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Part of a file, dated April 5th, 1964, details efforts to trace Lee Harvey Oswald’s travel from Mexico City back to the United States, released for the first time on  October 26th, 2017.  Photograph: Jon Elswick/AP Photo JFK files: Seven things we now know after secret papers released
  • Suzanne Lynch
  • October 27, 2017, 20:49

Lee Harvey Oswald ‘never an FBI informant, was never paid money for information’

Former US president George HW Bush photographed in recent days. Photograph: Jim Chapin/AFP/Getty Images Two more women accuse George HW Bush of groping
  • October 27, 2017, 19:31

Author Christina Baker Kline says Bush joked before grabbing her bottom in 2014

John F Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade in Dallas before he was shot dead. Photograph: AP/Jim Altgens JFK files: anonymous caller before assassination said ‘prepare for big news’
  • October 27, 2017, 12:13

Identity of ‘Cambridge News’ reporter who took call unknown

Part of a file, dated November 24th, 1963, quoting FBI director J Edgar Hoover as he talks about the death of Lee Harvey Oswald. Photograph:  AP/Jon Elswick Trump blocked release of hundreds of JFK records at last minute
  • October 27, 2017, 10:16

US president cites ‘potentially irreversible harm’ to national security

The disgraced movie mogul lodged the lawsuit against the company which he co-founded with his younger brother. Photograph: Emily Berl/The New York Times Weinstein sues former studio to gain access to ‘exonerating’ emails
  • October 27, 2017, 09:48

Ashley Judd gives in-depth interview on her alleged sexual harassment at hands of film mogul

JFK files: ‘Man talking in a calm voice’ said ‘committee’ would kill Lee Harvey Oswald
  • October 27, 2017, 07:59

Some secret files on 1963 asassination of John F Kennedy released

Donald Trump displays a presidential public health emergency declaration on the nation’s opioid crisis, in the White House, Washington. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters Trump declares opioid crisis a public health emergency
  • Suzanne Lynch
  • October 26, 2017, 20:45

President stops short of national emergency, which would have freed up federal disaster relief fund

Republican senator  Jeff Flake  after announcing he will not run for re-election in 2018  on Capitol Hill in Washington, on October 24th, 2017. Photograph: Gabriella Demczuk/New York Times A Mormon speech? Flake’s skewering of Trump bears hallmarks of faith
  • Laurie Goodstein
  • October 26, 2017, 20:31

Republican senator’s revulsion over US President appears to reflect decorous mores

Mandalay Bay shooting: 58 white crosses on the Las Vegas strip commemorate Stephen Paddock’s victims. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty What was the motive for the Las Vegas massacre?
  • October 26, 2017, 16:20

Mass shooters usually leave trails justifying their actions, but Stephen Paddock was different

Former US president George H W Bush with actor Heather Lind at an event in 2014. File photograph: AP George H W Bush issues second apology after actor claims he touched her
  • October 26, 2017, 14:24

Heather Lind accused former US president of touching her from behind while posing for photo

Natassia Malthe, speaks as she sits with lawyer Gloria Allred during a news conference in New York City on Wednesday. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters Weinstein accused of rape by Norwegian actor Natassia Malthe
  • October 26, 2017, 07:59

Malthe alleges producer barged into room and named actors he had helped because they slept with him

US president Donald Trump: “I went to an Ivy League college . . . I’m a very intelligent person.” Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Trump insists party is united after blistering rebuke by senators
  • Suzanne Lynch
  • October 25, 2017, 20:00

Republicans say president is ‘reckless, outrageous and undignified’ and ‘debasing’ US

JFK assassination: President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy and (left) Governor John Connally in the presidential motorcade in Dallas just before Kennedy was shot. Photograph: Victor Hugo King/Library of Congress Kennedy assassination controversy to reignite with release of classified papers
  • Suzanne Lynch
  • October 25, 2017, 18:06

White House may hold back some documents for national-security reasons

Former US president George H W Bush with actor Heather Lind at an event in  2014. File photograph: AP George H W Bush apologises after sexual assault claim
  • October 25, 2017, 16:33

Former US president was accused of touching actor while they posed for photograph

A giraffe named Buttercup moves closer to Buck Watson, a hunting guide, as he looks on from a vehicle at the Ox Ranch in Uvalde, Texas. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/New York Times $35,000: the price to kill an antelope on Texas hunting ranch
  • Manny Fernandez
  • October 25, 2017, 10:13

Ox Ranch guides walk controversial line between animal conservation and slaughter

Republican lawmakers  announced two new probes targeting Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images New inquiries begin into Clinton emails and Obama administration
  • October 25, 2017, 07:34

US House intelligence panel questions Trump associates as part of Russia investigation

Twitter said it would start a website so people could see identities of buyers,  and total ad spend by election advertisers Twitter to label election ads after US regulatory threat
  • October 25, 2017, 07:23

Company to identify who is behind each advert and what demographic is targeted

Arizona senator Jeff Flake and his wife Cheryl Flake leave the US Capitol after Mr Flake announced that he will not be seeking re-election. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Republican senators launch blistering attack on Donald Trump
  • Suzanne Lynch
  • October 25, 2017, 01:00

Scathing criticism of US president marks a new low in relations with Republican party

Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, who delivered a blistering attack on Donald Trump on the Senate floor. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg What Jeff Flake said: Full speech delivered in the US Senate
  • October 24, 2017, 23:12

‘It seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than it is by our values and our principles’

File image of  US senator Jeff Flake on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters Republican senator Jeff Flake quits with fiery speech
  • Suzanne Lynch
  • October 24, 2017, 22:08

The move follows earlier public spat between Donald Trump and Bob Corker

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