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Pando, Miss Rona and Covid Toe: how the language of a disease develops – shaped by fear and prejudice
Deadly outbreaks always lead to a new vocabulary, as people search for ways to understand a growing threat. And while some of the new words are merely descriptive, others have ugly underpinnings More
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Kamala Harris makes history, Barack Obama slams Trump: day three at the DNC – video highlights
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Kamala Harris officially accepted her vice-presidential nomination on the third day of the Democratic national convention. Her husband, Douglas Emhoff, joined her on stage alongside Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Gabrielle Giffords were among the many figures who condemned Donald Trump’s presidency and pledged their support for the Biden-Harris ticket
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Billie Eilish at the DNC: 'Trump is destroying our country and everything we care about' – video
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The 18-year old singer, who will be a first-time voter in 2020, made an impassioned plea for people to get out and cast their ballot in November’s election.
Eilish also spoke out against the current president during her appeal on the third night of the Democratic national convention, saying: ‘You don’t need me to tell you things are a mess … Donald Trump is destroying our country and everything we care about’
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Shooting survivor Gabby Giffords delivers moving speech at DNC – video
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Former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords provided the most emotional moment of the third night of the Democratic national convention.
Giffords, who sustained brain damage after she was shot at an event with constituents in 2011, spoke during a segment on gun control. She said: ‘Today, I struggle with speech but I have not lost my voice. America needs all of us to speak out, even when you have to fight to find the words.’
A spokesperson for Giffords said she spent ‘countless hours’ practising the speech, the longest she has delivered since the shooting
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Barack Obama's fiery DNC speech in full – video
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Barack Obama delivered a powerful message calling for voters to protect American democracy during the third night of the Democratic national convention. The former president argued that Donald Trump’s potential re-election posed an existential threat to the country’s democratic values and institutions, and he implored voters to ’embrace your own responsibility as citizens’
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