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The US founders made a grave error in granting presidents pardon power
Trump’s utter abuse of the power proves it. As the midterms approach, voters have not forgotten January 6
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The coming legal battle against Albanese’s social media ban – Full Story podcast
Technology reporter Josh Taylor speaks to Reged Ahmad about the high court challenge whether this is the beginning of the end for Labor’s world-leading policy
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Former NSW Liberal leads overhaul of One Nation candidate selection process
Exclusive: Mark Jones, once on track for one of the Liberal party’s most powerful roles, is now instrumental in One Nation’s expansion
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Readers reply: with governments asking us to stockpile, can we learn anything from disaster films?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
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Australia’s bizarre selection choices backfired – predictably – in South Africa. It’s time for a reality check
The team’s management needs to offer decisions that make sense, rather than spurious justifications for ones that don’t
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MP facing voice loss after surgery shows recovery signs
Anne Sabine says her voice is showing signs of recovery after facing permanent damage from surgery.
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‘We spend our days in silence’: fear and repression in Ohio as ICE terrorizes Haitian immigrants
Haitian community in Springfield demands dignity and better rights for immigrants as ICE crackdown ramps up
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‘Dark money made darker’: funding labyrinth conceals donors to Republican campaigns
One man’s campaign finance operation in Wisconsin exemplifies the opacity of the US political financing system
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The measure slipped into UK budget that could protect spending on children, youth and rough sleeping | Heather Stewart
PDEL, which will ringfence money for preventive policies, marks a welcome and potentially consequential addition John Healey’s debut budget was far from a blockbuster, but it may come to be remembered for the birth of a plucky new character in the tax and spend universe – little PDEL. It may not have the charm of Disney’s Wall-E, but PDEL (pronounced P-Del), or preventative departmental expenditure limit, to give it its full name, marks a welcome, and potentially very consequential, addition. Continue reading...
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The UK’s legal cannabis market is booming – so why can’t this talented artist get any to treat his epilepsy? | Kojo Koram
Companies have rushed to supply the drug as a wellness treatment, but patients with serious illnesses aren’t able to get NHS prescriptions In 2022, a prodigiously talented young artist named Louis Petit was preparing to return to the UK, having been effectively exiled in the Netherlands as a teenager so he could access the medical cannabis he needed to control his epilepsy. Six years earlier, Louis, then 12, had been diagnosed with a rare form of the neurological disease when medical cannabis was still illegal in the UK. But in Rotterdam, where it was legal, doctors helped him discover that a
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Dining across the divide: ‘My family are all Trumpian, so I’ve had a lot of practice talking to people who are far right’
She thinks the answer to the climate crisis is cutting CO2, he favours population control and North Sea oil and gas extraction. Can they make it through a meal together?
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Affordability top of mind for voters in final sprint to midterms: ‘I have to pick between medicine or groceries’
Cost of living has loomed over this election cycle as workers and unions champion candidates fighting for higher wages and tackling rising prices
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