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• Julian Sands: Family thanks California authorities for 'heroic' search

  23-01-2023 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The British actor went missing on 13 January during a mountain hike near Los Angeles.
  
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• Indiana Republicans face blessing and curse in jockeying for 2024 Senate seat

  23-01-2023 23:55
  
  A game of political musical chairs is unfolding among Republicans after Indiana Sen. Mike Braun announced he plans to run for governor rather than reelection in 2024
  
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• Erdogan tells Sweden not to expect Nato bid support

  23-01-2023 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Turkish president's warning comes after protests in Sweden, including a Quran burning.
  
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• 2 students killed in school shooting

  23-01-2023 23:38
  
  Two students were killed in a shooting at a Des Moines, Iowa, school Monday afternoon, according to police.
  
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• Harry Kane equals Jimmy Greaves as Tottenham Hotspur's all-time top scorer

  23-01-2023 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harry Kane equals Jimmy Greaves' record as Tottenham's all-time top scorer with his 266th goal for the club.
  
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• Capitol rioter who posed with feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk found guilty

  23-01-2023 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Richard Barnett carried a stun gun as he joined the crowds storming the Capitol on 6 January 2021.
  
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• The suspect, who officials say killed 11 people, went to a police station twice, vowing to return — but never did

  23-01-2023 22:53 via edition.cnn.com
  
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• 2 Michigan girls survive after car with dad goes into lake

  23-01-2023 22:38
  
  The two sisters escaped but their father was dead when the vehicle was located.
  
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• 'Polo Polo,' popular Mexican comedian, dead at 78

  23-01-2023 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  Mexican comedian Leopoldo Roberto Garcia Pelaez Benitez, who performed as "Polo Polo," died on Monday, his family announced.
  
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• Iconic London hotel reveals lavish transformation

  23-01-2023 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Cocktails are served.
  
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• Four Oath Keepers found guilty of seditious conspiracy in latest January 6 convictions – live

  23-01-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Verdict comes after group’s founder and co-defendant were also convicted of seditious conspiracy in NovemberSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailWhen Joe Biden’s aides first discovered classified documents at his former office in Washington DC, they thought that was the only location such material would be found.But it wasn’t – more secrets were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The mistaken belief that such documents would only be fo
  
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• Australia news live: Albanese to visit Alice Springs amid law and order crisis; two dead after Sydney police chase

  23-01-2023 21:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Northern Territory chief minister faces calls to restore ban on alcohol in troubled town. Follow the day’s newsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNSW Labor promises to double funding for women’s health centresThe New South Wales opposition has pledged to double the funding for women’s health centres to $100m over five years if elected in March.Core funding has not kept up with the ever-increasing demand and this is placing more pressure on
  
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• Russia believed to have directed White supremacists to carry out bombings in Spain, US says

  23-01-2023 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  US officials believe that Russian intelligence officers directed a Russian White supremacist group to carry out a letter-bombing campaign that rocked Madrid late last year, targeting the prime minister, the American and Ukrainian Embassies as well as the Spanish defense ministry, according to current and former US officials.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell wishes she ‘never met’ Jeffrey Epstein, she tells TV interviewer

  23-01-2023 21:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Disgraced British socialite gives interview from Florida prison in segment shown on Jeremy Kyle show on TalkTVThe disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has said, in a television interview from prison, she wished she had “never met” the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Maxwell, 61, was sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for procuring underage girls for the American financier to sexually abuse. She maintains her innocence. Continue reading...
  
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• 72-year-old suspect made a series of allegations to police in the past few weeks, officials say, as investigators search for a motive

  23-01-2023 21:44 via edition.cnn.com
  
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• Brazilian police name alleged ‘mastermind’ behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

  23-01-2023 21:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Police chief says Rubens Villar Coelho, whose nickname is Colômbia, ordered the murders of the British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expertBrazilian police have named the alleged mastermind behind the murders of the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon last year.Rubens Villar Coelho, whose nickname is Colômbia, was first arrested on separate charges last July – one month after the two men were murdered in the Java
  
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• Monterey Park shooting death toll rises to 11, including dance hall manager

  23-01-2023 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  California officials name two of those killed, while friends and colleagues say much-loved ‘Mr Ma’ was among deadThe death toll in a mass shooting at a ballroom dance studio has risen to 11 people, after health officials said that one of the people wounded in the shooting had died.The beloved manager of a California dance hall was among the 11 victims of Saturday’s gun massacre during a lunar new year celebration in Monterey Park, according to friends and colleagues. Continue r
  
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• ‘Wheeler-dealer’ Boris Johnson and his tricky relationship with money

  23-01-2023 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  That former PM secretly secured a loan of up to £800k no surprise as financial reliance on others stretches back many yearsBoris Johnson is deeply protective of his personal life – but one thing almost universally acknowledged by those who know him is that he has a tricky relationship with money.It came as little surprise to them, therefore, that he was alleged to have secretly secured an up to £800,000 loan guarantee while prime minister. Continue reading...
  
