* Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sued California over state policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ school sports, alleging that their participation violates...
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Donald Trump on Saturday urged Republican senators to redirect federal money used to subsidize health insurance costs under the Affordable Care Act toward direct payments...
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The Texas house of representatives remained without a quorum after the state’s Democratic lawmakers fled the state capital to prevent the legislature from adopting a...
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Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure...
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Brad Lander arrest ‘political intimidation’, says AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called the arrest of Brad Lander “political intimidation”. The Democratic congresswomen wrote on social media:...
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Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters in Washington before they stormed the...
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When he showed up to work on 27 June, Mike Gordon was having one of the best weeks of his career. Gordon, a federal prosecutor...
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At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional map to try and gain as many as five congressional...
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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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A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a...
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On 1 January, to mark his inauguration as mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani threw a block party. As he was sworn in outside city...
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A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass...
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Trump breaks with Marjorie Taylor Greene, urging primary challenge Donald Trump turned on his former close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, denouncing the Maga congresswoman in...
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Donald Trump announced on Friday he was doubling foreign tariffs on steel imports to 50%, as he celebrated a “blockbuster” agreement for Japan-based Nippon Steel’s...
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For Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech....
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The US Senate has opened debate on what Donald Trump calls his “big beautiful bill” as new analysis says changes made to it in the...
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The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all members sitting on a key US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel...
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Late-night hosts dig into Donald Trump’s growing anxiety over the Jeffrey Epstein files and his beef with the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell. Stephen Colbert...
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Gold and silver prices have hit record highs and European stock markets have fallen, after the US president, Donald Trump, threatened to impose additional tariffs...
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Americans are divided on major issues that the US supreme court is due to rule on in the coming weeks, but most agree on one...
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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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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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White House names deputy health secretary Jim O’Neill acting CDC director In the sudden absence of the usually ubiquitous Donald Trump, a Trump administration official...
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Trump suggests that networks who cover him ‘negatively’ should lose their licenses On Air Force One, Donald Trump gaggled with reporters on his flight back...
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Donald Trump has responded to a recent podcast appearance by Robert De Niro, in which he called the president “an idiot”. Speaking on Monday’s episode...
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Donald Trump made a series of false and baseless claims in Pennsylvania on Tuesday during a speech that was billed as an address on affordability,...
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The US Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a...
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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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Supreme court extends ruling that halts Snap benefits rollout across the US The supreme court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full Snap payments, amid...
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A grassroots organization of health professionals have released a report outlining major health challenges in the US and calling for the removal of Robert F...
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On the shelf in my library, I have an autographed copy of a book written by a former Republican congressman from New York, John LeBoutillier,...
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The US has backed down in its tariff war with China. Thanks to Donald Trump’s egotistical diplomacy, rare earths can again flow one way, soya...
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More than 115 education scholars have condemned the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal dedicated to Palestine by a Harvard University publisher...
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For Maurene Comey, abruptly fired as a US federal prosecutor without explanation, it may feel like a case of like father, like daughter. Comey was...
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The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with...
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Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates...
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A key debate between candidates in New Jersey’s governor’s race descended into acrimony Sunday in a reflection of the tense national political climate over issues...
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Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill is hanging in the balance as Republicans struggle to muster sufficient votes in the US House of Representatives. House speaker...
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Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023, managing a national...
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Growing up in the West Bank, Leqaa Kordia was separated from family in Gaza by Israeli restrictions on movement between the territories. So aunts and...
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The largely supine Republicans in Congress had no apparent trouble as Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of suspected drug runners...
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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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Jack Smith asserts that January 6 Capitol riot was principally the fault of Donald Trump Hugo Lowell Jack Smith said earlier that he opted not...
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Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something...
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JD Vance is doubling down on comments he made about wanting his wife, Usha Vance, to convert to Christianity – remarks that drew political backlash...
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More details have emerged about the six American service members who were killed in an unmanned aircraft system attack in the Shuaiba port in Kuwait...
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The Trump administration has found that the California department of education and the state’s high school sports federation violated civil rights law by allowing transgender...
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Top Senate Democrat says he’s ‘deeply disturbed’ after seeing footage of strikes on suspected drug boats Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate armed...
