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Donald Trump supporters gathered outside Trump Tower in New York City on March 8, following the former president’s arrival.Footage taken by Mark Szuszkiewicz shows the crowd chanting “Trump 24” while holding a large banner, as well as a young person voicing their support for Trump.“God bless America!” the child says into a megaphone. “God bless New York! God bless our beautiful country! God bless NYPD! God bless Trump!” Credit: Mark Szuszkiewicz/@mark4ny via Storyful
Britain will see a resurgence in coronavirus cases at some point and can't bring deaths from COVID-19 down to zero even with a successful vaccine rollout, England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on Tuesday. Whitty said that caution in re-opening the economy would affect the size and the timing of a resurgence, but that vaccines would not be able to prevent all deaths from COVID. "All the modelling suggests there is going to be a further surge and that will find the people who either have not been vaccinated, or where the vaccine has not worked, and some of them will end up in hospital and sadly, some of them will go on to die," Whitty told lawmakers.
To outward appearances, the Markle Sparkle was fully in evidence as the Duchess smilingly worked the room, her hand touchingly entwined with Harry’s. With her midnight blue ball gown shimmering in the glare of the flash bulbs, the five-month pregnant royal appeared in sparkling form as she joined her husband for the premiere of Cirque du Soleil in Jan 2019. Yet following an extraordinary TV interview with Oprah Winfrey that has left the Royal family reeling, we now know that the “suicidal” former actress only went ahead with the engagement at the Royal Albert Hall because she did not think she should be left alone. The claim, along with the suggestion that an as-yet unnamed Windsor questioned how dark Archie’s skin might be when he was born, form the main charge of the bomb dropped on the monarchy during the couple’s two-hour tell all.
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The Royal Navy is seeking a catapult system to launch drones and jets from aircraft carriers as a possible “Plan B” for the F-35. The MoD has asked industry for ideas about future “aircraft launch and recovery systems” that could be fitted to ships in the next five years. The document issued by the MoD says it “wishes to assess the availability of electromagnetic catapult, and arrestor wire systems for the launch and recovery of air vehicles”.
Children who receive false positives when tested at school will still be told to self-isolate and will be banned from the classroom for 10 days, the Government has said. Ministers have been accused of pursuing a “ridiculous” policy on lateral flow tests that has “no scientific basis” and will result in youngsters missing out on school “unnecessarily”. It comes as millions of children returned to lessons on Monday for the first time in months. Parents and teachers spoke of their joy of children returning to school, with one headteacher saying his school “feels alive again” as he welcomed 500 pupils back on Monday. David McPartlin at Flakefleet Primary School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, said: "There's been a real buzz about the place and a sense of excitement this morning. Today feels like the start of the end of Covid, like we are coming out the end of a very long dark tunnel.” Meanwhile, parents at Ide primary school near Exeter, Devon, described how happy their children were to be back at school. "My youngest has not seen any of his friends or spoken to them for months,” one mother said. “He has really missed seeing them every day." Pupils at secondary schools have been asked to have three rapid antigen tests at school during the first fortnight of term, followed by another at home. After that they will be given two tests per week to take at home, all of which are voluntary.
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SIR – The Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to lead a “private” life and should do so without inflicting their sour grapes upon us. It isn’t fair, either, on the members of the Royal family who carry out their duties with such unstinting devotion. Niki Talbot Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, France SIR – The Sussexes, on their departure from the Royal family, said that part of their focus would be on helping others. I fail to see how this interview with Oprah Winfrey is helping anyone else. All it will do is upset the Queen and irritate the British public, who had welcomed the Duchess in the beginning. Hannah Hunt Wendover, Buckinghamshire SIR – Revelations reveal; accusations accuse – a very important distinction. Christopher Timbrell Kington Langley, Wiltshire SIR – One sad repercussion from the Oprah Winfrey interview is the long-term effect on the Sussexes’ children. Meghan came from a broken family, but in attacking Harry’s family she has prevented Archie and his sibling having the affinity that Harry had with his cousins and wider family. Harry describes his father and brother as “trapped”. He seems to be confusing this with them carrying out the duties that are expected of them. It was clear from seeing the wider Royal family at the Commonwealth Day programme that they take on those duties cheerfully and responsibly – something that the Sussex children, thanks to their parents, will never have the opportunity of experiencing. Barry Gibbs Wimborne, Dorset SIR – She’s an actress, darling! Jane Campbell Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire SIR – Poor little me! Sheena Lane Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire
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For a monarch determined to slim down and modernise the Royal family for the 21st century, the Queen’s decision not to give her great-grandson Archie the title of prince made perfect sense. Following controversy over the roles and publicly funded privilege of minor members of The Firm, the Queen and the Prince of Wales had already decided to shift the focus to Her Majesty and just six others. What they could not have predicted was that two years later, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would try to weave that perceived snub into a new narrative – one of racism at the heart of the House of Windsor. “They didn't want him to be a prince,” the Duchess told Oprah Winfrey, “which would be different from protocol ... we have in tandem the conversation of, ‘He won't be given security. He’s not going to be given a title.’ And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.” Regardless of its veracity, Harry and Meghan’s claim that there were concerns about the colour of their baby’s skin has the power to do permanent damage to the royal brand. Irrespective of who made the alleged comment about Archie’s skin, the Duke and Duchess have put the Prince of Wales in the eye of the storm by claiming he ignored warnings of possible racist attacks on Archie when decisions were made about his security. A source close to the Sussexes said the couple had seen intelligence and security reports that suggested their son was at a heightened risk, partly because of his mixed race heritage. “Security was paramount to them,” the source said. “On that basis, as a couple, they wanted him to be a prince and that was made clear to the Royal family.”
