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• Don't let the title fool you: Why Netflix knows exactly what it's doing with 'Enola Holmes'

  04-11-2022 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Best new family movies on Netflix? How 'Enola Holmes 2' turned Millie Bobby Brown into a dual threat — with a little help from Sherlock Holmes and Henry Cavill
  
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• As Florida medical boards ban trans youth care, chaos ensues

  04-11-2022 23:54 via abcnews.go.com
  The Florida Board of Medicine has approved a rule to ban trans youth care.
  
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• Musk lashes out in interview as brands pause Twitter ads

  04-11-2022 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  The same day Twitter began laying off employees across the company, Elon Musk talked early struggles and his future vision for the company during an interview at the Baron Investment Conference.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi makes first public on-camera comments about husband's attack

  04-11-2022 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday spoke publicly on-camera for the first time about the attack on her husband, Paul, and his ongoing recovery, saying "it's going to be a long haul, but he will be well."
  
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• Video shows moment former Pakistan Prime Minister was shot

  04-11-2022 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  Imran Khan, Pakistan's former Prime Minister, has survived a shooting at a political rally on November 3.
  
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• Newcastle are Premier League title challengers - Pep Guardiola

  04-11-2022 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says Newcastle are one of six teams who pose a threat to his team's hopes of a third straight Premier League title.
  
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• Qatar 2022: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says players and managers are 'not politicians'

  04-11-2022 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says players and managers are not politicians, amid continued scrutiny over the 2022 World Cup.
  
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• Why Arizona is the most important state to watch on election night

  04-11-2022 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama was blunt about the stakes in Arizona when he campaigned for Democrats on the midterm ballot this past week.
  
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• Selena Gomez's documentary shows the star during vulnerable moments in her mental wellness battle

  04-11-2022 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Apple TV+'s new documentary "Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me" gives viewers a look inside six turbulent years in the life of the world-famous singer and actress, who's become an outspoken advocate as she navigates her own battle for mental wellness.
  
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• New York Democrats brace for stunning election losses, and they already have a fall guy

  04-11-2022 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic officials and strategists in New York tell CNN they are bracing for what could be stunning losses in the governor's race and in contests for as many as four US House seats largely in the suburbs.
  
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• Iranian rapper charged with crimes punishable by death

  04-11-2022 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was arrested for supporting Iranian protests. He is known for speaking out against the government and now faces crimes punishable by death. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.
  
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• CNN reporter measures airline seats and puts them to the comfort test

  04-11-2022 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  Experts say airline seats have gotten smaller over the years while Americans grow larger. Under pressure from Congress and passengers, the Federal Aviation Administration is now looking into whether seats are too tight to rapidly evacuate as well as comfort complaints. CNN's Pete Muntean reports.
  
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• Powerball: Lotto fever grips US for $1.6bn world record prize

  04-11-2022 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  One in 292 million odds of winning have not deterred hopeful Americans from snapping up their tickets.
  
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• 'Ready to party': Zeldin and Stefanik plot New York Republican revival

  04-11-2022 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lee Zeldin’s bid for New York governor was considered a longshot, but days before the election the Republican pitched tightening polls against Gov. Kathy Hochul.
  
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• Ukraine war: Putin allows former prisoners to be conscripted

  04-11-2022 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Russian murderers and drug dealers who have served their time face being sent to serve in Ukraine.
  
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• Peru tourists released from detained riverboat

  04-11-2022 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  A British woman earlier told the BBC conditions on the boat were "starting to deteriorate".
  
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• Amazon tourists and Peruvians held on boat released by Indigenous protesters

  04-11-2022 22:53 via theguardian.com
  Group of more than 100 including British and American travellers were detained in protest over government response to oil spillIndigenous protesters have released more than 100 tourists and local people who were held on a boat for more than a day in an attempt to force the Peruvian government to act over oil spills in the Amazon region where they live.The Indigenous Kukama had held a boatload of Peruvians and foreign tourists – including US and European citizens and at least three British
  
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• Rugby League World Cup: Josh Addo-Carr stars as Australia reach semi-finals with resounding win over Lebanon

  04-11-2022 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Josh Addo-Carr scores five tries as Australia reach the semi-finals of the World Cup with a resounding 48-4 win over Lebanon in Huddersfield.
  
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• Driver ‘seriously injured’ after being run over three times by own car

  04-11-2022 22:21 via theguardian.com
  Swiss woman, 45, was run over three times after she got out of her car and left the engine runningA woman in Switzerland was seriously injured after she got out of her car with the engine still on only for it to run her over three times, police said on Friday.The 45-year-old had stepped out of her car in a residential area in St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, probably in order to get something out of the boot, regional police said, according to the Swiss news agency ATS. Continue reading...
  
