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‘Big oil is the new big tobacco’: Harvard professor attacks ‘denial and delay’ tactics of ExxonMobil
We were joined from Massachusetts by Dr Geoffrey Supran, the director of climate accountability at Harvard University and the author of a paper examining the public and private communications from ExxonMobil over the span of 40 years.
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Bill Cosby: Actor’s sex assault conviction is overturned
The actor and comedian Bill Cosby is to be released from prison.
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Britney Spears attacks ‘abusive’ conservatorship
Britney Spears says she was left traumatised and humiliated for 13 years by an “abusive” arrangement which gave her father control over her career, estate and most of her personal life.
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Rescuers search for survivors after building collapses in Miami
An extensive rescue operation is underway in Surfside, near Miami Beach in Florida, after a 12 storey block of flats collapsed, leaving at least one person dead.
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Climate Crisis: ‘Apocalyptic’ heatwave and drought hit parts of US
A heatwave described as “apocalyptic” has hit the south-western states of America, pushing people and wildlife in the region to their limits.
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100 years on: America’s reckoning with its past in Tulsa
100 years ago, Tulsa saw a prosperous Black neighbourhood burned to the ground. In the aftermath, there was silence.
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Biden tells Putin: ‘We need basic rules of road we can all abide by’
A “frank and candid discussion” was how Vladimir Putin described today’s summit talks in Geneva with President Biden, claiming there had been no hostility between the two leaders.
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‘It is important to see these democracies coming together’ – Leon Panetta on G7
Leon Panetta was at the heart of US government for years, serving as CIA director and secretary of defense under President Obama, and he spoke to us from California.
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International diplomacy in the Biden era
The era of Trump’s America first is over, but is international diplomacy any different now Joe Biden is in the White House?
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‘There are differences in world view between Joe Biden and Boris Johnson’, says former senior Obama adviser
We spoke to Ben Rhodes from Los Angeles.
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US president Joe Biden meets with Boris Johnson ahead of G7 summit in Cornwall
Meeting ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, Boris Johnson joked with Joe Biden saying he wouldn’t disagree with anything the president says.
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Facebook suspends former US President Donald Trump’s accounts until 2023
Facebook has suspended Donald Trump’s account until at least January 2023, after ruling that his actions in the wake of the riot at the US Capitol constituted “a severe violation” of their rules.
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Biden suspends oil and gas leases to drill in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
President Biden has suspended oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic wildlife refuge, reversing a flagship Trump policy, while an environmental review is carried out.
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Biden visits Tulsa on 100th anniversary of race massacre
US President Joe Biden has travelled to the city today to commemorate the deadly attack perpetrated by white residents in a black neighbourhood.
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Oil giant ExxonMobil faces shareholder rebellion and over climate change
A hedge fund with a tiny stake in the massive oil giant that is ExxonMobil has pulled off a boardroom coup by persuading Exxon shareholders to vote to put two new directors on the board.