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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Bodies Piled High, Whatever Boris Johnson Said</strong> - The Prime Minister is known for his gaffes, but it’s hard to minimize the grief of the family members of those lost to COVID-19. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-bodies-piled-high-whatever-boris-johnson-said">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bargaining with China Today to Save the World Tomorrow</strong> - As climate czar, John Kerry has been tasked with a moral balancing act that few leaders have ever faced. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bargaining-with-china-today-to-save-the-world-tomorrow">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s Speech Offers an Alternative Vision for Democrats to Love</strong> - The President, channelling his inner Elizabeth Warren, pitches an American utopia after a dystopian plague year. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/bidens-speech-offers-an-alternate-reality-for-democrats-to-love-after-four-years-of-trumpian-fantasy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang, in Mandarin</strong> - The New Yorker translates its recent report on China’s mass internment of Uyghurs and Kazakhs. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang-in-mandarin">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Watch Highlights from “How Memes Become Money”</strong> - The latest installment of The New Yorker Live examined how Internet culture is influencing the economy, and what that might mean for financial inequality, art, and the environment. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/watch-highlights-from-how-memes-become-money">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The J&J vaccine isn’t causing nausea and fainting, anxiety is</strong> -
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<img alt="Vials of vaccine sitting on a wooden surface." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Cf1F_QDK1IOkSEg6H_Gc_htOrh4=/241x0:4085x2883/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69219771/1232604888.0.jpg"/>
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Vials of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. | Dirk Waem/Belga Mag/AFP/Getty Images
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CDC suspects anxiety as the culprit for negative effects in needle-averse people.
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A new <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7018e3.htm?s_cid=mm7018e3_w">report</a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that anxiety is to blame for a series of adverse effects from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, rather than the shot itself.
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From April 7 to 9, the CDC received reports of “clusters of anxiety-related events” after patients received the J&J<strong> </strong>vaccine, including hyperventilation, low blood pressure, headaches, difficulty breathing, lightheadedness, nausea, and fainting, among others, at five mass vaccination sites.
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At four of those sites, administrators temporarily suspended offering coronavirus vaccines due to the high relative frequency of patients fainting — 8.2 people per 100,000, according to the CDC. For comparison, 0.05 people per 100,000<strong> </strong>faint after receiving an influenza vaccine.
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After conducting interviews with the 64 patients (out of 8,624) who displayed those symptoms, the CDC concluded that none of the cases met their definition of serious side effects, and the majority were resolved within 15 minutes. The researchers attributed the symptoms to anxiety rather than any discrepancies between the J&J<strong> </strong>vaccine and its Pfizer and Moderna counterparts.
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In fact, the main difference between Johnson & Johnson — also known as the Janssen vaccine — and the other vaccines is that it only requires one dose, which the CDC hypothesized could be the source of increased anxiety around it.
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“Because the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine is administered as a single dose, this vaccine might be a more attractive option for persons who have needle aversion,” the report said. “Therefore, it is possible that some persons seeking Janssen COVID-19 vaccination could be more highly predisposed to anxiety-related events after being vaccinated.”
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Fainting events were mostly highly concentrated among the youngest eligible group — those aged 18 to 29. The report found that to be expected, considering adolescents have the highest rates of dizziness and fainting after other vaccines.
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The CDC recommended vaccine administrators observe patients for at least 15 minutes after injection, in order to monitor them for anxiety-related effects.
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The adverse effects described in the study are unrelated to the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/health/cdc-johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-reactions-mmwr-study/index.html">17 cases of patients developing blood clots</a>, which led to a nationwide pause of the J&J<strong> </strong>vaccine’s usage in mid-April. The CDC found those instances to be extremely rare, and, along with the FDA, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22399353/johnson-covid-19-vaccine-pause-cdc-fda-blood-clots-cvst">lifted the pause</a> after 10 days. The vaccine now carries a warning for women under 50 regarding the risk of developing a blood clot.
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Biden restricts travel from India as the coronavirus surges
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The US vaccination campaign recently hit a milestone, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/us/politics/us-100-million-vaccinated.html">over 100 million people</a> are fully vaccinated, representing a near doubling since the end of March. And while the case count is dropping in the US, with the daily average at<strong> </strong>its <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-cases-dropping/2021/04/30/0f0bb988-a845-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html">lowest total since mid-October</a>, global virus cases reached a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/01/world/virus-cases-world-peak.html">new peak last week</a>, per the New York Times.
