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This Fourth of July marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence promised liberty and equality for all – even as it excluded most of...
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‘We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Donald Trump told the Atlantic on 5 January, with the hand-wavy follow-up, “We need it for defence.” His adviser Stephen...
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Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing charged with aggravated murder and weapon and obstruction offenses Gray announced he is filing charges on these counts: 1. Aggravated...
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Last summer, Angelenos began to vanish. Armed, masked immigration agents plucked people off street corners and out of their workplaces, in parking lots and department...
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North Carolina Republicans on Monday chose state lawmaker Jennifer Balkcom to replace Chuck Edwards, the incumbent congressman who earlier this month dropped his re-election bid...
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Donald Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated US president, will visit Walter Reed national military medical center on Friday for what the White House...
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Donald Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at the White House...
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In his clearest attempt yet to “de‑escalate” tensions in Minneapolis, Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s “border czar”, announced on Wednesday that the administration will draw down...
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Donald Trump spent the night at his family-owned golf resort in Scotland but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration, claiming...
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Workers at the US Department of Energy say cuts and deregulations are undermining the ability for the department to function and will result in significant...
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When the Minnesota state legislature is not in session, Kaela Berg is working in the skies. Berg has spent the last six years doubling as...
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People often criticise the Democrats for being overly cautious and never getting anything done. But this week they’ve surprised us all by unveiling concepts of...
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Neither of the supreme court majority opinions in Trump v Barbara, the 5-4 decision upholding the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, mention the true architect of...
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Federal judge orders Florida to close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ within 60 days A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new...
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Joe Biden has said ‘these are dark days’ in the US, and accused the Trump administration of ‘doing its best to dismantle the constitution’ with...
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Illinois voters on Tuesday will decide between a crowded field of Democratic candidates vying to be the state’s next senator as the midwestern state also...
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Two national guard members were shot near the White House in what officials described as a targeted attack, and the suspect was in custody after...
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Top Democrats issued a clear message to Donald Trump this week: either he fires Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, or they will impeach her....
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FBI director Kash Patel appeared not to recognise the name of the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black congregants at a US...
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Trump to survey damage from deadly floods during Texas visit In about an hour, we expect president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to...
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Trump warns Iran ‘bad things’ will happen if they fail to make a ‘meaningful’ deal, and appears to set 10-day deadline for US military action...
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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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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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Donald Trump’s administration will unveil the latest stage of his aggressive trade policy on Thursday, the White House has said, amid reports the US president...
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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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The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has expressed a violent antipathy towards Iran for years in books, Fox News broadcasts, educational videos and a 2018...
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set to arrive in Washington simultaneously with the goal of winning the ear of Donald Trump at pivotal moments...
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One morning last June in an immigration courtroom in New York City, a lawyer named Estefani Rodriguez looked as if she was on the verge...
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Donald Trump is not generally noted as a student of history. Yet over the past year, his decisive reorientation of US foreign policy towards the...
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The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to...
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The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White...
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At least three events connected to Mexican Independence Day have been canceled or postponed in Chicago, amid reports that Donald Trump plans to send troops...
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It’s America’s birthday. Ear-splitting pyrotechnics will be heard across the land tonight, as they were a few weeks ago, after the cage fight at the...
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Donald Trump has said the US navy acted “like pirates” as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian...
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Donald and Melania Trump were evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening after the event was interrupted by gunfire. A suspect was...
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The US’s Christmas Day strikes against Islamic State targets in Nigeria have been met with praise by Donald Trump supporters who for months had been...
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Erika Kirk – the widow of Charlie Kirk, the rightwing activist killed in Utah in September – has indicated she would be willing to support...
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The Democratic party seems more united than it has been in years, thanks to one man: Donald Trump. Opposition to his presidency has papered over...
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The price of Brent oil soared above $126 a barrel on Wednesday, its highest level since 2022, after Donald Trump warned the US blockade of...
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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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Donald Trump has said preventing Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is “the only thing that matters” as the US midterm election campaign season looks to...
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Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000...
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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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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has held talks in Israel with Benjamin Netanyahu aimed at limiting the diplomatic damage to both countries by...
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As the first Pride month under Donald Trump’s second presidency approaches, LGBTQ+ businesses are stepping up, evolving quickly to meet the community’s growing concerns. Since...
