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• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declares homelessness an emergency

  12-12-2022 23:57
  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared homelessness an emergency in the California city.
  
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• What you need to know about the nuclear fusion breakthrough

  12-12-2022 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  For the first time in history, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN.
  
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• Nuclear fusion: How long until this breakthrough discovery can power your house

  12-12-2022 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  For the first time in history, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a source familiar with the project confirmed to CNN.
  
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• K-pop star Jin of BTS starts his military service in South Korea

  12-12-2022 23:11 via theguardian.com
  The 30-year-old begins five weeks of training amid questions over future of the global phenomenon bandBTS star Jin starts his mandatory South Korean military duty on Tuesday, the band’s first member to enlist since a hiatus announcement this year left fans heartbroken over the K-pop juggernaut’s uncertain future.The septet is widely considered the country’s biggest-ever cultural phenomenon – selling out stadiums around the world and dominating the charts, while raking in
  
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• Former Texas officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson testifies he saw gun 'pointed' at him before shooting

  12-12-2022 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  Aaron Dean testified he saw a gun "pointed" at him before shooting Atatiana Jefferson in 2019.
  
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• Comedian Mark Curry accuses Colorado hotel staffer of racially profiling him

  12-12-2022 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Comedian Mark Curry accused a Colorado hotel staffer of racially profiling him as he sat in the lobby, an incident that prompted outrage from celebrities and a promise from the establishment to refund him after the actor posted video of the alleged encounter on Instagram.
  
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• Peru's president asks Congress to bring elections forward amid protests

  12-12-2022 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Peru's new President Dina Boluarte has proposed bringing general elections forward two years to April 2024, during a televised speech delivered early Monday morning, amid ongoing protests throughout the country.
  
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• Ukrainian civilian recounts seeing his arm torn off during fighting in Bakhmut

  12-12-2022 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN Senior International Correspondent Sam Kiley visits a hospital in Bakhmut, Ukraine, where injured civilians are being treated amid intense fighting in the region.
  
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• Amy Schumer opens up about decades-long battle with 'lonely disease'

  12-12-2022 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Amy Schumer discussed her long battle with endometriosis on a new Paramount+ docuseries a year after getting her uterus removed.
  
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• Peru’s Castillo calls new president a ‘usurper’ as she promises early elections

  12-12-2022 22:45 via theguardian.com
  Ousted president calls Dina Boluarte the ‘snot and slobber of the coup-mongering right’ in a letter written behind barsIn a handwritten letter from prison, ousted Peruvian president Pedro Castillo is deriding his successor as a “usurper”, while vowing to continue his mandate as head of state and to not abandon his “high and sacred functions”.In the letter posted on Castillo’s Twitter account on Monday, the former leader addressed the “great and pat
  
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• Body of soccer journalist Grant Wahl returned to U.S. after death in Qatar

  12-12-2022 22:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The body of U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl was returned to the U.S. on Monday morning after his death in Qatar, where he was reporting on the 2022 World Cup.
  
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• Karma for Taylor Swift fans as Ticketmaster offers second chance for 'Eras Tour' tickets

  12-12-2022 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  At the request of Taylor Swift's team, Ticketmaster said Monday that select fans have a “limited opportunity” to purchase a maximum of two tickets each to the 'Eras Tour.'
  
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• A Bakhmut man went outside to buy vegetables last week. He came home missing his right arm

  12-12-2022 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  The streets outside Vyacheslav Tarasov's home on Ukraine's eastern frontline are pocked by shell blasts. The buildings around are mostly empty, windowless and cold.
  
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• A Bakhmut man went outside to buy vegetables last week. He came home missing his left arm

  12-12-2022 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  The streets outside Vyacheslav Tarasov's home on Ukraine's eastern frontline are pocked by shell blasts. The buildings around are mostly empty, windowless and cold.
  
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• Senate eyes one-week bill to extend deadline for funding the government

  12-12-2022 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Senate is eying a one-week stopgap bill to push back a Friday deadline to avoid a government shutdown as negotiators try to reach a full-year funding deal.
  
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• Why Cate Blanchett and Tár are the most Golden Globe-worthy nominees

  12-12-2022 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Golden Globes 2023: Nominations include 'Tár' and Cate Blanchett in a power play as a lesbian conductor who must eventually face the music.
  
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• How Tár dispels the toxic lesbian stereotypes found in so many films

  12-12-2022 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Golden Globes 2023: Nominations include 'Tár' and Cate Blanchett in a power play as a lesbian conductor who must eventually face the music.
  
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• Flights canceled across US as winter storms hit: Latest forecast

  12-12-2022 21:58
  Ninety flights are canceled across the country on Monday, including 36 in Boston, as winter storms wreak havoc on roadways.
  
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• Manchin has 'no intention' of switching to be independent, suggests that could change

  12-12-2022 21:48
  Joe Manchin on Monday left the door open to becoming an independent, three days after Arizona colleague Kyrsten Sinema announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party
  
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• Florida's bees are starving and robbing hives to survive

  12-12-2022 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  Their busy, buzzing business partners pollinate everything from almonds in California to blueberries in Maine, so few people understand the state of American agriculture quite like Florida beekeepers.
  
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• Mariah Carey shares stage with daughter in their first-ever duet

  12-12-2022 21:31 via cnn.com
  
  Mariah Carey performed a duet with her daughter Monroe at her Christmas concert in Toronto.
  
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• 'The hardest one yet': Al Roker talks hospitalization, recovery

  12-12-2022 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  In his first interview after returning home from hospitalization, Al Roker returns to "Today" to give an update on his recovery. Roker was twice hospitalized after a blood clot in his leg traveled to his lungs, which caused him to miss this year's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  
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• WATCH: Illinois middle schooler hits game-winning full-court shot

  12-12-2022 21:16
  A basketball court erupted in cheers and screams after an eighth grade student in Illinois made a bold, nearly full-court shot at the buzzer to clinch the win.
  
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• US Air Force carries out first fully successful test of air-launched hypersonic missile

  12-12-2022 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  The US Air Force carried out the first successful test of its complete air launched hypersonic missile, the Air Force said in a statement, a program that had previously suffered a series of setbacks because of testing failures.
  
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• Subaru recalling 270,000 SUVs due to fire risk

  12-12-2022 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  Subaru is recalling 271,694 SUVs because some of them could catch fire.
  
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• Pan Am Flight 103: The story of the UK's deadliest terror attack

  12-12-2022 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 may have taken place more than 30 years ago, but the appearance of alleged bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi in a US court on Monday has sparked a new wave of interest in the attack.
  
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• New evidence unearthed by podcasters frees 2 Georgia men wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years

  12-12-2022 20:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two Georgia men who spent 25 years in prison were freed last week after their murder convictions were overturned when podcasters and their attorneys unearthed
  
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• US lawmakers set to grill Sam Bankman-Fried on the collapse of FTX 

  12-12-2022 20:43 via cnn.com
  
  With his vast crypto empire in ruins, Sam Bankman-Fried is preparing to be grilled by US lawmakers who are demanding answers about how his digital asset exchange, FTX, came unraveled, leaving at least a million customers unable to access their funds.
  
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• Watch the top TikTok videos of 2022

  12-12-2022 20:35 via cnn.com
  
  From a defensive toddler to a chocolate giraffe, these are the top TikTok videos of 2022.
  
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• WATCH: Kitten doesn't approve of Christmas tree with umbrella base

  12-12-2022 20:14
  Curious kitten Ash is not a fan of this Christmas tree that "snows" into its base.
  
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• Scores of executions feared in Iran as 23-year-old hanged in public killing

  12-12-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Human rights group warns death of Majidreza Rahnavard ‘a significant escalation of violence against protesters’Fears are growing that Iran is preparing to execute scores more protesters after authorities hanged a 23-year-old man from a crane, in a public killing carried out less than a month after he was arrested and following a secretive trial.Majidreza Rahnavard was sentenced to death by a court in the city of Mashhad, a centre of the protests, for allegedly killing two members of
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Biden pledges to boost Ukraine’s air defence; EU and G7 leaders to meet to agree on more Russia sanctions

  12-12-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  This live blog is now closed. You can find our latest full report here:Ukraine calls for Patriot missiles to defend its grid and stop rise in refugeesA dispatch here from reporters working for Agence France-Presse in Bulgaria, as Russians in the seaside resort of Varna help Ukrainian refugees.When Ukrainian Elena Bondarenko fled to Bulgaria after Russia invaded, she never imagined she would be taken in by a Russian there.But that is exactly what happened to the bank clerk from Zaporizhzhia, one
  
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• White House rebukes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for saying she would have 'won' on Jan. 6

  12-12-2022 19:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  The White House and Democratic lawmakers condemned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for saying she would have “won” the Jan. 6 Capitol attack if she had planned it with former Trump aide Steve Bannon.
  
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• Ukraine calls for Patriot missiles to defend its grid and stop rise in refugees

  12-12-2022 19:39 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister Denys Shmyhal says western air defence systems needed to counter Russian attacks and stop people from fleeingUkraine has called for the west to supply Patriot missiles batteries and other modern air defence systems, amid growing concern that attacks by Russia on its electricity grid could prompt a new wave of refugees from the wartorn country.The country’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, speaking on Monday before a Ukraine humanitarian aid conference the following day in Pari
  
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• CVS, Walgreens to pay combined $10.7 billion for alleged opioid prescription lapses

  12-12-2022 19:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  CVS and Walgreens agreed to a combined $10.7 billion to settle allegations they failed to adequately oversee opioid prescriptions, thus contributing to America's addiction crisis.
  