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Much of the surge is being driven by a second wave in India, which now accounts for over 40 percent of the world’s new cases, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/01/world/virus-cases-world-peak.html">the Times</a>. As <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/22403722/india-covid-19-vaccine-variant-cases-coronavirus">Jen Kirby and Umair Irfam reported for Vox</a>, Indian hospitals desperately need oxygen, ventilators, beds, and vaccines, with less than 2 percent of the country fully vaccinated.
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The Biden administration has promised to send supplies, including raw materials for vaccine manufacturing, though some experts have called for intellectual property rules to be waived for coronavirus vaccines so that India, a global manufacturing leader, can catch up. The administration is <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/22403722/india-covid-19-vaccine-variant-cases-coronavirus">considering that option</a>, but in the meantime, the US will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/us-india-travel-restrictions/index.html">impose restrictions on travel</a> from India beginning Tuesday.
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In a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/us-india-travel-restrictions/index.html">statement to CNN</a>, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the high case count in India, as well as potential new variants, drove the creation of the policy. Foreign nationals who have been in India over the past 14 days will be temporarily barred from entering the United States. The rule will not apply to American citizens, permanent residents, and humanitarian workers.
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<li><strong>Mysterious Havana syndrome attacks are now documented in the US</strong> -
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<img alt="Intelligence Chiefs Brief Senate On Worldwide Threats To National Security" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EoaNvKp0Z8QBZNX3mcQZF8JaQhI=/0x0:3569x2677/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69219303/1232306860.0.jpg"/>
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) speaks at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill. | Saul Loeb/Getty Images
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating events that are targeting US spies and diplomats.
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Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed cases of the mysterious “Havana syndrome” — instances of neurological harm to US personnel from direct energy attacks — are on the rise, in a Friday hearing. Over the past two years, two attacks have occurred in the US — including one in close proximity to the White House.
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Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), the chair and vice chair of the committee, respectively, said in a statement that they plan to investigate the pattern of attacks and work with the CIA to identify who is behind them.
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Havana syndrome refers to a series of invisible attacks against US personnel, first reported in 2016 in Havana, Cuba, when US diplomats began to experience neurological problems such as insomnia and vertigo. Since then, about 40 government officials, mostly employed by the CIA or State Department, have been attacked, reports <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/551205-senate-intel-vows-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-havana-syndrome-attacks?rl=1">the Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch</a>, with sometimes debilitating symptoms.
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The majority of the attacks have been against officials stationed in other countries. But federal agencies are also investigating two neurological attacks that occurred on US soil, including one from November of last year that occurred alarmingly close to the White House, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/us-investigating-mysterious-directed-energy-attack-white-house/index.html">according to CNN</a>.
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The other attack occurred in 2019, against a White House official in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/us-investigating-mysterious-directed-energy-attack-white-house/index.html">per CNN</a>.
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Warner and Rubio committed to work with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-confirms-burns-cia-director/2021/03/18/dcdce4ae-881f-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html">recently-confirmed CIA director</a>, William Burns, who they say has dedicated agency focus to the attacks, as well as to provide medical and financial support for victims.
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“For nearly five years, we have been aware of reports of mysterious attacks on United States Government personnel in Havana, Cuba and around the world,” they said in <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=7D068456-8BBE-4FDF-9878-A40732593732">a statement</a>. “This pattern of attacking our fellow citizens serving our government appears to be increasing.”
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“The Senate Intelligence Committee intends to get to the bottom of this,” the statement<strong> </strong>continued. “We have already held fact finding hearings on these debilitating attacks, many of which result in medically confirmed cases of Traumatic Brain Injury, and will do more.”
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What is Havana syndrome?
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A US government <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/business/economy/havana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html?referringSource=articleShare">report</a> from the National Academy of Sciences on the attacks found commonalities among the victims, including nausea, headaches, dizziness, and loss of hearing, occasionally severe enough to force some into<strong> </strong>early retirement. The report found that directed radio frequency energy, a form of radiation that also includes microwaves, is behind the attacks, giving credence to the theory that a foreign entity is behind them.
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Some in the intelligence community believe Russia is the culprit, which <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/12/6/22156988/havana-syndrome-micowave-weapons-report">Vox’s Zeeshan Aleem explained in December</a>:
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The timeline of the incidents, the plausible explanation of microwave weapons, and the specific locations in which they occurred have raised questions of whether Russia is behind them.
