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The Sydney Morning Harold is a newspaper in Sydney, Australia. This newspaper features a couple different sections of news such as politics, world, business, life and sports. There is very little emphasis on sports in this newspaper so that is most likely their least talked about section. They seem to heavily talk about politics and world issues. They also still talk about the pandemic but more in the sense of the world rather than their own country.
This news website is formatted very simply but it is kind of hard to navigate through

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The World is a UK/US radio news station. It focuses on news around the United States and United Kingdom. Since the world is a radio news station is formatted differently than the other two sources I chose which are news websites. Of the top five stories on the World three of them were about racisms and/or BLM. The world seems to have a leftist view throughout the radio show.  The World is similar to The Guardian because of their leftist view.

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The protests led by farmers in India are entering their third month with no sign of ending. Now, global celebrities are weighing in on the standoff including Rihanna and Greta Thunberg. And, the people helping manage vaccine shortages and rising cases of the coronavirus in populations across African countries are some of the best equipped for responding to infectious diseases and the pandemic. But the continent is now facing a second, more threatening wave of COVID-19. Also, Scandinavia's largest festival, the Göteborg Film Festival, is going ahead this year but for an audience of one.

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The protests led by farmers in India are entering their third month with no sign of ending. Now, global celebrities are weighing in on the standoff including Rihanna and Greta Thunberg. And, the people helping manage vaccine shortages and rising cases of the coronavirus in populations across African countries are some of the best equipped for responding to infectious diseases and the pandemic.

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For anyone who has tried ocean swimming, the joys are quickly apparent: the challenge of heading out through the break into open water, the pleasure of salt water on skin, lungs full of fresh air, the bracing exercise, the clear-headedness, encounters with marine life ...

The negatives? Well, the regular chaos at the start line as a wave of over-enthusiastic swimmers tangle arms and swim over each other to get around the first buoy.

The director of the Murray Rose Malabar Magic, Robert Lloyd, believes one of the changes introduced because of COVID-19 - rolling starts of a few swimmers seconds apart - has been such a success it is likely to become a standard feature of the ocean swimming circuit once the pandemic is over.

On a sparkling Sunday morning at Malabar, three swimmers were sent off five seconds apart under COVID-safety measures that also included only online entries and limits on spectators.

"It's spreading everybody out," Mr Lloyd said of the starting protocol. "There is basically a safe orderly line of swimmers out to the outer waters then back in and over the line.

"Operationally, it's proving to be a more efficient and nice way to run an ocean swim, so I think it will be the way swims are run in future."

The advantages extend to newer ocean swimmers who might lack confidence or are anxious at the start.

"There's always an issue with overly zealous people kicking the shit out of people and that gets taken away," Mr Lloyd said.

The pandemic has been a positive for the Malabar Magic, which raises funds for children with disabilities to learn to swim.

Instead of the usual 750 early online entries plus up to 250 more on race day, organisers closed the books for COVID-safety reasons at almost 1900.

That reflects both the popularity of ocean swimming while pools were shut because of the pandemic over winter and the fact other races have been either cancelled or held with restricted numbers since the start of summer.

"We're happy beneficiaries of COVID," Mr Lloyd said. "People are around in Sydney rather than being overseas and ocean swimming is a safe outdoor activity so more people are up for a swim."

More than 250 swimmers entered the surprisingly popular new 5km event that joined the traditional 2.5km and 1km events. It was a challenging two-laps through the calm waters of Long Bay into a solid swell around the furthest turning buoy.

"Early in the season - pre-Christmas when COVID was strongly around - a number of swims had to be closed," Mr Lloyd said. "Because we weren't having on-the-day registrations, a number of people have said 'we've got to get in early'."

For Mr Lloyd, who was awarded an OAM for service to children with a disability last month, it was the 13th Malabar Magic since he launched it with Murray Rose, the Olympic swimming great who died in 2012. And the record numbers translated to fundraising of more than $250,000.

Competitors included blind marathon swimmer James Pittar, two local MPs - NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman and Matt Thistlethwaite - Commonwealth Games gold medallist Matt Renshaw and former Wallabies captain Phil Kearns.

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The arrival of tens of thousands more Pfizer COVID-19 doses has been hailed by Health Minister Greg Hunt as another step towards a more normal Australia.

