Growing numbers of women ditch giri choco custom of ‘forced giving’ of gifts to senior male colleaguesShifting gender politics and the coronavirus have combined to spell the possible end of the Japanese Valentine’s Day custom of women giving chocolates to male colleagues.Traditionally, women are expected to buy gift-wrapped chocolates for the men in their working lives – usually senior colleagues and others who have helped them during the course of the year – as part of a tradition called giri choco, literally obligation chocolates. Continue reading...
Firm’s UK chair apologises for comments in virtual meeting about Covid crisisKPMG’s UK chairman, Bill Michael, has resigned after telling staff to “stop moaning” during a virtual meeting about the coronavirus pandemic and the impact of lockdown on people’s lives.Michael, who has headed the company since 2017, was speaking at a virtual town hall meeting on Monday with members of the firm’s financial services consulting team when he made the comments. Continue reading...
by Mostafa Rachwani now and Matilda Boseley earlier on (#5E2RT)
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Listening to ASMR recordings of soothing daily sounds is the perfect tranquilliserASMR. It sounds like an illness or a government department, I know. But it is, in fact, one of the few things that helps my brain stop whirring at night. Or, at the very least, whir more slowly. The abbreviation stands for “autonomous sensory meridian response”. I won’t go into the science behind it (mostly because I don’t understand it), but essentially, it’s a pleasurable feeling one gets from certain noises or sensations.I wouldn’t have thought that listening to recorded quotidian noises would be something I’d find relaxing. I have written before about my love of silence. I would rather grab my coat and bag, fold my laptop and trudge across to the other side of a cafe than listen to someone absent-mindedly but repeatedly clicking a pen nearby. And yet, it turns out that I absolutely cannot get enough of listening to playlists of people rustling paper; sketching with pencils; using typewriters. Continue reading...
Scotland’s ski resorts have their best snow in years but must remain closed due to coronavirus. Murdo MacLeod took a look around the frozen and empty Glencoe Mountain Continue reading...
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpieceThe singer-songwriter genre was named around 1970, give or take, and was said to apply to me and, among others Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and Jackson Browne. Why that supposed movement didn’t begin with Bob Dylan or even Woody Guthrie or Robert Johnson beats me – maybe they were still “folk”. But, if it means anything, Carole King deserves to be thought of as its epitome. I’d been deep into her songs – Up on the Roof, Natural Woman, Crying in the Rain – for a decade before Danny Kortchmar introduced us in Los Angeles in 1970. She played piano on my Sweet Baby James album while working on the songs for her own Tapestry. Our collaboration, our extended musical conversation over the next three or four years was really something wonderful. I’ve said it before, but Carole and I found we spoke the same language. Not just that we were both musicians but as if we shared a common ear, a parallel musical/emotional path. And we brought this out in one another, I believe. Continue reading...
Some towns have not been compliant with water standards in 20 years, according to Water NZ’s Noel RobertsA lead contamination scare in a south Otago town is sounding water quality alarm bells around New Zealand, with one expert saying he would refuse to drink the water in some areas.Earlier this month Dunedin council told the communities of Karitane and Waikouaiti that their water supplies had been returning traces of lead up to 40 times the safe level. Continue reading...
by Guardian reporter in Yangon and agencies on (#5E393)
Thousands take to the streets again as junta releases 23,000 prisoners and detains more opponents overnightFacebook has imposed widespread restrictions on Myanmar’s military rulers to prevent them spreading “misinformation”, as tens of thousands again took to the streets in what was set to be the biggest day of protests against the coup so far.The social network site said on Friday that it would reduce the distribution of all content and profiles run by Myanmar’s military, saying the generals have “continued to spread misinformation” after they seized power and detained civilian leaders in a coup. Continue reading...
Salvador Illa, Spain’s former health minister, is contesting the election on a promise of unity, despite continuing split over independenceSalvador Illa, the Socialist candidate in Sunday’s Catalan election, has promised to focus on improving public health care, reactivating the economy, and bringing the region together after “10 lost years of increased division” caused by failed, unilateral efforts to secede from the rest of Spain.Illa, who served as Spain’s health minister before stepping down last month to contest the election for the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), said the coronavirus pandemic had underscored the need to overhaul and invest more in the region’s health system and to fix its economy. Continue reading...
