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Wednesday
13
April
2016
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Documents detail how the off-the-books interrogation facility operated away from the gaze of lawyers, families – and most of the Chicago police department
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Police search Panama offices to ‘establish the use of illicit activities’ including money laundering and financing terrorism
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Hackers reportedly supply zero-day exploit to allow US law enforcement entry to device, which may put older iPhones at risk of cyber criminals
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A campsite tucked away in the forest, far from San Francisco’s encampments, faces similar problems – including rats, trash and what to do with human waste
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Simpson’s new album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, blends New Orleans soul and Memphis funk to attain the electrifying peaks of his live shows
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The emphasis placed on groups reuniting means Coachella will never be just kids rolling in neon sunglasses – but can an aging Axl Rose impress the late-stage millennials as well as moms and dads?
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Jaime Galvan is the second person known to have died at Chicago's secret interrogation site, but do the autopsy and police report add up?
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The retired US women’s footballer Abby Wambach has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants
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The Caps won the Presidents’ Trophy and Alex Ovechkin is in hot form, but the playoffs are always a crapshoot, and the Kings and Blackhawks know how to win
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Cristiano Ronaldo cannot stop scoring and is rewriting a host of records this season. We take a closer look at the numbers
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If those at the helm of golf simply move on to the next tournament rather than build a legacy, the success of Willett and company will be wasted
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Paul Ryan did the right thing – for himself, and the Republican party
Christopher R BarronThe speaker of the House said no to being the pilot of a political kamikaze mission against Donald Trump, and who can blame him? -
The potential for a depression looms on the horizon. The Vermont senator is the only candidate who can stop banks from spiraling out of control again
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Clinton and Sanders have yet to address the ubiquitous housing affordability crisis in New York City that is displacing longtime residents and potential voters
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The Facebook CEO criticized Trump’s ‘fearful’ anti-immigration rhetoric at the annual F8 developer event: ‘Instead of building walls we can help build bridges’
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Soldiers were in car leading convoy of troops as part of Operation Barkhane to combat jihadi insurgency in Sahel region
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Surge in aid from many European countries driven by expenditure on looking after refugees at home, where spending has nearly doubled
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By mixing streetwear with rock and indie iconography, celebrities have taken grunge upscale and re-defined it
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Using handwriting analysis technology, team found that a famous hoard of ancient Hebrew inscriptions were written by at least six different authors
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Oscar-winning actor will aim to resurrect the caped crusader’s big screen fortunes following critical derision for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries
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As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006. It discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black
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The long read: When Abu Ali joined Isis, he thought he had nothing left to lose. Once he had crossed the border into Syria, he quickly realised it was the last place he wanted to be. By Robert F Worth
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A former US negotiator doesn’t want European companies to be afraid of doing business with the Islamic Republic. Just do your due diligence and keep records, says Richard Nephew
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Many say the law would hurt transgender students who already find themselves in a precarious situation, and some ponder if they should leave their home state
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Tim Arnold has been collecting and repairing rare pinball machines for decades. Now he’s looking for a protege to take the reins
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Montpellier’s 26,000 dogs produce around three tonnes of the good stuff a day, much of it scattered around awaiting a poorly aimed espadrille. Phil Hoad embeds with the anti-poop squad to find out why the French refuse to scoop
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The Meningitis Belt, composed of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, experiences an outbreak of meningitis A every five to eight years. African leaders had to unite to find an affordable solutionInside Africa's Meningitis Belt, leaders fight disease with an affordable vaccine – video
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Ambitious projects in African and Asian countries have seen success, thanks to improved information-gathering processes that include using smartphonesBetter data means better health for the world’s disease-troubled areas
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A new book, Millions Saved, shows how policymakers and health professionals in the poorest countries worked to make significant, positive differences on peoples’ healthMillions saved: how to make sure global health programs work
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We can learn from programs that practically wiped out meningitis A in regions of Africa, greatly reduced traffic casualties in Vietnam and kept Kenyan orphans in schoolsWhy motorcycle safety, meningitis vaccines and money transfers are signs of a global health revolution – podcast
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It’s been more than 10 years since Jaime Galvan died in police custody, at Chicago’s Homan Square detention center
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The Moscow metro train was launched to mark the 55th anniversary of the first manned space flight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first man in space when he orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1.
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Is factory farming as terrible as the hippies say or are chickens simply tasty idiots that deserve cruel lingering death?
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Hillary Clinton and New York mayor Bill de Blasio drew criticism this week for a racially tinged joke at the Inner Circle dinner in New York City on Saturday
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Watch TJR play chords from Stairway to Heaven and the 1967 instrumental Taurus by the band Spirit. US district judge Gary Klausner has ruled that the two songs were similar enough to let a jury decide whether Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were liable for copyright infringement
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A video posted to Facebook by the City of Madera Police Department shows a large portion of a street in Madera, California swallowed up by a sinkhole
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Former border posts from before the era of the European Union’s passport-free area lie in various states of repair, from an abandoned sentry box between Austria and Hungary to a now converted museum and restaurant on the French-German border
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The singer’s fitness label rebrands bodycon by merging fashion and functionality. But can a gym-friendly version reclaim this unforgiving trend?
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The singer disappeared after Cooler Than Me but six years on, he returns with the global hit I Took a Pill in Ibiza – and a new perspective on fame
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Surreal and unapologetically strange, the Welsh artist’s weirdo art-pop has been embraced by the City Of Angels. She explains how she found her style of ‘hot mess’
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As the rap stars are inducted, NWA’s MC Ren tells the Kiss guitarist: ‘Hip-hop is here to stay. Get used to it’
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These hand-drawn artworks from the 1900s to 1960s, collected in a new book, are what customers would choose their design from, and are increasingly rare
Bono Singer says send Amy Schumer and Chris Rock to fight Islamic State