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This year's hot new liberal strategy: just download the GOP hive mind!

22 Oct 2014: Jeb Lund: If Democratic candidates refuse to stand up for their own party’s ideas, maybe these people don’t deserve to win
Gaffe-prone Alaska politician allegedly belittled suicide victims

22 Oct 2014: Spokesman says Young ‘should have taken a much more sensitive approach’ after congressman, 81, argues with student on visit to high school
Afroman's Because I Got High gets pro-marijuana remake

17 Oct 2014: Remix of the 2001 No 1 song promotes medical benefits and crime-reduction claims before drug-legalisation votes in several US states
Ice loss sends Alaskan temperatures soaring by 7C

17 Oct 2014: Scientists analysing more than three decades of weather data for the Alaskan outpost of Barrow have linked astonishing 7C rise to the decline in Arctic sea ice, reports Climate News Network
Same-sex marriages begin in Alaska as couple weds days after ban overturned

14 Oct 2014: Magistrate waives wait and performs what is likely the state’s first gay marriage since a judge ruled ban unconstitutional
Alaska governor promises appeal after judge strikes down gay-marriage ban

13 Oct 2014: Federal judge struck down state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage in what plaintiff describes as ‘amazing day for Alaska’
Federal judge rules against Alaska’s ban on gay marriage

13 Oct 2014: US court rules that Alaska cannot enforce state amendment saying marriage must be ‘between one man and one woman’
Alaska police release details of drunken brawl involving Palin family

10 Oct 2014: Track Palin, the former Alaska governor’s eldest son, was ‘angry and intoxicated’ and ultimately ‘took off his shirt to fight’
Are walrus at risk from climate change?

3 Oct 2014: Karl Mathiesen: A mass haul out of 35,000 animals on an Alaska beach doesn’t bode well for the future of wildlife dependent on the Arctic ice
US reroutes flights around Alaska beach in attempt to avoid walrus stampede

2 Oct 2014: An estimated 35,000 of the animals were spotted as summer sea ice fell to its sixth lowest in the satellite record
Walrus mass on Alaska beach - in pictures

1 Oct 2014: Pacific walrus unable to find sea ice on which to rest in Arctic waters are coming ashore in record numbers on a beach in north-west Alaska
Walrus mass in vast numbers on Alaska beach as sea ice retreats

1 Oct 2014: Concern that warming climate is responsible for gathering of about 35,000 walrus in north-west Alaska
Alaska's indigenous game Never Alone teaches co-operation through stories

29 Sep 2014: Never Alone is the first game developed by the Iñupiaq community, using traditional native stories in a beautiful and compelling educational game. By Hannah Jane Parkinson
Is Alaska the new Florida? Experts predict where next for America's 'climate refugees'

28 Sep 2014: Jennifer A Kingson reports that rising temperatures could spark massive population shifts across the United States
Alaska anchor fires up pot campaign: the expletive was just the messenger

25 Sep 2014: Charlo Greene, who quit during a broadcast, has revitalised pro-marijuana campaign as ballot nears and opposition grows