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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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The Friday night before election day, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist running for mayor of New York City, walked the length of Manhattan, from...
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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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ICC arrest warrant for Putin limits where any summit with Trump could take place The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Donald Trump could meet...
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When Donald Trump named leftwing billionaire George Soros as the next on his growing list of targets for retribution, he was also targeting the long...
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Zohran Mamdani called out Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding in New York City. The remarks came during a campaign event in Queens on...
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Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive...
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Which way, western man? That was the title of a racist tract published in 1978 by William Gayley Simpson, a former leftist Christian pastor turned...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren and fellow Democrats have accused Donald Trump of letting white-collar criminals “off the hook” by diverting crucial resources to his sweeping immigration...
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A White House envoy said on Sunday he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year...
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Trump in situation room with Hegseth and Caine amid Iran attack on US bases – report Joint Chiefs Chair General Dan Caine and Secretary Pete...
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Several key provisions in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ must be reworked or dropped, Senate parliamentarian says The New York Times has more on that, reporting...
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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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Closing summary It was election eve in many states across the country, which could be a test for how voters feel in the first year...
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Donald Trump signed an executive action on Thursday forcing colleges and universities to submit data to prove they do not consider race in admissions, as...
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Alondra Sotelo Garcia saw the same headlines as everybody else. Masked immigration agents making increasingly bold arrests. Community members disappearing without warning. As the middle...
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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them...
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When Melania Trump arrives in Britain for her husband’s second state visit next month, it will not just be the photographic pack straining every lens...
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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 Katie Miller, the wife of Donald Trump’s powerful adviser Stephen Miller, interviewed Pete Hegseth on her podcast last week, she didn’t ask him about...
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The “department of government efficiency” (Doge) is using artificial intelligence to create a “delete list” of federal regulations, according to a report, proposing to use...
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The supreme court can’t do it – it’s packed with conservatives who owe him their jobs. Congress won’t do it – Republicans slavishly follow his...
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US House approves bill to force release of Epstein files in near-unanimous vote The US House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department...
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When Donald Trump, said he would “rescue” protesters if Iranian authorities started shooting, Siavash Shirzad believed the US president. The 38-year-old father had seen protests...
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If, like me, you’re a faithful reader of the New York Post, the election of Zohran Mamdani as the new mayor of Gotham was the...
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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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Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era” for America’s largest city...
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Trump threatens sending military to Democratic cities, singling out Chicago In between repeating baseless claims that DC crime data is “phoney”, and touting the work...
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Democratic lawmakers left Texas in an attempt to prevent voting on a Republican plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. By redrawing district lines, Republicans hope...
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The temperature hovered around zero degrees as news crews and mourners stopped by the site where another Minneapolis resident was shot and killed by federal...
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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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Speculation surrounding the affairs of Jeffrey Epstein is expected to reach a defining moment of revelation on Friday with the much-anticipated publication of files relating...
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Opening summary: Senate wrangles over Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ to continue Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics with senators...
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Donald Trump has declined to definitively say he will not seek an unconstitutional third term as US president. “I would love to do it: I...
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Donald Trump said of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, ‘we just like each other’, as the pair signed a defence and...
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The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals, following claims from his...
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US forces struck another alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three people, defense secretary Pete Hegseth has said, bringing the death toll from...
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The Senate “vote-a-rama” on the tax and spending bill, already a record for passing 45 consecutive votes, has now passed the 24-hour mark. CNN is...
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Judge blocks Trump on birthright citizenship A federal judge in New Hampshire has again blocked Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and applied the...
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Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from...
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It has been said many times, but saying it appears to have no consequences: our system of checks and balances is failing. The US supreme...
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A federal judge in Texas declared a mistrial on Tuesday after a defense lawyer wore a shirt in court with images from the civil rights...
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No dictator or would-be dictator on day one has ever assembled before him in one room the entire senior officer corps of his armed forces...
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Initial takeaways of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview transcripts The transcripts are more than 300 pages, but here it goes … Blanche said, on record, that their...
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Trump continues attacks on Federal Reserve chair Donald Trump has continued his attacks on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell today, calling him a “stupid guy”...
