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• Ex-NBA player Amar’e Stoudemire arrested and accused of punching, slapping daughter

  18-12-2022 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former NBA player Amar’e Stoudemire was arrested early Sunday morning in a domestic violence incident involving his daughter.
  
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• Faculty: Purdue Northwest CEO must resign for racist remarks

  18-12-2022 22:58
  Purdue Northwest CEO and Chancellor Thomas Keon mocked Asian languages.
  
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• World Cup 2022: Argentina beat France in 2022 World Cup final - in pictures

  18-12-2022 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The best images from the final of the 2022 World Cup, where Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw in Qatar.
  
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• Hear John Dean's prediction about DOJ filing charges against Trump

  18-12-2022 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Former Nixon White House counsel and CNN contributor John Dean discusses the January 6th House select committee's potential criminal referrals to the Department of Justice of former President Donald Trump and his allies.
  
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• Australia news live: police search for A-League pitch invaders, boy hospitalised after Fraser Island dingo attack‘jumped on’ by dingo

  18-12-2022 22:24 via theguardian.com
  At least two of nine men sought by Victoria police after Melbourne derby come forward; child treated for bites after being ‘jumped on’ by dingoGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal house fire in Lara, a town just out of Geelong.Emergency services were called about 4.45am this morning. After extinguishing the blaze, fire crews found two bodies.The cause of the fire is yet to be determined
  
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• World Cup 2022: A hat-trick then heartbreak - Kylian Mbappe misses out on biggest prize

  18-12-2022 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  How France striker Kylian Mbappe's night promised so much but ended with probably the worst way to win the World Cup's Golden Boot.
  
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• NYPD searching for man who said 'Kanye 2024' during antisemitic attack in Central Park

  18-12-2022 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  New York City police are asking for tips after someone assaulted a 63-year-old man in Central Park last week.
  
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• World Cup 2022: Was Argentina's win over France the best ever final?

  18-12-2022 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  It was one of the greatest finals in World Cup history, so how did the "breathless" showpiece unfold?
  
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• This final was a game that seemed to defy comprehension, conventions and any attempt to describe it

  18-12-2022 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  This World Cup final was a game that seemed to defy comprehension, conventions and any attempt to describe it.
  
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• How the world reacted to 'the best World Cup final ever'

  18-12-2022 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  This World Cup final was a game that seemed to defy comprehension, conventions and any attempt to describe it.
  
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• The mind games of Argentina's dancing hero

  18-12-2022 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Emi Martinez's penalty shootout mind games help secure an incredible win for Argentina and make the dancing goalkeeper a hero.
  
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• World Cup final: Lionel Messi leads Argentina to glory - is he now football's greatest?

  18-12-2022 21:43 via bbc.co.uk
  After Lionel Messi led Argentina to World Cup glory, no-one can now deny he belongs in the same pantheon as Pele and Diego Maradona.
  
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• World Cup final: How you rated Argentina and France players

  18-12-2022 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  How you rated the players as Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalties at the end of one of the most dramatic World Cup finals.
  
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• World Cup 2022: Elation in Argentina, sorrow in France - fans react

  18-12-2022 21:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The party goes off in Buenos Aires as Argentina celebrates but in Paris there is disappointment.
  
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• Witnesses to Brixton concert crush say many fans outside had tickets

  18-12-2022 21:33 via theguardian.com
  One concertgoer claims security guards ‘kettled’ fans into a confined space outside Asake gigWitnesses to the deadly crush outside the O2 Academy Brixton last Thursday have insisted many fans in the crowd outside had tickets, rejecting reports of a ticketless mob storming the venue.After the death of 33-year-old Rebecca Ikumelo was announced on Saturday, fans criticised the security and organisation at the event. Continue reading...
  