Activists criticise oil and gas companies that have set up highly profitable joint ventures with army chiefs to exploit mineral resourcesWestern companies are facing growing calls to break ties with businesses run by Myanmar’s military after last week’s coup threatened to cast the impoverished south-east Asian country back into full-blown dictatorship.The Japanese drinks company Kirin Holdings has announced it will abandon its involvement with a Myanmar brewery after a six-year partnership because of its close links to the military. Continue reading...
No people or livestock are yet believed to have been harmed, but remote location has made tackling fire difficultA large fire has broken out on Dartmoor near Tavy Cleave in Devon, a few miles north east of Tavistock.Devon and Somerset fire and rescue service has deployed five pumps and other units to the area, but has struggled to tackle the fire because its location is difficult to access. Continue reading...
China has been critical of BBC reports on Xinjiang, while Ofcom recently revoked CGTN licenceBBC World News has been banned from airing in China, a week after Beijing threatened to retaliate for the recent revocation of the British broadcasting licence for China’s state-owned CGTN.In a statement published at midnight Beijing time on Friday, China’s National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News’s coverage of China had violated requirements that news reporting be true and impartial and undermined China’s national interests and ethnic solidarity. Continue reading...
Pawel Relowicz disclosed no details during trial and pathologist was unable to determine cause of deathMore than two years after their daughter’s murder, Libby Squire’s parents are still in the dark. They don’t know how she was killed or whether she was alive when she entered the River Hull. What they do now know, however, is that Pawel Relowicz, a 26-year-old butcher, is the man who killed her.Relowicz, who was convicted of murdering the 21-year-old on Thursday, is still the only person who knows what happened in the early hours of 1 February 2019. A Home Office pathologist, Dr Matthew Lyall, told jurors that Squire’s cause of death could not be determined because of the amount of time her body had been in the water. By the time it was recovered, it had spent seven weeks in the Humber Estuary. Continue reading...
by Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta, and Associated Pr on (#5E0J4)
Automatic throttle may have caused Sriwijaya Air jet pilots to lose control of Boeing 737-500A malfunctioning automatic throttle may have caused the pilots of a Sriwijaya Air jet to lose control, leading to the Boeing 737-500’s plunge into the Java Sea last month, Indonesian investigators have said.National transportation safety committee investigators said on Wednesday they were still struggling to understand why the jet nosedived into the water minutes after taking off from Jakarta on 9 January, killing all 62 people on board. Continue reading...
Property, from which the Rose family are evicted in the first episode, has 12 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms and 14 car spacesThe mansion from which the Rose family were famously evicted in the first episode of the Emmy award-winning comedy Schitt’s Creek has been listed for sale for nearly C$15m ($11.8m).The Canadian sitcom tells the story of the wealthy Rose family’s fall from opulence and their attempts to restart life in the small rural locale of Schitt’s Creek, a town that father Johnny Rose bought in its entirety, and then gave to son David as a joke during wealthier times. Continue reading...
Yunice Abbas was among gunmen who stole €9m-worth of jewellery from Kardashian in Paris heistA man who confessed to participating in the robbery of Kim Kardashian West in Paris four years ago will not benefit financially from the book he has published about the heist after an order by a French court.Lawyers representing the night watchman at the luxury residence where Kardashian was robbed said they had obtained a court order “authorising the seizure of rights” on the sales of Yunice Abbas’s book, I Kidnapped Kim Kardashian, which was published at the beginning of the month. Continue reading...
Letter to Michael Gove says British must meet Brexit deal obligations before ‘flexibility’ can be consideredThe European commission has ruled out major changes to the Brexit deal’s Northern Ireland protocol, saying it would not even consider any flexibility unless the UK first meets its obligations under the pact in full.Hours before a major meeting in London on Thursday to resolve problems in the region, the commission’s vice-president, Maroš Šefčovič, said in a letter to Michael Gove that the protocol was “the only way” to protect the Good Friday agreement. Continue reading...
