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• Fruit Roll-Ups brand tells TikTok users to not eat the plastic in their products

  23-03-2023 23:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  The TikTok account for Fruit Roll-Ups uploaded a video debunking recent viral posts from users who suggest eating the snack without taking off its plastic lining.
  
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• Mother of soldier found dead at Fort Hood is getting humanitarian visa to come to U.S.

  23-03-2023 23:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The mother of Fort Hood soldier Ana Basaldua Ruiz who was found dead at the Army installation has been granted a humanitarian visa by the U.S. to come from Mexico.
  
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• House fails to override Biden's first veto

  23-03-2023 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new administration rule for retirement plans will be implemented as planned after the House failed to override President Joe Biden's first veto Thursday.
  
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• Tawang: The town living in the shadow of India-China war

  23-03-2023 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Memories of a painful past are still fresh in Tawang, but its people hope for a better future.
  
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• Families of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira decry ‘shameful’ trial delays

  23-03-2023 22:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Poor internet and logistical problems frustrate hearing into killing of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expertActivists and lawyers representing the families of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have voiced frustration and anger after the preliminary court hearings of three of their alleged murderers had to be suspended because of poor internet and logistical problems at the high-security prisons where the defendants are being held.Three of the suspected killers of the British journalis
  
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• First female police officer in rural Michigan town says fellow cops relentlessly harassed and assaulted her

  23-03-2023 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The first female cop in the history of a rural Michigan town who was forced to resign, alleges years of sexual harassment and assault by two fellow officers.
  
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• Off-duty pilot on Southwest flight helps land plane after captain falls ill

  23-03-2023 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  A pilot from another airline helped land a Southwest Airlines flight that left early Wednesday from Las Vegas after its captain became "incapacitated" and required medical attention, according to the airline and radio traffic data, in an episode that surprised some passengers who had no clue a pilot had fallen ill.
  
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• Zebra captured after three hours on the run in Seoul

  23-03-2023 22:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal, which is thought to have broken out of its zoo enclosure, was tranquillised after being on the loose in South Korean capitalA young zebra walked, trotted and galloped for hours through the busy streets of Seoul before emergency workers tranquillised the animal and brought it back to a zoo.The zebra – a male named Sero who was born in the zoo in 2021 – was in a stable condition and being examined by veterinarians on Thursday evening, said Choi Ye-ra, an official at the Childre
  
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• Key takeaways as TikTok CEO grilled for over five hours at US Congress

  23-03-2023 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  In his first appearance before Congress on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew was grilled by lawmakers who expressed deep skepticism about his company's attempts to protect US user data and ease concerns about its ties to China.
  
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• Kevin McCarthy met Ashli Babbitt's mom ahead of GOP visit with Jan. 6 prisoners

  23-03-2023 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with the mother of Ashli Babbitt Thursday, a day before Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans will visit Jan. 6 prisoners.
  
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• Georgia law will ban most transgender care for kids under 18

  23-03-2023 21:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Georgia will ban most gender-affirming procedures and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18 with a new bill Gov.
  
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• California is dangerously saturated after 12 monstrous storms, and more water is coming

  23-03-2023 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  After three years of drought, California is getting battered by atmospheric rivers, tornados and snowstorms, damaging homes and killing dozens.
  
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• Six highway construction workers killed outside Baltimore identified

  23-03-2023 21:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  The driver of an Acura who fatally struck six construction workers on a stretch of highway outside Baltimore collided with another vehicle moments before her car plowed into the laborers, investigators said Thursday.
  
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• 'I want all you guys to scream': 911 dispatcher helps 5 kids stuck in storm drain

  23-03-2023 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  Five mischievous boys had to be rescued from a Staten Island sewer system after they crawled into a tunnel, ventured deep inside and then got lost, according to the New York City Fire Department.
  
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• UCLA brother and sister make March Madness a proud family moment

  23-03-2023 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  UCLA Senior forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. andGabriela Jaquez are the first brother and sister duo to make it to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament for the same school in the same season.
  
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• Haiti, China and NORAD on the agenda as Biden heads to Canada

  23-03-2023 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Joe Biden arrives in Canada this week for his first presidential visit here, as the two countries look to demonstrate unity and resolve.
  
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• 'Your platform should be banned': Key takeaways from TikTok CEO's hearing at US Congress

  23-03-2023 21:16 via cnn.com
  
  In his first appearance before Congress on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Chew was grilled by lawmakers who expressed deep skepticism about his company's attempts to protect US user data and ease concerns about its ties to China.
  
