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• With razor-thin GOP majority likely, McCarthy allies tried to convince moderate Democrat to switch parties

  14-11-2022 23:55 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Failure to win the Senate is reverberating inside the Republican Party
  
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• Canada charges electric vehicle battery researcher with espionage for China

  14-11-2022 23:54 via theguardian.com
  Yuesheng Wang, a worker at Quebec’s power utility, is accused of sending trade secrets to China Canada’s federal police have charged an electric vehicle battery researcher at Quebec’s power utility with espionage, alleging the worker was covertly sending trade secrets to China.The arrest of Yuesheng Wang, 35, comes as Canada grapples with a barrage of accusations of Chinese interference, including allegations of meddling in its federal elections, as well as reports of secret &l
  
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• China reports record number of new daily coronavirus cases in Beijing, other cities

  14-11-2022 23:47 via foxnews.com
  
  China reported 14,878 new COVID-19 infections for Nov. 12, including a record number of new daily cases in capital city Beijing, as well as in manufacturing hubs Guangzhou and Zhengzhou. The new cases come as industrial activity in Guangzhou and Zhengzhou has been disrupted by restrictions aimed at controlling outbreaks. The number of daily cases in China rose from 11,950 on Nov. 11, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday. Excluding imported infections, China reported 14,761 new loc
  
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• Zambian student dies while fighting alongside Russian troops, Zambian government wants answers

  14-11-2022 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  A Zambian student who was serving a 9-year, six-month sentence in a Russian prison has been killed fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, the Zambian government announced Monday. Zambian Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo says Russian officials informed the Zambian government of the death of 23 year-old Lemekhane Nyireda, who was a government-sponsored student before he was sentenced for unspecified crimes in April 2020. Kakubo said the Zambian government was seeking answers from Russia abou
  
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• Unruly passenger removed from United flight

  14-11-2022 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI and the FAA are investigating an incident involving an "unruly passenger" on board a commercial flight that sent two passengers and one flight attendant to the hospital.
  
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• Lunchables & Velveeta: Here's why Kraft Heinz is all in on its nostalgic, processed staples

  14-11-2022 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Kraft Heinz CEO Miguel Patricio explains how he brought the company back from the brink by selling off peanuts and natural cheeses and embracing our nostalgia.
  
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• WATCH: Rescue dog siblings reunite after a month apart

  14-11-2022 23:23 via abcnews.go.com
  Luna and Mei were so excited to see each other.
  
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• Roberta Flack is unable to sing after ALS diagnosis

  14-11-2022 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  The Grammy-winning musician, 85, is known for hits such as "Killing Me Softly with His Song".
  
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• World Cup 2022: John Stones says Harry Maguire 'bond too strong to be broken'

  14-11-2022 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  England defender John Stones says his "bond" with Harry Maguire will not be affected by Maguire's lack of football before the 2022 World Cup.
  
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• Outgoing GOP governor says this is where Republicans went wrong

  14-11-2022 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  Outgoing Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker talks with CNN's Jake Tapper about former President Donald Trump's impact on Republicans in the 2022 midterm election.
  
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• Many are laughing at Musk’s Twitter Blue failure. Here’s the not so funny part.

  14-11-2022 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Spoof Twitter accounts taking advantage of how easy it was to get verified to make a point shouldn't make us forget about the bad actors who spend a lot of time trying to look real for dangerous reasons.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo & Man Utd - what comes next for the Portugal forward?

  14-11-2022 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  After saying that he feels betrayed by Manchester United, what comes next for Cristiano Ronaldo?
  
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• UVA shooting: Three members of football team killed, suspect in custody

  14-11-2022 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Three members of the college team are shot and killed on a bus returning from a field trip.
  
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• Jay Leno: US comedian is recovering after being burned in fire

  14-11-2022 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The TV host, 72, is stable and receiving treatment being injured in a fire at his California garage.
  
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• Australia flash flooding: Thousands evacuated

  14-11-2022 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The country's fourth flooding this year has seen New South Wales and Victoria's river banks burst.
  
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• Banksy confirms seven new murals in Ukraine

  14-11-2022 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  Three days after Banksy debuted his latest mural on Instagram, spray painted on the wall of a bombed building in the city of Borodianka, Ukraine, the anonymous street artist confirmed that he completed seven new works in Ukraine in total.
  
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• 'Proof of life' given to family of Abd el-Fattah, an imprisoned Egyptian-British activist on hunger strike

  14-11-2022 22:15 via foxnews.com
  
  The sister of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah said on Monday the family had received a letter from prison that served as "proof of life" from the hunger striker. Abd el-Fattah, who has been on hunger strike against his detention and prison conditions for more than 220 days, had said he was escalating his protest by ceasing to drink water on Nov. 6, the opening day of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. Since then his family and his lawyer had made repeated trips to the prison where h
  
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• Employee of Hydro-Québec dam charged with espionage by Canadian police

  14-11-2022 22:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Canadian police charged a Hydro-Québec employee on Monday with espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets to China. Yuesheng Wang, 35, will appear in court in Longueuil, Quebec, Tuesday to face charges of obtaining trade secrets, using a computer without authorization, and with fraud and breach of trust by a public officer. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said its national security enforcement team began an investigation in August after receiving a complaint from Hydro-Québec&
  
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• Wagner Group boss applauds murder of former fighter

  14-11-2022 22:06 via cnn.com
  
  Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner Group is heavily involved in the fighting in Ukraine, has applauded a video in which a former member of the group is brutally murdered.
  
