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• Some Americans being forced to pick between paying for groceries and heating their homes

  18-11-2022 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  As the winter months approach, some Americans are worried about keeping their homes warm as they face rising energy costs. CNN's Gabe Cohen reports.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for fraud

  18-11-2022 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday following her conviction in January for defrauding investors while running the failed blood testing startup Theranos.
  
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• 'Sense of entitlement' drove Oath Keepers to storm Capitol, DOJ says in closing arguments

  18-11-2022 23:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Oath Keepers seized the chance to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as part of a seditious conspiracy to oppose the transfer of power, the Justice Department said in closing arguments Friday.
  
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• Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years for defrauding investors

  18-11-2022 23:41 via theguardian.com
  The harsh ruling sends a message to Silicon Valley that the government will hold founders accountable for what’s promisedElizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison over her role in the blood testing firm that collapsed after its technology was revealed to be largely fraudulent.Holmes was convicted in January on four counts of defrauding investors. She appeared on Friday afternoon at the San Jose, California, courthouse where her nearly four-mo
  
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• Oath Keepers called for ‘violent overthrow’ of US government, trial hears

  18-11-2022 23:25 via theguardian.com
  Jurors hear closing arguments in seditious conspiracy trial of founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates of far-right groupFor weeks leading up to 6 January 2021, the Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates of the far-right group discussed using violence to overturn the 2020 presidential election’s outcome, and when rioters started storming the US Capitol they saw an opportunity to do it, a federal prosecutor told jurors on Friday as the seditious conspiracy case wound tow
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison after conviction in Theranos fraud case

  18-11-2022 23:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of failed blood-testing company Theranos, has been sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for her role in
  
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• This activist built a solar plane. See his plan to fight climate crisis

  18-11-2022 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  Swiss explorer and activist, Bertrand Piccard, traveled non-stop around the world without using any fuel. Now he has ideas that he says will save our planet. CNN's Bill Weir has the report.
  
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• WATCH: Hungry bear breaks into van and escapes with tasty snack

  18-11-2022 23:11 via abcnews.go.com
  This hungry bear just wanted some popcorn.
  
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• Ukraine war: Were Russian soldiers shot after surrendering?

  18-11-2022 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Video has emerged that Russia says shows the killing of their troops in eastern Ukraine.
  
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• Finland plans to start building a fence on Russian border next year

  18-11-2022 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  Finland, one of the few NATO countries sharing a border with Russia, has announced a proposal to spend 139 million euros ($143 million) on building barrier fences on its eastern border with Russia in 2023, the Finnish Border Guard said Friday.
  
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• Robbie Williams defends decision to perform in Qatar during World Cup

  18-11-2022 22:55 via theguardian.com
  Singer said he didn’t ‘condone any abuses of human rights’ but it would be ‘hypocritical’ not to goRobbie Williams has defended his decision to perform in Qatar during the World Cup, arguing that it would be “hypocritical” not to go.The singer, 48, has been criticised on social media for agreeing to sing during the tournament, which begins on Sunday night, due to the country’s human rights record, stance on homosexuality and treatment of migrant wo
  
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• Residents in liberated Kherson still under heavy shelling

  18-11-2022 22:46 via cnn.com
  CNN's Sam Kiley reports from the recently liberated Ukrainian village of Dudchany, where residents are still facing Russian strikes on an almost daily basis.
  
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• The emotional moment a chimp mum meets newborn

  18-11-2022 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch this extraordinary reunion between Mahle and her baby at Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas.
  
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• Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel investigating Donald Trump?

  18-11-2022 22:25 via theguardian.com
  Man named to lead investigations into ex-president is experienced prosecutor most recently at international criminal courtJack Smith is the man the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed on Friday to be an independent special counsel overseeing parallel justice department investigations into Donald Trump’s hoarding of top secret documents and involvement in the 6 January 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, and he has been a criminal prosecutor for almost 30 years.Smith has previ
  
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• Spain seizes largest amount of marijuana in country's history

  18-11-2022 22:23 via foxnews.com
  
  Spanish police said on Friday they caught over 55 tons of marijuana, the largest amount of the drug ever seized in the country and weighing more than an adult humpback whale. Eight farms have been dismantled in the northeastern region of Catalonia and 20 people were detained on suspected electricity fraud and offenses against public health, police said in a statement. All the farms were dissimulated as supposedly legal hemp plantations and registered as owned by a trading company and located amo
  
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• Shipping giant Maersk settles lawsuit filed by student allegedly raped at sea

  18-11-2022 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  Shipping giant Maersk has settled a lawsuit filed by a former US Merchant Marine Academy student who says she was raped while working on the company's ship when she was 19 years old.
  
