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Critics accuse President Trump of abusing the law as he grants clemency to former advisor Roger Stone
Critics have accused President Trump of abusing the rule of law – after he commuted the sentence of his friend Roger Stone just days before he was due to serve a three and a half year term in jail.
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’He did protect the President and now the President is protecting him’ – former Central Intelligence Agency officer Evan McMullin
We spoke to Evan McMullin – a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer who ran as an independent during the 2016 United States presidential election.
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Steve Coogan warns if the government don’t help comedy venues, ‘We’ll find ourselves in ten years time with nothing to laugh at’
A new campaign has been launched to protect the future of live comedy – after research showed more than three quarters of venues fear they’ll be forced to close down within the next year.
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Series 5, Episode 11: Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is a world-renowned German film director, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director.
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Former world cup winner Jack Charlton has died aged 85
The world of football has lost one of the greats: just one of the tributes to Jack Charlton – who’s died at the age of 85.
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Outdoor pools and theatres reopen in England
More of England’s lockdown measures are being eased this weekend – allowing open air pools and theatres to reopen.
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Black and Asian doctors more likely to face discrimination when raising concerns about PPE shortages, a new survey has shown
Since the early days of the pandemic, doctors from minority ethnic backgrounds have said they were being disproportionately affected by shortages of PPE.
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Trump presents a threat to the US ‘that required being addressed from the right not the left’, says Republican political strategist Rick Wilson
A Republican campaign group who believe Donald Trump has abandoned the party’s founding principles have released a series of scathing ads.
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US Supreme Court rules prosecutors can see Trump’s tax records
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a New York prosecutor can press ahead with a subpoena to seek President Trump’s personal financial records as part of an investigation into hush money payments, declaring that “no citizen, not even the President…is above the common duty to produce evidence.” But in a separate ruling, the Justices…
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Schools in Wales to reopen full-time in September
There has been an important announcement about what will happen to schools in Wales in September.
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Concerns over disadvantaged children facing unfair treatment in GCSE and A-Level results
The nail-biting wait for GCSE and A-Level results will have an added surreal quality this August, as pupils hear what grades they will get for exams they did not sit because of the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Taxi drivers, cleaners and shop workers with no Covid symptoms to be tested for virus
The government has announced a further expansion of the testing programme in England focusing on people in jobs with high levels of public contact such as taxi drivers, cleaners and shop staff.
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Government is trying to ‘blunt the extent of spike’ in unemployment – Chair of Treasury Select Committee
Conservative MP Mel Stride, chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, spoke to us from Central London.
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1 in 10 Brits could be unemployed after coronavirus, says economist
We spoke to Jagjit Chadha, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, asking if yesterday’s summer statement is already starting to look a bit thin.
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Thousands of UK job losses announced as coronavirus hits economy hard
The Chancellor may have woken up today to excited headlines welcoming his £30 billion pound plan for jobs, but by lunchtime he was confronted by the chilling reality of thousands more job losses.
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There’s an urgency to give money but ‘not enough conditionality’ of how industry is accessing funds – – Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato
We talk to Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, and Rupert Harrison, who was Chief of Staff to George Osborne when he was Chancellor.
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Covid-19 cases in US pass three million
In America, the number of cases of Covid-19 has now passed three million, with dramatic rises in Florida, California and Texas.
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Scientists urge re-think on the airborne risk of Covid-19
More than 200 scientists have claimed that too little attention has been paid to the role that tiny airborne particles play in transmitting Covid-19.
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96 days of intensive care: Welsh man’s remarkable battle against coronavirus
He’s spent nearly 100 days in hospital so far, most of them on a ventilator.
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Police chief apologises to Team GB athlete after stop and search
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has apologised to the Team GB athlete Bianca Williams, who was handcuffed during a stop and search.
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Thousands of women harmed after health concerns dismissed as ‘women’s problems’, says review
A highly critical review into some of the biggest health scandals in the last decades has found thousands of women were needlessly harmed because of the arrogance of the medical establishment.
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Labour’s shadow chancellor warns of ‘additional waves of unemployment’ unless government changes course
We speak to Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds.
