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Ed Pilkington

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Sep 5, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Ed Pilkington

    Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims (opens the original)

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    At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child? The video is timestamped 30 March 1996. We see the back of a young woman’s head, her auburn hair cradled in a white scrunchie. She is crying quietly as the female judge reads out her sentence. “It is ordered that you shall be put to death by execution as prescribed by law,” the judge says. The woman’s shoulders start to quiver, and her weeping intensifies. “Your body sh

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Ed Pilkington

    ‘So much fringe science’: RFK Jr’s advisers are pushing an extreme makeover in autism research (opens the original)

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    Experts warn the 336-page plan from RFK Jr’s advisers deflects federal dollars into unreliable alternative therapies Autism groups and researchers have reacted with alarm to a federal research roadmap drawn up by advisers handpicked by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, fearing it will promote unproven fringe therapies at the expense of promising genetic research. A slew of scientific bodies and groups within the autism community are warning that the 336-page plan risks deflecting f

  3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Ed Pilkington

    Families of US sailors denounce Trump and Hegseth for ‘dismissing their experiences and calling them liars’ (opens the original)

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    One US sailor’s mother asks: ‘My son signed up to serve his country. But why isn’t his country serving him?’ Naval families with loved ones deployed for months on US warships amid the Iran war have reacted with fury to Donald Trump and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismissal of their concerns about the extreme pressures and dire conditions they are enduring. The Guardian has talked to three naval families who have been following the physical and mental stresses bearing down on t

  4. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Ed Pilkington

    Three men executed on same day in US for the first time in 15 years (opens the original)

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    Rare scheduling in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama underlines the renewed appetite in US for state killings Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez was put to death by the state of Oklahoma, in the first of three executions scheduled for Thursday in a rare triple procedure that underlines the renewed appetite in the US for state killings. Just one hour later, Darrell Hines was put to death by the state of Tennessee, and at 6pm local time in Alabama, that state executed Jeremy Williams. Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, was

  5. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Ed Pilkington

    Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit that claimed Harvard failed to protect Jewish students (opens the original)

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    Federal court rules administration failed to plausibly show ongoing violation of civil rights law A US federal ⁠judge ⁠has dismissed ​the Trump administration’s lawsuit that ⁠claimed ​Harvard ‌University failed ‌to protect Jewish ‌and Israeli students from harassment in the aftermath of the war in Gaza. In a ruling on Thursday morning, US district ‌judge Richard Stearns in ​Boston said the administration’s lawsuit – ⁠filed in March – failed to plausibly ​show ​an ongoing ​violation ‌of ​federal

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