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• Sam Hartman fires 4 touchdown passes as Notre Dame crushes Navy in Dublin

  26-08-2023 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Sam Hartman and No. 13 Notre Dame put the rest of the college football world on notice Saturday as the Fighting Irish shellacked Navy 42-3 in Dublin Hartman threw four touchdown passes and appeared to pick up right where he left off from the 2022 season despite transferring to Notre Dame in the offseason. He appeared to waste no time getting acclimated to Marcus Freeman’s offense and came out firing on all cylinders. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Notre Dame got off to
  
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• Oklahoma teenager killed in high school football game shooting, multiple others wounded

  26-08-2023 23:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Choctaw, Oklahoma, police said a teenager has died following a shooting at a high school football game on Friday night that wounded several other people. At about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, and with only four minutes left in the third quarter of the Choctaw High School vs. Del City High School football game, gunshots were fired on the visitor’s side of the stadium. Choctaw Police Chief Kelly Marshal said during a press conference that four people were injured in the shooting and at least one of
  
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• Brock Purdy ‘forever grateful’ for Trey Lance after Cowboys trade

  26-08-2023 23:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Brock Purdy may have won the quarterback battle in San Francisco, but he’s still rooting for his former teammate Trey Lance to have a successful career.  Lance was traded to the Dallas Cowboys on Friday for a 2024 fourth-round pick two years after being selected with the third overall pick of the 2021 draft.  Following San Francisco’s third preseason game against the Los Angeles Chargers, Purdy expressed his appreciation for Lance.  JOSH JACOBS SIGNS DEAL WITH RAIDERS,
  
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• Obvious Biden social media blunder earns ‘community notes’ fact check and mockery from critics

  26-08-2023 23:12 via foxnews.com
  
  President Biden received a fact-check and a large dose of social media ridicule after getting a major point of his climate policy wrong in a recent post on the X platform (formerly Twitter). In a post touting the Inflation Reduction Act, the administration’s key economic and climate legislation that was passed last year, Biden’s official account got the target date wrong for when the United States power grid would be powered by 81% clean energy. The post received an official X "Commu
  
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• Florida 'racially motivated' shooting leaves 4 dead, including shooter at Jacksonville Dollar General store

  26-08-2023 23:09 via foxnews.com
  
  A shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, has left four people dead, including the shooter, in what officials are describing as a racially motivated crime. The shooting happened at Kings Road and Canal Street in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday afternoon when an unnamed male entered a Dollar General a little after 1 p.m. armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun, according to Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters, who added the shooter was wearing a tactical vest. According to the report, a SWAT team wa
  
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• US state department declassifies more documents about Pinochet’s 1973 coup

  26-08-2023 21:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Papers reveal how Richard Nixon was briefed on impending military takeover in Chile that ushered in 17-year dictatorshipTwo more US Department of State documents relating to Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile have been declassified, revealing how President Richard Nixon was briefed on the impending military takeover.The president’s daily brief from 11 September 1973, the morning of the US-backed military coup, informed Nixon that Chilean military officers were &ldqu
  
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• World Cup kiss unleashes social tsunami in Spain

  26-08-2023 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Spanish FA's president kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips has sparked a national conversation.
  
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• 7 injured in shooting at Boston Caribbean carnival celebration

  26-08-2023 20:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Seven people were injured in an early morning shooting at Boston Caribbean Carnival celebration in Dorchester. Arrests have been made
  
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• Bob Barker, longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ host, dies at 99

  26-08-2023 18:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bob Barker, the longtime host of "The Price Is Right" and an animal rights activist, died at the age of 99.
  
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• Two arrested after at least 8 people injured in shooting near Boston parade

  26-08-2023 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two suspects have been arrested after at least eight people were injured in a shooting that took place during the annual Caribbean Carnival in Boston on Saturday morning.
  
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• FIFA suspends Spanish soccer president over controversial World Cup kiss

  26-08-2023 17:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Spain’s soccer federation stood by its president, Luis Rubiales as he faces criticism for kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Women’s World Cup final.
  
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• More Green Dot Bank customers say they can't access their funds, causing financial distress

  26-08-2023 17:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Like many customers of Green Dot Bank, Texas resident Sheldon Ransom first encountered the online banking company through TurboTax, in the form of a stimulus check.
  