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The president has now wrapped up his press conference, so here’s a recap of some the key points Trump is placing Washington DC police under...
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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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The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both the Democratic and Republican national committees the night before the January 6 insurrection...
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A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over racist and antisemitic chat messages that circulated within the Young Republican political group, another substantial consequence in a...
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Trump to address UN general assembly as US allies recognize Palestinian statehood Following the news that the Secret Service intercepted a threat to distrupt cellular...
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Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a senior Kremlin official last month that achieving peace in Ukraine would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk...
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Trump calls Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and says Tesla owner is ‘off the rails’ Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the...
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Trump says he hopes ‘there will be others’ after Comey indictment Earlier, on the south lawn of the White House, Donald Trump took a few...
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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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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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Trump: ‘No deal until there’s a deal’ David Smith That was quick. Donald Trump left more questions than answers as he fawned over Vladimir Putin...
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Growing pressure on the Trump administration has prompted the US president to direct his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to seek the release of grand jury...
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Pressure mounted on Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday to fully investigate the previous day’s killing by federal immigration officers of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in...
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A 37-year-old nurse named Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday. Protesters on Saturday were on the streets...
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CBS parent company Paramount on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, in the latest concession by a...
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‘I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,’ says Bill Clinton in opening statement on Epstein ties Former president Bill Clinton has delivered his opening...
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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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Donald Trump has said he believes Ukraine can regain all the land that it has lost since the 2022 Russian invasion in one of the...
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Trump administration officials say they are undertaking a broad re-examination of asylum cases and green cards issued to citizens of certain countries, after the shooting...
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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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Regarding Gaby Hinsliff’s article (Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke, 6 March), Dubai has...
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In his 130 days as a special government employee, the world’s richest man slashed his way through federal agencies, laying off government employees and gaining...
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The US state department announced on Saturday that it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an...
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New York City’s mayoral race is heating up, with Zohran Mamdani, the young progressive who leapt ahead of establishment figures in the primary to win...
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You suspected that Maga had not conquered the Washington national cathedral when Bill Kristol was spotted at a men’s urinal conversing with Chris Wallace. You...
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How did a political nobody, Zohran Mamdani, beat one of New York’s best-known establishment figures, Andrew Cuomo? Rachel Leingang speaks to Moira Donegan about how...
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Justices appear skeptical as Trump’s lawyers argue he ‘provided adequate process’ in attempt to fire Cook Throughout the first half today’s arguments, the Trump administration’s...
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Of all the reasons Americans have been losing sleep recently – hunger, canceled flights, Democrats betraying them – the most ominous has to do with...
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Jeffries calls for the release of ‘double tap’ strike video on suspected drug vessel Speaking to reporters today, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that...
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Some current and former Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) staff are celebrating the Thursday firing of homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, who they say has...
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Supporters of abortion rights have spent much of the last year trying to fight Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine access to the procedure. Now, Democrats’...
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Newly uncovered photos and video footage published by CNN show more links between the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, including Epstein’s attendance at...
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Donald Trump once again shared misinformation about Portland, Oregon, on social media on Wednesday, when he announced that the national guard troops he called up...
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Donald Trump claimed he had found a way to pay US military troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary,...
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You can see how it works. First, the case against asylum seekers is based on the impact on public services and the costs of accommodation....
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Summary Donald Trump declined to deliver a message of national unity when he addressed tens of thousands of people gathered for the memorial to honor...
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‘Call them out, call their employer’: Vance urges people to go hard against anyone ‘justifying or celebrating’ Kirk’s killing Rachel Leingang To close out as...
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Republicans pile pressure on Thune to alter rules for Trump’s voter ID bill Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Republican Senate majority...
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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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As Donald Trump continues his drive to cull the federal workforce and consolidate his power, labor unions have emerged as some of his staunchest opponents....
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A dispute over the dismissal of Susan Monarez, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has intensified, with her attorneys asserting...
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Let’s imagine it’s early 2031. Democrats hold a three-seat edge in the US House. California has just lost four seats to congressional reapportionment. Texas has...
