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• Robbie Robertson, leader of The Band, dies at 80

  09-08-2023 23:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Robbie Robertson, a Canadian musician and songwriter who made his mark in the late 1960s and early '70s as the leader of the influential rock group The Band, died Wednesday after a long illness.
  
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• Abortion setback in Ohio alarms GOP, as Democrats see a 'roadmap for 2024'

  09-08-2023 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Losses on abortion ballot measures in Ohio and other states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, has some Republicans worried.
  
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• Storm Hans: Floodwaters in Norway send mobile home crashing into bridge

  09-08-2023 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Several caravans are seen floating down the Hemsila river in Norway before being crushed.
  
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• WATCH: Toddler sings along with grandpa as he plays guitar

  09-08-2023 23:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Cameron, who is now 8, had an adorable jam session with his grandpa in this throwback video.
  
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• Argentina election campaigns suspended after 11-year old killed in robbery

  09-08-2023 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Candidates for the national primary elections cancelled rallies as protests roiled city of Lanús, where attack took placeThe death of an 11-year-old girl in a drive-by robbery caught on grainy security footage in Buenos Aires has shocked Argentina and prompted all major candidates to cancel their closing campaign rallies ahead of national primary elections on Sunday.Morena Domínguez was attacked by two robbers who were riding a motorcycle when she was about to arrive at school earl
  
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• Sixto Rodriguez: Searching for Sugar Man singer dies aged 81

  09-08-2023 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The musician struggled to find success in his native US, but he developed a following in South Africa.
  
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• Dianne Feinstein went to the hospital after a 'minor fall' at home, spokesperson says

  09-08-2023 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., fell at home on Tuesday and "briefly" visited the hospital to get checked out, her office said.
  
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• Amazon-owned subscription-based health clinic begins opening new locations across US

  09-08-2023 23:14 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Amazon's One Medical, a subscription-based primary care provider, has begun opening new locations across the U.S. since the tech giant acquired the company.
  
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• Rangers 2-1 Servette: Hosts earn Champions League qualifying advantage over 10-man Swiss side

  09-08-2023 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rangers bounce back from domestic defeat by securing a one-goal first-leg advantage over 10-man Servette in Champions League qualifying.
  
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• Lil Tay, rapper and social media star, dies at 14

  09-08-2023 23:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Lil Tay, who rose to stardom as a rapper and influencer on social media, has died at 14, according to a message shared on her Instagram account.
  
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• US concerned for ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum's health

  09-08-2023 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Deposed president Mohamed Bazoum's party has also claimed he is being detained under "cruel" conditions.
  
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• Anthony Joshua: British heavyweight says 'boxing clearly has a doping problem'

  09-08-2023 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anthony Joshua says boxing "clearly has a problem" with doping after Dillian Whyte failed a voluntary drugs test and was pulled out of Saturday's all-British heavyweight contest.
  
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• Man who threatened Biden shot dead in FBI raid in Utah

  09-08-2023 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is shot dead in Utah after posting threats online, hours before Joe Biden visits the state.
  
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• The Hundred: Spencer Johnson takes three wickets for one run on Oval Invincibles debut

  09-08-2023 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australian Spencer Johnson takes three wickets on an eye-catching Hundred debut as Oval Invincibles thrash Manchester Originals by 94 runs.
  
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• When will gas prices stop rising? Experts weigh in

  09-08-2023 22:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The average price of a gallon of gas has risen more than 8% over the last month.
  
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• 'Big Brother' contestant Luke Valentine removed from show after using N-word on camera

  09-08-2023 22:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Big Brother" contestant Luke Valentine was booted from the CBS reality show on Wednesday for violating the code of conduct after using the N-word.
  
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• Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality’, says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

  09-08-2023 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance,” a government spokesperson said and a document from the regulator shows.
  
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• NYPD arrests 16-year-old girl after subway attack last week 

  09-08-2023 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  The New York City police said a 16-year-old girl has been arrested after an incident last week in which she allegedly assaulted an Asian American woman and harassed her family, as well as a bystander who filmed the altercation.
  
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• Ex-Las Vegas Raider Henry Ruggs sentenced to prison for fatal DUI crash in Nevada

  09-08-2023 21:34 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs has been sentenced to at least three years in a Nevada prison for killing a woman in a fiery crash while driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street nearly two years ago
  
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• Search warrant was issued for Donald Trump's Twitter account

  09-08-2023 21:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prosecutor Jack Smith requested data and records linked to the ex-president, unsealed files reveal.
  
