A warm Sunday night on the South Lawn – with bright lights, fireworks, a fighter plane flyover, thousands of spectators, and the first major professional...
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A person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine has been released after the investigation...
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A man in line for the elevator bank at the federal immigration court in San Antonio, Texas, on a morning in mid-July told the security...
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A federal judge in Virginia temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring any money into a secretive and loosely controlled $1.8bn fund while a legal...
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State health officials in Michigan said on Monday they have identified lettuces and salad greens as a “potential source” of the thousands of cases of...
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Leavitt calls Trump-appointed judge ‘untethered in reality’ following national guard ruling Karoline Leavitt said that the ruling from Karin Immergut, a Trump-appointed federal judge, was...
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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior aides conducted polygraphs on their own colleagues this spring, in some cases as part of an effort to flush out...
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He can’t live with him and can’t live without him. But, finally, the conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson seems to have made up his mind about...
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Donald Trump has signed an executive order vowing to use all measures including US military action to defend the energy-rich nation of Qatar – though...
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Donald Trump has told European leaders he believes a peace deal could be negotiated if the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, agrees to give up the...
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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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Donald Trump has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing to an end a months-long search for a...
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A group of Florida lawmakers were denied entry on Thursday into the new Florida-based immigration jail dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” one day after the first immigrant...
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The Trump administration has reportedly been pushing to release records from an FBI investigation related to Eric Swalwell and alleged links to a Chinese agent...
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Texas Democrats returned to their state on Monday as California lawmakers kicked off a rapid push for voters to approve a new congressional map that...
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It’s America’s birthday. Ear-splitting pyrotechnics will be heard across the land tonight, as they were a few weeks ago, after the cage fight at the...
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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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The US Department of Justice said on Wednesday it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to clinics and doctors who offer gender-affirming care to minors....
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A federal judge in Oregon on Friday blocked Donald Trump from deploying national guard troops to Portland, ruling there was no evidence of widespread violence...
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Barack Obama took aim at institutions and businesses who made deals or worked out settlements with the Trump administration, noting on a new podcast episode:...
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Pakistan’s prime minister has hailed the “peaceful resolution” of the conflict between the US and Iran, while congratulating the leadership of both countries for signing...
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Pentagon officials told top lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday that the cost of the war against Iran has already exceeded $11.3bn in its...
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John F Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg has said he will run for the US House next year, announcing Tuesday that he was seeking a key...
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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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The US president blasted ABC News as ‘fake news’ when a reporter asked the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 murder of...
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Jamieson Greer, a US trade representative, said on Monday that Washington and Beijing have struck a framework agreement on transferring TikTok to US-controlled ownership. Speaking...
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A federal judge has blocked key portions of the Pentagon’s press access policy, siding with the New York Times and ruling that the Trump administration’s...
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Virginia congressional map vote could embolden Florida Republicans to push for boundary changes, says Jeffries Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. The...
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Schumer says Senate Democrats will force vote on Trump’s tariffs on Canada Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force the chamber to vote...
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I return to Europe from the US with a clear conclusion: American democrats (lowercase d) have 400 days to start saving US democracy. If next...
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An administrative law judge in Minnesota has found probable cause to believe Mike Lindell, candidate for Minnesota governor and the MyPillow founder, violated campaign finance...
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David Griffith was a registered Republican for years. But on Sunday evening, he watched the Ohio congressman Max Miller stumble through an 18-minute statement in...
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“Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!” Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in Iraq, memorably declared at a press conference in Baghdad on 14 December 2003,...
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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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Suspect in Colorado attack told police he researched for a year and targeted ‘Zionist group’ – AP The FBI have said the man charged in...
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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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Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian US,...
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The story is co-published with Public Domain, an investigative newsroom that covers public lands, wildlife and government Thousands of people gathered at the steps of...
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The US senator Sheldon Whitehouse has sent a letter to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts detailing allegations from whistleblowers that some...
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A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing Donald Trump’s image to help celebrate the US’s...
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US reportedly ready for next phase of Venezuela military operations Trump has been escalating pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and has now labelled him...
