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• Chelsea 'should be fourth' says Pochettino

  29-03-2024 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino says his side "should be in fourth position" according to "all the data".
  
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• Ewan McGregor 'turned into his grandad' in new role

  29-03-2024 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Scottish actor said the ageing process in A Gentleman in Moscow saw his relative emerge.
  
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• California deploys hundreds of freeway surveillance cameras in Oakland to fight crime

  29-03-2024 23:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Critics say system will infringe on privacy and fuel police abuse of marginalized communitiesHundreds of high-tech surveillance cameras are being installed in the city of Oakland and surrounding freeways to help battle crime, the California governor announced on Friday.Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in a news release that the California highway patrol (CHP) has contracted with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, to install 480 cameras that can identify and track vehicles by license
  
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• Iranian TV host stabbed outside London home

  29-03-2024 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  London-based Iran International says Pouria Zeraati was attacked by a group in the south of the city.
  
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• 'Escorted through the airport like a criminal'

  29-03-2024 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Travellers share their experiences of getting caught out by the EU's 10-year-passport rule.
  
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• Pope skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says

  29-03-2024 23:08 via foxnews.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, the Vatican said, making a last-minute decision that added to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy liturgical period.Francis had been expected to preside over the Way of the Cross procession, which re-enacts Christ’s Passion and crucifixion, and composed the meditations that are read aloud at each station. But just as the event was about to
  
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• Seven bills going up and one going down in April

  29-03-2024 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Many households will see their budgets stretched further - but there is some good news.
  
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• Revisit Terry Hall’s extraordinary, genre-hopping career

  29-03-2024 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  A trip into the BBC archives to explore Terry Hall’s extraordinary, genre-hopping career.
  
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• César Chávez's family demands RFK Jr. stop using images of the iconic labor leader in his campaign

  29-03-2024 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  The family of César Chávez wants independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to stop referencing the late labor and civil rights leader on the campaign trail.
  
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• AI photos show people with cancer their lost future

  29-03-2024 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People with secondary breast cancer view photos of themselves at events they may not live to see.
  
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• Clinical Saints see off Sarries to extend lead

  29-03-2024 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  James Ramm scores twice as Northampton see off Saracens at Franklin’s Gardens to extend their Premiership lead.
  
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• Why Biden is dialing up his mockery of Trump: From the Politics Desk

  29-03-2024 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden is dialing up his mockery of Trump on the campaign trail and making direct appeals to Nikki Haley's supporters for the 2024 election.
  
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• Texas woman acquitted of voter fraud in high profile case says it's her 'duty' to continue voting rights advocacy

  29-03-2024 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Texas woman whose five-year sentence for voter fraud was thrown out by an appeals court Thursday said she plans to strengthen her efforts to promote voting rights.
  
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• Manhattan DA asks judge in Trump's hush money case to 'clarify or confirm' that gag order applies to family members

  29-03-2024 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney's Office this week asked a judge presiding over the New York criminal case against Donald Trump to "clarify or confirm" that his earlier order restricting the former president's public statements about the case and those involved applies to family members.
  
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• Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' spotlights Black country music pioneer Linda Martell

  29-03-2024 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Beyoncé’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” has shined a light on Linda Martell, a Black country music pioneer that many people may not know.
  
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• Biden's latest campaign strategy: Get under Trump's skin

  29-03-2024 21:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden is turning to personal, biting and often sarcastic attacks against Trump in public and in private, including at a major New York City fundraiser.
  
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• Polish president vetoes legalization of over-the-counter morning after pill

  29-03-2024 21:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Poland’s President Andrzej Duda on Friday vetoed a law that would have allowed over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for girls and women ages 15 and above, his office said. Duda said he was concerned about the health of minors and heeding the voices of parents.A statement by Duda’s office said the president sent the law back to the parliament, but was open to a debate on free access to the hormonal contraception pill for those aged 18 and above.POLISH LEADER WARNS OF 'PRE
  
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• OpenAI previews voice generator, acknowledging election risks

  29-03-2024 21:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  OpenAI revealed its generative Voice Engine project in a blog post Friday.
  
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• Good Samaritan in Illinois stabbing spree said 'human nature' made him help woman being attacked

  29-03-2024 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Keith Fahrney was driving when he saw a woman being attacked by the Illinois man accused of killing four people and injuring seven others during a stabbing spree Wednesday.
  
