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1:17Now PlayingAugust 11, 2021: Cuomo resigns, Mask mandates, $3.5 trillion spending plan, Greece fires, Taliban
1. Faced with mounting legal pressures and demands for his departure from President Joe Biden and others, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Tuesday following an inquiry that found he sexually harassed 11 women.
2. School districts in Florida and Texas are bucking their Republican governors' bans on requiring masks for children and teachers as coronavirus cases soar in conservative areas with low vaccination rates.
3. The U.S. Senate approved a $3.5 trillion spending blueprint for President Joe Biden's top priorities in a 50-49 vote along party lines.
4. A big blaze that swelled overnight in the Peloponnese peninsula forced the evacuation of many villages as exhausted firefighters battled wildfires across Greece for a ninth day.
5. Taliban fighters took control of another city in northern Afghanistan, an official said, the eighth provincial capital to fall to the insurgents in six days as U.S.-led foreign forces complete their withdrawal.
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