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      Super Tuesday live: Donald Trump likely to win primaries as 16 US states vote

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 5 March - 11:02 · 1 minute

    Former president looks all but certain of Republican presidential nomination as Nikki Haley faces last chance to make an impact on the race

    Donald Trump has continued his domination of the race to be the Republican nominee for president with an expected victory in Monday’s North Dakota Republican caucuses.

    As his campaign headed into Super Tuesday the former president will most likely stretch his lead over Nikki Haley by all 29 of North Dakota’s delegates. If he wins at least 60% of the vote he gets all of the delegates. If his vote is less than 60%, then the delegates will be split proportional to the respective votes for Trump and Haley.

    I think we’re going to send a message that is going to be a kick-off to tomorrow, which is president Donald Trump is going to close this out, this is going to be the end of the trail, and we’re going to say we have a nominee, and let’s go after it, and beat Joe Biden in the fall.

    Yesterday North Dakota held its Republican presidential caucuses and Donald Trump is expected to win convincingly according to the AP. However, turnout was low.

    Joe Biden has announced a “strike force” to crack down on “unfair and illegal” prices. The new panel will target businesses “when they try to rip off Americans”, the Biden administration said .

    The US supreme court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado’s primary ballot last year .

    People incarcerated in state-run facilities in Texas and Florida are the most exposed to dangerous heat conditions being exacerbated by the climate crisis.

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      Susan Sarandon sues over ‘extensive problems’ with $2m eco dream home

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 18 August, 2023 - 18:11

    Thelma & Louise star, 76, had planned ‘entirely off-the-grid’ home for her retirement but alleges faulty work by construction firm

    The Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon has taken a construction firm to court over what she calls “extensive problems” at what she envisioned as a $2m eco-friendly dream home she had built in Vermont for her retirement.

    Buckled siding, missing insulation, mold and an unfinished primary bedroom ceiling are among 47 issues found by engineers, contractors and Sarandon’s staff, according to a lawsuit filed against DeGrenier Contracting and Property Management in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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      Man says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 21 October, 2022 - 17:27

    Man says he secretly lowered his town’s water fluoride for over a decade

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    The longtime water superintendent for a small town in Vermont has resigned in protest after local officials ordered him to restore the town's water to the state's standard for fluoride levels—which he had been secretly and unilaterally lowering for years due to his own personal anti-fluoride beliefs.

    And his righteous, five-page resignation letter offered yet another bombshell in the small-town water scandal that has made national headlines in recent weeks. He asserted that he had been surreptitiously lowering the town's fluoride levels for much longer than previously known—for over a decade rather than the nearly four years officials had previously disclosed.

    Restoring the town's water to the state-recommended fluoride level "poses unacceptable risks to public health," the now-ex water superintendent, Kendall Chamberlin, wrote in his resignation letter, according to local media. “I cannot in good conscience be a party to this."

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