Last week, the US supreme court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia can continue enforcing their bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women’s...
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A Democratic lawmaker in Arizona who is facing calls for expulsion for resharing an Instagram post warning of immigration enforcement activity near an elementary school...
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Donald Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution to install a 30ft “Colossus statue” of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History, and a special...
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The US House representative Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, admitted to having an affair with an aide who died by suicide last year. Gonzales...
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Iran and the US have threatened to reignite their conflict after the most extensive exchange of fire since an interim deal was signed last month....
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Summary About 17 hours since voting began, the Senate hasn’t yet passed Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that would enact his domestic tax and spending...
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A former Anthropic researcher’s apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence has led to a global panic that the technology might be the end of us all....
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Law enforcement officials and a spokesperson for former vice-president Kamala Harris said a trespasser was stopped at her Malibu home in California on Friday night....
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Trump repeats false claim that DC crime is ‘the worst it’s ever been’ The president has repeated the baseless claim that crime in the nation’s...
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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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Of the roughly 43 million Americans carrying student loan debt – totaling nearly $1.7tn – only a small fraction have seen their balances erased. For...
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The supreme court has given the Trump administration a green light to block asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border, in a decision that fundamentally reshapes...
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What is Donald Trump playing at? If it’s true that the best way of understanding the behaviour of an organisation is to assume it’s controlled...
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People with the power to change the direction of the Democratic party – the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) – met last...
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Donald Trump boosted speculation over whether the US could become involved in Israel’s conflict with Tehran on Tuesday, warning Iran’s supreme leader that he was...
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When Donald Trump commandeered primetime US television last Friday, he delivered a familiar, but still extraordinary, message. The president argued once again that the results...
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At least 15 people were taken into custody outside the Broadview Ice detention center in the Chicago area after heated confrontations between Illinois state police...
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A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s ban on gender-affirming care for children on Saturday, decrying Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “wanton disregard” for the law...
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The sheriff’s office for metro Phoenix spent millions of dollars budgeted for compliance costs in a racial profiling case over Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns on...
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The stock market listing of SpaceX has led to an outpouring of celebration, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Yet those who rejoice in Elon...
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The Republican senator Bill Cassidy lost his primary on Saturday, as voters in Louisiana opted instead to advance two challengers to a runoff election after...
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Democrats moved to keep South Carolina as the first state to vote in their party’s 2028 presidential primary process, while moving up several other states,...
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US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and...
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Up to seven states will vote on abortion rights this year. But recent polling indicates that Democrats may not be able to count on the...
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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 judge in Boston said on Thursday the US Postal Service had told her nothing about how it would implement a plan to regulate...
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The biggest question in US politics may be whether Democrats can ever win in the south. In this year’s midterms, Georgia has once again emerged...
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The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has accused Donald Trump of “putting his ego over responsibility” over a military showcase that involved firing live artillery shells...
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Donald Trump has enjoyed very few foreign policy victories since returning to power. From failed wars to failed peace processes, his second term in office...
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A teenage transgender athlete in California, who has been at the center of widespread political attacks by rightwing pundits and the Trump administration, won in...
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Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, was on course to win the party’s nomination for Wisconsin governor on Wednesday by a clear margin, according to the...
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Donald Trump, who remains embroiled in tensions surrounding ICE’s presence in Minnesota, as well as scrutiny over the justice department’s latest release of the Jeffrey...
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Key events That’s all for now! Thank you for participating in our latest live conversation ahead of the November US midterm elections. We’ve been hosting...
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Minnesota governor Tim Walz appealed to Donald Trump to withdraw federal agents from Minnesota on Sunday, a day after US border patrol officers shot and...
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With astronauts set to fly around the moon for the first time in more than half a century when Artemis 2 makes its long-awaited ascent...
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Good morning. Last night, Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House flanked by a dream team of hastily assembled European heavyweights. Their aim: to coax Donald...
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Trump says US is ‘looking at land’ strikes in Venezuela after lethal strikes on boats Asked in the Oval Office if the US is considering...
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Donald Trump’s evident panic over his intimate relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is a case study in damage control gone haywire. If he is trying to...
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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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Ken Martin is now a convenient scapegoat. As chair of the Democratic National Committee, he has stumbled into disrepute as a dubious fundraiser and bad-tempered...
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Donald Trump said on Monday that he personally asked Fifa president Gianni Infantino to review the red card shown to USA striker Folarin Balogun, saying...
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Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has announced she is going to freeze her eggs and will be sharing the process online. The progressive New York congresswoman, 36, revealed...
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The hardest day on the job for the White House press secretary for most of Barack Obama’s second term was right after Donald Trump was...
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The Trump administration is pressing forward with construction on the controversial border wall in the Big Bend region of west Texas, even as Customs and...