It comes as Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Greens Leader Adam Bandt attended the Canberra Hospital's COVID-19 surge clinic on Tuesday morning for their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

The second shipment of Pfizer vaccines arrived on Monday night.

A shipment of 166,000 doses of that vaccine arrived in Australia on Monday night, Mr Hunt said, and a further 120,000 are expected to arrive next week.

The broader vaccine rollout began on Monday, with frontline healthcare workers, border and quarantine staff and aged care residents all lining up for immunisations around the country.

The vaccine rollout means stranded Australians could be brought home more quickly as hotel quarantine programs expand following mass vaccinations of border and quarantine staff.

"We've seen Australians being given the vaccines, and this is the start of a program which will help protect lives and saved lives across Australia and give people a pathway to returning to a more normal lifestyle," he said.

The rough 290,000 doses secured over the next two weeks will be split in the same way as the first shipment: 80,000 will be made available each week, with 50,000 divided between states and territories and 30,000 for aged care facilities. The remainer will be held for future use.

"We're always provisioning for the second doses which is the recommendation of our medical advisors and making sure that we have contingency if at any stage they were an issue with the supply chain," Mr Hunt said.

"But I have to say, the consistency of supply has been strong and heartening."

Mr Hunt said Pfizer gave him "good, strong confidence" on future deliveries.

"That just gives Australians, confidence, gives us confidence in terms of the effectiveness of the vaccines, and confidence in terms of the reliability of supply which is very important."

Mr Albanese and Mr Bandt were the latest in a string of high profile Australians to receive the vaccine. On Sunday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison got his first dose, alongside Chief Health Officer Professor Paul Kelly and Chief Nursing Officer Professor Alison McMillan.

On Monday, Mr Hunt said it was not about politicians skipping the queue, but rather about showing confidence in the vaccines.

"There is a reticence about being seen to seek a priority and none of us have wanted to do that," he said.

"But equally, there's a duty to provide that confidence, and so what we're doing is showing, if we think it's safe, if we're willing to do this, then it's safe for every Australian."

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A man who police allege is the head of a multimillion-dollar money laundering syndicate has been arrested after officers stopped his car in Sydney's inner west and allegedly found $1 million in cash inside.

Cybercrime detectives began investigating a criminal syndicate's alleged money laundering via cryptocurrency in October last year.

Yi Zhong, seen in a file picture, has been arrested in Sydney. Credit:Wolter Peeters

The driver Yi Zhong, 30, was stopped on Homebush Road, Strathfield, about 5.30am on Monday and taken to Auburn police station.

Police say two bags containing $1 million in cash were found during a search of the vehicle.

During a search warrant at a home in Wentworth Point, more cash, more than one kilogram of methylamphetamine, cocaine, mobile phones, a laptop and electronic storage devices were also seized, police said.

"Police will allege in court the man directed a criminal syndicate to launder money by converting cash into bitcoin on his behalf, totalling $5,479,300," police said in a statement on Monday.

Cybercrime squad detectives made the arrest on Monday. Credit:NSW Police

Mr Zhong has been charged with 24 offences including 19 counts of knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime, knowingly directing activities of a criminal group and drug-related offences.

Detective Superintendent Matt Craft said the group allegedly operates as money launderers for hire and he anticipates further arrests over the next four weeks.

Mr Zhong was refused police bail and appeared on Monday before Burwood Local Court where he was formally refused bail.

He is due to appear at Central Local Court on April 19.

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Texas has long represented a wild west individualism that elevates personal freedom - this week, the freedom to freeze - above all else.

The state's prevailing social Darwinism was expressed most succinctly by the mayor of Colorado City, who accused his constituents - trapped in near sub-zero temperatures and complaining about lack of heat, electricity and drinkable water - of being the "lazy" products of a "socialist government", adding "I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!" and predicting "only the strong will survive and the weak will perish".

Texas has the third-highest number of billionaires in America, most of them oil tycoons. Last week, the laissez-faire state energy market delivered a bonanza to oil and gas producers that managed to keep production going during the freeze. It was "like hitting the jackpot", boasted the president of Comstock Resources on an earnings call. Jerry Jones, billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboys, holds a majority of Comstock's shares.

But most other Texans were marooned. Some did perish.

