Republican lawmakers have moved to block a Democratic effort to force the release of the so-called Epstein files, a near-mythological trove of undisclosed information about...
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All the elaborate efforts of the European allies to prevent Donald Trump from prostrating himself before Vladimir Putin came to naught at their summit meeting...
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JD Vance has said the US is “not at war” with Iran – but is with its nuclear weapons program, holding out a position that...
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ICC arrest warrant for Putin limits where any summit with Trump could take place The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Donald Trump could meet...
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Democrats and civil rights groups have criticized Donald Trump’s travel ban on 12 countries as “reckless” and “racist”, with some warning the policy may be...
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The Trump administration has once again put Dreamers on a rollercoaster ride. The federal government is sending mixed signals about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
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Donald Trump gave a rambling, freewheeling address at the Charlie Kirk memorial in Alabama on Sunday, taking aim at Joe Biden and trailing a major...
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When the centre-left French politician Aurore Lalucq posted a warning last Wednesday that Donald Trump could cut off Europe from international payment systems, the clip...
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its first-ever Emmy on Sunday, less than two months after news of its cancellation elicited a gleeful reaction...
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A federal judge has ruled that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook can stay in her post while suing Donald Trump over his unprecedented bid...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act as Bondi faces Senate Good...
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Federal prosecutor reportedly resigned over concern new investigation of Ábrego García was politically motivated A career federal prosecutor resigned in protest the same day that...
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When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US....
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Trump says he ‘can’t believe’ Kimmel back on ABC Good morning and welcome to our coverage of US politics as Donald Trump has made clear...
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US citizens are free once more to buy some of the country’s most deadly firearms and gun accessories, after relentless lobbying by the gun industry...
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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has arrived in Israel seeking to mend a rift with Washington’s other allies in the region over Israel’s...
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The Minnesota governor said the fatal shooting of a woman in her car was ‘totally predictable’ and ‘totally avoidable’. He noted that local law enforcement...
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The US treasury department demanded on Friday that the Financial Times (FT) retract a report on treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s views on the Federal Reserve,...
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Donald Trump has announced plans for the US navy to build a new generation of warships – known as “Trump-class”. The ships will be bigger,...
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American politicians reacted to the news of the US bombing of nuclear targets in Iran with a mix of cheering support and instant condemnation, reflecting...
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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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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to 34 “sanctuary cities” and counties that limit cooperation with federal immigration...
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When Senate Democrats decided in September to use the government funding bill to put up a fight over expiring healthcare subsides, it set the stage...
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Nigel Farage’s obsession with free speech has become the mood music of his own party, the Conservatives and the BBC, so it shouldn’t have been...
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The Trump administration has found that the California department of education and the state’s high school sports federation violated civil rights law by allowing transgender...
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When dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places...
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House Democrats share Trump ‘birthday note’ to Jeffrey Epstein Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a scanned copy of a “birthday note” that...
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It was just the authoritarian image Donald Trump hoped to project at the US Open: the president himself, looming from Arthur Ashe Stadium’s giant screens...
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The Trump administration has pushed through a flurry of actions on the final day of 2025, including drastic reversals on two high key issues. Donald...
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1. Trump’s threats to New York City loomed large The Republican president’s threats to New York City dominated plenty of conversation during the debate. In...
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Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a...
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Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Cop30, withdraw the US from the Paris agreement and illegally terminate a slew of investments in renewable energy will not...
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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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Bonnie Connery was horrified when she read the news about the death of ICE observer Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on 7 January. Within minutes,...
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Some of America’s key allies have backed Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, after the president and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered an...
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US prices continued to rise in July, according to key economic data released on Tuesday, as Donald Trump’s international tariffs shakeup started to impact consumer...
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Pregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of prominent...
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A New York high school student who was detained at an immigration courthouse in May last year, sparking national outrage, was released on Wednesday. Dylan...
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Woody Allen has said he was impressed by the acting abilities of Donald Trump when he directed the now-president in the 1998 film Celebrity. Speaking...
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Democratic lawmakers, led by the senators Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth and the representative Mike Quigley, are demanding answers about how Donald Trump’s immigration policies...
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White House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack ‘could be deported as early as tonight’ The White House is boasting on its official social...
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Johnson says Schumer declined a vote on Obamacare subsidies and says it’s not ‘appropriate’ for it to be part of stopgap funding bill Mike Johnson...
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The Trump administration’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid...
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The US has said it will designate a putative Venezuelan drug cartel allegedly led by Nicolás Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization, as the Trump...
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Markwayne Mullin defended his ability to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and expressed regrets for comments he made about a US citizen killed...
