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• House GOP seeks testimony from senior counsel to Manhattan DA over Trump indictment

  07-04-2023 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Friday requested testimony from Matthew Colangelo, senior counsel to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
  
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• Evan Gershkovich: Russia charges US journalist with spying - reports

  07-04-2023 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested last week, categorically rejects the accusations, reports say.
  
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• Burnley beat Middlesbrough to seal Premier League promotion

  07-04-2023 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vincent Kompany's Burnley secure promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt with a victory over Middlesbrough.
  
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• Moose on the loose in Alaska hospital

  07-04-2023 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A moose wandered into the lobby of Providence hospital in Anchorage, Alaska.
  
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• Heineken Champions Cup: Leinster 55-24 Leicester Tigers - Leinster into semi-finals

  07-04-2023 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leinster score seven tries against Leicester to become the first side into this season's Heineken Champions Cup semi-finals.
  
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• Tensions between House GOP leaders complicate hopes of passing crucial bills

  07-04-2023 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tensions between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Budget Chair Jodey Arrington and Majority Leader Steve Scalise may complicate the debt ceiling and government funding.
  
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• Two British-Israeli women killed in West Bank shooting

  07-04-2023 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The sisters were driving in a car in the Jordan Valley with their mother, who was seriously injured.
  
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• Israel terror attack in Tel Aviv leaves one dead, multiple injured after car rams into crowd

  07-04-2023 21:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli authorities say that an attack in Tel Aviv has injured multiple people after a car rammed into a group of people. The attack happened on Friday and police say that a car hit a group of people in Tel Aviv near a seaside park and flipped over, authorities say. The driver of the car was shot by police. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the incident was a "terror attack." Israel's rescue service described the Friday incident as a shooting attack. Hamas praised the Tel Aviv attack as a respon
  
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• 6 men given life sentences in Congo for killing of Italian ambassador

  07-04-2023 21:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Six men in Congo were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the 2021 murder of Italy's ambassador and two others. The sentence was announced by a military tribunal in the capital, Kinshasa, following a six-month trial. Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to Congo since 2017, was one of three people killed in February 2021 in an ambush on a World Food Program convoy that was traveling from Goma, Congo’s eastern regional capital, to visit a WFP school project in Rutshuru. Italian security
  
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• Former Belarusian opposition leader gets 17-year sentence in absentia

  07-04-2023 21:39 via foxnews.com
  
  A Belarusian opposition leader and former ally of President Alexander Lukashenko received a 17-year prison sentence in absentia Friday on charges that included forming an extremist group and discrediting Belarus. Valery Tsepkalo, 58, was also fined around $14,000 and barred from holding public office for five years following a closed-door trial that resulted in his conviction. Other charges included issuing calls to seize power, slander and insulting the country's president. BELARUS PASSES LAW T
  
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• WATCH: Grandfather has best reaction when grandson pays him surprise visit

  07-04-2023 21:28
  
  Tiffany German recorded her husband Michael's reaction when he got an unexpected visit from his grandson MJ.
  
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• Florida sheriff goes on rant against gun laws while announcing arrests in shootings that killed 3 teens

  07-04-2023 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Florida sheriff claimed individuals are to blame, not guns, in a news conference about two arrests made in connection to a string of deadly shootings.
  
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• Dice roll settles tie in small Wisconsin town election

  07-04-2023 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A dice roll instead of a coin flip was considered the fairest as both sides can participate.
  
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• Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas defends luxury trips

  07-04-2023 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Clarence Thomas says guidelines were followed after a report revealed vacations funded by a billionaire.
  
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• Anthony Joshua: British heavyweight says he will be back in the ring within next three months

  07-04-2023 20:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British heavyweight Anthony Joshua says he will not leave it as long as nine months for his next fight after his recent win over Jermaine Franklin.
  
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• DeSantis and RFK Jr. misconstrue Fed’s digital plans in warning of government overreach

  07-04-2023 20:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two potential 2024 presidential candidates falsely described a pair of Federal Reserve proposals as efforts to monitor and restrict Americans' purchases.
  
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• Clarence Thomas says trips paid for by billionaire were 'personal hospitality,' not business

  07-04-2023 20:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explained his failure to disclose trips paid for by his friend, conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.
  
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• Majority of Nashville council members say they will vote to reinstate expelled legislator

  07-04-2023 20:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  A majority of Nashville council members will vote to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones to the Tennessee legislature after he was expelled for protesting gun violence.
  
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• Why two Democrats were expelled for protesting

  07-04-2023 20:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why were two of three Democratic representatives kicked out of the state's House?
  
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• Paul Cattermole: S Club 7 star dies aged 46

  07-04-2023 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The pop group, who announced a reunion in February, say they are "truly devastated" at his death.
  
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• Expelled Tennessee lawmaker vows to return

  07-04-2023 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Expulsion is extraordinary, but Democrat Justin Jones can see a way back to the statehouse.
  
