During Warsh’s confirmation hearing, Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren expressed concerns that Federal Reserve nominee would become a ‘sock puppet’ for Donald Trump. Republican senator John...
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Two Democratic US lawmakers on Monday called for an end to the “cruel collective punishment” of Cuba after they visited the island to witness the...
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Donald Trump’s stages of insurrection have passed from trying to suppress one that didn’t exist, to creating one himself, to generating a local incident he...
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MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal...
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Donald Trump quietly pardoned on Tuesday a sports and entertainment executive, Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by the president’s own justice department this year. Leiweke,...
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This week, ICE’s detention of a five-year-old boy wearing a Spider Man backpack in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights quickly became a defining image...
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Donald Trump is expected to sign his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, setting...
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Donald Trump said Monday he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political...
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Mamdani triumphs on strong night for the Democrats It was an encouraging night for the left in America with Democratic wins in three key races...
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Republican senators have defended Donald Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran, but some Democrats, while welcoming the elimination of the Iranian senior leadership,...
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Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including one...
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The justice department on Tuesday charged a man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train last month with a...
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The Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost said he was assaulted by a man who said Donald Trump would deport him at a party during the...
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The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said...
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Illinois sues to block Trump from deploying national guard troops to Chicago Illinois has filed a lawsuit this morning seeking to block Donald Trump from...
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The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports. Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across...
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Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled her son over Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota...
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Trump threatens to take ‘federal control’ of DC after Doge staffer attack Hello, and welcome to the day’s live US politics coverage. I’m Shrai Popat...
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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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Donald Trump promised to cut energy prices by 50%. Instead, average electricity prices over the past year have risen by about 6.7%, while natural gas...
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As US regulators restrict Covid mRNA vaccines and as independent vaccine advisers re-examine the shots, scientists fear that an unlikely target could be next: cancer...
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Donald Trump announced Saturday that the US had completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to destroy the country’s...
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Now in his fourth decade of spreading the word across most of the world’s continents about “Housing First”, an approach to helping homeless people that...
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Trump slams Mamdani’s New York victory: ‘It’s common sense or communism’ The president continued to undermine the results of New York’s mayoral election. He’s yet...
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We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end...
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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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It was the week in which Republicans took a beating at the polls, the government shutdown became the longest in history, and 42 million people...
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FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser The FBI raided the home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic John...
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Trump plans to sign executive order restoring ‘Department of War’ name to Pentagon Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi,...
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Federal judge grants temporary restraining order, blocking mass firings of federal workers Judge Susan Illston has issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the firing of...
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A top Democratic lawmaker with a military background has reacted strongly to US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s call for “no quarter” for US enemies during...
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In a sort-of ceasefire, the killings – including of children – have slowed, not stopped. Israeli military operations continue to displace hundreds of families in...
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Some of the Democratic party’s most prominent figures – and possible 2028 presidential contenders – descended on New York City this week for the annual...
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In Gaza, aid still trickles in at levels relief agencies say are far below what is required. Temporary shelters are scarce. Reconstruction materials are restricted...
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John F Kennedy’s sage words from his inaugural address are forever seared into America’s political consciousness: “Ask not what your country can do for you...
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Actor Robert De Niro has called for people to take to the streets peacefully against Donald Trump, who this week called him ‘extremely low IQ’...
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With the public’s outrage and attention focused on the deadly surge of federal agents in Minneapolis, immigration operations have quietly continued across the US –...
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A counseling program in Alabama for people with HIV, helping them get into treatment and housing. A training program in New Hampshire for first responders...
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By the early 1980s, the Democratic party was facing a crossroads. The 1980 landslide election of Ronald Reagan, who clenched the presidency with a whopping...
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The fallout between the US president, Donald Trump, and tech billionaire Elon Musk has reached a new low, with Musk declaring this weekend that he...
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Red Cross ‘outraged’ as latest Israeli strikes kill at least 254 people in Lebanon The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death...
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Powell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...
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Donald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his address to the United Nations general assembly on Tuesday. Here are the facts on some...
