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Coronavirus: Trump contradicts his own health experts on threat posed by deadly virus
He added: “We’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. It probably will, it possibly will. It could be at a very small level, or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens we’re totally prepared.”
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Jim Jordan: Key Trump ally was 'crying and begging' student wrestler to deny abuse cover-up, hearing told
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Climate emergency: Duck-billed platypus could face extinction due to droughts
Scientists from the University of New South Wales’ Centre for Ecosystem Science said that if the current threats to the animal from climate change remain, platypus numbers will collapse by up to 66 per cent in the next 50 years, and by 73 per cent by 2070.
Due to its very unusual combin…
Trump statue burned to ground in Slovenia
Ms Trump’s likeness, a life sized sculpture cut from the trunk of a Linden tree with a chainsaw under the direction of US conceptual artist Brad Downey, was unveiled in her home town of Sevnica last year – however the free form representation was not beloved by all, with some saying it bore a cl…
'Absolutely insane': Republican senators turn on Trump over Iran briefing
Utah senator Mike Lee claimed Wednesday’s meeting on the airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was “probably the worst briefing I’ve seen, at least on military issues”, while Kentucky senator Rand Paul described the information as nothing “I hadn’t seen in a newspaper already”.…
Pound surges and UK stocks hit record high after Boris Johnson wins Tory landslide
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Jeremy Corbyn releases leaked government documents that show Boris Johnson 'lied about Brexit deal'
He added: "This document is very ominous. There will be other secret reports like this one in every government department that reveal the disastrous impacts of his policies on the safety of the food you eat, on the rights you have at work, on the pollution of the air that we breathe and on the j…
Tory election candidate says disabled people should be paid less as they ‘don’t understand money’
“Disabled people are already shut out of employment and have been disproportionately harmed by the Conservative and Lib Dems’ cuts. Now, these comments further expose the contempt the Conservatives feel for disabled people, which underlie their policies towards us.
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Forty years of fake news has created the obesity crisis
Darren Smith, whose BMI (35) is greater than his age (33) has come to see me about his health. As he squeezes himself on to the chair next to my desk, he puts his fat elbow out for a blood pressure measurement and asks if he can have a general check-up: he wants a thyroid level test, perhaps a c…
Israeli settlements are still illegal despite Trump backing them, says UN
Mr Trump has also made a succession of pro-Israeli initiatives. These include recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017, moving the US embassy to the city in 2018 and cuts in aid to Palestinians. In March, Mr Trump recognised Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, captured from Syr…
Tory minister says ‘no one gives a toss’ about fake fact checker set up by official party Twitter account
Social media is an increasingly important battle ground in elections - and home to many questionable claims pumped out by all sides. If social media sites won't investigate the truth of divisive advertising, we will. Please send any political Facebook advertising you receive to digitaldemocracy@…
Saudi Aramco IPO: World's most valuable company to be listed on stock market for $1.5 trillion
Yasir al-Rumayyan, the chairman of Saudi Aramco, said on Sunday: “Today marks a significant milestone in the history of the company and important progress towards delivering Saudi Vision 2030, the kingdom’s blueprint for sustained economic diversification and growth.”
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Trump impeachment: Democrats to hold vote in bid to undermine Republican 'cover-up'
She continued: "The Trump Administration has made up this argument — apparently out of whole cloth — in order to justify its unprecedented cover-up, withhold key documents from multiple federal agencies, prevent critical witnesses from cooperating, and defy duly authorised subpoenas."
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Trump impeachment: Republicans cause chaos as they storm inquiry into president
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana led dozens of Republicans into a House Intelligence Committee hearing inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, among many secure rooms throughout the Capitol that are limited only to members …
David Correia: Fourth man arrested over campaign finance violations involving Rudy Giuliani associates
David Correia, a Florida businessman, was arrested on Wednesday at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, after flying there to turn himself in on charges related to a scheme to funnel money from international sources to a Republican congressman and a political action committee suppor…
Thousands of ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea
For every ton of fuel burned, ships using open-loop scrubbers emit approximately 45 tons of warm, acidic, contaminated washwater containing carcinogens including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a non…
White House releases incomplete ‘transcript’ of Trump’s Ukraine phone call about Joe Biden
Prior to the memorandum’s release it was reported Mr Trump ordered his staff to withhold $400m (£323.7m) in aid to Ukraine just days before the phone call. He spoke with Mr Zelensky the day after former special counsel Robert Mueller spoke in public testimony about his report on Russian interfer…
Trump forced to deny personally doctoring hurricane map after sharpie spotted on his desk
“They thought they would get it as a piece of it. It was supposed to go — actually we have a better map than that which is going to be presented where we had many lines going directly, many models, each line being a model, and they were going directly through. And in all cases Alabama was hit.”<…
Trump administration 'to announce plan to hold migrant children indefinitely in detention camps'
Earlier this year, Trump administration lawyers unsuccessfully argued in court it should be able to force detained migrant children to sleep on concrete floors and deprive them of soap and toothbrushes, in what amounted to another challenge to the 1997 Jenny Lisette Flores v Edwin Meese settleme…
UK to deport aspiring astrophysicist, 23, to Pakistan where she faces death or forced marriage to cousin
A 23-year-old woman who has won offers to study astrophysics at some of Britain’s most prestigious universities, after living more than half her life in the UK, is to be deported to Pakistan, the country of her birth, where her father is demanding she marry her older cousin.
The woman, w…
Fox host Tucker Carlson defends North Korean regime: ‘Leading a country means killing people’
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UK to get its biggest carbon capture plant in 2021, trapping 22,000 cars worth of emissions
The plant will reduce TCE’s emissions as the company ramps up production of high-purity sodium bicarbonate. Liquid carbon dioxide is a key ingredient in high-grade sodium bicarbonate, which is used mainly in the pharmaceutical sector and for hemodialysis, a type of treatment for kidney failure.<…
Mueller investigation: House announces public hearings on Trump's 'overt acts of obstruction'
Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, announced the hearings in a statement accusing the White House of attempting to "stonewall" Congressional oversight, and pledging to move forward with the investigation whether the president cooperates or not.
"Given the threat posed …
Mueller report: House to hold Attorney General Barr contempt vote next week
The vote has been scheduled for June 11, and comes after Mr Barr refused to comply with a subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller's fully un-redacted report into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and any underlying evidence. The report also analysed potential obstruction of justice by D…
Trump says Russia 'helped me get elected' for first time in furious outburst at Mueller
Reiterating on Wednesday the conclusions of his 448-page report into Russian election interference, the former special counsel declined to exonerate Mr Trump, saying he “would have said so” if his team “had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime”.
"It was a crime that di…