US news
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Recovery teams continue ‘bucket by bucket’ search after Friday night blaze in mixed-use building which had a history of code violations
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President-elect sent tweets hours after Mike Pence tried to downplay possibility that Trump could threaten diplomatic rift with Beijing through actions last week
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Unemployment rate falls to lowest level in nine years but concerns remain over slow pace of wage growth in US economy
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With an extra 178,000 jobs created in November and growth accelerating fast it seems unlikely the Federal Reserve can delay a rate rise any longer
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Tiger Woods said after finishing 15th out of 18 in the Hero World Challenge, won by Hideki Matsuyama, there were times in his 15-month absence through injury ‘when I couldn’t move’
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Tom Brady won the 201st game of his brilliant career while the Chiefs beat the Falcons in bizarre fashion
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The Los Angeles Rams have given coach Jeff Fisher and general manager Les Snead contract extensions
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Alabama will play Washington and Ohio State are set to face Clemson in the College Football Playoff semi-finals
opinion & analysis
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The victory at Standing Rock could mark a turning point
Bill McKibbenThe defeat of an energy company by indigenous activists shows what nonviolent unity can accomplish. There are lessons here as we enter a challenging new age -
Hollywood's rape culture is a reflection of our culture
Melissa SilversteinHow can one react to the unrepentant admission by Bernardo Bertolucci that he and Marlon Brando conspired to rape Maria Schneider on the set of Last Tango in Paris? -
video & pictures
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Sgt Ray Kelly of the Alameda County sheriff’s office speaks after a fire at a party in a warehouse in Oakland, California, that left nine people dead and 25 unaccounted for
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Oakland firefighters tweeted footage of flames erupting through the roof of a warehouse fire in the Fruitvale district on Friday evening
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House speaker tells CBS’s 60 Minutes that he thinks Trump will be ‘an unconventional president’, but that he believes he is up to the job
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