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Rush Limbaugh: US ‘trending toward secession’

Traitor Limbaugh!

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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday suggested on his show that America was headed toward the conditions that resulted in the American Civil War after a caller asked whether conservatism would ever dominate…

Boris Johnson and EU agree to extend Brexit talks until Sunday

Translation: he got nothing – his bluster does not count when he lacks talent or good argument.

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Significant gaps remain between PM and EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen after Brussels dinner

A Brexit deal must be sealed by Sunday or there will be no deal, Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen agreed after a “lively and frank” three-hour summit that set the stage for a dramatic final act of the negotiations.

Despite nine months of troubled talks, “very large gaps” were said to remain between the UK and EU. The leaders said they should come to a deal or no deal outcome by the end of the weekend, with pressure on both sides to find time for parliamentary ratification.

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Brexit was never a grassroots movement, but an elitist political takeover | Aditya Chakrabortty

The 2016 referendum was won by rightwing millionaires using the poor and ignored as political cover

Lodged in my mind is an image that grows in significance with each of this week’s Brexit headlines. Through leaks, briefings and Boris Johnson’s mercy dash to dinner in Brussels, the memory nags at me. Unpack it and you will find some of the seeds of this chaotic moment.

Related: ‘Quick and easy’: what leavers said about a UK-EU Brexit trade deal

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Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has 70% efficacy, full trial data shows

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Newly published data shows 90% efficacy only in small group who got half-dose first

The Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has efficacy of 90% in a small group who got a half-dose first, but only 62% in the majority, full trial data newly published in the Lancet has confirmed.

The results may create a quandary for regulatory bodies, which will have to decide on how the vaccine should be used if they approve it.

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Erdogan expresses hope that France will ‘get rid of Macron’ as soon as possible

Recep Tayyip Erdogan – EU leaders want you to go first, so Turkey can flourish again based on democracy and not caliph-wannabes.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hopes France will get rid of Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, the latest salvo in an escalating war of words between the two leaders.