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• Minister unable to say whether Zahawi was telling truth when he first said taxes were fully paid – as it happened

  23-01-2023 21:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour MP asks whether Zahawi statement in the summer was untrue, with Cabinet Office minister saying he does not know the answerNadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chair, has welcomed the decision by Rishi Sunak to ask the No 10 ethics adviser to investigate his case. “I am confident I acted properly throughout,” Zahawi said.Zahawi seems to be using a narrow definition of “properly”. In the statement he issued yesterday, he accepted that his original decision not to pa
  
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• Multiple people injured in Des Moines shooting, police say

  23-01-2023 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Police in Des Moines, Iowa, are on the scene of a shooting incident, with multiple injuries, according to a Twitter post from the department.
  
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• Pronoun fines and jail time for librarians: Republicans target LGBTQ+ rights with new laws

  23-01-2023 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 100 laws targeting LGBTQ+ communities have been filed across the US as attacks persistSeveral anti-LGBTQ+ laws are being passed or proposed across the US as political attacks against the communities continue.In North Dakota, conservative lawmakers have introduced at least eight laws targeting LGBTQ+ communities, many of which target transgender people. Continue reading...
  
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• Former top FBI official arrested over ties to Russian oligarch

  23-01-2023 21:12
  
  A former top FBI official in New York has been arrested over his ties to a Russian oligarch, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday.
  
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• South Dakota tribe: Storm deaths 'could have been prevented'

  23-01-2023 20:53
  
  December storms buried their reservation in snow and left them stranded.
  
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• Health unions urge Sunak to resolve pay dispute before unprecedented strike

  23-01-2023 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Unite leader said joint action from nurses and ambulance staff on 6 February would be ‘very bad day for the NHS’Health union leaders have urged Rishi Sunak to resolve the deepening NHS pay dispute in the next two weeks to stop the biggest strike in the service’s history going ahead on 6 February.They made their plea as about 16,000 paramedics, call handlers and other ambulance staff in England held the latest stoppage on Monday in their campaign against ministers’ imposit
  
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• Oath Keepers members found guilty of seditious conspiracy

  23-01-2023 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  Three members of the Oath Keepers and a fourth person associated with the far-right militia group were convicted of seditious conspiracy by a Washington, DC, jury on Monday for their role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
  
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• Argentina and Brazil are discussing a common currency. Don't hold your breath

  23-01-2023 20:40 via cnn.com
  
  The two biggest economies in South America are starting talks to create a common currency. Analysts are skeptical.
  
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• Ukraine deputy minister sacked for alleged theft of $400,000

  23-01-2023 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Infrastructure deputy Vasyl Lozinskyi detained after allegedly siphoning money from winter aid budgetUkraine’s deputy infrastructure minister, Vasyl Lozinskyi, has been detained and dismissed from his post for allegedly stealing $400,000 (£320,000) intended for purchasing aid, including generators, according to Ukraine’s state anti-corruption detectives and prosecutors.After the news emerged, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, vowed that the old ways of corruption
  
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• Former top FBI official accused of taking cash from Putin ally to investigate rival

  23-01-2023 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Charles McGonigal, 54, conspired to commit money laundering offences by receiving Oleg Deripaska money, prosecutors allegeA former top FBI counter-intelligence official conspired to commit money laundering offences and violated US sanctions by taking secret payments from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival, federal prosecutors said in an indictment on Monday.Charles McGonigal, 54, was also arrested on charges relating to his alleged acceptance of a $225,000 cash payment fr
  
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• Former high-level FBI official charged in alleged schemes to help sanctioned Russian oligarch and conceal payments from ex-Albanian intel official

  23-01-2023 20:35 via cnn.com
  
  The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI's New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence agency while he was a top official at the bureau.
  
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• Woman lands new job after resume cake goes viral on LinkedIn

  23-01-2023 20:34
  
  The delivery transaction turned into a real-life mentorship and friendship.
  
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• Unanswered questions leave Nadhim Zahawi’s political fate in balance

  23-01-2023 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory party chair still has some explaining to do over why he paid a penalty to HMRC to settle his tax affairsNadhim Zahawi, who won plaudits for his work as vaccines minister during the pandemic, now faces questions that threaten his political survival.The Conservative party chair has been at the heart of a media storm over a disagreement with HMRC after the Guardian revealed on Friday that he had paid a penalty to the tax office as part of an estimated £5m tax settlement last year. Contin
  
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• WATCH: Thirsty koala cozies up next to decorative doppelgänger

  23-01-2023 20:31
  
  An Australian family received an unexpected visitor in their backyard: a thirsty koala nestled up next to its decorative doppelgänger.
  
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• Sunak under pressure over when he knew about Nadhim Zahawi tax inquiry

  23-01-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  PM’s appointment of Tory chair to cabinet under scrutiny after he launches ethics adviser investigationRishi Sunak has instructed his ethics adviser to investigate the tax affairs of the Conservative party chair, Nadhim Zahawi, but faces growing pressure over whether he knew about the HMRC inquiry when he appointed Zahawi to his cabinet.The prime minister admitted there were “questions that need answering” after suggestions that Zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of p
  
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• The Washington Post is not for sale, owner Jeff Bezos and the newspaper say

  23-01-2023 20:22 via cnn.com
  
  The Washington Post is not for sale, spokespeople for the newspaper and its owner Jeff Bezos told CNN on Monday.
  
