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Steve Bannon, a former top adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, recently told the House panel investigating the Capitol riot that he would be willing to testify since Trump now says he won’t cite executive privilege. In a letter on Saturday to the committee, obtained by ABC News, Bannon said he would prefer testifying in a live,public hearing after

July 10, 2022

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Passengers on a Spirit Airlines had a frightening landing in Atlanta on Sunday morning when their plane caught fire on the tarmac after one of its brakes overheated,, a spokesperson for the airline confirmed. Flashes of flames appeared near the plane’s tires as clouds of smoke billowed out towards the back upon its landing at Atlanta International

July 10, 2022

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Novak Djokovic used his steady brilliance to beat the ace-delivering, trick-shot-hitting Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Sunday for a fourth consecutive Wimbledon championship and seventh overall. The top-seeded Djokovic ran his unbeaten run at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament to 28 matches and raised his career haul to 21 major trophies,

July 10, 2022

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Elon Musk could be forced by a US court to complete his $44bn takeover of Twitter, according to legal experts despite pulling the plug on the transaction. The Tesla chief executive told Twitter on Friday that he is terminating the deal, citing concerns over the number of spam accounts on the social media platform. Twitter’s chairman Bret Taylor responded

July 10, 2022

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Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe. The highly anticipated July 12 unveiling of pictures and spectroscopic data from the newly operational observatory

July 10, 2022

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When Cubans spontaneously took to the streets by the thousands on July 11, 2021, nothing like it had taken place since Fidel Castro’s 1959 communist revolution.In the year since, many activists were sent to prison or were exiled, and a historic level of Cubans migrated amid the tough economic situation and the ongoing government crackdown.

July 10, 2022

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Ukraine reported heavy Russian missile and rocket strikes in the east and south on Saturday. A missile strike on the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded three civilians, its governor said, though Russia’s main attacks appeared focused on the eastern industrial region of Donbas.Ukrainian officials reported strikes in both Luhansk and Donetsk,

July 10, 2022

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Japanese voters cast their ballots Sunday in an upper house election, just two days after former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while on the campaign trail. The election, which is expected to see Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party increase its majority, has been overshadowed by the murder. Abe’s body arrived in Tokyo

July 10, 2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to become a father again, according to reports. The 69-year-old is said to be expecting a daughter with his ex-gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva, 39, with whom he is alleged to have fathered two children with in recent years. Putin will be welcoming a girl,according to the General SVR Telegram channel

July 10, 2022

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Monthly payments on loans given out in June to buy a new car averaged an all-time high of $686, according to car-shopping site Edmunds whose data go back to 2005. That is up 4% from January and 13% above a year ago. A growing share of people are paying much more. A record 12.7% of new-car buyers who signed up for a loan in June

July 10, 2022

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NHTSA opens a 37th probe into a Tesla crash after a couple’s car slammed into the back of a Walmart truck, shearing its roof off.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating the wreck, which happened a south of Gainesville, Florida. Its female driver, aged 66, and her 67 year-old male passenger were killed.

July 10, 2022

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has defied President Joe Biden and ordered the Texas National Guard to start arresting migrantsin Texas, and returning them to the Mexico border. On Saturday, Abbott slammed the president, saying: ‘Biden’s border policies are crushing local communities up and down the border.’ He added

July 10, 2022

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The Women’s March organization rallied on the streets of the nation’s capital Saturday to “fight for abortion rights” as nearly two dozen states move to ban the procedure following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade two weeks ago. Thousands of protesters gathered in Franklin Square

July 9, 2022

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Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has passed away at the age of 88.The hard-working businessman was battling with cancer, and his daughter, 68, surprised him with a heartfelt surprise party to honor his life over the Independence Day holiday. The TV personality’s father owned a barbershop and was a city councilman

July 9, 2022

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Former Mexican president Luis Echeverria died at the age of 100, current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Saturday.In his Twitter account, López Obrador sent condolences to Echeverria’s family and friends “in the name of the government of Mexico,” but did not express any personal sadness about the death.

July 9, 2022

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Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared on Capitol Hill Friday morning for a closed-door interview with House Jan. 6 committee investigators after negotiations over what he could be questioned about. His testimony will be videotaped and it’s expected that clips of Cipollone’s deposition

July 9, 2022

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The US army has suspended a retired three-star general from a lucrative consultant’s role after a social media post appearing under his name taunted first lady Jill Biden’s support of abortion rights. Former top army spokesperson Gary Volesky,who retired as a lieutenant general

July 9, 2022

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It’s on. Elon Musk has officially filed to kill his own Twitter acquisition, and Twitter is calling his bluff.They’ll see Musk in court. And while it’s only going to get messier from here, one important verdict has already been rendered by Elon Musk himself: he doesn’t have what it takes to run Twitter.

