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• Hull KR beat Leeds to continue winning start

  22-02-2024 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hull KR begin the 2024 Super League season with a second victory as they overcome Leeds Rhinos.
  
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• Rust armourer 'sloppy' before Alec Baldwin gun fired

  22-02-2024 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  But Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's lawyers instead seek to lay the blame for the fatality on Alec Baldwin.
  
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• Gabby Douglas withdraws from planned return to gymnastics after positive Covid test

  22-02-2024 23:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gabby Douglas, who was expected to make her return to competitive gymnastics on Saturday at the Winter Cup, announced her withdrawal from the event due to a positive Covid test.
  
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• Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg hits back at 'grandstanding' Arizona prosecutor who refuses to extradite murder suspect

  22-02-2024 23:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday accused an Arizona prosecutor of political "grandstanding" for refusing to send a New York City murder suspect back his jurisdiction.
  
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• Polish lawmakers greenlight morning-after pill for ages 15 and up

  22-02-2024 22:52 via foxnews.com
  
  Poland’s lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ages 15 and above in a step to liberalize Poland’s strict reproductive law inherited from the previous nationalist conservative government.The vote in the lower house was the first step in the plans of the new pro-European Union government to loosen the anti-abortion and anti-contraception law, which is among Europe’s toughest.ICONIC FORMER POLISH PRESIDENT MESSAGE TO LAWMAKERS
  
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• Anti-Muslim cases surge in UK since Hamas attacks

  22-02-2024 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A charity says there have been 2,010 Islamophobic incidents in the last four months.
  
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• New Tennessee law allows officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages

  22-02-2024 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a new law that will allow public officials in the state to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if doing so goes against their beliefs.
  
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• Dementia campaigner dies after writing final blog

  22-02-2024 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with early-onset dementia in 2014.
  
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• An Interpol Red Notice kept a mother from her kids for 6 years — and then was dropped

  22-02-2024 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Interpol's Red Notice system, an international police bulletin, can trigger unjust detentions as was the case for Salvadoran Jessica Barahona Martínez, a lesbian fleeing persecution who spent 6 years in immigration detention after her ICE arrest.
  
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• Scotland game 'special' after mother's death - George

  22-02-2024 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England captain Jamie George says Saturday's game against Scotland will be a "special one" following the death of his mother.
  
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• Wendy Williams’ aphasia diagnosis puts a spotlight on the neurological condition

  22-02-2024 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Learn more about aphasia, including its causes and symptoms, after Wendy Williams’ team announced her diagnosis with the neurological condition.
  
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• Fight or flight: Fearful Trump critics weigh the risk of retribution if he's re-elected

  22-02-2024 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Interviews with more than a dozen people who’ve run afoul of Donald Trump reveal deep worry that he will seek revenge if he wins another term.
  
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• Puerto Rico's short-term rentals spike comes at a cost, report finds

  22-02-2024 22:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Puerto Rico's number of units operating as short-term rentals have jumped sharply, boosting the economy but also displacing renters, raising prices and decreasing housing inventory, a Hispanic Federation Report found.
  
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• WATCH: Animal rescuer's phone stolen by curious fox

  22-02-2024 22:19
  
  A fox managed to make off with a cellphone belonging to an animal charity worker. The injured animal was later rescued and received treatment while the handset was returned to its owner.
  
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• Trump campaign surrogates sidestep Navalny’s death in the lead-up to the South Carolina primary

  22-02-2024 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump’s campaign surrogates are avoiding discussing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death ahead of the South Carolina Republican primary.
  
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• Speaker's decision on Gaza vote concerning - PM

  22-02-2024 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tory and SNP MPs call for a confidence vote on Sir Lindsay Hoyle amid a row over his position.
  
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• Missing dog captured on trail camera 11 months after avalanche separated him from owner

  22-02-2024 21:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  A trail camera in Colorado caught a missing dog alive and apparently healthy after 11 months alone in the wild following an avalanche that separated the dog from its owner.
  