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• Trump, co-defendants ask appeals court to consider booting DA Fani Willis from Georgia case

  29-03-2024 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case on Friday asked a state appeals court to allow them to challenge a recent ruling that didn't disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case.
  
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• Ipswich beat Blackburn to go top of Championship

  29-03-2024 21:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Conor Chaplin's early goal sends Ipswich top of the Championship as they squeeze past Blackburn at Ewood Park.
  
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• Polish leader warns of 'prewar era,' urges European nations to invest in defense

  29-03-2024 21:07 via foxnews.com
  
  Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged European nations to step up investment in their defense, saying the continent isn't ready for the current "prewar era." Tusk made the remarks during a recent interview with various European newspapers."I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past," he said before referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "It’s real and it started over two years ago."RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE UNLIKELY TO END IN 2024; CONGRESS PL
  
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• Judge strikes New Jersey's ballot design in a win for Senate candidate Andy Kim

  29-03-2024 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  A judge granted New Jersey Democratic Senate candidate and Rep. Andy Kim's request for a new ballot design, dealing a blow to the state's political machine.
  
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• Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows

  29-03-2024 20:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Best Buy offered to screen donations from its employee resource groups going to LGBTQ causes after pressure from a conservative think tank, SEC filing shows.
  
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• US-funded Radio Free Asia closes its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns under new security law

  29-03-2024 20:41 via foxnews.com
  
  HONG KONG (AP) — The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said on Friday that its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening worries about the city’s media freedoms.Bay Fang, the president of RFA, said in a statement that it will no longer have full-time staff in Hong Kong, although it would retain its official media registration.HONG KONG PRISONERS JAILED FOR NATIONAL SECURITY CRIMES UNLIKELY TO GET EARLY RELEASE, LEA
  
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• Massive crane to haul wreckage of Baltimore bridge

  29-03-2024 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The search for the bodies of four workers is on hold because of the dangers of diving among the debris.
  
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• Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit turns to NFL and signs with Kansas City Chiefs

  29-03-2024 20:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Louis Rees-Zammit, the wicked fast Welsh rugby star and fan favorite, has made an extraordinary crossover to American football, signing a deal with the Kansas City Chiefs, the team announced Friday.
  
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• Dead child found in burning car near New Jersey high school

  29-03-2024 20:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A child is dead, found in a torched vehicle near a New Jersey high school, and a man is charged with arson, authorities said Friday.
  
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• How to clean your fridge, according to experts

  29-03-2024 20:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  This is the best way to deep clean the inside of your fridge and freezer. Plus, how often you should clean the appliance, according to experts.
  
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• In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday rituals

  29-03-2024 20:05 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem's Old City, commemorating one of the faith's most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.The day’s processions, which normally draw thousands of foreign visitors, were unusually local. Most observers were Palestinian Christians, joined by some foreigners living in Jerusalem and a few undeterred tourists.WHY MIDEAST N
  
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• Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigns after rape charge

  29-03-2024 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP is charged with historical sexual offences and has been suspended from the DUP.
  
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• DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigns after rape charge

  29-03-2024 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP is charged with historical sexual offences and has been suspended from the DUP.
  
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• Beyoncé fans hope her new album brings more visibility to Black country artists

  29-03-2024 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Beyhive is busting out its cowboy hats and breaking out in line dances for Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter album.
  
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• Beijing sends investigators to Pakistan to probe bombing that killed 5 Chinese nationals

  29-03-2024 19:18 via foxnews.com
  
  A team of Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into a suicide attack that killed five of its nationals earlier this week, officials said, as Pakistan continued its own investigations into the attack.The slain Chinese engineers and workers were heading on Tuesday to the Dasu Dam, the biggest hydropower project in northwest Pakistan, when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their vehicle.PAKISTAN TO PERFORM DNA TEST ON REMAINS OF SUICIDE BOMBER WHO
  
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• Watch: Strong winds jolt ski lift with skiers on board

  29-03-2024 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Video shows chairlifts in Italy violently swinging, hit by winds of over 100km/h (62mph).
  
