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Australian politicians won't stop dropping references to Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is currently sending Australia into Tay Tay fever as she tours the country, and it seems the nation's politicians aren't immune.

Take Treasurer Scott Morrison. The minister was responding to media questions Monday regarding whether he had been offered the treasury job by current Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in February, months before the dumping of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott

We won't bore you with the details, but please note the part where the Liberal Party member told reporters to "shake it off" in regards to these events.

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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the globe has been suspended for the foreseeable future.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the globe has been suspended for the time being.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the globe has been suspended for the time being.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the glob has been suspended for the foreseeable future.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must sign on career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and professional football has been suspended for the foreseeable future.




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Man Utd need Jadon Sancho, Harry Kane and Jack Grealish to 'compete at the top', says Alan Shearer

Manchester United must target signing all three of Harry Kane, Jadon Sancho and Jack Grealish in order to compete for silverware, says Alan Shearer.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 wonderkids, cheap players with biggest potential in career mode

With football across the globe on hold, it seems the perfect time to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 career mode wonderkids, cheap players with biggest potential

With football across the globe on pause, it seems the perfect time to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players: The top 100 wonderkids, cheap career mode players with biggest potential

With football across the globe on hold, now seems the perfect time to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 wonderkids, cheap career mode players with biggest potential

So you're cooped up indoors and most of the professional football fixtures across the globe have been suspended for the forseeable future.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 career mode wonderkids, cheap bargains with biggest potential

So you're cooped up indoors and most of the professional football fixtures across the globe have been suspended for the forseeable future.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 wonderkids, cheap career mode bargains with biggest potential

So you're cooped up indoors and most of the professional football fixtures across the globe have been suspended for the time being.




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Eredivisie cancelled: No title for Ajax with no promotion or relegation from Dutch football's top league

The 2019/20 Eredivisie season has been cancelled, meaning Duch league leaders Ajax will miss out on the title.




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Manchester United target Jadon Sancho 'nowhere near' world's elite in Gary Neville's NFL draft-style top 10

The former United captain believes Sancho has potential, but says English players are generally overhyped




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Fifa 20 wonderkids: Top 100 career mode future stars, cheap young players with best potential

With football across the globe on hold, it seems the perfect moment to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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Fifa 20 wonderkids: Top 100 career mode future stars, cheap young players with most potential

With football across the globe on hold, it seems the perfect moment to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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Fifa 20 wonderkids: Top 100 career mode future stars, cheap young players with most potential

With football across the globe on hold, it seems the perfect moment to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players to sign: Top 100 career mode wonderkids, cheap buys with best potential

With football across the globe on pause, it seems the ideal moment to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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Liverpool success and football stoppage may convince Jurgen Klopp to delay retirement, says Guillem Balague

Liverpool's success combined with the current enforced break from football may have convinced Jurgen Klopp to prolong any future retirement plans, according to football journalist Guillem Balague.




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Real Madrid fan trumpets stirring rendition of club anthem from rooftop in Spanish capital

A trumpet-playing Real Madrid fan has won applause in the street and now online with his rendition of the club's La Decima song during lockdown in the Spanish capital.




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Damien Comolli on Liverpool transfer strategy which helps them find value at top end of market

Liverpool are benefiting from an analytics-led transfer policy that helps them find value even at the top end of the market, the club's former director of football Damien Comolli has declared.




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Arsenal boast 'three of top 10 teenagers in the world'

Arsenal boast three of the top 10 teenage superstars in world football, according to work compiled by Football Talent Scout.




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Andy Robertson would 'love to pull on the Celtic top' if he doesn't get the chance to retire at Liverpool

Andy Robertson insists he wants to retire at Liverpool but hasn't ruled out joining Celtic at the end of his career.




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What to Watch This Weekend: Our Top Binge Picks for May 9-10

Any big weekend plans? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Every weekend, E! is giving you the top binge picks, including new and old TV series, movies and specials. And this...




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Tyra Banks Breaks Her Silence on Problematic America's Next Top Model Moments

Tyra Banks agrees that America's Next Top Model has aged, well, poorly. The Sports Illustrated covergirl and host of ANTM came under fire this week when resurfaced clips from the...




