Donald Trump has broken his silence on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, complaining that people who “innocently met” the convicted paedophile could have...
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Donald Trump has broken his silence on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, complaining that people who “innocently met” the convicted paedophile could have...
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Donald Trump’s efforts to brand the US government with his name and image advanced on Friday when the White House unveiled new images of a...
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They come on buses, in cars and RVs. Some ride on motorcycles. Every Sunday afternoon, convoys of protesters from all over Florida, and others from...
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A young political outsider with a fairly scant record becomes a sensation in a Democratic primary, capturing hearts and minds with a populist message and...
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Nerves are frayed in Los Angeles, as the second largest city in the US is flooded with more than 2,000 federal troops tasked with protecting...
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The US treasury has drafted a design for a $1 coin featuring Donald Trump on both sides, for the purpose of “honoring America’s 250th Birthday...
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When Donald Trump, said he would “rescue” protesters if Iranian authorities started shooting, Siavash Shirzad believed the US president. The 38-year-old father had seen protests...
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Britain’s blue-chip stock index has risen through the 9,000-point mark to touch a new high. The FTSE 100 share index hit 9,016.98 points in early...
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You don’t need a doctor to tell you America’s healthcare system is broken, but I’ll tell you anyway. Having led two public health departments, I’ve...
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The two-term Democratic congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is heading into one of the country’s most closely watched contests on Tuesday after national recognition for flipping...
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This Fourth of July marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence promised liberty and equality for all – even as it excluded most of...
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A Boston high school student who was detained by immigration agents on Saturday while he was on his way to volleyball practice must be kept...
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A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s...
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US attorney general Todd Blanche on Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House...
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From the bridge on Poplar Avenue, above the railroad tracks that cut through the Memphis neighborhood of Binghampton, you can’t see the rupture at the...
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A federal judge on Friday rejected Joe Biden’s attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made...
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Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to move cannabis out of the most restrictive drug category, a change that would loosen limits on...
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The Teamsters International president, Sean O’Brien, is putting the “working class in jeopardy” by allying with Donald Trump, according to a prominent labor activist challenging...
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USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after record breaking deployment After almost a year at sea, the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier has...
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After spending weeks accusing Nigeria’s government of failing to tackle the persecution of Christians, Donald Trump announced a series of strikes on the west African...
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Red Cross ‘outraged’ as latest Israeli strikes kill at least 254 people in Lebanon The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death...
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Trump arrives amid ear-splitting roar from crowd inside stadium Lauren Gambino at the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona An ear-splitting roar just broke out...
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The US Senate judiciary committee has scheduled a meeting early next week to consider Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general, as Donald Trump promised to...
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The US military said it has launched its 10th consecutive round of strikes on Iran to force the reopening of the strait of Hormuz. Earlier...
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High-stakes talks between the US and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear programme ended on Thursday without a deal, as the White House weighs...
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Doing the same thing and expecting a different result – that’s the definition of insanity. So I fall into despair when I hear yet another...
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Texas house fails to meet quorum for third day The Texas legislature failed to meet quorum for a third time today, after only 95 of...
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Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch will probably be part of a group of investors that will buy TikTok in the US, Donald Trump...
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Trump imposes sweeping new travel ban, barring all entries from 12 countries, most from 7 more Donald Trump imposed a sweeping new travel ban in...
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Nothing is more insufferable than someone saying “I told you so”; so please forgive me for being insufferable. On 29 September 2023, after a couple...
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JD Vance met with Republican lawmakers in Indiana on Thursday to encourage them to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the...
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A US judge on Tuesday granted the justice department’s bid to dismiss cases against members of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia who took part in...
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Donald Trump’s Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool saga appears to be winding down after prosecutors dropped vandalism charges against former Olympian David Hearn – but not...
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A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti...
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Democrats are targeting vulnerable seats this midterm election with working-class candidates they hope will resonate with voters exhausted by the economy. Some candidates are new...
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I joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in April 2007 at the age of 17. DSA back then was a small group with an...
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Of all the reasons Americans have been losing sleep recently – hunger, canceled flights, Democrats betraying them – the most ominous has to do with...
