Ed Pilkington
Ed Pilkington is the chief reporter for Guardian US. He is a former national and foreign editor of the paper, and author of Beyond the Mother Country
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Electoral college's 'faithless electors' fail to stop Trump but land democratic blowAt least nine ‘faithless electors’ attempted to cast a vote against the candidate they were mandated to support, drawing attention to an arcane electoral system
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Intelligence experts urge Obama to end Edward Snowden's 'untenable exile'Fifteen former staff members of the Church committee, the 1970s congressional inquiry into illegal activity by the CIA, wrote jointly to the US president
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Brexit, a brain drain and Trump's tweets – Guardian Social as it happenedCatch up on this week’s Guardian Social, where we discuss various topics from the week’s news in real time – with input from our journalists
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Trump v the media: did his tactics mortally wound the fourth estate?From a bonanza of free airtime to an overt media campaign against him, Donald Trump was a candidate covered like no other. But were journalists unwitting accomplices in his election? And where does the industry go from here?
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Dreams of undocumented young people start to crumble after Trump victoryDonald Trump has promised to overturn Obama’s Daca program that protects the children of undocumented immigrants, a group known as the ‘Dreamers’
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Inside a Donald Trump rally: good people in a feedback loop of paranoia and hateThe crowd at a Donald Trump rally is full of honest and decent people – but in concert with their candidate, they form a feedback loop of paranoia and hate
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From the US army to al-Shabaab: the man who wanted to live under sharia lawThe story of Craig Baxam’s pursuit of Islam in Somalia exposes the conflict between religious fundamentalism and the US national security apparatus
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'I'm no threat' – will Obama pardon one of the world's longest-serving political prisoners?Oscar López Rivera - AKA the Mandela of Puerto Rico - has been in a US jail for 35 years for his part in the independence struggle. He talks about renouncing violence and his dream of seeing the monarch butterfly again
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Donald Trump threatens to sue NYT amid blizzard of sexual assault allegations – as it happenedRush of accusations against Republican nominee come after he denied he had ever groped women despite his taped boasts
Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum