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Florida, once considered a swing state, is firmly Republican – a social anthropologist explains what caused this shift

Florida has undergone a dramatic political transformation over the past decade from a swing state to Republican stronghold.

The Conversation

‘I had rose-tinted spectacles’: UK city dwellers on relocating during the pandemic

As London once again becomes the most searched-for location on Rightmove, which is better, rural or city life?

The Guardian - UK

It’s World Immunization Week. How prepared is Canada if vaccines are needed for a new pandemic?

With the global resurgence of many vaccine-preventable diseases, World Immunization Week (April 24-30) provides a timely opportunity for Canadians to reflect on the goal of “Immunization for All.”

The Conversation

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How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says ‘there are as many ways as there are students’

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and 4 percentage points below 2019 levels.

The Conversation

Number of school suspensions and exclusions in England has risen in a year

The rise comes amid warnings of challenging behaviour in classrooms following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Evening Standard

Fake cures and vaccine passports for sale: the conspiracy communities in Brazil monetising the anti-vax movement – podcast

Editor’s note: The Conversation learned after publishing this podcast that one of the interviewees, Igor Sacramento, passed away in late April. He was interviewed on 27 March for this episode. We’re deeply saddened to learn of his death and send our deepest sympathies to his friends, family and colleagues.

The Conversation

Ambulance bosses accused of pandemic funeral cover-up

While residents were forced to remain locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic, ambulance staff were hosting a secret funeral, which breached rules.

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Deadliest terror attack in decades is a huge blow to Modi’s Kashmir tourism drive

Analysis: Tourism workers say lives they painstakingly rebuilt after Indian government’s 2019 security clampdown and the Covid pandemic are crumbling once again

The Independent UK

Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops

As the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference kicks off in Glasgow, virus expert Prof Emma Thomson says new technologies are boosting science’s ability to fight novel strains of infectious diseases

The Guardian - UK

Government borrowing surge means public debt mountain now equals £95,300 per household

Borrowing total was the third highest on record behind only the pandemic year of 2021 and the year following the global financial crisis

Evening Standard

Trump administration to resume defaulted student loan collections

Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt has announced that the Department of Education will resume student loan collections from those in default from May 5, after being paused in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Independent UK

Meghan Markle's Boxed Hair Dye Disaster During the Pandemic Left Her Looking "Elvira-Esque"

"I thought, ‘I'm gonna look just like she does on the box.'"

Marie Claire

Advanced cancers returned to prepandemic levels, according to a reassuring report

Delays in cancer screenings brought on by COVID-19 aren’t making a huge impact on cancer statistics

The Independent UK

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools that help us understand and address these threats

The Guardian - US

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Trump’s erratic tariffs harder to navigate than pandemic, says UK export agency

CEO warns that the nearly-daily shift in US trade policy is making it hard to predict the financial fallout for firms

The Guardian - UK

Could I become a Christian in a year?

After two friends unexpectedly converted, Lamorna Ash discovered a new generation of young people turning to faith. As she investigated the phenomenon, one of her first steps was to spend a week on a working retreat on Iona. And then something strange happened…

International Business Times

Tariffs Could Lift Boeing And Airbus Plane Prices Even Higher

Commercial plane prices, already lifted in recent years due to pandemic supply chain shocks, are poised to climb further as Boeing and Airbus are buffeted by trade tariffs.

Fortune

White House doubles down on its lab leak theory, annihilating the original COVID-19 information website and replacing it with its own claims

Trump believes the COVID-19 pandemic started from a research lab in Wuhan, China.

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White House Site Blames China For Covid-19 'Lab Leak'

The White House on Friday unveiled a revamped Covid-19 website that promoted the contentious theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory, framing it as the pandemic's "true origins."

The Guardian - US

Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

Site that once provided health information now includes criticism of Anthony Fauci, who led response to pandemic

The Independent UK

Campaigners and charities horrified by revelations about impact of Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts

Trump has been accused of giving ‘millions of people a death sentence’ after The Independent exposed the reality of the cuts on the ground

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s cycling vision stutters as number of bike journeys fails to rise above pre-pandemic levels

Figures released by the Department for Transport show the average number of bicycle journeys per person has remained stable since a peak in 2020

The Independent UK

Fears of the economy tanking are now higher than they were at the height of the Covid pandemic

Dismal fund manager sentiment comes as Federal Reserve warns of increased inflation and slowing growth due to tariffs

International Business Times UK

Global Economy on Edge: UNCTAD and WTO Forecast Deepening Slowdown for This Year

Global economy lurching towards a precarious downturn, with growth forecast to slump to a mere 2.3% in 2025

Evening Standard

West End private members' clubs help feed London's homeless

Annabel’s, George, Harry’s Bar and Mark’s Club have all joined an initiative that started in the depths of the pandemic

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