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• President Biden met with Alexei Navalny's widow and daughter

  22-02-2024 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden plans to meet with the widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, and his daughter, Dasha, in California Thursday.
  
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• Moment two people rescued from burning tower in Spain

  22-02-2024 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A high-rise blaze in the Spanish city of Valencia is being tackled by more than 20 fire crews.
  
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• Navalny's mother says she has been shown his body

  22-02-2024 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mother of the dead Putin critic says Russian authorities are pressuring her to allow a "secret" burial.
  
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• AT&T service restored after customers hit by widespread cellular outages in the U.S.

  22-02-2024 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  AT&T’s network suffered widespread outages across the country Thursday morning with cellular service and internet down, according to the tracking site Downdetector.
  
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• Times Square hate crime victim confronts attacker in court, says she’s ‘surprised’ he apologized

  22-02-2024 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 68-year-old anti-Asian hate crime victim described the moment she faced her attacker this week, three years after he brutally assaulted her in New York City’s Times Square.
  
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• Biden blasts Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling as Harris, campaign blames Trump

  22-02-2024 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign blamed Donald Trump for the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision on in vitro fertilization and the University of Alabama at Birmingham's pause on IVF treatment in response.
  
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• Newscast

  22-02-2024 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 60 MPs say they have no confidence in the Speaker of the House of Commons
  
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• Scouts referred to police after teen killed on hike

  22-02-2024 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A jury finds Ben Leonard was unlawfully killed when he fell 200ft from cliffs on a scout trip.
  
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• 'Who TF Did I Marry?' TikToker says she hopes people finish watching her saga

  22-02-2024 21:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Reesa Teesa, who is behind the viral “Who TF did I marry?” TikToks, spoke to NBC News about her 50-part viral personal series — and what’s next for her.
  
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• 9 California races that could decide the battle for the House in 2024

  22-02-2024 20:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  California will hold some of the most contested House races in the 2024 elections and could decide whether Democrats or Republicans control the House next year.
  
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• Taliban carries out double public execution at stadium

  22-02-2024 20:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Afghanistan's ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country's southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired guns at two convicted men while thousands of people watched.The Taliban’s Supreme Court ruled that the two men were responsible for the stabbing deaths of two victims in separate attacks, according to a court statement. It identified the two as Syed Jamal from central Wardak province and Gul Khan from Ghazni — tho
  
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• Statistician killed in Greater Manchester by man who later stole his dog, court hears

  22-02-2024 20:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Ian Connell is accused of strangling Donald ‘Prentice’ Patience in a ‘dosshouse’ in RadcliffeA statistician was murdered in a “dosshouse” in Greater Manchester by a man who later stole his labradoodle after a disagreement over money, a court has heard.Ian Connell, 39, is accused of strangling Donald “Prentice” Patience, 45, after a row and returning later to break into his property to take the dog named Layla. Continue reading...
  
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• Lindsay Hoyle fights back as Sunak criticises speaker’s ‘concerning’ choice

  22-02-2024 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  PM says parliamentarians should never be intimidated by ‘extremists’ after furore over Gaza vote Lindsay Hoyle has come out fighting against attempts to oust him as Commons speaker as Rishi Sunak criticised his “very concerning” choice over the Gaza debate.Hoyle is under pressure after 67 Conservative and SNP MPs signed a motion calling for a vote of no confidence in him. Continue reading...
  
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• Israel wants administrators ‘without Hamas or PA links’ to run Gaza

  22-02-2024 20:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli officials say they plan to trial the scheme when ‘the right people’ come forwardMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsraeli officials have said they want to use local administrators without links to either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority to run Gaza, and will set up small scale trials of the scheme as soon as “the right people step up to the plate”.The controversial plan, which would see Israel retaining security control throughout Gaza, comes amid a deepeni
  
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• US spacecraft completes Moon landing mission

  22-02-2024 20:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Odysseus has successfully touched down near the Moon's South Pole, after a nervy search for its signal.
  