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At 6.15am, Jac Kovarik revs up their SUV and snakes through the iced-over streets of south Minneapolis, eyes scanning for federal immigration agents. The neighborhood...
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Democratic lawmakers are pressing for a review of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hiring practices and continuing calls for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding...
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A powerful bipartisan committee in the US Congress says it has begun an investigation into the involvement of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite business in providing...
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It’s all about oil. That was the reason Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader illegally abducted by US forces at the weekend, had given for Donald...
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Tom Homan, the Trump administration “border czar”, on Sunday said he did not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the center of...
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Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general sells an herbal supplement that contains an ingredient prohibited by the US military and which health experts have warned...
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A federal judge declined to order the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a setback for the former Columbia University student days after a major...
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The justice department’s partial release of the Epstein files on Friday signaled how the agency is using a variety of tactics to try to bury...
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Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries following the shooting...
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On Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina, Manolo’s Bakery has become a focal point for resistance to the upscaled immigration raids since border patrol officers...
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DHS shutdown looms as negotiations on funding bill stall on Capitol Hill Lawmakers in the House and Senate left Washington on Thursday as the Department...
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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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While the Trump administration has argued that new restrictions on the size of federal student loans will lower tuition costs, public health officials and Democrats...
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On the website’s landing page, a photo of a heavily pregnant white woman is cropped below the head, so that she is faceless, anonymous, cradling...
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It’s almost impossible to divide superheroes along political lines. Captain America might seem like a patriotic, commie-bashing lunatic, as he was in the 1950s comics...
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Thom Tillis announced on Sunday that he will not run for re-election to the US Senate next year, one day after the North Carolina Republican’s...
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The Donald Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict...
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It’s been called “America’s saddest murder trial” and last week jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case listened to mental health professionals, counsellors, psychiatrists and medication...
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Summary of the day so far Thousands of people have begun demonstrating across the US as part of the “No Kings” protests. Millions are expected...
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Civil society and opposition groups in Eswatini have expressed outrage after the US deported five men to the country, with the largest opposition party calling...
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Graham Platner, a Marine veteran, oyster farmer and progressive activist, has won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Maine. Platner won 72% of...
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Chris Stein More than 100 House Democrats on Wednesday voted to slash military aid to Israel, a significant rebuke of the longtime US ally as...
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Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who is now mayor of New York City, ran a campaign known for its soaring political rhetoric, its viral memes...
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On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley paid tribute to the...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on Tuesday on federal fraud charges, alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the...
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Donald Trump signs order designating leftwing movement antifa as a domestic terror organization Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating ‘antifa’ as a domestic...
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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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Donald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration’s recent criticism of Europe, describing it as...
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Petition to trigger House vote on release of Epstein files reaches required total Shortly after Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of...
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Democrats on House oversight committee release new Epstein records, including diaries and flight logs Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a tranche of...
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Another day, another made-for-great-television encounter between Donald Trump and the media in the Oval Office. The president, quite perversely, prides himself on the access he...
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When Aliya Rahman accepted Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar’s invitation to attend the State of the Union address, she said she had no intention of disrupting...
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New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top consumer watchdog has one gripe about New Yorkers – he would like them to complain more. “We get about...
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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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The US congressman Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained him during a visit to the Israel-occupied West Bank recently, describing the experience as a...
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Federal authorities in Texas have arrested a man for allegedly threatening to shoot people at a pro-LGBTQ+ parade, to avenge the murder of Charlie Kirk....
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Sam Rasoul, the Virginia Democrat who is currently the longest-serving Muslim state lawmaker in the US and who faced accusations of antisemitism over language condemning...
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Two Democratic US lawmakers on Monday called for an end to the “cruel collective punishment” of Cuba after they visited the island to witness the...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress late on Friday, saying she refused to be a “battered wife” following her public fallout with Donald Trump,...
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Reactions on social media to the murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk have cost multiple people their jobs as authorities in numerous states clamp down...
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Donald Trump managed to pull off a bit of a miracle on Sunday: he offended and upset many of his conservative Christian followers. Trump posted...
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed a list of “sanctuary” states, cities and counties from its website following sharp criticism from a sheriffs’...
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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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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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Epstein survivor describes abuse as lawmakers push for release of case files Survivors of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and their advocates are rallying outside the...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not an “independent” agency, its chairman suggested on Wednesday, as the word was scrubbed from its online mission statement....
