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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Ad keyword matching is a long-standing & well-known process that is designed to connect people to relevant ads: support.google.com/google-ads/a... A separate process, which has nothing to do with ads, is used to match organic results to a query, as explained here: www.google.com/search/howse...
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
An opinion piece recently appeared stating Google “just flat out deletes queries & replaces them with ones that monetize better.” We don’t. The piece contains serious inaccuracies about how Google Search works. The organic (non-sponsored) results you see in Search are not affected by our ads systems
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
On Wednesday, we released an update to our spam detections systems that will improve our coverage in many languages and spam types. Learn more here: developers.google.com/search/blog/...
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October 2023 Spam Update  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Today we released the October 2023 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/incidents/VK...
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Google Search Status Dashboard
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
There's an ongoing issue that's delaying the indexing of newly published content. We're working on identifying the root cause. You can monitor progress here on the Google Search Status Dashboard: status.search.google.com/incidents/hJ...
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Did you know Google Search is updated thousands of times per year? It's all part of our work to improve Search. From our archives, learn more about the processes we use test and evaluate these updates: blog.google/products/sea...
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Someone asked me for examples of how I bring feedback people have outside Google back into Google. Good question. Here's a fresh one. After the discussions I've had over the past two weeks, I compiled a write-up covering themes, thoughts and concerns that were shared with the search team. A sampling
I’ll begin with something that’s not really a concern they have but the core cause of problems. Everyone is doing things for us. If you tell someone to make people-first content, it’s not uncommon they fall back into thinking how they show us – Google – that it’s people first. “So you’re saying I should have an author bio to rank better?” No! They should have bios because their own readers would expect that!

This is probably the fundamental stumbling block so many have. It’s also understandable. They want to be found on Google, so they want to please Google, and the concept that the best way to please us is to actually not think about us is difficult to grasp. But it would be well worth the effort for us to find new ways to approach this and reiterate this guidance.

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We also need to recognize that our search results are, indeed, an effective part of our documentation. People do look at them to see what works – or what they can get away with. Our guidance even encourages people to cOver and over, people noted large publishers that seem like they can write about anything and get rewarded. A compilation of such complaints is here. 

One key tweet in part is this:

Related is the idea that “parasite SEO” site win, sites that lease themselves out to third-parties and then content ranks on these sites that would never succeed on a different. This is different from big sites winning for original (but not necessarily people-first) content, but the two get conflated.Can we have a helpful content tool?
As mentioned above, there’s a desire (such as here and here) for some type of tool or examples to help people better understand what we mean by helpful content or something that identifies if a page or site has been impacted by the helpful content update.

For those asking if they’ve been impacted, I tend to give the advice we already say on our page – if we said there was a helpful content update and you saw an impact, yes, that was from it. So look at what page might have dropped and assess from there.

I also floated the idea of taking our self-assessment questions and turning them into an interactive tool (this is a very rough idea of how that might work)

Possibly, we could begin sharing some actual examples (such as here) or generic/stylized examples like this:

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signI’ve had publishers worried that one single page of whatever “unhelpful” content is will cause them to drop in rankings. Some are fearful they can’t have anything that’s “off-topic” for what their blog or site is about. Some think even having a part of a page be unhelpful might doom their entire site. All this is despite our page saying that a site needs to have “relatively high amounts” of unhelpful content to be impacted and that things are weighted.

Some of the engagement may be helping. Certainly there’s more we can probably do. But even the more calm people are confused. They don’t know if there are swathes of content they should drop, how to identify that, or what. Some worry that content just being “old” isn’t useful. Others worry that if people aren’t coming to their content from search, then it’s clearly not helpful – and yet, they view it as archival content they don’t want to get rid of.

We certainly don’t want people dropping content just because it’s older. It’s somethin
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Our generative AI experiment in Search gets its largest international expansion yet. We've opened up access to 120+ countries and territories, and added support in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Indonesian. Learn more blog.google/products/sea...
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Loved meeting everyone who made it to today's 5K; looking forward to talking and meeting with others here in San Diego for BrightonSEO.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Today, we’re introducing new improvements to Search to find the information that’s most helpful for you, no matter how specific your question. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
The search engines back then had never seen this type of content before. The concern then, as it is now, was how it might impact showing great results to users. Not surprisingly, the search engines soon took action against it. (Google also considers it spam: developers.google.com/search/docs/...)
"The main issue for me is whether or not the site is deceiving my users. I have a responsibility to deliver good data to my users. If there's a situation where my spider sees one thing and my user sees something else, I have a problem with that, because it makes me look bad," said Steve Schneider, who oversees AltaVista's spidering process.

