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Just 35% of the city’s voters cast ballots four years ago but initiatives such as voting block parties aim to change that -
Robert Brack, who at one point had the heaviest caseload of any federal judge in the US, pleads for justice for the immigrants he sees every day
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Six people shot and a seventh pistol-whipped by suspect who then killed himself, authorities say -
A disillusioned author gets plenty right about the cost of Trump but fails to see how the GOP helped him rise to the top -
Big tech faces a test as San Francisco weighs a ballot measure that would tax companies to help the homeless -
White House had asked the court to halt a trial on the legality of decision to ask those taking census if they are citizens
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The 14th amendment to the constitution confirms that all Americans are born equal. One immigrant-hating lover of dictators cannot change that with a simple stroke of his pen -
A recent editorial on the Gender Recognition Act in the UK was met with dismay by Guardian US journalists who believe it advanced transphobic views that are driving attacks on trans rights in America
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For Antonio Tizapa, whose son was among the 43 Mexican students who vanished four years ago, the New York City marathon is a mix of therapy, protest and elegy -
Paul Zimmerman was a US sportswriting giant, a football oracle. He died, at 86, in a huge week for the other game he loved -
William Buick prevailed despite a stewards’ enquiry to earn Europe’s first victory of the 2018 meeting at Churchill Downs -
An image of a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader before a match against the Oakland Raiders was widely circulated
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Former lawyer and fixer tells Vanity Fair that Trump repeatedly used racist language before he was elected -
The former US president Barack Obama, speaking in Florida ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, says he hopes change will come from the country's current political turmoil
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President is embarking on frenzied dash across the US with nine rallies in eight states in effort to hang onto Republican control -
On 6 November, US voters get their first chance to pass judgment on Donald Trump since he became president. Here's all you need to know about the US midterms
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FTSE 100 closes down 18 points while Wall Street drops after release of strong jobs market data -
Rolling coverage of market reaction to Donald Trump’s trade optimism and US non-farm payrolls
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With record numbers of female candidates in the US midterm elections, Paul Lewis travels to New Mexico, where both the Democrat and the Republican standing for a House seat are women. He finds women divided – over Trump, the MeToo movement, and Deb Haaland, a Democrat campaigning to be the first Native American woman elected to Congress
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Oprah Winfrey has lent her star power to Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat aiming to become America's first black female governor in the midterm elections next week.
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Squatters, artists, snowbirds and survivalists have created an off-grid city in the desert in southern California
The only thing Trump seems to fear is running out of fear itself