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| | | | Democrats in 14 US states have been choosing who they want to run against Donald Trump in November's presidential election. Results are still coming in from Super Tuesday - the biggest day yet in the race for the White House - but it looks like the contest has a new front-runner. Former Vice-President Joe Biden has won eight states, a remarkable rebound for his under-funded and under-staffed campaign. Mr Biden - read about him here - has beaten early leader and left-winger Bernie Sanders into second place. Mr Sanders is still doing well, projected to win the biggest prize of the night, California, and several other states. It's been a bad night, however, for billionaire Mike Bloomberg and senator Elizabeth Warren. The Democratic Party is at a crossroads as its voters decide which candidate has the best chance of denying Mr Trump a second term in office. Mr Biden and Mr Sanders may be similar in age - 77 and 78 respectively - but they offer starkly different visions for America's future. Mr Biden, who served under President Barack Obama, presents himself as an electable pragmatist who can bring incremental change, whereas Mr Sanders has promised a revolution. Here are 18 things he believes. Follow all the latest results in our live page and check out five charts that explain the Democratic race. | |
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| | | | | When Sarafina Nance found out she had a very strong chance of getting breast cancer, she decided to have a preventative double mastectomy followed by reconstruction. Sarafina is an astronomy PhD student and when she started researching her surgical options, her science background kicked in. "It was very difficult to know what I should be doing," she says. "Women who have mastectomies and reconstruction can lose feeling in their breasts and that can mean you don't feel hugs, or you don't feel waves crashing into you if you're in the ocean." | |
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| | | | "Life on hold for three months" says the Daily Mail, which like most newspapers leads with government plans to deal with coronavirus. The Guardian says police officers could be taken off some investigations to deal with an epidemic and 999 response times could be extended. The Daily Telegraph thinks "the right notes of proportionality, transparency and competence" have been struck by Downing Street, but warns it's hard to see how the already stretched NHS will manage. Elsewhere, a "Whitehall old timer" tells the i that Priti Patel has made "a fatal error" by turning civil servants against her. "The Home Office is full of traps," the source continues. "They'll let her fall into one and she'll be forced out." The Times says Boris Johnson is sticking by Ms Patel, but the row over her conduct is "an unedifying debacle" that leaves him "with a political headache". Finally, the Daily Mirror reports that the Crown Prosecution Service is reviewing its decision to pursue an assault case against late TV star Caroline Flack. | |
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| | | | | Ring: Every doorbell press and app action recorded |
| | | | Mask ads: Two banned for "misleading" claims |
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| | | Today: Boris Johnson chairs the first cabinet committee on climate change to discuss priorities for the year ahead |
| | | | 14:15: Incoming Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey takes questions from the Treasury Select Committee |
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