The US representative Ilhan Omar in her office in Washington DC, on 12 December 2025. Photograph: Caroline Gutman/The Guardian “That’s Teddy,” said Tim Mynett, husband...
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Bonnie Connery was horrified when she read the news about the death of ICE observer Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on 7 January. Within minutes,...
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Barack Obama took aim at institutions and businesses who made deals or worked out settlements with the Trump administration, noting on a new podcast episode:...
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After the cruelty, the mockery. As the first detainees were being hauled into Donald Trump’s controversial migrant jail in the inhospitable, steamy wetlands of the...
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More patients may die as a result of plans drawn up by the Trump administration to cut billions of dollars from the National Cancer Institute...
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Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut New York City off from federal funds if favored mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, “doesn’t behave...
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A US district judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore legal services for potentially thousands of migrant families after officials violated a historic settlement...
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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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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to 34 “sanctuary cities” and counties that limit cooperation with federal immigration...
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Texas house passes partisan Republican congressional map after weeks of protest The Texas state house – which has a significant Republican majority – has approved a...
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A federal appeals court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed up the deportations of people his administration accuses...
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When Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, she said sanctuary cities had made her job hard. “Sanctuary cities do...
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Donald Trump and JD Vance have been snubbed, by not being invited to former vice-president Dick Cheney’s funeral, taking place on Thursday, according to a...
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A US Secret Service agent, working on security detail for the former first lady Jill Biden, shot themself in the leg at the Philadelphia international...
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Jimmy Kimmel talked about Pam Bondi and this week’s judiciary hearings as well as the latest climate-destroying victory for the Trump administration. The late-night host...
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Texas Senate passes GOP-drawn map, while House Democrats continue to deny quorum The Texas Sentate has passed a GOP-drawn congressional map, that would give Republicans...
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“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Donald Trump exhorted the audience at a campaign event organized by the conservative Turning Point Action in...
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Donald Trump convened congressional leaders and cabinet secretaries at the White House on Thursday to make the case for passage of his marquee tax-and-spending bill,...
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Trump administration’s termination of more than $1bn in research grants at the National Institutes of Health was...
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Charlie Kirk, the founder of rightwing youth activist group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and a close ally of Donald Trump, was fatally shot while speaking...
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In mortarboards and crimson-fringed gowns, thousands of students were joined by smiling families for the centuries-old ritual of graduation day. But this year was different....
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A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent...
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Chuck Schumer couldn’t hold his senators together at a time when their unity and toughness were essential. And at a time when they were winning:...
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The Senate failed on Thursday to pass legislation that would keep federal workers deemed essential and troops paid throughout the ongoing government shutdown – now...
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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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Kharg Island – through which 90% of Iran’s oil exports flow – is arguably the country’s most sensitive economic target but the export terminal has...
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Donald Trump hand-delivered a personal letter from first lady Melania Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin raising the plight of Ukrainian and Russian children caught...
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From thousands of miles away in San Antonio, Ashley Fairbanks watched the news pour out of her home town of Minneapolis– federal immigration authorities flooding...
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Charlie Kirk’s widow says his campus tour will continue despite his death Johana Bhuiyan Erika Kirk, the widow of right wing activist and provocateur Charlie...
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Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right conspiracy theorist and bigot who also happens to be a Republican congresswoman,...
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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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Donald Trump had a message for fossil-fuel companies on Friday: Venezuela is now “open for business” as the US president vowed the country’s resources would...
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United States federal agents arrested three Iranian nationals – including the son of a revolutionary at the center of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis –...
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The wife of an Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for five months – despite having a valid...
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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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The civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination....
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Donald Trump threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries including Denmark, Germany, France and the UK – until the US is allowed...
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House passes Trump’s megabill, sends it to the president’s desk In a vote of 218-214, Republicans passed Trump’s megabill, sending it to the president’s desk...
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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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A federal judge on Friday morning issued a temporary restraining order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García just hours before he was...
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After the joy, the trepidation. Or at least the preparation. Democrats, along with many others around the world, cheered this week’s wins in a clutch...
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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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Donald Trump administration officials fanned out on Sunday’s US political shows to defend the president’s policies after a bruising week of poor economic, trade and...
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Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, as it decides whether to join the...
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Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, unilaterally halted an agreed shipment of military aid to Ukraine due to baseless concerns that US stockpiles of weapons...
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Late last year, Donald Trump’s White House published a new National Security Strategy (NSS) outlining its vision for the world. At the time, the plan...
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Have we ever seen a year in recent memory begin with as much deliberate turmoil as 2026 has? Less than two weeks into 2026, we...
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Like hundreds of families across Lowndes County, Alabama, the McPhersons do not have access to proper sanitation – just a pipe carrying raw sewage a...
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Misled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, Trump threatens to invade Portland and ‘wipe out’ protesters Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that...
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The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys...
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US revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk In a stunning departure for an administration that came to...
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The list of musical artists canceling gigs at the Kennedy Center, which Donald Trump has attempted to rename the “Trump-Kennedy Center”, in Washington DC continues...
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The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, faced the Senate finance committee in a tense and combative hearing on Thursday, during which lawmakers questioned...
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All the elaborate efforts of the European allies to prevent Donald Trump from prostrating himself before Vladimir Putin came to naught at their summit meeting...
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The extraordinary arrests of the journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press...
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A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s policy to detain and deport foreign scholars over their pro-Palestinian views violates the US constitution and...
