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A man identified in court filings as having an affair with former senator Kyrsten Sinema received almost $9,000 from Sinema’s former campaign committee in October,...
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The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants. There seems to be no end to terrifying news these days. In...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Following Kirk shooting, new poll shows drop in positive direction of...
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Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats...
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As Donald Trump reels from political fallout related to his justice department’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, the US president has directed his loyal...
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The Pentagon has released the names of the final two of the six soldiers who were killed during a recent drone strike in Kuwait. They...
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The congresswoman Ilhan Omar is no stranger to political attacks: she is a woman, she is a Democrat, she is black and she is an...
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Gaby Hinsliff’s column on male bonds struck a chord (Male bonds develop one way, female friendships another. Should we stop trying to make men more...
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‘We’re just gonna kill people’: Trump says he doesn’t need a declaration of war for strikes on suspected drug smugglers Donald Trump’s statement on Thursday...
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Trump says he wants a ‘Department of War’ not a ‘Department of Defense’ Donald Trump just said for the third time today that he plans...
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The US-Israeli war against Iran has exposed further divisions between the two countries after an Israeli strike on Iran’s largest gasfield angered US allies in...
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The Clinton-Epstein connection I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in a makeshift situation room in Mar-a-Lago, there’s a whiteboard with “very high IQ strategies...
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Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, and prominent Republicans swiftly backpedaled from Donald Trump’s assertion that the US will run Venezuela in transition after...
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Trump would ‘fire’ Howard Lutnick if he saw video of testimony, say oversight Democrats Following closed-door testimony from Howard Lutnick before the House oversight committee...
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CDC immunization director cites ‘ongoing weaponization of public health’ for resignation – report “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because...
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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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Senate receives and passes bill to release Epstein files, heads to Trump for signing The Senate has now officially received the bill, passed in the...
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Brown University agrees to pay $50m to settle dispute with Trump administration Brown University announced on Wednesday it “reached a voluntary agreement with the federal...
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The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, inspired a wave of enthusiastic nodding among the cosmopolitan crowd gathered in Davos last month when he took to...
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Trump defends Pam Bondi as his base calls for attorney general’s dismissal Donald Trump has defended attorney general Pam Bondi amid calls from Maga world...
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ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments after FCC chair threatens fines ABC bowed to pressure from the Federal Communications Commission on...
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Pope Leo has said the world is being ‘ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen...
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The Trump administration is embracing an intimidation strategy to silence critical media coverage. Here’s how it works: a federal agency launches a pretextual investigation into...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump, who is definitely...
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Polling places opened on Saturday for the start of in-person voting for two of the year’s most closely watched elections: the New York City mayor’s...
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US defense officials have blocked Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia since late spring as part of a Trump administration...
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Across the US, group chats and community threads have started spiking with warnings. Not just the typical alerts about traffic or out of service subway...
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Donald Trump’s second presidency has led to allegations of pervasive self-dealing. From the acceptance of a luxury jet from the state of Qatar, to the...
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Dispatches: Trump – Moscow’s Man in the White House 9pm, Channel 4This film promises to be an explosive behind-the-scenes investigation into the biggest political story...
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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 said on Sunday that Iran’s political leadership have agreed to talks, a day after the US and Israel began to target the country’s...
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Wisconsin voters sent another liberal justice to the state supreme court, with Chris Taylor beating the conservative Maria Lazar and giving liberals a 5-2 edge...
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The US justice department announced on Friday that it is taking steps to “strengthen the federal death penalty”, including bringing back firing squads and readopting...
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Donald Trump’s standing with Hispanic adults has dropped notably since he took office at the start of the year, according to a new poll. Polling...
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About 200 US marines arrived in Los Angeles on Friday morning and detained a man soon after in the first known detention by active-duty troops...
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Hawaii, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States, will see its regulations challenged before the supreme court on Tuesday. The...
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On the day that he returned to office in January, Donald Trump signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”. A...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature US to send 200 troops to Israel to support and monitor...
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Will he or won’t he? That’s the question many are asking regarding whether Donald Trump will join Israel’s attacks on Iran and take out one of...
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Donald Trump has said he did not know a raid by the FBI on the home of his former adviser turned critic, John Bolton, was...
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Supreme court decision on nationwide injuctions a ‘travesty for rule of law’, says liberal justice Here’s more from the liberal justice’s dissents on Trump v...
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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 a...
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US Senate passes aid and public broadcasting cuts in victory for Trump Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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The Trump administration has so radically transformed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration...
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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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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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Donald Trump’s followers, and the conspiracist influencers turned-government officials through whom he persuades them, have turned on the president and US attorney general after they...
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Greenland has demanded its red lines on sovereignty be respected after Donald Trump claimed an agreement with Nato would give the US full and permanent...
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The transportation department has unveiled a first crash test dummy in the US modeled specifically on female anatomy, a move officials say is meant to...
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin...
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Trump confirms that ‘drug-carrying submarine’ was the target of latest strike in the Caribbean Donald Trump just said added that a submarine was the target...
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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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Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, has been appointed as the new CEO and chair of the board for Turning Point USA. The organization...
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A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday – the third of Donald Trump’s second term – after negotiations between the White House...
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Can we finally stop pretending that what we have been witnessing in Gaza over the past 22 months is a “war,” a “conflict,” or even...
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Trump would ‘fire’ Howard Lutnick if he saw video of testimony, say oversight Democrats Following closed-door testimony from Howard Lutnick before the House oversight committee...
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Indirect talks between Iran and the US on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme ended on Friday with a broad agreement to maintain a diplomatic...
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Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence...
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Federal agents in military fatigues carrying assault rifles in major cities. Huge cuts to healthcare, science and the US’s largest anti-hunger program. Immigrants dragged from...
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US Democrats on Sunday pushed the Trump administration to release video of a second strike on an alleged drug boat incapacitated in the Caribbean, continuing...
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Donald Trump has told G7 leaders gathered for its summit in Canada that removing Russia from the former G8 was a mistake, and is lobbying...
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The people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation...
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In response to a question about why he did not order flags lowered to half-staff to honor Melissa Hortman, the Democratic speaker of the Minnesota...
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Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+...
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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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“At long last, we have peace in the Middle East,” Donald Trump declared, as he and regional leaders signed a declaration meant to cement a...
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Trump threatens Iran with further attacks if Hormuz does not reopen within 48 hours Donald Trump has posted this on Truth Social in the past...
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Naoko Fujii’s great-grandfather Jotaro Mori was out fishing when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. When Mori returned home hours later, the FBI...
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Democrats have promised to fight what they say is a “full-blown cover-up” of the Epstein files after the Trump administration on Sunday effectively declared its...
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Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and United States homeland security adviser, is one of the most influential people in...
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The Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring...
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Donald Trump is still high on the capture of Nicolás Maduro. The easy abduction of the Venezuelan president didn’t just grant Trump control of the...
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Donald Trump looked out across the White House ballroom at his audience of wealthy donors and business figures – people who had given millions of...
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US Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the second Trump...
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Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted