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Ya’akub Vijandre, a Muslim photojournalist, martial arts teacher and first responder who ICE detained in October for posting on social media, told the Guardian that...
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Washington is negotiating with Havana’s leadership to strike a deal, Donald Trump has said, days after threatening Cuba’s reeling economy with a virtual oil blockade....
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FBI and Utah department of public safety hold media briefing on Charlie Kirk shooting – watch live FBI in media briefing on Charlie Kirk shooting...
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With nearly all polls closed across Texas on Tuesday evening, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and state representative James Talarico were locked in a fiercely contested and...
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Almost half of EU citizens regard Donald Trump as an enemy of Europe, a new survey across nine countries revealed last week. The poll, conducted...
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Donald Trump’s first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide. This time around, the panic and chaos...
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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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A new Democrat-led bill seeks to exempt small businesses from Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs, as small business owners continue to reel from the...
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US senator Mark Kelly said it was “non-controversial” for him and other Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey “illegal orders” from the Trump administration...
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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 the tech billionaire and his EV company take a beating, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong...
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Trump says he will sign order targeting mail-in ballots, voting machines ahead of 2026 elections Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive...
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Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign strategy leaned heavily on two sources of grievance among the Maga base. The first was the rising cost of living, propelled...
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US marines deployed to Los Angeles on Friday temporarily detained a civilian, the US military confirmed, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed...
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James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false...
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Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang, appeals court rules Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog for...
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The man charged in connection with the recent shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was a doomsday “prepper” who instructed his family to...
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Summary That’s all for our live coverage for the day. Thanks for following along. Here are some of the big stories from the day. House...
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A man approached Ilhan Omar, a US representative, during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, sprayed an unidentified liquid in her direction and shouted at...
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On 2 September, the US government released grainy footage of a fishing boat ploughing through the waters of the Caribbean sea. Suddenly, after a flash...
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Donald Trump pulled back from the brink on Greenland but not before causing untold damage to the Nato alliance. The US president’s sabre-rattling may also...
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove, a top justice department official and former defense attorney for Donald Trump, to a lifetime seat on a...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: A federal judge tossed out...
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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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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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Newsom calls for a special election to introduce new US House maps Lauren Gambino “Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Gavin Newsom...
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Hamas said on Friday it approved parts of Donald Trump’s ultimatum to end the war in Gaza, agreeing to a hostage exchange and to surrender...
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The US Department of Justice dropped charges on Saturday against Michael Kirk Moore, the Utah doctor accused of destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided...
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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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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet JD Vance and Mike Johnson today Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose...
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More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during...
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Donald Trump’s administration ratcheted up its defence of the US’s weekend attacks on Iran, citing “new intelligence” to support its initial claim of complete success...
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In late April, the Department of Justice announced that it was ending a decades-long consent decree in Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, in a school district that...
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The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy...
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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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The South Lawn of the White House had never seen anything like it. The president of the United States was posing for the world’s media...
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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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A rising number of US airports are asking for donations to support employees affected by the partial government shutdown with airport security officials missing their...
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After last year’s election, when Republicans made significant inroads in the state, New Jersey voters will cast ballots in an off-year, unpredictable gubernatorial race that...
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Supreme court decision ‘authorizes untold harm to transgender children’, says Justice Sotomayor in her dissent In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision “does...
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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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A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer...
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When canvassers fan out across neighborhoods, they usually rely on sophisticated lists that will tell them things like a voter’s political party and how likely...
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Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and detained in one of that country’s most notorious prisons, was physically...
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The Senate passed a broad bill on Thursday to make US housing more accessible and affordable, a rare bipartisan effort in Congress to address a...
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The political analyst fired by MSNBC over his Charlie Kirk commentary says his former employer agreed with him that his remarks were being misconstrued as...
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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has called for Barack Obama and former senior US national security officials to be prosecuted after accusing them...
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Protesters took to the streets after Donald Trump said he was deploying national guard troops to Washington DC and temporarily taking over the city’s police...
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The Bank of England has rolled out looser mortgage rules that policymakers hope will help 36,000 more first-time buyers on to the housing ladder each...
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Donald Trump granted clemency to private equity executive David Gentile, who had just begun a seven-year prison sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6bn...
