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Tuesday
18 April 2017
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Supreme court blocks Arkansas from flurry of executionsLate-night decision stays death of Don Davis, and prevents start of schedule that planned killings of several prisoners this month -
Mike Pence warns: do not test Trump's resolveVice-president cites strike against Syria during visit to South Korea and says ‘all options are on the table’
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Trump congratulates Erdoğan after vote grants sweeping powersUS president spoke with the Turkish leader Monday following a referendum that has escalated concern over Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian grip -
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How Atlanta's conservative suburbs became a frontier of liberal resistanceA progressive rebellion is brewing in Georgia, where a 30-year-old film-maker named Jon Ossoff is leading the special election for the sixth district’s open congressional seat
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Lena Dunham's Girls leaves as it arrived: with bravery, honesty, and nudityThe HBO sitcom has bowed out after six controversial, but undeniably influential, seasons. We look back on some of the highlights
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My strange journey into transhumanismThe long read:
After losing her faith, a former evangelical Christian felt adrift in the world. She then found solace in a radical technological philosophy – but its promises of immortality and spiritual transcendence soon seemed unsettlingly familiar -
10 things we learned during the festival's first weekendLady Gaga dominated headliners with EDM energy; festival still hasn’t overcome technical difficulties, hip-hop and grime could be top genres in the future
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The uncomfortable truth behind Marshawn Lynch's weird homecomingBy plotting his NFL comeback for a Raiders team that’s already given up on the city, Marshawn Lynch’s homecoming has the potential to be very awkward
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New York Rangers' Zamboni drivers enjoy sports' coolest jobDave Caldwell: As the Zamboni drivers at Madison Square Garden, London expat Paul Curtis and Long Beach native Jack Durkin share one of hockey’s most crucial jobs
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With friends like Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball doesn't need enemiesMLB’s commissioner wants to modernize the league and that’s great. But he should focus on doing so behind the scenes and selling the sport in public
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Ozil supplies respite for Gunners but despair for BoroArsenal kept alive hopes of a top-four finish with a 2-1 win at Middlesbrough, where Álvaro Negredo equalised after Alexis Sánchez scored from a free-kick only for Mesut Özil to score the winner
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Nuclear war has become thinkable again – we need a reminder of what it meansAs Trump faces down North Korea, it’s alarming to think that most of the world’s nuclear warheads are now in the hands of men who are prepared to use them
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Bashar al-Assad trained as a doctor. How did he become a mass murderer?The Syrian president isn’t the first doctor to kill. But there is something galling about someone who is trained to save lives taking them instead
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Drugs have long been used to scapegoat black and Latino people. With Jeff Sessions doing Trump’s bidding as Attorney General, things will only get worseThe war on drugs is racist. Donald Trump is embracing it with open arms
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The Guardian view on the Turkish referendum: Erdoğan entrenches himselfEditorial: Narrow victory in a referendum is taken as legitimising the destruction of Turkey’s democratic institutions
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Democrats hope $8.3m can spark resistance vote in special electionJon Ossoff leads ‘jungle primary’ for congressional seat by healthy margin in test of Trump’s poor approval ratings – but run-off looms if he doesn’t top 50% of vote
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Marchers across US to demand Trump's tax returnsTens of thousands of people expected to take part in marches Saturday; Democrats attempt to flip a House seat; Sanders launches his own talk show
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The power of one woman against the worldThe shot of Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down a far-right demonstrator in Birmingham became instantly famous. Why are images like these so transfixing?
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A town rebounding – but Trump could change thatNumerous government programs have aided economic recovery for the people of Muscle Shoals. Now the man they voted for might cut them
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Neil Gorsuch speaks more in one day than Clarence Thomas did in 10 yearsNewest US supreme court justice takes less than 15 minutes to ask first questions and lives up to reputation for focusing on ‘plain text’ of law
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Receding glacier causes immense river to vanish in daysFirst ever observed case of ‘river piracy’ saw the Slims river vanish as intense glacier melt suddenly diverted its flow into another watercourse
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Armed groups sow seeds of new conflict as war with Farc endsLast year’s deal with the guerrilla group left a power vacuum, putting authorities and residents on edge amid new violence: ‘Everyone’s nervous’
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Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planetDonald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change
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Sierra Leone finally lays Ebola to restWhen Sierra Leone was gripped by Ebola, families had to avoid burials to limit the disease’s spread. Now they are visiting cemeteries to seek closure
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The album cover art of HipgnosisAs design collective Hipgnosis, Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell and Peter Christopherson gave 70s rock its techno-psychedelic visual identity
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Lorde returns and Lady Gaga gets in formationDrake drops in, Lady Gaga attempts the world’s scariest human pyramid and celebrity festivalgoers break out the short-shorts at California’s annual desert party
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Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman and Aziz Ansari on the loss of a comic geniusHe established himself in shows such as Parks & Recreation and Master of None – before dying at just 30. Those who knew him best tell his story
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Suicide callout shed light on men's mental healthDuke of Cambridge says dealing with male suicides in his work as an air ambulance pilot helped him understand scale of issue
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Why we all need to be more like Bob DylanThe legendary singer/songwriter has taken some flak in the British press for saying he likes the Stereophonics. But we should all take inspiration from his weird ideas
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I’ve got dementia. My frontal lobe has abscondedThe actor, director and Monty Python star talks about how he is learning to live with his illness, with the help of close friend Michael Palin
Internet Facebook purges tens of thousands of fake accounts to combat spam ring