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• Putin ally claims Wagner boss dismissed warnings about safety following mutiny: 'To hell with it'

  26-08-2023 17:10 via foxnews.com
  
  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed he had warned Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to watch his back following his brief mutiny against the Russian military that ultimately led to his apparent demise this week.  "I told him: ‘Yevgeny, do you understand that you will doom your people and will perish yourself?'," Lukashenko told Prigozhin, according to Belarusian state news agency BELTA.  Outlets have variously reported Prigozhin’s response to this warning as "To
  
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• Pete the peacock, adored by Las Vegas neighborhood, fatally shot by bow and arrow

  26-08-2023 17:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  A beloved Las Vegas neighborhood peacock named Pete was killed with a hunter’s bow and arrow, and authorities are trying to find who was behind it.
  
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• High-altitude heist shocks Switzerland

  26-08-2023 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thieves climbed to an altitude of 2,350m and traversed gorges - all to rob a collection box.
  
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• Vivek Ramaswamy wants Elon Musk as an adviser if elected president

  26-08-2023 15:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he would like Elon Musk to be an adviser in his administration should he be elected.
  
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• Greek officials arrest 2 for arson as multiple wildfires continue to burn

  26-08-2023 15:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Greek fire department officials arrested two men for allegedly deliberately starting wildfires as firefighters battle blazes that have been blamed for 21 deaths.
  
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• Meet the man who thinks he ‘screwed up’ college football with a Supreme Court win

  26-08-2023 15:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  As Notre Dame prepares to take on Navy on Saturday on NBC at 2:30 p.m. ET, NBC News takes a look at how a 1984 Supreme Court case drastically changed, and continues to change, the sport.
  
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• The British Museum's missing-treasures controversy so far

  26-08-2023 14:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Around 2,000 items are thought to have been stolen from the museum, here's what we know about it so far.
  
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• Pope Francis urges Russian children to become ‘artisans of peace’ in address

  26-08-2023 13:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis urged Russian youth to become "sowers of seeds of reconciliation" amid the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. On Friday, the pontiff delivered remarks remotely for hundreds of children in St. Petersburg for the 10th National Meeting of Catholic Youth of Russia. "I wish you, young Russians, the vocation to be artisans of peace amid so many conflicts and amid so many polarizations that come from all sides and plague our world. I invite you to be sowers of seeds of reconciliation,
  
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• India: nine people dead after fire breaks out in stationary train carriage

  26-08-2023 13:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Railway says smuggled-in gas cylinder caused blaze that burned for two hours at Madurai station in Tamil NaduNine people have died after a fire broke out in a stationary train compartment at a railway station in southern India, officials said.The blaze broke out at 5am on Saturday and burned for two hours before firefighters were able to put it out, authorities said. Continue reading...
  
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• WATCH: Hot air balloon lands on interstate in Vermont

  26-08-2023 12:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A hot air balloon made an unexpected landing on Interstate 91 in Vermont earlier this week after stalling mid-flight. No injuries were reported, officials say.
  
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• New York's Democratic mayor and the Biden administration are fighting over what to do about a surge of migrants

  26-08-2023 12:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tensions are rising between the New York mayor’s office, the state government and the federal government over how to handle 58,000 migrants now in the city’s care.
  
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• What next for Yevgeny Prigozhin's fearsome mercenaries after plane crash?

  26-08-2023 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The presumed deaths of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his lieutenants spells an uncertain future for the Wagner Group.
  
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• Volunteer moms are distressed about the water being discharged from the Fukushima nuclear plant

  26-08-2023 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Japan's decision to release wastewater
  
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• China sends aircraft and vessels toward Taiwan days after U.S. approves $500-million arms sale

  26-08-2023 10:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Taiwan’s defense ministry said that China sentaircraft and vessels toward the island, just days after the U.S. approved a $500-million arms sale to Taiwan.
  
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• 2 wounded by gunfire during Chicago White Sox game

  26-08-2023 08:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two people were wounded by gunfire Friday during a Chicago White Sox game at the team's stadium, Chicago police said.
  
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• Fukushima residents react cautiously after start of treated water release from wrecked nuclear plant

  26-08-2023 08:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Fish auction prices at a port south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have dropped amid uncertainty about how consumers may respond a day after treated and diluted radioactive wastewater began to be released into the sea
  
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• Chicago police are investigating a shooting at a White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field

  26-08-2023 08:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Two women were injured in a shooting during a White Sox baseball game at Guaranteed Rate Field
  
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• China sends aircraft and vessels toward Taiwan days after US approves $500-million arms sale

  26-08-2023 08:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Taiwan’s defense ministry says China sent dozens of aircraft and vessels toward the island, just days after the United States approved a $500-million arms sale to Taiwan
  
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• Putin's hope for AI to increase information control, end Western tech dependence largely 'aspirational'

  26-08-2023 08:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia has focused its efforts on establishing itself as a leader in research, development and fielding of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with hopes to separate Russia from Western dependence – hopes that remain fairly distant based on current capabilities.  "Intelligence analysis suggests that the Russian military has thus far not been able to operationalize the concept AI-enabled combat capabilities and shortening the kill chain and making the targeting more effective," Re
  
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• India birds report identifies 178 species as being of high conservation concern

  26-08-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Large-scale study indicates population declines after collation of data from country’s conservation organisations and birdwatchersA report on India’s bird population has painted a grim picture for many of the country’s species.The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) report – published on Friday – showed worrisome declines, with 178 species of wild birds identified as needing immediate priority for conservation. Continue reading...
  