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In 2018, US intelligence officials <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latin-america/u-s-officials-suspect-russia-mystery-attacks-diplomats-cuba-china-n908141">described Russia</a> as the primary suspect behind what they believed to be attacks in Cuba and China. Russia has denied any involvement. NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/havana-syndrome-likely-caused-microwave-energy-government-study-finds-n1250094">reports</a> that, now or then, no conclusive intelligence has pointed to that explanation. However, the Times notes a number of Russia experts at the CIA believe that all evidence points to the country being behind the illnesses.
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In the past, both Russia and the former Soviet Union have used <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/business/economy/havana-syndrome-microwave-attack.html?referringSource=articleShare">microwave weaponry</a>, including against the US. In the 1970s and 1980s, the USSR <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/30/archives/soviet-halts-microwaves-aimed-at-us-embassy.html">bombarded</a> the American embassy with microwave beams.
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In his confirmation hearing, Burns addressed the attacks, saying he planned to review evidence. House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff also committed to using his committee to continue to investigate, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/directed-energy-attacks-senate-intelligence/index.html">according to CNN</a>.
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Additionally, <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/551205-senate-intel-vows-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-havana-syndrome-attacks?rl=1">the Hill reports</a>, the CIA has launched a task force to provide support to victims of past and future attacks.
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The Senate Intelligence leaders also committed to holding perpetrators accountable, while acknowledging the current focus is on gathering more information about how the radiation technology works.
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“Ultimately, we will identify those responsible for these attacks on American personnel and will hold them accountable,” the statement said.
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Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. | Rey Del Rio/Getty Images
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Federal investigators are looking into Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine as potential evidence of criminal conduct.
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Federal law enforcement is ramping up their investigation into Rudy Giuliani, leaving other allies of former President Donald Trump on alert.
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Giuliani was formerly Trump’s personal lawyer, and became one of his most loyal defenders, becoming a central figure in Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Now, he may be paying the price for that loyalty. On Wednesday, FBI<strong> </strong>agents, armed with search warrants, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/rudy-giuliani-trump-investigation-warrant-7a413e1bbb819cb52cd402d64a982185">raided his home and office</a> in Manhattan, seizing electronic devices.
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Giuliani is currently the focus of an ongoing criminal probe from the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, centering on his business dealings in Ukraine and potential illegal activity involving his efforts to investigate Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. Wednesday’s raid confirms the seriousness of the investigation, which required Justice Department approval due to Giuliani’s status as a lawyer. The raid clarified the potential for Giuliani, and perhaps other Trump figures, to face federal charges.
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The investigation hinges on Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine
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Investigators are looking for evidence related to Giuliani’s role in the firing of Marie Yovanovitch, Trump’s former ambassador to Ukraine and a central figure in his first impeachment trial, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/nyregion/giuliani-yovanovitch-search-warrant-ukraine.html">according to the New York Times</a>. Yovanovitch was ousted in 2019 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/yovanovitch-trump-ukraine-ambassador.html">at the behest of Giuliani</a>, who felt she was standing in the way of his attempts to find damaging information on the Biden family.
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That saga played out as a small part of the larger impeachment probe regarding Trump’s conduct with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Yovanovitch <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/4/20948280/impeachment-transcripts-marie-yovanovitch">testified in 2019</a> that Giuliani was working with Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, asking him to open inquiries into political<strong> </strong>enemies including Hunter Biden — related to his time on the board of a Ukrainian energy company — and initiating a smear campaign against her when she attempted to follow protocol in arranging meetings between Ukrainian and American law enforcement officials.
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Now, the Justice Department is investigating whether Giuliani’s conduct in that situation, and other events in Ukraine, were a violation of federal lobbying laws, according to the Times. Lobbying the US government at the behest of a foreign official without registering the activity with the Justice Department — a registration Giuliani never made — is a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Giuliani went on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rudy-giuliani-reacts-fbi-raid-apartment-hunter-biden-ukraine">Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show</a> Thursday night to dispute the claims against him.
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“I never represented a Ukrainian national or official before the United States government,” he said. “I’ve declined it several times. I’ve had contracts in countries like Ukraine. In the contract is a clause that says I will not engage in lobbying or foreign representation. I don’t do it because I felt it would be too compromising.”
