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Joe Biden storms ahead of Bernie Sanders in poll in Arizona on eve of Super Tuesday III

Former vice president Biden now holds a 20 point lead over Sanders in Arizona in a new Monmouth poll as a group of populous states prepares to vote Tuesday.




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Joe Biden wins Florida, Illinois AND Arizona

Joe Biden easily won Florida, Illinois and Arizona over Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, further cementing his position of probable 2020 Democratic nominee over the democratic socialist.




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Bernie Sanders will 'assess his campaign' after Joe Biden sweeps Illinois, Florida and Arizona 

Sanders' campaign manager said the socialist will be having 'further conversations.' The next primaries are three weeks away. Biden took Florida, Illinois and Arizona easily on Tuesday.




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Bernie Sanders snaps when reporter asks if he'll continue 2020 presidential run

Bernie Sanders got salty with a reporter on Capitol Hill Wednesday when asked about the future of his 2020 presidential campaign.




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Tulsi Gabbard quits her long-show Democratic presidential bid and endorses Joe Biden

Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she was suspending her presidential campaign and would support Joe Biden - leaving just Biden and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic race.




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Biden goes off on Trump's coronavirus response - as #WhereIsJoe trends among Sanders supporters  

Joe Biden reappeared on the virtual campaign trail Friday, hosting a press call for select outlets so he could lash out at President Trump's coronavirus response.




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Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Joe Biden, and Michelle Obama 'attend' DJ D-Nice's quarantine dance party

The Bronx DJ went from 200K to 1M Instagram followers following his 10-hour live set dubbed 'Homeschool at Club Quarantine' on Saturday night




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Senator calls for rethink to avoid postponing November presidential election due to coronavirus

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wants to expanded absentee balloting and a rethink of how Americans vote in November to avoid delaying the contest due to coronavirus concerns.




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Joe Biden rejects another Democrat debate with Bernie Sanders

Joe Biden suggested he was done debating Bernie Sanders during a virtual press conference with reporters Wednesday.




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Biden DENIES sexually assaulting member of his Senate staff in 1993

Joe Biden's campaign came to his defense Friday over sexual assault claims an ex-staffer has been making in the press this week.




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Late Night With Seth Meyers to return with an interview with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

He last appeared in a full in-studio episode of his late night chat show over two weeks ago, but he 'went back to work (ish)' this week for new editions from home as the pandemic rages on.




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Poll: Trump is handling coronavirus better than Biden if he were president but Obama would be better

Voters believe Donald Trump is responding to the coronavirus outbreak better than Joe Biden would if he were president, a poll released Wednesday revealed.




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Cardi B is furious young voters did not show up to support Bernie Sanders in his presidential bid

The Grammy-winning artist, 27, took to Instagram Live and chastised her fans who didn't show up at the polls to support the Democratic senator from Vermont.




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Democrats urge Obama to get campaigning for Biden with Sanders out

Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the presidential race, some Democrats are eager to see President Obama jump into the race and endorse his former vice president, Joe Biden.




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AOC calls Joe Biden's Medicare olive branch to progressives 'almost insulting'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she's never spoken to Joe Biden - nor has his campaign reached out to the progressive congresswoman, who was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders.




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Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden saying 'empathy matters'

Elizabeth Warren endorsed Joe Biden for president on Wednesday, following Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party coalesces around their nominee.




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Cardi B tells Bernie Sanders she doesn't 'feel like it's safe to go outside' amid COVID-19

The Grammy-winning artist, 27, chat with former presidential candidate in a long-form interview on Instagram Live Tuesday.




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Wyoming Democrats cancels in-person caucuses amid coronavirus concerns

The Wyoming Democratic Party was forced to cancel its in-person caucuses and scale back voting to mail-in only amid coronavirus concerns.




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Joe Biden hints at signing up to more of the Green New Deal

Joe Biden indicated jr will incorporate more of the Green New Deal after he scored a key environmental endorsement and works to appeal to Bernie Sanders voters.




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Bernie Bros are furious over Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden

Senator Bernie Sanders' (left) fiercest backers are furious the Democratic Party over its silence in the face of sexual assault allegations made by Tara Reade (top right) against Joe Biden (bottom right).




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Commuters abandon London Tube amid coronavirus panic while Heathrow's Terminal 5 is empty

Gatwick Airport looked almost empty after passenger numbers on planes, trains and the London Undergound slumped due to coronavirus.




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Chilling moment schoolboy, 15, is stabbed with machete by masked thug outside school

The teenager was attacked by a machete-wielding gang outside Central Academy in Birmingham city centre at 3.10pm on Wednesday. Police have arrested a 15-year-old for assault.




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The West Midlands is a coronavirus hotspot

Twenty-one infected patients have died at hospitals ran by three neighbouring NHS trusts in the vicinity of Birmingham. They include the Royal Wolverhampton Trust, which has recorded nine.




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Birmingham City ask players to take 50 per cent pay cut for 16 weeks amid coronavirus pandemic

Birmingham have asked their players to take a 50 per cent pay cut for the next four months to help the club deal with the crushing financial pressure put on by the coronavirus pandemic. 




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Harry Styles postpones tour in UK and Europe amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis

The singer, 26, revealed on Wednesday that he decided to push back his shows, which were due to begin in Birmingham on April 15, until February and March 2021, due to the global health crisis.




