concerned by the Tesla chief executive’s plan to buy Twitter in a de
  
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• Parents of girl found in suitcase urge French politicians to stop exploiting death

  21-10-2022 20:05 via theguardian.com
  Family speak out after photo of 12-year-old, identified only as ‘Lola’, was displayed at far-right rallyThe parents of a French schoolgirl whose death stunned the country have urged rightwing politicians to stop using her photograph for political ends.A 24-year-old woman from Algeria with a history of psychiatric disorders was last week charged with the rape and murder last week of the girl, identified only as “Lola”. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: US pledges ‘unwavering commitment’ to Ukraine; Zelenskiy accuses Russia of delaying grain ships – as it happened

  21-10-2022 20:04 via theguardian.com
  Lloyd Austin and Sergei Shoigu also agree to maintain lines of communication; Ukrainian president says Russia delaying ships’ passageAt a glance: what we know on day 240 of the invasionVitaliy Kim, governor of Mykolaiv, has no casualties to report in his daily update, although he has posted to Telegram to say that at 6.50am this morning the “coast of the Kutsurub community” was struck.A series of explosions have also been reported in Ukraine’s south-eastern city of Zapori
  
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• January 6 committee officially subpoenas Trump

  21-10-2022 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  • WaPo: Some Mar-a-Lago docs contained sensitive info about Iran and China
  • Trump claims 15 records taken from Mar-a-Lago, including clemency requests, are his
  
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• Boris Johnson gaining ground on Rishi Sunak in Tory leadership race

  21-10-2022 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Former PM’s allies say he will easily make threshold of 100 MPs, while critics warn of potential defectionsTory leadership contest – latest updatesBoris Johnson is gaining ground in his audacious bid to return to Downing Street despite critics warning he risks plunging the Conservatives into fresh chaos over the impending parliamentary inquiry into the Partygate scandal.As the former prime minister raced back from his Caribbean holiday to drum up support among MPs, Rishi Sunak remain
  
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• Far-right Giorgia Meloni appointed Italy’s first female prime minister

  21-10-2022 19:55 via theguardian.com
  President Mattarella gave Brothers of Italy leader mandate to govern with coalition members Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo SalviniGiorgia Meloni has formed Italy’s new ruling coalition, giving the country its first far right-led government since the end of the second world war.A presidential palace official announced that Meloni, set to become the first woman to serve as the country’s prime minister, and her cabinet would be sworn in on Saturday. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, a par
  
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• Meghan Trainor reveals what happened after her hit song

  21-10-2022 19:53 via cnn.com
  
  Pop star Meghan Trainor discusses her hit song "All About That Bass" and how it changed her life. Watch her interview with Chris Wallace October 23 at 7pm ET on CNN or anytime on HBO Max.
  
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• Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi reportedly under house arrest

  21-10-2022 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Reports say athlete who competed in South Korea not wearing headscarf pressured into ‘forced confession’The Iranian climber who received a hero’s welcome on her return to Tehran after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf has reportedly been placed under house arrest.Elnaz Rekabi competed last weekend in South Korea without wearing a headscarf, which is mandatory in Iran and a subject of nationwide protests after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the
  
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• WATCH: UPS driver surprises little boy with special delivery

  21-10-2022 19:48 via abcnews.go.com
  Four-year-old Kyle loves UPS trucks so much that he had a UPS-themed birthday party.
  
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• ‘There is no safety net’: music festivals in UK raise ticket prices as costs soar

  21-10-2022 19:45 via theguardian.com
  Organisers grapple with increasing financial challenges amid ongoing effects of Brexit and the pandemicBritish music fans expressed dismay this week as Glastonbury announced that the cost of tickets for next year’s event will rise from £265 to £335.Emily Eavis, co-organiser of the not-for-profit festival, said: “We have tried very hard to minimise the increase in price on the ticket but we’re facing enormous rises in the costs of running this vast show, while still
  
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• Video: Giant dome engulfed in fire collapses at Indonesia mosque

  21-10-2022 19:43 via cnn.com
  
  The dome of the historic mosque at Indonesia's Jakarta Islamic Center collapsed after a fire broke out during a renovation.
  
