BREAKING: Police: Two people who have been critically sickened in the UK were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok — the same agent that contaminated Yulia and Sergei Skripal earlier this year – @NBCNewsWorld
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 4, 2018
"The two people have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok" – UK police give update on man and woman found unconscious in Amesbury, Wiltshire https://t.co/ZURBif81ns pic.twitter.com/fD29Z8T0kl
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 4, 2018
The #Amesbury couple had visited Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury – now cordoned off. Investigators are trying to ascertain whether #Skripal Novichok was prepared there, and Amesbury couple came in contact with residue https://t.co/sRHpW4FAqw
— Mark Urban (@MarkUrban01) July 4, 2018
Wiltshire pair poisoned by nerve agent novichok, say police https://t.co/qRkfVc6eC4
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 4, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
The latest Brexit business bombshell: Jaguar Land Rover says £80bn investment in UK is at risk. 300,000 jobs at stake if it is a Hard Brexit. Return of Tariffs would cost it 1.2bn per year pic.twitter.com/w3FPbdaWf5
— John O'Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) July 4, 2018
Jaguar Land Rover boss: Brexit threatens £80bn UK investment https://t.co/RDIme5qylE
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 4, 2018
Britain’s economy has slowed to a standstill, largely because of Brexit https://t.co/OS5NAbJnv0
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) July 4, 2018
This government is not so much rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic as squabbling over the rearrangement while half the chairs are already underwater.
Forget Chequers. May is already sunk.
My latest for @prospect_uk https://t.co/xiBTEVqBmg
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) July 4, 2018
Today began with @vote_leave's leaks & spin but it should end with @shahmiruk. He showed such guts in coming forward & telling us this story. His reward?Desperate attempts to smear & discredit him. Your total vindication coming v soon, Shahmir. THANK YOU xhttps://t.co/hoP9amoJTM
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 4, 2018
He who peddled the 350 million Brexit red bus lie, sits next to he who has presided over years of gross NHS underfunding, understaffing, bed cuts & people dying on trolleys in corridors of hospitals – both proudly wearing their #NHS70 badges to signal how much they care. #pmqs pic.twitter.com/aoAQC7HbOP
— Dr Lauren Gavaghan #NHSLove (@DancingTheMind) July 4, 2018
Brexit elite: “Nigel, there’s a risk we might not make a killing from a plummeting pound and businesses collapsing if Brexit doesn’t happen. Can you help us out?”
Farage: pic.twitter.com/tQSKDirknk
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) July 4, 2018
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WORLD
Hugely happy July 4th to all of my American friends. Congratulations on ridding yourselves of a corrupt dictator who wanted your tax money for himself and his friends and creating a refuge for the tired, the poor and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. How's that going?
— Jason Isaacs (@jasonsfolly) July 4, 2018
Escaped slaves fought for the British and left with them, despite George Washington’s insistence that such “property” — including his own escaped slaves — be returned. One former slave chose a new name. He called himself “British Freedom.” https://t.co/tKQ4QsQg6C
— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) July 4, 2018
Top Russian, U.S. diplomats to meet after Putin-Trump summit: Russian foreign minister https://t.co/WWDBcEQ05u
— Investigate Russia (@InvestigateRU) July 4, 2018
Republican senators celebrating July 3 by sucking up to Vladimir Putin is normal and not at all shocking and weird and mildly treasonous. https://t.co/MIELKn7Ksk
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 4, 2018
— Joshua Goodman (@APjoshgoodman) July 4, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
Police have captured a woman who had climbed up to the robes of the Statue of Liberty in a protest over the separation of migrant families on the border https://t.co/C8OJAlxh2l pic.twitter.com/ZEIz2cPdEB
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 4, 2018
The Latest: Police have reached a person who scaled the base of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July. https://t.co/EcPjBPPSax
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 4, 2018
“Hello, 911? There’s a black woman running for office.” https://t.co/C8SQVFO3GF
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) July 4, 2018
The conspiracy theories about Anthony Kennedy’s retirement are a liberal delusion: https://t.co/j0l2h39WAV pic.twitter.com/P7feAqI636
— Slate (@Slate) July 4, 2018
The quintessential Twitter exchange: an anonymous Trump fan account telling the ghostwriter of Trump's The Art of the Deal that he should try reading Trump's The Art of the Deal pic.twitter.com/SkryMnDMje
— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) July 4, 2018
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— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) July 4, 2018
