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• Texas train carrying fuel in flames after crossing collision

  23-02-2021 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Homes are evacuated as a train transporting fuel burns, sending black smoke billowing into the sky.
  
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• Teachers’ union head branded ‘hypocrite’ for taking daughter to private pre-school despite insisting it’s unsafe

  01-03-2021 23:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Matt Meyer says there are differences between running a small private school and a public school district
  
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• Harassment, bullying claims dog Cuomo, once a pandemic star

  01-03-2021 23:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's televised coronavirus briefings won plaudits last spring
  
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• Cuomo allegations leave Democrats grappling with response

  01-03-2021 23:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Democrats across the country celebrated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the face of governing competence as President Donald Trump fumbled his administration’s response to the exploding pandemic last year
  
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• Four-year-old girl found wandering alone in the Bronx three days ago still not reunited with family

  01-03-2021 23:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  The little girl was examined at a hospital and found to be in good health
  
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• Anti-masker kills police officer who removed him from basketball game

  01-03-2021 23:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Perpetrator also allegedly robbed man at gunpoint earlier in evening
  
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• Nicolas Sarkozy timeline: How politician descended from president to prison sentence

  01-03-2021 23:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  The scandal-tainted ex-leader became the least popular French president since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain
  
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• Texas power cooperative files for bankruptcy facing $2bn bill for storms

  01-03-2021 22:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  The storms may have abated, but the financial fallout is just beginning
  
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• Ex-aide who accused Cuomo of harassment says he is refusing to face up to ‘predatory behaviour’

  01-03-2021 22:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former aide who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment says he is refusing to face up to his“predatory behaviour.”
  
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• Fifteen-year-old student shot at junior high school in Arkansas

  01-03-2021 22:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Another teenage student at the school was arrested for what police call a ‘targeted incident’
  
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• Flight grounded in Phoenix after women use racial slurs and spit on passenger trying to stop them

  01-03-2021 22:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Both women were charged with disorderly conduct and banned from future flights
  
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• Biden says workers in Alabama have a right to vote on union

  01-03-2021 21:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden said workers in Alabama and across the country have the right to join a union without intimidation from their companies
  
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• Ex-New York Times reporter breaks his silence over N-word accusations

  01-03-2021 21:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s been quite baffling and painful for me to have people assume I’m a racist,’ the former health reporter, Donald McNeil Jr., said.
  
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• Biden news – live: Trump ‘got vaccine while president’, as New York AG set to probe Cuomo harassment claims

  01-03-2021 21:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Latest updates from Washington DC and beyond
  
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• Merrick Garland could be confirmed as Biden’s attorney general this week

  01-03-2021 21:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden AG pick passes out of committee by bipartisan 15-7 vote
  
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• Andrew Cuomo to be investigated by New York attorney general for alleged sexual harassment

  01-03-2021 21:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo isbe investigated by the state’s attorney general for alleged sexual harassment.
  
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• 15-year-old student injured at junior high school shooting in Arkansas

  01-03-2021 21:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Another 15-year-old student at the school was arrested for what police call a ‘targeted incident’
  
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• Lawyer for El Chapo’s wife says feds are trying to murder her family

  01-03-2021 21:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Emma Coronel Aispuro in custody after Dulles Airport arrest
  
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• NYC mayor suggests Cuomo should resign over ‘terrifying’ sexual harassment claims

  01-03-2021 20:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘If that was what truly happened it was like he was treating her like she was his property ... just disgusting, creepy’
  
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• Israel's high court says non-Orthodox converts are Jews

  01-03-2021 20:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Israel's Supreme Court has delivered a major blow to the country's religious establishment, ruling that people who convert to Judaism through the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel also are Jewish and entitled to become citizens
  
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• ‘We don’t want to wait on study’: Biden adviser vows to start acting ‘now’ on systemic racism

  01-03-2021 20:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of colour back and especially African Americans’
  
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• Security camera footage shows woman wrestling with gun-wielding robbers who burst into her home

  01-03-2021 20:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Thieves stole around $3,000 in cash and two iPhones during incident
  
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• Medic accused of tossing Molotov cocktails at four ambulance facilities

  01-03-2021 20:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Richard White eventually arrested by police in Pennsylvania after traffic stop
  
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• EU split over plan for Covid vaccine passports

  01-03-2021 20:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Southern ‘sun belt’ wants tourism back for summer but other countries say idea is unfair 
  
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• Yemen conflict: UK cuts aid citing financial pressure from Covid

  01-03-2021 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The British government cuts relief by as much as 60%, citing financial pressure from the pandemic.
  
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• Sarkozy: Former French president sentenced to jail for corruption

  01-03-2021 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-president, found guilty of trying to bribe a judge, will remain free while he appeals.
  
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• Minneapolis fortifies city hall with barbed wire and fencing ahead of George Floyd murder trial

  01-03-2021 19:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  The city will call in 3,000 law enforcement officers from across the state once verdicts are expected
  
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• Covid-19 nearly eradicated the US flu season, but is influenza gone for good?

  01-03-2021 19:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Only 1,499 postiive flu cases have been detected by the CDC since September
  
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• SHELL Multitud en México evita que una pareja gay sea arrestada gritando “yo también soy gay” a la policía

  01-03-2021 19:48 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Biden to refuse Mexico’s request to share vaccine supply

  01-03-2021 19:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden administration’s top priority is to ensure ‘every American is vaccinated’ before sending supplies to other countries, press secretary says
  
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