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Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, has said that only Americans should attend next year’s Super Bowl and warned that Ice agents “will be...
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A year has proved to be a long time on the scales of US justice. Less than 12 months ago, the US supreme court was...
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I still remember my citizenship ceremony from 2011. There was a festive spirit among the dozens of us who were about to become the newest...
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Mallory McMorrow, a Michigan Democrat, has dropped out of a contentious US Senate primary campaign, setting up a straight fight between the party’s progressive and...
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Donald Trump announced Friday that he is withdrawing his support and endorsement of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime ally and previously fierce defender...
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The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his...
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Growing up in the West Bank, Leqaa Kordia was separated from family in Gaza by Israeli restrictions on movement between the territories. So aunts and...
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Maybe more than anything else, sexual violence is repetitive. Men commit it in patterns: mostly against women who are close by and vulnerable, just below...
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You suspected that Maga had not conquered the Washington national cathedral when Bill Kristol was spotted at a men’s urinal conversing with Chris Wallace. You...
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The Democratic establishment’s early bet on Janet Mills, as its best hope to pick up a coveted Senate seat in Maine, now looks like a...
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The Trump administration is pressing forward with construction on the controversial border wall in the Big Bend region of west Texas, even as Customs and...
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Minneapolis protesters – already outraged by Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer – braced for a new onslaught as the Department...
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Pete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a...
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Usha Vance learned her husband, JD, had been selected to be Donald Trump’s running mate “maybe five minutes” before the news was made public –...
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The danger posed to Donald Trump was obvious. It was a story that not only drew attention to his links to a convicted sex offender,...
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Good morning. On Friday, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska to discuss the future of Ukraine, but there was no deal reached and...
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Bill Gates testified in front of the House committee on oversight and reform on Wednesday, and told lawmakers in his opening remarks that he “never...
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Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the opening of a new $6.6bn shipbuilding factory in Baltimore, partly funded by the US government but owned by Anduril...
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Charlie Kirk’s widow says his campus tour will continue despite his death Johana Bhuiyan Erika Kirk, the widow of right wing activist and provocateur Charlie...
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Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, will face senators on Tuesday, as Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on political opponents, Democratic-run cities and alleged...
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“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts,” are among the...
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Some of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert...
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President Donald Trump has said foreign workers sent to the United States are “welcome” and he doesn’t want to “frighten off” investors, 10 days after...
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Gavin Newsom, the California governor, announced the appointment of two prominent scientists who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months...
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All US immigrant visa applications have been paused by the Trump administration as the state department moves to tighten restrictions and limit access to applicants...
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Global stock markets are bracing for falls when trading resumes on Monday after Donald Trump threatened eight European countries with fresh tariffs until they support...
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No dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces...
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The Clinton-Epstein connection I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies...
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Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to...
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Tyler Robinson appears in virtual court appearance Tyler Robinson is now appearing for his first, virtual court appearance from the Utah jail where he is...
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When the Trump administration ordered a surge of armed federal immigration enforcement personnel on to the streets of Minneapolis, the Department of Homeland Security declared...
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When we think of what governments do, we think of everything from building highways to waging war. What they also do is capture the world...
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Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at...
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In June, Yesica McKeone officially became a US citizen. At the naturalization ceremony, she raised a hand and took the oath of allegiance to a...
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As California continues to slowly count ballots, Donald Trump and other Republicans are spreading claims of election fraud that have become common after California elections....
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CNN, MS NOW and Politico to sue over White House ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico said they were suing the Trump administration to protect...
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Trump has spent millions creating a giant swamp in DC It’s been a busy week for the US’s birthday boy. First, there was the cage...
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The US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports....
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Jeffries: ‘It’s up to every individual member’ to decide whether they attend Trump’s speech Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House leader Hakeem Jeffries have...
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill after weeks of negotiations, bringing Donald Trump’s megabill one step closer to enactment. The...
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Democratic members of Congress from California and New York say that they were blocked from entering federal detention facilities over the weekend while seeking to...
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You wouldn’t be alone if you feel that the US more closely resembles North Korea these days – with giant images of the dear leader...
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Top Senate Democrat says he’s ‘deeply disturbed’ after seeing footage of strikes on suspected drug boats Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate armed...
