headlines
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Proposed changes would require visitors to US to share contacts and passwordsTrump administration’s proposed changes may mean travelers from countries including UK, France, Australia and Japan have to share digital information
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What you need to knowDonald Trump’s supreme court nominee faces a battle on the floor of the Senate that threatens to stretch the institution’s arcane procedures to the limit
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Jeff Sessions orders review of reforms prompted by high-profile shootingsAll reform agreements between justice department and local police forces – including Ferguson and Baltimore – to be reexamined, attorney general says
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Ex-Obama adviser denies leaking names of officials in Trump-Russia reportsSusan Rice denies claims she requested identities of Trump officials mentioned in intelligence reports on Russian interference: ‘I leaked nothing to nobody’
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Activist 'upset' that Trump staff secretly photographed her urinatingRohan Beyts suing Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort after it claimed she breached decency laws on the course
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Trump administration halts money over abortion rulesInternational family planning agency, which will lose all future US funding, rejects state department claims it supports ‘coercive abortion’ in China
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Working Class Hero by John LennonEvery week we will bring you a Resistance Now track chosen by a current artist. Lanre Bakare talks to Carlos Arévalo of Chicano Batman, who picks John Lennon’s Working Class Hero
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Women resist Trump with monthly activism meet-upsWith a different focus each month, people gather to write letters to officials, make phone calls, and learn about existing activist groups they can work with
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Big corporations come at Trump on climateMars Inc, Staples, Levis Strauss and Gap Inc have doubts about Trump’s pro-business climate plan; Bernie Sanders plans a summer bash for activists; how #blackwomenatwork won the Internet
Trump administration
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Gorsuch will be confirmed – one way or anotherSenate majority leader says Gorsuch will join supreme court this week but remains coy on invoking ‘nuclear option’ to overcome opposition
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Leading Democrat alleges joint effort to distract from Trump-Russia inquiryIntelligence chair Devin Nunes helped White House sideline claims he is meant to be investigating, says Adam Schiff, as Trump claims surveillance ‘scandal’
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White House staffer calls for primary challengeCall for Trump supporters to oust Justin Amash raises ethics questions as Jim Jordan vows to help fellow Freedom Caucus congressman retain seat
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Trump son-in-law visits Iraq with military chiefsDonald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor apparently travelled to Iraq to see the situation for himself and support the Iraqi government
membership
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Fight for a free and independent press – it's crucial to democracyA free country depends on our informed understanding of the issues. An independent media is the people’s intelligence agency
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Watch the best of the Guardian’s 2016 US coverage2016 was a turbulent year, and a defining one for the Guardian’s fearless independent journalism
policy
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Former Obama staffers run for office to protect progressive policiesObama alums who started as college kids on his campaign or his administration are running for office or helping others run in the aftermath of Trump’s election
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Trump to have first in-person talks with Xi Jinping next weekUS president to host meeting with Xi at Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida, where trade, North Korea and South China Sea dispute are on agenda, US officials say
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in depth
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Sexism, Sanders and the millennial feministsIn this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election
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‘I saw you on Sean Spicer’ Trump press briefings become hottest show in town