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• Kenya to import 1st genetically modified maize amid drought, food shortage

  18-11-2022 22:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Kenya is set to import its first genetically modified maize, the trade cabinet secretary has said, as the government seeks to ease food shortages caused by the country's worst drought in 40 years. Local media reported that Kenya will on Friday authorize the duty-free importation of 10 million bags of maize over the next six months, and for the first time it will include genetically modified maize. The imports will be the first since President William Ruto lifted a decade-long ban last month on t
  
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• Honig: Smith appears to be 'the very model' of a non-political prosecutor

  18-11-2022 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Elie Honig weighs in on Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
  
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• US climate envoy John Kerry tests positive for Covid-19 as UN summit heads into overtime

  18-11-2022 21:48 via cnn.com
  
  With just hours left to go to reach an international climate agreement, US climate envoy John Kerry has tested positive for Covid-19 at the United Nations' COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, his spokesperson Whitney Smith said.
  
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• Joe Biden needs to follow Nancy Pelosi's lead and make way for others

  18-11-2022 21:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Midterm elections push House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to step down. Biden should pay attention.
  
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• Northern Ireland police car hit by suspected bombing attempt: 'A callous, hate-filled incident'

  18-11-2022 21:38 via foxnews.com
  
  Police in Northern Ireland avoided a suspected bombing attack on officers that damaged a police vehicle while the occupants remained unharmed.  The attack occurred shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday night in Strabane, a town in Northern Ireland that sits some 80 miles west of Belfast, the capital city that sits near the border with the Republic of Ireland. The officers were in the middle of attempting to carry out inquires into anti-social behavior at the time, the BBC reported.  The offi
  
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• Sexual predator pleads guilty to murdering woman as she walked home in London

  18-11-2022 21:31 via foxnews.com
  
  A sexual predator with a string of convictions pleaded guilty on Friday to killing a woman as she walked home in London —one in a string of attacks that heightened fears about women’s safety on the city’s streets. Jordan McSweeney, 29, admitted sexually assaulting and murdering 35-year-old Zara Aleena, who was attacked after a night out in June and left for dead in a driveway. Prosecutors said McSweeney has a long criminal record, with 28 convictions for 69 offenses including c
  
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• Watch F-16s escort the Polish soccer team to the World Cup

  18-11-2022 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  The Polish National Football Team was en-route for the start of the 2022 World Cup when F-16 jets pulled up, displaying a friendly message.
  
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• Strong earthquake shakes western Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued

  18-11-2022 21:25 via foxnews.com
  
  A strong undersea earthquake shook western Indonesia on Friday night but no serious damage or casualties were reported. The magnitude 6.9 earthquake was centered 126 miles southwest of Bengkulu at a depth of 15 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake was followed by an aftershock measuring magnitude 5.4, it said. No tsunami alert was issued by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency. EARTHQUAKE IN WEST TEXAS DESERT CAUSES DAMAGE HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY IN SAN ANT
  
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• Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people catches fire near Bali

  18-11-2022 21:04 via foxnews.com
  
  A passenger ferry carrying 271 people caught fire Wednesday off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, but there were no immediate reports of casualties and evacuation efforts were ongoing, rescue officials said. The Mutiara Timur I was carrying 236 passengers and 35 crew members when it caught fire in the Bali Strait, about a mile from Karangasem beach. Dozens of rescuers, navy sailors and local fishermen were trying to evacuate people to two navy ships and and there were no immediate reports
  
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• Russia says it hopes for "positive outcome" on Viktor Bout prisoner exchange talks

  18-11-2022 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  Russia said it hopes for a "positive outcome" on the issue of exchanging Russian national Viktor Bout, a convicted arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence in the United States, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Friday, according to state media TASS.
  