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• Shooting that followed fight on street in Pasadena, California, wounds 5

  26-08-2023 07:49 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Police say five people have been wounded in a shooting on a street in Pasadena, California, that followed a fight
  
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• Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime

  26-08-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mexico latest country where government is considering passing new laws to criminalise environmental destructionA growing number of countries are considering introducing laws to make ecocide a crime.Mexico is the latest country where politicians are seeking to deter environmental damage – and to get justice for its victims – by criminalising it. Karina Marlen Barrón Perales, congresswoman for Nuevo León, has submitted a bill to the Mexican congress introducing a new crim
  
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• Dutch Grand Prix 2023: Zandvoort imposes car ban on travelling F1 fans

  26-08-2023 06:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The event in Zandvoort aspires to be the most sustainable race on the F1 calendar.
  
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• Spain Hermoso: Fans and players protest over Rubiales kiss

  26-08-2023 05:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Protesters rallied at the Spanish Football Federation HQ to demand the resignation of Luis Rubiales after he kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips.
  
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• Anti-government protests shake Syrian provinces amid anger over economy

  26-08-2023 05:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Demonstrations against the Assad regime have taken hold in two southern provinces after the government ended fuel subsidiesRare protests against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government continued on Friday, with demonstrations reported in a string of towns in Daraa and Sweida provinces.The protests began late last week after the government ended fuel subsidies, dealing a heavy blow to Syrians reeling from years of war and economic crisis. Continue reading...
  
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• Man accused of holding kidnapped woman in Oregon garage tried to escape from his jail cell, authorities say

  26-08-2023 04:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  The man accused of sexually assaulting a sex worker and holding her captive in a cinder block cell in his garage tried to escape from the Oregon jail where he’s in custody, authorities said.
  
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• The science behind the Fukushima waste water release

  26-08-2023 03:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC takes a look at the science behind the controversial water release.
  
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• Alabama wants to be the 1st state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen

  26-08-2023 03:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen
  
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• Niger coup leaders give French ambassador 48 hours to leave country

  26-08-2023 03:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The ultimatum was rejected by France’s foreign ministry, which said it did not recognise the junta’s authorityNiger’s junta said on Friday it had ordered French ambassador Sylvain Itte to leave the country within 48 hours, as relations between the west African country and its former colonial ruler deteriorated further.The junta-appointed foreign ministry said the decision to expel the ambassador was a response to actions taken by the French government that were “contrary
  
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• Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine

  26-08-2023 03:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are brewing doses of updated Covid vaccines that contain one version of the omicron strain, called XBB.1.5.
  
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• Wagner in Africa: Precarious future after Prigozhin's reported death

  26-08-2023 03:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Its leader followed a long line of mercenaries in Africa, but his group faces an uncertain future.
  
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• Temporary housing extended for Maui wildfire victims, the Hawaii governor says

  26-08-2023 03:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says residents whose homes were estroyed in the will be able to stay in temporary housing for the foreseeable future.
  
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• He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them

  26-08-2023 03:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iowa voters will decide if David Whipple. who spread false election fraud rumours, should be in charge of elections.
  
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• Participants in California Tough Mudder event report rashes and fevers from bacterial infections

  26-08-2023 02:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  More than 100 people said they got bacterial infections after a Tough Mudder event in Sonoma, California. Symptoms included rashes, fever, muscle pain and vomiting.
  
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• Week in pictures: 19-25 August 2023

  26-08-2023 02:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A selection of striking images from around the world, taken over the past seven days.
  
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• Only Trump co-defendant being held in jail: ‘I showed up before the president’

  26-08-2023 02:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Only one of former President Donald Trump's 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case has been jailed as a result of the charges.
  
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• Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica

  26-08-2023 01:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Family of the former prime minister are accused of ignoring the case for reparations in Jamaica.
  
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• Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill renamed Fort Walker in push to remove Confederate symbols

  26-08-2023 01:33 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill was officially redesignated Fort Walker during a ceremony on the base on Friday in a push to remove symbols of the Confederacy.
  
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