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The corrosive, deadly grip of the gun lobby on American democracy
A look at the gun lobby’s unhealthy grip on US democracy.
US Election Digest: Obama’s “feisty counterpunch”, Romney’s Libya fail and more
Larry Smith’s latest round-up of the US Presidential election campaign.
SNP NATO split: “The political ghost of Tony Blair rises up and shakes them by the hand”
Ed Jacobs reports on the NATO split at the SNP conference.
Will UEFA ever take racism seriously? Time for lengthy bans not little fines
Last night’s England Under-21 game against Serbia saw Danny Rose suffer racial abuse as the match descended into a brawl.
Obama/Romney round two: The Prez strikes back
Barack Obama recovered from his lacklustre performance in the last debate, getting the better of Mitt Romney in a lively second debate.
Watch: Cameron, quizzed on ‘secret’ Brooks emails, says: “I’m not going to answer”
David Cameron today point blank refused to answer a question on whether he would publish ‘secret’ emails between himself and Rebekah Brooks.
Jobs stats no cause for celebration – things could, and should, be an awful lot better
Today’s labour market stats are no cause for celebration – things could be, and should be, an awful lot better.
Watch: PMQs: ‘A night in the cell for yobs, a night at the Carlton Club for Mitchell’
Ed Miliband went on the attack over ‘pleb gate’ at the first post-conference season Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament today, reports Shamik Das.
Watch: Obama gives Romney the rope to hang himself over Libya falsehood
Barack Obama cut Mitt Romney down to size on the issue of the Republican’s falsehoods about the administration’s response to the Benghazi consulate tragedy.
Unemployment down 50,000 to 2.53 million; employment up to nearly 30 million
Unemployment is down 50,000 to 2.53 million, with employment up to nearly 30 million, reports Shamik Das.