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Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly apologized on Monday for blasting canned aircraft carrier Capt. Brett Crozier as “too naive or too stupid” to command a ship. “Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid,” Modly wrote. “I think, and always believed him to be the opposite.” Modly’s about-face …

Top story: ‘Working people will pay the price’ – Starmer Hello – I’m Warren Murray, here to walk you through the news at a leisurely gallop. There seems little prospect of a Brexit deal before 31 October after stormy exchanges between the EU and No 10 were fuelled by a series of anonymous briefings from …

The evolving scandal of vaping’s health risks reads like a replay of the revelations that exposed the crimes of big tobacco a generation ago. Back then, the greedy corporate criminals who owned the tobacco companies developed a successful strategy that employed phony science and clever advertising lies in order to mask what they knew to …

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