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At the White House on Friday, Donald Trump endorsed his vice-president’s baseless claim that Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in...
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In a break with Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Congress approved a funding bill for multiple key government agencies and institutions in January. Some of those...
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The White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown,...
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A stunning evening sun was setting behind Union City on Wednesday. It made it slightly harder to see the giant screen that had been set...
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Twenty-two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and...
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During his presidential campaign in October 2024, Donald Trump staged a photo op at a McDonald’s franchise in Pennsylvania, where he was briefly taught how...
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The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts announced the suspension of his campaign on Sunday hours after he was arrested in a suspected drunk-driving...
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In mid-July, Erik Clemson signed on to a Zoom call from Honolulu, Hawaii, energized by a mayoral candidate in a city far across the country,...
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Republicans have expressed tentative skepticism of the agreement Donald Trump has reached with Iran, and urged the White House to release more information. The memorandum...
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Donald Trump appeared hopeful of an end to his war on Iran, saying the “final aspects and details” of a deal were being discussed and...
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Zohran Mamdani has reiterated his view that Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot” just days after the pair had a surprisingly cordial meeting...
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Agriculture secretary commits to ‘waiving red tape’ to allow ranchers to process and sell their own beef Brooke Rollins, the president’s agriculture secretary said there...
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A Louisiana congressional candidate endorsed by Donald Trump was the subject of a 2007 rape accusation that was reported to local law enforcement the same...
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The US Senate took a stand against Donald Trump’s global tariffs affecting more than 100 countries on Thursday, voting to nullify the so-called “reciprocal” tariffs....
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Virginia supreme court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s Democratic-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters,...
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Is Donald Trump OK? Recently, he’s looked tired. His famous fake tan is a bit more sallow than usual and seems painted on more thickly...
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A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors...
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I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. I hope Neilsen (or whoever...
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Two years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed thought she had turned her back on the Democrats for good. Now, she is volunteering for the party’s US...
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Trump defends Pam Bondi as his base calls for attorney general’s dismissal Donald Trump has defended attorney general Pam Bondi amid calls from Maga world...
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The John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...
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Number of Democrats say they won’t vote for DHS funding amid alarm over ICE tactics Multiple democrats say they will not vote to fund the...
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Trump continues attacks on Federal Reserve chair Donald Trump has continued his attacks on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell today, calling him a “stupid guy”...
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Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete...
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Donald Trump changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club...
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Obama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...
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“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” said Donald Trump, addressing his discussions with Benjamin Netanyahu over their illegal war on Iran. The US...
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During a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, the US treasury secretary Scott Bessent carelessly revealed plans for the US to buy $5bn-$10bn in...
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Donald Trump has received rapturous acclaim from congressional Republicans as he touted a “brilliant” and “incredible” attack on Venezuela that led to the capture of...
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US Coast Guard officials said on Sunday that they are tracking an oil tanker in international waters close to Venezuela, according to Reuters, marking the...
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Trump calls Senate bill a ‘very big victory’ in Arlington cemetery remarks The president has congratulated House speaker Mike Johnson and Senate majority leader John...
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The Trump administration will temporarily pause the removal of refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a spiraling Ebola outbreak, according to...
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Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files On the House floor today, congressman Ro Khanna named the six high-profile men that are included...
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Article 52 of the first additional protocol to the Geneva conventions prohibits attacks on civilian targets. It is on those grounds that the international criminal...
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Trump declines to call for Max Miller’s resignation amid abuse allegations Trump stopped short of calling on Rep Max Miller to resign Monday, saying he...
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A massive egg recall affecting nearly 1.6m dozen eggs has been elevated to the US Food and Drug Administration’s highest-risk warning as officials investigate a...
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Donald Trump kicked off Independence Day by signing into law his sweeping tax and spending bill during a Fourth of July picnic at the White...
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In the five months since Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the Oval Office in late February, Ukrainian officials have worked hard to repair...
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US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...
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The Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning. While plenty of countries have harmed universities by imposing...
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The national guard prepared to deploy on the streets of Washington DC on Tuesday night, a day after Donald Trump ordered their arrival to combat...