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• US studying how to modify powerful armed drone as Ukrainian demand grows

  14-11-2022 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  As Russian forces have retreated in Ukraine's south, the Biden administration has announced a slew of new military aid packages for Ukraine, but all were missing a piece of weaponry that Ukraine's military has long sought: the multi-use Gray Eagle drone, armed with Hellfire missiles.
  
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• Mother of newborn allegedly murdered by 'killer nurse' Lucy Letby heard baby's 'horrendous screams'

  14-11-2022 21:44 via foxnews.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England - The mother of a newborn baby allegedly murdered by Lucy Letby has told how she heard his "horrendous" screams and saw blood around his mouth when she walked in and found him alone with the nurse. The woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons, told a jury that she was left "frightened" after seeing her five day-old son because she "knew something was very wrong." Letby, 32, who is on trial in the United Kingdom, is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to
  
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• The world can breathe a little easier after the US President and Chinese leader talked for three hours

  14-11-2022 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  The world can breathe a little easier after US President Joe Biden's talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday.
  
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• The US and China are still on collision course, despite two important outcomes from a summit in Indonesia

  14-11-2022 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  The world can breathe a little easier after US President Joe Biden's talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday.
  
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• Cocoa farmers fear climate change to blame for lower crop production

  14-11-2022 21:30 via foxnews.com
  
  For more than 40 years, Jean Baptiste Saleyo has farmed cocoa on several acres of his family's land in Ivory Coast, a West African nation that produces almost half the world's supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate bars. But this year Saleyo says the rains have become unpredictable, and he fears his crop could be yet another victim of climate change. "When it should have rained, it didn’t, it didn’t rain," Saleyo said as he inspected the ripeness of one of his cocoa pods. "It
  
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• Banksy unveils new mural in Ukraine among country’s war ruins

  14-11-2022 21:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Amid the ruins of war, the flowerings of art. A delicate painting of a gymnast doing a handstand has popped up on the wall of a wrecked building outside of Kyiv and appears to be the work of the British graffiti artist known as Banksy. Banksy posted photos on his Instagram page of the artwork in Borodyanka, northwest of Ukraine's capital. GEN Z CLIMATE ACTIVIST: THROWING PAINT, STOPPING TRAFFIC IS PRIVILEGED PROTEST AND UNHELPFUL The town was the target of shelling and fighting in the early stag
  
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• Why did Zelensky want a watermelon in Kherson?

  14-11-2022 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Since Russia's retreat from the region memes of the fruit have been widely shared online.
  
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• Alaa Abdel Fattah: Family say jailed British-Egyptian activist is alive

  14-11-2022 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Alaa Abdel Fattah tells his family in a letter from prison that he has resumed drinking water.
  
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• Jay Leno recovering from burn injuries

  14-11-2022 21:02 via cnn.com
  
  Jay Leno is recovering from burn injuries following a gasoline fire, the former "The Tonight Show" host told Variety.
  
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• Timed Teaser: What did Melania Trump's former lawyer do?

  14-11-2022 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Test your knowledge of the news these last few days - 10 questions, 10 seconds each. Go!
  
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• Experimental therapy gantenerumab fails to slow or improve Alzheimer's memory loss in clinical trials

  14-11-2022 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  An experimental treatment, gantenerumab, failed to help people at high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer's or those who were in the early phases of the disease, the manufacturer said Monday.
  
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• COP27: War causing huge release of climate warming gas, claims Ukraine

  14-11-2022 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Ukraine tells UN climate summit it will use evidence of environmental crimes to sue Russia.
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried’s $40m Bahamas penthouse reportedly up for sale

  14-11-2022 20:17 via theguardian.com
  Entrepreneur at center of FTX scandal put luxury residence up for sale the same day crypto exchange filed for bankruptcySam Bankman-Fried, the crypto trader entrepreneur at the center of the FTX scandal, reportedly put his luxury $40m Bahamas penthouse up for sale on Friday – the same day the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy.Bankman-Fried’s penthouse – “the Orchid”, located in Albany, an exclusive private community in Nassau – was listed by real es
  
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• James Cleverly says LGBTQ+ World Cup fans should ‘respect law’ of Qatar

  14-11-2022 20:17 via theguardian.com
  UK foreign secretary says it is his job to ensure UK visitors stay safe as he defends attending the tournamentJames Cleverly has told LGBTQ+ football fans travelling to Qatar for the World Cup to “respect the law” of the host country, as the foreign secretary defended attending the tournament himself.While Cleverly said he understood why some people were uncomfortable with Qatar holding the event, which begins on 20 November, he said it was “my job to make sure those people who
  
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• Australia 82-0 Papua New Guinea: Holders through to final of Women's Rugby League World Cup

  14-11-2022 20:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Defending champions Australia move into the final of the Women's Rugby League World Cup with a resounding victory over Papua New Guinea in York.
  
