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• 4 Navy sailors assigned to same facility die by apparent suicide within weeks, amid growing concerns of mental health crisis

  01-12-2022 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The deaths are the latest cluster of Navy suicides this year to spark concerns of a fleetwide mental health crisis.
  
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• Canadian man charged with murdering four Indigenous women

  01-12-2022 23:37 via theguardian.com
  Two of the women killed around the same time as Rebecca Contois are also Indigenous, and the third is believed to beA Canadian man previously charged with murdering an Indigenous woman has been accused of killing three other women – two also confirmed to be Indigenous and one believed to be.Jeremy Skibicki was charged 18 May and kept in custody after the partial remains of Rebecca Contois, 24, were found in a garbage bin near an apartment building. Contois lived in Winnipeg but was a membe
  
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• Hillary Clinton says US should not engage in nuclear talks with Iran as protestors stand up 'to their oppressors'

  01-12-2022 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  The US should not be negotiating with Iran "on anything right now," including a nuclear agreement, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.
  
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• Prince William and Kate: Young fan says meeting the two was 'insane'

  01-12-2022 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  An 8-year-old US boy dressed as a King's Guard member to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales.
  
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• World Cup 2022: Japan 2-1 Spain: Japan and Spain both through on dramatic night

  01-12-2022 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Japan stage another extraordinary World Cup comeback to reach the last 16, with Spain fortunate to join them in the knockout stage.
  
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• Kanye West is no longer acquiring Parler, company says

  01-12-2022 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  The rapper formerly known as Kanye West will no longer be acquiring Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by conservatives including some far-right extremists, the company announced on Thursday. West has legally changed his name to Ye.
  
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• Federal judge orders top lawyers from Trump White House to testify in criminal grand jury probe

  01-12-2022 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge has ordered former top Trump White House lawyers to provide additional grand jury testimony, rejecting former President Donald Trump's privilege claims in the Justice Department's criminal investigation of his effort to overturn the 2020 election, people briefed on the matter said.
  
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• Senate votes to avert rail strike, sends the legislation to Biden for his signature

  01-12-2022 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Senate passed legislation Thursday to avoid an economically catastrophic rail strike, one day after the House approved the measure.
  
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• Killings of University of Idaho students may not have been targeted attack, officials say

  01-12-2022 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Detectives do not know whether one or more of the four University of Idaho students killed in their off-campus home last month were specifically targeted, police said Wednesday -- in what may be their strongest departure yet from their earlier statements.
  
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• Germany crash out of World Cup in group stage

  01-12-2022 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Germany crashed out of the Fifa World Cup on a remarkable night of drama despite victory over Costa Rica at Al Bayt Stadium.
  
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• Coca-Cola Christmas truck in flames in Romania

  01-12-2022 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The famous red vehicle caught fire while driving down a busy road in the capital Bucharest.
  
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• What gives Congress the right to break up a rail worker strike?

  01-12-2022 22:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Everything that Americans produce or import has to be transported from one place to another, usually by rail or truck and often partway by both.
  
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• WATCH: Toddler’s moves are so ‘flipping’ cute

  01-12-2022 22:24
  Eighteen-month-old Harper may be a future gymnast in the making.
  
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• World Cup 2022: 'Time for new era' as Belgium's golden generation fails

  01-12-2022 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Belgium's golden generation fails to deliver again at the World Cup - is this the end of an era for the Red Devils?
  
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• 'I hold China accountable': Uyghur families demand answers over fire that triggered protests

  01-12-2022 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  For more than five years, Sharapat Mohamad Ali and her brother Mohamad had been unable to contact their family in far western China, where the government has been accused of incarcerating up to 2 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in internment camps.
  
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• Police revise story again in Idaho student killings

  01-12-2022 22:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police on Thursday reaffirmed that the grisly killings of four University of Idaho students were a "targeted attack" the day after authorities appeared to suggest the opposite.
  
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• Biden state dinner serves up lobster à la controversy

  01-12-2022 22:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Maine officials are upset at the White House's decision to serve lobster at the State dinner while pushing federal regulations that they say could kill the industry.
  
