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‘The cops aren’t doing anything’: parents yelled at police to enter Texas school
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Texas law enforcement agencies are coming under scrutiny over their response to the mass shooting at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, after it emerged that the gunman remained barricaded inside a classroom for up to ...
‘What are we doing?’ Chris Murphy makes impassioned appeal after Uvalde school shooting – video
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Connecticut senator Chris Murphy has made emotive appeal for gun violence reform on the floor of the US Senate moments after learning 14 students had been massacred at an elementary school in Texas. "Mr. President, 14...
Tech neck: what are smartphones doing to our bodies?
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Name: Tech neck. Age: Two years old. Appearance: The next stage of human evolution. This sounds exciting! Are we all going to be cyborgs soon? Not exactly. Then what on earth is tech neck? That’s easy. It’s the hunch ...
Power failures: what are the bosses of Britain’s bust energy firms doing now?
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For the coachloads of visitors lured to Fort Augustus on the southern shore of Loch Ness by the prospect of spotting the mythical marine monster, a collection of green shipping containers parked in a nearby field warr...
Toddler allegedly left on childcare bus in almost 30C heat ‘doing well’ in recovery, family says
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The family of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly left in a hot bus for six hours outside her childcare centre in central Queensland say they are hoping for a speedy recovery. Nevaeh Austin was found unconscious o...
Trump still won’t shut up. He’s doing Democrats running for office a huge favor
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The beginning of May before midterm elections marks the start of primary season and six months of fall campaigning. The conventional view this year is that Democrats will be clobbered in November. Why? Because midterm...
Eco changes at home – worth doing or a waste of energy? Try our sustainability quiz to find out
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I’m Russian, but Ukraine is close to my heart. What on earth are we doing?
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At work today, in Moscow, there was nothing else to talk about. We are in a state of shock, horror, despair, apathy – I don’t even know what we all feel now. The news agencies, most of which are government-sponsored, ...
Forget state surveillance. Our tracking devices are now doing the same job
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Once upon a time, intensive surveillance was a prerogative of states. After the arrival of the internet, and especially the rise of companies such as Google and Facebook, ISPs (internet service providers) and mobile n...
What were you doing while No 10 held parties? – cartoon
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Under Boris Johnson, it’s one rule for them and another rule for us
20 May 2020: what was UK doing while No 10 aide organised a party?
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To many, May 2020 may feel like a lifetime ago, so much has happened in the last 20 months of the Covid-19 pandemic. On 20 May 2020, when the prime minister’s private secretary was inviting colleagues to bring their o...
Taking my kids out of school has taught me the joy of staying in and doing nothing
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As of Wednesday this week, a quarter of all kids at state school in New York were absent, for virus or other reasons. In the UK, a week before Christmas, they wouldn’t have been at school in the first place, but acros...
Sunak accused of not doing enough to help Omicron-hit businesses
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Rishi Sunak has been accused of failing to do enough to help embattled hospitality businesses through the Omicron wave after refusing to bring back furlough for the hardest-hit firms. Succumbing to intense pressure to...
Tell us: what were you doing on 15 May 2020?
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Questions have been raised once more after Boris Johnson was pictured with wine and cheese during a Downing Street garden gathering, with up to 17 staff on 15 May 2020. No 10 has insisted a “work meeting’ was taking p...
The Guardian view on green finance: doing business as if the planet mattered
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Last week, Shell walked away from 170 million barrels of oil off the coast of Shetland, declaring the “economic case for investment” too weak. As might be expected with such a politically sensitive venture, there has ...
Tell us: what were you doing on the evening of 18 December 2020?
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Boris Johnson has come under pressure to explain allegations that a staff party was held at No 10 on 18 December. At the time, London was under tier 3 restrictions – the top level – meaning the only permitted indoor s...