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Twitter suspends spoiler account for ‘Wordle’ answer reveal

Web game wordle asks players to guess a five-letter word in six tries every day San Francisco (AFP) – Twitter suspended a bot account on Wednesday for spoiling the solution to the next day’s Wordle, the wildly popular internet word

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Iran is undergoing a mass vaccination campaign as omicron looms

Iran has found a rare, if fleeting, respite from the anxiety and trauma of the pandemic. (Image credit: Vahid Salemi/AP)

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Amy Schneider’s Jeopardy! Streak Ends at 40 Consecutive Wins and $1.4 Million

(LOS ANGELES) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider’s dazzling streak is over, snapped Wednesday by a Chicago librarian after 40 consecutive wins and nearly $1.4 million in prize money. Schneider’s success put her in the ranks of Ken Jennings, who’s serving

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Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire, letting Biden pick successor – Reuters

Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire, letting Biden pick successor  Reuters Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire after this term  CBS News Biden said he’d put a Black woman on the Supreme Court. Here’s who he may pick to

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Prince Andrew Demands Jury Trial in Sex-Abuse Suit

The British royal formally denied allegations that he sexually assaulted Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre when she was a teen.

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‘Ball is in Russia’s court’: US responds to Moscow’s security demands over Ukraine amid fears of invasion

The US has given Russia its written responses to a set of security demands by Moscow over Ukraine and NATO amid fears President Putin’s troops could invade the country.

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‘We won’t panic until the Russian tanks arrive’: Ukrainians taking invasion threat in their stride

They are taking the latest twists and turns in the diplomatic crisis over Ukraine in their stride here in the country’s capital.

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A bomb cyclone with the power of a hurricane will unleash snow and blizzard-like conditions this weekend – CNN

A bomb cyclone with the power of a hurricane will unleash snow and blizzard-like conditions this weekend  CNN First look: How much snow might fall this weekend?  WMUR-TV Nasty nor’easter could slam the Northeast & New England this weekend with as much

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Vacancy to Give Biden His First Chance to Nominate a Justice

Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire, people familiar with the decision said. President Biden has pledged to appoint a Black woman. Democrats, who control the Senate by a narrow margin, may

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