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Journalist Mario Guevara’s imprisonment by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) ended with deportation to El Salvador on Friday, his family announced on social media. Guevara...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the week, but we will be back on Monday. Here are the...
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Pacing inside the Kremlin last weekend, as news feeds churned out minute-by-minute reports of Donald’s Trump’s Venezuelan coup, Vladimir Putin may have been wondering what...
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Opening summary US lawmakers have shared their concerns over escalating tensions between the US and Venezuela after US forces seized an oil tanker off the...
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In the six months since Donald Trump took office, the US president has supercharged the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus – pushing immigration officials to arrest...
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Hundreds of staff gathered outside the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Thursday to support the public health leaders who resigned, or were fired by the...
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Arizona’s attorney general is suing House speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election...
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Donald Trump vowed to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars” during his inauguration speech last year, a bold promise that spoke to...
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Democratic congresswoman criticizes Trump’s comments about a third term Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Democratic representative, has criticized comments from Steve Bannon after the former White House...
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A Bronx office of US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating. The...
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Dana Leigh Marks had the kind of career most immigration judges dream of. At 32, she won a precedent-setting supreme court case that made it...
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A month after one of the largest sewage spills in US history began soiling the Potomac River, Donald Trump and the Maryland governor, Wes Moore,...
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In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at...
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Discussions are reportedly under way within Donald Trump’s administration about the US possibly granting asylum to Jewish people from the UK, according to the Telegraph,...
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While thousands of protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis on Friday to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave the city, a smaller group...
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The US justice department is investigating Minnesota’s political leaders for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the Trump administration’s controversial immigration crackdown there, according to multiple reports....
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The interior department announced today new “America-first” entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and “resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026”...
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Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine...
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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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The Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC...
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Donald Trump’s administration has drafted a proposal to deploy 1,000 Louisiana national guard troops to conduct law enforcement operations in the state’s urban centers, the...
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Suspect to face upgraded charges of murder in the first degree, says US attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of...
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Reporting on a corrupt president made the Washington Post a global sensation with Watergate – and the masthead became a byword for fearless reporting. But...
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The US military has issued new media restrictions demanding that journalists pledge not to gather any information – including unclassified documents – that has not...
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Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...
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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 hosted Zohran Mamdani,...
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The US Senate is preparing for a key procedural vote Saturday as Republicans race to pass Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and...
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House Democrats have published a new tranche of what they called “disturbing” photographs from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, featuring among...
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Justice department meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell set for today A senior justice department official is expected to meet today with Ghislaine Maxwell in Tallahassee, Florida,...
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Sometimes it pays to be a narcissist. To bend reality to your own worldview. To live almost entirely in the present. Where contradicting yourself is...
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Opening Summary Videos emerged on Wednesday of a previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal agents, 11 days before the ICU nurse was fatally shot...
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Rich Lyons, the University of California, Berkeley, chancellor, challenged US House Republicans on Tuesday as they questioned Lyons and leaders of Georgetown University and the...
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A five-year-old boy and his father were back in Minneapolis on Sunday after being released from a Texas immigration detention center where they were held...
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Starmer and Trump to hold talks as PM warned UK faces ‘huge dilemma’ over relationship with US Good morning. It’s day two of the state...
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It took Trump chronicler Maggie Haberman to cut to the chase: if Trump didn’t sign the birthday card or other documents released by Jeffrey Epstein’s...
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Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the...
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One of the US so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) service’s best-known employees, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the US government, a White House...
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The White House has chosen a deputy of Robert F Kennedy Jr to serve as the acting head of the US Centers for Disease Control...
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Donald Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”. Stephen Miller, the...
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Donald Trump has stepped up his demand to annex Greenland but said the US would not use force to seize it during a rambling, invective-laden...
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Freed from Ice detention days earlier, Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil stood just outside the gates of Columbia University to renew his commitment to the...
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Donald Trump’s administration has imposed sanctions against the judge overseeing the prosecution of his far-right ally Jair Bolsonaro and hit Brazil with huge tariffs amid...
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A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside...
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As federal immigration crackdowns in Minnesota continued on Tuesday, an initial report to Congress from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained by various news...