It's similar with Excite: "Where we are most concerned is when a company is using it in the wrong way. The consumer walks away thinking, 'Oh, Hotbot or Excite had the wrong information.' We have to be concerned with how that reflects on the brand," said Excite search product manager Kris Carpenter.Lycos search manager Rajive Mathur said that some this type of move is "inevitable," for Lycos and for the other search engines. As they transition to this, those finding bridge pages to be effective (and not everyone does) may be looking at lost traffic.

"I'm sure they're looking at [bridge pages] and saying, 'But I've having such good success," said Excite's Kris Carpenter. "In three to six months, it may have the opposite effect."
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Google’s results aren’t perfect. We do make mistakes. We don’t always get it right. We’ll never get everything right. But what we can do is keep working to show the most helpful content that we can. More here: blog.google/products/sea...
Google is not perfect
We make mistakes
We don’t always get it rightGoogle will never get everything right 
But we’ll keep working to show the most helpful content we can
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Last week, I gave a presentation about Google Search results not being perfect, how we update to improve those results, and how our guidance to creators needs to improve. In this thread, I’ll share my slides and commentary for those who weren’t able to attend my talk…
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Put your readers and audience first. Be helpful to them. If you do this, if you're doing things for them, you are more likely to align with completely different signals we use to reward content.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
It’s a belief dating back to even before Google was popular, as I wrote about when I was a journalist in 2000, in the article below. As was the case then, so it remains true now. There’s no perfect formula to follow….
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Today I wanted to share about the belief that there is some type of “perfect page” formula that must be used to rank highly in Google Search. There isn't, and no one should feel they must work to some type of mythical formula....
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Today, we’re introducing two updates to help you search any way, anywhere you want: 1️⃣ Circle to Search, a new way to search on Android 2️⃣ Gen AI-powered multisearch, so you can ask more complex questions about what you see. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...
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New ways to search in 2024
We’re launching Circle to Search and an AI-powered multisearch experience to help you search even more naturally.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Great meeting up with Google Search Central in Zürich today.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
We've published a refreshed SEO Starter Guide, with a better focus on a starter audience. Read more about what changed: developers.google.com/search/blog/...
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The SEO Starter Guide got a makeover  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Today we announced improved quality ranking and new spam policies that we believe significantly enhance the quality and helpfulness of your search results. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
The March 2024 core update is complete, having ended on April 19. The ranking feedback form is now ready at forms.gle/SWN1sckmUfQR... and will remain open through May 31. We’ve also updated our Debugging drops in Google Search traffic help page here: developers.google.com/search/docs/...
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Debug Google Search Traffic Drops | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers
There are several causes for drops in Search traffic. Learn how to investigate what caused a traffic drop and how to fix it.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
As part of our news, we’ve also shared that we now use a variety of innovative signals and approaches rather than a single system to identify helpful content. We’ve added a new FAQ page to help explain this change: developers.google.com/search/help/...
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FAQ: Helpful Content and Google Search Results | Google Search Central  |  Support  |  Google for Developers
Learn more about how Google's core ranking systems work to show helpful content in search results.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Today we announced the March 2024 core update & new spam policies that, in combination, are designed to show less content made to attract clicks and more content that people find useful. Learn more: developers.google.com/search/blog/...
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What web creators should know about our March 2024 core update and new spam policies  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
This is just a glimpse of how we’re reimagining Google Search, combining the best of Search today with the new Gemini model’s advanced capabilities customized for Google Search. Learn more in our post, including how to sign up for Search Labs to try out these features blog.google/products/sea...
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Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you
We’re bringing AI Overviews to everyone in the U.S. and adding new gen AI experiences to take more of the legwork out of searching.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Soon, you’ll be able to adjust your AI Overview with options to simplify the language or break it down in more detail. This update is coming soon to Search Labs, for English queries in the US blog.google/products/sea...
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Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you
We’re bringing AI Overviews to everyone in the U.S. and adding new gen AI experiences to take more of the legwork out of searching.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
AI Overviews will begin rolling out to everyone today in the US, with more countries coming soon. They provide both a quick overview of a topic and links to learn more. We’ve found that with AI Overviews, people use Search more, and are more satisfied with their results. blog.google/products/sea...
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Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you