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Scott MacFarlane, the CBS News justice correspondent most known for his extensive coverage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, surprised colleagues on Monday morning by...
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Former US president Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to...
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Donald Trump signs order designating leftwing movement Antifa as a domestic terror organization Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating ‘Antifa’ as a domestic...
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Key Democratic figures call on Graham Platner to ‘immediately’ withdraw from Senate race Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Maine’s Democratic party...
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Barney Frank, the former US representative who made history as one of the first out gay members of Congress, died on Tuesday night. He was...
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After weeks of false starts and failed votes, a procedural vote passed in the US Senate with a 60-40 tally, as seven Democrats and one...
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Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California – a highly...
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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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To sceptics, Donald Trump’s war in Iran is a hubristic blunder that could spiral further out of control and bring catastrophe to the world. To...
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Republicans continue to lead the California governor’s race amid a crowded field of Democrats, a new poll commissioned by the state’s Democratic party found, fueling...
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Congress will subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned sex trafficker who was a close associate of the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to testify amid a political...
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The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need. A state department spokesperson confirmed...
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Organisations around the world scrambled on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of the web. The vulnerabilities could allow...
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Government accountability organization accuses agriculture secretary of unlawfully refusing to use emergency fund created to prevent food stampt disruptions during shutdowns A government accountability organization...
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Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in a congressional special election in the western Nashville suburbs, which was being closely watched for signs...
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary protected status from up to 350,000 Haitians, a status that allows them to legally...
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Last week Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s health chief and a longtime vaccine sceptic, presented a report on children’s health by the Make America...
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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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Donald Trump called for the arrest of a group of Democratic lawmakers he accused of engaging in “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”. The president’s remarks,...
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No man’s land in Turmus Ayya lies where the US flags end and the Israeli flags begin. It is a few hundred metres of soil...
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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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Like many children of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles, Juan grew up a Dodgers fan. He watched their baseball games from home when he was...
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Donald Trump’s acceptance of a two-week ceasefire in Iran has exposed fresh divisions in his Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, with some supporters expressing...
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Donald Trump has moved to deploy the national guard to Chicago, the White House confirmed on Saturday, even as a federal judge blocked his administration...
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If primary elections elsewhere this summer were tussles between progressives and moderates for the direction of the Democratic party’s political future, Tuesday’s contests in Florida...
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There is a version of this country in which Donald Trump tells Americans the truth he has been handed: that their elections are secure. Once,...
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Good morning. The UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its “double-tap” bombing of Nasser hospital, which killed 20 people...
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Wealthy Republicans on the west coast received an emailed invitation in July to an upcoming fundraiser titled “Keep the Senate”. The email, obtained by the...
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The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday barely an hour before Donald Trump’s deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire,...
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Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in...
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Khalil says he filed claim ‘because they think they are untouchable’ Mahmoud Khalil said in a statement that he wanted to send a message that...
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Democrats will stop Donald Trump from trying to steal this year’s midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said...
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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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Trump threatens to halt some trade unless Federal Reserve lowers interest rates President Trump threatened in a social media post on Friday to stop trade...
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In 1980, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, an unrepentant former leader of the Nazi women’s bureau in Berlin from 1934 to 1945, described her former job to historian...
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The US Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela, after he ordered...
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Peter Thiel famously isn’t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made...
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Graham Platner, a Marine veteran, oyster farmer and progressive activist, has scaled a mountain of personal controversies to win the Democratic nomination for the US...
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Maine secretary of state’s office confirms it received Platner’s letter, ending his candidacy for US Senate The Maine secretary of state’s office issued a statement...
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The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when they ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race in...
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A federal judge in Virginia temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring any money into a secretive and loosely controlled $1.8bn fund while a legal...
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“It looks like it’s about $3.1bn – it went up a little bit or a lot,” said Donald Trump, handing Jerome Powell a piece of...
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‘Tonight, we made history,’ says Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year-old democratic socialist celebrates his apparent victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. Andrew...
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Soaring fuel prices are threatening air carriers around the world, and in the US the White House is scrambling to save the long-troubled Spirit Airlines....
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Donald Trump took his place at the World Cup final at the New York New Jersey Stadium on Sunday. Trump arrived at the stadium on...
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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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The parent company of Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform – one of the president’s preferred communications channels – lost nearly $406m in the first three...
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Americans go to the polls, with elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California We are restarting our live coverage of US politics....
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Trump again defends decision to ‘send in the troops’ Donald Trump has again defended his decision to deploy the National Guard to LA, claiming if...
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When Aliya Rahman accepted Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar’s invitation to attend the State of the Union address, she said she had no intention of disrupting...