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Pastor Jeffery Campbell has deep ties to Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. He was raised in the South Side neighborhood, and has served as pastor at Woodlawn...
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United Airlines is “looking into” a viral video showing a United Airlines employee threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a Mexican American...
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It was a fiercely contested election. Seven candidates, each bringing a unique set of skills and perspectives, battled to be the next mayor. Locals followed...
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Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the...
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Trump files lawsuit against BBC over edit of January 6 speech President Donald Trump officially filed a $10bn lawsuit against the BBC on Monday after...
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The Fourth of July marks a momentous occasion for the US – 250 years of independence – but somehow Donald Trump has managed to make...
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Trump ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second strike on Caribbean boat Speaking to reporters on Air Force One yesterday, the president defended Hegseth, saying he believed his...
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Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine...
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A day after the US supreme court upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said federal prosecutors and...
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JD Vance does not think the era-defining Watergate scandal would have lasted more than a single news cycle in today’s fragmented, hyper-partisan political environment –...
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I read Zoe Williams’ piece on Americans renouncing their citizenship with particular and personal interest (‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the...
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The Donald Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict...
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Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220m as settlement to Trump administration Columbia University announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with...
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Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier believes that the New York police departments’ conduct towards protesters after an ICE agent shot and wounded a man...
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Liberal justices dissent in latest major US supreme court decision Per my last post, the supreme court has ruled 6-3 in a decision could embolden...
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A group of Democrats accused by Donald Trump of “seditious behavior” have said that the US president is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
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A deadly shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas has been met with markedly different reactions from the political...
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The US Senate on Thursday blocked a Democratic war powers resolution that would have forced Donald Trump to seek congressional approval to launch strikes in...
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When Jasmeet Bains first announced she was running for Congress, some Democratic powerbrokers saw her candidacy as downright providential in their quest to flip a...
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When Abdul El-Sayed walked into Detroit’s health department in 2015, he found about 85 employees crammed into the back of a municipal parking building. The...
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Joe Biden has said ‘these are dark days’ in the US, and accused the Trump administration of ‘doing its best to dismantle the constitution’ with...
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As the US continues making unprecedented changes to its vaccination recommendations, one figure appears unexpectedly: Tracy Beth Høeg, a Danish American sports physician and epidemiologist...
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Pope Leo said on Tuesday he hoped to spread the Christian message by speaking about peace, but that people were free to criticise him. Donald...
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Trump doubles down on baseless claims that mail-ballots are ‘corrupt’ In his press conference with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump has spent a chunk...
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Federal judge orders immigration facility in Chicago to improve its conditions Robert Gettleman issued a temporary restraining order requiring federal authorities to provide sanitary conditions...
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In fulfillment of clause 1 of section 3 in article II of the US constitution, Donald Trump duly gave Congress “Information of the State of...
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‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...
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Where is James Talarico? The question ricocheted around rightwing echo chambers before metastasising into a conspiracy theory – and a reminder of the persistent danger...
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Earlier this summer, Republican lawmakers gathered around Donald Trump and applauded as he sat before a desk outside the White House and put his signature...
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Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly plans to run as an independent candidate in the New York City’s mayoral race, days after finding himself...
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Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the...
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Trump signs agreement with Iran at Versailles As he left Versailles on Wednesday night, after a dinner in honor of the 250th anniversary of American...
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With the victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed over representative Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic primary, prepare yourself to hear enormous quantities of bullshit about the...
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House committee releases image of ‘sickening’ Trump birthday note to Epstein Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...
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When the chief Republican budget writer took to the floor of the House of Representatives this week to tout a plan to spend tens of...
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Donald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally Javier Milei loses crucial legislative elections later this month. Trump’s remarks...
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Donald Trump is “inventing fraud” in California’s primary elections, and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him, pro-democracy experts have...
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Mitch McConnell, the former Republican Senate majority leader, returned to the Capitol on Monday and cast his first vote after a months‑long absence that fueled...
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Trump attacks House over Iran war powers resolution Donald Trump has said “four bad Republicans” joined forces with the Democrats to pass a “meaningless” resolution...
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Bob Brooks has worked a lot of jobs, sometimes several at once to make ends meet. He was a paper boy at age 10, and...