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• Australia news live: police seek third man after disappearance of TV presenter Jesse Baird; legionnaires’ disease warning for parts of Sydney uni

  22-02-2024 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Detectives looking for another person after disappearance of Baird and his partner Luke Davies; union says public schools missing out by $31bn. Follow liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA legionnaires’ disease warning has been issued for parts of the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus after three people were admitted to hospital, Australian Associated Press reports.Two men in their 60s and one woman in her 70s were diagnosed with legion
  
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• Mother of Navalny claims Russia pressuring her to agree to secret burial after seeing son's body

  22-02-2024 20:31 via foxnews.com
  
  The mother of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader who died last week, says she is resisting pressure from the Kremlin to agree to bury her son in secret.Lyudmila Navalnaya said in a video statement posted to YouTube on Thursday that Russian investigators allowed her to see her son’s body at the morgue in the Arctic city of Salekhard. "They blackmail me, they put conditions on me – where, when and how Alexei should be buried. This is illegal," she said, accusing
  
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• ‘Despicable’: British Palestinians react to Commons chaos over Gaza ceasefire

  22-02-2024 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Actions of politicians criticised as political game-playing that took focus away from killings in GazaBritish Palestinians have described the chaotic scenes in the House of Commons over the Gaza ceasefire vote as a farce and “political game playing” after the speaker allowed a Labour amendment to be debated, overturning years of parliamentary precedent.Lindsay Hoyle went against convention by selecting the amendment for a vote as well as a government one. He has since come under pres
  
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• Texas school hair policy that left Black teen suspended for months is lawful, judge rules

  22-02-2024 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  A judge ruled that a Texas high school was not violating the CROWN Act by punishing a Black teen over the length of his dreadlocks.
  
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• 'Rust' armorer was 'sloppy' and left guns and ammo lying around movie set, prosecutors tell jurors

  22-02-2024 20:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
  
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• Claims of Israeli sexual assault of Palestinian women are credible, UN panel says

  22-02-2024 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Experts report evidence of rape, sexual humiliation and threats of rape against girls and womenUN experts say they have seen “credible allegations” that Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to sexual assaults, including rape, while in Israeli detention, and are calling for a full investigation.The panel of experts said there was evidence of a least two cases of rape, alongside other cases of sexual humiliation and threats of rape. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on
  
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• Russian skier dead, 6 rescued in avalanche at Himalayan resort

  22-02-2024 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  A Russian skier was killed and five others were rescued, along with their local guide, after an avalanche hit a popular Himalayan ski resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, officials said.They said that at least six Russian skiers and their local guide were hit by the avalanche and buried in snow high in the mountains of the tourist town of Gulmarg. Rescuers pulled six survivors from the snow. Officials were yet to identify the dead Russian skier.PIONEERING AMERICAN SKIER KASHA RIGBY B
  
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• US state agriculture leaders looks to Cuba's private farming sector for possible cooperation

  22-02-2024 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  The leader of an association of top U.S. state agriculture officials on Wednesday said his country might want to take advantage of reforms underway in Cuba, possibly through investments."There seems to be a new Cuba that is emerging and it may represent a pathway toward greater collaboration," Ted McKinney, chief executive of the Association of State Departments of Agriculture told Reuters at a farm cooperative on the outskirts of Havana.Cuba is mired in its worst economic crisis in decades, res
  
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• Canadian man found guilty, sentenced to life for truck attack which killed Muslim family

  22-02-2024 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  A Canadian man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family on Thursday was sentenced to life in prison as a judge ruled that the actions of the "admitted white nationalist" amounted to terrorism.Nathaniel Veltman has also been sentenced to a concurrent life sentence for the attempted murder of a boy who survived the 2021 attack.Veltman, 23, was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaa
  