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• The British Museum reaches settlement with translator whose work was used without permission

  09-08-2023 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The British Museum reached a settlement with Yilin Wang after her translations of Chinese poetry by Qiu Jin were used in an exhibit without her permission.
  
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• Child wounded when shots fired into home; 3rd shooting of a child in St. Louis

  09-08-2023 21:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  This is the third shooting involving a child this week in the St. Louis area.
  
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• GOP donor Anton Lazzaro sentenced to 21 years for sex trafficking minors in Minnesota

  09-08-2023 20:47 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex has been sentenced to 21 years in prison on sex trafficking charges in Minnesota
  
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• Michigan mom is charged with buying guns for son who threatened top Democrats, prosecutors say

  09-08-2023 20:45 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Michigan woman is facing federal charges for lying when she purchased firearms later found in her son's possession
  
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• WATCH: Dog hilariously flies through the air trying to catch water from hose

  09-08-2023 20:23 via abcnews.go.com
  
  We’re channeling this energy for the rest of the summer.
  
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• UN aid deliveries to rebel-held area of Syria poised to resume

  09-08-2023 20:18 via theguardian.com
  
  The Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey will reopen to the UN for six months after negotiations with Assad’s governmentThe United Nations is poised to resume aid deliveries into north-western Syria, an area controlled by rebels, via a crossing that has been a lifeline for the region, after aid workers said Damascus appeared to loosen terms that had led to a hiatus.Deliveries from Turkey via the Bab al-Hawa crossing stopped in July when western powers and Russia, the Syrian government’s
  
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• Lizzo: Lawyers reviewing at least six new allegations against singer

  09-08-2023 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lawyers representing three of Lizzo's former dancers say they are reviewing new complaints against her.
  
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• Ex-Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs III gets 3 to 10 years in prison for fatal DUI crash in Las Vegas

  09-08-2023 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for a fatal 2021 crash, in which he was found to be driving at high speeds while intoxicated.
  
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• 'Like a boxing match': Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom embrace 'risk' in surprise debate

  09-08-2023 19:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, on opposite ends of the aisle, have agreed to a debate moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity.
  
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• 11 dead after fire at vacation home for people with disabilities: Report

  09-08-2023 19:49 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Eleven people are dead after a fire engulfed a vacation home for people with disabilities in eastern France on Wednesday morning, officials said.
  
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• WATCH: Hawaii wildfires destroy buildings and prompt multiple evacuations

  09-08-2023 19:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Ferocious wildfires in Hawaii have burned over 1,800 acres across Maui and the Big Island, burning down structures and prompting multiple evacuations.
  
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• Prithvi Shaw: India batter hits 244 for Northamptonshire in One-Day Cup

  09-08-2023 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Northamptonshire's Prithvi Shaw smashes 244 against Somerset in the One-Day Cup, while Derbyshire and Lancashire also win.
  
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• Coup leaders in Niger grow increasingly defiant, U.S. officials losing hope

  09-08-2023 18:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  A top general involved in Niger's coup has refuses to guarantee the safety of President Bazoum, now being detained by rebels. Countries in the region are drawing up plans for a potential military intervention.
  
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• Lebanon in move to ban Barbie film for ‘promoting homosexuality’

  09-08-2023 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Culture minister asks general security agency to act to prevent screening as anti-LGBT rhetoric ramps upLebanon’s culture minister moved to ban the film Barbie from the country’s cinemas on Wednesday, saying it “promoted homosexuality” and contradicted religious values.Mohammad Mortada is backed by the powerful Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah, whose head, Hassan Nasrallah, has ramped up his rhetoric against the LGBT community, saying it poses an “imminent danger&r
  
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• Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Lampedusa

  09-08-2023 18:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four survivors told rescuers the boat set off from Tunisia carrying 45 people, including three children.
  
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• American nurse and her child kidnapped in Haiti have been released, organization says

  09-08-2023 18:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  An American nurse and her child were released nearly two weeks after they were kidnapped in Haiti, a nonprofit connected to the woman said Wednesday.
  
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• Secret memo shows Trump campaign knew fake elector scheme was likely to fail – live

  09-08-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kenneth Chesebro memo lays out plan for keeping Trump in power in 2020; Jan 6 case judge to hear arguments on protective order this weekThere has been open debate within the Democratic party over whether Senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, whose health and cognitive abilities have come into question after a two-and-a-half-month absence due to shingles and other medical complications, should resign.Questions over Feinstein’s ability to effectively represent California, the most populous US state,
  
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• Germany arranges supply of 30 Leopard 1 tanks for Ukraine

