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Black pudding lobbers take aim in annual English tradition

The World Black Pudding Throwing Championships returned on Sunday to the northwestern English town of Ramsbottom. The annual event sees contestants vying to knock as many Yorkshire puddings off a six-metre-high ledge as they can by hurling blood sausages at them. CBC | World News

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Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, court rules

A U.S. appeals court declined on Monday to allow Donald Trump to fire U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook — the first time a president has pursued such action since the central bank’s founding in 1913 — in the latest step in a legal battle that threatens the Fed’s longstanding independence. CBC | World News

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