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• Woman who threatened Latino family with a hammer in racist attack moved to house arrest

  07-04-2023 19:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Missouri Latino family is worried after a woman who broke into their house, shouted racist remarks and wielded a hammer was released from jailto house arrest.
  
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• Germany and France join EU proceedings against Hungary over anti-LGBTQ law

  07-04-2023 19:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  BERLIN, April 6 — Germany and France are joining the EU Commission’s infringement proceedings against Hungary over its anti-LGBTQ law, a German government spokesperson said Thursday.
  
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• Video shows Cash App founder Bob Lee seen staggering and asking for help after stabbing

  07-04-2023 19:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Surveillance footage from the moments after Cash app founder Bob Lee was stabbed in San Francisco show the man falling to his side and calling for help.
  
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• Arizona GOP Sheriff Mark Lamb to launch a U.S. Senate bid

  07-04-2023 19:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb will announce his candidacy for Arizona's U.S. Senate race next week, three sources tell NBC News.
  
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• Wall Street Journal reporter charged with spying in Russia, an accusation he denies

  07-04-2023 19:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been officially charged with spying in Russia, news organizations from the country are reporting Friday.  Interfax, quoting a source, said "Gershkovich has been charged" with espionage, according to Reuters.  "He categorically denied all the accusations and stated that he was engaged in journalistic activities in Russia," Reuters also quoted TASS, a Russian state media organization, as saying.  The news of the official charges came
  
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• Gunmen kill at least 46 people in attack on rural village in Nigeria

  07-04-2023 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Death toll may rise as many people are still missing after attack in northern-central Benue state Forty-six bodies have been found after gunmen attacked a rural village in central northern Nigeria, local government officials said, the latest in a series of deadly assaults in the region.The attack happened on Wednesday in Umogidi in Benue state, where tit-for-tat clashes are common between nomadic herders and settled farmers competing for land and resources. Continue reading...
  
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• Twitter restricts users from liking or retweeting posts that link to Substack

  07-04-2023 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  As Twitter continues evolving under Elon Musk’s reign, one of the platform’s latest changes prevents users from liking or retweeting posts with Substack links.
  
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• UAE refuses to extradite brothers accused of corruption in South Africa

  07-04-2023 18:49 via theguardian.com
  
  UAE accused of non-cooperation by South Africa after court rules against extraditing tycoons Atul and Rajesh GuptaSouth Africa said on Friday it had learned with “shock and dismay” that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corruption.The justice minister, Ronald Lamola, bluntly accused the UAE of “non-cooperation” after being informed late on Thursday of a court ruling against extraditing
  
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• Conflict with China 'last resort' but Congress will authorize troops if Americans support it: McCaul

  07-04-2023 18:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul told Fox News during his visit in Taiwan Friday that conflict with China was a "last resort," but said so long as the American people support it, Congress will approve boots on the ground if Beijing attacks.  "Conflict is always a last resort," he told Fox News from Taipei, adding that he and fellow lawmakers have traveled from Washington, D.C., to the island to "provide deterrence to China." CHINA RETALIATES AGAINST TAIWANESE PRESIDENT TSAI'S US VISIT B
  
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• Appeals court upholds 'obstruction' charge used against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters, for now

  07-04-2023 18:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal appeals court panel upheld the government's use of an obstruction charge used against hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants charged with assaulting police.
  
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• Filipinos nailed to crosses in reenactment of Christ’s crucifiction, despite Church's objection

  07-04-2023 18:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the Philippines despite being rejected by the Catholic Church. The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. About a dozen villagers registered but only eight men participated, including 62-year-old sign painter
  
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• South Korea, Japan, US call for more support to curb North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal

  07-04-2023 18:23 via foxnews.com
  
  South Korea, the U.S. and Japan called for stronger international support of efforts to ban North Korea from sending workers abroad and curb the North’s cybercrimes as a way to block the country’s means to fund its nuclear program. The top South Korean, U.S. and Japanese nuclear envoys met in Seoul on Friday in their first gathering in four months to discuss how to cope with North Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal. The North’s recent weapons tests show it is intent on acqui
  
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• 200 firefighters in Mexico City battle huge blaze at wholesale market

  07-04-2023 18:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Some 200 firefighters battled a huge blaze in Mexico City’s sprawling wholesale market Thursday night without any reported injuries. The Central de Abasto supplies the capital’s other neighborhood markets, restaurants and other parts of the country. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the fire started in an area of the market where wooden pallets and crates are built and stored, meaning there was substantial fuel on a breezy evening. CHICAGO FIREFIGHTER CRITICALLY INJURED WHILE
  
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• Why Taiwan is a major flashpoint in the rapidly deteriorating U.S.-Chinese relations

  07-04-2023 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  TAIPEI, Taiwan — U.S. officials had an unmistakable message for China this week: We stand with Taiwan.
  
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• When Trump sucks all the oxygen in the race

  07-04-2023 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trump still makes news in a way no other US politician ever has - it is a challenge for his rivals.
  
