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08.09.2021 / 15:11

Robert E. Lee statue removed in Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia brought in a deconstruction crew surrounded by a heavy police presence on Wednesday to remove one of the nation's largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Gen. Robert E.

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Canadians Fernandez, Auger-Aliassime book maiden U.S. Open semi-final spots

tennis players Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime have reached the U.S. Open semi-finals for the first time in their careers.Fernandez booked her spot in the last four following an upset quarter-final win over Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina.The Canadian teenager from Laval, Que., who celebrated her 19th birthday on Monday, overcame the 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist in a tight three-set battle that lasted two hours and 24 minutes.

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Photos of 9/11: Scenes from terror attack left indelible memory

NEW YORK - On Sept. 11, 2001, a clear blue sky greeted New York City.

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Toronto custom clothier recognized in ROM exhibit for donating facemasks

In March of 2020, with the help of 400 volunteers, Toronto custom clothier King & Bay created 25,000 facemasks made out of old dress shirts and donated them to anyone in need. Now the clothing company is being recognized by the ROM in a new exhibit set to open later this month.

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Delaware County students, parents react to Pa. mask mandate as kids head back to class

ASTON, Pa. - The mask mandate is now in effect for all Pennsylvania public and private schools. It also applies to day cares and after-school programs.

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COVID remote learning eroded mental health by race, age, income, data indicate

A study late last week in JAMA Network Open reveals a small link between COVID-19–related school closures and worse child mental health, particularly among older and Black and Hispanic students and those from low-income families.

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Covid rates in Greater Manchester are SIX times higher than last September - what happens next?

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Where original Loose Women stars are now - tragic death, health battle and secret feud

Loose Women celebrates its 22nd anniversary on Monday, September 6.The ITV lunchtime chat has entertained the nation for over two decades whether the topic of discussion is social issues or pop culture.Throughout the years, a number of panellists have graced the Loose Women stage, including businesswomen and pop stars.As a result, lots of famous faces have appeared behind the desk.Like a fine bottle of wine, the Loose Women stars have all got better with age.On 22 October 2020, Loose Women featured an all black panel for the first time in the show's history, featuring Charlene White, Brenda Edwards, Judi Love and Kéllé Bryan.There was also an all-male panel for the first time in the show's history, to celebrate International Men's Day on

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06.09.2021 / 11:27

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Travel giant On The Beach to create hundreds of new jobs as pandemic recovery continues

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O’Toole flip flops on firearm promise, says ban on ‘assault-style’ guns will stay

forms government.“I want to make my position on firearms perfectly clear. First, the ban on assault weapons will remain in place.

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Covid-19: India reports lowest fatalities in nearly 6 months

COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.44 per cent, the ministry said.

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Maharashtra CM says easing of Covid-19 lockdown will be on the basis of…

5 districts account for 72% of the active cases

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Canada election: O’Toole pressed to clarify gun control policy

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole was repeatedly asked by reporters to clarify his gun control policy on Saturday, after a party spokesperson said O’Toole promises to repeal a May 2020 ban on what the Liberals call “assault-style” weapons, but not the prohibition of full-fledged “assault weapons,” which has been in place since 1977.

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Ertz excited to be with Eagles after difficult year

PHILADELPHIA, PA - AUGUST 12: Zach Ertz #86 of the Philadelphia Eagles looks on prior to the preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Lincoln Financial Field on August 12, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Ima PHILADELPHIA - Zach Ertz still wants to finish his career with the Philadelphia Eagles.The three-time Pro Bowl tight end said Wednesday that after more than a year of acrimony with the front office, he was "here to just kind of put it in the past."LATEST NFL HEADLINES"I’m moving on from everything that happened this offseason," Ertz said.

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Covid-19: India records 42,618 new cases, active tally goes past 4 lakh

comprising 1.23 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.43 per cent, the ministry said.

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O’Toole pledges to keep assault rifle ban. His platform says it’ll be gone. Here’s what we know

Erin O’Toole directly contradicted his own party’s platform at the French-language debate on Thursday night and again Friday morning, saying he wouldn’t repeal a Liberal ban on assault rifles.The Conservative platform promises to “start by” walking back Liberal amendments to the Firearms Act, which beefed up background checks and tightened restrictions on firearm vendors and owners.

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London Knights kick off pre-season in first game at Budweiser Gardens since March 2020

OHL hockey will return to Budweiser Gardens on Friday as the London Knights kick off the pre-season against the Sarnia Sting.The Knights’ last regular-season home game was on March 8, 2020, as last season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Budweiser Gardens releases COVID-19 vaccine policies ahead of venue’s reopening “A year and a half off, you begin to miss it pretty early.

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03.09.2021 / 11:43

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Pandemic spending study exposes Man City advantage over rivals Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal

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Teachers, divisions ready with plans to address student learning gaps due to COVID-19

education during the COVID-19 pandemic.“It’s definitely a concern,” Seven Oaks Superintendent Brian O’Leary told Global News.