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Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down on its recent criticism of Europe, saying last month’s US national security strategy was an attempt to “jolt” an...
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A public feud erupted between Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday, with the president saying he was “very disappointed” by the former adviser’s opposition...
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Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s mass federal layoffs The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has said that the next independent Department of Justice “should investigate” the private donations that have funded the construction of...
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The Smithsonian will include Donald Trump’s two impeachments in an updated presentation “in the coming weeks” after references to them were removed, the museum said...
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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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The Missouri governor, Mike Kehoe, has moved to help the Republican party gain an additional seat in Congress, calling a special legislative session to redraw...
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Ex-Obama aide: ‘insane’ to think Cuomo is best choice for New York mayor As we await initial results in New York City’s tight mayoral race,...
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Republican US senator Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for re-election to a third term Wednesday. Daines withdrew his name just minutes before the...
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Jacob Frey, the embattled mayor of Minneapolis, has warned fellow mayors that their city will be next in line to be targeted by federal immigration...
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A bill introduced this week by California lawmakers would ban federal immigration agents from being stationed outside polling places, responding to concerns that Immigration and...
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Elon Musk further criticizes Trump’s spending bill, saying a new one should be drafted Elon Musk, who only days ago left his role in Donald...
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The Trump administration said it would provide partial relief to recipients of food stamps on Monday as the federal government shutdown approached a record-breaking length....
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Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson has ordered Chicago police to investigate and document alleged illegal activity by federal immigration (ICE) agents in the city, a move...
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On 2 September, the US government released grainy footage of a fishing boat ploughing through the waters of the Caribbean sea. Suddenly, after a flash...
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The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America...
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Enhanced subsidies that have kept health insurance premiums affordable for millions of Americans who use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expired at the end of...
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At least three events connected to Mexican Independence Day have been canceled or postponed in Chicago, amid reports that Donald Trump plans to send troops...
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How many children has the US helped kill this week in the Middle East? It’s hard to keep track, but Unicef reports that more than...
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Death toll in strike on Iranian bridge rises to 8 with almost 100 injured, Iran state media reports The death toll from Thursday’s attack on...
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Protesters heckled federal law enforcement officials as they reportedly stopped dozens of cars at a checkpoint along a busy street in Washington DC on Wednesday...
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The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former...
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet JD Vance and Mike Johnson today Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose...
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The latest phase of the Trump administration’s offensive against Harvard University is a comprehensive review of the university’s federally funded research programs, and the threat...
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‘If this is how they respond to a senator with a question, imagine what they’re doing across the country,’ says Padilla Padilla goes on: If...
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Federal immigration officials have released an Iranian woman whom they allowed to stay in the US without legal status for the last 47 years, until...
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Democratic US senator Cory Booker has criticized both his own political party as well as its Republican counterpart for being “feckless” in ceding congressional war...
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When it comes to cutting taxes or paying for mass deportations, Donald Trump is happy to work with Congress. But if the issue is his...
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In the fast-escalating national arms race over redistricting, Utah has emerged as an unexpected and potentially pivotal battleground. The campaign began in Texas, where Donald...
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Donald Trump has suggested he already has a replacement in mind for the Federal Reserve governor he is trying to force, even as Lisa Cook...
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The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve an additional $58m for security services to protect the members of the executive and judicial branches after...
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Donald Trump has denied falling asleep while attending public meetings and robustly defended his health after the first year of his second term in office...
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Dynamism, courage, and wit are words that few are likely to associate with the mainstream Democratic party, particularly after its capitulation to Republicans’ budget demands...
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A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the US Capitol on...
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West Virginia is to deploy 300 to 400 national guard troops to Washington DC at the request of the Trump administration, the state’s governor said...
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Senate Democrats failed on Friday to get a war-powers resolution passed to limit Donald Trump’s ability to single-handedly escalate the war with Iran. The resolution,...
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It is a well-known adage in politics that success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. Except when Donald Trump is involved, in which...
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After Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the Smithsonian Institution – a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and culture –...
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When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock. For years, she has sat as...
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Trump signs order raising H1-B visa fee to $100,000 The Trump administration officially announced plans to raise the fee companies pay to sponsor H‑1B workers...
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For 13 minutes on Sunday night, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will pulse with reggaeton, Latin trap and Caribbean rhythms as Bad Bunny headlines a...
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The Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board described the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities as “a military occupation”. Local leaders have used...
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In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at...
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The honeymoon between Donald Trump and Elon Musk appears to be over, after the tech billionaire announced his official exit from the White House to...
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Senate Democrats on the finance committee are calling for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign as he is set to testify before the...
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The former US attorney general William Barr has repeated his finding that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death in prison was “undoubtedly suicide” to a panel of...