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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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Judge permanently bars DoJ from releasing Jack Smith’s report on Trump documents In a ruling on Monday, US federal judge Aileen Cannon permanently prohibited the...
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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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This year marked the start of LaMonica McIver’s first full term as a member of Congress. Rather than a year spent learning the ropes of...
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In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states’ ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold...
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“Daddy’s home.” So said a social media post from the White House, accompanied by a video featuring the song Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) by Usher...
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The scene around Washington’s Farragut Square on Wednesday afternoon seemed to fit Donald Trump’s most lurid stereotypes of a crime-ridden capital in need of federal...
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I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you today. The bad news is, well, everything. As you may have noticed, the world...
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A North Carolina congressional primary on Tuesday is an early test of datacenter politics – a fight increasingly shaping elections nationwide. In the Durham-area fourth...
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Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ Oliver Holmes Donald Trump has dismissed a secretive inquiry into the late sex...
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Donald Trump has tried his usual tactics when it comes to getting the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates: bully when persuasion doesn’t work,...
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Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday instructing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as the partial shutdown...
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Historian Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, has cancelled plans to teach this fall in response to...
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Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a...
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Federal immigration agents have been involved in a sharp rise in shootings in recent months, coinciding with the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement efforts. Under...
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Almost every American knows that in our legal system, people accused of crimes are presumed innocent. The burden is on the government to overcome that...
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Donald Trump sending Tom Homan to Minnesota, president announces on social media Donald Trump is dispatching his border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota. Trump made...
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Jim Justice, the Republican US senator, and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5m that the couple owes in back taxes shortly after...
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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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Federal workers are scrambling to figure out if they still have a job after the Trump administration launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a...
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Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and Donald Trump had a ‘productive’ meeting in the Oval Office. The president repeatedly stepped in to...
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Boulder county DA says 16 unused Molotov cocktails were recovered after attack The Boulder County district attorney, Michael Dougherty, just said that there were 16...
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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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California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced on Sunday that he is suing Donald Trump over the deployment of 300 California national guard personnel to Oregon. “They...
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Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy militarized immigration agents in US cities may finally be reaching a reckoning as he faces widespread opposition across the US,...
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Bondi assigns prosecutor to lead investigation into Trump adversaries over Epstein ties Attorney general Pam Bondi announced today that she has assigned Jay Clayton, the...
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An influential US medical journal is rejecting a call from the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to...
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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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Monarez and Houry say that future pandemics ‘keep them up at night’ When asked what keeps them “up at night” by Democratic senator John Hickenlooper,...
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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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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration, but just for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump turned...
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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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Oregon lawmakers demand ICE leave Portland after shooting Federal, state and local lawmakers representing Portland have issued statements condemning the shooting of two people by...
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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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For political connoisseurs of a certain vintage, it feels like deja vu all over again. To anyone who witnessed Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s,...
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Pete Hegseth’s office is located on the third floor of the Pentagon, in the E ring, room 3E880, facing the Potomac River with a scenic...
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Former Illinois governor Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died...
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Donald Trump’s latest attack on climate action takes place amid rapidly rising temperatures, rising sea levels, still-rising greenhouse gas emissions, burgeoning costs from extreme weather...
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Every time you think US politics could not possibly get any stupider, it does. Today’s instalment of “we live in hell, where politicians are passing...
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US immigration officials carried out further “enforcement activity” in California’s agricultural heartland and the Los Angeles area as the conflict between the state and Donald...
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The US’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed president Donald Trump’s $9bn funding cut to public media and foreign aid early on Friday, sending it to...
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This article is a collaboration between the Guardian and Enlace Latino NC, an independent bilingual publication. Read this article in Spanish. On a cold December...
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The US has flown five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to the small, African country of Eswatini – an absolute monarchy with...
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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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Were you bullied as a child? If so, congratulations. You are probably pretty interesting, or maybe you have an extreme body odor problem. Either way,...
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There are many ways to characterize Proposition 50, the single ballot initiative that Californians will be voting on this election season. You could say it’s...
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Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that he has found a way to pay US military troops despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, saying he has...
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It was as close as Donald Trump might get to a lucid statement of his governing doctrine. “I may do it. I may not do...
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Johnson defends administration’s move to keep military paid during shutdown The House speaker has said that the Trump administration has “every right” to move around...
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A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican headquarters the night before the January...
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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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Americans in every state marched in protest against the Trump administration, giving voice to concerns that the country is sliding into authoritarianism. Millions turned out...
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Only two more Republicans needed to force House vote on Epstein files release, congressman says Democratic congressman Ro Khanna says the House will be compelled...
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“Washington DC is considered a safe zone,” Donald Trump declared on Tuesday, veering off topic at the national Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White...
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House oversight committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, with letter attributed to Trump The Republican-led House oversight committee has released digital images of...
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After years of claiming to be the vanguard of a new “America First” isolationist movement rebelling against the neoconservative policies of the George W Bush...
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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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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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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of...
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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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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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Key takeaways from Trump-Netanyahu press conference And that’s it, the press conference is over. Trump said he wanted to move to the second phase of...
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One year into the second Trump administration, an actual US foreign policy remains just a nice idea. Instead, the world has been forced to adapt...
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We all know Trump has been doing loads of terrible things but apparently threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation is finally a bridge too far Sign
We all know Trump has been doing loads of terrible things but apparently threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation is finally a bridge too far Sign