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• Ukrainian forces strike Russian-occupied city of Melitopol

  12-12-2022 19:18 via cnn.com
  
  Ukrainian forces struck the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol over the weekend, opening a new front in Kyiv's fight to reclaim land in the south of the country and underlining the importance of longer-range weaponry.
  
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• Police search European parliament offices as bribery inquiry grows

  12-12-2022 19:11 via theguardian.com
  Belgian prosecutors say 20 searches conducted since Friday, prompting warning that EU’s credibility at stakeBelgian police have searched European parliament offices as part of a growing investigation into alleged bribery and corruption, as senior EU leaders warned the credibility of the bloc was at stake.Belgium’s federal prosecutor announced on Monday it had carried out 20 searches since Friday, including 19 at private homes and one at the European parliament offices. Continue readi
  
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• Canada: son of murdered billionaire couple triples cash reward to C$35m

  12-12-2022 19:10 via theguardian.com
  Barry and Honey Sherman found dead in Toronto home five years ago but family frustration mounts as crime remains unsolvedThe son of a billionaire couple murdered five years ago has tripled a cash reward for information about the unsolved crime amid frustration over a lack of progress in the investigation and deep rifts within the family.Barry Sherman, the founder of drug giant Apotex, and his wife, Honey, are believed to have been killed in their Toronto home on 13 December 2017. A realtor found
  
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• Greene again downplays Capitol riot and says it would have been armed if she led it

  12-12-2022 19:09 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said over the weekend that if she had led the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol that "we would have won" and that people would have been "armed."
  
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• Screens may help distract a child from a tantrum, but they make another more likely, study shows

  12-12-2022 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  It's late, dinner is just now on the stove, your phone is ringing, and your child's tantrum begins. A little screen time almost always works to calm them down.
  
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• Gadhafi's agents thought they'd get away with the Lockerbie bombing. They were wrong

  12-12-2022 18:46 via cnn.com
  
  Just days before Christmas in 1998, Pan Am flight 103 flying from London to New York blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people -- including 190 Americans. Thirty-five victims were Syracuse University students going home for the holidays after studying abroad. It was the most lethal terrorist attack against American civilians until the September 11 attacks of 2001.
  
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• WATCH: Zoo welcomes Malayan tapir calf

  12-12-2022 18:44
  England’s Chester Zoo welcomed a rare Malayan tapir calf called Nessa. The birth is special because the zoo said there are only 2,500 Malayan tapirs in the world.
  
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• Israeli military admits shooting 16-year-old Palestinian girl, calls it 'unintentional'

  12-12-2022 18:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Israeli military admitted Monday that its troops shot Jana Zakarneh, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl who died during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, saying she was killed by "unintentional" Israeli fire "aimed at armed gunmen."
  
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• World Cup 2022: On board a floating hotel for fans in Qatar

  12-12-2022 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Sport's Nesta McGregor takes a look at a cruise ship where football fans can stay for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
  
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• Winners of 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards revealed

  12-12-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  An image of a 3-month-old lion cub falling out of a tree has been named the overall winner of this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
  
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• Clumsy cub and smiling fish among Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards winning images

  12-12-2022 18:12 via cnn.com
  
  An image of a 3-month-old lion cub falling out of a tree has been named the overall winner of this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
  
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• UN agency says Israel is delaying new visas for its staff

  12-12-2022 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  A United Nations agency that operates in the West Bank and Gaza says Israel is not processing visas for its newly recruited staff, while Israeli officials accuse the agency of "ignoring Israeli victims of terror" in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, a charge the agency denies.
  
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• Supreme Court takes up second Biden student loan forgiveness case

  12-12-2022 18:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court will hear a second bid to revive President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan in February alongside a challenge from states.
  
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• 'Grateful to be alive': See diver narrowly escape speeding boat

  12-12-2022 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  Christopher Lastra was spearfishing in Oahu, Hawaii, when he was nearly run over by a speeding boat. CNN affiliates KHNL and KGMB have the story.
  
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• Peru president paves way for early elections after two killed in latest protests

  12-12-2022 17:49 via theguardian.com
  Dina Boluarte says she will submit bill to move elections forward by two years as thousands take to streets after ousting of predecessor Pedro CastilloPeru’s new president, Dina Boluarte, has announced plans to move forward with general elections amid deadly protests over the ousting of her predecessor Pedro Castillo after he attempted to dissolve congress.In a televised address early on Monday, Boluarte said she would submit a bill to bring general elections forward two years, to April 20
  
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