Lavaun Witter, 22, was ‘destined for greatness’ and ‘wanted to fly high’, his family said in tributeA 22-year-old killed in south London during a spate of stabbings in the capital last weekend has been named as Lavaun Witter.He was one of two men stabbed to death in eight unconnected stabbings over 24 hours, which started on Friday evening. The other man to die, Sven Badzak, also 22, was chased by a group and knifed to death in Kilburn on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading...
300 black-billed gulls nest among the concrete pillars of a building damaged in the Christchurch earthquake – but the colony is annoying some localsWhen the world’s rarest gull started nesting in the bowels of an earthquake-damaged building in central Christchurch, it was hailed as a sign of the city’s rebirth after the 2011 disaster.Some 300 black-billed gulls – a critically endangered species endemic to New Zealand – have been nesting in a half-demolished office block on Armagh Street in central Christchurch since November 2019, surprising conservationists and delighting local birders. Continue reading...
Thursday: Europe urges Australia to be ‘more ambitious’ on climate as big-emitting businesses face carbon levies. Plus: McDonald’s wants food given to staff to count towards their remunerationIt’s day two of the second Trump impeachment trial and it promises to be a big one; Australia is firmly in Europe’s climate change spotlight; and US health experts state the case for “double-masking”. I’m Richard Parkin, bringing you all that and more ahead, in today’s morning mail.Europe wants Australia “to become a bit more ambitious” on its climate targets, the EU’s ambassador in Canberra has told Guardian Australia, with an extensive lobbying campaign expected ahead of this year’s Glasgow climate conference. The election of the Biden administration has spurred momentum towards a global commitment of net zero emissions by 2050, Dr Michael Pulch explained, saying climate change was “probably the top priority” for the current European Commission. A new analysis has also suggested that major Australian businesses exporting to Europe could face carbon levies of more than $70 a tonne unless the federal government introduced more significant gas emission legislation. Continue reading...
Andrew Bailey wants the UK and the EU to cooperate but who knows what Brussels’ intentions areAndrew Bailey, taking a day off from quarrelling with Dame Elizabeth Gloster over London Capital & Finance, gave a long list of reasons on Wednesday for why, in a rational world, it would be straightforward for the UK and the European Union to co-operate on financial services. This is important territory. Arrangements on financial services, which were excluded from last December’s Brexit trade deal, could dictate the future of the City for a decade.First, said the Bank of England governor in his speech at Mansion House, regional disagreements don’t make sense in a financial world that increasingly runs on global rules overseen by global bodies. Second, the UK’s standards already look more equivalent to the EU’s than those of Canada, the US, Australia, Hong Kong and Brazil, countries that have been awarded “equivalence” gold stars by Brussels. Continue reading...
Associates say departure of Yulia Navalnaya, wife of jailed opposition leader, is temporaryThe wife of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has arrived in Germany on a flight from Moscow.Yulia Navalnaya touched down at Frankfurt am Main airport on Wednesday evening on a Lufthansa flight, German magazine Spiegel reported in its online edition. Continue reading...
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent on (#5E14E)
At least 170 missing four days after flash flood that wrecked two dams, with rescuers still at workFour days after a catastrophic flash flood struck a valley in the Indian Himalayas, hopes were fading of finding any more survivors in the muddy wreckage of two dams that were devastated in the disaster.So far 34 bodies have been recovered from the disaster and more than 170 are still missing. At least two bodies were discovered in the city of Rishikesh, which is about 150 miles downstream. Continue reading...
Chase Coleman III leads masters of the universe list with $3bn, according to analysisThe year 2020 will go down in the record books as one of the worst in global history. Nearly 2 million people died from coronavirus , tens of millions more lost their jobs and countless others faced unprecedented disruption to their daily lives.However, it was a very profitable year for the elite few financial executives betting on health of the global economy. The world’s top 15 hedge fund managers collectively made $23.2bn (£16.9bn) last year. That is the equivalent of more than six Marks & Spencers or more than the gross domestic product of the Iceland or Zambia (population: 18 million). Continue reading...
Singer received citations for driving while under the influence, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed areaBruce Springsteen is facing a drunk driving charge for an incident in New Jersey in November.A spokesperson for the national parks service confirmed that Springsteen was arrested on 14 November in a part of the Gateway National Recreation Area on the New Jersey coastline. Continue reading...
