Twisted nanny ‘with a sexual interest in kids’ is busted for trading child porn

Police in the Boston metropolitan area said a local nanny shared hundreds of images of child porn and discussed abuse online with other caregivers
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Russia reportedly conducts supersonic cruise missile test in Black Sea

The Russian navy has reportedly launched a supersonic anti-ship cruise missile in the Black Sea during an exercise coinciding with the first visit by US Coast Guard cutter in 13 years.
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Abducted teen daughter of Newark anti-violence activist found dead

Sanaa Amenhotep -- the daughter of Brick City Peace Collective member Sharif Malik Amenhotep -- was found dead after a three-week search.
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In The Ransomware Battle, Cybercriminals Have The Upper Hand

Hackers say they've seized computer records from the Washington, D.C., police and are demanding ransom. As ransomware groups keep getting more sophisticated, law enforcement is struggling to keep up.
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Biden Order Will Require New Cybersecurity Standards In Response To SolarWinds Attack

Six months after one of the largest cyberattacks in history, the White House will set up formal cyber investigations, require companies to report breaches and set software development standards.
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Lawyer Says Police Didn't Need To Arrest Man Who Died After Being Pinned To Ground

Mario Gonzalez, 26, died in police custody on April 19. Body camera footage showed police pinning him to the ground for several minutes.
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Crawley College 'shooting' suspect charged

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Wednesday morning UK news briefing: Sir James Dyson breaks silence over PM texts

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Self-driving cars could be on British roads by the end of the year - but only at 37mph

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Foreign aid trickles in as India's infections reach catastrophic levels

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Who is next on the priority list for Covid vaccines - and how will I be contacted?

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Pink supermoon lights up dawn skies

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Russian Court Suspends Alexei Navalny's Anti-Kremlin Network

The jailed opposition leader's political network has been ordered to suspend its activities pending a court ruling on whether to label it and affiliated organizations "extremist."
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Vaccinated U.S. Travelers Will Be Allowed To Visit Europe Again Starting This Summer

The European Commission president says she expects all 27 EU member states will accept visitors who've received COVID-19 vaccines, but the CDC is still warning against travel to much of Europe.
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Civil Rights Group Calls On Justice Dept. To Suspend Local Police Grants

A major civil rights group is demanding the attorney general pause federal grants to local police until he confirms they aren't engaging in discrimination, citing more police killings of Black people.
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'Full Of Hatred And Fear': Disinformation On YouTube Divided A Dad And Daughter

Renee Ekwoge says false and misleading videos on YouTube have changed her dad. What was once a strong, loving relationship has been corrupted, she says, by conspiratorial YouTube videos.
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Democrat Troy Carter Wins New Orleans-Based U.S. House Seat

Carter defeated fellow Democrat Karen Carter Peterson in the special election for Louisiana's only Democrat-held seat in Congress after Peterson planted herself firmly in the progressive camp.
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Hester Ford, Oldest Living American, Dies At 115 (Or 116)

Ford died at home in Charlotte, N.C. She lived through the 1918 pandemic, the Great Depression, both world wars, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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French probe of fatal police station stabbing focused on motive

RAMBOUILLET, France — Anti-terrorism investigators questioned three people who were detained after a police official was fatally stabbed Friday at a police station outside Paris, seeking Saturday to establish a motive, if the attacker had ties to an extremist group and whether he acted alone. A steady stream of people bearing flowers handed the bouquets...
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Filmmaker sues Dolph Lundgren over blown documentary pact

A British filmmaker is stepping into the ring with "Rocky IV" star Dolph Lundgren, suing him for allegedly pulling out of their agreement to make a "fly-on-the wall" documentary shortly before its completion, court papers say.
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Former teacher gets two years in prison for sexually assaulting teen girl

Brynn Larsen, a disgraced former substitute teacher in Wisconsin, has been slapped with a two-year prison sentence for sex assault of a teen girl.
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Biden Could Call The Massacres Of Armenians Genocide. Here's What That Means

U.S. lawmakers expect President Biden to recognize the World War I-era mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — even if it makes Turkey angry.
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SpaceX Rocket Launches With Astronauts Aboard

The company's third crewed spacecraft took off from Florida early Friday.
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Ex-Trump National Security Adviser Urges 'A Different Approach' To China

In an NPR interview, H.R. McMaster says the United States and its allies need to compete more effectively with China. He also urges a multinational approach for dealing with Beijing militarily.
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Out Of Thin Air: NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere

Fresh off the first-ever powered flight on another world, NASA's Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts.
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'It Didn't Change': North Carolina Town Demands Answers After Another Fatal Shooting

Residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., are pressing for answers after a Black man, Andrew Brown Jr., was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy carrying out a search warrant on Wednesday.
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Surprise: The Charge For His Spine Surgery After A Car Crash Topped $700,000

Generous personal injury coverage on your auto insurance policy may not be enough to cover your medical bills. Patients can get financially blindsided when car and health insurance policies differ.
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Governors Urge Biden To Order 100% Zero-Emission Car Sales By 2035

In a letter to the president, 12 governors asked that the White House order a ban on greenhouse gas-emitting cars and light trucks within 14 years.
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DOJ To Investigate Minneapolis Police For Possible Patterns Of Excessive Force