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Pentagon withdraws all 700 marines from Los Angeles The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, confirmed to the Guardian on Monday that the entire deployment of...
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White House warns layoffs are imminent if shutdown drags on Leavitt tells reporters that government agencies are already preparing for cuts and “layoffs are imminent”....
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Donald Trump has canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protestors...
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President Donald Trump claimed a key victory in a US appeals court Monday as a divided three-judge panel decided he is allowed to deploy federal...
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Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral candidate, said on Monday evening he was willing to appear at a town hall hosted by a local...
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Could Donald Trump be a Russian asset? The headline on a review in the Guardian of my new book Betrayal has provoked heated international debate....
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Politicians should “calm down” and stop approaching one another in “attack mode” amid the US’s climate of political violence, former US senator Joe Manchin said...
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Darío Sánchez is facing state charges related to a protest he did not attend. Indictments against the 33-year-old Texas middle school teacher have changed three...
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Ilhan Omar’s Democratic colleagues have condemned federal agents’ search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home on Monday morning, describing it as “deeply disturbing” and emblematic of...
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Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”, which will eviscerate the living standards, healthcare and aspirations of his white, working-class base, conclusively draws the curtain down...
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Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Canadian cars and auto parts, after breakdown in trade talks Donald Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on Canadian cars,...
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Donald Trump said the US had begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran, warning that there may be US casualties. The strikes, which the US president...
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With no end of the federal government shutdown in sight, an estimated 750,000 workers remain furloughed. Hundreds of thousands more are working without pay. They...
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Germán Pineda, 32, just wanted to go home. After his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June, Pineda, a Honduran immigrant, spent four...
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A year has passed since I and thousands of colleagues lost our jobs at USAID. Asking myself “Why us?” I have come to the conclusion...
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Donald Trump said on Monday morning that he would rule out running for the vice-presidency in the 2028 US election, an unorthodox approach that some...
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The US House of Representatives delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump over his war on Iran on Wednesday, as representatives backed a move to...
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Donald Trump warns in a video posted to Truth Social that combat operations in Iran are continuing and would carry on until all of Washington’s...
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Seth Meyers discussed Donald Trump’s most recent comments on the World Cup, including his claim that players don’t work hard enough. On Late Night, the...
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On ninth day of government shutdown, Johnson says Democrats are performing ‘political theater’ As the government shutdown enters its ninth day, Mike Johnson continued to...
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On Saturday, Donald Trump said talks with Tehran were going well and an agreement to end the war was ‘largely negotiated’. On Sunday, the US...
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The husband of the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a hit-and-run car crash in California that left a parked vehicle with “major”...
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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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Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. Trump, in a Truth Social post...
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Here’s a recap of the oral arguments at the supreme court Justices appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s argument to restrict birthright citizenship for hundreds...
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Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances against his political...
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Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly poised to be paid $10bn by investors as part of a deal to create a US-controlled version of TikTok. The...
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Trump announces 4 July rally in Washington to mark US 250th anniversary Donald Trump has announced plans to hold a rally in Washington on 4...
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A federal prosecutor who helped lead the US Department of Justice’s investigation into the January 6 attack on Congress has resigned – and, in a...
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Republicans have expressed tentative skepticism of the agreement Donald Trump has reached with Iran, and urged the White House to release more information. The memorandum...
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Trump pays tribute to Charlie Kirk Donald Trump is addressing the tens of thousands of people attending the memorial. The president says America is a...
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The White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest...
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Two US House Republicans are pushing the federal justice department to investigate the path to citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate favored to win...
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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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Democrats hit back at Trump floating changing name of New Mexico Democrats are starting to hit back against Donald Trump for his recent social media...
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On an overcast summer morning, Carolyn Boyd, an archeologist at Texas State University, stood at the foot of a cave in west Texas, looking up...
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Lindsey Graham, a longtime US senator and key ally of Donald Trump, has died from a sudden illness, his office said on Sunday. He had...
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It is a world turned upside down. In his first year in office, Donald Trump has bullied Ukraine, bombed Iran and toppled the leader of...
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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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The US military said it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific ocean on Tuesday, marking the third deadly attack...
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Love Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual,...
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The council of American-Islamic relations (Cair) has accused the Trump administration of a “blatant affront to free speech” after federal immigration authorities detained British journalist,...
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Key events That’s all for now! Thank you for participating in our final reader conversation ahead of the midterm elections on November 3. We’ve been...
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Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration began taking shape on Wednesday as the New York City mayor-elect announced a transition team to help enact what he called...
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In late August, the White House posted a real photograph on social media of a bald eagle standing atop the limp neck of a Canada...
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Trump doubles down on ‘Epstein hoax’ and says Republicans pursuing it are ‘stupid people’ The president then was asked what evidence he might have seen...
