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• San Francisco reverses plan to purge 'racist and sexist' historic names from schools

  06-04-2021 23:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  A third of the district’s 121 schools were earmarked for change due to their problematic namesakes
  
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• Bezos backs Biden’s corporate tax hike after president shamed Amazon for tax dodging

  06-04-2021 23:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has backed Joe Biden’s proposed corporate tax hike after the president shamed Amazon for tax dodging.
  
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• Hunter Biden book: All the most explosive revelations from book by president’s son

  06-04-2021 23:47 via independent.co.uk
  
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• LSU's Orgeron gives lawmakers statement on Guice complaint

  06-04-2021 23:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  LSU coach Ed Orgeron maintains in a statement provided to state lawmakers that he does not recall speaking with an elderly female security worker who says then-Tigers running back Derrius Guice made offensive sexual advances toward her in 2017
  
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• Video emerges of migrant boy asking Texas border guard for help after being abandoned in desert

  06-04-2021 23:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  The boy was taken into custody by border agents, and his current whereabouts are publicly unknown
  
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• Senate gives Biden a big tool to work around GOP filibuster

  06-04-2021 23:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  With a powerful new tool, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has fresh options for advancing President Joe Biden’s priorities over Republican obstruction in the 50-50 split Senate
  
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• ‘Stop it’: Biden tells states to drop ‘new Jim Crow’ laws and praises companies ‘speaking up’ over Georgia voting restrictions

  06-04-2021 22:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s a very tough decision for a corporation, or a group, to make ... but I respect when they make that judgment’
  
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• Hunter Biden says toad venom kept him sober for a year in memoir

  06-04-2021 22:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It was a profound experience. It connected me in a vividly renewed way to everyone in my life, living or dead’
  
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• Derek Chauvin trial: Officers used ‘excessive’ force on George Floyd, LAPD expert testifies

  06-04-2021 22:48 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Six-year-old finds bullet in pack of Cheetos

  06-04-2021 22:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Frito-Lay says it is working to remedy ‘highly unusual and troubling’ find
  
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• AGs from Kentucky, Tennessee sue over stimulus tax rule

  06-04-2021 22:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Republican attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee have added their voices objecting to a rule in the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid plan that bars states from using relief money to offset tax cuts
  
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• Georgia voting fight sets the stage for Kemp's 2022 run

  06-04-2021 22:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  A controversial new election law may help Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rebuild his relationship with a broad swath of Republicans as he prepares to run for a second term next year
  
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• Hunter Biden - live: President’s son smoked parmesan cheese during months long crack binge in LA hotels

  06-04-2021 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Harris: Vaccinated can be 'role models' for friends, family

  06-04-2021 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris is urging Chicago union members to share their experience receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and act as “role models” for family and friends who may be reluctant even as Illinois prepares to open access to all adults
  
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• Derek Chauvin trial - live: Officers used ‘excessive’ force on George Floyd, LAPD expert testifies

  06-04-2021 22:31 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Brothers who killed family in murder-suicide left note about gun control and The Office finale

  06-04-2021 22:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Teenager who described mental health struggles of himself and his brother wrote that ‘gun control in the US is a joke’
  
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• Israel election: can Benjamin Netanyahu win on both fronts?

  06-04-2021 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Israeli prime minister is contesting corruption allegations in court while simultaneously trying to form a government. Sean O’Grady considers his hopes for success on both fronts
  
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• Is a global minimum corporate tax rate actually possible?

  06-04-2021 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  The US Treasury secretary has called for a global minimum rate to tackle multinational tax avoidance. But is that really feasible? Or is it just wishful thinking destined to fail when faced with inevitable international disagreement? Ben Chu investigates
  
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• 'Don't tell me how to vote!' TV host erupts as woke making it 'painful to be Conservative'

  06-04-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A US TV host erupted on air alongside his guest as the pair were left furious over "woke politics" being "crammed down their throat" in light of major companies in America becoming politically vocal.
  
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• Derek Chauvin trial: LAPD expert says ‘excessive’ force was used against George Floyd

  06-04-2021 22:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  LAPD sergeant Jody Stiger said force usually isn’t used at all in cases of someone using a counterfeit bill
  
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• ‘Keep your wallets open and your mouths shut’: Critics mock McConnell for mixed message to business in Georgia row

  06-04-2021 22:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Top Senate Republican blasted for telling CEOs to stay out of politics after fighting for decades to allow corporations to donate unlimited amounts of money to campaigns
  
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• Emmanuel Macron on brink: Defector lifts lid on 'undemocratic' party

  06-04-2021 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EMMANUEL MACRON's En Marche party was described as "undemocratic" by a former French minister as the President comes under increasing pressure.
  
