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The 24-year-old man who terrified residents of Austin, Texas, with a three-week bombing campaign that killed two people, blew himself up on the side of a highway as police closed in on him. Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the suspect was believed to be responsible for six bombs around Austin, but warned that it was not clear whether any more bombs had been left in place around the city.

The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a decisive role in U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory.

Millions of commuters along the U.S. East Coast will face another round of heavy snow, ice and wind gusts when the fourth major snow storm this month strikes the region, closing schools, grounding flights and halting buses and trains.

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The man trying to rebuild Mosul works 18 hours a day, sleeps on an office mattress and still feels the painful wounds from three assassination attempts. A Reuters Special Report follows Abdelsattar al-Hibbu as he tries to rebuild his city.

Commentary: Beijing's decision to give Xi Jinping unlimited tenure has accelerated China's move to a high-tech surveillance state – raising new dilemmas for Silicon Valley, writes former CIA analyst Kent Harrington. "For technology companies who have invested there, the question isn’t only how to respond to growing repression, or technology theft, or tighter censorship. It’s whether their bet a decade ago on a growing market in a then-seemingly reforming China can be sustained under an increasingly authoritarian and competitive regime."

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Two Reuters reporters appeared in a Myanmar court for the 11th time, which marked 100 days since they were arrested in December and accused of possessing secret government papers. Follow the latest updates on the two Reuters journalists in government custody.

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