July 9, 2022

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Russian-born Elena Rybakina powered back to win the Wimbledon title 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday, denying Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur a chance to make African tennis history.World number two Jabeur was in charge at the start of the match but the 17th seed, representing Kazakhstan,

July 9, 2022

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Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, announced that he would resign Saturday after tens of thousands of protesters swarmed over Colombo and stormed the presidential office and residence in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis.As of early evening

July 9, 2022

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Donald Trump suggested convicted drug dealers should get the death penalty during a somber-toned speech in Las Vegason Friday night. He also said his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is in the hospital with a ‘heart problem’ just days after being subpoenaed in Georgia – prosecutors election fraud

July 9, 2022

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Ukraine’s State Investigative Bureau destroyed secret documents pertaining to major criminal cases against leading political figures hours before and after Russia’s invasion in February three law enforcement sources told Current Time It is unclear whether the documents were destroyed to prevent them

July 9, 2022

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South Florida wants to remake itself into a business powerhouse, but is it doing too much too fast? Led by Mayor Francis X. Suarez, Miami is attempting something so ambitious it has rarely succeeded anywhere before—transforming a city identified with glitzy beaches and nightlife into a world-class business and financial center.

July 9, 2022

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Twitter’s message to Elon Musk after his attempt to bail on his $44 billion agreement to buy the company: we’ll see you in court.“The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement,

July 9, 2022

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Heavily armed law enforcement officers swarmed former White House adviser Steve Bannon’s Washington, DC, home after an apparent “swatting” incident on Friday, according to police.A prankster sent police into a frenzy after calling 911 at about 10:45 a.m. and reporting that a gunman was inside home

July 9, 2022

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Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed the president’s official residenceon Saturday in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year. Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video footage

July 9, 2022

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A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that House lawmakers can see years of former president Donald Trump’s financial accounting records but narrowed the range of documents Trump must turn over in a long-running legal battle over his compliance with presidential ethics and disclosure laws. The fight is not over — both sides can still appeal

July 9, 2022

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U.S. prosecutors leveled new accusations Friday against the leader of the Oath Keepers and alleged members bringing explosives to D.C. on Jan. 6, Capitol attack, saying one co-conspirator came to Washington with explosives and detailing allegations that a co-defendant kept a “death list” with the name of a Georgia election official.

July 9, 2022

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Tony Sirico, best known for his role as “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on The Sopranos, has died. He was 79.Sirico passed away Friday at an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to his manager of 25 years Bob McGowan. No cause of death was revealed but Sirico had been suffering from dementia for the past couple years.

July 9, 2022

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The body of Shinzo Abe has returned to Tokyo as politicians prepared to resume campaigning for Sunday’s upper house elections in the shadow of the assassination of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. On Saturday morning, a hearse carrying the body of Abe accompanied by his wife, Akie, left the hospital in Kashihara

July 9, 2022

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Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company’s chief legal officer Friday. In the letter, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler charged that “Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations.”

July 8, 2022

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Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) longtime leader, allegedly paid out millions in hush money to a former female wrestler with whom he had a coercive sexual relationship and who was allegedly not brought back to WWE after spurning further sexual advances from the executive, according to a report published Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

July 8, 2022

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A major outage of mobile and internet networks caused widespread disruptions across Canada on Friday.affecting banks, police emergency lines and customers in the second outage to hit one of the country’s biggest telecom providers in 15 months. Customers gathered at coffee shops and public libraries to access alternate networks,

July 8, 2022

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Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has died at age 79 after a prolonged illness. The country’s current president announced his death in a statement Friday. Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa’s second-largest oil producer for nearly four decades, died Friday at Barcelona’s Teknon Clinic following a prolonged illness.

July 8, 2022

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Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared before the House Jan. 6 committee for an interview Friday and has been willing to answer the panel’s questions, a source familiar with the first part of his testimony said. “He’s been a cooperative witnesswithin the parameters of his desire to protect executive privilege for the office of general counsel,”

July 8, 2022

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Customs and Border Protection has referred four horseback agents falsely accused of whipping Haitian migrantsin September 2021 for disciplinary action. A 500-page report released by the agency on Friday said the agents acted unprofessionally, unsafely and used unnecessary force

July 8, 2022

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California will start making its own affordable insulin as part of an effort to combat high drug prices for a lifesaving medication that has been made inaccessible for some Americans living with diabetes, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday. Newsom said in a video posted to Twitter that $100 million from the state budget

July 8, 2022

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Rishi Sunak, who this week resigned as UK chancellor of the exchequer, has formally announced he is standing to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative party leader,a race in which he will be one of the favorites. The announcement came in a video message posted on Twitter, that emphasized the story of his parents,