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Giuliani also claimed to have hard drives from Hunter Biden’s laptop that the agents were uninterested in despite his pleas; said he could have destroyed any evidence at any time over the last two years in which he has known about the probe; and asserted that the Justice Department, under Biden, was making up a case against him. He called on the officials overseeing his investigation to be investigated themselves, likening the situation to “East Berlin before the wall fell.”
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Robert Costello, Giuliani’s lawyer, said <a href="https://rudygiulianics.com/2021/04/28/statement-by-robert-j-costello-on-april-28-2021/">in a statement</a> that the investigation was evidence of a “double standard” in which the Justice Department will investigate prominent Trump supporters but will not open inquiries into Democrats such as Hunter Biden, whom he accused of “blatant,” though unsubstantiated, crimes.
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Agents also obtained a warrant for the phone of Victoria Toensing, a lawyer who collaborated with Giuliani on efforts to investigate the Bidens in Ukraine. Toensing handed over her phone on Wednesday morning, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/rudy-giulianis-new-york-apartment-searched-by-federal-investigators-11619628650">according to the Wall Street Journal</a>.
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The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/rudy-giuliani-trump-ukraine-warrant.html">New York Times has reported</a> that in addition to Giuliani’s dealings regarding Yovanovitch, federal investigators are looking into his conversations with Lutsenko regarding a draft retainer for legal consulting services that eventually fell through. The investigation hinges on whether or not Giuliani was solely representing Trump in his dealings with Ukrainians, or if he was also working on behalf of Ukrainian officials and business associates’ interests.
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The raid is a major escalation of the federal investigation into Giuliani, and represents a serious willingness by the Justice Department to look into the shadowy dealings of Trump figures. Considering Giuliani is a lawyer protected in his dealings with Trump by attorney-client privilege on some level, the fact that investigators obtained a warrant indicates the high-level nature of the investigation and the potential for consequences of the informal relationships between Trump figures. Giuliani’s work for Trump was often done informally — limiting the scope of what attorney-client privilege can protect.
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Sources close to the former president <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/giuliani-raid-donald-trump-inner-circle/index.html">told CNN</a> that the raid on Giuliani has left them uneasy about what else the Justice Department might be investigating.
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Former Trump lawyer Michael<strong> </strong>Cohen, who pled guilty to charges of tax fraud, false statements to a bank, and campaign finance violations, flipped on his former boss in 2018. On CNN, he said he expected Giuliani to eventually do the same.
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“Prior to Donald becoming president, Rudy didn’t like Donald and Donald didn’t like Rudy,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/giuliani-raid-donald-trump-inner-circle/index.html">Cohen said on CNN</a>. “He certainly doesn’t want to follow my path down into a 36-month sentence.”
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indain Premier League 2021 | Buttler strikes maiden IPL century, powers RR to competitive total</strong> - Sunrisers Hyderabad made three changes while Rajasthan Royals two in their playing XI.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indian Premier League | Star-studded RCB stand in way of KKR revival</strong> - Royal Challengers Bangalore lost two in last three matches while Kolkata suffered five defeats in seven matches.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>COVID-19 surge | RCB promises financial help for oxygen support, to also raise funds</strong> - RCB players will be sporting a special Blue jersey in one of the upcoming matches and will also auction all the signed player jerseys from this game to raise money</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Former national selector Kishan Rungta dies of COVID-19</strong> - Rungta served as a national selector from Central Zone in 1998. He played 59 first class games between 1953 to 1970, scoring 2717 runs.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Delhi’s veteran football administrator and Hindustan FC owner DK Bose dead</strong> - Bose was part of Executive Committee of the then Delhi Soccer Association for many years</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Defectors turn game changers in Puducherry</strong> - Among the clutch of leaders who quit the Congress were A. Namassivayam, former Minister and second-in-command in the Narayanasamy Cabinet, and A. John Kumar, with a reputation of massive victory margins, who joined the BJP.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Samyukt Kisan Morcha welcomes mandate against BJP</strong> - Results prove that the people have rejected divisive communal politics, it says</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>West Bengal election results | Congratulations pour in as Mamata Banerjee wins Nandigram</strong> - Wishes poured in from various quarters as the Trinamool Congress chief is set to form a government in the State for a third time.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Analysis | BJP faces organisational challenges post polls</strong> - Impact of setback in West Bengal, COVID wave on U.P. and Gujarat elections next years</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>West Bengal Assembly polls | Kolkatans borrow from Satyajit Ray to celebrate Mamata’s massive win</strong> - Mamata Banerjee was being hailed as ‘Aparajito’ (The Unvanquished) who had no ‘Pratidwandi’ (Rival) — both titles of Ray movies.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Spain’s far-right Vox eye share of power in Madrid</strong> - A rancorous election in the Spanish capital highlights the country’s deeply divided politics.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>May Day protests: Turkey arrests hundreds as rallies sweep globe</strong> - Violence flares in some countries where rallies to mark Labour Day are held despite Covid-19 rules.