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• Barclay expected to urge fresh talks aimed at ending health strikes

  18-12-2022 21:30 via theguardian.com
  RCN says talks must take place this week or more strikes will be tabled for new year, as ambulance staff prepare for Wednesday walkoutThe health secretary, Steve Barclay, is expected to contact health unions to urge a fresh round of talks aimed at averting further strikes, amid new warnings that more action could put patients in danger.It comes as No 10 rejected a proposal to give nurses a one-off lump-sum payment in an attempt to end the industrial action, one of the measures Barclay had sugges
  
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• What to know about criminal referrals the committee may make

  18-12-2022 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is set to make announcements at its final public meeting on Monday about criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
  
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• US public not warned that monkeys imported from Cambodia carried deadly pathogens

  18-12-2022 21:27 via theguardian.com
  Documents reveal that pathogenic agents, zoonotic bacteria and viruses, including one deemed bioterrorism risk, entered US but ‘no indication CDC has been transparent’Animal activists are calling for the US government to stop the importation of non-human primates for laboratory use after documents from the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal that deadly pathogenic agents, zoonotic bacteria and viruses – including one deemed to be a bioterrorism risk
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried expected to waive extradition from Bahamas: Sources

  18-12-2022 21:26
  Sam Bankman-Fried, who is facing charges in the U.S. following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, is prepared to waive extradition from the Bahamas.
  
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• Two men come forward in search for Melbourne A-League pitch invaders, police say

  18-12-2022 21:06 via theguardian.com
  ‘Angry and irritated’ FA boss declares ‘there is no place in our sport for this’Governing body issues show cause notice to Victory and vows to identify, name and sanction fansAt least two of the nine men being sought by Victoria police over Saturday’s pitch invasion at the A-League Men Melbourne derby have made themselves known to investigators.The invasion of the Melbourne Victory/Melbourne City football clash left a player, a referee and a TV camera operator injur
  
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• ‘Like paradise’: Argentina erupts in celebration of World Cup win

  18-12-2022 21:03 via theguardian.com
  Streets of central Buenos Aires are a cacophony of yelling and horns after shootout victory against France Paris reaction: ‘You can’t begrudge Messi’Match report: how Argentina won itIf there’s one thing Argentina fans have learned in this World Cup, it’s that you can’t rest on your laurels when you’re 2-0 up. But after a dramatic penalty shootout, there was delight in Buenos Aires that Argentina will be bringing home football’s most coveted trophy
  
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• World Cup final: Lionel Messi named best player as Kylian Mbappe wins Golden Boot

  18-12-2022 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  France's Kylian Mbappe beats Argentina's Lionel Messi to the World Cup Golden Boot award in the final.
  
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• Cop15 negotiators close to agreeing nature deal as talks draw to end

  18-12-2022 20:35 via theguardian.com
  Final agreement could bring better protection for vital ecosystems and big reforms to agriculture A potentially transformational agreement for nature is close to being reached at Cop15 in Montreal, which could bring better protection for Earth’s vital ecosystems such as the Amazon and Congo basin rainforests, big reforms to agriculture and better protection of indigenous territories and rights.After four years of negotiations and 12 years since the last biodiversity targets were agreed in
  
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• Pope wrote resignation note in case of health impediment

  18-12-2022 20:21
  He wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him.
  
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• Messi-inspired Argentina wins World Cup

  18-12-2022 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  Lionel Messi's wait for World Cup glory is finally over after Argentina beat France in a dramatic penalty shootout on Sunday.
  
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• Anti-abortion US priest Frank Pavone defrocked by Vatican

  18-12-2022 20:14 via theguardian.com
  Pavone had been investigated for placing an aborted foetus on an altar and posting a video of it onlineThe Vatican has defrocked the anti-abortion US priest Frank Pavone for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop.A letter to US bishops from the Vatican ambassador to the US, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, said the decision against Pavone, who heads the anti-abortion group Priests for Life, had been t
  
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• See the emotional moments from Cecily Strong's final SNL

  18-12-2022 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  After 11 years on "Saturday Night Live," Cecily Strong was serenaded by host Austin Butler and her fellow cast members with a rendition of Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas."
  