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• San Francisco DJ Jeffrey Vandergrift found dead a month after he went missing

  23-03-2023 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jeffrey Vandergrift, a popular DJ for a San Francisco radio station, was found dead nearly a month after he went missing, officials said.
  
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• Trudeau lays out China approach ahead of Biden meeting

  23-03-2023 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out a three-pronged vision of engagement, competition and confrontation with China in a CNN interview on Thursday, ahead of a much-anticipated meeting with US President Joe Biden in which the two Western leaders are expected to cover a number of security issues.
  
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• U.S. starts flying migrants caught crossing northern border south to Texas

  23-03-2023 21:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  As migrants cross illegally into the U.S. from Canada at historically high levels, U.S. officials have begun flying migrants caught at the northern border south to Texas.
  
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• Federal officials want to repeal a law that delayed warnings about dangerous products

  23-03-2023 21:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Consumer Product Safety Commission chair wants Congress to repeal Section 6(b), allowing the agency to warn the public more quickly about dangerous products
  
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• Ukrainian official claims Russian forces are 'running out of energy' but warns they continue to try to take the city 'at any cost'

  23-03-2023 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  Russian forces are depleted in Bakhmut and a Ukrainian counter-offensive could soon be launched, one of Kyiv's top generals has said, raising the prospect of an unlikely turnaround in the besieged city.
  
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• GOP House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman gives Blinken until Monday to turn over Afghanistan document or face subpoena

  23-03-2023 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul gave Secretary of State Antony Blinken a deadline of Monday afternoon to turn over a key document related to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan or face a subpoena for the file.
  
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• Norway watches warily as Russian subs and aircraft step up Arctic patrols

  23-03-2023 20:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Norway releases video to NBC News showing Russian submarines off its coast, as it beefs up naval patrols to protect undersea pipeline and telecoms cables.
  
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• Scores arrested on Israeli day of protest as parliament passes judicial changes

  23-03-2023 20:41 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 75 people held across country on ‘day of disruption’ as Knesset approves law designed to protect Netanyahu Israel’s two-month-old protest movement took to the streets for a “day of disruption” as the parliament passed the first part of the hardline government’s controversial judicial changes into law.The legislation, designed to protect the position of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was approved early on Thursday, after a heated all-night deb
  
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• Manhattan DA's office slams GOP's 'unprecedented' inquiry into Trump probe

  23-03-2023 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Trump's intensifying legal drama could drag America closer to historic precipice
  
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• Fox News reporter hugs her son on air after he comes out of school shooting

  23-03-2023 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  Fox News reporter Alicia Acuna was reporting live on a shooting at Denver East High School when she paused to hug her son after he came out from the school.
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow ski collision trial enters third day

  23-03-2023 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Thursday's testimony in the trial over a 2016 skiing accident involving Gwyneth Paltrow kicked off with testimony from a clinical neuropsychologist who treated the man who is suing the actress.
  
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• World Athletics tightens rules on transgender women athletes

  23-03-2023 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  World Athletics (WA) announced new rules on Thursday impacting transgender women athletes, banning some from competing in female track and field events.
  
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• US Capitol rioter who barged into Pelosi's offices sentenced to three years in prison

  23-03-2023 19:48 via cnn.com
  
  A 24-year-old Pennsylvania woman who barged into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison after a federal judge ridiculed the idea she was "a little girl."
  
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• Why France is fuming at Macron

  23-03-2023 19:24 via cnn.com
  
  As a native of France who has lived in America for many years, I never fail to be shocked at the sight of older workers packing groceries at the supermarket. It suggests to me a deplorable lack of social supports that could allow aged people to enjoy a dignified retirement.
  
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• The new Prince of Wales is not afraid to take sides

  23-03-2023 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  Royal tours are normally planned months in advance. But the Prince of Wales' surprise trip to Poland this week was a rare anomaly. Pulled together relatively last minute, it came at his personal request.
  
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• Prince of Wales isn't afraid to take sides

  23-03-2023 19:11 via cnn.com
  
  Royal tours are normally planned months in advance. But the Prince of Wales' surprise trip to Poland this week was a rare anomaly. Pulled together relatively last minute, it came at his personal request.
  
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• These ketamine clinics were a lifeline for military veterans, until they all abruptly closed

  23-03-2023 18:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Military veterans across the country are scrambling after more than a dozen clinics that had been providing them with free ketamine treatments suddenly closed.
  
