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A 9-year-old boy saves toddler from choking on Lifesaver candy

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(CNN)Timothy Prater had seen the YouTube videos. He remembered seeing a poster, too. So when this 9-year-old’s cousin started stomping his feet and holding his throat, Timothy knew just what to do. Timothy remembered watching YouTube videos about the Heimlich, and remembered a poster hanging in Ramer Elementary School’s cafeteria illustrating the steps to save someone from choking. “I just feel happy that he’s alive,” Prather told WREG. “We never know when they’re watching, what they’re picking up on,” Kindergarten teacher Brandi Wardlow told WREG. “To think this little poster…

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Cory Booker Tweet Tells Constituent They Won’t Have to Vote Biden

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Today, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Announcing the news on Twitter, Booker thanked his team, supporters, and everyone who gave me a shot. The body of his campaign hadnt even started to cool before someone dug up an old tweet of him telling a supporter that they wouldnt have to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden. No, you won't. https://t.co/x8E7Mlriue — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 19, 2019 In the tweet from last June, Booker retweeted a voter sadly posting about…

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Fiery crash kills 2 on I-85 near Atlanta

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(CNN)Two people died Saturday morning in a fiery crash on Interstate 85 in suburban Atlanta, according to Gwinnett County police. Two northbound lanes reopened mid-afternoon, and Gwinnett police said on Twitter around 6 p.m. that the other northbound lanes opened and that all roadway repairs were finished. Police have not reported what caused the accident or released details on the two people killed, pending notification of family members. Other wrecks on I-85 in Atlanta have created traffic nightmares. In May 2017, an elevated section of northbound Interstate 85 caught fire…

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‘How do you spell racist? NYPD’: New Yorkers protest growing police action on subways

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Hundreds gathered and some were arrested on Friday, as the city swells police force on subways and buses More than 500 people gathered in New York Citys Grand Central Terminal on Friday night to demonstrate against a growing police presence on the subway. Commuters in the bustling terminal, some agitated, wove through the protest. Others gawked at the spectacle, as demonstrators held signs that read poverty is not a crime and the real farebeaters are on Wall Street and chanted: How do you spell racist? NYPD. Lauren Aratani (@LaurenAratani) Doing…

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The UK Has Broken Eight Temperature Records In The Last Decade

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The Met Office, the United Kingdom’s national weather service, has announced that eight new temperature records have been set in the UK in the last decade (one pending confirmation). That’s more than there were in the three previous decades combined. Meanwhile, only one low-temperature record was set this year. The weather of the British Isles can vary quite a lot so, despite the climate crisis raging on, we shouldn’t expect extreme cold events to just disappear. For example, March 2018 broke the record for the coldest March temperature ever recorded with…

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Prince Harry Reportedly ‘Cut Off’ Many Of Close Friends During Meghan Markle’s Pregnancy – Perez Hilton

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When Prince Harry is out, he’s OUT. That seems to be what we’re learning about him and wife Meghan Markle lately, at least, in regards to their abrupt and A “well-connected” source spoke to People this week about the growing distance between the young Prince and the rest of his fam, sharing an interesting tidbit about how it wasn’t just the royals which he reportedly pulled away from recently. In fact, about six months into Markle’s pregnancy with their son the redhead apparently “cut off” many of his formerly close friends! The insider…

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Church sorry for saying that sex is just for married heterosexuals

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Church of England archbishops acknowledge pastoral guidance jeopardised trust The archbishops of Canterbury and York have apologised over a statement issued by Church of England bishops last week which an open letter saying the guidance had made the C of E a laughing stock, added: We await the evidence that they have truly heard and taken onboard our concerns by what comes out of the Living in Love and Faith report. I along with thousands who signed our letter look forward to understanding what a issued a statement saying I…

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