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Student to lose limbs following sepsis diagnosis

Hamish Wilson, 18, from Crowborough, had just started university and was studying Philosophy.




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Star describes growing up gay as Jehovah's Witness

The Hollywood actor says he was bullied as a child in Wales because of his religion and sexuality.




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News24 | Thursday's weather: Scattered showers for Gauteng as severe storms bring flood risks to Free State

Thursday's weather brings a mix of conditions across the country, with severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and extreme fire danger in certain areas, according to the South African Weather Service.




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News24 | FIRST TAKE | Musk and Huckabee show Trump's America will be weirder than we ever imagined

Top government officials typically take government and policy fairly seriously. Donald Trump's planned appointees dispense with that old-fashioned idea, writes Phillip de Wet.




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News24 | How climate change is making us sick - and rich countries don’t want to pay up

Climate change is affecting the way in which we’re producing food and how polluted the water we drink and the air we breathe are, but only about one in three governments pointed out the impact of climate change on their citizens’ health.




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News24 | Wendy Knowler | Should banks block compulsive gamblers' accounts?

Banks in the UK make it possible for customers to control their gambling spend, either with a self-imposed spend limit, or, for compulsive gamblers, by means of an app blocking all spend on gambling sites. They are very effective, says Wendy Knowler.




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Putin Prepares For Showdown With Trump As 50,000 Russian Troops Move Into Position

The following article, Putin Prepares For Showdown With Trump As 50,000 Russian Troops Move Into Position, was first published on Conservative Firing Line.

Now that Donald Trump has won the election, he is going to have to deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia, and that isn’t going to be easy.  The Russians have no incentive to end the conflict because they are steadily gobbling up territory in eastern Ukraine.  As long as the Russians are making progress toward …

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Breaking: Trump Chooses Tulsi Gabbard for Huge Role in Cabinet as He Adds Firepower for Second Term

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is his pick for Director of National Intelligence. “For over two decades, Tulsi has fought for our Country and […]

The post Breaking: Trump Chooses Tulsi Gabbard for Huge Role in Cabinet as He Adds Firepower for Second Term appeared first on The Western Journal.




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Payback: Trump Team Eyeing Massive Deportation Prisons in Dems' Own Backyards

Illegal immigrants facing deportation in the Trump administration may not have to travel far from the sanctuary cities that have protected them. A report from NBC, based on sources it […]

The post Payback: Trump Team Eyeing Massive Deportation Prisons in Dems' Own Backyards appeared first on The Western Journal.






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Sport | Denis Onyango explains how Uganda rose from the ashes to sit on the brink of Afcon qualification

Denis Onyango didn't think that Uganda would find themselves in the driver's seat of their group in the Afcon qualifiers, with two games to go, when he saw the teams they were pitted against.




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First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole




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Exclusive-Chinese giant CATL pushes beyond batteries into power grids, EV platforms




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I’m a Self-Made Millionaire: Best $100 I’ve Ever Spent To Grow My Wealth




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70-Year-Old Man Thrown Ground During Traffic Stop: Cops




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Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records




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Driver dies, northbound I-95 shut down Tuesday after fiery crash in Harford County




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U.S. says Israel now in compliance with law on humanitarian assistance to Gaza

The United States has determined that Israel has substantially met its demand to take "concrete steps" to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days or risk losing military assistance provided by Washington.




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News story spares $1M Powerball ticket from the trash can

A news story about an unclaimed lottery prize in Missouri rescued a $1 million Powerball ticket from ending up in the winner's trash can.




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Ontario man bench presses his own weight to break world record

A Canadian man bench-pressed his body weight and unofficially broke a Guinness World Record with 38 repetitions in 30 seconds.




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IBM’s Latest Quantum Tech Pushes Boundaries Toward Quantum Advantage in Science

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 13, 2024 — Today at its inaugural IBM Quantum Developer Conference, IBM announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers […]

The post IBM’s Latest Quantum Tech Pushes Boundaries Toward Quantum Advantage in Science appeared first on HPCwire.




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Ayar Labs to Showcase the Future of AI Infrastructure with Fujitsu, Intel, Corning, and Altera at SC24

SAN JOSE, Calif.,  Nov. 13, 2024 — Ayar Labs, a leader in optical interconnect solutions for large-scale AI workloads, will demonstrate a broad range of optical I/O implementations for AI scale-up […]

The post Ayar Labs to Showcase the Future of AI Infrastructure with Fujitsu, Intel, Corning, and Altera at SC24 appeared first on HPCwire.




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Amazon Haul to compete with Chinese retailers on ultra-low price products

Amazon Haul was unveiled Wednesday in beta form, designed to compete with Chinese retailers Temu and Shein on sales of ultra-low price products.




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Docuseries follows the making of Israel-Palestinian pop group as1one

Paramount+ is teasing a new docuseries about an Israeli-Palestinian pop group.




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Supreme Court denies Mark Meadows' bid to move election subversion case to federal court

The Supreme Court has rejected a petition from Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff during the first Trump administration, to move his 2020 election subversion case to federal court.




