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• Do you know what too fat looks like?

  10 Sep 2014:

  A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight

• Campaigners: Obama immigration reform delay 'a slap to face' of Latinos

  7 Sep 2014: President tells NBC summer border crisis prompted delay while Republican Mitch McConnell labels decision ‘cynical’

• Why Middle East conflict is a bigger threat to UK energy security than Putin

  5 Sep 2014: Energy economics expert Laura El-Katiri finds world oil markets have responded with surprising resilience in the face of uncertainty. But are prices set to rocket?

• From the archive, 27 August 1977: President Carter backs testing of drugs on prisoners

  27 Aug 2014:

  Originally published in the Guardian on 27 August 1977: The US pharmaceutical industry tries out 85 per cent of its new drugs on prison inmates

• Barack Obama breaks vacation for meetings in Washington

  17 Aug 2014: President will meet vice-president and other advisers, interrupting a stay in Martha’s Vineyard that has been disrupted by crises

• Nearly half of all Americans will get type 2 diabetes, says study

  13 Aug 2014:

  Type 2 diabetes, linked in 90% of cases to overweight and obesity, is soaring. New research shows 40% of Americans and 50% of Hispanics and non-Hispanic black women will get the disease at some point in their life and the numbers are unlikely to be much different elsewhere in the developed world

• Immigration crisis forces Obama to 'act alone' with executive orders

  4 Aug 2014: Faced with political deadlock, president’s patchwork of options include new migrant deportation criteria and parole in place

• Common Core goes from unifying standard to divisive hot potato

  3 Aug 2014: Ideological opposition to an education policy adopted by 45 states has led some parents to school their children at home
  

• House Republicans push for revised immigration bill after vote failure

  1 Aug 2014: Vote on legislation to address surge of minors at US border to be held Friday after Tea Party faction disrupted vote

• Republican leadership in disarray after failure to vote on immigration bill

  31 Jul 2014: US response to border crisis left in chaos after frantic day in which GOP leaders were unable to secure enough votes for bill

• Scammers prey on families of child migrants, says FBI

  26 Jul 2014: Con artists demand payment for bogus administrative expenses from families of migrant children staying in Texas and Oklahoma

• Obama signs executive order to protect LGBT federal employees

  21 Jul 2014: Executive order to bar discrimination signed after bill stalls in Congress to protect LGBT employees nationally

• Communities polarised by influx of unaccompanied child migrants

  19 Jul 2014: Amid protests and resolutions against migrant shelters, some leaders rally to help young migrants from Central America

• US Border Patrol halts migrants' flights to San Diego from Texas

  11 Jul 2014: Agency denied protests in Murietta over undocumented migrants' transfer to California for processing had influenced decision

• Child migrants at Texas border: an immigration crisis that's hardly new

  9 Jul 2014: The Rio Grande Valley in south Texas has become the preferred point of entry with arrivals up 178% year on year

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