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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are calling for massive wealth taxes on the super-rich. Voters like it so much that moderate 2020 Democrats are coming around

At the fourth Democratic primary debate on Tuesday, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren made their case again to impose substantial wealth taxes on the fortunes of the...
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It's time to bar domestic abusers from the Senedd

3 hours ago | Click on Wales

It is difficult to overstate the devastating damage domestic abuse does to people's liveset people with convictions for domestic abuse and violence can still become MPs and sit...
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Charity launches legal action against NHS fees for pregnant migrants

6 hours ago | The Guardian

Maternity Action says bills of £7,000-plus deter vulnerable women from seeking care A charity has launched a legal challenge against the policy of charging vulnerable migrant...
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Urban living makes us miserable - this city is trying to change that

6 hours ago | The Guardian

Glasgow has become notorious for the kind of mental and physical ills that plague cities everywhere. Is urban life harmful to humans - or can we rethink cities so that they can...
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Ivory Coast law could see chocolate industry ‘wipe out' protected forests

6 hours ago | The Guardian

Critics condemn move placing thousands of square miles of rainforest under control of international companies The Ivory Coast's dwindling rainforests could be “wiped out” under...
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Universal credit 'leaving families depressed' in poorest London borough

9 hours ago | The Guardian

Parents in Tower Hamlets tell study that squeeze on income is causing conflict and stress Low-income families in London's poorest borough say that moving on to universal credit...
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‘Digital welfare state': Big Tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN warns

10 hours ago | The Guardian

UN's rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account Big Tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human right free-zones' and not held accountable To...
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Content warning: this festival is for 'generation snowflake'

11 hours ago | The Guardian

Handle With Care, a three-week festival at Camden People's theatre, aims to contest perceptions about millennials' entitlement, fragility and offence-taking Handle With Care...
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‘I could just end up another dead homeless person under that bridge'| Eve Livingston

11 hours ago | The Guardian

As Glasgow's homelessness problem worsens, thousands are being denied the short-term accommodation that is their right John O'Donnell turned up unannounced at a Glasgow...
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‘I carry my experience like a dead body. But this flat means I can start again'

11 hours ago | The Guardian

Supported housing projects throw a lifeline to victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking. But in many parts of the UK they don't exist When Endzela Dvali came to the UK...
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Take a look at the Under Armour-designed spacesuits Virgin Galactic wants to...

Under Armour revealed a first look at its spacesuit collection for passengers boarding upcoming Virgin Galactic flights to space. As part of the $250,000 tickets, travelers... Read more ...

Donald Trump calls Turkish invasion of Syria 'strategically BRILLIANT' for...

In the Oval Office as he greeted the president of Italy, Trump launched a new defense of his troop pullout which opened the way for Turkey to push into northern Syria saying... Read more ...

GM and the UAW have a tentative contract to end what has been its longest...

The United Auto Workers and General Motors have reached a tentative agreement for a new, four-year contract. GM's nearly 50,000 hourly workers have been on strike for almost... Read more ...

Premier League will oppose plans to reduce automatic Champions League spots

What will happen if Boris Johnson fails to secure a Brexit deal with the EU...

Brexit remains on a knife-edge this afternoon as the EU and UK try to hammer out a last-minute divorce deal ahead of a crunch summit tomorrow. Read more ...

Feds rescue 23 abused kids in bust of international child porn ring

Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington DC for running the site Welcome To Video, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. Read more ...

Britain's most evil paedophile Richard Huckle was strangled then stabbed...

Huckle, who abused 200 children, was knifed to death in his cell at HMP Full Sutton with a makeshift 'shiv' reportedly fashioned from a toothbrush. Read more ...

'I hope he rots in jail,' says Kayden McGuinness' mum after Whoriskey found...

Derry man Liam Whoriskey has been found guilty of the manslaughter of three-year-old Kayden McGuinness in the child's family home in September 2017. Read more ...

Extinction Rebellion protestors pack London's Trafalgar Square again despite...

XR protestors returned to Trafalgar Square this afternoon in defiance of a Section 14 order issued by the Met on Monday evening which outlawed Extinction Rebellion protests... Read more ...

Brexit revelation: How Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel plotted to keep UK...

EMMANUEL MACRON and Angela Merkel were plotting to sabotage Brexit by keeping the UK in a “two-tier” EU, unearthed reports shockingly claim. Read more ...