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A second former female staffer for Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, has come forward claiming Gonzales sent her sexually explicit messages. The San...
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Russia accused western European leaders on Sunday of not wanting peace in Ukraine, as Moscow’s most senior diplomat praised efforts by Donald Trump to end...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Thursday. Here are the...
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Crowds gathered in Minneapolis on Wednesday to protest and hold a vigil for a woman killed during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. The Minneapolis...
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Considering he’s the self-declared hardest working president to ever hold the office, Donald Trump has spent a remarkable amount of the past year away from...
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As scientists confirmed that March was the United States’ most abnormally hot month in recorded history, dozens of climate deniers gathered to promote misinformation and...
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Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable...
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Between anti-immigrant zeal and a general disdain for any rules whatsoever, the Trump administration has shredded the constitutional order that makes government legitimate. This is...
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The US economy surged over the summer, the commerce department announced on Tuesday, with gross domestic product (GDP) – a broad measure of the value...
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Donald Trump has told Iranians to keep protesting and said help was on the way, in the clearest sign yet that the US president may...
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JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist, sexist text messages – including...
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Closing summary Our live coverage is ending for the day. Thanks for reading along with us. Here is a summary of the key developments from...
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Illinois voters on Tuesday will decide between a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to be the state’s next senator as the midwestern state also...
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Texas House reconvenes, ready to pass GOP-drawn map The Texas house is starting up for legislative business again. The Republican majority is poised to pass...
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The US supreme court on Friday allowed Donald Trump’s administration to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. The justices issued an emergency...
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A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m (£7.3m) of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe...
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The US supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to access the sensitive records kept by the Social...
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Donald Trump on Friday advocated for the death penalty in the killing of his close associate Charlie Kirk, as the widow of the rightwing activist...
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When he was elected, Donald Trump suggested he could hammer out a new relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who was used to...
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Donald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker...
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The US has intensified its campaign to help Jair Bolsonaro avoid punishment for allegedly masterminding a failed coup, with the state department denouncing the decision...
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Trump imposes sweeping new travel ban, barring all entries from 12 countries, most from 7 more Donald Trump imposed a sweeping new travel ban in...
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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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Chinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department announced last week that it would “aggressively” revoke...
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A Guatemalan man has become the first person to die in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Fort Bliss army base...
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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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How much longer will US strikes on Iran continue? Getting a clear answer from the Trump administration has been difficult – getting a consistent one,...
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Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Most Americans believe that efforts to redraw U.S. House of Representatives districts to maximize...
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The US supreme court will hear a hugely consequential case on Wednesday that will determine the future of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil...
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Recap of today’s news Thank you for reading along with us today! It was a busy end of the week as we monitored the ongoing...
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Donald Trump’s so-called “board of peace” has been announced as the US president seeks to manage the reconstruction of Gaza and its transitional administration amid...
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Advocacy group urges court to uphold birthright citizenship With the supreme court set to decide the legality of Trump’s order to heavily restrict birthright citizenship,...
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Governor Gavin Newsom filed an emergency request to block the Trump administration from using military forces to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids throughout...
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Household electricity bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, a new report has found, with its authors highlighting the impact...
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A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for...
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The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the...
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Zohran Mamdani, who holds a lead in polling ahead of New York City’s mayoral election on Tuesday, reportedly received a call Saturday from his fellow...
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Rap and EDM. Clips from action movies. Heads-up displays from video games. As the war with Iran approaches its second week, the White House has...
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Wilmington, Ohio, resident Quintin Koger Kidd was so concerned last June with his local public officials’ alleged misdoings – open meeting violations and other discrepancies...
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A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent...
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Donald Trump on Sunday issued what he called his “last warning” to Hamas, urging the Palestinian militant group to accept a deal to release hostages...
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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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Late-night hosts covered alarming new comments by Donald Trump as well as his outburst at a heckler in Michigan. Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health secretary, overstepped his power when he declared that gender-affirming treatments are unsafe, a federal judge has ruled. In a...
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Donald Trump has said that US-Iranian peace talks could resume in Islamabad over the next two days, and complimented the work of Pakistan’s army chief...
