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Washington state crews find body of another victim in paper mill explosion
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Washington state crews find body of another victim in paper mill explosion

Discovery brings death toll from chemical tank rupture in Longview to nine, with two workers still unaccounted forCrews on Friday recovered the remains of one more victim of a massive chemical tank rupture at a paper mill in Washington state, bringing the death toll to nine people and leaving two wo...

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Poor sleep linked to rising cancer risk in under-50s
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Poor sleep linked to rising cancer risk in under-50s

Findings add to growing efforts to explain why cancer rates are increasing among younger adults worldwidePoor sleep may be fuelling the global rise in under-50s being diagnosed with cancer, two large studies suggest.The number of younger people diagnosed with the disease has risen by almost 80% in t...

Andrew Gregory in Chicago
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Trump order endorses plan to reduce vaccines recommended for children
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Trump order endorses plan to reduce vaccines recommended for children

Executive order recognizes health department assessment as guide for federal government for childhood vaccinesDonald Trump signed an executive order acknowledging a recent scientific assessment by the Department of Health and Human Services on childhood vaccines as a guide for the federal government...

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New Jersey says state police will replace federal agents outside ICE facility
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New Jersey says state police will replace federal agents outside ICE facility

Announcement coincides with reports of influx of federal agents to Delaney Hall, site of protests and hunger strikeTop New Jersey officials announced on Friday that the state police will be taking over policing functions from federal immigration officers outside the contentious Delaney Hall facility...

José Olivares
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Nearly 100 homes evacuated in Scottish village after reports of ground movement
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Nearly 100 homes evacuated in Scottish village after reports of ground movement

Investigation launched in former mining village of Coalsnaughton after residents forced to leave propertiesNearly 100 homes have been evacuated following reports of ground movement in a former mining village in Clackmannanshire.Properties began being evacuated on 18 May and an investigation has sinc...

Nadeem Badshah
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Texas jury deliberates fate of Catholic priest charged with sexual assault after Guardian reporting
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Texas jury deliberates fate of Catholic priest charged with sexual assault after Guardian reporting

Anthony Odiong is charged with exploiting his status as clergyman to pursue sex with female parishioners to whom he was providing spiritual directionA jury of eight women and four men in Texas began deliberating a verdict on Friday afternoon in the trial of a Roman Catholic priest charged with illeg...

Charlie Scudder and Ramon Antonio Vargas in Waco, Texas
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Trump administration extends deportation protections for Lebanese people
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Trump administration extends deportation protections for Lebanese people

Rare reprieve for people protected by temporary protected status granted after administration misses deadlineThe Trump administration has extended protections shielding about 11,000 Lebanese people from deportation, allowing them to stay and work in the United States for another six months.The decis...

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‘Thanked him for his courage’: Chicago mayor hails Pope Leo as powerful ally
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‘Thanked him for his courage’: Chicago mayor hails Pope Leo as powerful ally

Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, applauded the pope for pushing back against Trump’s policies in meetingBrandon Johnson, the Chicago mayor, cast Pope Leo XIV as a powerful global ally on social justice, migration and reparations after meeting the Chicago-born pontiff at the Vatican, saying t...

Maya Yang and agency
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Louisiana Republicans pass new electoral map that guts majority-Black district
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Louisiana Republicans pass new electoral map that guts majority-Black district

The GOP-friendly map approved by state lawmakers now goes to Republican governor who is expected to sign itSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailLouisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map on Friday which would eliminate a majority-Black congressional district that was at the c...

Sam Levine
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Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’
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Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’

Ex-SNP leader says she appeared on more front pages than her husband this week, adding: ‘I don’t think that’s right’Nicola Sturgeon said she “should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men” after Peter Murrell, her estranged husband, admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of pounds f...

Emma Loffhagen
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UK government divided over minimum wage increase in face of youth jobs crisis
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UK government divided over minimum wage increase in face of youth jobs crisis

Exclusive: Some fear raising rate for people aged 18-20 will exacerbate unemployment while others point to lack of evidenceRising rates of youth unemployment have created a split at the top of government over how fast it should meet its promise to give young people the full minimum wage.Peter Kyle,...

Kiran Stacey Policy editor
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ICE agent arrested over shooting of Venezuelan man in Minnesota
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ICE agent arrested over shooting of Venezuelan man in Minnesota

Christian Castro was charged with assault and falsely reporting a crime after video emerged of nonfatal shooting in JanuarySign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A federal immigration officer wanted for shooting a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota was...

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Utah releases state voter roll audit amid Trump administration lawsuit
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Utah releases state voter roll audit amid Trump administration lawsuit

Audit finds 99.7% of those registered to vote are US citizens as DoJ presses for access to information citing low removalsUtah released the results of a year-long audit of the state’s voter rolls, finding that the vast majority of its voters are verifiably US citizens, amid an escalating legal battl...

Lok Darjee
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UN adds Israel and Russia to blacklist for sexual violence in conflict
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UN adds Israel and Russia to blacklist for sexual violence in conflict

Organisation cites abuse by security forces, including rape of male detaineesThe UN has added Israel and Russia to a blacklist for sexual violence in conflict, citing abuse by security forces including rape of male detainees. .The UN verified sexual abuse of 31 Palestinian men, women and children fr...

Emma Graham-Harrison, chief Middle East correspondent
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Trump claims to be on verge of approving peace deal with major Iranian concessions
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Trump claims to be on verge of approving peace deal with major Iranian concessions

Tehran denies deal has been reached that would open strait of Hormuz and eliminate country’s nuclear programme Donald Trump has claimed he could approve an Iran peace deal on Friday that contains major concessions from Tehran, including the opening of the strait of Hormuz and the elimination of the...

Andrew Roth and Patrick Wintour
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Dartford warbler stages a comeback 60 years after almost vanishing
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Dartford warbler stages a comeback 60 years after almost vanishing

Survey shows 44% increase on RSPB reserves of bird that almost became extinct in England in the 60sMore than half a century after the Dartford warbler almost vanished from the English countryside, the charismatic heathland bird appears to be staging a comeback.A survey has revealed the highest numbe...

Steven Morris
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Caroline Marland, trailblazing Guardian executive, dies aged 80
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Caroline Marland, trailblazing Guardian executive, dies aged 80

Fleet Street’s first female advertising director rose to the top of a male-dominated industry and championed other women throughout her careerCaroline Marland, the Guardian’s trailblazing former managing director who broke glass ceilings and helped others do the same, has died at the age of 80.Marla...

Michael Savage Media editor
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Huge haul of weight-loss drugs seized on Northampton country estate
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Huge haul of weight-loss drugs seized on Northampton country estate

Two men arrested in raid in which 12,000 doses of unlicensed weight-loss medicines were recoveredA country estate near Northampton has become the centre of the largest ever seizure of unlicensed weight-loss medicines in the UK.Two men aged 29 were arrested during a raid in which the Medicines and He...

Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent
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Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world
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Canadian man admits sending ‘suicide packets’ to hundreds of people around world

Kenneth Law, who sold lethal chemicals online with instructions on how to use them, admits counselling or aiding suicide ‘It was too easy’: families ask how Kenneth Law enabled so many suicidesA Canadian man who mailed “suicide packets” of poison to more than 100 people in dozens of countries – incl...

Leyland Cecco in Newmarket, Canada
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