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Guardians of the Galaxy director rehired after axing over rape jokes

really? Walt Disney Company in favor of bad joke abut rape and pedophilia?!?

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Months after being fired over old tweets joking about rape and paedophilia, James Gunn is rehired by the Walt Disney Company to direct the third instalment of the popular Marvel franchise.

Joe Biden: can a veteran centrist win in the polarised age of Trump?

Stay home Joe, enjoy retirement – #TimeIsUp

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The former vice-president, an apostle of the bipartisan spirit in a Democratic party moving left, has defied his age once before to win an election and, at 76, could do so again

Caleb Boggs was a second world war hero who had never lost an election. The Republican senator for Delaware enjoyed a 30-point lead in the polls against an unknown, untested Democrat who was just 29 years old. Yet he was outplayed, and outworked, and lost by 1%. The David who slayed this Goliath was a good-looking lawyer with a love of fast cars. His name was Joe Biden.

The year was 1972 and Biden’s astounding win would make him the second youngest senator in American history. A few weeks later, he endured the unimaginable: his wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car crash. In a phone call that was recorded, President Richard Nixon told Biden: “She was there when you won a great victory. You enjoyed it together, and now, I’m sure, she’ll be watching you from now on. Good luck to you.”

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Arch-euroskeptic Farage leads march over Brexit betrayal

Nigel: “I’m in the money, I’m in the money, got my Russian bankers, got my Russian bankers, in Putin’s Pocket, in Putin’s pocket…” Nigel Farage, the politician who probably did more than anyone else to force Britain’s referendum on membership of the European Union, joined protesters at the start of a 270-mile march over what they call a betrayal of the Brexit vote.

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Beto O’Rourke, friend of the fossil fuel industry, is no climate hero | Kate Aronoff

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O’Rourke wants to be everything to everyone. To take a look back at his career, that’s an invitation he’s extended to the fossil fuel industry

“We are truly now, more than ever, the last great hope of this Earth,” Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke ended a video announcing his presidential bid. “At this moment of maximum peril and maximum potential, let’s show ourselves and those who will succeed us in this great country just who we are and what we can do.”

Related: Beto O’Rourke is the new Obama. And that’s the last thing we need | David Sirota

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Rightwing extremist wrote manifesto before livestreaming Christchurch shooting

POS as are all “white nationalist terrorists!”

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Brenton Tarrant, man claiming to be a suspect in the killing of 40 people in New Zealand, said his motive was to ‘create fear’

The man who livestreamed himself attacking a Christchurch mosque and murdering at least 40 people identified himself online before the rampage as Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant.

On a now-deleted Twitter account, Tarrant posted multiple photos of what appear to be machine gun magazines and a link to what is being described as a manifesto for his actions.

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