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Neil Gorsuch nominated by Trump to fill supreme court vacancyKnown for his bedrock conservative values, Gorsuch could tip the balance on hot-button issues such as abortion, voting rights and religious equality
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Jared Kushner's grandma on refugee lifeGrandmother of Trump’s son in law gave interview criticising America’s refusal to accept Jews fleeing Holocaust -
Paul Ryan urges Republicans to back travel ban despite anger over rolloutTop congressional Republicans say they were neither consulted nor briefed on suspension of travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, and ‘chaos ensued’
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1 February 2017
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Dakota Access pipeline moves to final stage in army corps approval processThe acting secretary of the army has directed the army corps of engineers to grant the easement necessary to finish the billion-dollar project
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'I have never seen such hard fighting like this'Iraqi forces have been trying to oust Isis since October but they must fight among, protect and win over the many thousands of civilians in the city, finds Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in a report made in collaboration with PBS’s Frontline
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The left is stealing from the right's playbook. Call it the Herbal Tea PartyGrassroots activists are studying tactics used by the influential Tea Party in an effort to harden Democrats’ resistance to Donald Trump
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The president pats himself on the back for naming ‘radical Islamic terrorism’. But his actions and words are feeding a virus just as dangerous on the far rightWhat connects attacks in Québec and Charleston? Trump needs to know
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San Francisco sues Trump over order targetingExecutive order mandates federal government withhold grants from localities that limit cooperation with immigration enforcement
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Squatters occupying £15m mansion in standoff with bailiffsActivists are removed from Belgravia building owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Goncharenko after dawn raid
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The romance of mid-century New YorkWith their carefree joy tempered with moments of poignancy, Harold Feinstein’s shots of ordinary New Yorkers helped kickstart the street photography boom
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Challenging 'knee-jerk' judgmentsAustralian photographer Fabian Muir’s 2014 series Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country was a response to the Abbott government’s proposal to impose a burqa ban. In 2017, Muir’s Sydney-shot sequel, Urban Burqa, comes into a much changed world.
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A Berlin protest and a baby anteaterThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including Greenpeace in Germany and a new arrival at London zoo
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Singer calls ban ‘anti-democratic and un-American’President’s US immigration policy is ‘anti-democratic and unAmerican’, musician tells audience in Australia – as other US stars voice their protests too
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'Israel is the only country not shocked by or afraid of Trump'The Israeli-Palestinian politician campaigns for women’s rights and against attacks on minorities. She explains why the US president has so much in common with Benjamin Netanyahu


Sally Yates and the US constitution: two fatalities of the Monday Night Massacre