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Left-wing Democrats are on a winning run – but can they lure back crucial swing voters?

On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit’s opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandra

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Trump vows to investigate EU over fining of US tech companies

Donald Trump says the US will launch an investigation into the European Union and threatened a fresh tariff over fines handed to some of the biggest American tech companies. It comes days after the European Commission fined Google €890m ($1bn)

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‘A miracle’: Teen murdered nearly 26 years ago identified through genetic genealogy

After nearly 26 years, “Chelsea Jane Doe” was finally identified by her name this summer: Tiffany Bradley. The breakthrough closed a decades long search, bringing a long-awaited resolution to a mystery that had languished unsolved. The case was cracked using

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Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents’ Dinner

President Donald Trump took swipes at the media at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner, a night celebrating press freedom, after the first event was cancelled by a shooting three months ago. The president sat as reporters from outlets

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Iran-backed Houthis claim missile attack on Saudi Arabia

The Iranian-backed Houthis have claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia, after Riyadh launched strikes on targets linked to the group on Friday. Early on Saturday, the Houthis’ Ansarollah media said on Telegram that a “Yemeni missile strike” had caused

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More than 220,000 evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires

French authorities have ordered the evacuation of almost 60,000 people near Bordeaux, taking the total number of people told to flee wildfires in France and Spain to more than 220,000. Around 200,000 people have been evacuated in south-west France in

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‘It eats away at my body’: The human cost of S Korea’s ultra-convenient overnight deliveries

A week before her son died Park Mi-suk asked him to quit his job. For more than a year, the 27-year-old had been working overnight shifts at a warehouse for the country’s largest online retailer, Coupang. He steered pallet movers

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Trump orders Smithsonian to post warnings about ‘inaccurate’ US history

President Donald Trump has ordered signs to be placed outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, to caution visitors about exhibits his administration views as “inaccurate”. The order directs the Department of Interior to issue the warnings, and also

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Texts reveal 14-year-old allegedly murdered by singer D4vd had pregnancy and abortion

Texts between singer D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old he is accused of murdering, reveal she had been pregnant and had had an abortion before her death. The messages were shown during a hearing for a judge to determine

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Firefighters struggle to contain Madrid wildfires, as more than 160,000 evacuated in France and Spain

A wildfire near Madrid is “beyond the capacity” of firefighters to contain, Spanish officials have warned, after three fires west of the capital merged into a single blaze. Spain’s government has declared a national emergency with 63,000 people told to

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