Jovenel Moïse declared he was ‘not a dictator’ hours after ordering the arrest of 23 people, setting the stage for further turmoilHaiti has lurched into fresh political crisis amid allegations of a coup attempt and an escalating dispute over when the presidential term of Jovenel Moïse should end.Declaring he was “not a dictator” hours after ordering the arrest of 23 people – including one supreme court judge and a senior police official – Moïse has set the stage for further turmoil. Continue reading...
by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent on (#5E0R9)
Police say they would not have caught David Wilson, who admitted 96 offences, if Facebook end-to-end encryption was in placeFacebook has been accused of choosing to shield paedophiles for profit by ignoring police warnings that its plans to toughen encryption will make the platform a safe haven for abusers targeting children.The warning came as one of the UK’s worst child abusers, David Wilson, was jailed for 25 years at Ipswich crown court after being convicted of 96 child sexual abuse charges, with more suspected. Continue reading...
EU ambassador to Australia says climate action could be a sticking point in getting a trade deal ratifiedEurope will urge Australia to increase its 2030 emission reduction pledge in the lead-up to this year’s Glasgow climate conference, with the EU ambassador in Canberra saying all countries should embrace “more ambitious and emboldened” policies.In an interview with Guardian Australia, Dr Michael Pulch said countries should take stock of whether they were “in a better position than, say, five years ago to have a more ambitious climate objective”. Continue reading...
Director writes that theatre is ‘more enduring than bureaucrats’ as Kremlin continues crackdown on dissentThe celebrated Russian stage and screen director Kirill Serebrennikov, convicted last year in an embezzlement case seen as retribution for his politically charged work, has been forced out of the Moscow theatre he led for eight years.Serebrennikov transformed Moscow’s Gogol Center from a small, overlooked theatre into one of the capital’s most vibrant cultural venues with experimental updates of Russian classics and plays that indirectly addressed official corruption. Continue reading...
Truckers-in-space realism dominates in this low-budget sci-fi about people escaping a dying Earth only to encounter man-eating extraterrestrialsIt’s the year 2242 and Bruce Willis is still an ageing tough guy who’s kicking butt. That’s the alarming prospect raised by this ropey low-budget sci-fi set aboard a spacecraft carrying 300,000 people from dying Earth to life on a new planet. The plot centres on a parasitic alien chomping its way through the crew hired to keep the vessel ticking over while the passengers cryogenically sleep out the six-month journey. And the film-makers, having borrowed the storyline from Alien, also go for the same blue-collar, boilersuit-wearing, truckers-in-space realism. Willis growls a few lines, half-arses a catchphrase or two and points a gun.The film’s actual lead character is played by Cody Kearsley: Noah, a janitor on this spacecraft, which is the last to leave Earth for the new colony. His heavily pregnant girlfriend is a passenger. (Weirdly, no one seems worried about cryogenically deep-freezing her unborn baby.) Willis plays his hard-drinking boss Clay, though it’s a stretch to call what he does here acting. Security on board is tight following bomb threats from rebels who believe that, having screwed up one planet, humanity don’t deserve another spin of the wheel. It’s a briefly interesting idea, this group of militants trying to stop the spread of parasite humans into outer space, but instead Anti-Life feeds off sci-fi movies past. Continue reading...
Boys State, MLK/FBI and Crip Camp among contenders as categories announced include best documentary and best international filmShortlists for nine Oscar categories have been unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), an intermediate stage in the thinning-out of films that have qualified for consideration for the Academy Awards. The categories include best documentary, best international film and best song, as well as best live action and documentary shorts.The rules for each voting process vary, but in most categories a preliminary vote from industry specialists in each field is employed to create the shortlist and then the final five nominations, with the full membership of the Academy invited to vote on the winner. Continue reading...
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Working from home can mean never being able to switch off, but could EU-wide regulation end the always-on culture?When Poland went into strict lockdown last March, Natalia Zurowska barely had time to clear her desk at work. “I went in to get my laptop and then left,” says the 36-year-old, an office manager for a graphic design firm in Warsaw at the time. “I had been working in an office for 10 years. So it was a new thing, working from home. But from day one I knew I didn’t like it.” Continue reading...
