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• Meet the 18-year-old who just became the youngest Black mayor in the country

  07-12-2022 23:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  An 18-year-old college freshman is now the youngest Black mayor in U.S. history after beating out his opponent for the position in a small Arkansas town.
  
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• Additional items marked classified found in Trump storage unit

  07-12-2022 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  A search for documents carried out at the behest of Donald Trump's attorneys turned up two documents with classified markings at a Florida storage facility.
  
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• Ex-Theranos executive Sunny Balwani sentenced to nearly 13 years for role in company's fraud

  07-12-2022 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the former business partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, was sentenced to nearly 13 years in federal prison and three years of
  
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• CNN gets access to Ukrainian hospital performing life-saving surgeries on wounded troops

  07-12-2022 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Sam Kiley visits a hospital in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, where doctors perform innovative life-saving surgeries on wounded troops.
  
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• Trump poses with QAnon, Pizzagate conspiracy theorist

  07-12-2022 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump posed for photos at his waterfront club on Tuesday with a prominent QAnon conspiracy theorist, in the latest in a string of incidents that highlight the GOP candidate's proximity to fringe figures on the far right.
  
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• Power company on 'final push' to restore electricity after gunfire led to massive outages in North Carolina

  07-12-2022 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Virtually all power has been restored in central North Carolina where gunfire led to massive power outages, officials said Wednesday as a $75,000 reward was
  
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• The second-biggest loser in Georgia was Joe Manchin

  07-12-2022 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Georgia runoff results elevate Raphael Warnock over Herschel Walker to give Democrats Senate majority with 51 seats. That hurts Joe Manchin.
  
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• Twitter's makeshift hotel rooms show just how broken US work culture is

  07-12-2022 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  American work culture is having an identity crisis. Are we a #riseandgrind people or are we #QuietQuitting? Are we, as Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried have modeled, going so "extremely hardcore" that we're willing to sleep at the office? Or are we evolving, recognizing the toxicity of hustle culture and finally setting boundaries?
  
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• 'We cannot normalize this': Doug Emhoff leads White House roundtable to combat antisemitism

  07-12-2022 22:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, opened a roundtable discussion on antisemitism Wednesday by saying the Jewish community “is in pain.”
  
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• Eleven more women accuse dead Florida doctor of criminal and suspicious activity; two sue his business

  07-12-2022 22:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse.
  
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• Peru's President impeached and arrested after failed attempt to dissolve Congress

  07-12-2022 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Peru's President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday that he will dissolve Congress temporarily, and will install an emergency government -- hours before lawmakers were due to make an impeachment vote in congress.
  
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• Shaquille O'Neal pushed into Christmas tree during on-air race

  07-12-2022 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  During an on-air race on TNT's "Inside the NBA", Kenny Smith pushed co-host Shaquille O'Neal into a Christmas tree. It's not the first time this has happened either.
  
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• Service members kicked out of the U.S. military for refusing Covid vaccine could be allowed to rejoin, officials say

  07-12-2022 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Service members kicked out of the U.S. military for refusing Covid vaccine could be back in uniform if the military's vaccine mandate is lifted, say officials.
  
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• SE Cupp: Fox News won't face the truth in Georgia

  07-12-2022 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  In this week's episode of "Unfiltered," SE Cupp examines what's really driving Republican losses in critical states like Georgia -- and argues that the party and its pundits cannot seem to reckon with that truth.
  
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• Why untangling DNA in the Idaho killings is a 'daunting task' for investigators

  07-12-2022 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The search for whoever stabbed four University of Idaho students to death last month is complicated due to an enormous amount of DNA and digital evidence.
  
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• Statins lower the risk of one of the deadliest kinds of strokes, study finds

  07-12-2022 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Doctors know that drugs called statins lower a person's risk of a stroke due to a blood clot. But a new study shows that the inexpensive medications can also decrease the risk of a first stroke as a result of an intracerebral hemorrhage, the deadliest kind.
  
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• Dog accidentally sent through an X-ray machine at a Wisconsin airport, TSA says

  07-12-2022 21:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  A small dog was accidentally sent through the X-ray screening at Dane County Regional Airport in Wisconsin, the Transportation Security Administration said, reminding travelers to check their carry-on bags for pets.
  