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• Kremlin says it will not engage with US on prisoner swap talks before end of year

  01-12-2022 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  The Kremlin said on Thursday that any details of prisoner swap discussions with the United States will not be publicly disclosed and that Moscow is not planning to engage with the Biden administration before the end of the year, according to Russian state media.
  
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• Colorado shooting prompts top drag queens to tour with armed guards and metal detectors

  01-12-2022 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  The deadly attack at an LGBTQ club in Colorado last month — where a shooter turned the venue’s “Drag Divas” night into a massacre — has made an already
  
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• Friend of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz sentenced to 11 years in prison in sex trafficking case

  01-12-2022 21:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Friend of Rep. Matt Gaetz sentenced to 11 years in sex trafficking case.
  
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• Watch Colbert press Yellen on Fed 'conspiracy theories'

  01-12-2022 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  While appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen confronts conspiracy theories about the Fed and talks adding her signature to US currency.
  
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• Elon Musk vs. Tim Cook, Sam Bankman-Fried's media apology tour, and why shopping on Amazon is getting worse

  01-12-2022 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  Crypto detective "Coffeezilla" tells Nightcap's Jon Sarlin that somebody at FTX "criminally screwed up." Plus, The Washington Post's Geoffrey Fowler on how Amazon risks turning customers off by showing so many ads in search results. And CNN's Clare Duffy has the latest on the spat between Elon Musk and Tim Cook. To get the day's business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
  
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• WATCH: Twitter to expand exposure on personal timeline

  01-12-2022 21:04
  Twitter is updating the timeline to allow users to see recommended tweets from accounts that are not being followed.
  
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• Webb telescope spies clouds beneath the thick haze of Saturn's moon Titan

  01-12-2022 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  The James Webb Space Telescope has spied clouds on one of the solar system's most intriguing moons.
  
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• Hillary Rodham Clinton: US should not be negotiating with Iran on anything right now

  01-12-2022 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  At a summit on women's rights at the Clinton Center in Little Rock, Clinton weighs in on US-Iran relations, Russia's barbarity and Arkansas abortion rights.
  
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• Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young winner Gaylord Perry dead at age 84

  01-12-2022 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young award winner Gaylord Perry has died at age 84.
  
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• Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora: Fury makes an entrance at news conference

  01-12-2022 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury bursts on to the stage for his news conference with Derek Chisora.
  
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• Christine McVie's music: 5 songs to listen to in her honor

  01-12-2022 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  There's a reason why Christine McVie was considered the heart of Fleetwood Mac.
  
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• Quebec moves to end Canadian elected officials’ oath to King Charles

  01-12-2022 19:52 via theguardian.com
  ‘It is a relic from the past’: strong opposition to oath from three political parties of French-speaking provinceQuebec’s premier, François Legault, said that his government would introduce legislation next week to end elected officials’ required oath to Britain’s King Charles, as pressure mounts in the Canadian province to cut such ties with the monarchy.Fresh legislation from the governing Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) follows a separate bill introdu
  
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• FTX founder 'vaguely aware' of lending customer funds to hedge fund

  01-12-2022 19:49 via cnn.com
  
  In an interview with "Good Morning America," FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he was "vaguely aware" that FTX lent customers' funds to its sister firm, Alameda Research.
  
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• South Africa’s Farmgate scandal: what is it and why does it matter?

  01-12-2022 19:44 via theguardian.com
  With Cyril Ramaphosa under pressure, we look at what the scandal could mean for the countryCyril Ramaphosa took power as South Africa’s president in 2018 and led the ruling African National Congress party to a general election victory a year later. He campaigned on an anti-corruption platform, attracting much support after the turbulent nine-year rule of his populist predecessor, Jacob Zuma, who was forced out by a series of scandals. Ramaphosa, 70, has since struggled to push through much
  
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• Does the British monarchy have a racism problem?

  01-12-2022 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  Britain's royal hierarchy has changed dramatically in the past several weeks, after King Charles III became the country's first new monarch for seven decades and several of his relatives stepped into new roles.
  
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• Inside Christine McVie's and Stevie Nicks' decades-long friendship

  01-12-2022 18:54 via cnn.com
  
  Throughout the various personal turmoils for which the members of Fleetwood Mac are known, one relationship buoyed the band for decades: the friendship between its two frontwomen, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks.
  
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• Will Smith: Have Emancipation reviews been influenced by the slap?

  01-12-2022 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Emancipation sees the actor play a slave who escapes a plantation and flees through Louisiana's swamps.
  
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• Harry and Meghan Netflix series 'behind closed doors'

  01-12-2022 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The first trailer comes amid a race row sparked by comments made to a black guest at a royal reception.
  
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• Croatia 0-0 Belgium: Early exit for Belgium as Croatia reach last 16 in Qatar

  01-12-2022 18:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Belgium are knocked out of the World Cup at the group stage as Croatia progress at their expense with a goalless draw in Qatar.
  
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• World No. 2 Belgium knocked out of World Cup after goalless draw with Croatia

  01-12-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  Belgium was knocked out of the 2022 World Cup on Thursday after a goalless draw with Croatia left it third in Group F.
  
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• World Cup 2022: Canada 1-2 Morocco: Ziyech and En-Nesyri score

  01-12-2022 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Morocco edge past Canada to top Group F and go through to the World Cup knockout stage for the first time in 36 years.
  
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• Quiz of the week: Dua Lipa became a citizen of which country?

  01-12-2022 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  How closely have you been paying attention to what's been going on over the past seven days?
  
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• Israel strips Palestinian-French rights lawyer of Jerusalem residency

  01-12-2022 18:09 via theguardian.com
  Salah Hamouri expected to be deported after decision on grounds of ‘breach of allegiance’ to stateIsrael has stripped a prominent Palestinian-French human rights lawyer of his Jerusalem residency and is expected to deport him to France, a legal first that sets a dangerous precedent for other Palestinians with dual nationality in the contested city.Salah Hamouri, 37, had his Jerusalem residency revoked in October 2021 on the grounds of a “breach of allegiance” to the Israe
  
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• What is it like to be repeatedly asked where you are from?

  01-12-2022 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  It is a question that ethnic minorities are constantly asked, but why exactly is it so loaded?
  
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• New footage shows Mauna Loa eruption as lava approaches highway

  01-12-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  The world's largest active volcano continues to spew lava, threatening a crucial road that connects Hawaii's Big Island.
  
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• 5,000 years ago in what's now Spain, an owl engraved on slate could have been the hottest toy

  01-12-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  Over the past century, thousands of pieces of slate engraved with images of owls have been unearthed from tombs and pits across the Iberian Peninsula, in what's now Portugal and Spain.
  
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• Spotify Wrapped: Bad Bunny tops most-streamed artists globally

  01-12-2022 17:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny tops the Spotify list for the third year in a row.
  
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• Cyril Ramaphosa: Damning report raises tough questions for South Africa's leader

  01-12-2022 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  South Africa's president came to power vowing to fight corruption but now has his own case to answer.
  
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• Scientists create 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact

  01-12-2022 17:22 via cnn.com
  
  In science fiction -- think films and TV like "Interstellar" and "Star Trek" -- wormholes in the cosmos serve as portals through space and time for spacecraft to traverse unimaginable distances with ease. If only it were that simple.
  
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• Florida woman sues Kraft mac and cheese over preparation time

  01-12-2022 17:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The lawsuit says the company's three-and-a-half minute preparation time claim is misleading.
  
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• Florida doctor accused of raping sedated patients dies by suicide

  01-12-2022 17:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Florida doctor accused of raping his sedated patients was found dead this week in what has been ruled a suicide, officials said.
  
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• House Democrats to discuss how to handle Trump's tax returns

  01-12-2022 17:02 via cnn.com
  
  The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee will meet Thursday to discuss how to handle six years of former President Donald Trump's federal tax returns, one day after the panel received access to the records following a protracted legal fight.
  
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• House Democrats set to discuss how to handle Trump's tax returns

  01-12-2022 17:02 via cnn.com
  
  The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee will meet Thursday to discuss how to handle six years of former President Donald Trump's federal tax returns, one day after the panel received access to the records following a protracted legal fight.
  
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