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Birmingham stars AGREE to 50 per cent wage deferral from next month to ensure other staff are paid

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Many of Birmingham's players have agreed to defer up to 50 per cent of their wages from April to help ensure all the non-footballing staff will be paid in full




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Chelsea looking to hijack Manchester United's pursuit of Birmingham City wonderkid Jude Bellingham

Chelsea intensified efforts to recruit Jude Bellingham prior to the coronavirus lockdown, with the club stepping up their efforts to lure the Birmingham City star away a move to Manchester United.




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Jack Grealish tells people to 'stay at home' hours before 'crashing car' amid coronavirus crisis

Jack Grealish has landed himself in hot water after the Premier League star defied his own pleas to stay at home amid the coronavirus lockdown to go out partying over the weekend.




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Danielle Lloyd wears a face mask and plastic gloves to shop for essentials amid Covid-19 lockdown

The model, 36, took a break from being a teacher to pick up sanitary towels, a can of red bull and multiple bars of Cadbury's chocolate, on Monday.




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Parents boost bicycles in clever hack to help children pretend they're outside

Parents from around the worlds have shared their clever hacks to keeping their children entertained amid the lockdown, including Louise Graham from Glasgow who placed static bikes by the window.




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Heartbreaking video reveals war veteran, 85, living in squalid conditions

The pensioner, known only as Reg, 85, lives in the dilapidated home in Hall Green, Birmingham, with no working fridge, cooker, microwave or washing machine.




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Covidiot is jailed for six months after threatening to cough and spit at police

Thomas Wilson, 19, from Coventry was jailed for six months after threatening to cough and spit at police while Bevan Burke, 22, was jailed for nine months after coughing at an officer in Birmingham last week.




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Birmingham police name David White as prime suspect of arson at family home

Police are hunting for a fire starter who torched the home of a mum and her two young children on Easter Monday. The Birmingham family had to flee their semi-detached house during the blaze this week.




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Dortmund confident they can beat Manchester United to a deal for Birmingham star Jude Bellingham

The Bundesliga club were competing with Manchester United to sign Bellingham, who does not turn 17 until June 29, at the end of the season, and were confident of winning the race.




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Manchester United 'confident of winning Jude Bellingham battle'

United are one of a host of top European clubs, including Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea, who are desperate to sign the 16-year-old this summer and are negotiating £35m deal.




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Rupert Grint surprises NHS midwife during UK's One World: Together At Home

Rupert Grint surprised one 'massive' Harry Potter fan, who is also an NHS midwife working on the frontline in Birmingham during the coronavirus pandemic, via video link.




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Armed gang open fire with handguns outside a chicken shop in broad daylight shooting 

Hooded attackers are seen running across the street in Handsworth brandishing weapons and appearing to fire them at a group of males who then seek refuge in DFC Chicken.




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Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal reveals his brother's body was kept in an industrial fridge

The family were unable to bury Umar Afzal, 71, a former interpreter for the Home Office, for nine days due to the coronavirus outbreak. Birmingham mosques turned their car parks into morgues.




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Coronavirus UK: Identical twin nurses, 37, die days apart

Emma Davis, a former nurse herself, died at Southampton General Hospital today, just three days after the death of identical twin Katy, a children's nurse, at the same hospital.




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Sheltered housing staff pin up posters of COFFINS to encourage elderly residents to self-isolate

Elderly people living at William Lench Court in Birmingham were horrified by the stark signs, which also threatened that no one would look after them if staff got sick.




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Joe Biden mocks his gaffes to Stephen Colbert

Joe Biden on Wednesday mocked his recent spat of gaffes - including his miscounting of a story about awarding a medal to a soldier in Afghanistan - in an interview with Stephen Colbert.




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Taliban vow to 'fight for 100 years' after Trump calls off Camp David talks

Taliban leaders claimed they had already rejected Trump's overtures and vowed that 'we will continue our jihad' nearly 18 years after they were forced from power in Afghanistan.




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Donald Trump unloads on fired national security adviser John Bolton after getting rid of him

The president fired Bolton following clashes over U.S. policy in Iran, Russia and Afghanistan. But it was his advocacy in April of a 'Libya model' for dealing with North Korea was the final straw.




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15 injured in blast outside Afghan mosque being used as polling station in presidential election

A police officer and several election officials were struck and three are in a critical condition at a hospital in Kandahar. The upsurge in violence began after Taliban talks with the US broke down.




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Top Al-Qaeda commander Asim Omar was killed in joint US-Afghan raid on Taliban in Helmand province  

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Asim Omar died alongside six of his fellow terrorists, including Omar's courier to the Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in southern Helmand.




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Joe Biden baffles with his answers amid string of gaffes and mix-ups at Democratic debate 

Joe Biden down played his age at Tuesday's Democratic debate as he baffled viewers with a series of gaffes and caught himself before he claimed he ended Roe vs. Wade.




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Brother of Sandy Hook victim calls out Joe Biden for 'factual inaccuracy'

JT Lewis, whose six-year-old brother Jesse was one of the 26 people killed in the Connecticut mass shooting, eviscerated the 2020 hopeful for making the claim in a new video released earlier this week.




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Marine E accused of murdering Taliban fighter reveals his identity

British marine Sam Deen (pictured), who up until now has been known only as Marine E, has spoken for the first time on the mental toll of being court martialled over the killing in 2011.




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teacher arrives home after spending three years being held captive by the Taliban in the Middle East

Timothy Weeks, 50, and his American colleague, Kevin King, 63, were released as part of a prisoner swap deal last week.




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Newsweek fires reporter who said Trump would be spending Thanksgiving 'tweeting, golfing and more'

A story by Jessica Kwong (left) was published Thursday morning with the initial headline: 'How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing and more'. Trump, right, in Afghanistan.