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President Donald Trump's push to repeal "Obamacare" collapsed on Friday when a replacement bill was withdrawn. Via our colleagues in the US, we bring you expert reaction to what the failure means for the Trump administration, Congress and healthcare in the US.

In the wake of the Westminster attack there has been frenzied speculation about the level of the terror threat in the UK – even after weekend reports indicating that it appears to have been the action of an individual. Lee Jarvis warns that hyperbolic approaches to threat measurement probably don’t lead to very effective counter-terrorism policy.

Early computer gamers played either to the sound of silence or the most basic monotones as designers put graphics before music. But the invention of a sound chip called the Sound Interface Device changed all that. As James Newman writes, SID paved the way for a revolution in realistic video game sounds and music.

Jonathan Este

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Lisa Schwetschenau, who has multiple sclerosis, shown in a photo in Omaha, Nebraska on March 16. She worries that she could lose some of her essential health benefits under the new proposed health care law. Nati Harnik/AP

Essential health benefits suddenly at center of health care debate, but what are they?

Simon Haeder, West Virginia University

Essential health benefits under Obamacare are suddenly the center of controversy in the proposed replacement bill. If certain health benefits are so essential, why are they so loathed? Here's a look.

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