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the inquiry a day after a jury convicted former officer Dereck Chauvin on murder charges in the death of George Floyd.
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Indonesian Navy Loses Contact With Submarine; 53 Aboard

The aging KRI Nanggala-402 was reportedly on a torpedo-training mission in waters north of Bali when it failed to report results of the exercise.
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Looming Chauvin Verdict Will Test Biden's Leadership On Race

The president prioritizes racial justice while also acting as an ally of law enforcement, and the trial's end could be the first significant flashpoint over race and policing in Biden's presidency.
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Stuck At 435 Representatives? Why The U.S. House Hasn't Grown With Census Counts

A 1929 law set up a process for redistributing representation after each census that has pitted states against one another in a once-a-decade fight for power in Congress and the Electoral College.
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Immigrant Detention For Profit Faces Resistance After Big Expansion Under Trump

A grassroots movement opposing privately-run immigrant jails across the country, which grew under former President Trump, has continued and found a more receptive audience under President Biden.
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COVID-19 deaths in US rise again during ‘complicated stage’

The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US are rising — even as more people are getting vaccinated, federal health officials said Monday.
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Democrats keep pushing entire policy wish list as ‘infrastructure’

As moderate Democrats push for a bipartisan infrastructure package, the left-flank of the party is continuing with their insistence that nearly everything on their policy wish-list be considered under the banner.
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China accuses US, Japan of ‘ganging’ up on them

China accused the US and Japan of “ganging” up on them Saturday, following discussions by the two nations on a range of geopolitical issues, including China’s global expansion. In the first in-person meeting at the White House since President Biden entered office, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the two leaders discussed the “severe security environment” and People’s Republic...
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WWII-era plane makes emergency landing — just feet from Florida beach

Wild videos show a restored World War II-era plane making an emergency landing in the ocean — just feet from swimmers at a packed Florida beach. Footage by WFTV showed beachgoers — including young children in the sea — staring calmly at the single-engine TBM Avenger as it flew toward them Saturday around 20 feet...
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Prince Charles to take estranged son Harry to see Philip tributes: report

Prince Charles plans to spend private time Sunday with Prince Harry before his estranged son races back to California, according to a report. Charles, Britain’s 72-year-old heir to the throne, has scheduled time to take his 36-year-old son for a walk, likely to look at some of the floral tributes still being left for Prince...
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Fauci expects J&J decision Friday, ‘very seriously’ doubts it will be canceled

Dr. Anthony Fauci expects officials to make a decision on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Friday -- and he "very seriously" doubts that regulators will decide to scrap it entirely.
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COVID deaths top 3 million worldwide

The death toll from COVID-19 has topped 3 million worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization puts the grim number still slightly below 3 million, but continues to warn of the ongoing threat from the virus. “It is growing exponentially,” WHO COVID expert Maria Van Kerkhove said this week. “This is not...
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Queen and Prince Philip bickered ‘sweetly’ during lockdown: report

Like many couples everywhere, Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth reportedly bickered “sweetly” during lockdown, with the prince telling his wife to “shut up, you silly woman.” The Duke of Edinburgh, who died at age 99 on April 9, is said to have spent his last weeks of his life “reminiscing like mad” with his wife...
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Queen nixed Andy’s hope to play admiral at Prince Philip’s funeral

The Queen “put her foot down” at Prince Andrew’s desire to appear at his father’s funeral in an admiral’s uniform. The monarch decreed that none of the royal guests would be in military dress after her middle son caused a stir by ordering his tailor to prepare his uniform for a rank he technically never...
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Why South Africa Banned Booze — And What Happened Next

The hope was that if people weren't out drinking, they wouldn't be spreading the coronavirus. There were unforeseen benefits to the ban, which ended last month — and negative impacts as well.
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9 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Sentenced For 2019 Protests

Nine activists and lawmakers were sentenced to prison terms Friday for their participation in the 2019 anti-government protests.
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Dispatches From Quarantine: How Young People Are Documenting History

Enticed by what young adults had to share about the pandemic, historian Alexandra Zapruder set out to document history through an online gallery called Dispatches from Quarantine.
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U.S. Slaps New Sanctions On Russia Over Cyberattack, Election Meddling

President Biden is ordering a new round of economic sanctions that include restrictions on dozens of Russian entities and the expulsion of some Kremlin diplomats.
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Blinken Visits Afghanistan After Biden Announces Troop Withdrawal

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kabul on Thursday in a visit that comes on the heels of President Biden's announcement that all U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan.
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A Surprising Kind Of First Aid For Mozambicans Fleeing Violence

Psychological first aid is part of the mission of Doctors Without Borders. They hope to give those fleeing the horrors of civil unrest the tools to start moving past their trauma.
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Bill To Create Commission On Reparations Nears Historic House Vote

The bill would create a commission that would study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination, hold hearings and recommend "appropriate remedies" to Congress.
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Carbon Emissions Could Plummet. The Atmosphere Will Lag Behind

The U.S. plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically in the next decade. Scientists say it's crucial that the U.S. succeed. Still, many of the positive effects won't arrive for decades.
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