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Year: 2021
The right’s new bogeyman: that Biden will take America’s hamburgers away | Art Cullen
First President Obama was coming for your guns. Didn’t happen. Then President Trump said the socialists…
Lab-grown meat firms attract sixfold increase in investment
The nascent industry growing real meat in bioreactors had a record-breaking year in 2020, with investment…
Champions League final switch good for environment but football must do more | Andrew Simms
It was bad enough in 2019 when tens of thousands of football supporters from the United…
Ted Cruz bets big on Facebook
Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t up for reelection until 2024. But the Texas Republican has spent more…
‘I just don’t think they get it’: The ex-Marine who holds Democrats’ Trumpiest district
Rep. Jared Golden, who has twice won one of his party’s Trumpiest seats, is the kind…
Global renewable energy industry grew at fastest rate since 1999 last year
New wind and solar power projects in China, Europe and the US spurred 45% rise in…
Country diary: we are down to our last male nightingale
Billingshurst, West Sussex: Last year the nightingales were a lockdown highlight. Now there is just a…
GOP weighs going bigger on infrastructure
Senate Republicans are signaling that they could raise the price tag of their infrastructure offer to…
Stranded whale in Thames put down after suffering injuries
Minke whale made it as far as Teddington, south-west London, but rescue teams were unable to…