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MPs have criticised the government’s decision to scrap parliament’s virtual proceedings on their return to Westminster – with suggestions it could force them to form a one kilometre-long queue when voting in the House of Commons. On Tuesday, MPs are set to return to parliament after their Whitsun recess but will no longer use the “hybrid” system for debates they […]
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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. Bosses have accused ministers of presiding over “three months of mixed messages, mismanagement and missed opportunities”. Tony Banks, chairman and founder of the Balhousie Care Group which runs homes across Scotland, said homes “may as well just have […]
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WASHINGTON — Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades. Trump spent nearly an hour in the bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks, according to a Republican close to […]
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro joined supporters protesting against Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia on Sunday, stoking concerns of an institutional crisis in the nation that now has the world’s second-highest number of coronavirus cases after the U.S. In a live broadcast on social media, Bolsonaro greeted fans from a helicopter flying over the area where the demonstration was […]
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Phyllis Lam has lived in Hong Kong for 42 years. It’s where she was born, went to school, met her husband and planned to raise her two children. But like a growing number of Hongkongers disillusioned by China’s tightening grip on the city, Lam now feels she has little choice but to leave. “I have no confidence in Hong Kong’s […]
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President Donald Trump led his remarks on the country’s first manned rocket launch in nearly a decade with some harsh words for civil rights protesters around the country demanding police accountability. “My administration will stop mob violence, and we’ll stop it cold,” Trump said from Florida hours after ordering the Pentagon to put military police on alert for potential deployment […]
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As protests rage across the country over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, the Justice Department is once again brushing aside its mandate to bring broader reform to troubled police departments that have lost ― or never had ― their community’s trust. Since President Donald Trump took office, his appointees at the Justice Department […]
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Former President Barack Obama on Friday spoke out against the death of George Floyd, saying he shares the same anguish that millions of other Americans feel. “This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America,” Obama said in a statement. “It can’t be ‘normal.’ If we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, we […]
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Promising to bring real police reform if elected president, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Friday that he had spoken with the family of George Floyd, the African American man killed by Minneapolis police officers on Monday. “The original sin of this country still stains our nation today,” the former vice president said in a video message from his […]
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) defended her record as a prosecutor on Friday following the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck. Floyd, 46, died on Monday after a police officer pinned him to the street while he repeatedly pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” The moment was captured on video, prompting a […]
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