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• ‘You can’t begrudge Messi’: Parisians react as France lose World Cup final

  18-12-2022 20:04 via theguardian.com
  Patrons of French capital’s bars go through gamut of emotions as Argentina eventually win out on penaltiesIt was a rollercoaster. By the end they were standing on the tables outside, roars of “allezles Bleus” and “liberté, égalité, Mbappé” rising hoarsely into the freezing early evening air, hugging each other fiercely, cheering on their heroes.It was standing room only in Le Napoléon and Le Mondial cafes, facing each other across
  
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• Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’

  18-12-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Supermarket faces landmark lawsuit in the UK from 130 former workers alleging negligenceWorkers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by TescoBurmese workers that produced F+F jeans for Tesco in Thailand report being trapped in effective forced labour, working 99-hour weeks for illegally low pay in appalling conditions, a Guardian investigation has found.Tesco faces a landmark lawsuit in the UK from 130 former workers at VK Garment Factory (VKG), who are suing them for all
  
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• Canada's polar-bear capital Churchill warms too fast for bears

  18-12-2022 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The amount of time without sea-ice is becoming too long for the bears to survive, experts say.
  
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• Africa to win World Cup "within 15-20 years", says Morocco coach

  18-12-2022 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Africa will win the World Cup 'within 15-20 years' says Morocco coach Walid Regragui, who has come closer than any coach to delivering that long-held aim.
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 298 of the invasion

  18-12-2022 19:46 via theguardian.com
  Volodymyr Zelenskiy proposes global peace summit; archbishop of Canterbury says Russia’s invasion has opened ‘gates of hell’See all our Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...
  
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• World Cup final: Argentina beat France on penalties in dramatic Qatar showpiece

  18-12-2022 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Lionel Messi leads Argentina to World Cup glory, beating France on penalties in one of the most thrilling climaxes in final history.
  
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• Joe Manchin says he doesn’t intend to leave Democratic party for now

  18-12-2022 19:40 via theguardian.com
  Remarks comes after fellow centrist Kyrsten Sinema announced she was leaving party and becoming an independentThe centrist Democratic senator Joe Manchin does not intend to change his party affiliation – at least for now, he said Sunday.Manchin’s remarks on CBS’s Face the Nation came after fellow centrist senator Kyrsten Sinema sent shock waves through Congress by announcing that she was leaving the Democratic party and listing herself as an independent. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: ‘fragile morale’ among Russian forces, says UK – as it happened

  18-12-2022 19:26 via theguardian.com
  British ministry of defence says Russian soldiers also troubled by lack of equipment and uncertainty over war’s objectivesWhat we know on day 298 of the invasionThe time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but dreams of breaking up Russia could unleash nuclear chaos, the veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger said.Kissinger, an architect of the cold war policy of detente towards the Soviet Union as secretary of state under Repu
  
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• Lionel Messi-inspired Argentina wins World Cup title after beating France in sensational final

  18-12-2022 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  Lionel Messi's wait for World Cup glory is finally over after Argentina beat France in a dramatic penalty shootout on Sunday.
  
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• One dead in strikes on Russian region near Ukraine, Belgorod governor says

  18-12-2022 19:08 via cnn.com
  
  One person was reported dead and eight people were injured in the Russian region of Belgorod on Sunday following shelling by Ukrainian forces, according to the regional governor.
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson condemned over Meghan column in the Sun

  18-12-2022 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Outcry after presenter writes he is ‘dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets’A Jeremy Clarkson column in the Sun about the Duchess of Sussex has provoked outcry online, with social media users labelling it “vile”, “horrific” and “abusive”.In an article for the paper published on Friday, Clarkson wrote that he loathed Meghan “on a cellular level”. He said he was “dreaming of the day when she is made
  
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• Asa Hutchinson says he’ll decide 2024 run early next year: Trump has ‘accelerated everyone’s time frame’