The white working class has been seduced by conservative Republicans and Trump cultists, of which Texas has an abundance

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the flow of electric power, exempted affluent downtowns from outages, leaving thriving parts of Austin, Dallas and Houston brightly lit while pushing less affluent precincts into the dark and cold.

Like the poor across America and much of the world, poor Texans are getting hammered by climate change. Many inhabit substandard homes, lacking proper insulation. The very poor occupy trailers or tents, or camp out in their cars. Lower-income communities are located close to refineries and other industrial sites that release added pollutants when they shut or restart.

In Texas, for-profit energy companies have no incentive to prepare for extreme weather or maintain spare capacity. Even if they're able to handle surges in demand, prices go through the roof and poorer households are hit hard. If they can't pay, they're cut off.

Rich Texans take spikes in energy prices in their stride. If the electric grid goes down, private generators kick in. In a pinch - as last week - they check into hotels or leave town. On Wednesday night, as millions of his constituents remained without power and heat, Senator Ted Cruz flew to Cancún, Mexico for a family vacation. Their Houston home was " FREEZING " - as his wife put it.

Climate change, Covid-19 and jobs are together splitting Americans by class more profoundly than Americans are split by politics. The white working class is taking as much of a beating as most Black and Latino people.

Yet the white working class has been seduced by conservative Republicans and Trump cultists, of which Texas has an abundance, into believing that what's good for Black and Latino people is bad for them, and that whites are, or should be, on the winning side of the social Darwinian contest.

White grievance helps keep Republicans in power, protecting their rich patrons from a majority that might otherwise join to demand what they need - such as heat, electricity, water and reliable sources of power.

Lower-income Texans, white as well as Black and Latino, are taking it on the chin in many other ways. Texas is one of the few states that hasn't expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, leaving the share of Texans without health insurance twice the national average, the largest uninsured population of any state. Texas has double the national average of children in poverty and a higher rate of unemployment than the nation's average.

And although Texans have suffered multiple natural disasters stemming from climate change, Texas Republicans are dead set against a Green New Deal that would help reduce the horrific impacts.

Last Wednesday, Texas's governor, Greg Abbott, went on Fox News to proclaim, absurdly, that what happened to his state "shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States". Abbott blamed the power failure on the fact that "wind and solar got shut down".

Rubbish. The loss of power from frozen coal-fired and natural gas plants was six times larger than the dent caused by frozen wind turbines. Texans froze because deregulation and a profit-driven free market created an electric grid utterly unprepared for climate change.

In Texas, oil tycoons are the only winners from climate change. Everyone else is losing badly. Adapting to extreme weather is necessary but it's no substitute for cutting emissions, which Texas is loath to do. Not even the Lone Star state should protect the freedom to freeze.

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New York Rangers star Artemi Panarin is taking a leave of absence from the NHL team after allegations emerged in Russia that he beat up an 18-year-old girl in 2011.

Panarin is one of the few Russian athletes to have publicly criticised Vladimir Putin and his team suggested the assault allegations are a smear tactic to punish the player.

"Artemi vehemently and unequivocally denies any and all allegations in this fabricated story," the Rangers said in a statement on Monday. "This is clearly an intimidation tactic being used against him for being outspoken on recent political events.

"Artemi is obviously shaken and concerned and will take some time away from the team. The Rangers fully support Artemi and will work with him to identify the source of these unfounded allegations."

Although Panarin lives in the United States he still has family in Russia.

Panarin recently posted the message "Freedom for Navalny" to Instagram in reference to Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who was jailed earlier this month in what many saw as a sham trial.

Retribution was feared after Panarin's Instagram post on 1/21 in support of opposition leader Alexi Navalny with caption "Freedom for Navalny." Panarin, who has family in Russia, has been outspoken against Putin.
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Panarin, like Navalny, is a longtime critic of the Russian president. "The mistake in our society is treating [Putin] like a superhuman," Panarin said in 2019. "He is a regular person, like us, and he is serving us... Yes, to be a president you have to be smart and enlightened, but our biggest mistake, among many, is thinking that we have nobody better than Vladimir Vladimirovich. This is nonsense. How many million people live here? No question there is someone better."

In the same interview, Panarin said many in Russia would view him as a "foreign agent" for his views and also attacked his country's progress under Putin.

