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Activists applaud Mike Beebe’s decision to pardon his son Kyle, but say state’s drug laws are being applied unevenly
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Parks protection group says in federal lawsuit that proposed ‘Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’ violates various aspects of US constitution
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Almost a decade after they were captured, group of wild bison held in quarantine on Ted Turner’s ranch is to return to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation
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ACLU says US supreme court’s refusal to halt gay marriage while state fights lawsuits applies to all 105 counties
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Amazon, which earlier pulled several of Hachette’s books from its inventory, will resume selling all of Hachette’s catalogue
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Social network releases interactive on its privacy settings to counter criticism that its policies are overly complicated
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Oil prices have fallen 30% since June, due to slow growth in emerging nations and concerns over Japan and eurozone
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Police chief ‘deeply disturbed’ by allegations that five detectives failed to investigate properly more than 1,000 cases of sex crimes and child abuse
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US president, who had criticised stalled pace of reform in ex-military dictatorship, meets country’s parliament during visit
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Milos Raonic has withdrawn from the ATP Tour Finals in London due to injury and been replaced by Spain’s David Ferrer
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Paris court orders parent company to remove links across global network, following right to be forgotten online ruling. By Owen Bowcott and Kim Willsher
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US president cites persecution of ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority and crackdown on journalists in assessment published as he is set to visit the country
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Lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continues its slow advance, destroying a home in the process
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Union stages walkout during contract talks, citing insufficient safety measures, but hospitals’ operator says it is well prepared
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Judge cites fourth circuit decision in Virginia in ruling knocking down same-sex marriage ban, but gives time for state to appeal
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Harry Reid, leader of the outgoing Democratic Senate majority, attempts to bring USA Freedom Act to a vote
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US to double pace of emissions cuts, China to cap carbon pollution by 2030 but new Senate leader says deal means ‘higher utility rates and far fewer jobs’
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Several races remain undecided more than a week after polls closed, as voters in Washington’s 30th district challenged inevitability itself, re-electing a dead man
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Isis, Ebola and NSA reform all make the list – but most important will be nominees the White House wants approved before Republicans take the Senate
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People in Beijing give their reactions to footage of the US president Barack Obama chewing gum at the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings
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Major telecoms, lobbyist groups and politicians sharply respond to president’s call for greater regulation of internet as utility
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A newly released tape recording of a telephone call between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
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US president Barack Obama tells a conference in Beijing that new visa arrangements between China and the United States will strengthen trade
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President told British leader lack of warning over invasion of Commonwealth country was because of fears of US mole
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Wisconsin governor is the latest Republican to consider White House run after GOP’s midterm success, while Obama admits ‘I have got to take responsibility’ when Democrats stumble
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After a rough first year, healthcare.gov’s new features will include the ability to compare coverages with only a limited amount of personal information
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Public hearing in Westminster on Wednesday could lead to the first such ban in the US but local employers fear losing business to neighboring towns
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President insists new troops will focus on training local forces to fight Isis, comments that draw an emerging parallel to past US military strategy in Iraq
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George W Bush promotes book about father, George HW Bush and says brother Jeb Bush ‘50-50’ to run for president in 2016
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Colleagues tell of ‘low-key, very measured’ but influential figure in legal circles, who Eric Holder reportedly lobbied hard for
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Justices say they will decide whether law allows key subsidies provision of the president’s signature healthcare law
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Bipartisan group of 13 writes to president Sepp Blatter as USA striker Wambach says lawsuit is ‘about gender equality’
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President pledges to work with opponents John Boehner and Mitch McConnell in discussions days after Republicans triumphed in midterm elections
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Democrat Mark Begich and Republican Dan Sullivan made to wait due to state’s tradition of not counting absentee and questioned ballots until a week after polls close
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Republican House speaker sets confrontational tone after midterms, saying the president will ‘burn himself’ if he uses executive action to overcome deadlock
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Despite vows of a move towards more democratic governance, Burma struggles to emerge from 50 years of military rule
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Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds
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Editorial: It doesn’t go far enough, but it unblocks the road to a deal in Paris next year
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By freeing Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller, Pyongyang may be offering Washington an unlikely olive branch, writes Andrei Lankov for NK News
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Damian Carrington: After 20 years of tortuous negotiations the agreement struck by the US and China marks the start of a solution to global warming
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Sarah Jaffe: Voters said yes to wage increases at the ballot box – even in the most conservative places. What now?
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Stuart Heritage: The US president and the Facebook founder have both pared down their wardrobes so they can concentrate on changing the world
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President’s statement bolsters case for considering internet access as a right that should be safeguarded by government
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Like Churchill’s wartime relationship with Roosevelt, Maragaret Thatcher’s attitude to Ronald Reagan was far less servile than her detractors realise
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‘Our brain is essentially a get-out-of-the-way machine,’ says Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert
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Larry Elliott: Washington is trying to drive down prices by flooding the market with crude but risks collateral damage to its own shale industry
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Zoe Williams: The standoff between Russia and the west feels at times like a petulant Twitter spat. Except, as Gorbachev reminds us, it’s still deadly serious
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Farai Chideya: The midterms have only confirmed what many believe: in this system, not voting is almost akin to conscientious objection
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Peter Preston: Polling in America’s midterms predicted a close race: it wasn’t. Sometimes local knowledge beats national data
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Carson, the brilliant black surgeon who has compared Obamacare with slavery, appears to have entered the presidential race in 2016. Tom McCarthy takes a closer look
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Ian Black: The Syrian president is the beneficiary of a muddled campaign that leaves him free to strike against his own enemies
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Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election was a bright spot for Democrats in the midterms, but it might not have been so if she faced a different candidate, reports Jon Swaine
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Lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continues its slow advance, destroying a home in the process
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US President Barack Obama has authorised the deployment of up to 1,500 more US troops in Iraq, says the Pentagon
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US president praises health workers battling Ebola in the worst affected West Africa nations
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US-led forces strike Islamic State (Isis) targets in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday
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A horse that fell into a swimming pool in Phoenix, Arizona, is rescued by firefighters
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Residents in the rural region of Puna on Hawaii's Big Island are warned to evacuate their homes as lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano creeps forward
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