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Five months after the United States and Israel started a historically unpopular war against Iran that was going to supposedly last weeks, the fighting has...
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The firings of hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have been reversed, according to several reports citing officials familiar with the...
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Texas house passes partisan Republican congressional map after weeks of protest The Texas state house – which has a significant Republican majority – has approved a...
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Timothy Garton Ash has produced an excellent list of safeguards against extremism (My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late, 25 November)....
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Pete Hegseth denied that the US-Israel war on Iran, which the Pentagon estimates has cost the US at least $25bn, is “a quagmire” and claimed...
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The United States sent 20 deportees to Liberia, who arrived on Thursday as part of 1,200 migrants that the African country will receive under a...
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Supreme court clears way for Trump to gut education department The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the...
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The House of Representatives was at a standstill on Wednesday as Republican leaders continued to try to rally holdouts against Donald Trump’s megabill, with speaker...
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Mexico has extradited 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as US authorities ratchet up...
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Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this...
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Donald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. Last month, he praised Orbán’s hardline...
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Multiple agencies confirm reductions in force are under way The Guardian has independently confirmed that reductions in force (RIFs) are under way at the following...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrown her support behind Abdul El-Sayed, the doctor and progressive Democrat seeking the party’s nomination in Michigan’s closely watched US Senate race....
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Trump says he will meet Putin again in Budapest after ‘productive’ call Donald Trump has said that his call with Vladimir Putin – which lasted...
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For Donald Trump, the indictment of former FBI director and longtime foe James Comey was,“justice in America”. Legal observers and lawmakers see something far more...
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Trump says Democrats released Epstein emails to ‘deflect’ from performance during government shutdown In a post on Truth Social, the president has addressed the batch...
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The image of immigration officers arresting five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos – in a blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack – in January sparked outrage across...
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Donald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as “godless communists”...
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Two videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building where people are being confined after...
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Patrick Wintour’s report (Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities, 3 October) should not surprise anyone concerned with...
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The US supreme court went out of its way on Monday to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by...
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The Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles. The...
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A Republican attempt to censure Stacey Plaskett, a Democratic delegate, over her real-time texts with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein collapsed on the House floor on Tuesday...
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When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would...
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That was the moment he knew it was true love. Donald Trump turned to gaze at Vladimir Putin as the Russian president publicly endorsed his...
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Newly disclosed records reveal the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing...
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The Trump administration has waived sanctions on Iranian oil purchases at sea for 30 days to ease surging oil prices driven by the US-Israeli war...
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The biggest question in US politics may be whether Democrats can ever win in the south. In this year’s midterms, Georgia has once again emerged...
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Republican senator Dan S Sullivan will be joined on the November ballot in Alaska by a challenger with a nearly identical name from the same...
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Her sharpest words were not in the body of her opinion. They were tucked away in a footnote. That subtle placement speaks volumes about Ketanji...
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When Ronald Reagan became the first US president to address China’s Great Hall of the People in 1984, he did not waste an opportunity to...
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Get Me to the Church on Time, sang Alfred Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. But for Donald Trump, attending a wedding is not...
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Donald Trump announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states and tapped JD Vance to lead the charge. Officials swiftly announced a string of...
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The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday – but it’s still not counting four measles deaths in...
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Republicans are gathering in Texas on Wednesday for a rare “midterm convention”, as they attempt to convince Americans to vote for a party led by...
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Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump’s dramatic White House media ban and casual disregard of the first amendment. Jon Stewart “As many of you have...
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Erik Davis was driving to a medical appointment in St Paul, Minnesota, on 16 June when federal agents surrounded his car. “They hauled me out...
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Donald Trump has cast doubt on the prospect of a diplomatic breakthrough by claiming Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price” for its...
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Donald Trump has put on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause on the legislation passed by both...
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On an April morning at Winooski high school, the day started with a writing prompt: Do you feel safe in school? Why or why not?...
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The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles to drive through tens of millions...
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Here’s a recap of where things stand so far The Texas house is getting down to legislative business today. The Republican majority is poised to...