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• Fentanyl has driven a surge in drug overdoses in Latino communities

  23-03-2023 18:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  The number of opioid overdose deaths among Latinos have risen steeply, with experts citing the rise in fentanyl mixed with other drugs as the main reason.
  
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• Cold, remote and short of women: A portrait of life on the Faroe Islands

  23-03-2023 18:27 via cnn.com
  
  In her striking images of the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Iceland and her native Norway, photographer Andrea Gjestvang depicts islanders and livelihoods that are as tough and unforgiving as the windswept landscape.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu to visit UK amid growing turmoil at home

  23-03-2023 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Israeli PM's trip comes as divisions deepen over a judicial plan and fears grow in the West Bank.
  
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• Australia has a 'pokies' gambling problem, but is change coming?

  23-03-2023 17:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The country is controversially home to a fifth of the world's slot machines, known locally as "pokies".
  
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• The state of California's drought after an epic winter

  23-03-2023 17:44 via cnn.com
  
  California has faced an onslaught of powerful, atmospheric river storms this winter, which has led to record-breaking snowpack, nearly full reservoirs and overflowing watersheds.
  
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• See tourist freefall after bungee jump cord snaps in Thailand

  23-03-2023 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  The 39-year-old tourist opted for a bungee jump after being dared to by his friends. He was left with multiple injuries after the cord snapped seconds into his jump.
  
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• Canadian lawmaker resigns following claims he secretly advised Chinese diplomat

  23-03-2023 17:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Han Dong reportedly met with Chinese diplomat and suggested officials delay freeing two Canadians held by ChinaA Canadian lawmaker has resigned from the governing Liberal party following allegations that he secretly met with a Chinese diplomat and advised Beijing not to release two Canadian captives.Han Dong announced in the House of Commons late on Wednesday that he would sit as an independent. Global News reported that he met with Han Tao, China’s consul-general in Toronto in February 20
  
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• LaLiga files complaint to Barcelona court after racist abuse of Vinícius Jr. in El Clásico

  23-03-2023 16:48 via cnn.com
  
  LaLiga has filed a complaint to a Barcelona court after Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. was racially abused during El Clásico at the Camp Nou on Sunday.
  
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• Cow tries to fake its way out of early wake-up call. See the moment

  23-03-2023 16:45 via cnn.com
  
  Doris the cow pretends to be sleeping to get out of milking duty. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
  
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• WATCH: Softball player scores in trick play

  23-03-2023 16:39
  
  Carthage, Texas, high school senior Jada Walton used some creative thinking to distract the catcher as she tagged home plate.
  
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• Hungary says it would not arrest Putin if he entered the country

  23-03-2023 16:29 via cnn.com
  
  Hungary says it would not arrest Russian president Vladimir Putin if he entered the country, despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing an arrest warrant for him last week, accusing him of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.
  
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• Spotify removes Bollywood song catalog in licensing dispute

  23-03-2023 16:07 via cnn.com
  
  Bollywood fans have been left without access to hundreds of their favorite tunes on Spotify because of a licensing dispute.
  
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• Vaccination, Paxlovid decrease risk of long Covid, studies show

  23-03-2023 16:00 via cnn.com
  
  People who are vaccinated or who take Paxlovid during a Covid-19 infection have a lower risk of developing long Covid, new research shows.
  
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• RAF airstrikes killed 29 civilians in Iraq and Syria in two years, analysis suggests

  23-03-2023 15:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Report says UK armed service has ‘major questions to answer’ about conduct in war against Islamic StateTwenty-nine civilians are feared to have been killed in nine RAF airstrikes in Iraq and Syria between 2016 and 2018, 10 more than previous estimates, and far higher than the single non-combatant fatality accepted by the UK, according to analysis.In the worst incident, 12 civilians were accepted as likely to have been killed in Raqqa, Syria in 2017 by a US strike, while research poin
  
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• DeSantis takes a risk on Trump

  23-03-2023 15:37 via cnn.com
  
  Progressives may be eager to see former President Donald Trump potentially fingerprinted and told he has the right to remain silent. But let's be clear — no one knows how the possible criminal charges against Trump will play out politically. Or even if prosecutors in New York, Georgia and Washington, DC will ultimately obtain indictments against the former president.
  
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• 5 kids rescued from a Staten Island sewer system after they crawled into a tunnel and got lost

  23-03-2023 15:20 via cnn.com
  
  Five mischievous boys had to be rescued from a Staten Island sewer system on Tuesday after they crawled into a tunnel, ventured deep inside and then got lost, according to the New York City Fire Department.
  
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