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A federal jury has found three protesters, including a US military veteran of the war in Afghanistan, guilty on felony conspiracy charges on Thursday for...
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Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States a second time from what is essentially the beacon of global culture and heritage – Unesco –...
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A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has...
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There will still be one Dan Sullivan on the ballot, but election officials in Alaska determined a second man by the same name cannot run...
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It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it’s developed into a full-blown...
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More than three dozen Democratic senators have begun an independent inquiry into the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following a huge change in how the...
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A Bronx office of US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating. The...
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Extremists are exploiting political violence on online platforms to recruit new people to their causes and amplify the use of violence for political goals, according...
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The gunman behind a deadly shooting at Brown University in December appeared to have been aggrieved by personal failures and sought retribution against those he...
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The long-serving publisher of Stars and Stripes could face an early dismissal just days after the taxpayer-funded military news outlet’s reporting revealed deteriorating conditions on...
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Senate fails to pass bill to keep essential federal workers and troops paid throughout government shutdown The Senate has failed to pass legislation that would...
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Barack Obama met with Zohran Mamdani for the first time on Saturday at a childcare center where the former Democratic US president and mayor of...
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President Trump’s signature “Big Beautiful Bill” has precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and one of his closest allies, billionaire Elon Musk. The...
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After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration vowed to prosecute “antifa” activists for domestic terrorism. Now, it’s made good on that threat. A...
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Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump’s expletive-laden social media posts about the war in Iran and mocked his tonally jarring White House Easter egg roll....
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A coalition of more than two dozen states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its decision to suspend food stamps during the government shutdown....
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The largely supine Republicans in Congress had no apparent trouble as Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of suspected drug runners...
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Earlier this week, Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, was accused by a former partner of sexual assault. Platner denies the allegations,...
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Never before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top one per cent owns more wealth than the...
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People across all 50 US states on Thursday are joining marches and rallies at more than 1,500 sites to protest against the Trump administration and...
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On 30 May last year, Kim Sajet was working in her office in the grandly porticoed National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The gallery is...
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They cracked the White House situation room, unearthing secrets from the heart of a secretive administration. But the reporters behind Regime Change, a blockbuster new...
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Republican Steve Hilton, the former UK political operative turned Fox News personality, has advanced to the November general election in the race to become California’s...
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US Democrats on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat incapacitated in the Caribbean, continuing...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature New Yorkers vote in mayoral primary as polls show Mamdami leading...
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Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to one of its lowest points, with only 37% of Americans expressing approval of his performance as president. The...
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The Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell is the latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign against his critics, the congressman confirmed on Thursday. NBC News reports that...
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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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The conservative commentator Katie Pavlich didn’t want to give anything away before her debut as a primetime host for NewsNation, a cable news channel that...
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Scott MacFarlane, the CBS News justice correspondent most known for his extensive coverage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, surprised colleagues on Monday morning by...
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Speaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New...
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It is 20 years since Florida police first investigated the financier Jeffrey Epstein for the sexual abuse of underage girls; six years since he killed...
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The killing of Charlie Kirk has left the US and those who care about it on edge. The arrest of a suspect, Tyler Robinson, has...
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ICE kills man in Maine: what we know so far An ICE officer has fatally shot a man in Maine during what authorities described as...
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The public defence investigator Darializa Avila Chevalier toppled Adriano Espaillat, the powerful five-term incumbent who chairs the Hispanic caucus in Congress, in the diverse 13th...
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It’s been a long, slow decline for Milo Yiannopoulos. From the vantage point of 2026, it’s easy to forget that he was once a big...
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Two events, juxtaposed, tell us a great deal about what is rapidly taking shape in the US. In one, Melania Trump releases a glossy documentary,...
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Democrats on House oversight committee release new Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a tranche of...
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Trump calls tariffs ruling ‘unfortunate’ but says administration is pursuing legal alternatives As we expected, the president bemoaned the supreme court’s ruling that Trump exceeded...
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Last November, Donald Trump made a solemn vow to all Americans: “Every citizen, I will fight for you, your family and your future every single...
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An independent arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire the high-profile opinion columnist Karen Attiah, abruptly fired by the news organization last September over...
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Erica Schwartz, the Trump administration’s latest nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), faced sharp questioning from senators who pressed her...
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Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids related to “selling...
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The Donald Trump aide Natalie Harp flooded a since-disabled social media account with pro-Trump posts on the day that the president’s supporters attacked the US...
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Days after pleading not guilty to conspiracy charges, Emmett Doyle took the stage at a dive bar in Minneapolis, and performed an Irish protest ballad....
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The US military has issued new media restrictions demanding that journalists pledge not to gather any information – including unclassified documents – that has not...
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The 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a...
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The news began to spread through the Sundance film festival on Saturday morning, as people emerged from early screenings or long nights out at the...
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An immigration judge in Baltimore has denied Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum on Thursday, but he has 30 days to appeal. Ábrego’s case has...
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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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The scientist responsible for overseeing the CDC team that collects data on Covid and RSV hospitalizations resigned on Monday. Dr Fiona Havers told colleagues in...
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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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Donald Trump has pledged to allow cattle ranchers and farmers to process their own food amid a backlash from the US agricultural sector over his...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday evening she will be resigning from office effective 5 January 2026, in the wake of souring relations with President...
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Trump issues blunt message to Senate majority leader to pass voter ID legislation As John Thune battles conservative blowback for refusing to alter Senate rules...
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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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There are few better metaphors for the receding status of American women than one offered up by the Trump administration at a medical waste disposal...
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A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a “less-lethal” projectile by a Department...
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Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying...
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On Wednesday morning, Mississippi’s governor, Tate Reeves, said that he was canceling a special legislative session that was scheduled to redraw the state’s supreme court...
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Federal appeals court rules that most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal A US appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s new tariffs...
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‘We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Donald Trump told the Atlantic on 5 January, with the hand-wavy follow-up, “We need it for defence.” His adviser Stephen...
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Weeks after justice department officials released more than 3m investigative documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, there have not been any arrests in the US, prompting...
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In December 1973 the public television current affairs programme, The Open Mind, held a special edition devoted to what its main guest, the historian Arthur...
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In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently,...
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Now is the twilight of Donald Trump’s supremacy. The US is still the richest and most heavily armed nation on Earth. That status is secure....
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Donald Trump on Saturday authorized the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests with police...
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Bondi spars with Democratic senator over Epstein ‘client list’ Democratic senator Dick Durbin of Illinois grilled Pam Bondi as to why she made a public...
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Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia wins congressional special election in New Jersey in a landslide Democrat Analilia Mejia won a special election to represent New Jersey’s...
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On the morning of Columbia University’s commencement last week, an intergenerational group of Jewish alumni gathered in the rain outside the Manhattan campus’s heavily policed...
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A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday will be a test of Donald Trump’s sway, and...
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Donald Trump has hit Australian exports with new trade tariffs, claiming the country is not doing enough to combat forced labour, but the Albanese government...
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Deaths occurring in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) have reached at least 16 since January amid increasing mass detention across the...
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Nine months and six days before a Tomahawk missile tore through the gaily decorated classrooms of the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, ripping...
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This February, Pat McAfee was broadcasting live on ESPN, the most watched sports network in the US, when he aired a salacious rumor about the...
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A superior court judge in Washington DC has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay more than $250,000 to a musician who canceled a performance at...
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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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Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday....
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As Donald Trump deploys more troops to fight protesters in LA, and as plans come together for a military parade in Washington DC on the...
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Donald Trump has made a second attempt to restrict the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, just weeks after the US supreme court rejected his initial,...
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The Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring...
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Senior Democrats have claimed they were left in the dark about operation Midnight Hammer, the US’s highly coordinated strike on Saturday on Iran’s nuclear enrichment...
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Happy holidays! Across the 12 days of Christmas one very keen individual once gifted their lover a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves,...
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Jerome traveled a thousand miles from California to El Paso, Texas, so he could accompany Jenny to her immigration hearing. He and his wife had...
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Sarah Beckstrom, one of the national guard troops shot in Washington DC on Wednesday, has died, Donald Trump said on Thursday. “Sarah Beckstrom of West...