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As Democrats reckon with a deep intra-party divide that threatens their ability to repair the party’s image and win back voters, Ken Martin said he...
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The Bank of England has rolled out looser mortgage rules that policymakers hope will help 36,000 more first-time buyers on to the housing ladder each...
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The US has launched Donald Trump’s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in...
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On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert responded to White House adviser Paula White-Cain’s claims that Donald Trump is “the GOAT”, while Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers...
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Kamala Harris says Biden’s choice to run for re-election was ‘reckless’ in new book excerpt In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, 107 days, former...
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Across the US, group chats and community threads have started spiking with warnings. Not just the typical alerts about traffic or out of service subway...
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As a former federal prosecutor, I know that prosecutors should be guided by the facts. But in his determination to hound George Soros, Donald Trump...
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In an era of overlapping crises, corruption is no longer a side issue – it is a structural threat to achieving international equality and even...
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The US supreme court has given the Trump administration a green light to block asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border, in a decision that fundamentally...
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Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late progressive congressman Raúl Grijalva, won a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat left open when her...
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Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era” for America’s largest city...
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JD Vance said on Friday that the US wins “either way” regarding negotiations with Iran, pointing to what he called the destruction of its nuclear...
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Key takeaways from Trump-Netanyahu press conference And that’s it, the press conference is over. Trump said he wanted to move to the second phase of...
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US House Republicans rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and instead passed their own funding measure late...
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The Pentagon has released the names of the final two of the six soldiers who were killed during a recent drone strike in Kuwait. They...
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Saturday’s US strikes on Iran provoked conflicting reactions from isolationist Republicans who support Donald Trump’s Make America great again (Maga) movement, catching them – like...
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A US civil rights agency has sued a bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola products it accuses of sex discrimination over an employee networking event that...
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Why exactly so many people drowned in the terrible Independence Day floods that swept through Texas’s Hill Country will probably have multiple explanations that take...
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The husband of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Donald Trump’s labor secretary, has reportedly been barred from the labor department’s headquarters in Washington after at least two female...
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The Trump administration will eliminate all USAID (United States Agency for International Development) overseas positions worldwide by 30 September in a dramatic restructuring of remaining...
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Trump casts doubt on commitment to defending Nato partners Before landing in Amsterdam, Donald Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president apparently...
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The immigrant population of the United States, which has been growing for more than 50 years, has declined by more than a million people since...
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How do we commemorate America’s democracy as Donald Trump undermines it? By embracing his opposition. The United States was founded by breaking from a monarchy....
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The devastation wrought by an earthquake is shaped by what happened before and after it as much as by the shock itself. The twin tremors...
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Judicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually...
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Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years....
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Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of...
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Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, dropped out of the Democratic primary for governor on Thursday, upending the high-stakes contest less than two...
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In Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest community of Arab Americans in the US, one industry has risen above all others in recent years: Yemeni...
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Last week, the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the chair of the Federal Reserve – and longtime foe of Donald Trump –...
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The White House on Friday defended its decision to use taxpayer funds to buy airtime on Fox News for a White House-produced, pro-Trump ad that...
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Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right conspiracy theorist and bigot who also happens to be a Republican congresswoman,...
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A 200-year-old cottonwood tree near the US-Mexico border, known as the “grandmother”, has been destroyed to make way for the construction of Donald Trump’s border...
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Mamdani triumphs on strong night for the Democrats It was an encouraging night for the left in America with Democratic wins in three key races...
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A group of 40 House Democrats have described “grave concerns” over the Trump administration’s secretive program of deportation flights and demanded the Federal Aviation Administration...
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Inside a Brooklyn industrial garage turned underground event venue, local leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America urged hundreds of mostly young people last month...
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Illustration: Mel Haasch/The Guardian For Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”. After two years of trying to conceive, Erica and...
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There may be swarms of bugs, rain showers and thunderstorms, but this isn’t Exodus, or the apocalypse: the president of the United States will host...
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Virginia’s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four...
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The morning after Zohran Mamdani’s startling mayoral victory in New York, the most arresting visual image was not of the mayor-elect celebrating in an applause-filled...
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It was a lovely May evening in Leavenworth, Kansas, but instead of strolling along the Missouri River or gardening, a group of locals sat on...
