December 2019

Olympic Skier Gus Kenworthy Switches To British Team For The Sweetest Reason

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy will no longer represent the U.S. The England-born athlete who moved to the U.S. when he was just two-years-old revealed Tuesday he will now compete for Great Britain in honor of his mother, who taught him how to ski. “Although I was raised in the US I was born in the UK […]

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General election 2019: Labour will lay ‘foundations of a new economy’

Labour’s shadow chancellor has outlined his party’s pledges on inequality, setting out policies that include scrapping universal credit and raising the living wage to £10. Speaking in Birmingham, John McDonnell said scale of the reforms pledged by Labour “is significant” but that people’s ambitions had been limited by almost a decade of “Conservative and Lib

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BBC apologises to Bernardine Evaristo for ‘another author’ ad lib

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo shared the Booker Prize The BBC has apologised for referring to Booker Prize joint-winner Bernardine Evaristo as “another author” without naming her directly. Evaristo became the first black woman to win the prestigious award this year, sharing it with Margaret Atwood. In its Turner

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Chicago police blame Facebook for illegal gun, drug sales

Chicago police say investigators have arrested more than 50 people accused of using private Facebook groups and messages to sell guns or drugs By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press December 3, 2019, 11:28 PM 3 min read Private Facebook groups have “emboldened” sellers of illegal drugs and guns to connect with potential buyers over the social

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What to Watch For in the Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearing

“Impeachment by its nature, it’s a political process.” “What people think is going to happen can turn out to be very different from what happens.” “Because it has to do with elected officials holding another elected official to account for their conduct.” When the framers of the Constitution created a process to remove a president

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Cambridge baby loss charity Petals reinstates hospital counselling

Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption The counselling service has started again after “generous” donations from supporters A baby loss charity which suspended maternity unit counselling three months ago due to a lack of funding has reinstated the service. The Pregnancy Expectations, Trauma and Loss Society (Petals) service at the Rosie Hospital, Cambridge, ceased

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