We’re bringing AI Overviews to everyone in the U.S. and adding new gen AI experiences to take more of the legwork out of searching.
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
This also explains more about filters: support.google.com/websearch/an...
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Refine Google searches - Google Search Help
There are different ways to filter your Google searches to be more precise or to expand in new directions. Advanced search Google offers pages designed to help you perform specialized web and image
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
We’ve added this after hearing from some that there are times they’d prefer to just links to pages, such as if they’re looking for longer-form text documents, on a device with limited net access, or those who just prefer text-based results shown separately from search features. If that's you, enjoy!
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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
We’ve launched a new “Web” filter that shows only text-based links, just like you might filter to show other types of results, such as images or videos. The filter appears on the top of the results page alongside other filters or as part of the “More” option, rolling out today and tomorrow globally…
Web filter on mobileWeb filter using the More option
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
A case of H5 influenza, also known as avian influenza or bird flu, has been reported in a farm worker in Michigan who had regular exposure to infected livestock, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Bird flu reported in Michigan farm worker is second human case linked with ongoing outbreak | CNN
A case of H5 influenza, also known as avian influenza or bird flu, has been reported in a farm worker in Michigan who had regular exposure to infected livestock, according to the Michigan Department o...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Regular use of fish oil supplements may increase, not reduce, the risk of first-time stroke and atrial fibrillation among people in good cardiovascular health, a new study finds.
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Fish oil supplements may cause harm, study finds. ‘Is it time to dump them?’ expert asks | CNN
Supplements of fish oil may raise the risk of stroke and a form of heart disease called atrial fibrillation, a new study revealed.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Eating more ultraprocessed foods is linked to a higher risk of cognitive decline and stroke, even if a person is trying to adhere to a Mediterranean diet, the DASH diet or the MIND diet, a new study found.
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Healthy diets with only 10% ultraprocessed foods may raise risk of cognitive decline, stroke | CNN
Ultraprocessed foods have been linked in studies to poor health and early death. A new study bolsters those findings by showing a link to stroke and cognitive decline.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Even Africa’s wealthiest man has trouble traveling in his own continent. Despite doing business in multiple countries, Nigerian-born Aliko Dangote complains he faces far more hurdles crossing Africa than visitors with European passports ever do.
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Africa’s richest man says he needs 35 visas to travel in Africa – way more than a European visitor | CNN
Nigerian-born Aliko Dangote complains he faces far more hurdles crossing Africa than visitors with European passports ever do.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
DuPont de Nemours, the American multinational chemical company that traces its history back to 1802, has announced plans to split into three publicly traded companies.
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A 220-year-old American corporate powerhouse is breaking up | CNN Business
DuPont de Nemours, the American multinational chemical company which traces its history back to 1802, announced plans to split into three publicly traded companies.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
A Nepali sherpa guide topped the summit of Mount Everest for a record 30th time on Wednesday, an official said, his second ascent in 10 days.
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Nepali sherpa scales Everest for record 30th time | CNN
A Nepali sherpa guide topped the summit of Mount Everest for a record 30th time on Wednesday, an official said, his second ascent in 10 days.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Rihanna's latest move in China to promote her cosmetics brand is something of a masterclass in how to tap into the country’s mostly online Gen Z market.
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‘Servin’ face and jianbing’: Rihanna courts China’s lucrative beauty market with some clever culinary skills | CNN
The singer’s latest move in China to promote her cosmetics brand, is something of a masterclass in how to tap into the country’s mostly online Gen Z market.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
The Justice Department and several states are expected to file a lawsuit as soon as this week against Live Nation Inc, citing alleged antitrust violations at least in part due to the market dominance of the company’s Ticketmaster unit, a source says.
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Justice Department expected to file antitrust suit against Live Nation, owner of Ticketmaster | CNN Business
The Justice Department and several states are expected to file a lawsuit as soon as Thursday against Live Nation Inc, citing alleged antitrust violations at least in part due to the market dominance o...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
The Russian military opened fire on civilians trying to evacuate the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, killing a woman while she was being pushed in a wheelchair by her husband, Ukrainian prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Woman in wheelchair killed by Russian forces while evacuating border town, Ukrainian prosecutors say | CNN
The Russian military opened fire on civilians trying to evacuate the town of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, killing a woman while she was being pushed in a wheelchair by her husband, Ukrainian prose...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Florida Sen. Rick Scott has announced his bid to be the next Senate GOP leader, putting him in a three-way secret ballot race that will be decided after the November elections.
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Rick Scott enters race for Senate GOP leader | CNN Politics
Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced his bid to be the next Senate GOP leader on Wednesday, putting him in a three-way secret ballot race that will be decided after the November elections.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
The destructive tornado that ravaged the town of Greenfield, Iowa, on Tuesday has left four dead and at least 35 injured, the Iowa State Patrol said in a Wednesday evening news release.
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Tornado-spawning storms left 5 dead and dozens injured in Iowa and now threaten cities from Texas to Vermont | CNN
The destructive tornado that ravaged the town of Greenfield, Iowa, on Tuesday has left four dead and at least 35 injured, the Iowa State Patrol said in a Wednesday evening news release.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious continent.
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No showers, no privacy, no regrets: What it’s really like to live in Antarctica | CNN
Few people can say they’ve lived on the White Continent, but those who do have incredible stories.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
After American Airlines in a legal response blamed a 9-year-old girl for using an airplane bathroom that had a recording device allegedly placed there by a former employee, the airline now says it has requested that its law firm change its response.
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American Airlines claimed a child was at fault for being secretly recorded in a plane restroom. It’s now changing its legal response | CNN
After American Airlines in a legal response blamed a 9-year-old girl for using an airplane bathroom that had a recording device allegedly placed there by a former employee, the airline now says it ha...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Colombia has launched the initial phase of an underwater expedition to explore a Spanish warship that sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago and is believed to contain billions of dollars worth of artifacts – the rights to which are under heated dispute.
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Colombia launches expedition to explore 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck filled with sunken treasure | CNN
Colombia has launched the initial phase of an underwater expedition to explore a Spanish warship that sank in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago and is believed to contain billions of dollars worth...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
At least nine people are dead, and dozens have been injured after heavy winds caused damage at a campaign rally in Mexico.
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9 dead, 54 injured as wind causes stage collapse at Mexico election rally | CNN
Nine people were killed and a presidential candidate was briefly taken to hospital after a stage collapsed under heavy winds at a campaign rally in Mexico on Wednesday.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Cassie Ventura breaks her silence on the 2016 surveillance video that showed her being physically assaulted by then-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs.
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Cassie Ventura breaks silence on Diddy assault video: ‘Domestic Violence is THE issue’ | CNN
Cassie Ventura has shared a statement expressing her gratitude for the support she has received since CNN’s publication of a 2016 surveillance video that showed her being physically assaulted by her t...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar. The find has been described as an "archaeological sensation" and the most significant of its kind in more than a century.
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Hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Austrian wine cellar | CNN
Hundreds of mammoth bones have been uncovered in an Austrian wine cellar, in a discovery labelled an “archaeological sensation.”
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
The Louisville detective who arrested golfer Scottie Scheffler was disciplined for not activating his body camera, police chief says
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Louisville police detective who arrested Scottie Scheffler disciplined for not activating body-worn camera | CNN
Louisville Police disciplined the detective who arrested World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler last week for not activating his body-worn camera at the time of the arrest, Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaro...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Of the dozens of people hurt Tuesday during turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight, more than 20 have suffered spinal injuries, according to a Bangkok hospital that treated some of the passengers.
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More than 20 people hurt on turbulent Singapore Airlines flight have spinal injuries, hospital says | CNN
Of the dozens of people hurt Tuesday during turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from London, more than 20 have suffered spinal injuries, according to a Bangkok hospital that treated some of the ...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
JUST IN: The EPA and the Department of Justice have reached a $310 million settlement agreement with Norfolk Southern after last year’s train derailment that spilled more than a million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, water and air in Ohio.
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Feds reach $310M settlement with Norfolk Southern after toxic Ohio train derailment. Here’s what else the company has to do | CNN
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice have reached a $310 million settlement with Norfolk Southern after last year’s train derailment that spilled more than a million pound...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/05/2024
Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would classify the abortion-inducing drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances in the state, placing them in the same category as highly regulated drugs such as narcotics and depressants.
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Louisiana Senate passes bill that would classify abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances | CNN Politics
Louisiana lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would classify the abortion-inducing drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances in the state, ...
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