Exclusive: civil service union urges ONS to follow Scotland’s lead and delay census by a yearThe biggest civil service union has called for the 2021 census to be postponed because of pandemic safety concerns and problems over a £45m outsourced contract to recruit tens of thousands of field staff.The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has insisted that the once-in-a-decade survey of every household in England and Wales will take place on 21 March as planned. But the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), which represents hundreds of ONS employees, says the pandemic makes it unsafe to conduct the survey. Continue reading...
From designing rugs in Paris to painting visions of human suffering … the origins of some of the 20th century’s most iconic artworksFrancis Bacon didn’t just create some of the most unforgettable images of the human figure in 20th-century painting. He created “Francis Bacon”, a legendary persona: big beast of the London art world, wild man and bon vivant, whose raw painterly gift – he is one of only three British artists to be given two retrospectives at the Tate Gallery in their lifetime – was matched by his appetite for champagne, gambling and rough sex with East End crooks. His death in 1992 triggered a run of tell-all biographies, including first-hand accounts by his friends. What further revelations, you wonder, can there be?Most of the surprises in this landmark new biography of Bacon, the first for 25 years, concern his early life and career, which turn out to have been – at least outwardly – embarrassingly conventional. Born in Dublin in 1909 to Anglo-Irish gentry, Bacon grew up in a series of big country houses, with dashes to England during the Irish revolutionary period. He was severely asthmatic. One of his childhood memories was being shut into a dark cupboard by a housemaid for long periods; he said that the feeling of asphyxiation resembled an asthma attack. He also remembered the entire family hiding in their locked rooms at night, in dread of a visit from the IRA. Suffocation, confinement, a sense of terror – the foundations of Francis Bacon, man and artist, were being laid. Continue reading...
by Helen Davidson in Taipei and Martin Farrer on (#5E0DZ)
One-child policy fallout and rejection of marriage said to be among reasons for drop of about 15% in 2020Fallout from decades of its one-child policy and changing social attitudes about family and marriage are driving a plummeting birthrate in China, experts have said, after preliminary figures this week showed a drop of about 15% in 2020.Demographers and social commentators have said the reasons for the low birthrates include the high costs of housing and education, and growing rejection of marriage among young women. In 2019 the marriage rate hit a 14-year low. Continue reading...
The National Retailers Association received a one-off $880,000 grant in 2018, which the home affairs minister asked to ‘be considered sooner’Peter Dutton asked his department to fast-track a grant proposal from the National Retailers Association weeks after the industry body made a political donation to support the home affairs minister.Documents obtained by ABC’s 7.30, published on Wednesday, reveal that after Dutton’s intervention the NRA received a one-off $880,000 grant for a program to assist retailers responding to armed offender incidents. Continue reading...
While Ethiopia’s ancient sites are valued, urban heritage is an afterthought in a city forced to expand ever upwardsOnly rubble remains of the former home of Dejazmatch Asfaw Kebede, a member of Emperor Haile Selassie’s government. Built in the early 1900s, and inspired by Indian as well as Ethiopian architecture, the building was demolished in early January without the knowledge of Addis Ababa’s conservation agency, the Culture and Tourism Bureau.Demolition and reconstruction are now the most common sights along Addis Ababa’s unrecognisably altered skeleton skyline. The collateral damage is the city’s heritage. Continue reading...
by Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent on (#5E0BR)
A global selection of artists are all seeking inspiration in images related to their own pastsGabriel Moses regularly flicked through his family photo albums as he grew up in south London. Shot by a local photographer, the images are simple snapshots that capture his Nigerian family at home in Catford.“You could see that there’s a lot of personality in the images,” he says. “You can feel that there’s a lot of energy and for me now as a photographer that’s what I want to produce for my generation.” Continue reading...
Balmain real estate agent Karl Adon Howard allegedly punched one woman repeatedly in the head and tried to murder another, court hearsA Sydney real estate agent accused of attacking a woman with a samurai sword allegedly took four Viagra pills and repeatedly punched another woman during the incident, a court has heard.Balmain property agent Karl Adon Howard was remanded in custody on Wednesday until at least 8 April after he allegedly tried to murder a 29-year-old woman on Monday. Continue reading...
