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Morning everyone. My name is Martin Farrer and these are the top stories from home and abroad this morning.

Brittney Griner, in new memoir, says Putin weaponized her Blackness

WNBA star and Olympian Brittney Griner writes that she felt she was…

One of the more noticeable polling shifts between the last presidential campaign…

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I booked to see Take That at the new Co-op Live venue…