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• Mexico helicopter crash leaves 5 dead including state security chief

  18-11-2022 20:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Five people, including the top security official for the central Mexico state of Aguascalientes, died in a helicopter crash Thursday, authorities said. MEXICO TO START VACCINATING BIRDS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF H5N1 The state public security helicopter crashed early Thursday morning near a hospital in Jesús María, Aguascalientes, killing state security chief Porfirio Sánchez Mendoza and four others, Aguascalientes Gov. María Teresa Jiménez said during a news co
  
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• Attorney General Garland to announce special counsel for Mar-a-Lago and parts of January 6 investigations

  18-11-2022 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to announce Friday that he has appointed a special counsel to oversee investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and key aspects of the criminal investigation into January 6, 2021, according to a senior Justice Department official.
  
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• In Turkey, 17 suspects jailed for connection in Istanbul bombing that killed 6

  18-11-2022 20:18 via foxnews.com
  
  A Turkish court has ordered 17 suspects jailed pending trial in connection with a deadly street bombing in Istanbul, accusing them of attempts against the unity of the state, deliberate killings and attempts to kill, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Friday. The court released three other suspects from custody pending trial, Anadolu Agency reported. It also ordered the deportation from Turkey of 29 people who were rounded up by police in connection with the attack. The Nov. 13 explos
  
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• A 7-year-old boy was killed at a Kentucky foster care center. Now another alleged victim is stepping forward.

  18-11-2022 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  A mother says her developmentally delayed son was choked, scratched and verbally abused at the same Kentucky youth facility where a 7-year-old boy’s death by
  
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• Pro-Bolsonaro truck drivers threaten new road blockades in Brazil

  18-11-2022 20:17 via theguardian.com
  Six federal highways blocked on Friday as far-right president has still not conceded defeat in last month’s runoff electionProtesters in Brazil have blocked roads again and lorry drivers threatened to strike in what could be a new wave of support for the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro.Six federal highways were blocked on Friday morning although two were cleared by early afternoon, the federal highway police said in its first bulletin on road closures since 9 November when the first wav
  
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• Death of North Carolina woman vacationing in Mexico now being investigated as homicide

  18-11-2022 20:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Mexican authorities are now investigating the death of a North Carolina woman who had been believed to have died of alcohol poisoning while vacationing in Mexico as a homicide after a video emerged on social media showing her being beaten. Shanquella Robinson, 25, was found dead in the city of San José del Cabo on October 29th after traveling to the resort area with six friends the day before, and Mexican authorities say that her cause of death was a severe spinal cord injury. A homicide
  
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• ‘Rings of Power’ star Nazanin Boniadi urges support for female protesters in Iran

  18-11-2022 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  "Rings of Power" star Nazanin Boniadi used a gathering of Oscar winners and prominent Hollywood figures to deliver a powerful plea about the need to support female protestors in Iran. "We owe it to our counterparts in Iran to stand with them as they fight for their most basic human rights," said Boniadi, referencing the wave of defiance following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police in Tehran who picked her up for wearing her hijab too loosely. With Oscar-winner
  
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• Iranian protesters set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini’s ancestral home

  18-11-2022 20:04 via theguardian.com
  Social media images show what is now a museum commemorating the Islamic Republic founder ablaze as protests continueProtesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as two months of anti-regime demonstrations show no let up.The house in the city of Khomein in the western Markazi province was shown ablaze late on Thursday with crowds of jubilant protesters marching past, according to images posted on social media, verified
  
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• COP27 has been 'particularly dire and chaotic,' says author

  18-11-2022 19:57 via cnn.com
  
  Devi Lockwood, author of "1,001 Voices on Climate Change", reflects on the COP27 climate summit and the people suffering right now from the climate crisis.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: remains of explosives found at Nord Stream pipeline blast site – as it happened

  18-11-2022 19:55 via theguardian.com
  This live blog has now closed, you can read more of our coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war hereThe Russian state-owned RIA Novosti news agency has reported that a school was struck by Ukrainian fire in the occupied region of Donetsk, one of the areas of Ukraine that the Russian Federation claims to have annexed.It quotes the Russian-imposed mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemin saying that 10 shells were fired at the central districts of the city, two of which landed in close proximity to the school.
  
