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The acclaimed film producer has issued an apology after the New York Times broke news of allegations of decades of inappropriate sexual advances
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Stephen Paddock booked rooms overlooking events in Las Vegas and Chicago, authorities say, but it isn’t yet clear if he planned massacres at those sites
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Organisations which help victims of domestic violence have documents and computers seized after women stage marches to protest against abortion law
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Kelsie Laine Mast and Samantha Faye Toope broke out of Edmonton prison but were arrested within 24 hours inside puzzle-solving challenge
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Police face no charges amid accusations of racial profiling and ‘brutal execution’ in case of Patrick Harmon, 50, who was pulled over for cycling without a light
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Constitutional court suspends Monday session, ruling that allowing possible declaration would violate MPs’ rights
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UKUKRoyal Navy could lose its two amphibious assault ships in cutsHMS Albion and HMS Bulwark could be taken out of service, leaving the navy with no way to attack enemy-held beaches, said BBC’s Newsnight
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EuropeEuropeRyanair's Michael O’Leary apologises for gibes about his pilotsAirline boss had accused employees of being precious and full of their own self-importance after company was forced to scrap thousands of flights
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Insiders claim strategy review warning of imminent crisis in Rakhine state and urging immediate action was smothered by the official who commissioned it
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opinion & analysis
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Political deadlock over gun control can make it feel like nothing will change but some actions could be taken today without a single vote in Congress
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Argument that Brussels has no standing in independence dispute is legally contentious and politically unsustainable
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Despite pressure from UK and France, US president expected to declare Tehran in violation of agreement but Senate could yet block reimposition of sanctions
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Canadian Braden Matejka recounts when bullets starting raining down in an attack that became the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history
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Marilou Danley, who returned from the Philippines to the United States late on Tuesday, is a ‘person of interest’ in the investigation, Las Vegas police have said. Matt Lombard, an attorney representing Danley, read a statement from her to reporters. Lombard said Danley had no warning of the attack and she called the gunman a ‘caring, quiet man’.
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Donald Trump and Melania Trump visit Las Vegas' University Medical Center shortly after meeting injured victims – but the president refused to engage with a question about gun violence in America.
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The US secretary of state dismissed as 'petty nonsense' a report that he had derided the president as a 'moron'
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Bodycam footage from the Las Vegas metropolitan police department shows officers responding to the mass shooting at a concert on Sunday
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The Spanish monarch said on Tuesday that Catalan authorities had attempted to break 'the unity of Spain'.
Global warming Carbon emissions from soils could trigger disastrous feedback loop