headlines
Sunday
12 March 2017
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US attorney Preet Bharara fired after refusing Jeff Sessions' order to resignManhattan prosecutor’s announcement came a day after attorney general told US attorneys, nearly all appointed by Obama, they should resign from their posts -
Netherlands bars Turkish ministers as 'Nazi remnant' dispute escalatesRiot police clash with Turkish ex-pats after members of the Erdoğan government are prevented from campaigning among supporters
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Joni Sledge, member of the group Sister Sledge, dies aged 60The singer, best known for the 70s disco anthem We Are Family, was found dead in her home in Phoenix, Arizona -
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Bernie Sanders on Trump and the resistanceThe senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism to the heartland in order to topple Trump
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ACLU plans to thwart Trump with ‘Freedom Cities’Sanders says ‘despair is not an option’; the ACLU plans to thwart Trump with ‘Freedom Cities’; the Statue of Liberty dims – coincidentally? – on women’s day
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How photographers are capturing the resistance to TrumpDavid Moriya shares his photographs of Trump protests with demonstrators and social justice non-profits
spotlight
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Cillian Murphy on life since Peaky BlindersThe Cork-born star talks to Will Lawrence about moving back to Ireland and one long gunfight in Massachusetts
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The Roe v Wade attorney on Trump’s threat to abortion rightsThe US lawyer in the landmark 1973 case, which effectively legalised abortion, talks about the fight to protect Planned Parenthood
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Scarlett Johansson gives political jokes some biteThe actress, who impersonated Ivanka Trump, was hosting for the fifth time and presided over an episode of pure goofiness
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My husband died after I left. Now my daughter hates meIt’s common for a grieving child to deify a parent who dies and blame the surviving parent, says Mariella
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documentaries
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'I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor'Boxer says he’s ready to take on UFC’s biggest star and announces: ‘Simple and plain, let’s fight in June’
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Arsenal’s Theo Walcott opens floodgates to wash away Lincoln fairytaleArsenal ended Lincoln’s FA Cup odyssey with an 5-0 win after the non-league side had matched them in the first half at the Emirates
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José Mourinho left trailing by calmed-down Antonio ConteChelsea’s manager, whose team host Manchester United in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Monday, has got under his predecessor’s skin by winning games rather than by goading
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Four decades after the Battle of the Sexes, the fight for equality goes onIn 1973, Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs and won. Her victory changed women’s tennis – but today’s game is still no feminist paradise
what to watch
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Grim drama uncovers brutal hazing at black fraternityA strong young cast, including Moonlight’s Trevante Rhodes, anchors a tough look at toxic masculinity on campus for Netflix
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Only de-evolution can explain this zestless mashupTom Hiddleston’s talents are lost in this jumbled jungle caper that repeatedly indulges in anti-climax and silliness
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Kristen Stewart's psychic spooker is a must-haveCannes gets its first marmite sensation with Olivier Assayas’s uncategorisable – yet undeniably terrifying – drama about a fashion PA trying to exorcise herself of her dead twin
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I didn't faint in classy cannibal horror – but I didn't much fancy lunchThe flesh-eating movie that had them requiring ambulance intervention in Toronto never lets up. It’s also a complex drama of adulthood, sex, conformity, hazing, body image and lust
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Want a different take on Trump? Ivanka gives great hair and better InstagramThe nonsense that Ivanka acts as Trump’s moderating force is belied by her own limited worldview
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Farage meets Assange in a shameless illiberal allianceThe old rules about probity in public life are being shredded at both ends of the political spectrum
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Republicans drew congressional districts on racial lines, judges findMap found to be gerrymandered to weaken growing voting power of minorities, giving Democrats hope of new maps that could turn over more seats in Congress
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Man who jumped White House fence arrested by US secret serviceThe 26-year-old climbed the fence and got onto the south grounds while Donald Trump was at the White House late Friday night
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US accuses Moscow of aiding warlord in battle for oil portsPentagon says Russia has intervened to support opponents of the western-backed government
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BJP landslide in Uttar Pradesh a boost for prime minister Narendra ModiHindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party’s emphatic victory in the country’s most populous state is being seen as a broad endorsement of Modi’s policies
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explore
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Moral compass or just another mouthpiece?Will arguably the most visible woman in the administration prove impactful in shaping US policy, or will she only make hardline approaches seem palatable?
in pictures
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The week in photographsInternational Women’s Day, conflict in the Middle East and stormy seas in Sydney – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
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Rites of passage in PalestineThere may be bombs dropping and frequent power cuts, but the women of Gaza still get married, record songs, surf and ride horses. Photographer Monique Jaques’s new book celebrates their tenacity
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The week in wildlifeA rare jaguar sighting in the US, a green toad and spring flowers are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
people
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'People fall in love with an illusion, something that’s never existed'For his new album, the former Pulp frontman checks in to Hollywood’s most storied hotel to explore celebrity, memory and myth
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'There were times when life was really bad'The actor is now a self-help guru. How did she beat self-doubt and her ‘intolerant’ inner voice?
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‘I have played a lot of morally questionable people. I’m not sure why’The actor, 61, on standing up to Trump, losing friends to Aids and falling apart at his wedding
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It’s nice to have cute things with hard punchesThe post-emo pop star is as committed to sex, drugs and tattoos as she is to combating mental health discrimination and homophobia
Technology Tim Berners-Lee calls for tighter regulation of political advertising
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