July 8, 2022

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U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Friday to help safeguard women’s access to abortion and contraception after the Supreme Court last month overturned the Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion, the White House said. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from supporters, particularly progressives, to take action

July 8, 2022

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Starlink’s – internet-from-space service continues expanding to new use cases with the launch of Starlink Maritime. What started in the home before expanding to stationary RVs is now available for boats on the move, at a cost of $5,000 a month. SpaceX is targeting merchant vessels, oil rigs, and wealthy owners of superyachts with the service. Starlink Maritime

July 8, 2022

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The U.S. economy added 372,000 jobs in June, extending a streak of strong gains despite signs of slowing economic growth.Hiring in June was near monthly gains logged earlier in the year, the Labor Department on Friday said. Companies added an average of nearly 400,000 workers over the previous three months, keeping the job market on strong footing.

July 8, 2022

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Shinzo Abe – Japan’s longest-serving prime minister – has died after being shot twice as he made a campaign speech in the south of the country earlier today, local media has said. The 67-year-old, who served for a total of nine years over two terms, was gunned down in the city of Nara around 11.30am as he rallied support for the local candidate ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday.

July 8, 2022

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The NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders have hired the first Black female team president in the league’s history.Sandra Douglass Morgan, a Las Vegas native, is not new to firsts. She was the first Black city attorney in Nevada, when she served for the City of North Las Vegas, and she was the first person of color named chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board

July 8, 2022

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Tesla plans to open up its Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric vehicles in the US in late 2022.The company has been allowing non-Tesla EVs to use its Supercharger plugs in several cities in Europe as part of a limited pilot program but has been quiet about when US charging stations would be available to non-Tesla EV owners

July 8, 2022

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TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who say their children died of strangulation attempting the “blackout challenge,”after the app showed them videos of other people trying it. One suit filed against the company in June alleges that at least seven specific children died last year while attempting the challenge,which the complaint says “encourages users to choke themselves

July 8, 2022

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Mexican prosecutors are investigating former president Enrique Peña Nieto in a case involving the suspicious movements of millions of dollars,authorities said Thursday. It was the first announcement of a corruption probe into the ex-leader.Pablo Gómez, head of the Treasury Ministry’s financial crimes unit, told reporters that officials had detected “a scheme

July 8, 2022

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The Biden administration is facing a major deadline to decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan exiles living in the United States. But with days to go for a decision, officials are still torn, juggling the benefits it could have on their political standing in Florida and the potential it brings to worsen the migrant buildup on the U.S. southern border.

July 8, 2022

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Highland Park parade 8-year-old boy who was shot in the chest by a gunman may never walk again.Cooper Roberts was at Monday’s holiday celebration with his twin brother, Luke, and their parents when shots erupted in the Chicago suburb, family friend Anthony Loizzi said at a news conference. “Cooper was shot in the chest and suffered significant injuries, including a severed spinal cord,”

July 8, 2022

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A New York City bodega worker charged with murder after fighting off an ex-con in his store has been freed from jailafter his bond was lowered amid a public outcry. Jose Alba, 62, was released from Rikers Island on Thursday evening after his bail was lowered from $250,000 to $50,000, and returned to his Hamilton Heights home wearing an electronic monitor and accompanied by one of his sons.

July 8, 2022

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Shinzo Abe – Japan’s longest-serving prime minister – has died after being shot twice as he made a campaign speech in the south of the country earlier today, local media has said. The 67-year-old, who served for a total of nine years over two terms, was gunned down in the city of Nara around 11.30am as he rallied support for the local candidate ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday. His death was reported by public broadcaster NHK around six hours later,

July 8, 2022

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a towering political figure at home and abroad, died after being shot at a campaign event Friday, public broadcaster NHK said, shocking a nation where firearms laws are among the world’s strictest and gun violence is rare.Abe, 67, was stumping for a fellow politician from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Nara, near Osaka, on Friday morning when a gunman wielding what police described as a homemade weapon fired two shots.

July 8, 2022

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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, was sentenced to 21 years on Thursday on a separate federal charge of civil rights violations in a Minnesota U.S. District Court. Chauvin will also be transferred from the state prison, where he is currently incarcerated, to a federal prison, which is considered by many to be a far safer and less restrictive place to serve time.

July 7, 2022

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Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia has barely started its military action in Ukraineand challenged Western countries supporting Kyiv to try to defeat Russia on the battlefield.Speaking on July 7 at a meeting with leaders of the parliament, Putin accused Western allies of fueling the hostilities, charging that “the West wants to fight us until the last Ukrainian.”

July 7, 2022

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U.S. Secret Service director James Murray is stepping down from his job at the head of the storied protective service, according to a statement issued by the agency ThursdayMurray, who has held the job since 2019, has been looking to retire “for some time” and plans to work in the private sector, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official

July 7, 2022

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