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The US treasury has drafted a design for a $1 coin featuring Donald Trump on both sides, for the purpose of “honoring America’s 250th Birthday...
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The United Nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortfalls. Now an entrenched problem is becoming an acute crisis in the shadow of...
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‘I think what Trumpism is about, is an understanding that the system in America is not working for working-class people,” says Bernie Sanders, sat in...
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A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions against Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories, finding that the Trump administration likely...
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The US launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel. Hours after the bombs started falling across Iran, Trump...
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First responders brief Trump in Kerr county Donald Trump was greeted in Kerrville, Texas, by Governor Greg Abbott. The president is there to observe recovery...
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The US supreme court has ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark decision that effectively guts a major section...
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“Let me say, we’ve won,” he told a rally in Kentucky on 11 March. “I think we’ve won,” he said on the White House south...
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Donald Trump became the first sitting US president in nearly 50 years to attend a regular-season NFL game when he dropped in on the Detroit...
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A landlord jailed for decades after he attacked a Palestinian American boy and his mother has died. Three months ago, Joseph Czuba was sentenced to...
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As soon as the US government voted to cut funding to more than 1,500 public media outlets last July, Luke Dennis, general manager at WYSO,...
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Trump calls any Jewish person voting for Mamdani ‘stupid’ and continues election day posts The president continues to weigh in on the off-cycle election races...
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For Donald Trump, the indictment of former FBI director and longtime foe James Comey was,“justice in America”. Legal observers and lawmakers see something far more...
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Donald Trump’s US state department said on Tuesday it had revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of...
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Charlie Kirk, the founder of rightwing youth activist group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and a close ally of Donald Trump, was fatally shot while speaking...
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In a matter of weeks, Francesca Hong, an unlikely candidate for governor in one of the country’s most heated battleground states, will test a message...
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In bitter cold beneath the US Capitol dome, he walked to a marine helicopter and shared parting words with Donald Trump. Then, arriving at Joint...
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Donald Trump has said it will be clear within “probably 10 days” whether he can reach a nuclear deal with Iran, as the US military...
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“Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement leaders have put out a petition calling for Donald Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin,...
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Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald Trump’s “border czar” that the Republican presidential administration could “of course” strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar...
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More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have accused Melania Trump of “shifting the burden” on to them after she called on Congress...
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When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he claimed it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it...
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It’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since...
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Joe Biden, the former president, has filed a lawsuit to try to prevent the justice department (DoJ) from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews that...
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The US military’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers traveling by boat in international waters in the Caribbean is an illegal use of war...
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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics, with the shutdown entering its third day. Although the Senate is scheduled to return...
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Furloughed government workers may not be entitled to back pay according to White House memo – reports Government workers who have been furloughed since the...
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The interior department announced today new “America-first” entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and “resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026”...
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Trump’s claims about Greenland are misinformation, Denmark’s foreign minister says Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the foreign minister of Denmark, told reporters on Tuesday that he hopes...
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A 37-year-old nurse named Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday. Protesters on Saturday were on the streets...
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The Trump administration’s communications licensing tsar fired a warning shot over the US broadcasting industry Saturday, threatening to cancel the spectrum permits of broadcasters pushing...
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As Democrats continue to sift through the wreckage of the 2024 election, one truth should be impossible to ignore: they are bleeding support among working-class...
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The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to...
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Of the roughly 43 million Americans carrying student loan debt – totaling nearly $1.7tn – only a small fraction have seen their balances erased. For...
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The US supreme court has upheld birthright citizenship, which provides nearly all people born in the country with citizenship, ruling against a central piece of...
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The Senate voted on Monday night to pass a budget bill that will bring the government shutdown to an end if, as expected, it passes...
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What sort of longshot candidate do we reckon is going to run for US president in 2028? The Rock? Kim Kardashian? Kermit the Frog? US...
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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two...
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If you were hoping Jennifer Lawrence might be able to tell you who to vote for and why, you’re in for some disappointment. “I don’t...
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When it comes to politics in Appalachian Kentucky, one of the first things anyone will tell you is that people defy easy categorization. There are...
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The campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam on to its banks. Another facility thuds