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The Trump administration on Monday asked the supreme court to allow it to fire the director of the US Copyright Office. The administration’s newest emergency...
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Dozens of former rangers, park volunteers, and local residents protested at the gateway to Montana’s Glacier national park on Wednesday against the staff cuts and...
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Donald Trump has said he plans to meet Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, days after launching an attack that resulted in the capture of...
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Donald Trump has threatened to use “every tool in our arsenal” to crack down on pharmaceutical giants if they fail to cut drug prices for...
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Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen – an...
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Brinkmanship, the ability to take a country to the edge of war without plunging it into the abyss, was the cornerstone of cold war diplomacy....
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Donald Trump confirmed reports on Wednesday that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in US efforts to...
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The US supreme court has allowed Alabama to go ahead with its seventh execution using the contested method of nitrogen gas, a form of suffocation...
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The Wisconsin judge convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers has resigned. Hannah Dugan was convicted on 19 December and faced calls...
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‘This is no time to be talking about pardons,’ says Trump when pressed about Maxwell Speaking to reporters at Prestwick airport, Trump denied reports that...
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The Republican-controlled Texas house on Wednesday approved a redrawn congressional map requested by Donald Trump and fiercely opposed by Democrats, who led a weeks-long protest...
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The Senate remained deadlocked on Wednesday over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after Republicans proposed legislation that would restart all of its...
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Lander released from federal custody New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was just released from federal custody and was seen leaving the...
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Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel after they developed intelligence that they could simultaneously target...
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Republican congressman Thomas Massie has challenged Donald Trump over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on the...
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The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement at the White House on Friday, in a deal brokered by the US that brings...
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Trump says ‘animal’ who shot national guard members ‘will pay a very steep price’ The president said today that the “animal” who shot two members...
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Late-night hosts spoke about how Donald Trump’s presidency is proving unpopular with Americans, looking at the cruelty of his deportation strategy and the response to...
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The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being...
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Photograph: Eddie Gerald/Alamy 1 Israel blocked from using Microsoft software for mass surveillance of Palestinians after Guardian investigation After we exclusively revealed that Israel’s elite...
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The suspect accused of shooting two National Guard members on Wednesday was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, a man from Afghanistan living in Bellingham, Wash, FBI director...
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US senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, but hopes for a...
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Illinois’s governor JB Pritzker has called on “all to stand up” to Donald Trump as the US president prepares to launch a federally led immigration...
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As a US battle group steamed to the Gulf in November 2002, competing Iraqi exiles, some championed by American insiders, jockeyed for position in the...
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Oregon’s governor says she told Kristi Noem ‘there is no insurrection in Oregon’ There was a bit of an unexplained delay earlier between Kristi Noem’s...
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Israeli military launches fresh strikes on Iran The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the last hour that it had begun an “additional wave” of...
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The Trump administration has set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than...
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Donald Trump has instructed the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, not to intervene in protests occurring in cities led by Democrats unless local authorities ask...
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Donald Trump on Saturday said he had ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his criticism...
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It might not have been at the same level as pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys, or January 6 US capitol attack participants – but the mayor of...
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Mamdani: ‘In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light’ In a defiant speech, Mamdani vowed to change to city hall –...
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Let’s be honest: America needs another nuclear weapon about as much as Donald Trump deserves a Nobel peace prize. Yet on Thursday, the last remaining...
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More than $20bn. That’s roughly the cost of our military operation in Iran to date. Tax day is a month away. If you’re like me,...
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The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the...
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Late last month, a Minnesota federal court judge, Patrick Schiltz, issued an opinion detailing hundreds of instances in which the Trump administration has failed to...
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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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The moment 19-year-old Emely Agustin spotted the group of masked immigration agents tackling a woman facedown on the pavement, her heart dropped. She saw the...
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This year, the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday forces Americans to grapple with the crisis and protests that have spread across the country, particularly...
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Harvard University said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s move to bar foreign nationals seeking to study at the Ivy League school from entering the United...