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, as it became clear 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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Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstration dubbed “No Kings”, planned...
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President Donald Trump and the first lady were whisked out of the annual White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday after shots were fired at the...
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Minnesota voters on both sides of the aisle are weighing the direction of their parties – and their chances of winning over the general electorate...
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The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by...
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Late-night hosts looked into the murky goals, economic impact and disrespect for military protocol of Donald Trump’s war in Iran. Stephen Colbert “We’re on day...
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Support for the military is why Trump ‘is insistent on increasing defense budget to $1.5tn’, says JD Vance Vance also brought up Trump’s golden dome...
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Donald Trump has said the US will begin blockading the strait of Hormuz in an attempt to take control of the strategic waterway from Iran...
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The New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday evening attended a vigil in Manhattan convened by Israelis for Peace, an anti-occupation group...
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Donald Trump has sent mixed signals about potential US intervention in Venezuela, playing down concerns of imminent war against the South American nation but saying...
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The US supreme court sided against national Republicans and Donald Trump’s administration to allow mail-in ballots that arrive after election day to be counted, upholding...
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The US senator Sheldon Whitehouse has sent a letter to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts detailing allegations from whistleblowers that some...
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Erica Schwartz, the Trump administration’s latest nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), faced sharp questioning from senators who pressed her...
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As a US battle group steamed to the Gulf in November 2002, competing Iraqi exiles, some championed by American insiders, jockeyed for position in the...
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In October 2002, George W Bush laid out his case for taking the US to war against Iraq in a half-hour speech televised around the...
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‘An alarming abuse of power’: Democratic governors condemn Trump’s deployment of National Guard Democratic governors have condemned Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the California national...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump’s LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says Dani...
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Democratic Virginia House speaker says legislature will ‘respect’ Supreme court decision Don Scott, the Democratic speaker of the Virginia House, said that the legislature will...
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Outrage over Democrats’ video on illegal orders defies ‘common sense and basic morality’, Ron Paul says Ron Paul, the former Republican congressman and presidential candidate,...
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Michael Boren, the US undersecretary of agriculture for natural resources and environment who oversees the US Forest Service, reportedly pressed agency staff last month to...
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Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at...
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Before he announced his Senate candidacy, a political hopeful in Virginia did something not so unusual in this day and age: he logged on to...
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Summary of the day so far Thousands of people have begun demonstrating across the US as part of the “No Kings” protests. Millions are expected...
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The US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send national guard troops to the Chicago area, in an important reining-in of the...
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Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump over his “unprecedented and illegal attempt” to fire her, calling it an attempt...
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Donald Trump has been sued after a subscription service charging up to $100,000 a month for early access to his posts on his Truth Social...
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From Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled...
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It was a gift to conspiracy theorists. Last week, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency registered the alien.gov and aliens.gov web domains, adding both...
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Closing summary Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a...
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Trump press secretary denies US position on Iran regime change has altered White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked just now about Trump’s statements...
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On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with tourists and street performers clustered near the area’s many landmarks. But in recent months, the...
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Barely a month appears to go by without Donald Trump making a fresh attempt to destroy the international rules-based order. The US has pulled funding...
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The US president, Donald Trump, has met China’s leader, Xi Jinping, for a momentous summit that will pack negotiations on global conflict, international trade and...
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No one gets a Nobel peace prize for ending a war he started, let alone for a pointless war of aggression that set back the...
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Johnson says Schumer declined a vote on Obamacare subsidies and says it’s not ‘appropriate’ for it to be part of stopgap funding bill Mike Johnson...
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The left’s insurgency against the Democratic party establishment has hit its first serious bump in the road in Wisconsin. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong entered Tuesday...
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Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. Trump, in a Truth Social post...
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Trump says Kim Jong-un has responded to his overtures but doesn’t offer details Donald Trump has said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has responded...
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Donald Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at the White House...
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Kash Patel has followed through on a threat to sue the Atlantic and the author of a story the magazine published that included allegations of...
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Justice department to send federal monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey The justice department announced on Friday that it intends to send...
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It has not been a brilliant weekend for Donald Trump. On Sunday administration officials fanned out on US political shows to defend the president’s policies...
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A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a “less-lethal” projectile by a Department...
