[Race/Related is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] On a warm July day, Ron and Jill Carson sat in a former one-room schoolhouse in Pennington Gap, Va., that until 1965 was the only primary school in town for Black children. The first seven years of Mr. Carson’s […]
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The Duchess of Cambridge has talked about Prince George’s obsession with dinosaurs in the past – now her eldest son is the proud owner of a shark’s tooth from the time of the prehistoric giants thanks to Sir David Attenborough. In a new photograph released by Kensington Palace, seven-year-old George looked ecstatic as he handled […]
A problem that prevented tens of thousands of people from logging the result of their coronavirus tests on the new NHS contact-tracing app has been fixed, according to a Department of Health spokesman. In a statement, they said: “Everyone who receives a positive test result can log their result on the app. “A minority of […]
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A fresh Joe Biden ad, "New Start," signals an effort by his campaign to make unity a central theme, underscoring a new passage in his stump speech that says he won't be a president just for Democrats but for all Americans. What he's saying: The ad — which began Friday night, and is a follow-up […]
FILE PHOTO: TikTok’s logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on the U.S. flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A judge is expected to decide by Sunday whether to allow a ban on TikTok from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc Google app stores after a last-minute filing […]
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘She looked like she was going to eat him for breakfast’: Sasha Swire intimately drapes her arm over David Cameron’s shoulder and whispers in his ear in 2006 pictures as MP’s wife claims ex-PM clumsily flirted with her in tell-all memoirs Photographs were taken at the Black and White Conservative Ball 14 years ago […]
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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The members of the Common Sense group of Tory MPs chaired by former minister Sir John Hayes have written to culture secretary Oliver Dowden in the wake of a report carried out […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday denigrated FBI Director Christopher Wray’s ability to detect voter fraud in the U.S. election and suggested that if he “drill down” more he would change his congressional testimony on the issue. Wray told lawmakers on Thursday he has not seen evidence […]
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FILE PHOTO: A worker wearing a protective face mask walks past the Bank of England in the City of London, Britain, August 6, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England has been discussing how effective negative interest rates might be in the economic downturn and “the evidence has been encouraging”, policymaker Silvana […]
(THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia will not take sides and follow the United States and impose sanctions on 24 Chinese companies the latter accuses of advancing China’s militarisation of the South China, Malaysian Ambassador to China Raja Nushirwan Zainal Abidin told the Global Times in a recent exclusive interview. While tensions are escalating between […]
