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An apparently loony, lefty political worker handing out campaign leaflets for a DSA candidate in Brooklyn was arrested after allegedly punching and beating a 98-year-old man with a broomstick and metal chair in a crazed dispute over the reelection flyers, police said. Tashara Abel was stuffing reelection flyers into mailboxes in the lobby of a building at Maple Street and Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens when the nonagenarian walked in around 4 p.m. Thursday, cops said. The two began beefing over the handouts for candidate and Democratic Socialists of America member and New York State Committee Member Anthony Beckford’s...

The statue of slave trader William Beckford will be replaced and stashed in a car park at a cost of £300,000, under City of London plans to remove his marble monument, The Telegraph can reveal.Beckford, who owned plantations and up to 3,000 slaves in Jamaica, is honoured with a memorial in the City of London Corporation’s Guildhall headquarters where he served as Lord Mayor in the 18th century. Snip