Rory Stewart says some Conservative MPs “don’t seem to be ready” for warnings he has made about the effect of a no-deal Brexit. The freshly eliminated leadership contender said some of his warnings “probably proved to be truths that people weren’t quite ready to hear”. Mr Stewart, who was knocked out of the race after […]
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Meredith’s mother was suspicious about vaccines and would never let her have them as a child. For a while it didn’t seem to matter, but eventually Meredith (not her real name) starting coming down with some frightening illnesses. It started when I accidentally stood on a nail. Some time afterwards my jaw and shoulder started
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A pilot whose heroics became a Hollywood film says he knows the desperation that engulfed the cockpits on Boeing’s two doomed 737 Max planes. Captain Chesley Sullenberger said flight control flaws would have left the pilots in a “fight for their lives” and unable to quickly grasp why the aircraft were not responding. He was
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Three men have been found guilty of charges relating to the Garissa University attack in Kenya in April 2015. Rashid Charles Mberesero, Mohamed Ali Abikar and Hassan Edin Hassan were found guilty of conspiracy to commit the attack in which four gunmen killed 148 people, mainly students. They were also found guilty of belonging to
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A recent government ruling may transform air travel for passengers with life-threatening food allergies by extending to them the protections afforded other individuals with disabilities. In September 2016, gate agents for American Airlines refused Nicole Mackenzie’s request to preboard a flight from Portland, Ore., to Charlotte, N.C., to clean the area around the seat assigned
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Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say they have recorded singing by a rare right whale for the first time. Researchers used moored acoustic recorders to capture patterned calls made by male North Pacific right whales. Researchers detected four distinct songs over eight years at five locations in the southeast Bering Sea. Humpback,
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The Memphis Grizzlies traded away the final piece of the franchise’s best years on Wednesday, sending veteran point guard Mike Conley to the Utah Jazz for a trio of players, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The Grizzlies swapped Conley for Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver and Grayson Allen, said the person,
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday ruled out censuring President Trump as an alternative to starting an impeachment proceeding against him, and said that if Democrats conclude he should be charged under the Constitution for misconduct, impeachment was the only option. “Censure is a way out — if you’re going to go, you’ve
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U.S. stocks moved sideways in afternoon trading Wednesday on Wall Street ahead of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve statement on interest rates. The muted trading follows two days of gains that are driving a June rebound in stocks after a dismal sell-off in May. The broad S&P 500 index is within striking range of its
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A cancer patient is the latest woman to accuse a retired University of California, Los Angeles gynecologist of sexually abusing her during treatment. The Los Angeles Times reports the 44-year-old unnamed woman has sued UCLA and Dr. James Heaps, alleging he touched her inappropriately during a medical examination. Heaps pleaded not guilty last week to
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