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• Tom Barrack: Jury acquits top Trump aide of acting as foreign agent

  04-11-2022 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Tom Barrack was accused of being the "eyes, ears and the voice" of the United Arab Emirates.
  
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• Hip-hop mourns Migos rapper Takeoff as police search for suspect

  04-11-2022 22:14 via abcnews.go.com
  After the shooting death of Migos rapper Takeoff in Houston on Tuesday, the hip-hop community is again mourning the loss of an influential and popular star.
  
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• Poland and UK consider bolstering NATO's eastern flank, while UK bumps up activity in the Baltic region

  04-11-2022 22:07 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Ukrainian investigators uncover horrific claims of Russian sexual violence
  • Video: Kherson residents celebrate smaller Russian presence, but officials fear it's a trick
  
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• US accuses Russia and China of protecting North Korea from UN

  04-11-2022 22:03 via theguardian.com
  China and Russia, meanwhile, accuse US of inflaming tensions with large-scale joint military exercises with South KoreaThe United States has accused Russia and China of providing “blanket protection” to North Korea from further UN Security Council action and said the pair had “bent over backwards” to justify Pyongyang’s ballistic missile launches.The US, Britain, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway requested that the Security Council meet on Friday after North Korea
  
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• Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation

  04-11-2022 22:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday battered the teams primarily responsible for keeping the platform free of misinformation, potentially hobbling the company’s
  
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• Russia’s Wagner Group opens defence tech centre in St Petersburg

  04-11-2022 21:50 via theguardian.com
  Opening is latest step by private militia’s owner Yevgeny Prigozhin in taking a more public role in shaping Russia’s defence policyRussia’s Wagner Group – the once-secretive private militia controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin – has opened a military technology centre in St Petersburg, in the latest move by the Putin ally who has criticised the Kremlin’s defence top brass over the Ukraine conflict.The opening of the “Wagner Centre” on Friday is seen as
  
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• Jury finds Trump friend Tom Barrack not guilty of foreign lobbying and lying to FBI

  04-11-2022 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump’s friend Tom Barrack was found not guilty of charges that he acted as an unregistered foreign agent for United Arab Emirates and lied to the FBI.
  
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• How Democrats and Republicans could be getting the suburbs wrong

  04-11-2022 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Election 2022: How Democrats and Republicans could be getting suburban voters wrong
  
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• Mount Kilimanjaro fires largely contained

  04-11-2022 21:24 via abcnews.go.com
  Mount Kilimanjaro fires largely contained, following military and community efforts. The fires destroyed 12.7 square miles of forest land.
  
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• Justice Barrett rejects second challenge to Biden's student loan forgiveness program

  04-11-2022 21:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected a second challenge to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
  
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• A fugitive was vacationing in Disney after nearly one year on the run. Then an off-duty officer spotted him.

  04-11-2022 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  A New York City fugitive who had been on the run for almost one year was vacationing at Disney World's Animal Kingdom Theme Park when he was spotted by a federal officer.
  
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• Laxalt's fiery closing pitch illustrates Nevada GOP's pro-Trump transformation

  04-11-2022 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  For more than a year, Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt has pitched Nevada voters on sending him to Washington with a simple message: He has little
  
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• NASA's moon rocket returns to pad for next launch attempt

  04-11-2022 21:04 via abcnews.go.com
  NASA’s moon rocket is back on the pad for another launch attempt, following more repairs
  
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• Woman mauled by bear in yard while letting dog out

  04-11-2022 21:00 via abcnews.go.com
  The bear attack occurred Wednesday evening at a Vermont condominium complex in Winhall near Stratton Mountain Resort, in the Green Mountains.
  
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• Rocket Lab's attempt to catch a rocket booster with a helicopter falls short

  04-11-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  Rocket Lab, a start-up building small orbital rockets, kicked off another successful mission on Friday — but it failed in its efforts to recapture its rocket booster as it tumbled down toward Earth. The company deployed a helicopter with a hook attachment, but it wasn't able to catch the booster.
  
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• Jan. 6 committee interviewing Secret Service agent in lead car of Trump motorcade on day of riot

  04-11-2022 20:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  The House Jan. 6 committee will meet Friday with a Secret Service agent who was in the lead car of former President Donald Trump's motorcade on the day of the
  
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• Sudhir Suri: Radical Hindu leader shot dead in Amritsar

  04-11-2022 20:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Sudhir Suri was shot several times while protesting in the holy Sikh city of Amritsar.
  
