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Philippines Says It Will Charge Veteran Journalist Critical of Duterte

The press is not the enemy – out of control dictator wannabes are… Her news site, Rappler, called the charges “intimidation and harassment” and accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s government of trying to silence critical coverage.

‘Textbook voter suppression’: Georgia’s bitter election a battle years in the making

No shame by Kemp for sham election mismanagement

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Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp are locked in a dispute amid allegations of voter fraud – something that has plagued Georgia in its history

Georgia’s hard-fought and bitter governor’s race still isn’t over.

Nor was it just a gubernatorial campaign pitting rightwing Trump acolyte Brian Kemp against insurgent Democrat Stacy Abrams and her bid to become the first African American woman governor in US history. Instead it was a battle years in the making, and it was not so much about who to vote for – but who could vote at all.

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Pelosi: Trump picking Whitaker ‘does violence to the constitution’

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President insists he does not know acting attorney general, contradicting own remarks and reports of Oval Office access

As Donald Trump tried again to distance himself from Matthew Whitaker, his own choice as acting attorney general after he fired Jeff Sessions, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said the appointment “does violence to the constitution and the vision of our founders”.

Related: ‘Democrats won the House but Trump won the election’ – and 2020 is next

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‘Those bastards need to pass gun control’: families of California shooting victims speak out

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Victims’ families expressed anger while Trump did not address the issue and blamed mental illness, calling the shooter ‘a very sick puppy’

Shock turned to anger in the quiet suburb of Thousand Oaks on Friday after a man shot 12 dead in a bar, including at least one victim who had survived a previous attack.

Former US marine Ian Long entered a country and western bar in Thousand Oaks on Wednesday night and killed 12 people including a sheriff’s deputy. More than two dozen were wounded.

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