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Proud Boys won’t disappear with Trump 01 Feb 2021 A member of the Proud Boys (right) stands in front of a counter protester as members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally in Portland. File/Associated Press Christian Picciolini, The Independent If the violent far-right siege on the Capitol didn’t signal to American politicians and law enforcement that the US has an extremist radicalisation problem and that hate is not just a hoax, let my eight years of experience as a violent white supremacist, and the subsequent 25 years since that I’ve spent deno...

Microsoft registers 17% revenue growth on cloud computing push 27 Jan 2021 A man walks past the Microsoft office in Beijing. File/Associated Press An impressive growth in its Azure Cloud business in a pandemic-hit year helped Microsoft Corporation post a 17 per cent increase in its revenue which reached $43.08 billion, with declaring a net income of $15.5 billion, for the quarter ended December 31, 2020. The software giant’s earnings rose as pandemic boosted demand for cloud computing and sales of Xbox increased in the second quarter. The American multinational t...

Making sense of Capitol violence through poetry 12 Jan 2021 Police stand guard after a day of riots at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. File/Associated Press Michael Melija and Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press A teacher in Alabama presented photographs of the insurrection at the US Capitol without commentary and asked students to write poems in reflection. A Minnesota instructor fielded comparisons to the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing. And a civics educator in Connecticut urged her rattled students to work toward making the country better. Social studies t...

Obrador’s ‘human side without a script’ lures millions 09 Jan 2021 Mexican President Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. File/Associated Press Maria Verza, Associated Press Retired auditor Rafael Silva pours himself a cup of coffee and turns on his television at 7:00 a.m. each weekday morning to watch. Also in Mexico City, Amalia Melendrez tunes in after her morning bath. Four thousand miles away in the United States, engineer Raul Juarez connects to the internet no matter where he is —at home or ...

Bleak beginning: Virus growth outpaces vaccines 08 Jan 2021 People walk through a quiet China Town in London after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a new national lockdown for England. File/Associated Press Danica Kirka and Angela Charlton, Associated Press Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the virus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening livelihoods anew as governments lock down businesses and race to find solutions. Mexico City’s hospitals hold more virus patients th...