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UK should be proud of climate efforts, says energy minister

The energy secretary says the UK has the “most detailed proposals” to hit carbon budgets, and backed legislation as the best way to tackle climate change. Claire Perry was responding to Ed Miliband’s call for a “climate emergency”, saying she was did not know what “that would entail”. The former Labour leader was asking her […]

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‘Dumbo’ Flies To The Top Of The Box Office With Soft $45 Million Opening

LOS ANGELES, March 31, (Variety.com) – Disney’s “Dumbo” had an underwhelming liftoff at the domestic box office. Tim Burton’s live-action remake debuted with $45 million from 4,259 North American theaters, below expectations heading into the weekend. While that was easily enough to top the domestic box office, it marks the lowest start among the studio’s

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Shila Iqbal: ‘Emmerdale shouldn’t have fired me over tweets’

Image copyright Press Association Emmerdale actress Shila Iqbal says she shouldn’t have been fired over historical racist and homophobic tweets she posted – but suspended instead. The 24-year-old, who played Aiesha Richards, was sacked earlier this month. At the time she apologised for using “inappropriate language” in tweets she’d sent in 2013, when she was

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Oil Giants Invest $110 Billion In New Fossil Fuels After Spending $1 Billion On Green PR

The world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies are increasing their investments in oil and gas, putting a combined $110 billion in new fossil-fuel production. Meanwhile, those firms are projected to spend just $3.6 billion on low-carbon investments, such as biofuels and renewables, according to a new analysis that Influence Map, a British nonprofit that

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Julia Angwin Is Out as Editor of New Tech Watchdog Site The Markup

For the past year, the investigative journalist Julia Angwin has been busy building The Markup, a nonprofit news site dedicated to scrutinizing technology and its effects on society. The Markup raised more than $23 million in funding, a testament to the reputation that Ms. Angwin, the site’s editor in chief, and another of its founders,

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Hearing set over possible leak of Robert Kraft massage video

Attorneys for two Florida massage parlor employees plan to ask a judge to hold police and prosecutors responsible for the possible unauthorized release of video that they say shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft paying for sex. The New York Daily News reported last week that someone anonymously contacted TheBlast.com saying they had video

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Democrats Seek Young Voters, and the Memes That Move Them

Michael Bossetta, a fellow at the Center for European Politics at the University of Copenhagen, who specializes in new forms of political participation through social media, noticed through his research of Facebook ads that Mr. Buttigieg, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington were among the candidates aggressively targeting people

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