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Sunday
16
October
2016
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Trump warns of 'rigged' election as Giuliani makes racially charged claimsIn concerted effort after ninth woman alleges sexual misconduct, Trump blames media but also says election rigged ‘at many polling places’
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Nigerian families reunited with 21 kidnapped girlsParents travel from Chibok to capital Abuja where girls have received medical attention and counselling after release in deal with Islamic State-affiliated faction -
Leaders fear Brexit will bring economic disasterEnda Kenny announces unprecedented cross-border talks amid fears over future of Ireland’s borders, exports, security and economy -
spotlight
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Hysteria reaches a fever pitchPolice are pleading for end to evil clowns, a Clown Lives Matter march was called off, and schools are banning clown costumes while some stores are sold out
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Is the golden age of TV coming to an end?It may finally be time to pay the piper for Netflix and for traditional cable – but that’s not necessarily, as your favorite shows could get shorter and cheaper
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Why white college graduates are deserting TrumpNo Republican candidate has lost with college-educated whites in 60 years but Trump’s brash popularism has accelerated a splintering of the white vote
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Find acceptance after falling apartAmid the pain of a failed marriage, it is impossible to forgive your former partner. But it is possible to come to terms with the split – by admitting you have lost
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Dolphins shock Steelers while Brady and Beckham excelThe Miami Dolphins left Ben Roethlisberger limping, and the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t look much better
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Kaepernick shown in crosshairs as 49ers QB makes first start of 2016Colin Kaepernick made his return as a starter for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, although he received a far from warm welcome in Buffalo
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Olympic sprinter’s daughter Trinity killed in Kentucky shootingTrinity Gay, 15, a rising track star, believed to have been caught in crossfire of gang shooting outside restaurant
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Liverpool ready for whatever Manchester United throw at usJordan Henderson tells Andy Hunter he is still stung by memories of José Mourinho’s smash-and-grab win with Chelsea in 2014 but says Liverpool are ready for Manchester United
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The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about itWe need answers from the candidates on how they would deal with a deadly conflict in one of the Middle East’s poorest countries. We’re not getting them
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Why do people have to die before we name things after them?The New York Assembly is fighting over whether ‘Billy Joel Boulevard’ would be acceptable for a stretch of Long Island highway. The crux? He’s not dead yet
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Striking dining hall workers arrested amid protest over payHundreds gather in Harvard Square as protesters call for better wages and healthcare, prompting plans for a student walkout in solidarity
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Campaign may be fracturing after sexual misconduct allegationsKey surrogates are diverging in their support for the Republican nominee after nine women have accused him of unwanted touching or kissing
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Narendra Modi labels Pakistan 'mothership of terrorism'Indian PM makes reference to neighbour as ‘nurturing a mindset that terrorism is justified’ in speech to world leaders in Goa
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Putin dismisses US threat of retaliation over alleged hackingRussian president says US warnings show Washington is using cyber-attacks as a political tool after Joe Biden says ‘we are sending a message’ to Putin
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How a power trip could doom the agency that took down the bankConsumer Financial Protection Bureau’s critics want to shut the agency down and claim its structure is ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘unaccountable to the public’
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Republicans brace for civil war after 2016At least three factions prepare to fight for the party, divided amid Donald Trump’s accusations of corruption and his appeals to fading demographics
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Conservationists fear backlash after viral cage-smashing videoExperts emphasize that the incident, in which a great white broke through a cage holding a diver, was a ‘one in a million occurrence’
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Billionaires' surveillance project raises privacy fears in BaltimoreAn experimental police surveillance program funded by Texas philanthropists John and Laura Arnold worries observers of private influence in the public sphere
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How will educational status affect the US election result?White voters without a college degree partially make up Trump’s support base, while Democrats increasingly rely on non-white voters and people with degrees
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What should we do about Putin?As crises mount, relations between the US and Russia are worse than at any time since the cold war
in pictures
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Havana: the city of the unfinishedGerman photographer Bernhard Hartmann captures both the dilapidated and the splendid buildings of old Havana in a new book published by teNeues
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London film festival and Bolivia pageantsThe Guardian picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including the London film festival, Bolivia children’s pageant and Shaolin martial arts
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The 20 photographs of the weekThe continuing refugee crisis in Europe, #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa, the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Gregory Halpern's ZZYZXGregory Halpern’s new work explores the surreal and the strange in Los Angeles and its environs. Here we show a selection, with captions by Gregory Halpern, from his remarkable book, ZZYZX, published by Mack
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The shopfronts of independent ParisGerman photographer Sebastian Erras tells an alternative story of Paris through its independent shopfronts
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Campaigning with the ClintonsAs Bill and Chelsea get behind Hillary Clinton for the crucial last push, photographer Jamie-James Medina captures the energy of her campaign with a portfolio of behind-the-scenes photographs
what to watch
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A compelling and complex crime show remakeUSA’s new anthology series based on a Norwegian small-town crime drama is dragged out a bit longer than necessary but is a deceptively substantial take
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James Gray’s The Lost City of Z finds a way to capture a cinematic adventureThe film escapes the net of the evil European/noble savage dialectic by focusing on a driven lead character played by Charlie Hunnam
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Ang Lee war drama is a misfiring follyA rare misstep for the Oscar-winning director is an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s acclaimed novel flattened by ill-fitting experimentation with new technology
people
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'He is a total wazzock and I cannot stand him’In an exclusive extract from his new book Nomad, Alan Partridge unpicks the many insults of his TV nemesis, from humiliation at the Our Price Christmas party to the shame of a BBC safety tutorial
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Women on Bob DylanFrom musician Suzanne Vega to film-maker Carol Morley, six women artists salute the genius of Dylan
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Singer 'distressed' by reports of illegal migrant workers on Italian estateSinger says company that supplied workers to his 350-hectare wine-producing estate had ‘no affiliation with our operation’
the big picture
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The essential elements of Edward BurtynskyNew book, available from 18 October, draws on four decades of Burtynsky’s work with more than 140 photographs showing the effects of a global economy
'I'm no threat' Will Obama pardon one of the world's longest-serving political prisoners?