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• Clues at ancient lake site reveal earliest known cooked meal

  14-11-2022 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  Scientists have found the earliest known evidence of cooking at an archaeological site in Israel.
  
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• Google agrees to $392 million settlement with 40 states over location tracking practices

  14-11-2022 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  Google has agreed to a record $391.5 million settlement with 40 states for allegedly misleading consumers over its location tracking practices, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday.
  
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• Ukraine war: 'Long and difficult path' ahead - Zelensky in Kherson

  14-11-2022 19:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Ukraine's troops liberated the regional capital on Friday, after it was taken by Russia in March.
  
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• 'I'm not looking for conflict': Biden discusses three-hour meeting with Xi

  14-11-2022 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden held a three-hour talk Monday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, their first in-person encounter since Biden took office and an opportunity that both sides appeared to hope would lead to an improvement in rapidly deteriorating relations.
  
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• Biden's frank assessment: Xi and I came nowhere near resolving major issues

  14-11-2022 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden held a three-hour talk Monday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, their first in-person encounter since Biden took office and an opportunity that both sides appeared to hope would lead to an improvement in rapidly deteriorating relations.
  
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• Schumer explains three reasons Dems avoided 'red wave'

  14-11-2022 19:25 via cnn.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who won his reelection, discusses how the Democratic Party defied historic odds during the midterm election. Schumer says he feels the "American people saw that democracy was at risk" and that impacted votes.
  
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• Fish fossils show first cooking may have been 600,000 years earlier than thought

  14-11-2022 19:21 via theguardian.com
  After examining carp remains, researchers claim people who lived 780,000 years ago liked their fish well doneEarly human ancestors living 780,000 years ago liked their fish well done, Israeli researchers have revealed, in what they said was the earliest evidence of fire being used to cook.Exactly when our ancestors started cooking has been a matter of controversy among archaeologists because it is difficult to prove that an ancient fireplace was used to prepare food, and not just for warmth. Con
  
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• Climate-focused reform of World Bank could be done in a year, says Al Gore

  14-11-2022 19:15 via theguardian.com
  Former US vice-president says bank should refocus its spending and end its role in ‘fossil fuel colonialism’Fundamental reform of the World Bank could be completed within a year, to refocus its spending on the climate crisis and end its contribution to “fossil fuel colonialism”, according to the former US vice-president Al Gore.“I don’t know why it need take longer than a year,” said Gore, a longtime campaigner on the climate crisis since leaving politic
  
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• Sam Curran could go down as one of England's white-ball greats - Matthew Mott

  14-11-2022 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  England all-rounder Sam Curran could become "one of the white-ball greats", according to coach Matthew Mott.
  
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• ‘This could be the Cop where we lose 1.5C,’ warns Alok Sharma – as it happened

  14-11-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  As negotiations develop, some countries pushed to weaken the goal of keeping a global temperature increase to 1.5CThis liveblog is now closedWe’ve been reporting a lot on the lack of food at Cop (it’s been on our reporters’ minds for obvious reasons).But my colleague Damian Carrington has found that vegan campaigners have capitalised on the burger shortage. Continue reading...
  
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• Iran sentences protester to death for first time

  14-11-2022 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The anti-government protests began two months ago after the death of a young woman in custody.
  
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• Iran issues first death sentence over protests

  14-11-2022 18:40 via theguardian.com
  Unnamed person faces execution for alleged arson as part of crackdown on unrest triggered by death of Mahsa AminiIran has issued a first death sentence over protests that have mounted a fierce challenge to four decades of hardline clerical rule, as rights groups warn that a wave of executions may follow as leaders try to end nearly two months of sustained nationwide dissent.The execution was ordered for an unidentified person for allegedly setting fire to a government building. It followed 272 o
  
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• Can the UK-France crackdown on Channel smugglers work?

  14-11-2022 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  There is no silver bullet, the UK says - but resources on the French coastline are having some effect.
  
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• Daniel Craig unleashes his inner disco diva in Taika Waititi-directed vodka commercial

  14-11-2022 18:26 via cnn.com
  
  Since ending his 15-year run as James Bond with "No Time to Die" last year, Daniel Craig has not been sitting idle.
  
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• Xi Biden meeting: US leader promises 'no new Cold War' with China

  14-11-2022 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The leaders of the US and China strike a conciliatory tone in their first in-person talks for years.
  
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• FBI and FAA investigating unruly passenger removed from United flight in Chicago

  14-11-2022 18:13 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI and the FAA are investigating an incident involving an "unruly passenger" on board a commercial flight that sent two passengers and one flight attendant to the hospital.
  
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