  18-12-2022 18:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that Trump’s early 2024 re-election announcement has fast-tracked potential GOP challengers’ timeframes
  
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• UK weather: temperatures to reach up to 14C as cold snap ends overnight

  18-12-2022 18:24 via theguardian.com
  Met Office issues amber warning for ice in north of England and says warmer weather also brings risks of floodingTemperatures could rise as high as 14C (57F) in parts of the UK on Monday, the Met Office has predicted, but the warmer weather will bring a risk of flooding.Most of south Wales, the south-west of England and some of the south-east is under a yellow warning for rain, with a chance of some flooding. Surface-level flooding may also occur in other parts of the UK as snow and ice on highe
  
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• Hamza Yassin: Strictly winner being touted as next David Attenborough

  18-12-2022 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Wildlife TV presenter tipped for success after capturing country’s heart on path to Strictly victoryHe may have come from relative obscurity but 2023 is predicted to be a big year for the Strictly Come Dancing champion Hamza Yassin, who lifted the glitterball trophy with his dance partner Jowita Przystał on Saturday night.He pipped fellow finalists Helen Skelton, Fleur East and Molly Rainford to the title in a tense final and insiders are now predicting big things for the wildlife exp
  
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• Schiff: ‘Sufficient evidence’ to criminally charge Trump over efforts to overturn election

  18-12-2022 18:08 via theguardian.com
  Dramatic statement comes one day before January 6 panel set to release outline of its investigative report on US Capitol attackCalifornia congressman Adam Schiff said Sunday that he believes there is “sufficient evidence” to criminally charge Donald Trump in relation to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.Schiff’s dramatic statement on CNN’s State of the Union came one day before the House January 6 select committee to which he belongs is poised to release an outlin
  
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• Texas mayor declares state of emergency over migrant swell

  18-12-2022 17:51
  The mayor of a Texas border city has declared a state of emergency over concerns about the community’s ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border
  
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• Major winter storm expected to hit much of US before Christmas

  18-12-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  Heavy snow, powerful winds, and bitterly cold temperatures will potentially snarl holiday travelA major winter storm system is expected to strike much of the US days before Christmas, potentially snarling holiday travel as motorists and air travelers contend with heavy snow, powerful winds, and bitterly cold temperatures across several regions.This sprawling storm system coincides with the arrival of an Arctic air mass that will consume much of the country “this upcoming week”, accor
  
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• Film-maker revisits her homeless past to show rough sleepers’ plight

  18-12-2022 17:17 via theguardian.com
  Lorna Tucker says not enough is being done to help Britain’s homeless people, and what is being done is not workingThe film-maker Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway, sleeping rough in London for 18 months. Twenty-five years later, she has relived the harrowing experience for a documentary, returning to her former haunts and speaking to homeless people at a time when record numbers are living on Britain’s streets.She was reunited with some of those she left behind, including &ldq
  
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• Cecily Strong leaves Saturday Night Live after 11 seasons

  18-12-2022 17:14
  After 11 seasons, Cecily Strong has said farewell to “Saturday Night Live."
  
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• Nobel laureate economist faces sexual harassment investigation

  18-12-2022 16:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. university is investigating a Nobel laureate over sexual harassment allegations that the economist’s attorney dismisses as “professional rivalry.”
  
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• Reno mayor sues after she finds tracking device on vehicle

  18-12-2022 16:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Reno mayor sues after finding tracking device on vehicle
  
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• New York bans pet stores from selling cats, dogs, rabbits

  18-12-2022 16:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  New York on Thursday became the latest state to ban the sale of cats, dogs and rabbits in pet stores in an attempt to target commercial breeding operations.
  
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• Rihanna shares first images of baby boy

  18-12-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  Rihanna can add "first social media video" to the family scrapbook after posting a TikTok filled with the sounds of happy baby babble, revealing her son with rapper A$AP Rocky on-camera.
  
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