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple charged over ‘anti-competitive’ app policies</strong> - The tech giant faces a huge fine and may be forced to make changes to the App Store.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bronze Age treasure found in Swedish forest by mapmaker</strong> - A man stumbled on ancient jewellery while surveying a forest for his orienteering club.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Haiti: Seven abducted Catholic clergy released</strong> - The case led to the resignation of the government in Haiti, where kidnappings have surged recently.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How one naughty bird cheats with fancy feather structures</strong> - Male tanager birds have more than way to make their colors really pop for the ladies - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761656">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Four astronauts make first nighttime landing in the ocean since 1968</strong> - “I would just like to say, quite frankly, y’all are changing the world.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761816">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>White House says Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the space council</strong> - “I think her approach to this is just going to be to get the job done.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761787">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What became of 2009’s Left 4 Dead 2 boycott? Here’s the inside story</strong> - In gaming since <em>L4D2</em>, fan campaigns have even pressured devs to release entirely new endings. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761388">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An ambitious plan to tackle ransomware faces long odds</strong> - Heavyweight task force proposes framework to tackle a major cybersecurity problem. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1761651">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>My dentist told me “This might hurt a little bit. Are you ready?”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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He said “I’m sleeping with your wife.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MudakMudakov"> /u/MudakMudakov </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/n2kuv6/as_i_slipped_my_finger_slowly_inside_her_hole_i/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/n2kuv6/as_i_slipped_my_finger_slowly_inside_her_hole_i/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>There is nothing worse than a doctors receptionist who insists you tell her what is wrong with you in a room full of patients</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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A 65-year-old man walked into a crowded waiting room and approached the desk.
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The Receptionist said, ‘Yes sir, what are you seeing the Doctor for today?’
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‘There’s something wrong with my dick’, he replied.
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The receptionist became irritated and said, ‘You shouldn’t come into a crowded waiting room and say things like that.’
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‘Why not, you asked me what was wrong and I told you,’ he said.
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The Receptionist replied; ‘Now you’ve caused some embarrassment in this room full of people. You should have said there is something wrong with your ear or something and discussed the problem further with the Doctor in private.’
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The man replied, ’You shouldn’t ask people questions in a roomful of strangers, if the answer could embarrass anyone. The man walked out, waited several minutes, and then re-entered.
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The Receptionist smiled smugly and asked, ‘Yes??’
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‘There’s something wrong with my ear,’ he stated.
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The Receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing he had taken her advice.. ‘And what is wrong with your ear, Sir?’
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‘I can’t piss out of it,’ he replied.
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Death announces that he has to go and speak to St Peter and do the paperwork, so the man is left alone for a while in Death’s office.
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He thinks to himself about what he wants to do when he gets there, he could eat all of the delicious foods he never got to try on earth, he could drive the best sports cars he could imagine, he could even be a care-free child again.
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He lingers on that final thought for a moment, it’s so appealing to him to be able to run around, play, be silly, with nobody judging him. He gets excited, and stands up.
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Death walks back into the office, just in time to see the man bouncing on the sofa. He asks “WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?” to which the man replies “I’m having the time of my life, or should I say time of my death?” Just as he finishes speaking, the sofa tears open, and the man falls all the way through. Death is furious and screams “DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE THAT WAS!? I HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO EARTH NOW TO GET A NEW ONE”. The man sheepishly apologises.
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Death asks the man to stand up, and they begin their journey to the afterlife. As they arrive, Death says to the man “GO INSIDE, THEY WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO FROM HERE”. He obliges.
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“Hell!?” the man splutters. "But I was told I was going to heaven, there must have been some kind of mistake!“
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“Unfortunately that is not the case. You see, in life, you were a good man, however in death, you have behaved recklessly and with no consideration for the reaper cushions.”
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The Englishman boasts he’s gotten laid with 27 different partners this year.
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