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The world stopped another Chernobyl by working together. Coronavirus demands the same | Serhii Plokhy

The pandemic reminds me of a different invisible enemy. Once again, coordinated action is the only effective response

Deja vu. In recent days I’ve had that sense more than once. Every time I come home, remove my mask and wash my hands, I start thinking whether it is safe to keep on wearing the clothes that I had on outside. What if they are contaminated by the virus? Well, I can change clothes, but what if the particles have already jumped somewhere else, and are now in my home? Some would call it paranoia. I call it deja vu. I recognise those thoughts and remember the feelings.

That is because I first experienced them more than 30 years ago, in May 1986, on a trip to Kyiv, then the capital of Soviet Ukraine. It was a few weeks after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, and I was in the city – about 100km from the disaster area – on a business trip. We already knew that there was radiation in the air. Water trucks were spraying the streets, foreign students were leaving the city, and overseas broadcasters like the BBC were telling us to stay inside. But our own government was sending confusing and distressing messages: there is absolutely no danger, but make sure you keep children inside, and pregnant women too. Oh, and close your windows when you are at home.

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Forest fire season is coming. How can we stop the Amazon burning?

The Guardian investigates fire in the state of Pará - to reveal the loopholes that allow deforestation to be legitimised

We found the first fire without looking, crackling and roaring on farmland beside the busy Amazon highway, the flames consuming a road sign with its name – BR-163 – lying in the grass. Trucks thundered past, ferrying soya and corn from the agricultural heartlands of Brazil’s central-west to the ports of Santarém and Miritituba. Nobody was around.

Every year fires roar across the Amazon, and in just a few months they will be here again. But last August the number of blazes reached a nine-year high, and sparked an international crisis for Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. Months later, their traces hung over the forests in the Amazon state of Pará, leaving blackened logs and charred tree stumps where there was once rainforest.

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'Avengers: Endgame' tops 'Star Wars,' breaks previous pre-sale record

'Avengers: Endgame' tops 'Star Wars,' breaks previous pre-sale record originally appeared on goodmorningamerica.com"Avengers: Endgame" tickets went on sale Tuesday and just like Thanos' famous snap, they were gone just like that. But way more than half.Fandango is reporting that "Endgame" has broken its pre-sale records, topping the previous holder, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."(MORE: New 'Avengers: Endgame' trailer features Captain Marvel, the battle to beat Thanos)Guess the force is strong with Earth's mightiest heroes. ...





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‘Murder Hornets’ in the U.S.: The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet

Sightings of the Asian giant hornet have prompted fears that the vicious insect could establish itself in the United States and devastate bee populations.




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Top GOP lawmaker disclosed holdings in Chinese company he criticized

Rep. Mike McCaul was tapped on to head a GOP House panel scrutinizing China. Disclosures show his family holds stock in a Chinese internet company.




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McCarthy embraces ex-rival Jordan as the top partisan fighter

Despite their clashes in past, the two Trump allies find themselves in alignment now.




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Top career intelligence official departs ODNI

Deirdre Walsh confirmed her departure as chief operating officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday.




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Newsom finally endorses Biden at virtual campaign event for top-dollar donors

The California governor, who previously endorsed Sen. Kamala Harris, had yet to formally throw his support behind Biden.




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Mafia Pic ‘The Traitor’ Tops Italy’s David di Donatello Awards

Marco Bellocchio’s mafia movie The Traitor topped last night’s David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s national film awards, scooping six prizes including Best Film. The movie also won Director for Bellocchio, Screenplay, Actor for Pierfrancesco Favino, Supporting Actor for Luigi Lo Cascio, and Best Editing. It premiered at Cannes last year before going on to gross […]




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Socceroos legend Tim Cahill inspired by 11yo told he'll be too small to be a top player

Tim Cahill may be Australia's all-time leading goal scorer, but the Socceroos legend has been inspired by a young player who was also told he won't make a top-ranked team because of his size.




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Qantas flight makes history by touching down in Sydney after flying 19 hours non-stop from New York

The Qantas flight, which landed in Sydney on Sunday morning, is the first in a series of trials of "ultra" long-haul trips which could become reality by 2022.