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In his clearest attempt yet to “de‑escalate” tensions in Minneapolis, Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s “border czar”, announced on Wednesday that the administration will draw down...
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Jim Justice, the Republican US senator, and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5m that the couple owes in back taxes shortly after...
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Donald Trump’s media corporation has dropped a defamation claim against the Guardian and two other defendants over a report that federal prosecutors were investigating $8m...
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The US federal government shut down on Wednesday after Democrats opted against voting for a Republican funding plan in order to seek concessions on healthcare...
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State department plans mass layoffs with cuts to nearly 1,800 staff Andrew Roth The US state department has announced that it plans to move forward...
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The US supreme court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’s 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump likely discriminated...
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The Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state. The secretary of...
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Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with...
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Overnight on Friday, the US carried out airstrikes across Venezuela, with explosions rocking the capital, Caracas, before dawn. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump announced that US...
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Joe Rogan, the world’s most popular podcaster, is struggling to sleep. In an interview last week, he complained that the “madness” of the news cycle...
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Donald Trump has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after law enforcement officials identified...
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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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Federal judge orders Florida to close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ within 60 days A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new...
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Early Tuesday morning, as parents went to drop off their young children at a bilingual childcare center in north-west Washington DC, they received a message...
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Donald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any...
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Vice-president JD Vance’s attempt to deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s handling of the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has backfired, triggering...
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Democratic lawmakers on Friday released documents from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that may show interactions between the disgraced financier and prominent conservatives, including Elon...
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An Egyptian family of six has been taken back into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, days after they were released from a detention facility in...
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Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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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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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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Analysis: trickle release on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties Sam Levine The justice department’s partial release of the Epstein files on Friday...
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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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The airport in Las Vegas last Friday afternoon was what you might expect for a WrestleMania weekend. Packed terminal. Delays stacking up. Nobody going anywhere....
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A US judge has halted the construction of Donald Trump’s $400m White House ballroom. The US president demolished the historic East Wing of the White...
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Donald Trump signed a proclamation to restrict foreign student visas at Harvard University, the White House said on Wednesday. The order would suspend for an...
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Last week, as growing protests in Iran were met with violent crackdowns, Donald Trump issued a threat to the country’s leadership: “You’d better not start...
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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to get the US out of “endless wars”, put “America first” and focus on domestic policy. After...
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Photograph: Guardian Design I come from Trinidad and Tobago. As a country that was once colonized by the British, I am wary of the ways...
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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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Fired fed governor’s lawyer argues that her removal does ‘irreparable harm’ Cook’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is arguing that her firing does “irreparable harm”. He says...
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A few years ago, towards the end of the second Obama administration, a friend and her wife flew back to New York from a holiday...
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On an early fall day, toddlers played at Westwood Academy, a highly rated Denver childcare center serving children aged six weeks to five years. The...
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Trump arrives in Europe for annual Nato summit Air Force One has landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, bringing Donald Trump to a Nato summit at...
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David Hogg, the young vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee whose vow to unseat “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats roiled his party, said on Wednesday that he would...
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Disgraced former US congressman George Santos said on Sunday that his prison sentence had been “disproportionate”, but that he had been served “a very large...
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Some of the most ostentatious enforcers of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda have left or been forced out of the administration in recent weeks. In...
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The former boss of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie brand, Les Wexner, has provided a statement to Congress saying “I have done nothing wrong and have...
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The Trump administration is considering ways to invoke emergency powers, including utilising the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would allow president Donald Trump to deploy...
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Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right conspiracy theorist and bigot who also happens to be a Republican congresswoman,...
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The Trump administration is seeking to finalize its overhaul of the federal government’s civil service system through a rule issued this week by the office...
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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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US secret service and local police officers shot and killed an intruder armed with a shotgun early on Sunday after he breached the perimeter at...
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After days of deliberations that went late into the night on Tuesday, the Senate passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts megabill, taking the...
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Late-night hosts discussed – or ignored – Donald Trump’s surprise primetime address and dug further into the explosive new interview the White House chief of...
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Senate agrees to automatically pass House bill requiring release of the Epstein files The Senate just agreed to a unanimous consent request from the Democratic...
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Thousands were gathering in Arizona on Sunday for a public memorial honoring Charlie Kirk, the rightwing youth organizer who was fatally shot during an event...
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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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Organizers challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map say they turned in enough signatures on Tuesday to block the map from going into effect and to force...
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The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused a reporter of being a “leftwing activist” during a heated confrontation on Thursday over the killing of...
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Closing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. We will return on Friday morning. Here...
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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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US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...
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Global Times hails US president’s order to strip back government funding to news organisations he deems ‘radical’ Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the...
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It was a gift to conspiracy theorists. Last week, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, adding both...
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Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, said on Wednesday he would put the bill compelling the release of government files related to late sex offender...
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Trump offers wildly false claim about job numbers released before 2024 election to defend firing of labor statistics chief Speaking to reporters on Friday, Donald...
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With his jawline firm and his hair coiffed, Pete Hegseth was a good fit as a Fox News personality. As the defense secretary – or...
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Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a naval blockade of “sanctioned oil vessels” leaving and heading to Venezuela, sharply escalating his pressure campaign against Caracas. The...
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Foreign investment into the US could be threatened by Donald Trump’s new “revenge” taxes, analysts have warned. A provision within the president’s One Big Beautiful...
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Donald and Melania Trump were walking a charcoal-coloured carpet beneath a stark black-and-white “MELANIA” backdrop. “Do you believe you’d be the man you are today...
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Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives. “Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim...
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Recent exercises in taking stock after one year of Trump 2.0 – for many an eternity of terrifying news and political traumas – tended to...
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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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Justice department launches investigation into DC police over allegedly ‘manipulated’ crime data – report The US attorney for DC has launched a criminal investigation into...
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Shutdown enters day 23 as Senate Republicans push bill to fund troops The government shutdown entered its 23rd day, with little end in sight. On...
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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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Donald Trump changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature What to know about the US House vote on releasing the...
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Trump calls again on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates Donald Trump has – once again – called on Jerome Powell, the...
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The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey...
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If the controversy behind Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a series of dominoes that fell one after the other, from the late-night host making his comments...
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In late January 2025, 10 days after Donald Trump was sworn in for a second time as president of the United States, an economic conference...
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An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested by federal...
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Donald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha – whose company once sued to claim trademark rights to the name “Yosemite National Park” –...
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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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House Democrats filed six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, accusing the defense secretary of “high crimes and misdemeanors”, in reference to the...
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Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the US military will begin integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks. Speaking at the SpaceX...
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Late-night hosts talked cratering public opinion on the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in US communities and the president’s apparent preference...
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The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed...
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Trump nominates economist at the Heritage Foundation as the new BLS commissioner President Donald Trump announced he is nominating EJ Antoni, the chief economist at...
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North Carolina’s competitive Senate race came into shape on Tuesday, with former Democratic governor Roy Cooper and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley winning...
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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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The Guardian’s Tom Silverstone speaks to peaceful protesters and local residents in Washington DC, who express a mixture of anger, concern and curiosity over the...
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Trump administration lays off hundreds of Voice of America employees The Trump administration sent layoff notices today to more than 600 employees at Voice of...
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Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show Jon Stewart has hosted the first edition of The Daily Show since his fellow late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel,...
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On 14 January, the Trump administration announced a stop on issuing immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...
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Robert F Kennedy’s “clean sweep” of a critical vaccine advisory panel spread shock and dismay among health experts, as many warned the health secretary’s decision...
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Zohran Mamdani, who holds a lead in polling ahead of New York City’s mayoral election on Tuesday, reportedly received a call Saturday from his fellow...
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Late-night hosts reflected on a rollercoaster 2025 and Donald Trump’s combative, primetime year-end address to the nation. Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel opened his final monologue...
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Donald Trump sending Tom Homan to Minnesota, president announces on social media Donald Trump is dispatching his border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota. Trump made...
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Elon Musk has expressed contrition for some of his tweets about Donald Trump last week, in an apparent effort to retreat from an explosive falling...
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The Utah legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled on Monday that the Republican-controlled body drew them in...
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Yadin Eldar, 21, has been betting on prediction markets since 2019. His friends think he’s “crazy”, he said. But the craze surrounding these platforms is...
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Ilhan Omar attacked with unidentified substance at town hall in Minneapolis Shrai Popat At her first town hall of the year in Minneapolis, congresswoman Ilhan...
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Prior to his landslide election victory in 2010, which was to lead to 16 unbroken years in power, Viktor Orbán would tell supporters: “We have...
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A powerful committee that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Friday against recommending that people obtain...
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CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, defended her decision to pull a 60 Minutes episode on allegations investigating a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that...
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Obama spokesperson dismisses ‘bizarre allegations’ from Trump and Gabbard as ‘ridiculous’ In a statement sent to reporters on Tuesday, a spokesperson for former president Barack...
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Donald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the US to 15% on Saturday, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff...
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Latino voters delivered sweeping support to Democratic candidates across multiple states in Tuesday’s off-year elections, reversing what many Republicans had come to believe was a...
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After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the US- and Israeli-backed effort that claimed it would return large-scale food deliveries to Gaza was born an...
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Trump speaks to Zelenskyy, Nato leaders, White House says The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has told reporters that Trump had a “lengthy” call...
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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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In the five months since Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the Oval Office in late February, Ukrainian officials have worked hard to repair...
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In an incredible U-turn, Donald Trump this week signed a bill directing the justice department to release more files from the investigation into the convicted...
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After months of public outcry and pressure from within the Maga coalition, Donald Trump’s justice department released what it called The Epstein Files, with the...
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Trump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges According to Illinois’ lawsuit, Donald Trump is deploying the military to Illinois based on...
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Mike Johnson became the highest ranked US official to visit the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Republican House speaker drawing measures of praise and...
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Summary Closing summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. You can...
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US revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk In a stunning departure for an administration that came to...
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1. Trump claims unnamed countries ‘want to go in and wipe out Hamas’ if the militant group fails to disarm Asked about the dispute between...
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Vinay Prasad is returning to his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy and blood product regulation at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a little...
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Late-night hosts mocked the Republican party’s inaugural “America First” award for Donald Trump as he finally reveals the “present” he received from Iran. Jimmy Kimmel...
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Hundreds of counterprotesters on Saturday drowned out a far-right activist’s attempt to hold a small rally in support of the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown...
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US government shuts down as midnight deadline passes The US government has officially shut down for the first time in nearly seven years, after congressional...
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Miller again vows to ‘dismantle and destroy’ what he calls ‘domestic terror movement’ in wake of Kirk’s death Rachel Leingang Vance is now talking with...
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The New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday evening attended a vigil in Manhattan convened by Israelis for Peace, an anti-occupation group...
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Democracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s...
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Madison Sheahan, a Trump ally and the second-ranking official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said on Thursday she was ditching her leadership position to...
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A coalition of global civil society organizations has downgraded the United States’ civic health rating from “narrowed” to “obstructed.” In a report released on Tuesday,...
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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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With the first primaries of the US midterm elections now under way, the cryptocurrency industry is injecting millions of dollars into congressional races across the...
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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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The US bombardment of Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolás Maduro, follow a long history of interventions in South and Central America and...
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For Nolan Lee, it felt like Minnesota in Washington DC on Wednesday night. Despite the most extreme cold in 150 years, about a thousand people...
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‘Vote-a-rama’ sets new record for longest in Senate history after 45 consecutive votes As the Republican’s tax and spending cuts bill debate continues in the...
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Afghan immigrants and advocates across the United States are pushing back firmly against the Trump administration’s most recent crackdown on legal immigration, saying the American...
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Summary of what we know so far Here is a wrap of what unfolded during a dramatic night in Washington DC: Donald and Melania Trump
Summary of what we know so far Here is a wrap of what unfolded during a dramatic night in Washington DC: Donald and Melania Trump