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LAPD chief says deployment of marines comes as a surprise to him, and could make things harder The Los Angeles police department still has not...
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Burying the hatchet with Brussels, Donald Trump – flanked by the leader of the European Commission – hailed a bold new era of transatlantic relations,...
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Donald Trump’s second term is unlike his first. The politicians who challenged him are gone. The lawyers who once pushed back now choose their battles....
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Top Senate Republican says he can ‘guarantee’ vote on key healthcare provision as government shutdown enters day 16 Hello, and welcome to the US politics...
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When Donald Trump posted during his first term on what was then called Twitter, his attacks and rants differed significantly from US federal agency staff’s...
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Reflecting pool damage was caused by ‘botched’ renovation, not vandalism, prosecutors say as they ask to drop charges In a court filing on Friday, the...
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The president, vice-president and members of Congress have begun calling for the government to investigate progressive organizations in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder,...
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While Donald Trump’s justice department has downplayed the possibility that other men were involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of teen girls, an email released on...
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A Trump administration appointee has delayed publication of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that shows benefits related to the Covid vaccine,...
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When Shawn Pleasants first heard that the federal government was tearing up almost two decades of homelessness policy, it sent chills up his spine. Pleasants,...
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A five-year-old boy and his father were back in Minneapolis on Sunday after being released from a Texas immigration detention center where they were held...
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A heated debate over criticism of Israel and the political influencer Hasan Piker’s role on the left has bitterly divided progressive and establishment Democrats in...
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Donald Trump abruptly shelved plans to sign a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing on Wednesday, demanding Congress first approve his...
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The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Friday that he is going to stay in the fall’s highly anticipated mayoral race, just days...
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Want to hear a cute little story about JD Vance and a Dutch baby? Don’t worry, he didn’t deport it, he cooked one for breakfast....
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Leading US investors and private equity firms could step up their foray into UK new-build housing after Donald Trump’s move to ban institutional companies from...
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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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Members of the US supreme court peppered lawyers for the former Monsanto Company with a barrage of questions over pesticide regulation on Monday, wrestling over...
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The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and...
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Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be...
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Elon Musk has announced on social media that he is leaving his role in the Trump administration, a departure the White House confirmed was in...
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Karoline Leavitt, 28, is leaving her demanding job as Donald Trump’s press secretary to spend more time with her two young children and her 60-year-old...
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He was always one step ahead. Donald Trump won the US presidency as a wildly unlikely outsider in 2016 and staged an astonishing comeback to...
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White House warns layoffs are imminent if shutdown drags on Leavitt tells reporters that government agencies are already preparing for cuts and “layoffs are imminent”....
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Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenues from chip sales in China, under an unprecedented arrangement to obtain...
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For Michael Scurr, a volunteer at the National Archives in Kew, west London, it was “just a boring old Thursday morning” when he sat down...
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Tensions between Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston, and the Trump administration have been escalating in recent months over the administration’s aggressive immigration policies, with...
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More than 115 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher...
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1. Democratic socialist falls short in Wisconsin Despite polls suggesting she was on course for victory, the progressive state lawmaker Francesca Hong was narrowly beaten...
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President Donald Trump claimed a key victory in a US appeals court Monday as a divided three-judge panel decided he is allowed to deploy federal...
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It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it’s developed into a full-blown...
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Closing summary We’re wrapping up our live coverage for the day, but we’ll be back on Tuesday. Here is a summary of today’s developments: Donald...
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Brad Lander arrest ‘political intimidation’, says AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called the arrest of Brad Lander “political intimidation”. The Democratic congresswomen wrote on social media:...
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A federal appeals court has declined to dismiss criminal charges against a sitting US congresswoman who visited an immigration facility as part of congressional oversight....
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Randy “Duke” Cunningham, whose feats as a US navy flying ace during the Vietnam war catapulted him to a House of Representatives career that ended...
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Stephen Miller is the man behind Donald Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, from separating children and their parents at the southern border to the sharp...
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The Brazilian-born mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew – who was recently detained by US immigration authorities – has rejected the Trump...
