Posted on April 27, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Gun crime This article is more than 6 years oldBriton who tried to grab policeman's gun 'to kill Donald Trump' is freedThis article is more than 6 years oldMichael Sandford, who has autism, returns to UK after serving five months of year-long jail sentence imposed for Las Vegas crime
A British man jailed in the US for trying to grab a policeman’s gun at a Donald Trump rally – in order “to shoot and kill” the then presidential candidate – has returned to the UK.
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Posted on April 27, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
OpinionNew YorkHow frightening to see the climate change before our eyes – is this the last New York snow I’ll see?Emma BrockesI miss the mornings after a blizzard, when everything is transformed. It’s not a dramatic sign – but it’s certainly not normal
It hadn’t snowed in New York City for 701 days – a record – so when it started to come down on Tuesday, children’s jaws dropped like kids seeing bananas for the first time after the second world war.
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Posted on April 27, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
Blood, sweat and tearsMental health This article is more than 3 years oldI just spent 10 years in a psychiatric ward. Here’s how I’m coping under lockdownThis article is more than 3 years oldSarah Coulthard-EvansIt doesn’t feel dissimilar to my time in hospital, but now it’s the government controlling my movements rather than my doctors
Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Wednesday 18 March was a day I’d been dreaming of for years.
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Posted on April 27, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Nebraska This article is more than 6 months oldNebraska community rallies around bride widowed an hour after weddingThis article is more than 6 months oldToraze Davis collapsed outside the church in which he married Johnnie Mae Dennis and died of a blood clot
A Nebraska community is rallying around a bride whose groom died unexpectedly less than an hour after the couple exchanged their wedding vows earlier this week.
Toraze Davis and Johnnie Mae Dennis wed on Monday in Omaha.
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Posted on April 27, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Animals This article is more than 6 years oldObese Thai monkey who got big on tourists' junk food placed on strict dietThis article is more than 6 years oldMonkey nicknamed ‘Uncle Fat’ weighs 26kg – three times more than he should‘He had minions and other monkeys bringing food for him,’ veterinarian saysA morbidly obese wild monkey who gorged himself on junk food and soda left behind by tourists has been rescued and placed on a strict diet of lean protein, fruits and vegetables.
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Posted on April 26, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Animals farmedEnvironmentAfter years of burying neighbours’ complaints about illegal spraying of hog manure, state officials suddenly began posting them online. What changed? In September 2016, with Hurricane Hermine bearing down on North Carolina, Kemp Burdette rented a single-engine plane and flew over Duplin county. Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental group Cape Fear River Watch, was worried that some of the local pig farmers might try to drain their manure lagoons before the rains hit, to prevent them from overflowing.
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Posted on April 26, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Brazil This article is more than 1 year old‘I’d eat an Indian’: rivals seize on unearthed Bolsonaro cannibalism boastThis article is more than 1 year oldIn a now viral video of a 2016 interview, the Brazilian president claims he would eat human flesh
It was a shocking statement, even for a politician who has glorified torturers and called for rivals to be shot.
“I’d eat an Indian, no problem at all,” Jair Bolsonaro bragged to a foreign journalist in 2016, as he described a trip to an Indigenous community where he had purportedly been offered the chance to consume human flesh.
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Posted on April 26, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
World newsWealthy loner picks heirs from phone bookLuis Carlos de Noronha Cabral de Camara boasted of his noble Portuguese lineage, but was not a happy man. As the illegitimate and unloved son of an aristocratic woman, he was rich but had few friends and no offspring of his own.
So when it came to writing out his will almost 20 years ago, he asked a Portuguese notary for a copy of the Lisbon phone book and plucked out names at random.
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Posted on April 26, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Crime fictionWhat To Do When Someone DiesWhen Ellie Falkner's husband, Greg, is killed in a road accident, it's awful enough. But then she learns that he wasn't alone in the car: he was with another woman, who also died. Unable to accept that Greg was having an affair, Ellie sets out to prove it to her sceptical friends and family. She borrows her best friend's identity, infiltrates the dead woman's workplace and noses around until she finds what she's looking for: evidence that Greg was murdered.
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