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If police stop and search you, do you know your basic rights?

Whether you are dealing with a noise complaint or being asked for ID, having a grasp of your basic rights when dealing with the police can help.




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ASUS adds new Intel chips to its Zephyrus gaming laptops

ASUS has refreshed its line of gaming laptops with new 10th Generation Intel Core processors, NVIDIA RTX 2070/2080 Super graphics and a bunch of other features designed to make gaming and content creation slicker and smoother. First up, the new Zephyrus S17 (pictured), which comes with a 17.3-inch display with super narrow bezels in an 18.7-millimeter-thin chassis. A 300 Hz refresh rate and 3ms grey-to-grey response time means the display is lightning fast, and it comes with Pantone-validated color accuracy as well.




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Acer gaming laptops add RTX Super graphics and 10th-gen Intel CPUs

Acer is joining a flurry of PC makers in adopting the next wave of NVIDIA and Intel chips inside its laptops. It's updating its 15.6-inch Predator Triton 500 (above) and Nitro 5 (below) gaming portables to use NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX Super laptop GPUs as well as Intel's 10th-generation Core H-series processors. As you might guess, the premium Predator series is the highlight. It comes with up to a GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q to deliver speedier and more efficient graphics, and mates that with a 300Hz, 3ms response IPS display and per-key RGB keyboard lighting.




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ASUS' ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 is a gaming laptop with a built-in second screen

ASUS has been pushing laptops with second screens for a couple of years now, but it's still searching for a winning formula. Last year's ZenBook Pro Duo pushed the keyboard down to the edge of the laptop's body, with the rest of the surface housing a second screen. The problem with that configuration was an awkwardly placed trackpad. But, you know who cares less about trackpad placement? Gamers. Hence, almost a year later, the company's Republic Of Gamers (ROG) division has its own spin on the concept: the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15.




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Intel's 10th-gen H-series laptop CPUs reach 5.3GHz

Just like Intel said at CES, it's crossed the 5GHz barrier with its new H-series 10th generation notebook CPUs. And you won't need to shell out for the top-of-the-line Core i9 to do it: The new six and eight-core i7 processors reach up to 5.1Ghz (boost speed) on a single core. But if you want to go all out, the octa-core i9-10980HK hits 5.3GHz -- and it's fully unlocked for overclocking, to boot.




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Lenovo's latest gaming laptops pack more efficient NVIDIA graphics

Lenovo is leaping quickly on the latest NVIDIA and Intel technology for its gaming laptops. It's introducing Legion 5i and Legion 7i portables (successors to the Y540 and Y740 respectively) that, most notably, are among the first to use NVIDIA's Advanced Optimus graphics switching. The tech both lowers power consumption in less-intensive moments and ramps up performance in GPU-heavy situations, theoretically giving you added battery life and higher frame rates in the same package. The Legion 7i also touts the option of new GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics if you insist on the best possible visuals.




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Megan Thee Stallion Secures First Top 10 Hit With "Savage"



"I really want to cry right now like oh my god!!!!"




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Black State Legislator Says He Was Unfairly Stopped By Cop



Rep. Kam Buckner wants this to be a teachable moment.




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I got into character and didn’t know where to stop: Gulki Joshi on Zee Theatre’s Purush




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Microsoft will fix Surface Laptop 3 'hairline fractures' for free

Microsoft will repair Surface Laptop 3 screens for free, particularly those that suddenly cracked for no discernible reason. Surface owners have been posting online about discovering hairline cracks on their new laptops’ display over the past few mon...




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Gregor Chisholm: Father still knows best as Jays shortstop Bo Bichette prepares for his sophomore season


It helps to have a former big-leaguer as a dad if you want to stay sharp during a pandemic.




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Coronavirus won't stop 'The Last of Us Part 2' after all. Did a leak get the game a June release?

The game about survivors after a deadly virus gets a release date. Sony had delayed 'The Last Of Us Part 2' due to COVID-19. Then came a leak.




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Rams' top draft pick, running back Cam Akers, proclaims he can be 'game-changer'

Rams' top draft pick, Cam Akers, says he has 'big boy pants on' and can handle all the roles of a running back in the NFL.