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Amazon Haul to compete with Temu, Shein on ultra-low price products

Amazon Haul was unveiled Wednesday in beta form, designed to compete with Chinese retailers Temu and Shein on sales of ultra-low price products.




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Ducks Place Fowler, Fabbri on IR

According to NHL Media, the Anaheim Ducks have placed Cam Fowler and Robby Fabbri on Injury Reserve




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Breaking Down Vancouver Canucks Top Prospect Jonathan Lekkerimäki's NHL Debut

Jonathan Lekkerimäki made his NHL debut in the Vancouver Canucks' 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames.




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Sabres defenseman Samuelsson out indefinitely with lower-body injury; Thompson, Luukkonen day to day

Mattias Samuelsson is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury and coach Lindy Ruff called the severity of the injury “pretty strong.”




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Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the 1950s and 1960s




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Americans Fell in Love With Science When the Breathtaking Leonid Meteor Shower Lit Up the Skies Across the Nation

In 1833, hundreds of thousands of shooting stars inspired songs, prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins of meteors




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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that the data could have been affected by a solar wind event




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How to See the Stunning Leonid Meteor Shower This Weekend

Though the nearly full moon will likely outshine some of these speedy meteors, you may still be able to catch a glimpse of bright fireballs and low Earth-grazers




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Former Crown lawyer files Charter challenge over workers' compensation system

A former Crown prosecutor is bringing a Charter challenge against the Nova Scotia government and the Workers’ Compensation Board over the province’s limit on compensation for injured workers after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder due to his job.



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Yukon gov't again reports emissions down per resident, while total emissions continue to climb

Carbon emissions across the territory continue to rise, states the Yukon government's latest progress report on Our Clean Future, its climate change strategy. But per-person emissions have gone down.



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Yellowknife council weighs in on whether to reprimand councillor for ethics violation

Several Yellowknife city councillors say they're in favour of publicly reprimanding a councillor who violated the code of ethics by trying to get the city to reimburse them for a laptop they misplaced.



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Town, N.W.T. gov't side with Imperial Oil while Indigenous governments push for environmental assessment

In submissions on the issue, four Indigenous governments argued in favour of the Sahtu Secretariat’s right to refer Imperial Oil to environmental assessment, while the Town of Norman Wells and Northwest Territories government supported Imperial Oil’s application to stop the assessment.



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Montreal area to get 300,000 new trees in push to grow canopy

In an effort to fight climate change, promote biodiversity and reduce heat in summer, the CMM, which groups municipalities in the area, has partnered with a non-profit to find spaces on private and public land for new trees.




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New Jacques-Bizard bridge in Montreal's West Island is now ready for use

The new Jacques-Bizard bridge in Montreal's West Island is now open to traffic. Every day, about 30,000 drivers use the bridge.



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Scant support for higher property taxes in Edmonton, city survey shows

The online survey shows only 16 per cent of respondents are comfortable with further tax increases than what was already approved for the 2023-26 operating and capital budgets. 



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Charlottetown spends over $6 million on 4 new electric transit buses

The City of Charlottetown is getting ready to electrify the transit system in the capital region, but it might be a while before routes are expanded.



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Charlottetown mayor says Myers can't tell council what to do on future of outreach centre site

The mayor of Charlottetown says P.E.I. Housing Minister Steven Myers is trying to usurp his council's power when it comes to a decision about the Community Outreach Centre’s future.



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Less powerful chargers could be enough for many EV drivers, U of C study says

Chargers that draw less power but use more common household electrical sockets could be enough to charge EVs to meet the needs of most drivers, a new School of Public Policy study suggests.



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'Been waiting 46 years': Bruce Springsteen fans on fire for the Boss's 1st Winnipeg show

They weren't exactly dancing in the dark — more like shuffling in the pre-dawn chill to stay warm — but Bruce Springsteen fans in Winnipeg are most certainly in their glory days as the Boss is finally here.



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Dramatic theatre outerwear of centuries past showcased

Elegant cloaks and capes worn by theatre-goers more than 100 years ago are on display at the Costume Museum of Canada in Winnipeg.




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Northern Ontario man and woman arrested following a 3-month-old baby's death

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged two people from the northern Ontario community of King Kirkland in the death of a three-month-old infant in September 2022.



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People living at downtown Guelph homeless encampment asked to move

Written eviction notices handed out to residents of the encampment in Guelph's St. George Square in late October took effect on Wednesday. Unoccupied tents were removed and bylaw officers were waiting for the remaining few residents to leave voluntarily. Doug Godfrey, the general manager of Guelph's operations department, said in an emailed statement that bylaw officers may issue trespass notices to those who choose not to comply with the eviction order. Reporting by Cameron Mahler/CBC.




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Fiery crash on Highway 401 near Mallorytown

A pickup truck crashed and caught fire on Highway 401 between Brockville and Mallorytown Wednesday morning, according to Ontario Provincial Police. Injuries are considered non-life-threatening, OPP said.



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