How well does the Russell T Davies drama capture the 1980s Aids crisis? Influential queer figures who lived through it – including Owen Jones, Rev Richard Coles, Lisa Power and Marc Thompson – give their verdictsA joyful yet devastating series centred on a group of friends whose lives are changed irrevocably by the HIV/Aids epidemic, It’s a Sin is not only the most talked-about TV show of 2021 so far, but also Channel 4’s most watched drama series in its history. Russell T Davies’s 80s-set series has started conversations around Britain about the realities, both political and personal, of living through the HIV/Aids crisis, led to an increase in people getting tested for HIV, and helped raise awareness about preventive medication (PrEP) and the effective treatment now available for people living with the condition.To discuss these topics, we convened a roundtable discussion with influential queer figures who lived through the crisis, and those who have grown up in its wake. Taking part in the conversation are Lisa Power, a co-founder of LGBT charity Stonewall who also volunteered for Switchboard during the Aids crisis; the Rev Richard Coles, the vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire and former member of the pop group the Communards; Marc Thompson, an HIV activist, the director of the Love Tank CIC and the co-founder of PrEPster; Guardian columnist and author Owen Jones; Omari Douglas, who plays the character Roscoe in It’s a Sin; and Jason Okundaye, a writer and the co-founder of Black & Gay, back in the day, a digital archive honouring and remembering black queer life in Britain. Continue reading...
Underwater photographer of the year, a global annual competition based in the UK, celebrates photography beneath the surface of the ocean, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools Continue reading...
Hundreds of historical artefacts from the Cold war era are offered for sale at Julien’s Auctions. The lots will include a rare Soviet version of the Enigma encryption machine known as the Fialka, clandestine operative cameras, and radio transmitters and receivers Continue reading...
Exclusive: Mother of murdered man says uploading of footage to internet has compounded her traumaTwo Metropolitan police officers are under criminal investigation for allegedly filming and sharing CCTV evidence of the moment a man was murdered, the Guardian has learned.Carol Campbell said that the video of the murder of her son, Craig Small, being uploaded to social media has compounded her trauma. Continue reading...
She has conquered Bollywood, broken Hollywood, married a pop superstar, gained millions of followers – and now she is publishing a memoir of life in the spotlightPriyanka Chopra Jonas looks flawless – perfect skin, gorgeous face, utterly serene and wearing the most immaculately steamed silk shirt I’ve ever seen. In the background, a fire roars invitingly; to her side, out of sight of Zoom, her mother, Madhu, lies on the floor exercising. This is life as an idyll.The former Miss World and Bollywood turned Hollywood star is talking about her memoir, Unfinished. And she is quick to point out that there is so much unfinished business. In many ways, she says, at 38 years old, she has barely started. Chopra Jonas has her fingers in so many pies. How would she describe herself? “I’m an entertainer, and that bifurcates into being an actor, producer, author, entrepreneur. And I dabble in tech. I would say I’m a multi-hyphenate, professionally.” Continue reading...
Adoption of mainland China policy sparks concern other countries will be unable to offer protection to passport holdersHongkongers with dual nationality are not entitled to foreign consular assistance, the city’s leader has said, confirming warnings by western diplomats that authorities have begun strictly enforcing Chinese nationality regulations.On Tuesday the Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam, confirmed that while residents could have multiple passports, dual nationality was not recognised in Hong Kong under China’s nationality law. Continue reading...
US sports stars and musicians hit by scammers taking over phones or accounts to steal money and informationBritish police have said they arrested eight people as part of an investigation into the Sim-swapping hijacking of US celebrities’ phones.The National Crime Agency (NCA) said sports stars, musicians and their families had been targeted by the scam in which criminals gained access to victims’ phones or accounts. Continue reading...
Analysis: faith in the US has been shaken and the impeachment trial is a test of accountability before a global audienceThe Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin stood at the lectern, faced 100 senators and removed his black face mask to begin the historic second impeachment trial of former president Donald John Trump. Continue reading...
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