The front pages of Britain’s newspapers are dominated by the fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The two-hour interview, originally broadcast on CBS in the US, was aired on ITV1 on Monday evening, and contained a number of revelations about the Royal Family. Tuesday’s newspapers all focused on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and what their claims could mean for the monarchy. Read more: Poll shows Britons have little sympathy for Harry and Meghan On Monday, Harry said in a clip not aired in the original broadcast that racism in the UK was a “large part” of why he and Meghan left for the US, and that the British press, “specifically the tabloids”, was “bigoted”. Some of those newspapers hit back on Tuesday, with the Daily Mail asking of the couple in its front page headline: “What have they done?” The paper’s royal editor Rebecca English said the “bombshell” interview left Buckingham Palace “paralysed with ‘horror and dismay”. She wrote: “The Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William were all locked in crisis talks over how to react to a string of incendiary accusations unleashed by Harry and wife Meghan”. In the interview, Meghan revealed there were times when she “didn’t want to be alive any more” because of the pressures of life within the Royal Family. She said at one point an unnamed royal asked Harry “how dark” their son Archie’s skin might be. On Monday, Winfrey told CBS This Morning that Harry told her neither the Queen nor Prince Philip made the remark. Harry said he felt “let down” by his father the Prince of Wales, saying Charles stopped taking his calls after the couple’s decision to step back from royal duties. Harry also said he and his brother William “were on different paths”. The couple also revealed that they are expecting a baby girl. Although the Daily Telegraph led with US president Joe Biden saying Meghan had shown courage in speaking out, its columnist Allison Pearson said the interview was a “devastating insult” to the Queen. She wrote: “However loudly Harry and Meghan may have proclaimed their affection for the monarch there is no question that their interview was a devastating act of lèse-majesté. “The couple unleashed demons which could destabilise her beloved Commonwealth and threaten the future of the monarchy itself.” The front page in the Daily Express read: “So sad it has come to this”. Its columnist Stephen Pollard criticised the Sussexes for electing to air their grievances on “prime time TV”. Read more: Meghan says she's had worse press treatment than Kate He wrote: “Meghan and Harry took to the airwaves for a two-hour long interview in which they spoke about themselves, their feelings and their wishes to the exclusion of all else.” Referring to the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, the Daily Mirror said it was the “worst royal crisis in 85 years”. A leading article in The Times said: “The implication that the monarchy is racist could hardly be more damaging to an institution that relies for its legitimacy on its claim to represent the whole of modern Britain. “The problem for the royal family is that there is little they could say by way of explanation or mitigation that would not risk making the situation worse.” Metro splashed with a picture of Harry, a pregnant Meghan and Archie with the headline, “Just the four of us now”.
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The Supreme Court has tossed out former President Donald Trump’s last remaining challenge to the 2020 election after he lied about the results of the nationwide vote and urged states to wipe out thousands of ballots while promoting false claims of fraud. The court without comment rejected Mr Trump’s appeal, which challenged thousands of absentee ballots filed in Wisconsin, an election battleground that the former president lost by more than 20,000 votes. It was the last of three petitions filed at the Supreme Court near the end of his presidency that the justices declined to take up.