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Republican hawks have issued a rare rebuke of Donald Trump over his planned peace deal with Iran, describing it as a “disaster” and questioning why...
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Donald Trump has been ordered by a US judge to cooperate with the discovery process mandated for his lawsuit against the BBC and to sit...
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In 2021, Bri Adams was pregnant with her first child and began signing up for waitlists for childcare – eight, to be exact. She was...
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The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his...
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Lindsey Graham, a longtime US senator and key ally of Donald Trump, has died from a sudden illness, his office said on Sunday. He had...
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The Trump administration has quietly recalled nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior overseas diplomats as the Trump administration plans to promote appointees loyal to the...
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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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The US government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to get a blatantly partisan message in front of voters as the midterm elections loom. And...
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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. The autopen...
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When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to...
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The fight for the future of Los Angeles, America’s second-largest city, usually plays out in the grand art deco offices and committee rooms of city...
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Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit, had enough. Frustrated by the way the US media covers this febrile political era, from Donald Trump’s...
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When a federal judge shot down a Trump administration policy of holding immigrants without bond last December, it seemed like a serious blow to the...
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When asked about the decision to request US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle’s resignation, Donald Trump told the press she ‘was doing a good job’ but that...
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Immigration agents appeared on Sunday at the Texas home of the family of Any Lucia López Belloza, the 19-year-old college student who was recently deported...
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Organisations around the world scrambled on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of the web. The vulnerabilities could allow...
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Donald Trump has announced that the US has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort to destroy the country’s nuclear program in...
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A controversial law that grants the US government sweeping powers for warrantless surveillance is set to expire next week. Replacing it has inspired fierce debate...
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Republicans and conservatives are campaigning to quickly build statues and other memorials across the United States for the slain rightwing activist Charlie Kirk in the...
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“You want a new political party and you shall have it!” Elon Musk declared in early July. The world’s richest man is never one to...
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A prominent environmental organizer calling for a nationwide moratorium on datacenters as he runs for the Democratic nomination in a swing Michigan congressional district has...
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Donald Trump’s former top food safety official has accused the administration of a near “catastrophic” mismanagement of the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of...
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Trump says he wasn’t briefed on FBI raid on John Bolton’s home The president said he wasn’t briefed on the raid on John Bolton’s home,...
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In a Washington DC conference room last month, some of the most senior Democrats in the US Senate gathered to plan for a prospect that...
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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior aides conducted polygraphs on their own colleagues this spring, in some cases as part of an effort to flush out...
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By January 2029, Donald Trump will be capping off a nearly 14-year stretch at the helm of American politics. While he will no longer serve...
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Donald Trump’s former secretary of labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, drank during working hours, kept alcohol on federal property and made a staffer attend a strip club...
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Donald Trump has enjoyed very few foreign policy victories since returning to power. From failed wars to failed peace processes, his second term in office...
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Key events Factcheck: elections expert debunks Trump speech claims Speaking to reporters today, David Becker – the executive director of the non-partisan Center for Election...
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Donald Trump’s nomination of Republican senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to be the president’s next head of homeland security on Sunday advanced toward final confirmation...
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Russia has carried out a massive “demonstrative” attack on Ukraine, bombarding Kyiv with ballistic missiles just hours after Vladimir Putin said he had agreed to...
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Pete Hegseth has failed to give Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to “dangerously exaggerated” statements to create an...
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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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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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Donald Trump has thrived on conspiracy theories – “birtherist” lies that Barack Obama was born outside the US; the lunacies of the Q-Anon movement; false...
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, a public intellectual of some standing in the US, dislikes the Trumpian right for its erratic authoritarianism. But he dislikes its hysterical leftwing critics...
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The biggest question in US politics may be whether Democrats can ever win in the south. In this year’s midterms, Georgia has once again emerged...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on Tuesday on federal fraud charges, alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the...
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Democratic leaders responded with fury on Sunday to Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela, slamming it as an illegal act carried out in the absence...
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Staff from the House oversight and judiciary committees visited the Texas prison where Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is serving her sentence,...
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Before US troops invaded Iraq, George W Bush asked Congress to pass a resolution authorizing military force against Washington’s longtime nemesis, a request that lawmakers...
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She called it the “end times”. In a quiet living room in south Florida, a 42-year-old South American woman sat at her kitchen table signing...
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‘Nobody’s ever campaigned like I have for midterms’, Trump says in Mississippi Donald Trump has taken the stage in Corinth, Mississippi at a rally in
‘Nobody’s ever campaigned like I have for midterms’, Trump says in Mississippi Donald Trump has taken the stage in Corinth, Mississippi at a rally in