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• Russia launches barrage of 99 drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy system, officials say

  29-03-2024 19:14 via foxnews.com
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country, Ukraine’s armed forces said.Air raid warnings rang out across the nation, with 10 Ukrainian regions coming under fire, the country’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said.RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE UNLIKELY TO END IN 2024; CONGRESS PLAYS PIVOTAL ROLE IN DIRECTION CONFLICT TAKESRussia has escala
  
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• A tropical cyclone makes landfall in northern Madagascar, killing 18 people

  29-03-2024 19:11 via foxnews.com
  
  ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A tropical cyclone that swept across Madagascar has killed 18 people and left four missing after making landfall on the north of the Indian Ocean island nation earlier this week, authorities said on Friday.The storm has also caused severe flooding that partly submerged entire villages, displaced or affected some 47,000 people and set off landslides that injured three people, the National Office for Disaster Management said.MADAGASCAR SUFFERING 'CATASTROPHIC'
  
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• Olly Alexander rejects call to boycott Eurovision

  29-03-2024 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 450 artists and groups urged the singer to pull out of the contest over the inclusion of Israel.
  
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• Apology over class photo without complex needs pupils

  29-03-2024 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tempest Photography said it was "not standard practice" to offer pictures without some pupils being included.
  
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• Big Tech companies reveal trust and safety cuts in disclosures to Senate Judiciary Committee

  29-03-2024 18:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  In new disclosures to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Big Tech companies revealed the details around deep cuts made to trust and safety departments across the industry in recent years.
  
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• Rees-Zammit signs with NFL champions Chiefs

  29-03-2024 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Wales rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit joins back-to-back Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs.
  
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• Police called to beach over suspected bones find

  29-03-2024 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A cordon is put in place by police as suspected bones are found on Seaburn beach.
  
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• Sacre bleu! Camembert and brie 'on the verge of extinction,' French scientists warn

  29-03-2024 18:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Camembert and Brie could disappear, scientists in France are warning, owing to a decline of strains of fungus that give them their unique tastes and textures.
  
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• US says Israel has not received all requested weapons for fight in Gaza: 'Don't have capacity'

  29-03-2024 17:09 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S.’s top general said Thursday that Washington has not sent all requested military arms to Israel as the brutal fight in Gaza continues, a conflict that has drawn condemnation from both sides of the political aisle."Although we've been supporting them with capability, they've not received everything they've asked for," chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown said Thursday, speaking from an event hosted by the Defense Writer’s Group."Some of that is b
  
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• Controversy over Lebanese nun's prayer for Hezbollah highlights Lebanon's internal debate over group

  29-03-2024 17:01 via foxnews.com
  
  The nun stood in front of a group of young students at a Lebanese Christian school and asked them to pray for the "men of the resistance" in southern Lebanon who she said were defending the country.The men to whom nun Maya Ziadeh was referring are members of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which has been clashing with Israel across a volatile border for nearly six months, becoming a critical regional player as the Israel-Hamas war persists in Gaza.A video capturing Ziadeh’s c
  
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• 45 injured, some critically, in northwest Cambodia as train hits bus at crossing

  29-03-2024 16:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Forty-five people were injured, five of them critically, when a train crashed into the side of a bus at a rail crossing in northwestern Cambodia Friday, police said.Gen. Sar Theng, the police chief for Pursat province, said the crash in Krakor district occurred around 11 a.m. when the bus attempted to cross the tracks even though the oncoming train had loudly sounded its horn as it approached.The train hit the middle of the bus, pushing it several meters, he said. The bus driver fled, leaving be
  
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• How the brain chooses which memories are important enough to save and which to let fade

  29-03-2024 16:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sleep is important for memory. Scientists have found how the brains of humans and other mammals tag which life events to store in memory and which to let fade.
  
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• Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar-winning actor from 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Roots,' dies at 87

  29-03-2024 16:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Louis Gossett Jr., best known for playing a no-nonsense drill sergeant in "An Officer and a Gentleman," has died.
  
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• More and more Americans are held in Russian jails as relations between countries continue to sink

  29-03-2024 16:28 via foxnews.com
  
  A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family.All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in Russia on charges of varying severity.Arrests of Americans in Russia have become increasingly common as relations between Moscow and Washington sink to Cold War lows. Washington accuses Moscow of targeting its citizens and using them as polit
  
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• 'Alonso feels time is right to end speculation'

  29-03-2024 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Xabi Alonso "felt the time was right" to end speculation over his future by announcing he will stay at Bayer Leverkusen, writes Guillem Balague.
  
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