Newsom after judge ruling on national guard in LA: ‘Trump loses again’ California governor Gavin Newsom responded to his state’s federal court win that Trump’s...
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Newsom after judge ruling on national guard in LA: ‘Trump loses again’ California governor Gavin Newsom responded to his state’s federal court win that Trump’s...
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The Trump administration on Monday asked the supreme court to allow it to fire the director of the US Copyright Office. The administration’s newest emergency...
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Watching the Kamala Harris presidential campaign unfold last year, I remember thinking, and writing, about how striking it was that she had been rehabilitated almost...
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‘We have no choice’: Trump says layoffs are an inevitability if the government shuts down When asked by a reporter during his executive order signing,...
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The US House representative Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, admitted to having an affair with an aide who died by suicide last year. Gonzales...
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Noem confirms Ice is processing Kilmar Ábrego García for deportation In a statement, following Kilmar Ábrego García’s detention today, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi...
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Just days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House shared an interesting picture on X....
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Senate Republicans shot down a Democratic-led attempt to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits on Monday during the government shutdown – a move...
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Donald Trump had a warning for congressional Republicans on Wednesday: any of them who joined an effort to rescind his tariffs on Canada would “seriously...
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White House says ‘diplomacy’ is ‘always’ top option for Trump on Iran When asked about the possibility of US strikes against Iran, Leavitt said that...
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Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against...
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The US launched attacks against Iran on Saturday as part of a joint operation with Israel. Hours after the bombs started falling across Iran, Trump...
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The Teamsters International president, Sean O’Brien, is putting the “working class in jeopardy” by allying with Donald Trump, according to a prominent labor activist challenging...
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On the morning of 2 May, Florida teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two...
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Mexico has extradited 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as US authorities ratchet up...
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The US Senate has approved Donald Trump’s plan for billions of dollars in cuts to funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing the Republican...
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Usha Vance learned her husband, JD, had been selected to be Donald Trump’s running mate “maybe five minutes” before the news was made public –...
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When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he claimed it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it...
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Ah, hockey. The most impish of sports. A bunch of blissfully beefy individuals wearing colorful sweaters zoom around in skates chasing a wee little object...
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The Trump administration will deploy the national guard to immigration protests in Los Angeles, border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday, as an immigration crackdown...
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Before pleading “not guilty” at her first court hearing after she and her husband, Nicolás Maduro, were captured by US special forces, Cilia Flores made...
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Over the past year, whistles have become a symbol of the collective resistance of ordinary people standing up to federal immigration enforcement. As the Trump...
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Here’s a recap of where things stand so far The Texas house is getting down to legislative business today. The Republican majority is poised to...
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If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a...
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Before the street outside her mother’s home filled with gunfire, before panicked partygoers sprinted through the front yard, before she discovered that the body on...
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Jamieson Greer, a US trade representative, said on Monday that Washington and Beijing have struck a framework agreement on transferring TikTok to US-controlled ownership. Speaking...
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For months, Ohio police officer Connor Grubb and his department attempted to hide his identity following an incident in which he shot and killed Ta’Kiya...
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US oil giants have so far remained silent on Donald Trump’s claim that they are primed to spend “billions and billions of dollars” rebuilding the...
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JD Vance met with Republican lawmakers in Indiana on Thursday to encourage them to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the...
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Experts, officials and lawmakers decry Trump administration’s rollback on landmark climate finding Dharna Noor In response to the Trump administration’s rescission of the endangerment finding...
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Plus ça change. At the turn of the millennium, Australia was in the throes of “one of its periodic bouts of angst over its place...
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Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s pick to lead DHS, defended officer who shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6 Markwayne Mullin, the Oklahoma senator who was picked by...
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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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Trump calls tariffs ruling ‘unfortunate’ but says administration is pursuing legal alternatives As we expected, the president bemoaned the supreme court’s ruling that Trump exceeded...
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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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Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill has passed a procedural step in the US House of Representatives, paving the way for the possible passage of the...
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One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,”...
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Robert F Kennedy’s “clean sweep” of a critical vaccine advisory panel spread shock and dismay among health experts, as many warned the health secretary’s decision...
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How much longer will US strikes on Iran continue? Getting a clear answer from the Trump administration has been difficult – getting a consistent one,...
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Rooting out corruption in government is at the center of Saikat Chakrabarti’s campaign for Congress. And if elected next year, the 39-year-old former Silicon Valley...
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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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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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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its first-ever Emmy on Sunday, less than two months after news of its cancellation elicited a gleeful reaction...
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Opening summary Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you the latest news lines over...
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Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. Over...
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House Democrats on Wednesday demanded a briefing from the justice department on the removal of Gail Slater, who was forced to resign as head of...