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• Powerball jackpot increases to $1.6 billion — a world record

  04-11-2022 20:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Saturday's Powerball jackpot has increased to $1.6 billion — a world record, according to lottery officials.
  
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• Netanyahu begins coalition talks to form Israeli government

  04-11-2022 20:22 via theguardian.com
  Veteran leader and his far-right allies win decisive 64 seats in 120-seat KnessetThe former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun coalition negotiations on forming a government, after winning a decisive majority in Israel’s fifth election in four years with the help of ultra-Orthodox parties and a new alliance with the far right.After a year in opposition, and years of political chaos triggered by his ongoing corruption trial, the veteran politician engineered a comeback in T
  
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• Scientists' detective work uncovers record of a valuable fossil destroyed in a WWII bombing raid

  04-11-2022 20:11 via cnn.com
  
  The first complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile was thought to be lost forever in a bombing raid in London in 1941.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: 24-hour curfew imposed in Kherson as Putin calls for people to leave city – as it happened

  04-11-2022 20:01 via theguardian.com
  This live blog has now closed, you can find more of our Ukraine coverage hereNine Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones were shot down last night, according to the Ukrainian military.“Our air defence forces shot down 3 ‘Shahed-136’ UAVs,” the latest report from Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces reads.We have invited the IAEA to check, we have given them full freedom of action at the relevant facilities, and we have clear and irrefutable evidence that no one in Uk
  
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• Elon Musk's Twitter lays off employees across the company

  04-11-2022 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk will begin laying off Twitter employees on Friday morning, according to a memo sent to staff, as several Twitter employees file a class action lawsuit alleging the layoffs are in violation of California law.
  
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• Latinos have ranked economy and abortion as top issues, but will it impact the vote?

  04-11-2022 19:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  A NALEO Latino voter tracking poll puts the economy and abortion as top issues for Hispanics in the last two months, but will it get them to the polls.
  
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• Imran Khan speaks publicly for first time since surviving shooting

  04-11-2022 19:24 via bbc.co.uk
  In his first comments since the attack, Pakistan's former PM says two shooters tried to kill him.
  
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• Kentucky children's agency is taking 'additional action' against foster care facility where 7-year-old boy suffocated

  04-11-2022 19:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Kentucky agency charged with overseeing state youth centers said it has taken new action against the nonprofit organization that operates a Louisville
  
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• Critical Haiti gas terminal freed after weeks of talks with G9 gang leader

  04-11-2022 19:19 via cnn.com
  
  Haitian authorities say they have regained control of the main gas terminal in capital city Port-au-Prince, ending a gang stranglehold on the vital energy facility.
  
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• Two nations consider bolstering NATO's eastern flank, while the UK bumps up activity in the Baltic region

  04-11-2022 19:18 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Ukrainian investigators uncover horrific claims of Russian sexual violence
  • Video: Kherson residents celebrate smaller Russian presence, but officials fear it's a trick
  
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• US military nuclear chief sounds the alarm about pace of China's nuclear weapons program

  04-11-2022 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  The Commander of US Strategic Command, which oversees the US nuclear weapons program, warned that China is developing nuclear weapons much faster than the US and called the issue a "near-term problem," during a speech at a closed event earlier this week.
  
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• Imran Khan supporters take to streets as shooting fuels Pakistan tensions

  04-11-2022 19:17 via theguardian.com
  Stakes raised on Friday as clashes erupt between police and protesters in cities across PakistanHundreds of police officers equipped with teargas hurriedly took positions near a junction connecting Islamabad with its twin city of Rawalpindi as a group of protesters burned wood and chanted slogans on Friday.The two groups edged towards each other, and then the protesters hurled stones at the police, who responded with teargas rounds. Not long afterwards, the protesters dispersed, and police reope
  
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• Price drops for TSA PreCheck

  04-11-2022 19:16 via cnn.com
  
  At a moment when it seems like everything is getting more expensive, there's at least one travel convenience that will cost air travelers less.
  
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• Infosys still operating from Russia eight months after saying it was pulling out

  04-11-2022 19:12 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Indian firm from which Rishi Sunak’s wife collects £11.5m in annual dividends retains staffed Moscow officeRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe Indian IT services company Infosys from which the prime minister’s wife collects £11.5m in annual dividends is still operating from Moscow eight months after the company said it was pulling out.The company retains a staffed office and is paying subcontractors in the Russian capital to carry out IT services
  
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