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Seth Meyers on Madison Cawthorn’s loss: ‘A rare treat to watch Republicans tear each other apart’
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Seth Meyers celebrated the defeat of Trump loyalist Madison Cawthorn in the North Carolina Republican primaries on Tuesday, which will end the 26-year-old freshman congressman’s scandal-ridden term in office. “Oh Madi...
US Covid deaths hit 1m, a death toll higher than any other country
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More than one million people have died in the Covid-19 pandemic in the US, according to Johns Hopkins, far and away the most deaths of any country. While the sheer number of deaths from the coronavirus sets the US apa...
Other Houses by Paddy O’Reilly review – grim Aussie tale avoids trauma porn territory
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Paddy O’Reilly’s seventh book, Other Houses, covers familiar territory. Imagine – a couple of battlers living on the fringes of metropolitan Melbourne, trying their darndest to make good. Janks is an ex-junkie and fac...
Measles cases surge nearly 80% in wake of Covid chaos, with fears other diseases could follow
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Measles cases have surged nearly 80% worldwide this year amid disruption caused by Covid-19, the UN has said, warning that the rise of the “canary in a coalmine” illness indicated that outbreaks of other diseases were...
Your industry skills are transferable – and five other reasons to teach in further education
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If you’d like to make more of what you know in 2022, look no further. The Department for Education’s new further education (FE) teacher recruitment campaign and digital service aims to attract skilled industry profess...
Heart inflammation after Covid vaccine ‘no more common than after other jabs’
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Heart inflammation after a Covid jab is not only rare but no more common than after other types of vaccinations, researchers have found. As Covid vaccination programmes began around the world it emerged that some peop...
Ashley Cole among other targets of gang who stole £3.75m tiara, court told
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A gang accused of stealing the £3.75m Portland tiara and brooch from a Nottinghamshire gallery in 2018 was involved in a number of “ruthlessly executed” burglaries that also targeted footballers Ashley Cole and Tom Hu...
Thousands of miles from the nearest other albatross, is Yorkshire-loving Albie the world’s loneliest bird?
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Name: Albie the albatross. Age: It’s not known how old Albie is, but albatrosses can live for more than 70 years. Appearance: A bit like a big gull, to be honest. The black-browed albatross is medium-sized – for an al...
Blue Mountains landslide: British father and son killed as two other family members in critical condition
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Crews have worked into the night to retrieve the bodies of a British man and his son after five members of the same family were caught in a landslip in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The nine-year-old boy and his...
US scientists step up efforts to research Covid in bears, deer and other animals
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To administer this Covid test, Todd Kautz had to lie on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on the bear’s snout, Kautz carefully slipped a lo...
Type 2 diabetes leads to higher risk of 57 other conditions, finds study
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People with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of 57 other health conditions, including cancer, kidney disease and neurological illnesses, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind. Millions of people worl...
Night, Neon and Other Stories of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates review – nuanced, not neat, thrillers
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Joyce Carol Oates’s multitudinous collections are repeatedly subtitled “tales of suspense” or “stories of mystery”. You tend to know what you’re getting with an Oatesian short – a disquieting snapshot of American life...
Emily Scarratt: ‘I could tell it was bad by the way the other girls reacted’
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Emily Scarratt’s face ignites with a smile midway through our video call. She rummages in her pocket, whips out her phone and holds it up towards the camera on her laptop. I can’t help but recoil at the gruesome sight...
Sulky Sunak is as thin-skinned as any other politician with eye on top job
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It normally takes at least a couple of days for a budget to unravel. But the chancellor’s spring statement had landed dead on arrival with not even the usually friendly voices of the rightwing media finding anything p...
Olena Zelenska thanks other first ladies for supporting Ukraine
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The wife of the Ukrainian president, Vlodymyr Zelenskiy, has thanked France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, and other leaders’ wives for helping to ensure sick children reached safety. And she paid tribute to Europeans...
The Guardian view on forgotten wars: we must not neglect conflict’s other victims
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Attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers. Escalating strikes claiming the lives of civilians, including children. A growing humanitarian crisis, with vast numbers forced to flee their homes. A flagrant disregard fo...