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The Trump administration is asking for public feedback on changes to the ways it recommends vaccines – likely opening the door to greater access challenges...
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House Democrats file six articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete Hegseth Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, and colleagues including John Larson of...
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Not soon after Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, there emerged a viral illustration of four Black women sitting at the top of a building while watching...
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Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to one of its lowest points, with only 37% of Americans expressing approval of his performance as president. The...
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Iran’s foreign minister has dismissed the threat of a fresh round of US economic sanctions as a “desperate” ploy, even as its president acknowledged that...
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A political candidate in the New York City suburbs went for a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean this past spring and never returned. Petros...
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The US government has opened a second federal investigation into a recent crash of a Tesla that reportedly had driver-assistance technology engaged, struck a Texas...
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The US has flown five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to the small, African country of Eswatini – an absolute monarchy with...
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On 9 July, the body of Ann Widdecombe, an uncompromising, staunchly conservative former UK government minister turned TV personality and spokesperson for the radical-right Reform...
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Donald Trump has again said that the US has “total control over the strait of Hormuz”, adding that Iran’s leadership was so hobbled by infighting...
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According to Donald Trump’s White House, the US economy is booming, inflation is dead and jobs are surging. A blizzard of economic reports has cast...
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White House continues to say new release of Epstein emails is a distraction and ‘hoax’ White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has said that the...
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Farm workers in the US are reeling from the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, including increased raids and deportations, according to a new survey conducted...
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If the Democratic party wants to win back power in 2028, then look no further than the 2026 election cycle as the most important moment...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized Donald Trump’s plan to hold a UFC fight on the White House lawn, as the president prepares to host seven...
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The Trump administration is cancelling another $175m in funding for California’s high-speed rail, marking another setback for the state’s much-delayed project. The US transportation department...
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Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has said she believes Donald Trump still wants to own Greenland, despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it...
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Blake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile...
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Kyrsten Sinema, a former US senator, admitted in court filings to having a “romantic and intimate” relationship with a married man who was a member...
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Erez Reuveni, a former justice department attorney who was dismissed from his post, has provided text messages to the Senate judiciary committee supporting his whistleblower...
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The US Senate voted to confirm Jay Clayton as the director of national intelligence on Tuesday, giving Trump another key ally directing the nation’s intelligence...
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The internet blackout across Iran is meant to prevent protests from spreading, and observers from witnessing the crackdown on them. But it’s also emblematic of...
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Trump calls tariffs ruling ‘unfortunate’ but says administration is pursuing legal alternatives As we expected, the president bemoaned the supreme court’s ruling that Trump exceeded...
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At Pee Wee’s Place, a bar and restaurant in Crescent Springs, northern Kentucky, biscuits and gravy go for $6 and liver and onions for $14.75....
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The abandoned homes and razed lots along the meandering Troublesome Creek in rural eastern Kentucky is a constant reminder of the 2022 catastrophic floods that...
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‘My party crossed a line,’ Fetterman says of decision to splinter from Democrats over government shutdown John Fetterman – the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania who...
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The US health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fended off an attack by conservative firebrand and Donald Trump influencer Laura...
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Trump administration to meet with top US oil executives – report Following the capture, arrest and detention of Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is set...
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I’m still grieving Dolly Parton. I never met her and always wanted to. She was almost exactly my age and my height and had values...
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The Trump administration unveiled highly contentious conclusions about the causes of autism, together with a push for research purporting to find a possible “cure” for...
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This week, the Trump administration took a key step towards opening new leases for oil and gas drilling across millions of acres in the Arctic...
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Senate fails again to pass short term funding bill as government shutdown enters eighth day The Senate has rejected a House-passed funding bill that would...
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What are the odds that the president can successfully sue his own government to recoup hundreds of millions in damages from past federal investigations? If...
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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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A generational divide over the Iran war has emerged between older attendees and their political heirs at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in...
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Miami archbishop condemns Florida detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Florida’s most senior Catholic leader, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, has condemned the new immigration detention center...
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Police say video suggests ‘lone gunman’ shot two national guard members in Washington DC A review of video from the scene of the shooting of...
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The US’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has contended to the podcaster Tucker Carlson that Israel has a biblical right to take over the entire...