"American cities are developing thanks to local taxes which stay in the state," he said. "But here, a lot of money goes to Moscow, so people everywhere work for Moscow's benefit. I always thought it's unfair."

Panarin's stance is in stark contrast to Russia's biggest hockey star, Alex Ovechkin, who has a close relationship with Putin, even founding a movement, PutinTeam, to support the president.

Putin is a hockey fan and has appeared in televised exhibition games alongside businessmen, politicians and former NHL stars. During an appearance in a 2019 game, the then 66-year-old scored at least eight goals against suspiciously pliant opponents.

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exas has been hit by a disaster of its own making and its Republican office holders expect the rest of the US to pay to clean up the mess. To quote Dana Bash of CNN questioning Michael McCaul, a veteran GOP congressman, on Sunday: "That's kind of rich, don't you think?"

For all of their bravado and anti-government rhetoric, in the aftermath of calamities like last week's deep freeze Lone Star Republicans make a habit of passing the plate. Their suffering is ours too.

But when the shoe is on the other foot, they begrudge kindness to others. Said differently, Ted Cruz is merely a grotesque illustration, not an exception.

Take a walk down memory lane. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy hammered New York and New Jersey. As the north-east reeled, Texas Republicans stood back, treating the region as if it were another country. As if the civil war had not ended.

After the turn of the year, Cruz, his fellow senator John Cornyn and 23 of two dozen Texas Republicans in the House gave a thumbs down to Sandy aid. Less reflexively hostile heads prevailed. The relief bill cleared Congress. But the GOP's Texans had left their mark.

Peter King, then a Republican representative from Long Island, understood malice and stupidity when he saw it. He called for a halt to donations to Republicans who opposed rescuing sister states.

"These Republicans have no problem finding New York when they're out raising millions of dollars," King said. "What they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans. It was an absolute disgrace."

Ted Cruz is nothing if not performative, ever Janus-faced

But Cruz in particular is nothing if not performative, ever Janus-faced. After Hurricane Harvey slammed Houston in 2017, he offered this explanation for his vote four years earlier: Sandy relief had become "a $50bn bill that was filled with unrelated pork".

Cruz also intoned: "What I said then and still believe now is that it's not right for politicians to exploit a disaster when people are hurting to pay for their own political wishlist."

Other than possibly Cruz's long-suffering wife, it is unclear whether anyone believed Flyin' Ted even then.

Cruz may have flown home alone, leaving his family in Cancún, but he is not alone among Texas Republicans in hating Blue America. He is just the most notorious. Unlike congressman Louie Gohmert, Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. He should and likely does know better.

In 2019, as part of Donald Trump's overhaul of the tax laws, Kevin Brady, a Texan then chair of the House ways and means committee, virtually eliminated the deductibility of state and local taxes from federal tax returns, in order to pay for an upper-bracket and corporate giveaway. New York and New Jersey are still feeling the bite.

Under Trump, the economy failed to pass 3% growth annually and a much-touted manufacturing renaissance failed to appear. Covid made a bad situation worse.

And now, lo and behold, Texas is forced, cap in hand, to pucker up to a Democratic House, Senate and White House. Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader and a native of Brooklyn, must be suppressing a smile.

To be sure, the federal government and Congress must help Texas. No ifs, ands or buts. Joe Biden is treating the state a whole lot better than Trump did Puerto Rico. That's a good thing.

Innocent lives have been lost and upended in the name of retrograde ideology masked as policy. Real people, families and business have been destroyed. Climate change denial comes with a high human cost. Standing apart from the national electric grid isn't independence. It is a death wish by another name.

Confederacy 2.0.

Alexander Stephens, vice-president of the breakaway states, summed up this attitude in 1861: "If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden. If the mouth of the Savannah River has to be cleared out, let the sea-going navigation which is benefited by it, bear the burden."

Sounds familiar?

Other than when it came to repelling Abraham Lincoln, the Confederacy was not a mutual assistance pact. Before this latest manmade debacle, Republicans were dreaming of drowning government in a bathtub. Hopefully, in Texas that may change.

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exas has been hit by a disaster of its own making and its Republican office holders expect the rest of the US to pay to clean up the mess. To quote Dana Bash of CNN questioning Michael McCaul, a veteran GOP congressman, on Sunday: "That's kind of rich, don't you think?"