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as crowds of mourners continue to file past the coffin of queen elizabeth at st giles�* cathedral. thousands of people have been queueing for several hours at a time to pay their respects and today is the day that the queen�*s coffin will leave scotland. her coffin will remain in st giles�* cathedral until this afternoon when it will be flown to london to raf northolt. the queen�*s coffin will be companied — as it has been since it left balmoral — by princess anne. king cha...

SIR – Katharine Birbalsingh – the head teacher of Michaela Community School, which faces a High Court challenge for its ban on prayer rituals (report, January 18) – deserves support.

Do you have any sense of who they are and if they were there by their own free will? >> thanks for having me, alex. it was a spectacle, a bizarre one. you think of it in terms of this type of, like, dear leader rally, and yet -- and a very modern version where we can see it on tv. where you have people waving the flags but with all the modern pop music, and i have been in that stadium. i was there for the world cup final, and its massive. so, you do have to just think about that. but i think tha...

Las imágenes de atletas, italianos de corazón con raíces lejanas a Italia y envueltos y sintiendo suya la bandera tricolor en la hora del triunfo en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio, han emocionado al país, abriendo un gran debate como nunca hasta ahora sobre el 'ius soli'

Republicans do hold the cards. >> the fact is, republicans with these negotiations, they want to change the essence, i think, of the united states. i mean, do they really want to make america white again? is that the deal? what i have seen from the democratic side and from talking with the dreamers, is that theyre willing to negotiate daca, for a few miles of wall. maybe 300, 350 miles of wall. thats as much as they can go. but to tell them that from now on, everything is going to change, that c...

So. as far as, you know, the public, the general public. so it wasnt really surprising. it was one of those, here he goes again. and we told you, once again, this is who you are dealing with. this is the president. >> you said when it comes to president trump, there are two americas. what do you mean by that? >> this is the great thing about what is happening now in the shape and the way the country is moving. clearly there is two separate americas. one america for blacks and people of color and...

Would do this? i wish we had seen the same emotion from the president on friday. he hears this and he was horrified. going back to the point i was making earlier, anderson, i think this process really let the president down. going back to the fact that who brought rob porter into the white house? who brought him into the transition? who made him a chief of staff in the u.s. senate? this is a process by the time the fact he was in the white house for this long, i think is problematic. we cant put...

Merit-based immigration, in terms of somebodys professional capabilities? somebodys educational background? >> i think family reunification has merits, too. its worked beautifully since 1965. 40% of all the founders of fortune 500 countries are immigrants or sons of immigrants. in other words, this is a system that works. when they talk about chain migration, theyre really saying, you know, we want to have a white country again. we want to go back to 1965, when almost 80%, 90% of the people were...

He says -- he talked about we lovem, give them the good news about jesus, whether theyre homosexuals, drugs, terrorists, let god sort them out later. being lumped in with drunks and terrorists, isnt that at least a bit offensive? >> unfortunately i know it offends you. it offends you to believe that homosexual is a sin. by the way, he also said that sleeping around was a sin, all these other things. and he was indelicate in his terms. >> do you think that -- lets just be honest were. were in a c...

I grew up in rural west tennessee, the bible belt, then moved to the bay area in san francisco, i learned to talk with folks with whom i had almost nothing in common. is a mommens, lesbians, politicians, and i learned there were more ways to come across badly, and i want to up my skills. all black kids have to learn to talk in mixed company without giving offense, you dont figure that out, you fail. now were all in the same boat. were becoming part of this multiracial, multicultural country. wat...