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David Scott, a Georgia congressman and moderate Democrat representing Atlanta’s southern suburbs since 2003, has died at the age of 80. Scott’s health had been...
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A demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon. The man, Arthur...
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Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has settled a long-running defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over lies...
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On the first Tuesday of November, Americans will decide whether to keep Congress under Donald Trump’s control, or hand power to the Democrats. The first...
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Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we’re examining the tech industry’s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13...
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When Cuba’s national grid collapses, as it did for the third time in 10 days on Tuesday, a collective groan spreads across its cities and...
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Donald Trump – the oldest person ever to be elected US president – had what he has described as a “semiannual physical” at the Walter...
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Foreign policy experts say they are not surprised at China’s efforts to exert its influence over local US communities after the mayor of a southern...
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Although her husband, James “Fergie” Chambers, had been locked up in Spain for nearly a week, Stella Schnabel didn’t break down and cry until Thursday,...
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US senator Bill Cassidy said on Sunday that “there’s a deal to be had” on tackling the rising cost of healthcare, suggesting he remained optimistic...
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Donald Trump welcomed 2026 with a glitzy bash at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach where he auctioned off a freshly painted portrait of Jesus...
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“Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.” The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around...
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Donald Trump has said that his administration plans to start sending letters on Monday to US trade partners dictating new tariffs, amid confusion over when...
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Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges...
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Trump fires labor statistics chief after weaker than expected jobs report Donald Trump has said he’s ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of...
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As Musk rallies voters to ‘kill the bill’, Trump aide says president is committed to passing it Donald Trump remains committed to passing his spending...
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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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Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, on Thursday said state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan intended as a direct response to a Republican-led...
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He can’t live with him and can’t live without him. But, finally, the conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson seems to have made up his mind about...
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He grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian...
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Kelly Loeffler, the new administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), announced recently that the agency charged with supporting the businesses that are the backbone...
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Orbiting 250 miles above the US in the international space station, astronaut Cady Coleman did not look down and see red or blue states, sanctuary...
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The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he...
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Jamieson Greer, a US trade representative, said on Monday that Washington and Beijing have struck a framework agreement on transferring TikTok to US-controlled ownership. Speaking...
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Rightwing activist Charlie Kirk died after being shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University in Utah. Kirk was about 20 minutes into...
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More than 8 million people showed up across 3,300 No Kings protests on Saturday, calling for an end to the war in Iran, immigration agents...
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Petition to trigger House vote on release of Epstein files reaches required total Shortly after Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of...
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The extraordinary arrests of the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press...
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Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75m to the US government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and...
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Trump administration asks supreme court to allow deployment of national guard in Chicago area The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to...
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Starmer and Trump sign ‘tech prosperity deal’ At one point Trump seemed to be referencing a script, but now he is just rambling about what...
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Japan’s yen has slid back towards 160 to the dollar, despite last month’s extraordinary US-Japanese intervention. Traders are betting that its role as a cheap funding...
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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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ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments after FCC chair threatens fines ABC bowed to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission on...
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President Donald Trump solidified his takeover of Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday by hosting its flagship awards program –...
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The US supreme court sided with Donald Trump on Monday in his effort to crack down on mail-in voting, though it remains unclear if his...
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Fulton county, Georgia, is trying to fend off a subpoena from a federal prosecutor in North Carolina seeking contact information for thousands of poll workers...
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Donald Trump declined on Sunday to definitively rule out compensating individuals who were charged with assaulting police officers when his supporters attacked the US Capitol...
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As the adage goes: no plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy. Donald Trump entered the war with Iran with maximalist goals: eliminating...
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Jimmy Kimmel talked about Pam Bondi and this week’s judiciary hearings as well as the latest climate-destroying victory for the Trump administration. The late-night host...
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The US president, Donald Trump, has said Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been captured and are on their way to...
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Could Donald Trump be a Russian asset? The headline on a review in the Guardian of my new book Betrayal has provoked heated international debate.
Could Donald Trump be a Russian asset? The headline on a review in the Guardian of my new book Betrayal has provoked heated international debate.