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As his mentor Roy Cohn counseled, Donald Trump never admits wrongdoing or apologizes. But he occasionally evinces something resembling a qualm. In October, considering renewing...
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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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Agriculture secretary rejects calls to use alternative funding for food stamps program Name-checking New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and his “socialist rhetoric,” US secretary...
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US Attorney to resign after Trump’s remarks calling for his removal over Letitia James investigation – reports US attorney Erik Siebert told employees on Friday...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Wednesday. Here are the...
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US regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat...
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“I’m a bit of an insomniac. So at almost 2am, I was awake, actually, and the first explosion, I swear I thought it was an...
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A US guided-missile destroyer reportedly spent four days adrift and without power in the South China Sea in July, furthering concerns about strain being placed...
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The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a...
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The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut promised on Saturday to fight a Trump administration order halting work on a nearly complete wind farm...
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The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has called for better Alzheimer’s screening – but a critical federal panel that might have helped researchers...
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The former CNN anchor Don Lemon has warned the US must “keep fighting” for its right to a free press, calling it “the breath in...
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US government to shut down within hours if no funding deal agreed Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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Americans across all 50 states began marching in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into...
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Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy....
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A recent survey found that a whopping 40% of student loan borrowers say that their loans have negatively affected their ability to cover their basic...
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The US Senate opened debate on Donald Trump’s sprawling domestic policy legislation on Sunday, the package of tax cuts, increased spending on immigration enforcement, and...
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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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Donald Trump’s global tariffs faced significant skepticism in a federal appeals court on Thursday, as judges investigated whether the president had overstretched his powers just...
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The US military has conducted “a lethal strike” against an alleged “drug vessel” from Venezuela, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced amid growing...
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George Clooney has lashed out at US president Donald Trump for criticising France’s decision to grant the Hollywood actor and his family French citizenship. The...
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A proposed peace agreement between Iran and the US seemed to remain on the table on Tuesday despite US bombing Iranian targets. The Iranian foreign...
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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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Donald Trump has warned that Hamas will have “hell to pay” if it fails to disarm while offering full-throated support to Benjamin Netanyahu during a...
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Fired fed governor’s lawyer argues that her removal does ‘irreparable harm’ Cook’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is arguing that her firing does “irreparable harm”. He says...
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Sucking up to Donald Trump never works for long. Narendra Modi is the latest world leader to learn this lesson the hard way. Wooing his...
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Top Republicans are portraying Donald Trump as a “big-hearted president” who is desperate to reopen the US government, even as he delays food assistance funding...
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The son of an American citizen and military veteran – but who has no citizenship to any country – was deported from the US to...
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Three days after Californians headed to the polls, key races in the primary election remained too close to call and experts warned the counting could...
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Jakub Krupa Here’s some more on Trump’s comments about Putin. Talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he said: “That was a war that should...
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Maine: ‘No official withdrawal notice has yet been received’ from Graham Platner The Maine department of the secretary of state has said that as of...
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Donald Trump has said Venezuela will be “turning over” 30 to 50m barrels of sanctioned oil to the US, as the South American country seeks...
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Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, becoming the latest leftwing candidate to capture the party’s nomination ahead of November’s midterm...
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The California governor, Gavin Newsom, called the potential deployment of US marines in his state “deranged” after the secretary of defense threatened the use of...
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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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Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan may soon be extradited back to the UK – but the manosphere influencers’ case will have lasting consequences in...
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The Trump administration has taken another step in its crusade against the international criminal court by imposing sanctions on two more senior ICC officials. The...
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Facing images of violent white mobs defending racial segregation, the condemnation of the world and of its own citizens, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act,...
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Donald Trump has threatened to declare the strait of Hormuz as “a territory of the United States” as his administration struggles to conclude the war...
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The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said Nato allies were “very close, almost near consensus” to an agreement to significantly raise targets for defence spending...
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Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice department but still failed to please a president...
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The US attorney general Pam Bondi attacked and insulted Democrats during a House judiciary committee hearing on Wednesday as she defended the justice department’s handling...
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The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports. Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across...
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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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The way we commemorate history is often – too often – by celebrating an individual with a statue, a place name, a holiday. While some...
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The leading US senator Elizabeth Warren has called for urgent answers from Barclays over what she claimed was its “apparent failure to meaningfully investigate” ties...