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• Real Madrid: Karim Benzema, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos to stay next season, says Carlo Ancelotti

  07-04-2023 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coach Carlo Ancelotti believes Karim Benzema, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos will stay with Real Madrid next season.
  
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• Birth rate in Italy hits record low in 2022 as population continues to shrink

  07-04-2023 17:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy's death of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent policy pledge by Giorgia Meloni ahead of last year's election which saw her become the country's first woman prime minister. Last year Italy recorded more than 12 deaths for every seven births and the resident population fell by 179,000 to 58.8
  
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• 19 Japanese men detained in Cambodia for cybercrime scam set to be deported to their homeland

  07-04-2023 17:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Nineteen Japanese men detained in Cambodia in January on suspicion of taking part in organized phone and online scams will be deported to their homeland, a Cambodian immigration police officer said Friday. Arrangements for their return are being made by the Japanese Embassy in Cambodia, but so far no date has been set, Immigration Police spokesperson Gen. Keo Vanthan told The Associated Press. Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Friday that Tokyo police have obtained arrest warrants for the
  
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• Russia may pull out of wartime deal to allow export of Ukrainian grain to global markets, diplomat says

  07-04-2023 17:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia may pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports, Moscow’s top diplomat suggested Friday. The deal, which was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July, unblocked shipments that were stuck in Ukraine's blockaded and mined ports, alleviating rising food prices and threat of hunger in some countries. A separate agreement aimed to facilitate the export of Russian fert
  
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• Ohio filmmaker launches $50k campaign for his mom's high school marching band

  07-04-2023 17:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  Memories of the East High School’s marching band are etched in Damon Mosley’s memory.
  
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• Pope Francis to miss Good Friday Way of the Cross procession due to low temperatures

  07-04-2023 17:14 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis will not be able to attend the traditional Way of the Cross procession in Rome due to health concerns.  The procession, which takes place every Good Friday at the Colosseum in Rome, will be unseasonably cold, according to weather forecasts.  POPE DEPARTS HOSPITAL, DELIVERS 2-WORD JOKE TO REPORTERS AHEAD OF HOLY WEEK The pope, who was just released from Gemelli Hospital on Saturday after battling a case of bronchitis, will not be able to participate due to concerns the cold
  
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• WWE apologizes for using Auschwitz footage in pro WrestleMania promo

  07-04-2023 17:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  World Wrestling Entertainment inexplicably used footage of infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz in a recent promotion, prompting the grappling giant to apologize Friday for the offensive gaffe.
  
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• Bob Lee killing highlights San Francisco crime fears

  07-04-2023 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The deadly stabbing of Cash App founder sparks doubt and pessimism over future of famous US city.
  
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• Russia threatens Ukraine eastern supply lines as it has 'likely' seized Bakhmut town center: UK intel

  07-04-2023 16:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Russian forces are threatening a key supply route for Ukrainian troops and have "likely" seized the center of Bakhmut after more than six months of brutal fighting over the town, the U.K. defense ministry said Friday.  Russian troops, largely led by Wagner mercenary forces, have been attempting to encircle the town to pinch it from the north and south, and on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would pull their forces from the area if that threat became too great.&nbs
  
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• Over 60 asylum-seeking Chinese Christian church members en route to US after being detained in Thailand

  07-04-2023 16:42 via foxnews.com
  
  More than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained last week in Thailand are en route to the United States, a religious freedom advocate who has been aiding them said Friday. A colonel in Thailand’s police immigration division confirmed that the group left Thailand on Thursday night. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not his agency’s spokesperson. Thai police on Wednesday said the 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, also kn
  
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• Schumer and McConnell condemn Russia's detention of reporter Evan Gershkovich

  07-04-2023 16:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned Russia's detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
  
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• Chinese man sentenced to 9 years for abusing, unlawfully detaining a woman in viral video

  07-04-2023 16:20 via foxnews.com
  
  A Chinese man on Friday was sentenced to nine years in prison for abusing and unlawfully detaining a woman who was shown chained in a viral video that sparked an outcry in China last year. The abuse of the woman, "Xiaohuamei," or Little Plum Blossom, raised widespread concerns in China in February last year and at times overshadowed Beijing's Winter Olympics online. Her story appeared in Chinese social media despite digital and human censors and prompted commentators to exhort national media to
  
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• Pope Francis says sex is a beautiful thing and it's 'normal' to meet people on Tinder

  07-04-2023 16:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Using dating apps like Tinder to meet potential partners is “normal” and the Catholic Church’s teaching about sex is “still in diapers,” Pope Francis said in a new documentary released this week.
  
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• Afghan women-run radio station resumes broadcasts after being shut down

  07-04-2023 15:55 via foxnews.com
  
  A women-run radio station in northeastern Afghanistan has resumed its broadcasts, after officials shut it down for a week for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official and the head of the station said Friday. Sadai Banowan, which means "women’s voice" in Dari, was launched 10 years ago in Badakhshan province and is Afghanistan’s only women-run radio station. Six of its eight staff members are women. Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Information and Culture i
  
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