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Days before the U.S. presidential election, Pope Francis spoke publicly about the danger of citizens becoming 'walled-up' and tyrannized by people exploiting their fears. Some observers at different ends of the U.S. political spectrum took the pope's address as an indirect criticism of some of the.... |
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Only eight years after millions of Americans poured into the streets in spontaneous, joyful celebration of the election of the nation’s first black president, optimism seems to have been sucked out of the country’s marrow, replaced by a heavy anxiety, a sense that things aren’t right and can’t easily be fixed. |
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TIM CLARKE Gillian Crawley Thousands of petrolheads attended to see the popular motoring event Half-a-million spectators lined the chilly 60-mile route from Hyde Park yesterday in the longest-running motoring event in the world. It commemorates the Emancipation Run of November 14, 1896 that.... |
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© Provided by Birmingham Mail. At 10.30am on May 27, 1942, Czech freedom fighters Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis executed a daring plot to eliminate one of the most evil and powerful figures in the Nazi hierarchy. As Reinhard Heydrich’s open-topped Merc purred through Prague, Gabcik stepped in front of.... |
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The ground-breaking comedy classic which launched the career of Birmingham-born comedy genius Tony Hancock aired on the BBC for the first time 62 years ago this week. © Provided by Birmingham Mail © Provided by Birmingham Mail. Hancock’s Half Hour would later become a TV comedy series, broadcast.... |
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At 10.30am on May 27, 1942, Czech freedom fighters Josef Gabcik and Jan Kubis executed a daring plot to eliminate one of the most evil and powerful figures in the Nazi hierarchy. As Reinhard Heydrich’s open-topped Merc purred through Prague, Gabcik stepped in front of the limo and squeezed the trigger of his Sten sub-machine gun. |
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The ground-breaking comedy classic which launched the career of Birmingham-born comedy genius Tony Hancock aired on the BBC for the first time 62 years ago this week. Hancock’s Half Hour would later become a TV comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. |
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Nebraska lawmakers abolished the death penalty in May 2015 over Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto. Supporters of the punishment responded with a citizen-led petition drive partially financed by Ricketts that suspended the Legislature's decision until voters decide the issue Tuesday. |
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Voters will have an opportunity Tuesday to reverse an action taken by the Legislature and reinstate Nebraska's death penalty, but moving forward with executions could take years. Nebraska's last execution was in 1997, using the electric chair, and the state has never carried one out using its current three-drug lethal injection protocol. |
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Nebraska lawmakers abolished the death penalty in May 2015 over Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto. Supporters of the punishment responded with a citizen-led petition drive partially financed by Ricketts that suspended the Legislature's decision until voters decide the issue Tuesday. |
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Voters will have an opportunity Tuesday to reverse an action taken by the Legislature and reinstate Nebraska's death penalty, but moving forward with executions could take years. Nebraska's last execution was in 1997, using the electric chair, and the state has never carried one out using its current three-drug lethal injection protocol. |
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