California passes first sweeping US law to reduce single-use plastic
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California has passed an ambitious law to significantly reduce single-use plastics, becoming the first state in the US to approve such sweeping restrictions. Under the new law, which California governor Gavin Newsom ...
Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black female supreme court justice
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Nearly three months after she won confirmation to the supreme court, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the court’s 116th justice on Thursday as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retired. In a brief...
BT staff vote for first national strike in 35 years
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BT staff have voted for their first national strike in 35 years, which is expected to affect customers across the country having broadband services installed or getting faults fixed. The strike by BT engineers, call c...
‘I felt for the first time I wasn’t alone’: how Pride transformed lives
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When Richard French-Lowe first went to Pride in London in 1989, he was too afraid to join the march. As a civil servant and serving territorial army soldier, he kept his sexuality hidden because both organisations reg...
First Thing: January 6 committee subpoenas Donald Trump’s former counsel
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Good morning. The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack issued a subpoena on Wednesday to the former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone, compelling him to testify about at least three ...
January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater peril
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Good morning. Donald Trump and his two closest advisers could face widening criminal exposure over the Capitol attack after the ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified about their potentially unlawful conduct...
Can Colombia’s first leftwing president deliver change? – podcast
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Gustavo Petro has been elected as the Latin American country’s first leftist leader. But he faces a huge challenge if he is to deliver on his promises, says Joe Parkin Daniels ...
‘We want kids to take their first steps more mindfully’: the children’s shoe brand with sustainability at its heart
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When Jeroo Doodhmal’s daughter began walking, she took her to get her feet measured and bought her first pair of shoes. But within a matter of months she had grown out of them and needed another pair, and Doodhmal beg...