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Boy, 7, writes a letter asking kids to boycott McDonald's Happy Meals and his reason is impressive

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A 7-year-old boy has started a revolution after he asked his fellow students to boycott McDonald's Happy Meals. William Weir wrote an open letter to McDonald's demanding they ditch plastic toys which are given away with their happy meals because they pollute the environment. William told his mum Carrie, 41, that he wanted to write to the burger chain after she told him how bad the toys were for the planet. He went on to write the letter and his mother promised to send it to McDonald's and also share it in some online sites. Then an excited William went to school and told everyone about it and his teachers invited him to read his letter during assembly to Dunchurch Infant School's 170 pupils. Many of the students agreed with the content of the letter and are now joining him in taking a stand. Ian Dewes, the executive headteacher at Dunchurch Infant school and Nursery, was so impressed by the way William spoke to the school that he believes he could have

Federal Judge restores CNN reporterJim Acosta's White House press pass

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A federal judge today ruled that the White House must restore the press pass it stripped last week from CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that Jim Acosta's free-press rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outweigh "the government’s interest in orderly, respectful press conferences''. He went on to add that the White House failed to give Acosta "due process," something guaranteed in government proceedings under the Fifth Amendment. And he suggested that the White House exaggerated when it claimed that Acosta "placed his hands" on a female intern last week as she tried to reclaim a press conference microphone.  While Kelly ordered the White House to let Acosta back in the building, he said Trump and his spokespeople aren't obligated to call on him during press conferences or let him ask questions. Kelly, a Trump appointee, emphasized that his ruling was temporary, say