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The US supreme court has allowed Alabama to go ahead with its seventh execution using the contested method of nitrogen gas, a form of suffocation...
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Kevin Warsh, the former Federal Reserve governor chosen by Donald Trump to lead the central bank, has submitted financial disclosures that suggest he holds assets...
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Vladimir Putin loves bombing Ukraine and taking his shirt off – not necessarily in that order. The Russian leader is well known for his macho...
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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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Graham Platner is out of the Maine Senate race, burdened by controversies that include a troubling rape accusation, which he denies. His departure is no...
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On a warm evening in June, hundreds of people holding candles marched toward the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of the US...
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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’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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US citizens are free once more to buy some of the country’s most deadly firearms and gun accessories, after relentless lobbying by the gun industry...
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Nancy Pelosi, a California Democratic representative and the first woman to serve as speaker, has announced she will retire from Congress, two years after stepping...
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Japan’s yen has slid back towards 160 to the dollar, despite last month’s extraordinary US-Japanese intervention. Traders are betting that its role as a cheap funding...
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Soul-searching within the Democratic party is to be expected after its loss in the 2024 election. Donald Trump’s edge over Kamala Harris in voters’ perceptions...
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The New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday evening attended a vigil in Manhattan convened by Israelis for Peace, an anti-occupation group...
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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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Eric Adams has obtained citizenship and a passport from Albania, the Balkan country which received effusive compliments from the former New York City mayor during...
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The Trump administration has sent more immigration agents to Minnesota, part of escalating attacks and rhetoric against the state and its immigrant populations in what...
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The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called...
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The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid...
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Israeli military launches fresh strikes on Iran The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the last hour that it had begun an “additional wave” of...
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Pope Leo came top with 42%. Donald Trump was just behind with 41%. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) scored 38% and TV host Stephen Colbert...
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Democrats hold firm on healthcare demands as US government remains shut Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. We will be bringing you...
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Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s...
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The elections of 4 November were the end of a grandiose illusion. After his 2024 victory, Donald Trump claimed he had an “unprecedented and powerful...
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We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate, but cannot. Iran is unlikely to give in. It...
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The US labor market grew by more than expected last month, recovering some of the damage inflicted by the federal government shutdown, according to official...
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Donald Trump’s acceptance of a two-week ceasefire in Iran has exposed fresh divisions in his Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, with some supporters expressing...
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Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said on Monday,...
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Trump’s ‘antifa roundtable’ airs grievances of partisan conservative influencers So far, all of the fact witnesses contributing testimony at the White House “antifa roundtable” hosted...
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A senior Democrat has called on Joe Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center and a far-right political figure, to testify to Congress about...
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The number of international students enrolling in US colleges and universities plunged this year as the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown on higher education began...
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Arrests begin in New Orleans immigration enforcement operation We’ve started to get pictures as arrests begin in the sweeping immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans,...
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Senate passes funding package to end government shutdown as Democrats face party backlash Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. The...
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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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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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The stunning decision on Wednesday to suspend one of the United States’ most popular and influential late-night shows has come as Donald Trump and his...
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Donald Trump has weighed into a new fight – this time with two sports teams. The president wants Washington’s football franchise the Commanders and Cleveland...
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Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show Jon Stewart has hosted the first edition of The Daily Show since his fellow late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel,...
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The night Breonna Taylor died began quietly. She had spent the evening at home in Louisville. The 26-year-old was an emergency room technician, someone who...
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Senate Republicans on Thursday narrowly scuttled an attempt by Democrats to stop Donald Trump from creating a $1.8bn fund to pay his allies, even as...
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Forty-five years ago, John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton hotel in Washington, injuring the US president and three...
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Trump speaks to Zelenskyy, Nato leaders, White House says The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has told reporters that Trump had a “lengthy” call...
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Iran will completely close strait of Hormuz if Trump acts on threats to target power plants – statement The Reuters news agency is carrying a...
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Supreme court backs Trump on aggressive immigration raids The supreme court has again backed Donald Trump’s hardline approach toward immigration today, allowing federal agents to...
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Despite his grim circumstances, Mahmoud Khalil can’t help but laugh. Walking through Congress’s hallowed halls, the Palestinian student activist, who may be inching toward deportation,...
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On the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol because his 2020 re-election run ended in defeat, Donald Trump called his vice-president at the...
