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And earlier this year in Kansas, the state shattered turnout records when voters came out in droves to strike down a ballot measure that would have paved the way for the state's Republican-led legislature to ban or limit abortion.
During Our Yorkshire Farm viewers saw Reuben, who was raised on the farm, helping birth lambs, plough fields and hand-feed cows since a very young age, gain an apprenticeship to learn how to fix tractors.
Beijing has reasserted control over its once-freewheeling internet sector, punishing well-known names for engaging in what were previously considered regular market practices and drafting new rules to change how they compete and engage users.
From the wife who discovered she married her cousin to the daughter who realized her late father had been swapped at birth, here Dailymail.com rounds up the most jaw-dropping family surprises to come from tracing your roots.
The Education Committee said the Government needs to take action over the issue of persistent absence, ensuring that no more pupils became 'ghost children' - those who have fallen off of schools' radars during the pandemic.
Randstad said it would provide MPs with this information, but the committee's report said it has not received any further statistics or data from the company or from the Department for Education, while Randstad has since removed the requirement of reaching 65% of the poorest pupils through the programme.
That was before a new inflation report suggested that higher prices could be a devastating trend for a long time - while overall inflation eased somewhat to an 8.2 percent increase in September from the year prior, core inflation is up at a 40-year high.
Tencent Holdings Ltd - the country's largest firm by market value and its first big tech name to report earnings on Wednesday - is expected to post a 12% fall in quarterly profit, its first drop in two years, according to Refinitiv data.
The father-and-son duo appeared on Channel 5's Beyond The Yorkshire Farm, which saw them embark on a digging business venture; it charted the challenges Reuben faced, supported by his father Clive, best friend Tom and girlfriend Sarah Dow.
E-commerce powerhouse Alibaba, which became China's first regulatory target late last year, is expected to post a 12% decline in profit in the quarter.
Revenue will likely rise 32%, the slowest in a year.
It criticised a 'spaghetti junction' of catch-up funding, with £5 billion of recovery spending announced by Government since June 2020, and headteachers raising concerns about the 'complication' of accessing funds.
Conservative MP Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Committee, said in the Commons debate on education spending: 'The real questions that I have, given the importance of catch up, is whether the catch-up programme is fit for purpose, the National Tutoring Programme particularly.
But there may be a darker reason for the growing interest: a harrowing documentary recently laid bare the damaging health consequences of incestuous families through the eyes of the deformed, inbred Whittaker family in West Virginia.
For months Republicans have seized on sky-high inflation and bleak economic forecasts as an argument against re-electing Democrats to Congress, where they hold slim majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives.
The gaming giant's revenue is expected to rise 16.4%, the slowest pace since the first quarter of 2019, after the government imposed new limits on the amount of time minors can spend playing video games.
It highlighted that, during the pandemic, studies showed a fifth of pupils did no schoolwork at home or less than an hour a day, children's farmer costume but that, 'equally alarmingly', absence remains high now schools have reopened, with 182,000 pupils absent for Covid-related reasons on February 10.
On average, the survey found that just 50% of pupils arrived in Reception being 'school ready' while over a third of teachers - 34% - said that their pupils were not ready to start school, an increase on the proportion who reported this in 2020 of 23%.
Baidu, China's biggest search engine operator, is expected to report that quarterly profit plunged 80%, hurt by a slump in advertising revenue from tutoring centres that have been barred from offering private, for-profit tutoring on the school curriculum.
It said the Government's flagship National Tutoring Programme appears to be 'failing the most disadvantaged', with the scheme reaching 100% of its target number of schools in south-west England by March 2021, but only reaching 58.8% of target schools in the North East.
During a committee evidence session in January, the NTP's programme director, Karen Guthrie, was asked about the number of pupils the scheme is supporting who have special educational needs, or are receiving the pupil premium, as well as the number of tutoring providers in the North compared with the South.<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8qNAR5kt04M/hq720.jpg"; style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="The Evil Design of Grocery Stores" />