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Thursday
23 February 2017
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President revokes students' bathroom protectionsTrump administration withdrew guidance stating federal law requires transgender students to have unfettered access to bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity
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Exoplanet discovery: seven Earth-sized worlds found orbiting nearby starExoplanets found orbiting Trappist-1 raise hope that the hunt for alien life beyond the solar system can start much sooner than previously thought -
North Korea demands 'sinister' Malaysia stop investigating deathState news agency insists leader’s half-brother died of heart attack not poisoning, and blames South Korea for ‘conspiratorial racket’ -
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California floods leave homeless with even fewer places to goWet conditions statewide present a mortal risk to the homeless people living along the state’s waterways, who are displaced with wearying regularity
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Can writing help us come to terms with mental illness?In hospital in 1972, Paula Keogh fell in love with the poet Michael Dransfield. In her new memoir she captures the voice of her illness and the man she loved
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Liberal white racism is terrifying boogeyman in sharp horrorWriter-director Jordan Peele masterfully combines incisive social commentary with genuine, seat-edge suspense in film exploring evils of American suburbia
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A panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference suggests America can have walls, gates and extreme vetting because heaven does. Come again?Heaven has 'extreme vetting'? When Republicans legislate from the Bible
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Jamie Vardy hands Leicester lifeline against SevillaJamie Vardy gave Leicester City late hope with goal in 2-1 defeat after Sevilla had dominated Champions League last-16 first leg
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Danica Patrick: I've probably had 12 concussions in my careerPopular driver says risk of head injury ‘makes you think’ and estimates she’s sustained at least a dozen concussions over her career
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US gymnastics doctor charged with sexual abuse of nine girlsNassar, who specialized in treating female gymnasts at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, is facing multiple counts
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Weirdest trades in sports historyGabriel Baumgaertner: If you thought the DeMarcus Cousins deal was strange, that’s nothing. We look back at the six weirdest player swaps in sports history
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The president’s condemnation of hate crimes against Jewish targets would be more convincing if his record on prejudice in general wasn’t so lamentableDonald Trump's antisemitism comments: too little, too limp, too late
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I'm undocumented. People like me need your helpWith Trump’s crackdown under way, the fear among us has never been greater. But bullies back down when enough people stand together to say: ‘No’
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Boyfriend of reporter killed on live TV aims to unseat NRA-endorsed lawmakerChris Hurst, a Virginia Democrat embracing a gun violence prevention platform, said the fatal shooting of Alison Parker toughened him for political battles ahead
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Mike Pence condemns vandalism at Jewish cemetery amid outpouring of supportCleanup volunteers and financial donors of many faiths offer backing to Chesed Shel Emeth Society cemetery in suburban St Louis
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Sugar tax leads to fall in consumption for second year runningHealth experts are watching the progress of the tax to see if it will lower the rates of obesity-related diseases and type 2 diabetes
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Israeli PM's plane takes 2.5-hour detour around IndonesiaIsraeli prime minister’s El Al flight from Singapore to Sydney took more than 11 hours rather than the usual eight and a half
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Gucci embraces its brilliant absurdity with fluid showAlessandro Michele’s collections, celebrating diversity and gender fluidity and featuring a fabulously mixed cast arrayed in geek chic, have the fans flocking
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Satellite Eye on EarthA sacred Tibetan lake, a crack in the Antarctic ice shelf and deforestation in Cambodia are among images captured by Nasa and the ESA this month
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Dachau's gate and a papal circusThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including the return of a stolen gate and a performance at the Vatican
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The lives of others: inside the Stasi MuseumSince 1990, the museum has served as a research and memorial centre investigating the political system of the former East Germany
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Actor flies aircraft close to passenger planeFootage released by John Wayne Airport in California on Tuesday shows a plane piloted by Harrison Ford mistakenly flying low over an airliner
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Rightwing provocateur resigns from Breitbart News over pedophilia remarksThe rightwing provocateur stepped down after a livestream resurfaced in which he appeared to endorse sex between ‘younger boys’ and older men
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'I was racially profiled and asked to remove headscarf at Heathrow'The actor, who has been studying Islam, has said she was ‘freaked out’ by the request during an airport check
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Director's project The Irishman bought by NetflixStreaming giant take over project – starring Robert De Niro as mob hitman Frank Sheeran – after director’s film Silence underperforms
George Clooney Trump and Bannon 'Hollywood elitists'
Mexico 'will take Trump to UN' over deportations