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• US, coalition forces destroy 6 Houthi one-way attack drones

  22-02-2024 20:09 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. Central Command announced Thursday that American aircraft and a coalition warship have shot down six Houthi one-way attack drones in the Red Sea. The unmanned aerial vehicles were identified as "likely targeting U.S. and coalition warships and were an imminent threat," it said, noting that the drones were taken out around 4:30 a.m. local time. "Later, between 8:30 a.m. and 9:45 a.m., the Houthis fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles from southern Yemen into the Gulf of Aden," Cen
  
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• Ministers to press ahead with legislation to exonerate Post Office Horizon victims

  22-02-2024 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Plan comes despite judiciary’s alternative proposal amid concerns about parliament overturning court decisionsMinisters have vowed to press ahead with legislation to automatically overturn convictions related to the Post Office Horizon scandal by the end of July.Kevin Hollinrake, the Post Office minister, said in a written ministerial statement on Thursday the legislation would immediately quash the convictions of hundreds of post office operators in England and Wales. Continue reading...
  
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• Weight-loss drug use could boost GDP in US by 1%, says Goldman Sachs

  22-02-2024 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Some analysts predict market could reach $100bn a year by end of decade with Eli Lilly and Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk leadingThe widespread use of powerful, relatively new weight-loss drugs in the United States could boost gross domestic product by 1% in the coming years as lower obesity-related health complications are likely to boost workplace efficiency, according to financial giant Goldman Sachs.Some analysts have predicted the market for weight-loss drugs could reach $100bn a year by the en
  
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• Mike Ashley victim of ‘abuse’ by US bank Morgan Stanley, high court hears

  22-02-2024 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Frasers Group suing over $900m cash demand linked to bets placed on shares in German retailer Hugo BossThe billionaire businessman Mike Ashley has claimed he was the victim of “abuse” by Morgan Stanley amid a high court dispute over the investment bank’s decision to impose a near $1bn (£790m) cash demand.Ashley’s Frasers Group is taking legal action against the US investment bank Morgan Stanley and Denmark’s Saxo Bank over the May 2021 move linked to bets plac
  
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• Five private schools spent as much on new facilities in one year as 3,000 Australian public schools

  22-02-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian Education Union report finds a $31.8bn divide in capital spending over 10 yearsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFive elite private schools spent about the same amount of money on new facilities in 2021 as governments gave to more than half of Australia’s public schools for building works, new research has found.A report released by the Australian Education Union (AEU) on Friday found the average annual capital spending per student in priva
  
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• Almost 10m UK households living in ‘cold, damp, poorly insulated homes’

  22-02-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Analysis also shows same number would probably not be able to afford cost of improved insulationAlmost 10m households across the UK are living in cold, damp and poorly insulated homes while not earning enough to be able to make improvements to them, according to analysis.A total of 34% of UK households or 9.6m are living in cold, poorly insulated homes, according to analysis of the English Housing Survey by the Institute of Health Equity and Friends of the Earth. Continue reading...
  
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• US talk show host Wendy Williams diagnosed with aphasia and dementia

  22-02-2024 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A care team for the US talk show host shared the update "to correct inaccurate and hurtful rumours".
  
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• Guinness World Records revokes 'oldest dog ever' title for Portuguese canine

  22-02-2024 19:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever.Following a review, GWR said Thursday it "no longer has the evidence it needs to support Bobi’s claim as the record holder."Bobi, a reportedly 31-year-old guard dog, had lived on a farm in the village of Conqueiros in Portugal with its owner, Leonel Costa. He was proclaimed as the world’s oldest living dog and oldest dog ever in February 2023. Said to have been born o
  
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• Odysseus spacecraft attempts moon landing

  22-02-2024 19:48 via nbcnews.com
  Watch live NASA coverage as Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lunar lander attempts the first U.S. moon landing since 1972.
  
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