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• Opinion: I was one of the first people at the MH17 crash site. This is what I saw

  18-11-2022 19:40 via cnn.com
  
  On July 17, 2014, several weeks after "little green men" had started to occupy Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, I rushed into the management offices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, located in Kyiv, as word spread over social media that the unthinkable had happened.
  
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• I was one of the first people at the MH17 crash site. This is what I saw

  18-11-2022 19:40 via cnn.com
  
  On July 17, 2014, several weeks after "little green men" had started to occupy Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, I rushed into the management offices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, located in Kyiv, as word spread over social media that the unthinkable had happened.
  
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• Taylor Swift: Ticketmaster fiasco 'excruciating for me'

  18-11-2022 19:16 via cnn.com
  
  Taylor Swift spoke out Friday about the ticketing debacle that took place this week, as many fans were unable to purchase tickets for her upcoming tour on Ticketmaster.
  
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• Taylor Swift speaks out after Ticketmaster fiasco

  18-11-2022 19:16 via cnn.com
  
  Taylor Swift spoke out Friday about the ticketing debacle that took place this week, as many fans were unable to purchase tickets for her upcoming tour on Ticketmaster.
  
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• Here are 5 big investigations House Republicans are planning to launch

  18-11-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  Earlier this week, CNN projected that Republicans will win the House majority. Shortly afterward, they made it very clear what their priority will be: Investigating President Biden and his administration on a variety of fronts.
  
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• After 39 years behind bars, Black man walks free on overturned murder conviction

  18-11-2022 19:09 via abcnews.go.com
  After 39 years behind bars in Louisiana, Raymond Flanks walks free on overturned murder conviction.
  
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• Summit to be extended to Saturday as talks remain gridlocked – as it happened

  18-11-2022 18:59 via theguardian.com
  The European Union has backed a loss and damage fund, one of the key demands of developing countries at the climate talksThis liveblog is now closedThe low-lying Pacific island of Tuvalu has been reacting to the EU’s proposal on “loss and damage”. Its finance minister, Seve Paeniu, called for support for phasing out all fossil fuels, language so far missing from the draft Sharm el-Sheikh agreement.He described the EU position on loss and damage as a “breakthrough”.
  
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• Pelosi's departure ushers in long-awaited generational change for Democrats

  18-11-2022 18:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to step down as leader after two decades makes way for generational change young Democrats have long called for.
  
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• Opinion: In Ukraine's sunflower fields, body parts and passports. Why MH17 still haunts me

  18-11-2022 18:52 via cnn.com
  
  On July 17, 2014, several weeks after "little green men" had started to occupy Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, I rushed into the management offices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, located in Kyiv, as word spread over social media that the unthinkable had happened.
  
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• Tarantino asked why he didn't intervene with Harvey Weinstein

  18-11-2022 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  Hear Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino's response when CNN's Chris Wallace asked him why he didn't do more to try and stop Harvey Weinstein as the two made the majority of Tarantino's movies together.
  
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• IKEA suppliers allegedly used Belarus prisoners under forced labor conditions, report says

  18-11-2022 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  IKEA furniture was allegedly produced by prisoners in Belarus penal colonies under forced labor conditions, according to a new report by the French non-profit investigative journalism network Disclose.
  
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• Biden admin asks SCOTUS to let student loan plan proceed

  18-11-2022 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow its controversial student loan debt relief program to go into effect while legal challenges play out across the country.
  
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• US and Russia to meet in Egypt to discuss key nuclear arms control agreement later this month

  18-11-2022 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  Officials from the United States and Russia will meet in Egypt from November 29 to December 6 to discuss a key nuclear arms control agreement.
  
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• Biden administration asks Supreme Court to let student debt relief program go forward

  18-11-2022 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow its controversial student loan debt relief program to go into effect while legal challenges play out across the country.
  
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