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• WaPo: Some documents seized at Mar-a-Lago contained sensitive secrets about Iran and China

  21-10-2022 19:42 via cnn.com
  
  Documents containing highly sensitive intelligence about Iran and China were among those recovered by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
  
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• Bannon sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress

  21-10-2022 19:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Bannon gets what he always wanted
  
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• Angelina Jolie to play Maria Callas in Spencer director’s next biopic

  21-10-2022 19:25 via theguardian.com
  The Oscar-winner will play the opera singer in a film that explores the ‘tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic’ story of her lifeAngelina Jolie is set to play opera singer Maria Callas in a new drama from Chilean film-maker Pablo Larraín.Maria will tell “the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris” with a script from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight,
  
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• Police investigate car buried in yard of Silicon Valley home in 1990s

  21-10-2022 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Car was discovered Thursday morning by landscapers in affluent town of Atherton with unused bags of concrete inside itPolice are investigating why someone buried a car in the yard of a multimillion-dollar northern California home in the 1990s – and left unused bags of concrete inside.The car was discovered on Thursday morning by landscapers in the affluent town of Atherton in Silicon Valley, police said in a news release. Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Bannon's prison sentence is the start of accountability for Trump Jan. 6 allies

  21-10-2022 18:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bannon is the only adviser to former President Trump who has been held criminally accountable. The significance of that should not be understated.
  
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• Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan barred from elections for five years

  21-10-2022 18:55 via theguardian.com
  Election commission rules he misled officials about gifts received from foreign leaders while in officeThe former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has been disqualified from running for political office for five years, after the country’s election commission ruled that he misled officials about gifts he received from foreign leaders while in power.The decision announced on Friday is another twist in political wrangling that began even before Khan’s ejection in April, and is one
  
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• James Corden says drama over restaurant ban is 'silly' because he did nothing wrong

  21-10-2022 18:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  James Corden said the drama surrounding his brief ban from the famed New York City restaurant Balthazar is "silly" because he has not done anything wrong.
  
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• WATCH: Pumpkin carving pro

  21-10-2022 18:46 via abcnews.go.com
  Artist Jon Niell shows us how he turns his jack-o’-lanterns into incredible works of art.
  
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• Archaeologists restoring ISIS damage in Iraq discover Assyrian reliefs unseen for millennia

  21-10-2022 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years.
  
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• WATCH: Dog posing with Halloween decorations understood the assignment

  21-10-2022 18:39 via abcnews.go.com
  Lilly Flores' said her Labrador Maverick was "one with the Halloween decorations” after he froze on the spot among the black cat decorations on the family’s lawn.
  
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• Great save? Lower league clubs mull early kick-offs to cut energy bills

  21-10-2022 18:35 via theguardian.com
  With budgets always tight some smaller football clubs are looking to offset their soaring power costsShrewsbury Town’s fans had long since filed out of the Montgomery Waters Meadow stadium after the defender Chey Dunkley had scored an injury-time winner against Exeter, when Brian Caldwell looked angrily skyward. The League One club’s chief executive was unimpressed to see the ground’s floodlights still burning bright.Caldwell is among the football executives trying to limit the
  
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• Johnson, Mordaunt or Sunak: who is backing whom as next Tory leader

  21-10-2022 18:31 via theguardian.com
  Number of publicly declared MPs is growing as three candidates emerge as favourites in the raceJohnson, Sunak and Mordaunt get early backing in Tory leadership race – liveThe number of publicly declared MPs who are backing potential candidates for the Conservative leadership is growing, with three key figures emerging: the former chancellor Rishi Sunak, the former prime minister Boris Johnson, and Penny Mordaunt, the current leader of the House of Commons. Each candidate will need at least
  
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• After eight rounds, is there space for further EU sanctions on Russia?

  21-10-2022 18:27 via theguardian.com
  Baltic states and Poland have a long shopping list, but host of others seen as cautious of new measures• Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesSince Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been subjected to the heaviest sanctions of any country in the world.A fossil fuel superpower, Russia is no longer able to export coal to the European Union and will soon lose 90% of its oil sales to the bloc. In the other direction, the EU has banned the export of hundreds of
  
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