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Mass shootings
Tuesday
6 August 2019
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President identifies video games, the internet and mental illness but makes no mention of new restrictions on firearms
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Authorities have announced the identities of the victims in Ohio and El Paso as the death toll in Texas grew to 22 Monday
Headlines
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Message board enabling hate speech, where El Paso suspect allegedly posted manifesto, struggles to find new host
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Trade war rhetoric ratchets up as Beijing responds to US claim of being ‘a currency manipulator’
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Executive order says assets may not be ‘transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn’, as tensions with President Maduro escalate
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Sixteen crude explosives sent to 13 intended victims, including Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
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Spotlight
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They’re fearless, defiant, and increasingly angry at the mounting threats in the US to reproductive rights. Here, they reveal why the reasons why they choose to go public
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The long read: The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough
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Recent tragic events have, critics say, displayed once again the moral collapse of one of America’s two great parties
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M Night Shyamalan’s somber breakout brought him critical and commercial acclaim and gave us one of cinema’s most talked about twists
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Trump is a politician perfectly fitted for a media ecosystem that amplifies extreme emotion and allows the loud to drown out the calm
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Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht has died after a crash during stage three of the Tour of Poland
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Derby County have held talks with Wayne Rooney’s agent over a potential player-coach role for the former England captain
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US politicians are now getting involved in an effort to avoid a repetition of the Larry Nassar scandal. But questions over funding remains
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Gone are the days when it was enough for a new strip to look good. Designers are obsessed with spinning a complex yarn
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Alex Hern on how Google’s use of personal data has potentially helped create a new age of mass surveillance. Plus Lois Beckett on the US mass shootings
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In a unique new exhibition, works from artists such as Andy Warhol and Nan Goldin, highlight the progression of transgender models and subjects
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‘When the song was a global hit, I flew to London every week, while working at a department store in Chicago. My bosses said: “Take another day off! This is great!”’
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Mass shootings command widespread media coverage, but lost in the national conversations about guns are everyday killings
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Patricia and Manuel Oliver, whose son advocated for immigrants, condemn Trump’s ‘hatred’ and ‘division’
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Beijing authorities issue strongest warning yet to demonstrators in rare media briefing
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Flying shrapnel from military base leaves one soldier dead and at least seven injured
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Campaign linked to Sziget festival criticised by senior member of ruling Fidesz party
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Man who joked about recycling as he tipped fridge over cliff is made to haul it back up by Spanish authorities, who shared footage of his labour on social media
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Documentaries
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Busola Dakolo investigated by police after publicly accusing star pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo
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Mohammad Aljaleel looked after homeless cats during aerial bombardment of Aleppo
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Brian Blomerth’s graphic novel Bicycle Day tells the story of the psychedelic ride made in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann as he researched the drug LSD
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Most of the animals at the Santa Cruz Foundation in San Antonio, Colombia, have been rescued from traffickers and circuses. The multimillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-largest in the country after drugs, guns and human trafficking
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