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Your evening longread: Inside the world of hostage negotiation
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Your evening longread: Louis Theroux on his career and being 'a bit of a tool'
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Your evening longread: How I learned to be proud of my plus-size body
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Your evening longread: Can Joe Biden become US president?
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Your evening longread: The tyranny of chairs - and why we need better ones
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Your evening longread: The influencer couple whose adoption fueled outrage
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Sitdown Sunday: Inside Trump's battles with US intelligence agencies
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Your evening longread: Don't be afraid of the clowns
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Your evening longread: Inside the Trump 2020 re-election campaign
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Your evening longread: The curious story of sisters behind the band The Shaggs
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Your evening longread: Why do we keep some animals as pets?
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Your evening longread: Jared Kushner and his relationship with Trump
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Your evening longread: QAnon, conspiracies, and the #SaveTheChildren movement
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Your evening longread: The Pepsi contest that became a deadly fiasco
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Your evening longread: How to be happy
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Sitdown Sunday: Survivors remember the moment the bomb hit Hiroshima
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Your evening longread: The last members of the ancient Zoroastrian religion
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Your evening longread: The bizarre plot to capture the Venezuelan president
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Your evening longread: A profile of Donald Trump years before he became president
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Your evening longread: Can breathing more slowly change your life?
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Your evening longread: The Ben & Jerry's founders have a radical approach to business
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Your evening longread: The science behind boredom
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Your evening longread: Found as a baby wrapped in his mum's coat - the search to find his family
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Your evening longread: How the smash TV show I May Destroy You got made
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Your evening longread: The fascinating - and mysterious - life of humpback whales
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Your evening longread: The political education of Killer Mike
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Your evening longread: Uncovering the unsolved mysteries of Mount Everest
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Your evening longread: A conversation with Kanye about Trump, Biden and why he wants to run for the presidency
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Your evening longread: Inside the lives of internet middlemen
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Your evening longread: Why the Mueller investigation failed
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Your evening longread: Solitary confinement in a Texas women's prison
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Your evening longread: What's wrong with Whatsapp?
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Your evening longread: The strange case of the ex-marine jailed for spying
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Your evening longread: An oral history of the cult classic Scott Pilgrim vs the World
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Your evening longread: The top basketball player who left to help a jailed man find justice
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Your evening longread: What it means to understand Bruce Lee
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Your evening longread: What black America means to Europe
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Your evening longread: 'He knew instantly what the statue meant: Black magic'
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Your evening longread: The North Korean prisoner who escaped with her guard
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Your evening longread: How the first Pride march made history
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