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• UK government greenlights first new coal mine in three decades

  07-12-2022 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  The UK has greenlit a controversial plan to open the country's first new coal mine in three decades, a little more than a year after the nation tried to convince the world to ditch coal at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
  
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• UK approves first new coal mine in decades

  07-12-2022 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  The UK has greenlit a controversial plan to open the country's first new coal mine in three decades, a little more than a year after the nation tried to convince the world to ditch coal at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
  
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• Reporter: 'Constitutional crisis' escalated after Peruvian president impeached

  07-12-2022 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Peruvian lawmakers have voted to oust President Pedro Castillo, dramatically escalating the country's political crisis that began hours earlier when Castillo attempted to dissolve the legislative body and install an emergency government. Journalist Stefano Pozzebon has the latest.
  
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• Peru's President impeached and arrested after he attempted to dissolve Congress

  07-12-2022 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  Peru's President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday that he will dissolve Congress temporarily, and will install an emergency government -- hours before lawmakers were due to make an impeachment vote in congress.
  
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• Trump team finds two documents with classified markings in a Florida storage unit

  07-12-2022 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump recently hired a team to search four of his properties for any potentially remaining classified materials, according to a source familiar the matter.
  
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• Here's what we know of the group that plotted to overthrow Germany's government

  07-12-2022 21:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  So what is known about the group that was the subject of one of the biggest counterterror operations in German’s history?
  
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• She fled Afghanistan under the Taliban, now the US has put her future on hold

  07-12-2022 21:04 via cnn.com
  
  After fleeing the Taliban takeover of her home country of Afghanistan in 2021, Yalda Azamee thought her dreams came true when she was accepted to two of America's top universities.
  
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• Colombia activist murders reach record high of 199 this year

  07-12-2022 21:02 via theguardian.com
  Human rights ombudsman decries ‘alarming and unprecedented figure’ owing to attacked by illegal armed groups tied to drug tradeColombia will end the year with at least 199 killings of social leaders and human rights defenders – the highest level recorded – due to attacks by illegal armed groups in areas tied to the drug trade, the country’s human rights ombudsman has said.In the first 11 months of the year, 199 people were murdered, higher than the total number of s
  
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• Anne Heche not impaired by drugs at time of crash, coroner's report shows

  07-12-2022 21:02 via cnn.com
  
  There were no active drugs found in actress Anne Heche's system at the time of her car crash in August, according to a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner report released Tuesday.
  
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• Is China finally about to relax its zero-Covid policy?

  07-12-2022 20:59 via theguardian.com
  People with Covid who have mild or no symptoms can now quarantine at home, but PCR tests are still required to enter many placesIn the strongest sign so far that China is rolling back on its long-running zero-Covid policy, the national health commission said that people with Covid-19 who have mild or no symptoms can quarantine at home. The directive also instructed officials to halt temporary lockdowns and ended testing and health code requirements for people entering Beijing. Continue reading..
  
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• Takeaways from historic US Supreme Court hearing that could upend election rules

  07-12-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Arguments in the Supreme Court's blockbuster election rules case played out for more than three hours on Wednesday as the justices examined claims from the North Carolina GOP legislature, which argues that state constitutions and state courts have little or no authority to impose limits on how state legislatures craft their rules for federal elections.
  
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• Hawaii's 2 volcanic eruptions keep spewing lava with no end in sight. Here's what could happen next

  07-12-2022 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  The incessant lava shooting out of Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes has stirred memories of Kilauea's devastating 2018 eruption, which swallowed hundreds of homes.
  
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• Map: Warnock's Georgia win fueled by high turnout while Walker struggled in Republican areas

  07-12-2022 20:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Raphael Warnock improved his numbers across Georgia during Tuesday's Senate runoff, while Herschel Walker struggled even in traditionally Republican areas.
  
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• Supreme Court searches for middle ground in North Carolina elections case

  07-12-2022 20:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court hears a major case that could upend election law as it considers whether to reinstate GOP-drawn congressional districts in North Carolina.
  
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• Elon Musk is on the verge of losing his world's richest person title

  07-12-2022 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  Elon Musk is on the verge of losing his status as the world's richest person, at least according to one metric.
  
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• WATCH: Obama delivers remarks on 10-year anniversary of Sandy Hook school shooting

  07-12-2022 20:02
  Former President Barack Obama speaks at a Sandy Hook remembrance event marking 10 years since the elementary school shooting.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Putin hints at ‘long’ conflict and says risk of nuclear war is on the rise – as it happened

  07-12-2022 20:01 via theguardian.com
  This live blog has now closed, you can read more of our Ukraine coverage hereMore now on Europe’s energy crisis, via AFP:Sky-high energy prices have caused numerous factories, particularly in Germany’s chemicals sector, which was highly dependent upon cheap Russian gas, to halt operations. But European nations were able to fill their gas reservoirs and no one has been cut off yet. Continue reading...
  