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• Florida governor rebuts vaccine 'pay-to-play' report on CBS

  06-04-2021 22:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back aggressively against a “60 Minutes” report that suggested he initially made a deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in a South Florida county at Publix Super Markets pharmacies after the company made a donation to his political action committee
  
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• US boosts aid to Palestinians as some in Congress cry foul

  06-04-2021 21:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Biden administration is moving again to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians as it fires up a new Mideast policy that is directly opposite of the one pursued by its predecessor
  
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• Matt Gaetz fought revenge porn bill, arguing snaps of ex-lovers were ‘his to use’, former lawmaker says

  06-04-2021 21:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  When it came to private pictures sent by ex-lovers, a former state lawmaker says the Florida congressman ‘thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted’
  
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• Construction of Trump’s border wall may continue under Biden, administration admits

  06-04-2021 21:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Joe Biden can stop construction on the wall, but has not yet taken steps to do so
  
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• Nasa reveals Easter eggs hidden on Mars perseverance rover

  06-04-2021 21:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Details celebrate past missions and offer hope for future human achievements on Mars
  
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• Trump urges followers to completely boycott baseball as he admits ‘he doesn’t know what the hell he’s watching’

  06-04-2021 21:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  MLB moved All-Star game out of state over Georgia’s restrictive voting law
  
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• Derek Chauvin trial - live: George Floyd talking isn’t proof he had enough air, Nicole Mackenzie testifies

  06-04-2021 21:30 via independent.co.uk
  He joins host of senior Minneapolis officers who’ve blasted their former colleague’s conduct during George Floyd arrest
  
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• Arkansas bans transition care for transgender minors

  06-04-2021 21:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Transition care for transgender minors will be outlawed in Arkansas after the state senate voted on Tuesday to override Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto of HB1570, a move that sparked immediate vows for legal retaliation from civil rights groups.
  
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• Just because George Floyd could talk, it doesn’t mean he had enough air, police medic tells trial

  06-04-2021 21:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  During Mr Floyd’s fatal arrest, one officer commented that his speech meant that he could breathe
  
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• Kamala Harris unveils her historic desk – and people are pointing out just how different it is from Trump’s

  06-04-2021 21:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Love the history behind this desk,’ one social media user tweets about new addition to vice president’s office
  
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• Von der Leyen sidelined in awkward snub as Charles Michel pinches chair at Turkey meeting

  06-04-2021 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EUROPEAN Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was left speechless when European Council President Charles Michel stole her seat during a meeting with Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  
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• Hunter Biden - live: President’s son joined Burisma as ‘f**k you’ to Putin and took toad venom to sober up

  06-04-2021 21:06 via independent.co.uk
  
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• New York doormen fired after video shows them shutting door on Asian hate crime

  06-04-2021 20:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  The suspected allegedly told the woman: ‘F*ck you, you don’t belong here, you Asian [inaudible]’
  
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• Jesse Jackson calls Britain the ‘mother of racism’

  06-04-2021 20:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report claimed no evidence of institutional racism in UK
  
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• AstraZeneca Covid vaccine: weighing up the risks and rewards

  06-04-2021 20:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite scientific advice to continue getting the jab, answers about fatal blood clots are urgently neededCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVaccines have side-effects, as do all medicines. Most often, jabs cause sore arms, a headache or a bit of nausea – none of which would be very significant when weighed against the toll of a serious virus such as Covid-19.But sometimes the risk-benefit calculation may look less simple, as in the case of Oxford/AstraZeneca
  
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• California facing another drought and worse wildfires after unseasonably dry wet season, officials warn

  06-04-2021 20:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Snowfall in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains was 40 per cent below average this year
  
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• Russia ordered to ‘explain provocations’ as chilling video shows tanks heading to border

  06-04-2021 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has been urged to explain the sudden mass build-up of military equipment heading towards Ukraine.
  
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• Activists hold $500k Confederate statue at ransom threatening to turn it ‘into a toilet’

  06-04-2021 20:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We took their toy, and we don’t feel guilty about it’
  
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• Hunter Biden book - live: ‘Dad saved me’, president’s son recalls alcoholism and how marriage to wife ended

  06-04-2021 20:28 via independent.co.uk
  
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• The UK needs a robust border policy, but right now we can’t see if it is working

  06-04-2021 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: it is incredibly challenging to scrutinise the system because data on movement is so opaque
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage The official response to coronavirus at the UK border has been problematic from the start. It was not until February this year that the government introduced mandatory hotel quarantine – 11 months after coronavirus was first recorded the UK – despite it being used in countries such as New Zealand from the off.Even now
  
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• Derek Chauvin trial: Fourth officer joins colleagues claiming Chauvin broke rules by kneeling on George Floyd

  06-04-2021 20:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  He joins host of senior Minneapolis officers who’ve blasted their former colleague’s conduct during George Floyd arrest
  
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• The new billionaires on the annual Forbes list you’ve never heard of

  06-04-2021 20:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  The nearly 500 new billionaires made during a pandemic year beats the previous record of 290 in 2015
  
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• AstraZeneca halts vaccine trials in children over blood clot fears in young people

  06-04-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OXFORD University has halted trials of its AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in children and teenagers over blood clot fears.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell demands in-person hearing after QAnon hijack livestream

  06-04-2021 19:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  British socialite accused of grooming 14-year-old girl for Jeffrey Epstein
  
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• At least 7 US colleges will require students to receive Covid vaccine for fall

  06-04-2021 19:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Brown University and Northeastern University become latest to announce requirement
  
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• Pay up! Greece lashes out at Germany over WW2 damage and demands huge payments

  06-04-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GREECE is demanding a massive payout from Germany over damages sustained during the Nazi occupation in World War 2.
  
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• Iran nuclear deal: US joins Vienna talks aimed at reviving accord

  06-04-2021 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Diplomats in Vienna are discussing how the US can lift sanctions and Iran return to compliance.
  
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• Hunter Biden book - live: President’s son explains why marriage to wife ended as he recalls first drink aged 8

  06-04-2021 18:53 via independent.co.uk
  
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