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White House pushes DoJ to revive reflecting pool case against Olympian
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White House pushes DoJ to revive reflecting pool case against Olympian

Justice department is asked to weigh new charges against David Hearn after US attorney dropped vandalism chargesThe White House has asked the Department of Justice to weigh new charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, according to a person famili...

Sam Levine in New York
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Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty tactics’ over legal threat to the Guardian
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The Guardian · World

Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty tactics’ over legal threat to the Guardian

Reform deputy leader condemned for seeking disclosure of documents that could reveal reporter’s sourcesRichard Tice has been accused of using “nasty tactics” in an attempt to intimidate journalists and deflect attention from his own financial affairs after issuing a legal threat to the Guardian.In a...

Guardian staff
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The Office actor Lucy Davis says she has incurable stage four breast cancer
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The Guardian · World

The Office actor Lucy Davis says she has incurable stage four breast cancer

Star, 53, says disease has metastasised to her bones and it is too late for chemotherapyLucy Davis, the actor best known for playing Dawn Tinsley in The Office, has said she has incurable stage four breast cancer.The 53-year-old said she was diagnosed a year and a half ago and the disease had metast...

Nadeem Badshah
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Florida paddleboarder rescues woman from alligator attack
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Florida paddleboarder rescues woman from alligator attack

Mike Heard used his paddle to strike gator that had latched on to swimmer in Silver River after hearing yells of ‘Gator!’A Florida paddleboarder rescued a woman from an alligator attack in Marion county over the weekend.On Saturday, an alligator bit the woman on the arm while she was swimming in the...

Maya Yang
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Will Andy Burnham’s everyday fixes be enough to get the public on his side?
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The Guardian · World

Will Andy Burnham’s everyday fixes be enough to get the public on his side?

The prime minister’s money-saving policies are popular but they are yet to convince voters he can take on the big thingsIt was last year that Martin Lewis, the money-saving guru, advised the government to find “100 small things that piss people off” and set about sorting them out.That approach has b...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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‘Abusive’ man found guilty of harassing Stella Creasy MP on tube train
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‘Abusive’ man found guilty of harassing Stella Creasy MP on tube train

Clifford Wilby, 63, started talking to Walthamstow MP about knife crime and her ‘failings as a member of parliament’A 63-year-old man has been found guilty of harassing the Labour MP Stella Creasy after he was “abusive and aggressive” on a tube train.Clifford Wilby, of east London, saw the MP for Wa...

Nadeem Badshah
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Probation staff vote to strike in blow to Burnham plans on early release
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Probation staff vote to strike in blow to Burnham plans on early release

Napo members overwhelmingly back action after union had criticised prisons proposals as rushedProbation staff have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike, in a potentially serious complication to Andy Burnham’s plans to tweak an early release scheme for prisoners to try to exclude more serious offende...

Peter Walker, Rajeev Syal and Caroline Davies
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University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students
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University of Michigan to switch to pass/fail grades for first-semester students

School said it is pivoting away from letter-grading system to ‘curb the mental health crisis’ among college studentsThe University of Michigan will pivot to a pass-or-fail-style grading system, instead of letter grades, for first-semester students in an effort to “curb the mental health crisis unfol...

Edward Helmore
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