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Last week, the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the chair of the Federal Reserve – and longtime foe of Donald Trump –...
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The word “Truth” was plastered all around the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning. At 9.30am, when the market opened, a small crowd stood...
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Donald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally Javier Milei loses crucial legislative elections later this month. “If he...
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It’s good to see the variety of entertainment available at the Royal Albert Hall expanding (More rice, bigger chairs and reinforced toilets: sumo wrestling comes...
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In Somerville, Massachusetts, a community bike path has, in recent months, become a hotly contested political constituency. A cat with a distinctive black smudge on...
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In the lead-up to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the city deployed 30 police officers on horseback to rid downtown of unhoused people and,...
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Cory Booker on Thursday introduced legislation that would create a federal “right of action”, allowing people to sue pesticide makers such as Bayer and Syngenta,...
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A new Senate committee report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, described the events as a...
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Frozen dinners were useful when no one was home to cook. A fancy cheese or apple roll felt like a family treat. But not any...
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Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections Paul Ingrassia has dropped out after racist text messages he sent surfaced this week. Ingrassia, currently a...
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When X rolled out a new feature revealing the locations of popular accounts, the company was acting to boost transparency and clamp down on disinformation....
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Democrats want your attention, and they’re done asking politely. Several months into Donald Trump’s second term, presidential aspirants, members of Congress and party officials are...
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A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled that commercial fishing is illegal in the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument, a federally protected area in...
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New York City voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday in one of the most closely watched mayoral elections in the city’s history. Vying...
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Three states have moved to deploy hundreds of members of their national guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to...
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A Louisiana congressional candidate endorsed by Donald Trump was the subject of a 2007 rape accusation that was reported to local law enforcement the same...
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“Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement leaders have put out a petition calling for Donald Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin,...
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Jeffries calls for the release of ‘double tap’ strike video on suspected drug vessel Speaking to reporters today, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that...
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Of all the reasons Americans have been losing sleep recently – hunger, canceled flights, Democrats betraying them – the most ominous has to do with...
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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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Hillary Clinton to testify in US House panel’s Epstein probe Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Former US secretary of state Hillary...
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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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The veteran civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who has died aged 84, made history when he stood for the White House in 1984 and 1988....
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When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would...
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Chaotic and unpredictable, keeping up with Donald Trump’s volatile trade war – never mind his presidency – can be tough. Back in April after his...
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Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary for Joe Biden, has left the Democratic party to become an independent, according to the publisher...
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In the run-up to last month’s mayoral election in Dayton, Ohio, candidate Shenise Turner-Sloss found herself up against it. Her opponent, mayor Jeffrey Mims, was...
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US House member Thomas Massie has called for the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick – a fellow Republican – to resign over his ties to late...
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Stephen Colbert was feeling under the weather on Wednesday night but didn’t pull his punches, despite being “on enough steroids to be named the secretary...
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Trump’s first-term labor statistics chief denounces ‘groundless firing’ of his successor Bill Beach, a former Heritage foundation economist who was picked by Donald Trump in...
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Eric Adams, the embattled mayor of New York, has denied having conversations with Donald Trump about being given a government job in exchange for dropping...
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal homeland security funding, including for disasters, for states that do not comply with...
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After taking six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader but an ideological nationalist seeking the return of...
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Republican congressman and vocal Donald Trump critic Don Bacon is reportedly not going to seek re-election during the midterm races in 2026. The conservative politician...
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Saturday’s US strikes on Iran provoked conflicting reactions from isolationist Republicans who support Donald Trump’s Make America great again (Maga) movement, catching them – like...
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The day so far Election day is happening. We’re bringing you the latest from some of the most pivotal contests, including the closely watched New...
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The US president, Donald Trump, has said Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been captured and are on their way to...
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Family and friends of a Los Angeles man who was killed by an off-duty US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer over the holidays are...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Georgia congresswoman who had a dramatic blow-up with Donald Trump despite being his longtime ally, announced on Friday she would...
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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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Stanford University will cut $140m from its budget in the coming academic year, citing “consequences from federal policy changes” including “reductions in federal research support...
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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
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
