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Kanye announces 2020 presidential bid
Hip hop superstar Kanye West has announced he will stand against him in November’s presidential election.
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President Trump was ‘abusive’ to Theresa May, says veteran reporter Carl Bernstein
The veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has delivered what could be the most damning indictment yet of President Trump.
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Trump facing renewed scrutiny over how much he knew about Russia Taliban claims
Donald Trump is facing renewed scrutiny over how much he knew about Russia allegedly paying the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
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New York group trying to turn experiences of imprisonment into something positive
The American dream has become the African American nightmare.
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‘Time was squandered and we didn’t actually make the investments in healthcare and infrastructure’ – Dr Amesh Adalja on Covid surge in US
We were joined from New York by Dr Amesh Adalja – an infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
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What did White House know about suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan?
Warning: this report contains some distressing images. How much did the United States know about allegations that a Russian spy unit offered cash bounties to militants linked to the Taliban to kill Coalition forces in Afghanistan? Amid reports that intelligence was passed on to the highest levels of the White House, politicians from both sides…
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What has changed one month on from George Floyd’s death?
It’s been a month since protests began in the United States over the death of George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.
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‘I believe the intersectionality of this movement is the desire for justice’ – writer Claudia Rankine on BLM protests
We’re joined by the acclaimed American writer and poet Claudia Rankine. Her most recent work, Weather, about the death of George Floyd, was published in the New York Time
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Killer Mike: ‘I never thought in my lifetime I would see Confederate statues fall’
Run The Jewels – the American hip hop duo Killer Mike and EL-P – have a new album out, and it’s becoming one of the musical moments of 2020.
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John Bolton interview: ‘Had I been in the Senate, I probably would have voted to impeach Trump’
We spoke to John Bolton himself – and began by asking him why he decided to take the job in the Trump administration in the first place.
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White House failed to stop publication of John Bolton book on Trump presidency
It’s an explosive account of his 17 months in the Trump administration – so explosive that the White House tried to stop it being published.
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How journalists have come under attack in what are supposed to be democracies
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month started a wave of protests around the world demanding justice for victims and reform of institutions.
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“He’s [Donald Trump] going to exploit white resentment.” – Prof Eddie Glaude, Princeton University
I spoke to Professor Eddie Glaude who is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
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Poor turnout for President Donald Trump’s first major rally since US lockdown began
As boasts from President Donald Trump go, it’s arguably not the biggest. He had claimed that almost a million people wanted tickets to his first campaign rally in Tulsa.
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Jon Stewart: ‘The presidency is supposed to age the president – not the country’
We spoke to Jon Stewart and began by asking him whether he was surprised about John Bolton’s incendiary revelations about his former White House boss, Donald Trump.