Jon Swaine
Jon Swaine is a senior reporter based in New York. He previously covered the US for the Daily Telegraph. Follow him on Twitter: @JonSwaine
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Details of Dallas gunman's larger plans emerge after protests around the USDemonstrators across US renew outcry against police shootings, while search suggests Micah Johnson prepared for larger attack, police chief says -
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Dallas shooting: Obama to visit area as fresh protests deepen America's dividesUS president will abandon European tour in a bid to help address ‘persistent racial disparities in our criminal justice system’
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'Our hearts are big in Dallas': grief-stricken city comes together for vigilPreachers call for peaceful understanding before hundreds who gathered less than a mile from where five police officers were killed the night before
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Serial's Adnan Syed: doubts over cellphone evidence central to retrialSyed’s team argued the AT&T disclaimer undermined cellphone tower records, and prosecutors used the records to dismiss more evidence he wanted considered
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British paedophile sentenced to 85 years in US for trafficking child abuse imagesDomminich Shaw, a ‘kingpin’ of sexual violence against children, sent dozens of images online and discussed plans to assault and kill a child while on probation
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Corey Jones killing: officer charged with manslaughter and attempted murderFlorida officer Nouman Raja, who was in civilian clothes and did not identify himself, could face life for allegedly shooting church band drummer
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US quietly drops El Chapo murder charges to ease drug lord's extraditionThe US had originally sought to try Joaquín Guzmán for murders of Mexicans in Mexico but new indictment is seen as removing obstacles to conviction
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Chelsea Manning files appeal against 'grossly unfair' 35-year prison sentenceAttorneys for the former US army private appeal against conviction for passing documents to WikiLeaks and request prison sentence be reduced to 10 years
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Police could lose public funds if officers aren't trained to best avoid shootingsUS bill would financially penalize police chiefs who don’t order and train officers to do everything possible to avoid open fire during confrontations with suspects
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California's Kern County settles $3.4m civil lawsuit in death of David SilvaLawyers continue to criticise investigation into 33-year-old’s asphyxiation death in 2013 as no police officers involved ever faced criminal charges
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Cleveland agrees to pay Tamir Rice family $6m over police shootingCity settled case with family, averting federal civil rights lawsuit following 12-year-old’s death in November 2014 shooting
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Entering the orbit of a 'total narcissist': who's who in Donald Trump's inner circleThe fixers, the family, the showbiz friends – we take an inside look at the man who would be the 45th president of the United States and the company he keeps
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Dozens of killings by US police ruled justified without public being notifiedGuardian study finds officers involved in one in six deaths recorded in the first quarter of 2015 were cleared of wrongdoing without announcement
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How we record every police killing in the United States – videoA team of Guardian US journalists investigate what the US government hasn’t: the number of people killed by law enforcement in America
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Hillary Clinton: 'I'm sick of the Sanders campaign's lies' – as it happenedTrump is in Washington DC to meet with Republican party leaders, while a crowd of Bernie Sanders supporters came to a Clinton rally in New York
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Houston debate: Trump defends against attacks from Rubio and Cruz – as it happenedLive coverage of the 10th Republican debate with Carson and Kasich also on stage as Super Tuesday looms
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Sandoval withdraws from supreme court consideration – as it happenedFollow live-wire politics coverage as Nevada governor Brian Sandoval takes his name out of the running to replace Antonin Scalia on the US supreme court
Two police killings revive claims of discrimination against black gun owners