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- February 5, 2019
Donald Trump held a private funeral service at the White House Friday for his younger brother Robert who died last week one day after the president flew to New York to be by his bedside. Trump and Melania Trump cut somber figures as they watched pallbearers carrying Robert’s casket out of the North Portico of the
READ MOREAsian people are up to five times more likely to catch the coronavirus than white people, according to data from a government-run surveillance scheme. An Office for National Statistics (ONS) report released today revealed seven out of 1,510 Brits identifying as Asian swabbed positive for Covid-19 — a rate of around 0.46 per cent. For
READ MOREImage copyright Getty Images Coronavirus patients from black African backgrounds in England and Wales are dying at more than triple the rate of white Britons, a study suggests. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in areas hit harder by Covid-19. However, they tend to
READ MOREThe overthrow of Bolivian president Evo Morales shows how the politics of environmentalism and social justice intersect in a silvery-white metal. As Morales flew to exile in Mexico, commentators wondered what will become of Bolivia’s lithium, a strategic resource used in consumer electronics and electric cars. Lithium batteries are the most energetic ever created, and
READ MOREAn alleged white supremacist has been arrested in an FBI sting after allegedly plotting to blow up a synagogue or poison those inside with arsenic. Richard Holzer, 27, was accused of domestic terrorism after it was alleged he planned to target Temple Emanuel in Pueblo, Colorado. He was said to have met undercover FBI agents
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