The insider’s guide to cancer prevention
These experts spend their lives fighting cancer. They have heard every tip, sensible or not, for how to avoid it. They tell Oliver Laughland how their lifestyles have changed as a result The breast...
View ArticleNew York City mayor Bill de Blasio to meet with leaders of four NYPD unions
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was scheduled on Tuesday to meet police union chiefs who have blamed him for exacerbating tensions between police and city residents. The meeting comes just a day...
View ArticleNYPD work slowdown not official but ‘understandable’, says union president
A reported work slowdown by NYPD officers has not been sanctioned by one of the city’s largest police unions, the Detectives’ Endowment Association (DEA). However, its president calls the move “quite...
View ArticleNew York mayor Bill de Blasio plans to veto bill that would outlaw police...
New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to veto proposed legislation that would criminalise the use of chokeholds by the NYPD, his spokesman has told the Guardian. The move is likely to open another...
View ArticleFerguson police test less lethal ‘alternative’ gun that could have saved Mike...
Ball-shaped projectile allegedly melds with first bullet fired from pistol to make ‘less lethal’ round but critics call for safety review before putting them in the field Police experts have criticised...
View ArticleNYPD officer to be indicted in killing of unarmed 28-year-old black man, Akai...
Nature of charges against Peter Liang, who claimed to have fired his gun accidentally in Brooklyn stairwell, as yet unclear, says lawyer of Gurley’s partner An NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai...
View ArticleKilling of Hispanic man stokes distrust between the city of Pasco and its police
About 10 years ago, Antonio Zambrano-Montes arrived in Pasco, Washington, in pursuit of what his family simply describes as “a better future”. He left behind a village in the municipality of De Aquila...
View ArticleHouse Speaker Boehner dismisses rumors of party revolt over his leadership
House speaker John Boehner on Sunday dismissed reports that conservative rivals are planning to oust him following a deal to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amidst...
View ArticleFerguson mayor says it’s not fair that Justice Department report focused on race
Police union leaders and city officials in Ferguson, Missouri, have continued to kick back against a damning report from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that revealed routine violation of black...
View ArticleNobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison: ‘I want to see a white man...
The Nobel prize-winning author tells Daily Telegraph that America’s race issues will never end until disparities in criminal justice system are resolved...
View ArticleBaltimore police wrongfully kept nearly 40 minors in jail during Freddie Gray...
During three days following Freddie Gray’s funeral, almost 50 children were held despite 39 of them meeting standards for release, public defender office says At least 49 children were arrested during...
View ArticleHow the CIA tortured its detainees
The CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, would rather avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation...
View ArticleTexas migrant detention facilities are like ‘jail for children': lawmakers
House representatives visited two notorious centres for women and children who cross the Mexican border into the US, describing conditions as shocking Lawmakers have described with shocking detail the...
View ArticleUS police killings headed for 1,100 this year — with black Americans twice as...
Police in the United States are killing people at a rate that would result in 1,100 fatalities by the end of this year, according to a Guardian investigation, which recorded an average of three people...
View ArticleOfficers at Sam DuBose scene involved in death of another unarmed black man
Five years before University of Cincinnati officers Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd corroborated the seemingly false account of an officer now charged with murder, they helped as Kelly Brinson was shocked...
View ArticleScott Walker takes third different position on birthright citizenship in...
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker said on Sunday he has no plans to alter or repeal the 14th amendment to the US constitution, which grants citizenship to those born or naturalised in the country, as...
View ArticleBen Carson: My biography isn’t ‘100 percent accurate’ — but ‘none of the...
The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson sought on Sunday to brush away growing questions about the accuracy of his autobiographical statements , implying it was not possible to be “100%...
View Article‘It’s all just poison now’: Poor in Flint are the victims of Republican...
Annette Williams is careful to hold her granddaughter Sharell’s head at bath time, to keep the two-year-old from taking a gulp of toxic water. Though most people no longer drink what flows through...
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