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12-year-old boy killed in Essex hit-and-run named as Harley Watson
UK news 1 hour ago
Police believe the suspect deliberately crashed his vehicle into a crowd of students outside a secondary school in Loughton, Essex, leaving one dead and several others injured. A 51-year-old Loughton man was arrested on suspicion of several offences including murder and attempted murder. The boy who was killed has been named as Harley Watson.
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The trailer for Marvel's Black Widow has dropped
Movies 4 hours ago
Scar-Jo kicking butt! David Harbour as a thicc Soviet super-soldier! Bourne vibes! Rachel Weisz! Florence Pugh! Marvel's long-awaited solo outing for Natasha Romanoff is on its way.
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New Zealand newspaper issues apology for 'insensitive' cartoon on Samoa's measles epidemic
World news Last night
The Otago Daily Times said in a statement that the "content and the timing of the cartoon were insensitive, and we apologise without reservation for publishing it."
A doggo or a wolf? Scientists present 18,000-year-old prehistoric puppy
Amazing Last night
Found in the permafrost of Russia's Far East, he could just be the oldest known good boy.
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Officer fires at student in a Wisconsin high school after the student pointed a gun at him
US news Yesterday
A 17-year-old Waukesha South High student is recovering in the hospital after being shot by the school's student resource officer. After reports that the student had a gun, the officer confronted him in a classroom where the gun was drawn. The officer responded by firing his weapon and striking the student.
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Chennai engineer and NASA find India’s lost Vikram lander
Science Last night
Shanmuga Subramanian studied lunar images from Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to locate the Vikram lander's debris and wrote to NASA. NASA soon confirmed the findings and released the image of “the first mosaic of the impact site” as they spotted Chandrayaan2, India’s Vikram.
McDonald's is putting its name in the fried chicken sandwich wars
Food Yesterday
The ongoing fast-food battle for the top fried chicken sandwich title just found a new contender. McDonald's debuted a brand new sandwich in Houston and Knoxville on Monday. And while Mickey D's already has a chicken sandwich, their latest poultry product features similar ingredients to Popeyes and Chick-fil-A.
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Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts-Giuffre details allegations in her BBC interview
UK news Yesterday
In an interview with BBC Panorama, Roberts-Giuffre spoke about allegations that she had sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17. The interview aired weeks after the Duke of York denied the allegations on BBC Newsnight.
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Anna Paquin has 7 lines in ‘Irishman.’ Robert De Niro is OK with that
Yesterday
Robert De Niro and Anna Paquin have weighed in on the controversy surrounding the actress' limited lines in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman."
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A ‘Playboy’ centerfold has been a mainstay in testing tech for decades
Yesterday
A new documentary ‘Losing Lena’ focuses on the many small ways in which women are told they don’t belong in tech. Case in point: the infamous "Lena" image.
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The Nick Foles experiment in Jacksonville may be over but it's still going to cost the Jags a lot
NFL Yesterday
The Jaguars signed Foles to a mega-deal in the offseason. He missed multiple games due to injury and then failed to outperform rookie backup Gardner Minshew when he returned from injury. After Sunday's loss to the Bucs, the team announced that Foles would be second-string going forward.
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Goodnight, naysayers: Carmelo Anthony is the NBA's Player of the Week in the West
NBA Yesterday
Melo's back and proving the doubters wrong, even if they're still finding ways to question his Player of the Week status.
Republicans argue that Trump had 'valid' concerns about Ukraine corruption in new report
Politics Yesterday
House Republicans argued in a new report on the impeachment probe released to the public on Monday that President Trump was acting on "reasonable" concerns about corruption in Ukraine, and that withholding aid from the Eastern European nation was "entirely prudent." The GOP findings come ahead of a report anticipated this week from the House Intelligence Committee summarizing their investigation into the president.
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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page speaks out for the first time: 'I'm done being quiet'
US news Yesterday
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, Lisa Page broke her silence regarding the fallout from her text-message exchanges with former agent Peter Strzok, which criticized President Trump during his 2016 presidential run. Page went on to later Tweet, "I'm done being quiet."
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NBA continues to mull midseason tournament with a possible draft pick prize
NBA Yesterday
According to longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein, the NBA is still in the process of formulating a potential midseason tournament and considering adding a first-round pick in addition to monetary bonuses to incentivize teams and players. As fans pointed out, there are still some kinks to work out before implementation.
The cult of the super-productive morning
Yesterday
"Morning-routine stories are a relatively new trend in the undying genre of self-help," Marina Koren writes. "But something sinister seems to be going on if you feel that you have to wake up 30 minutes earlier than usual to improve your well-being."
Trump campaign says it will no longer credential Bloomberg News journalists
Politics Yesterday
President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign will exclude Bloomberg News reporters from its events, including the president's political rallies, in response to a November 24 memo circulated among Bloomberg staffers stating that the news outlet would not investigate its founder or any of his Democratic rivals. Responding to the Trump campaign's decision, Bloomberg News editor John Micklethwait said that "The accusation of bias couldn't be further from the truth."
Mark Borowiecki: Crime-fighter by day, professional hockey player by night
NHL Yesterday
During some downtime on a road trip in Vancouver, Ottawa Senators player Mark Borowiecki just happened to thwart a robbery.
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Border Patrol threw away migrants’ belongings. A janitor made them art
Yesterday
A janitor named Tom Kiefer photographed items confiscated at the Mexico border. His project "El Sueño Americano" is on view at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
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Enes Kanter torments his teammates with snowballs ❄️
NBA Yesterday
The Boston Celtics player posted a video of him throwing snowballs at several of his teammates when they were at the airport.
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