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• Tech layoffs 2023: Companies that have made cuts

  23-01-2023 20:15
  
  Companies across the tech industry, including Vox Media, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, have made major cuts in 2023.
  
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• Mastodon founder has a message for Elon Musk

  23-01-2023 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  Mastodon has seen a huge influx of users since Elon Musk took over Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko tells "Nightcap's" Jon Sarlin things have been chaotic, since he's the only full-time employee managing a platform that now has more than 1 million active users. And his message to Elon Musk? Get off the internet
  
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• WATCH: Environmentalists concerned as trash builds up in Balkan river

  23-01-2023 20:12
  
  Environmental campaigners in Bosnia and Herzegovina are sounding the alarm after a large buildup of garbage turned parts of the Drina River into a floating dump.
  
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• Richard Sharp’s appointment as BBC chair under investigation

  23-01-2023 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Commissioner for public appointments and corporation to separately examine Tory donor’s selectionUK politics live – latest news updatesRichard Sharp’s selection as BBC chair is the subject of two separate investigations, amid allegations he helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of up to £800,000 weeks before he was recommended for the job by the then prime minister.The appointment of the prominent Conservative donor to lead the broadcaster is now being probed both by William
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Germany ‘not blocking export of Leopard tanks’, says EU foreign policy chief – as it happened

  23-01-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can find our latest report hereWhat we know on day 334 of the invasionRussian secret service the SVR has claimed that Ukraine is storing weapons and ammunition supplied by the west on the territory of nuclear power plants, reports Tass.The Russian-owned news agency reports that the SVR says, without citing any evidence, that this is been done in the expectation that Russia would not target them, due to the risk of a nuclear accident.This is Martin Belam taking o
  
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• Mexico’s ex-security chief took ‘millions in bribes’ from cartel, US court hears

  23-01-2023 19:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Trial begins in Brooklyn court for Genaro García Luna, who is accused of protecting the violent Sinaloa cartelThe trial of a former top Mexican law enforcement official got under way in a Brooklyn court on Monday, one of the most significant drug trafficking cases since the prosecution of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán more than four years ago.Genaro García Luna, who ran Mexico’s version of the FBI before being appointed to lead the country&rsqu
  
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• Investigators are searching for a motive for the California mass shooting after the man police say killed 10 people at a dance hall was found dead

  23-01-2023 19:55 via edition.cnn.com
  
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• M&M'S to replace spokescandies with Maya Rudolph

  23-01-2023 19:51 via cnn.com
  
  After causing outrage by making over the Green M&M and launching a special bag featuring its new Purple character in honor of International Women's Day, M&M'S says it is taking a step back from its candy reps — sort of.
  
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• Man charged with opening fire at picnic found dead in jail

  23-01-2023 19:47
  
  A Milwaukee man was accused of killing two people and wounding three others.
  
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• Webb telescope spies frozen molecules inside a wispy space cloud

  23-01-2023 19:45 via cnn.com
  
  The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of different elements.
  
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• '420 price was not a joke.' Elon Musk testifies again in trial over controversial tweet

  23-01-2023 19:45 via cnn.com
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the witness stand for a second day on Monday and attempted to explain the thought process behind his controversial "funding secured" tweet from 2018, pushing back at the idea that it was partly a joke.
  
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• Ancient fresco among 60 treasures returned to Italy from US

  23-01-2023 19:42
  
  The fresco is from a city destroyed along with Pompeii by the Vesuvius eruption.
  
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• Swedish PM in hot water over eel fishing scandal

  23-01-2023 19:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ulf Kristersson is criticised after hiring an aide who had broken poaching laws and misled police.
  
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• Alec Baldwin faces charges – but what about firms involved in Rust shooting?

  23-01-2023 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Actors’ union say it was ‘not a failure of duty’ on performer’s part, but film’s production company is unlikely to face criminal chargesAfter the deadly accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a Santa Fe movie set in 2021, New Mexico prosecutors have announced impending manslaughter charges against the Rust actor and producer Alec Baldwin, who held the prop gun as it discharged what turned out to be live rounds.The film’s armorer who prepared
  
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• Seized artifacts worth $20 million are shown off on return to Italy

  23-01-2023 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  Italy celebrated the return of 60 ancient artifacts worth more than $20 million from the United States with a display in Rome's Spadolini Hall on Monday.
  
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• Turkey will oppose Sweden's membership in NATO after Stockholm protest sees Quran burned

  23-01-2023 19:25 via foxnews.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will oppose Sweden's bid to join NATO, citing pro-Kurdish protests in Stockholm this weekend. Turkey has long faulted Sweden for its tolerance of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a group Turkey, the U.S. and the E.U. have condemned as a terrorist organization. Rasmus Paludan, a Swedish politician, burned a Quran outside the Turkish embassy during a protest this weekend, and the PKK joined other pro-Kurdish groups in a separate pr
  
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