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Government officials are celebrating Independence Day by welcoming approximately 11,000 new citizens to the US this week. But before being granted citizenship, all applicants must pass a two-part test. In the first part they must demonstrate an understanding of English. MailOnline challenges you to try your best to answer 20 of the civics questions that you could see on the actual exam. You need 60 per cent to pass.

Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that she would press social media firms to ban anonymity online in order to combat hate speech. The plan's detractors slammed it as fascist. Ron DeSantis, who has seen Haley close to winning second place behind Donald Trump, said it was 'dangerous and unconstitutional.' The Florida governor said: 'You know who were anonymous writers back in the day?When they wrote the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison were among the writers. They were not "national security threats," nor are there many conservative Americans across the country exercising their Constitutional right to express their opinions without fear of being threatened or dismissed by the school they attend or the organization they work for.' Haley is accused by Vivek Ramaswamy of promoting censorship. 'NikkiHaley is *openly* calling for the government to ban speech,' he said.

Parents and nannies on NYC's well-heeled Upper East Side are being frightened out by identical adult female twins with ties to Jay-Z and Robert DeNiro. Despite not having any children, Gabriela and Mihaela Modorcea have been seen loitering around the John Jay Park playground, causing outrage among the local parenting community. Parents who frequent the park have expressed skepticism about the two 40-year-old women, who are known as the 'Indiggo'. According to a concerned mother, the twins were seen walking inside the playground without children of their own and asking questions of their own.

The four-star Manor Hotel in Datchet, where the average property price exceeds £620,000, is one of nearly 400 hotels across the United Kingdom that have been accommodating refugees in recent months, despite record-breaking numbers of arrivals. According to the BBC, Serco, the outsourcer, operates around 109 hotels in England, while Gloucester-based Mears Group runs 80 hotels in north-east England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Calder Conferences, based in Leeds, is now providing hotels to the government and is reaping hugely since being granted £97 million from the Home Office last year - up from £20.6 million in 2021. According to Home Office results, Asylum applications reached a near-two-decade high of 74,751 last year, with about 56% of those arriving by small boats across the Channel. However, the government is still looking for hotels to fill up the void due to a shortage of official accommodation. The majority, 363, is in England, with 20 in Northern Ireland, ten in Scotland, and two in Wales.