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Thursday
4 January 2018
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Lawyers try to halt book's release as White House fights to contain firestormBook throws White House into a frenzy as lawyer Charles Harder demands publisher ‘cease and desist from further release or dissemination’ -
How rehab, not prison, worked for a US Isis convertYoung Abdullahi Yusuf found his way into extremism, but was put into a unique ‘ideological rehab’ program instead of prison – with successful results
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'Worst CPU bugs ever’ affect virtually all computersEverything from smartphones and PCs to cloud computing affected by major security flaw found in Intel and other processors – and fix could slow devices -
Winter storm causes thousands of flight cancellations in eastern US‘Bomb cyclone’ brings snow, high winds and coastal flooding as Governor Andrew Cuomo declares state of emergency in New York City -
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'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds'The actor, famous for playing brooding, damaged men, is back playing, well, a brooding, damaged man in the gritty western Hostiles. He talks about why the film industry has to change, balding up to play Dick Cheney – and why he will never, ever, do a romcom
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The ecological catastrophe that turned a vast lake into a salt desertWhat was once the country’s second largest lake is now a salt flat and the vanishing waters are taking an indigenous community’s way of life with them
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'The rats are eating their young'Comics, including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, discussed a new book reporting Steve Bannon’s attacks on Donald Trump Jr and Jared Kushner
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The most popular playwright in America todayWith 27 productions in the 2017-18 season, the 35-year-old writer has brought incisive wit to the stage and she’s thrilled to be at the forefront of a cultural shift in a male-dominated world
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Why NFL teams should leave coaching retreads in the scrap heapOf the 12 NFL playoff teams, eight are led by coaches in their first-ever NFL head coaching job. Let it be a guiding light for teams looking to fill vacancies
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Murray heading home after pulling out of grand slamAndy Murray is now contemplating the grim prospect of having surgery on his injured hip
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Premier League slides into the grip of radical non-possessionManchester City’s dominance is increasing the trend towards one side dominating ball possession in games and that threatens to diminish the spectacle
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Trump’s Bannon outburst removes any shred of presidential decorumThis latest playground brawl must surely mean the end of our hopes for a return to sanity or normalcy
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Which works better: climate fear, or climate hope? Well, it's complicatedCommunication is everything when it comes to the climate change debate
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Colonialism can work – just look at SingaporeThe country’s postcolonial rulers seized the advantages left them by the British empire and used them, for the most part, for the benefit of wider society, writes Jeevan Vasagar, a former Guardian education editor
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Father of Slender Man attacker calls new movie 'extremely distasteful'Bill Weier, whose daughter attacked a classmate inspired by the fictional bogeyman, has claimed that Sony’s new horror film is ‘popularizing a tragedy’
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Google accused of paying female teachers less than menFormer employee alleges that women hired to work as preschool teachers in the company’s childcare center were paid lower salaries than men with fewer qualifications doing same job
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Train crash leaves at least 14 people dead and scores injuredA passenger train travelling from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg collided with a truck at a level crossing, igniting an inferno
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Personal data of a billion Indians sold online for £6, report claimsNewspaper says it bought access to details from world’s largest biometric database, used to administer public services
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Instagram finds stylised symmetry in real citiesBill Murray could be just out of shot in these images of buildings and locations around the world that happen to exemplify the director’s trademark style
in pictures
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Yoga camp and frozen fallsThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world
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The colorful Black and White carnivalMore than 10,000 people take part in the Black and White carnival, which has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian and Pacific cultural expressions
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Sport from aboveWatching sport from ground level puts the viewer right in the middle of the action but, if seen from above, the same event can take on a strikingly different perspective
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Boris Becker's son to press charges over AfD MP's 'clearly racist' tweetJens Maier of far-right Alternative für Deutschland party called 23-year-old Noah Becker ‘little half-negro’
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Actor to head Cannes film festival juryAustralian actor, who this week launched Time’s Up initiative to end sexual harassment, becomes 12th woman to lead jury
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Beatles promoter dies aged 74The British record executive, producer and manager worked with acts including Marianne Faithfull, Black Sabbath and Fleetwood Mac
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Former Mail Online columnist joins far-right Canadian websiteFormer Mail Online columnist aims to ‘tell the stories not being told’ through new website called Hopkins World
'Anything to report?' Peace on the line as two Koreas share cross-border call