HD News Plus: August 2021

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

England captain Kane has 'clear conscience' over Man City transfer saga

England captain Harry Kane says he has a "clear conscience" after a potential move to Manchester City from Tottenham Hotspur failed to materialise.

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Taliban demand US diplomats return to Kabul

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Anti-vaxxers forced a mobile COVID-19 vaccine site in Georgia to shut down after threatening health workers: official

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Southwest pilots fed up with pandemic working conditions slam management for sheltering at home while they were 'crammed into hotel shuttles' and cockpits for long hours

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Vaccine mandates are nothing new. Here's how they've been used throughout history.

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Firefighters say the raging Caldor Fire that sparked evacuations in the Lake Tahoe region may not be fully contained until mid-September

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GOP demands accountability over Afghan failings

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Police say Instagram influencer Miss Mercedes Morr was killed in a suspected murder-suicide

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There’s a Better Way to Stop Ransomware Attacks

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Revocatoria a Gavin Newsom: una guía para los votantes

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Let’s Talk About ‘Sellouts’

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Governors DeSantis and Abbott, ‘Undermining Public Health’

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Downed lines are making it hard for Entergy to restore power in Louisiana.

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Transcript: Ezra Klein Answers Listener Questions

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James Whiteside Thinks ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Would Make a Great Ballet

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New Jersey Woman Charged With Selling Fake Vaccine Cards on Instagram

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Hochul directs $65 million for the rollout of booster shots in New York, assuming federal regulators clear them.

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Players Apologize as Mets Try to Move On From Thumbs Down

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The New U.S. Challenge in Afghanistan: Coping With Taliban Rule

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2 killed, at least 10 injured after Mississippi highway collapses

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Is rural America becoming a new Confederacy?

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Remote workers from San Francisco flocked to Lake Tahoe during the pandemic. Now, thousands of people are being forced to evacuate as the Caldor fire bears down on the serene Northern California enclave.

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Monday, 30 August 2021

Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers roast Delta's CEO for refusing to call the virus by name: 'He said from now on, our airline is pronounced Del-TAY''

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Kieran Culkin and his family spent the pandemic in the same 1-bedroom New York City apartment he's lived in since he was 19

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Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake

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I wrote about why I got a COVID vaccination. Then I was fired from my job.

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Man gets life sentence in 2018 killing of Mollie Tibbetts

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Tucker Carlson Lays Into Bisexual Governor Because She Wed a Man

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WATCH: Dramatic videos of Hurricane Ida ravaging Louisiana exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina

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Rand Paul says scientists won't study horse-deworming drug ivermectin's use as a potential COVID cure because of their 'hatred for Trump'

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Taliban offered Kabul to US, but Americans said no: report

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A new plant was supposed to help keep New Orleans’s lights on after storms. It didn’t.

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N.J. will end pandemic unemployment benefits this weekend.

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Here are some ways to help victims of the storm.

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Starbucks Faces Rare Union Challenge as Buffalo Workers Seek Vote

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British number one Konta pulls out of US Open

British number one Johanna Konta pulls out of the US Open, just hours before she was set to play her opening match on Monday.

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Leeds close to £30m deal for Man Utd winger James

Leeds United are closing in on a club record £30m deal to sign Manchester United winger Dan James.

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Driver disregards school bus’s stop arm, kills high-school student, Indiana police say

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Biden and Congress are setting 'a 5-alarm fire' by letting federal unemployment benefits expire in a week as Delta surges

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College Senior Who Bragged About Capitol Riot 'Infamy' Takes Plea Deal

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Lightning captured near Ida's eye before landfall

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The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy

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Vetting Afghan Refugees

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Sunday, 29 August 2021

Ted Cruz says the Biden administration's decision to vacate Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan was a 'political decision' that 'proved catastrophic'

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Flames consume high-rise in Milan; residents evacuated

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Ida makes its way into Houma

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Crews battle to protect Lake Tahoe region from wildfire

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More than 300,000 customers are without power. It could be weeks before they have it back.

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After Katrina, New Orleans became a fortress. Ida is testing its strength.

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is self-isolating

The first minister said she had been identified as a close contact of someone who had tested positive for Covid-19.

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An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired'

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Man grabs gun from dying 24-year-old son’s hands after shootout with off-duty NYPD officers and opens fire

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Watch this live video of Hurricane Ida striking New Orleans

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Hurricane Hunters fly through Ida's Eye

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Among those not surprised by ex-Norfolk Sheriff Bob McCabe’s conviction? His only sibling and oldest son

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Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4

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On the road to Kabul, hundreds of families can’t go home and wait for help.

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Ron DeSantis, How Many Covid Deaths Are Enough?

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As the virus surges in Oregon, counties are asking for mobile morgues to house the dead.

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Ida Strengthened Quickly Into a Monster. Here’s How.

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Winds whip through New Orleans’s deserted streets as the storm bears down.

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The E.U. is set to reimpose travel restrictions on U.S. visitors.

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Meteorologists were amazed by how fast Ida strengthened.

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Caught on camera: Inside the eye of Hurricane Ida as it approaches Louisiana

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Biden pays respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan

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Hellish living conditions are the new Kabul reality

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Saturday, 28 August 2021

Chelsea Proves a Point While Collecting One at Liverpool

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Evacuees from Afghanistan arrive in Virginia, tired, relieved, and worried for those they left behind.

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Afghanistan: Final UK troops leave Kabul

Boris Johnson says the armed forces can be proud they helped more than 15,000 people leave the country.

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Europe migrant crisis: More than 500 people rescued off Italian island

Italian coastguards rescue 539 people from a small fishing boat believed to have set off from Libya.

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Slain Marine who cradled baby at Kabul airport loved her job

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Mountain lion killed after attacking child in California

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Evidence of extensive corrosion in collapsed condo

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Among the Troops WhoDied, Two Women on the Frontline

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Breakthrough Covid cases: Uncommon and often mild, but not always.

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Florida has a worse surge than states with similar vaccination rates. What went wrong?

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Snowdon: Amputee Paul Ellis' 13-hour crawl to reach summit

Paul Ellis, who had both his legs amputated in 2008, says the support of passers-by kept him going.

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A Black former McDonald's manager was denied requests to avoid shifts with a coworker who repeatedly used racist language including the N-word, according to a lawsuit

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Repression Without Borders

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Two Paralympians who were evacuated from Afghanistan arrive in Tokyo.

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How will Ida compare with Katrina?

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Hurricane Nora forms in the Pacific as it moves toward Mexico’s western coast.

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Outside Kabul’s airport, the Taliban patrols as the window for Afghans to flee closes.

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‘Time is not on our side,’ New Orleans mayor warns.

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Reprisal strike killed two ISIS militants and wounded another.

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Manchester City 5-0 Arsenal: Gunners suffer third league defeat in a row

Arsenal's miserable start to the new Premier League campaign continues as the Gunners are beaten 5-0 by Manchester City.

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