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During Tuesday’s State of the Union, Donald Trump welcomed members of the US men’s national hockey team to the House gallery to chants of “U-S-A,...
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Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled her son over Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota...
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A recent tweet from the US Department of Defense boasts about the killing capabilities of the US military as follows: “Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing”....
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“A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to...
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The Trump administration arrested a record number of immigrants last month, according to newly released government data that reveals how US immigration agents are quietly...
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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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Donald Trump said on Monday that he personally asked Fifa president Gianni Infantino to review the red card shown to USA striker Folarin Balogun, saying...
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Democrats celebrate major redistricting win in Virginia Barack Obama has praised Virginia voters for backing the redrawn congressional maps that could give Democrats a significant...
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The FBI searched multiple properties on Thursday as it widened its investigation into a shooting in Washington on Wednesday, that has left one national guard...
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It was a warm morning in rural Virginia. I was cutting into a pile of downed logs – wild cherry, oak and black locust –...
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A US appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood health centers in 22 states and...
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A couple of weekends ago, as dusk was falling over the Escandón neighbourhood of Mexico City, Abel Ortiz was startled by the sound of two...
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A few years ago, Tucker Carlson was sleeping peacefully alongside his wife and four dogs when, all of a sudden, he was “physically mauled” by...
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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 federal judge has briefly halted the deportations of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan, the latest twist in a case that came hours after...
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The House on Wednesday defeated a measure to slash military aid to Israel, but more than 100 House Democrats voted for it in a significant...
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Donald Trump signed his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, significantly cutting back on...
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A local government official in Iowa has said he would refuse to comply with orders from the Republican state governor to fly flags at half-staff...
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A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a Pentagon contractor whose alleged leaking of classified documents sparked an “outrageous” FBI raid on a Washington...
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving to work with his brother and two other passengers in Houston, Texas, when immigration agents began tailing his car....
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The Trump administration is seeking a $1bn settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official said on Friday. The person was...
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The US vice-president, JD Vance, has said a number of issues still need to be figured out with Iran, as many Republicans expressed scepticism of...
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Donald Trump observed blithely last week that if his cherished tariff regime is struck down by the US supreme court, he may need to “unwind”...
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Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Most Americans believe that efforts to redraw U.S. House of Representatives districts to maximize...
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Trump announces still more tariffs, this time on generic drugs Donald Trump announced a new package of tariffs on Tuesday, this time on generic drugs...
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The Trump administration will temporarily pause the removal of refugees to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during a spiraling Ebola outbreak, according to reporting...
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Nothing is going according to plan for the Trump administration. The big, beautiful bill, originally vaunted to save the US taxpayer at least $2tn, so...
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Narcissus was cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Donald Trump is finding that his effort to overhaul...
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Donald Trump hopes of extricating himself from his war on Iran were dealt another blow on Saturday after Tehran closed the strait of Hormuz again...
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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has held talks in Israel with Benjamin Netanyahu aimed at limiting the diplomatic damage to both countries by...
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Handguns could be mailed through the United States Postal Service (USPS) for the first time in nearly 100 years if a proposed Trump administration rule...
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Andy Ogles represents more Muslims than any other Tennessee congressman. Yet he has no interest in representing them. He doesn’t even want them in the...
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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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Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch will probably be part of a group of investors that will buy TikTok in the US, Donald Trump...
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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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Federal agents clashed with protesters in Minneapolis on Tuesday, nearly a week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good. People who had gathered in protest...
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Final New York mayoral debate begins Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa have taken the stage for a two-hour debate in Queens, New York,...
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The first and second Trump administrations have provoked markedly different critical reactions. The shock of 2016 and its aftermath saw a wave of liberal anxiety...
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Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran, saying...
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Congressman Joaquin Castro met with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father at the Dilley detention center in Texas today. In a post on social...
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Just two days ago, Donald Trump told Republican members of Congress to cancel their vacation plans until his “big beautiful bill” is sewn up and...
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Photograph: Guardian Design I come from Trinidad and Tobago. As a country that was once colonized by the British, I am wary of the ways...
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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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With its wide avenues lined with tall palm trees, its quaint cafes and old-school cantinas, as well as the mix of English and Spanish spoken
With its wide avenues lined with tall palm trees, its quaint cafes and old-school cantinas, as well as the mix of English and Spanish spoken
