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According to a legal settlement, gender identity and sexual orientation may be addressed in Florida classrooms as long as it’s not part of formal instruction. Announced on Monday, the settlement clarifies the boundaries of a contentious state education law, leaving it intact.

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Klopp and Guardiola bring curtain down on an era-defining rivalry It will, as ever, be a clash of contrasts. The joy machine against the tortured genius. Extrovert versus introvert. Low-slung baseball cap versus designer knitwear, ordered chaos versus chaotic order, 4-3-3 versus who-the-hell-knows, blood red versus cool blue, the hair transplant against the immaculate bald pate. For the past eight years, this is the duel that has painted the skies of English football, took it to new and unfamiliar places. And now, the end. For all the antagonism Liverpool and Manchester City fans have developed for each other over the…

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Why Liverpool’s season is shaping up to be Jurgen Klopp’s final masterpiece Jurgen Klopp may be saving the best for last. In his time at Liverpool, given the continuing possibility he will bow out with a quadruple. In his rivalry with Pep Guardiola, certainly. A 30th encounter with the manager he deems the best of his lifetime did not yield a 13th win but it did produce two new highs for the German. “The second half was the best we ever played against Manchester City, definitely,” he said. Some of Klopp’s definitive victories involved blistering starts and hanging on at…

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Jurgen Klopp imparts force of personality over Pep Guardiola’s tactics once more to keep Liverpool on track Pep Guardiola may have settled for a handshake but the huge figure of Jurgen Klopp enveloped him in a hug. An epic, extraordinary rivalry may be over but Guardiola versus Klopp is the saga that never grew tired. If it ends with the status quo preserved, with Arsenal still top of the table, Liverpool still ahead of Manchester City and Guardiola’s side still favourites for the title, it also does with further evidence of Klopp’s primacy in another respect. He preserved his winning…

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Vodafone goes down leaving customers without broadband across the country Hundreds of Vodafone broadband customers were left unable to get online this morning after the provider suffered an outage in various regions across the country. Customers in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham were among those lodging reports on Down Detector. The problems seemed to appear just before 9am, as many people were logging on to start work for the week. More than 80% of the reports referred to broadband, with 14% relating to mobile internet.

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