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WaPo fact-checker tries to put down a black man Glen Kessler tried to put Tim Scott down after the announcement that Senator Scott would give the Republican response to Joe Biden’s first state of the union address. He tried to make Scott look dishonest because he described growing up in the Jim Crow south but his ancestors owned land. Kessler says that because Scott’s great-great-grandfather owned land and his great grandfather worked on that farm, he had a charmed life and leaves that out ...

30 Jan 2021 (AFP) — Hundreds rallied in several French towns on Saturday in protests against Amazon called by anti-capitalist and environmental groups, including at one site where the U.S. e-commerce giant plans a massive warehouse. Amazon plans to set up a 38,000-square-metre (400,000-square-feet) facility in the small southern town of Fournes near the Pont du Gard, a Roman aqueduct bridge that is a World Heritage site. A crowd police said numbered around 800 and which organisers estimated a...