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• Putin says threat of nuclear war is increasing

  07-12-2022 19:53 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Zelensky named TIME person of the year
  • Soldiers reveal what happened to them inside Russian prison
  
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• Man kills his fiancée’s father and shoots her mother and sister after demanding they move out

  07-12-2022 19:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Massachusetts man shot fatally shot his fiancée's father and wounded her mother and sister, then turned the gun on himself, after expressing he was “unhappy” that they were living with him, prosecutors said.
  
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• Qatar World Cup whistleblower was tortured, claims family

  07-12-2022 19:39 via theguardian.com
  Abdullah Ibhais raised concern at workers’ treatmentActivists call on UN to help release him from prisonA whistleblower who was jailed in Qatar after raising concerns about the mistreatment of migrant workers at World Cup stadium sites was tortured on the eve of the tournament, his family has claimed.The human rights organisation FairSquare also released a letter from the family of Abdullah Ibhais, a former media manager in Qatar’s Supreme Committee, who accused Fifa of “callou
  
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• Peru's President says he will dissolve Congress, hours before third impeachment vote

  07-12-2022 19:35 via cnn.com
  
  Peru's President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday that he will dissolve Congress temporarily, and will install an emergency government -- hours before lawmakers were due to make an impeachment vote in congress.
  
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• Romany leaders appeal for calm after second day of protest violence in Greece

  07-12-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Outrage continues over police shooting of teenage boy, with clashes erupting in major urban centresRomany leaders in Greece have appealed for calm following a second day of violent protests triggered by the police shooting of a teenage boy, who is in intensive care.Outrage over the incident, which took place in Thessaloniki when the 16-year-old reportedly sped out of a petrol station without paying a €20 fuel bill, has resulted in thousands spilling on to the streets and clashes erupting in
  
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• Peru’s president dissolves congress hours before impeachment vote

  07-12-2022 19:29 via theguardian.com
  Announcement by Pedro Castillo prompted mass resignations and accusations of a coup d’étatPeru’s President Pedro Castillo has announced the immediate dissolution of congress and the installation of a “government of exception” to rule by decree until new legislative elections – just hours before he was due to face an impeachment vote in a dramatic escalation of his fight with the opposition-led chamber.The announcement on Wednesday was the latest dramatic twis
  
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• Schumer celebrates expanded Senate majority with Georgia win: 'It's big'

  07-12-2022 19:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took an emotional victory lap after Democrat Raphael Warnock won the Georgia Senate runoff and secured a 51st-seat majority.
  
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• 'I was wheeling and dealing with God': Cruise passenger describes over 15 hours lost at sea

  07-12-2022 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Kate Bolduan speaks with James Michael Grimes, who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Grimes was found by the US Coast Guard after staying afloat for what he believes was more than 15 hours.
  
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• The world's oldest DNA has been discovered, and it's 2 million years old

  07-12-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  A core of ice age sediment from northern Greenland has yielded the world's oldest sequences of DNA.
  
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• Oldest DNA sheds light on a 2 million-year-old ecosystem that has no modern parallel

  07-12-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  A core of ice age sediment from northern Greenland has yielded the world's oldest sequences of DNA.
  
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• CNN reporter: Search part of effort to 'satisfy' subpoena

  07-12-2022 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump recently hired a team to search four of his properties for any potentially remaining classified materials, according to a source familiar the matter. CNN's Evan Perez has more.
  
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• Amateur fossil hunters find rare intact plesiosaur skeleton

  07-12-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  Amateur paleontologists in Queensland, Australia uncovered a rare, 100 million-year-old marine reptile's skeleton that could provide vital clues about prehistoric life.
  
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• Philadelphia police are about to identify body of 'Boy in the Box' — found more than 65 years ago

  07-12-2022 18:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  The unidentified victim of one of America's oldest unsolved murders is expected to be named on Thursday in Philadelphia, raising hopes that the boy's shocking 1
  
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• NATO chief: Russia looking to 'freeze' war to 'regroup for bigger offensive'

  07-12-2022 18:48 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Zelensky named TIME person of the year
  • Soldiers reveal what happened to them inside Russian prison
  
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• As Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary looms, Buckingham Palace braces for royal revelations

  07-12-2022 18:10 via cnn.com
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's new six-part docu-series is set to drop on Netflix on Thursday.
  
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• Series of mistakes led to prison beating death of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, report shows

  07-12-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report on Wednesday outlining how a series of mistakes by the embattled Bureau of Prisons led to the beating death of imprisoned Boston gangster and convicted murderer James "Whitey" Bulger four years ago.
  
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