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The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday he would have “great pause” about granting a pardon or commutation to Ghislaine Maxwell while another...
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A recent tweet from the US Department of Defense boasts about the killing capabilities of the US military as follows: “Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing”....
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Republican-led committees launching probes There’s been a swift response from lawmakers...
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal homeland security funding, including for disasters, for states that do not comply with...
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The Democratic party seems more united than it has been in years, thanks to one man: Donald Trump. Opposition to his presidency has papered over...
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The US military seized another Venezuela-linked tanker known as Veronica in a pre-dawn action on Thursday. Monochrome video showed a helicopter flying next to the...
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At this difficult moment in American history, it’s imperative that we have the courage to be honest with ourselves. The United States, once the envy...
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US Catholic bishops condemn Trump administration’s immigration enforcement Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing...
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California state supreme court rejects Republican effort to stop mid-decade redistricting On Wednesday night, the California state supreme court declined an emergency request by Republican...
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The supreme court on Thursday cleared the way for the deportation of several immigrants who were put on a flight in May bound for South...
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Nikki Owens, right, and her daughter, Kinlee Owens, rest their heads together on 17 December 2025, in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Danielle Villasana/The Guardian For seven...
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DC mayor: ‘this action today is unsettling and unprecedented’ Bowser says that her office plans to follow the law, and cooperate with the federal government....
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Donald Trump could walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference. Donald Trump...
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On Tuesday, Democrats won right, left and center. In purple Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the staunchly anti-socialist former CIA official won handily over her Republican counterpart....
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As the first Pride month under Donald Trump’s second presidency approaches, LGBTQ+ businesses are stepping up, evolving quickly to meet the community’s growing concerns. Since...
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Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate...
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On a cold January day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, workers at a Whole Foods Market store in the heart of the city made history. Organizers won...
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Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said on Sunday that the US wants a leader in Venezuela who will be “a partner that understands...
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The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve to remove governor Lisa Cook, after the economist declared she had “no intention of...
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Newsom praises California redistricting package as chance to ‘fight back’ against Republican gerrymandering Governor Gavin Newsom praised California lawmakers for introducing a legislative package that,...
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Key takeaways from Mike Johnson’s press conference Keen to put on a show of Republican unity and blame the Democrats for the ongoing Epstein furore,...
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Ghislaine Maxwell urges supreme court to overturn her conviction Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme...
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California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Sunday that he is suing Donald Trump over the alleged deployment of 300 California national guard personnel to Oregon....
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The Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC...
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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 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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Justice department told Trump in May that his name is in the Epstein files – WSJ “When justice department officials reviewed what attorney general Pam...
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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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Ghislaine Maxwell urges supreme court to overturn her conviction Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, has urged the supreme...
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US immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in...
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The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Wednesday that airports across the country are experiencing the “highest wait times in TSA...
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A 24-year-old Honduran man died while trying to flee Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Virginia, bringing the death toll among those trying to...
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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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Trump ran on a promise to lower costs on day one, but a year into his presidency, the real beneficiaries are his billionaire donors. Instead...
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A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican headquarters the night before the January...
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Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American businessman who served a 20-month sentence for campaign contributions to Republican politicians, including Donald Trump, that secretly came from a...
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Trump threatens sending military to Democratic cities, singling out Chicago In between repeating baseless claims that DC crime data is “phoney”, and touting the work...
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The Trump administration is targeting US sanctuary cities in the next phase of its deportation drive, after an off-duty law enforcement officer was allegedly shot...
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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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In this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being an American feels like a curse, where just breathing here feels like complicity with genocide, psychotic imperialism,...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr’s health department is conducting a new review of mifepristone, the drug used in the majority of American abortions, claiming that a...
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Abel Ortiz was brought from Mexico to LA when he was just two months old and has been living undocumented ever since. Now 38, he has a...
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US Catholic bishops condemn Trump administration’s immigration enforcement Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing...
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I was surprised that your feature (‘What did I just watch?’ The TV shows that utterly baffle us – but we can’t switch off, 20 January) did...
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A bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday....
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‘Your countries are going to hell’: recap of Donald Trump’s address to the UN general assembly In an address lasting almost an hour, more than...
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Twenty-six nations have pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine, including an international force on land and sea and in the air, Emmanuel Macron...
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Utah’s Republican-controlled legislature is escalating its fight against the state’s anti-gerrymandering law after a series of court rulings threatened the congressional map that has long...
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The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, suggested on Wednesday that he would not obey a federal court ruling against the deployments of national guard troops...
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An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive was executed by nitrogen gas – a form of suffocation which defense lawyers have...
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A widely awaited Department of Defense report concluded that defense secretary Pete Hegseth violated departmental policies when he shared secret information in a Signal messaging...
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Suspect in Colorado flamethrower attack told police he targeted ‘Zionist group’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I...
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Tucker Carlson, the podcaster and former Fox News host, once told a hostile conservative crowd that rightwing media needed to be more responsible. In a...
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In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put...
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1. ‘Who is being protected?’ Clinton heavily criticised the House of Representatives’ oversight committee – and its Republican majority – in her opening statement. The...
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In Donald Trump’s world there are weeks and then there are weeks. This one was a doozy. From declaring war on Tylenol to an escape...
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The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants. There seems to be no end to terrifying news these days. In...
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The surprise electoral success of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist running to be mayor of New York, most prominent city on Earth, is a...
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The Trump administration’s “Make America healthy again” (Maha) agenda appears to be stalled as two of the government’s most influential public health positions sit empty....
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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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Trump administration issues rule that makes it easier to fire federal workers The Trump administration moved Thursday to issue a rule that would make it...
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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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Donald Trump signed his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, significantly cutting back on...
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Lawyers for Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor, called Trump administration allegations of mortgage fraud against her “baseless” on Monday and accused the administration of...
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The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut promised on Saturday to fight a Trump administration order halting work on a nearly complete wind farm...
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Top Senate Republican says White House will have ‘something to say’ about Ingrassia nomination Addressing reporters after lunch in the Rose Garden, Senate majority leader...
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Justices appear skeptical as Trump’s lawyers argue he ‘provided adequate process’ in attempt to fire Cook Throughout the first half today’s arguments, the Trump administration’s...
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The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, and the FAA administrator, Bryan Bedford, said on Wednesday the federal government would be reducing airline traffic by 10% at...
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A federal grand jury has declined to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage fraud charges for the second time in a...
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The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming...
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The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter/X...
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Donald Trump is alone. That’s different from the United States being alone. We – that is, the vast majority of Americans who were against Trump’s...
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The Democratic former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said on Wednesday that press freedom is “under siege” in the United States after the Trump...
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Misled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, Trump threatens to invade Portland and ‘wipe out’ protesters Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that...
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After Donald Trump’s justice department failed on Friday to release all documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as required by law, multiple Congress...
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A group of New Yorkers has filed a lawsuit against the state’s board of elections alleging that its congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes the voting power...
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Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado...
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Ethics officials at Fannie Mae were removed from their jobs as they investigated whether a top Trump ally improperly accessed mortgage documents of Letitia James,...
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US forces struck two more alleged drug trafficking boats off the coast of South America, killing six people, the Trump administration’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth,...
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After the FBI seized elections materials from Fulton county last month, Donald Trump returned once again to his false claim that he beat Joe Biden...
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The FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, confirmed on Wednesday that he is stepping down in January. In a statement posted on social media, Bongino thanked...
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Donald Trump has told the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, that he will unfreeze funds for major infrastructure projects in New York and New Jersey...
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Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start matching other nuclear powers in their testing of nuclear weapons, specifically citing Russia and China. In...
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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 shooting involving a border patrol agent near the US-Mexico border in Arizona has left an accused smuggler in critical condition, local authorities said on...
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Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian...
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Deal or no deal?Donald Trump’s decision to order airstrikes against Iran will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and...
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House GOP fiscal hawks demand big changes to megabill As we’ve reported, members of the House Freedom Caucus were expected to meet with the president...
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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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The Republican senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday that he believed the White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go” and that his role in the...
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Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump” and dumping brown sludge onto protestors, in...
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On 24 January, Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents while he was helping another civilian in Minneapolis who had been knocked to the ground...
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Democrats’ soul-searching began even before it was clear Donald Trump would return to the White House. But their devastating losses in the 2024 election threw...
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“I feel so betrayed and so angry. This is not what I voted for.” “This cemented permanent deep state power.” “I’m concerned about being able...
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The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched teargas at a crowd of demonstrators –...
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio headed to Israel on Sunday amid tensions with US allies in the Middle East over Israel’s strike on Hamas...
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Trump suggests that networks who cover him ‘negatively’ should lose their licenses On Air Force One, Donald Trump gaggled with reporters on his flight back...
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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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Since Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to...
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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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More than 800,000 ride-hailing drivers in California will soon be able to join a union and negotiate for higher wages and better benefits under a...
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The US has become a power that knows only how to destroy. In the Ramón González Coro maternity hospital in Havana, Cuba, I saw what...
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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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Bowser says she ‘greatly appreciates’ impact of federal law enforcement surge on DC crime rate “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what...
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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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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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It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had...
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For about 2,000 students attending high school in Dayton, Ohio, there won’t be a bus in sight when they walk out the door for the...
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Donald Trump threatened to use emergency powers to deploy more troops into Democrat-led cities, as his attempts to mobilise the military faced legal challenges. The...
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Legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local...
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Johnson says he doesn’t know how much footage of strike on alleged drug-trafficking boat should be released While answering questions from reporters today, Mike Johnson...
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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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Trump suggests that networks who cover him ‘negatively’ should lose their licenses On Air Force One, Donald Trump gaggled with reporters on his flight back...
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In 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Union. The data reflected some uncomfortable facts – in particular, the dampening of population...
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Texas Democrats who fled state can ‘stay out long enough to stop this deal’, says O’Rourke Former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has emerged as...
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A US Secret Service agent, working on security detail for the former first lady Jill Biden, shot themself in the leg at the Philadelphia international...
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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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Trump calls Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and says Tesla owner is ‘off the rails’ Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the...
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The joint US-Israel military strikes on Iran have forced a reckoning that American political culture has been approaching for years, but has perhaps never had...
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This month, a judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to justify its refusal to collect and disclose the names and personal contact information of Jewish...
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“I’m not paying my federal income taxes this year,” Rachel Cohen declared in a recent Instagram video that received more than 140,000 likes. The 31-year-old...
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More than two weeks into the US-Israel war on Iran, and the conflict appears at risk of spiraling out of control. Back home, Donald Trump’s...
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Brown University agrees to pay $50m to settle dispute with Trump administration Brown University announced on Wednesday it “reached a voluntary agreement with the federal...
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The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, inspired a wave of enthusiastic nodding among the cosmopolitan crowd gathered in Davos last month when he took to...
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Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’ Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s out-of-touch comments on grocery prices, the longest-ever government shutdown and a dramatic White House press conference on Ozempic. Seth Meyers...
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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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Millions of acres of Alaska wilderness will lose federal protections and be exposed to drilling and mining in the Trump administration’s latest move to prioritize...
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When Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, she said sanctuary cities had made her job hard. “Sanctuary cities do...
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“Nicholas Adams, of Florida, to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Malaysia,” the White House announced this week. There...
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Three states to deploy hundreds of national guard troops to Washington DC Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Biden administration, was one of the first officials to be fired by...
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Jimmy Kimmel emerged as more popular than Donald Trump after a spat with the president’s administration temporarily left the talkshow host off the air in...
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The US aircraft that carried out the first airstrike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean was reportedly disguised as a civilian plane –...
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British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations...
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It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction...
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The top drug regulator in the US signaled on Tuesday he may retire weeks after accepting the position, adding to upheaval in the highest ranks...
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A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday – the third of Donald Trump’s second term – after negotiations between the White House...
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White House says it will appeal against Harvard ruling The Trump administration said it will appeal a judge’s ruling ordering the federal government to reverse...
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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 judge has issued her final order and formally blocked Donald Trump from sending the national guard to Portland, Oregon. The district court judge, Karin...
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A new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs, as small business owners continue to reel from the...
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US forces on Saturday evening struck another vessel illegally carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump said on Sunday to thousands of sailors...
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‘They fired the first shot, Texas’, Newsom says before signing bill to put redistricting to California’s voters California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation on Thursday...
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Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they had never presented the final version of the indictment filed against James Comey to a full federal grand jury,...
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Michaela felt a sharp pain shoot from her hip while she bent over to water some plants in early May 2025. Then she fell over...
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DC mayor: ‘this action today is unsettling and unprecedented’ Bowser says that her office plans to follow the law, and cooperate with the federal government....
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Eric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father’s second term in the White House...
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A bill introduced this week by California lawmakers would ban federal immigration agents from being stationed outside polling places, responding to concerns that Immigration and...
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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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Barack Obama headlined a rally Saturday in Virginia to try to secure a victory for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who leads in polls days...
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The Trump administration is embracing an intimidation strategy to silence critical media coverage. Here’s how it works: a federal agency launches a pretextual investigation into...
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Al Sharpton calls his ‘mentor’ Jesse Jackson a ‘transformative leader who changed the world’ The civil rights campaigner, Al Sharpton, has paid tribute to his...
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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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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature John F Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg announces run for US House...
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Texas Democrats are fleeing the state to prevent a vote on Monday that could see five new Republican-leaning seats created in the House of Representatives....
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‘Killing jobs and jacking up prices’: Democrats lambast Trump over tariffs and weak jobs report Democratic lawmakers have slammed Trump’s “reckless and chaotic” tariff policies...
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Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by
Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by