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Jeff Probst Reveals ‘Survivor’ Considered Hawaii, Georgia As Possible Locations During Pandemic

When “Survivor” returns to Global with its 41st season later this month, the 18 new castaways will be attempting to outwit, outplay and outlast their way to a million-dollar prize on the island of Fiji, the series’ home since the 33rd season.

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Will covid break the tier-2 realty jinx?

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GST Council to meet on 17 Sept, tax on Covid essentials may be reviewed

₹1-lakh-crore mark for the second straight month in August at ₹1.12 lakh crore.

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Jan. 6 committee asks Facebook, AT&T, Google, others to save phone, internet data

WASHINGTON - The House select committee tasked with investigating the pro-Trump Jan. 6 Capitol riot has asked more than three dozen communication and social media companies to preserve their records as the panel expands its probe into the deadly insurrection. The panel is asking the companies — including Facebook, Google and Twitter, among others — to "preserve records relating to certain individuals who hold or have held accounts with your company from April 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021," according to a letter sent to Facebook on Aug.

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Some charges reinstated against former Philly police inspector Joseph Bologna

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge has reinstated some of the previously dismissed charges against a former Philadelphia police inspector Joseph Bologna, who was accused of striking a protester with a baton last summer. Judge Crystal Bryant-Powell reinstated two charges on Tuesday, including simple assault and possession of an instrument of crime. Counts of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment were dismissed by Bryant-Powell. Bologna was originally charged back in June of 2020 after he was captured on camera striking a student protester with a metal baton during a peaceful protest last summer, according to court documents. Back in January, another Philadelphia judge dismissed the charges against Bologna.

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US hate crimes rise to highest level in 12 years, FBI data shows

WASHINGTON - Hate crimes reported in the United States rose to the highest level in 12 years, with a notable increase in such crimes motivated by race, ethnicity and ancestry, and by gender identity, data from the FBI's annual hate crime statistics report shows. A total of 7,759 hate crimes were reported in 2020, a 6.1% increase from the year prior and the highest level reported since 2008. Hate crimes increased against both Black people and members of the Asian-American Pacific Islander community, the report shows. The release of the FBI’s hate crime statistics data comes after a tumultuous year, which included a global pandemic that brought illness, death, lockdowns, and a devastated economy.

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How India is preparing for next Covid wave

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Covid-19: India logs 42,909 new cases, active cases continue to rise for sixth day

4,38,210with 380 fresh fatalities, according to the official data updated at 8 am.

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Adult film star Ron Jeremy indicted on more than 30 counts of sexual assault

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 26: Adult film star Ron Jeremy appears for arraignment on rape and sexual assault charges at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on June 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.

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Minshew Mania hits Philadelphia as Jaguars trade QB to Eagles

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 20: Quarterback Gardner Minshew II #15 of the Jacksonville Jaguars warms up prior to their game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&amp;T Bank Stadium on December 20, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Will Newton PHILADELPHIA - Minshew Mania is on the move.The Jacksonville Jaguars traded popular backup quarterback Gardner Minshew to Philadelphia on Saturday for a conditional draft pick in 2022.

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Investigators rule out some causes as to what killed California family hiking near Yosemite

MARIPOSA, Calif. - Investigators are ruling out what may have killed a family who was found dead in the Sierra National Forest but have still not determined what caused their death. The bodies of Ellen Chung, John Gerrish and their 1-year-old daughter, as well as their family dog, were all found last week in the Devil's Gulch area of the Merced River, south of Yosemite.The Mariposa County Sheriff's office has now ruled out exposure to chemicals from a mine along the trail, as well as the use of a gun or other weapon, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.They have not yet ruled out toxic algae from a nearby river.Authorities are still waiting for toxicology reports and cell phone data, though the remote area where the bodies were found had

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Brutal benchmark: Arizona passes 1 million COVID-19 cases

PHOENIX - Arizona surpassed 1 million COVID-19 cases Friday, becoming the 13th state to reach the grim milestone while contending with yet another major spike in infections.The benchmark is the latest in a tumultuous year and a half where Arizona went from being touted as a pandemic success story to being "the hot spot of the world" and then being a model again when vaccinations became available. Now, the state, like the rest of the country, is coping with a surge — mostly of the unvaccinated — and ongoing conflicts over mask and vaccine mandates.It ranks 13th nationwide in the number of cases per 100,000 residents, according to the U.S.

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Will the renaming of a Toronto university topple Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole?

will soon be renamed isn’t great news for Erin O’Toole.The Conservative leader has been doing everything he can on the campaign trail to sound moderate, affable and prime ministerial — a uniter rather than a polarizer.And that strategy to project the image of a nice guy — a softer kind of Conservative than Stephen Harper could ever have been — seems to be working.Unfortunately for O’Toole, Ryerson’s plan to ditch its 73-year-old handle — inevitable, really, since the university’s namesake has become best known today as a chief architect of Canada’s residential schools system — may jog voters’ memories about one of the Tory leader’s greatest embarrassments of the past year.