  09-08-2023 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Arms firm Rheinmetall to refurbish vehicles following military aid package announced at Nato summitThirty secondhand Leopard I battle tanks are to be refurbished by the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall at the orders of the German government and exported to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed.The tanks are part of a fleet of 49 vehicles that the Düsseldorf-based company purchased from the Belgian private defence company OIP Land Systems. Some of the vehicles are reportedly in
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: factory explosion near Moscow injures 45 but cause remains unclear

  09-08-2023 17:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Russian media reports people remain trapped after explosion at Zagorsk optical-mechanical plantRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceLocal authorities in Dnipropetrovsk region report that overnight an 18-year-old boy was killed and three men were wounded in a Russian strike in the area of Nikopol. A church and private houses were damaged.The claims have not been independently verified. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory peer Zac Goldsmith could be ‘very tempted’ to back Labour over climate issues - UK politics live

  09-08-2023 17:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Peer says he would consider support for opposition at the next election if party focused more on nature, not just carbonNicola Sturgeon’s “deeply personal and revealing” memoir will be published in 2025 by Pan Macmillan, after nine publishers bid for it at auction. Lucy Knight has the story here.Zac Goldsmith, who resigned as a Foreign Office minister in June saying he could no longer support Rishi Sunak because of his “apathy” on climate issues, has told the BBC th
  
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• Surrey shop faces racism allegations over picture of tobacco plantation

  09-08-2023 17:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Chairman of London Southbank Centre said he spotted image behind counter at Farrants in CobhamA shop in Surrey is facing racism allegations amid calls to remove an image that appears to show black people working on a tobacco plantation overseen by white men, after a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex saw it while shopping.Misan Harriman, the chairman of London’s Southbank Centre and a photographer who has taken portraits of the Sussexes, said he was speechless when he spotted the ima
  
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• One dead and dozens injured in Russia factory explosion

  09-08-2023 17:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The damaged facility reportedly manufactures night vision devices and binoculars for the Russian military.
  
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• Eleven dead after fire rips through France holiday home

  09-08-2023 17:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron said his thoughts were with the victims and their families.
  
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• Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli charged with non-recent sexual offences

  09-08-2023 17:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Scottish broadcaster arrested and released to appear in court at later date, say Police ScotlandThe Scottish comedian and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli has been arrested by police in Scotland and charged in connection with non-recent sexual offences.Originally a BBC Scotland graduate trainee, Kohli, 54, has presented a number of programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, UKTV and other broadcasters, winning Royal Television Society and Bafta awards for one children’s programme. Continue reading.
  
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• China’s economy is struggling but fears of sustained deflation are premature

  09-08-2023 17:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Trade with rest of world is shrinking and youth unemployment is at 20% but state interventions are expectedChina’s economy is struggling. The recovery after the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions is faltering. Its trade with the rest of the world is shrinking. A decade-long boom in house prices has come to an end.The most obvious manifestation of the troubles besetting the world’s second biggest economy is that China is now officially in deflation. In the US, the UK and the eurozone, p
  
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• Italy waters down windfall tax on banks

  09-08-2023 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The announcement prompted a rebound in the share prices of Italy's lenders.
  
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• 3 guests dead after family lunch serves up wild mushrooms — and a mystery

  09-08-2023 17:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  A family lunch in Leongatha, Australia has sparked a homicide investigation after 3 guests died of suspected death cap mushroom poisoning. Host Erin Patterson was interviewed by police.
  
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• Texas hiker found dead in Utah planned to scatter father’s ashes on mountain

  09-08-2023 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Body of Jimmy Hendricks, 66, from Austin, was found after he announced on Facebook plan to hike in Arches national park A Texas man found dead while hiking in Utah was on the way to scatter his late father’s ashes, according to family members.Jimmy Hendricks, 66, left his Austin home in mid-July for Nevada, where he planned to scatter the ashes on a mountain. Along the way, he made stops at Guadalupe Peak in Texas and the Grand Canyon. Continue reading...
  
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• Senator Dianne Feinstein hospitalized after falling in her home

  09-08-2023 17:27 via theguardian.com
  
  California senator, 90, was only in hospital for ‘an hour or two’, spokesperson told the ChronicleThe California US senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, was hospitalized on Tuesday evening after suffering a fall in her home, a spokesperson said.“Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “All of her scans were clear and she returned home.” Continue reading...
  
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• France: 11 people die in fire at holiday home for disabled people

  09-08-2023 17:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Fire service says 17 people escaped ferocious blaze at gîte in Haut-RhinEleven people have died in a fire at a holiday home for disabled people in north-east France.The death toll was confirmed by a public prosecutor after firefighters spent hours combing the destroyed building – a converted barn – for the bodies of victims. Continue reading...
  
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