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2022-03-02 19:40:17 How did Euphoria become the most loved and hated show on TV?

The HBO teen drama’s second season is either a glorious mess or an excessive fantasy of high school. Either way, it’s a record-breaking hitIf you were anywhere near social media this past Sunday night, you probably at least glimpsed the divisive mess that was the second season finale of Euphoria, HBO’s technicolor, gleefully excessive soap on the outsized trials and tribulations of suburban California teens. After a buzzy and acclaimed but modestly watched debut in 2019, the show’s second season has blown up: HBO announced Tuesday that Euphoria, with help from its new streaming home on HBO Max, is now its second most watched show since 2004. It averaged 16.3 million viewers an episode this season, behind only OG HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones, which drew an average of 44.2 million viewers during its final season in 2019.But perhaps more impressive, and telling, than its 2022 viewing stats is Euphoria’s digital footprint. According to Twitter, the drama is the most tweeted-about show of the (still young) decade, with 34m tweets in the US alone. This is by design; Euphoria, adapted from an Israeli show by Sam Levinson, is audacious in style, almost pugnaciously provocative in substance, with imitable peacocking fashion and easily memeable cutaways. In other words, catnip for the online crowd. Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/02/euphoria-most-loved-hated-tv-show

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2022-03-02 19:20:29 Montana governor kills mountain lion being monitored by national park staff

Republican Greg Gianforte confirmed he shot the cat after chasing it up a tree with dogs in his latest controversial hunting incidentThe governor of Montana, Greg Gianforte, shot and killed a mountain lion that was being monitored by national park staff after hunting the animal with hounds and chasing it up a tree.The Republican governor hunted the lion on 28 December, according to details first reported by the Washington Post that were confirmed on Monday by Gianforte’s press secretary, Brooke Stroyke. Stroyke said the governor had a valid hunting license, drove the lion up the tree, and shot it. Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/02/montana-governor-kills-mountain-lion-greg-gianforte

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2022-03-02 19:20:25 Only 6% of G20 pandemic recovery spending ‘green’, analysis finds

Review of G20 fiscal stimulus spending counters many countries’ pledges to ‘build back better’ Only about 6% of pandemic recovery spending has been “green”, an analysis of the $14tn that G20 countries have poured into economic stimulus.Additionally, about 3% of the record amounts governments around the world have spent to rescue the global economy from the Covid-19 pandemic has been spent on activities that will increase carbon emissions, such as subsidies to coal, and will do little to reduce greenhouse gases or shift the world to a low-carbon footing. Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/02/only-6-of-g20-pandemic-recovery-spending-green-analysis-finds

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2022-03-02 19:20:21 World leaders agree to draw up ‘historic’ treaty on plastic waste

UN environment assembly resolution is being hailed as biggest climate deal since Paris 2015World leaders, environment ministers and other representatives from 173 countries have agreed to develop a legally binding treaty on plastics, in what many described a truly historic moment.The resolution, agreed at the UN environment assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, calls for a treaty covering the “full lifecycle” of plastics from production to disposal, to be negotiated over the next two years. It has been described by the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as the most important multilateral environmental deal since the Paris climate accord in 2015. Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/02/world-leaders-agree-draw-up-historic-treaty-plastic-waste

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2022-03-02 19:20:17 Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures

Where is fighting happening and how did we get here?Russia-Ukraine invasion latest news: follow live updatesThe Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, with Moscow’s forces having taken the port and train station in the strategically important city of Kherson, on the Black Sea. Russian paratroopers landed in Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, at 3am on Wednesday, security chiefs said, after several days of fierce bombardment that killed or wounded dozens of civilians. Kyiv has also come under more heavy shelling as Russian forces step up their offensive and move forces closer towards the capital in an apparent attempt to encircle it. The strategically important Sea of Azov port city of Mariupol is reportedly surrounded by Russian troops. Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/russia-war-in-ukraine-complete-guide-in-maps-video-and-pictures

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2022-03-02 19:00:11 MLB becomes literally unwatchable as baseball self-sabotages again

The start of the new season has been lost after talks between players and owners broke down. Baseball is in danger of fading further into the background of US cultureIt is only a screengrab, a capture of a fleeting expression that did not reflect the overall tone of his address to the media on Tuesday. But it might prove to be the image Rob Manfred is remembered for, on the day that may well define his tenure as Major League Baseball commissioner.A smile. A toothy grin as he announced that the league and the players’ union have not reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement and so the first two series of the regular season, which was due to start on 31 March, are cancelled. Continue reading...

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2022-03-02 18:40:14 A black panther at night (apparently) – Will Burrard-Lucas’s best photograph

‘It was an incredible moment. A black panther – that rare, almost invisible creature – photographed in the dark of night. I had no idea how the world would respond’I’ve always loved leopards. They’re such elusive, special animals. When I was growing up, black leopards were on my radar. They’re ubiquitous in culture, from The Jungle Book to superheroes – and I thought the black panther was the coolest animal of all. But they’re incredibly rare in the wild, especially in Africa, where I spend most of my time. Photographing them was a dream but not one I thought would ever happen.A black panther is essentially any melanistic big cat, melanism being a condition in which there’s an excess of dark pigment. The main cats that tend to exhibit this are leopards in Africa and Asia, and jaguars in South America. So a black panther in Africa is a black leopard. They’re an animal you hear about, or maybe a friend of a friend once saw one zipping across a road, but photos are so rare. I had never seen a good one. Continue reading...

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2022-03-02 18:40:10 They are ‘civilised’, ‘European’ and ‘look like us’: the racist coverage of Ukraine | Moustafa Bayoumi

Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think soWhile on air, CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata stated last week that Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, one where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen”.If this is D’Agata choosing his words carefully, I shudder to think about his impromptu utterances. After all, by describing Ukraine as “civilized”, isn’t he really telling us that Ukrainians, unlike Afghans and Iraqis, are more deserving of our sympathy than Iraqis or Afghans?Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the award-winning books How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. He is professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is a contributing opinion writer at the Guardian US Continue reading...

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2022-03-02 18:40:06 Giving birth in a bunker in Kyiv: ‘I said to him you’re a new Ukrainian’

Viktoria, 32, describes the birth of her first child last Friday in a hospital underground shelterUkraine – latest updatesIt was the second day of the war. I was really nervous – we were hearing explosions. I was praying to meet my son. I started to clean everything in my house, preparing for the baby, and even when I started to feel the pain, I couldn’t believe I’d be giving birth during war.Me and my husband were afraid to drive to the hospital because of the explosions. First we had to spend about 30 minutes in a queue to get gas. Then we were riding through Kyiv and it was empty – I’d never seen such an empty city. We heard the sound of sirens. It was scary, like a movie, but I was trying to stay positive. Continue reading...

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2022-03-02 18:21:26 Magic Middlesbrough and is it the end of Roman’s reign? – Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jordan Jarrett-Bryan and Paul MacInnes to discuss the latest in the FA Cup and Premier League and speak to Rob Davies about how gambling conquered BritainRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; Middlesbrough beat yet another Premier League side in the FA Cup as they knock out Tottenham Hotspur. After 14 years, the panel ask: will Spurs ever win a trophy again? Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2022/mar/02/magic-middlesbrough-tottenham-fa-cup-chelsea-roman-abramovich-football-weekly

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