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COVID vaccine supply chains evolved over time

This month, the nonprofit and nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics released its analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain to begin answering two questions:

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Amid pandemic disruptions, grad students push to unionize

Katie LanginFor graduate students at the University of New Mexico (UNM), the pandemic was a turning point. After their petition to extend graduation timelines and funding was unsuccessful, a group of graduate students spent the past year amassing signatures to form a union and fighting a dispute with the university over the legality of its efforts.

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Women's Equality Day: A look at the day's history and how it's commemorated

FILE - A view of the statue of women's rights pioneers, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, unveiled at Central Park on Women's Equality Day on Aug.

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News Scan for Aug 25, 2021

Substance use among US kids 10 to 14 years old remained relatively stable during the first 6 months of the pandemic, according to longitudinal study results published yesterday in the Journal of Adolescent Health.The researchers used part of the cohort from the Adolesce

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Herschel Walker files to run for US senate in 2022

ATLANTA - Herschel Walker officially filed to run for a Georgia U.S. Senate seat as a Republican on Tuesday, according to Federal Election Commission documents. Walker, a Heisman Trophy winner while playing football at the University of Georgia, has been laying the foundation to potentially run for the seat held by Democrat Rev.

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Calgary athletes to watch at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Former Canadian Paralympic committee president Patrick Jarvis joins Global’s Linda Olsen to discuss Calgary athletes to watch at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

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Kanye West petitions to legally change name to 'Ye'

LOS ANGELES - Kanye just wants to be Ye.Kanye West filed court documents Tuesday to legally change his name.The Los Angeles Superior Court filing says the 44-year-old wants to get rid of his full name — Kanye Omari West — in favor of just his longtime two-letter nickname, Ye, with no middle name or last name.The documents, dated Aug. 11 but not sent into the court system until Tuesday, cite "personal reasons" for the change.

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COVID-19 Scan for Aug 24, 2021

The number of older adults who are homebound (leaving home once a week or less) increased in 2020 over the prior decade, according to a research letter yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The researchers say that this could affect social, psychological, and physical needs because of factors such as physical distancing and caretaker or telehealth access.The data used survey responses from the US National Health and

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‘BIP’s Hannah Godwin Dylan Barbour Reveal Plans For ‘Spring 2023’ Wedding After COVID Delays

Since getting engaged on season six of Bachelor in Paradise, Dylan Barbour and Hannah Godwin have taken their time with planning a wedding. The coronavirus hitting in 2020 derailed their plans even further, but now, they’re starting to get back on track. “We’ve definitely gotten back in the conversation, for sure,” Hannah told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY at RumHaven “Sip Into Paradise” event. “We were actually kind of chatting about looking at 2023. Part of us feels like that’s so far away, but it’s going to be 2022 before you know it.”

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Kobe Bryant Day 2021: Celebrating Mamba's legacy in LA, OC, and worldwide

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 18: Kobe Bryant speaks to the media at a press conference before his #8 and #24 jerseys are retired by the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center on December 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Imag LOS ANGELES - Tuesday marks "Kobe Bryant Day," in the city of Los Angeles and in Orange County.

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Low mental health reported among Canadians compared to pre-pandemic: survey

mental health for the 16th consecutive month since April 2020 in comparison to their overall pre-pandemic benchmark, according to LifeWorks’ monthly Mental Health Index.This past July, the overall Mental Health Index score was a -10.1 in comparison with the pre-COVID benchmark that’s been set at zero.According to LifeWorks, this “reflects a population whose mental health is similar to the most distressed four per cent of the benchmark population.” A workplace resignation boom may be looming. Here’s why Per LifeWorks’ July report, managers have worse mental health and are experiencing more mental strain than those who aren’t managers.

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U.S. Satisfaction Drops; COVID-19 Resurges as Top Problem

Americans were increasingly concerned.At the start of 2021, when coronavirus infections and deaths peaked and citizens stormed the U.S. Capitol attempting to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's 2020 election victory, satisfaction with the direction of the U.S.

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23.08.2021 / 16:41

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Old Trafford and Manchester United lost millions in revenue during the pandemic

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Extremist groups ‘actively recruiting’ military and police, Canadian intelligence report warns

extremist groups are “actively recruiting” past and present members of the military and police, according to a declassified Canadian intelligence report obtained by Global News.The report cited 17 examples in Canada, the U.S., U.K., Germany and New Zealand which “illustrate the intersections and relationships between ideologically motivated violent extremism and uniformed personnel.”Six of the cases involved members of the Canadian military or reserves.“IMV extremist groups actively recruiting uniformed personnel,” Canadian government threat assessment said.

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Trump targets Biden over Afghanistan but gets booed briefly on vaccines at Alabama rally

ALABAMA - In what seemed like a preview of a potential stump speech should former President Trump eventually follow through on his flirtations to launch a 2024 White House bid, Trump once again took aim at his successor on Saturday night."One year ago this month in my nomination speech," Trump told the large crowd of supporters at a large rally in Cullman, Alabama, harkening back to his 2020 Republican National Convention address, "I warned the entire country of the disastrous consequences of a Biden presidency."Trump then blasted President Biden, criticizing him over crime, inflation, and the haphazard evacuation of U.S.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0