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Cancel Trump state visit, says Sadiq Khan, after London attack tweetsLondon mayor says US president is wrong about many things and that state visit to Britain should not go ahead
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Bipartisan senators preview plans as suspense buildsDemocrat Mark Warner says intelligence committee will discuss contacts apparently not yet ‘fully revealed’ between Trump aides and Russia -
Would-be governor prepares for battle against job-killing robotsGavin Newsom has been waiting in the wings for years as lieutenant governor. Now his campaign to lead the state is taking on its golden industry: tech
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'Alt-right' rally sees skirmishes with counter-protestersFar-right and ‘anti-fascist’ groups face off with each other and law enforcement, a little over a week after two men died in a racially charged stabbing
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As Trump declares independence, Cruz slams academic over another Paris dealTexas senator and Dr Joyce Chaplin exchange fire over whether treaty signed 233 years before climate deal saw US ‘created by international community’
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America braces for historic political momentWhat the former FBI director tells a committee on Thursday could decide whether Trump survives his first term. The stakes have never been higher
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Trump aides struggle under climate change questioningUN ambassador Nikki Haley says president believes pollutants play role, as EPA head Scott Pruitt avoids directly responding to queries
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UN ambassador: 'Trump believes climate is changing'White House has dodged declaring president’s view on climate change, but Haley says leaving Paris accord ‘doesn’t mean we don’t care about the environment’
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James Mattis appeals to US allies amid backlash over isolationismThe secretary of defense added it would be a ‘crummy world’ if Americans retreat, as US leadership and international commitment came under question
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Sorry, Trump, but we're sticking with Paris, activists sayElected officials already say they will ‘honor and uphold the commitments of Paris’ while the Sierra Club urges people to call the White House to complain
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It was quite a week for toxic masculinityWhen this is all over, gender studies professors are going to have a hell of time teaching students about this moment in history
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Thousands of protesters brand chain the 'Trump of corporations'Marchers in Chicago claim the world’s largest fast food chain supports low wages for workers and allows sexual harassment, ‘just like Donald Trump’
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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
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Donald Trump confirms US will quit Paris agreementWorld’s second largest greenhouse gas emitter will remove itself from global treaty as Trump claims accord ‘will harm’ American jobs
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Trump waives law requiring US to move embassy to JerusalemUS president’s move keeps embassy in Tel Aviv for now, despite campaign promise to move it to city Israel considers its capital
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in depth
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Is there a neo-Nazi storm brewing in Trump country?Can national socialism, repackaged as ‘white identity’ politics, earn votes in rural counties that voted for Trump?
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Exclusive Grand Canyon at risk as Arizona officials ask Trump to end uranium mining ban