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Wednesday
13 September 2017
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Senior Democrats say agreement reached with Trump to protect young immigrantsChuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi emerge from dinner with president claiming a plan to pair the DREAM Act with border security measures, excluding the wall -
Treasury chief asked for a government jet for his honeymoonThe treasury department is investigating the secretary’s request for a $25,000-per-hour US air force plane to fly him and his wife, Louise Linton, around Europe
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Eight dead in Florida nursing home that lost powerFlorida governor Rick Scott called on emergency workers to check on residents at nursing homes and assisted living facilities -
Fury at tech startup that aims to put mom-and-pop shops out of businessBodega, which markets glorified vending machines where users can buy groceries, boasts: ‘Eventually, centralized shopping locations won’t be necessary’ -
'Pharma bro' headed to jail after bail revoked over Hillary Clinton postGovernment called for former pharmaceutical CEO’s bail to be revoked after he offered to pay $5,000 for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle
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Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadowsWeapon used in 1940 assassination to go on display next year – but why did Ramón Mercader, armed with a gun and a dagger, resort to the ice pick?
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Ten things we learned from her book What HappenedClinton’s memoir holds back little, from her disgust with Donald Trump and his divisive campaign, to what was running through her mind on election night
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Chinese tourists gawk at impoverished North KoreansThousands of tourists flock to a stretch of the country’s 880-mile border with North Korea each month to point binoculars at their poor neighbours
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White House says ESPN anchor should be fired for Trump attackColin Kaepernick and the White House press machine are the latest to speak out after ESPN anchor Jemele Hill called Donald Trump a ‘white supremacist’
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Fresh claims that Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid teams bought votesFresh allegations have emerged that the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid teams bought votes, overshadowing the IOC ceremony awarding the 2024 Games to Paris and 2028 to Los Angeles
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Kane double and Tottenham’s defensive nous dispatch DortmundTottenham Hotspur beat Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in the Champions League, with two goals from Harry Kane and one from Son Heung-min, although Jan Vertonghen was sent off late on
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Goodbye, Edie Windsor. Thank you for never giving upEdith Windsor, the LGBT rights icon, packed more into her last decade of life than many people do in a lifetime. She will be sorely missed
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The UN is failing – states must back off and give its leader the power to actThe former New Zealand premier and top UN official says the organisation cannot hope to end today’s crises while it is hamstrung by micro-management
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Republicans are radicalizing Democrats. Just look at healthcareRepublican efforts to blow up Obamacare may lead to a more leftwing alternative. This may one of the juiciest ironies of the Trump presidency
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Hillary Clinton has encouraged women to push back. We will not be silencedClinton’s politics are a threat to the ideology of the modern Republican party, but so is her presence on the public stage
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Angelina Jolie's triumph spotlights casualties of warThe actor turned director’s passion project is a psychological stunner that shows the effects the Khmer Rouge’s reign left on the people of Cambodia
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A delirious peek behind the Carrey-Kaufman curtainIn 1998 a camera crew trailed Jim Carrey as he method-acted his way into the mind of Andy Kaufmann. The result is insightful, inane and wildly entertaining
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Glenn Close is unreadably brilliant as author's spouse plunged in late-life crisisAs the apparently-perfect wife of a Nobel prize-winning writer, Close gives arguably her best ever performance in an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel
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Denzel Washington captivates in unusual legal dramaA nervy, compelling performance from the Oscar-winning actor dominates this unconventional morality play from the writer/director of Nightcrawler
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US government bans agencies from using Kaspersky software over spying fearsFederal agencies have been barred from using cybersecurity software made by Kaspersky Lab over fears the firm has ties to state-sponsored spying programs
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Median wealth of black Americans 'will fall to zero by 2053', warns reportStudy predicts huge and growing gulf between white US households and everyone else could be disastrous for future of America’s middle class
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Ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbolExclusive: one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century
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Rare white giraffes spotted in Kenya conservation areaA pair of giraffes with leucism, a condition that inhibits pigmentation in skin cells, have been filmed by conservationists for the first time
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America's shameful history of voter suppressionVoter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning, yet the fear-mongering persists. Don’t blame Donald Trump – blame America’s democratic model
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Acrobats and young pioneersA selection of images from around the world including Boris Johnson in Anguilla, lightning over the Golden Gate bridge and a baby Sumatran orangutan
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Ten key shows from New York fashion weekNew York fashion week spring/summer 2018: 10 key shows – in pictures
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The aftermath of Hurricane IrmaThe scale of Hurricane Irma’s trail of devastation across Florida is becoming evident as weakening storm limps north into Georgia
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Sopranos actor and Scorsese veteran dies at age 78Frank Vincent, known for his roles in Raging Bull, Goodfellas and The Sopranos, died on Wednesday after complications from open-heart surgery
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Icon of gay rights movement dies aged 88Windsor was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 US supreme court case that paved the way for America to legalize same-sex marriage across the country in 2015
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'Trump presidency is product of short attention spans'Evan Williams says US president’s election highlights how social media platforms are helping to ‘dumb entire world down’
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He's retired from action films – we'll miss his particular set of skillsThe Taken actor has announced his departure from the genre after a decade of gleefully schlocky thrillers, but also one stone-cold classic
'We will win this struggle' Bernie Sanders unveils universal healthcare bill