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‘They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,’ Donald Trump said after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran was breached on Tuesday. But the US...
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In the Philippines, she spent three years providing end-of-life care for a family’s grandmother. When the grandmother died, family members told the healthcare worker to...
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Democratic senator Mark Kelly has said he refuses to be intimidated after US president Donald Trump accused a group of Democrats of “seditious behaviour punishable...
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The US and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran on Saturday, killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Why did Trump decide (again)...
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Recovery from a recent surgery for colon cancer will not stop James Phipps, 75, from attending Saturday’s No Kings demonstration in Chicago, Illinois. “I have...
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The federal prosecutor for the eastern district of Virginia resigned Friday under intense pressure from Donald Trump, after his office determined there wasn’t sufficient evidence...
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He got by with a little help from his friends. From British royalty to White House alumni, from a Silicon Valley investor to a leftwing...
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The Wisconsin judge convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers has resigned. Hannah Dugan was convicted on 19 December and faced calls...
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Naoko Fujii’s great-grandfather Jotaro Mori was out fishing when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. When Mori returned home hours later, the FBI...
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In a sort-of ceasefire, the killings – including of children – have slowed, not stopped. Israeli military operations continue to displace hundreds of families in...
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Democrats are condemning two Republican members of Congress who said, in the wake of the mass shooting in Australia, that the US should ban Muslims...
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The US supreme court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’s 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump likely discriminated...
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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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Alex Pretti – an ICU nurse documenting alleged cases of federal immigration agents’ overreach – was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on 24 January....
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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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The Open Society Foundations (OSF), the major philanthropic group funded by George Soros, has criticized the Trump administration for “politically motivated attacks on civil society”...
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The John F Kennedy Center, a world-class venue for the performing arts in Washington DC, will halt entertainment events for two years starting on 4...
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Donald Trump took further aim at Minnesota’s Democratic governor Tim Walz and the Somali American representative Ilhan Omar on Wednesday in the wake of his...
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We need to talk about Liz Truss, although there are reasons not to bother. The prime minister who failed faster than any previous holder of...
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Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations...
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The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year....
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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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If you’ve been listening to the Trump administration this week, you would be forgiven for being confused about who started the war, why America got...
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A prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed on...
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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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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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Donald Trump has voiced his irritation with Vladimir Putin, telling a cabinet meeting he was getting increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader. The US president...
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On Friday, moments after a federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration needs to fully fund Snap food aid payments, the White House turned to...
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On the back of hailing US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities as a “victory for everybody”, president Trump has claimed success at the Nato summit...
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One of the few advantages of being as conspicuous as I am is that many people come up to me whom I don’t know, to...
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Jenny O’Connell-Nowain in her home in Redding, California, on 4 February. O’Connell-Nowain was initially sentenced to three months in county jail for sitting on the...
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California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues...
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When Emily Gardiner first started paying attention to politics, she was 15, just beginning high school in 2016. It was the start of the first...
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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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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in the process of creating an urgent and massive new internal database of non-US citizens who are “employed...
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In an incredibly polarised society, there are fewer and fewer things that seem to unite both sides of the aisle in the US political system....
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Happy holidays! Across the 12 days of Christmas one very keen individual once gifted their lover a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves,...
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Robert Mueller, the former special counsel who investigated Russian interference in 2016 and links between Donald Trump and Moscow, has died, his family said on...
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The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to back the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members...
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Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district,...
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Against Illinois governor JB Pritzker’s objections, Donald Trump’s Pentagon has ordered hundreds of national guard troops to join his regime’s assault on Chicago communities. Trump...
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For decades, the US and its allies have painted Iran as the world’s biggest sponsor of state terrorism – invoking its Islamic rulers’ supposed revolutionary...
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New York must redraw its congressional map, a state judge ruled on Wednesday, handing Democrats another key opportunity to pick up another US House seat...
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A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and later pardoned by Donald Trump was found guilty on...
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The White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown,...
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Democrats have erupted in a storm of outrage over the passage of the Donald Trump’s budget bill, delivering scathing critiques that offered signs of the...
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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 coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s demand that their states turn over personal data of...
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What we know so far For those just joining us, here’s a recap of the day’s events as we’ve been bringing you the news of...
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This story was originally published by the Trace, a non-profit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. As Philadelphia’s district...
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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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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump thanks Netanyahu for agreeing to Gaza plan He thanks Netanyahu...
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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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A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta’s virtual reality devices and apps. They...
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We tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and...
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Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”, which will eviscerate the living standards, healthcare and aspirations of his white, working-class base, conclusively draws the curtain down...
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‘If this is how they respond to a senator with a question, imagine what they’re doing across the country,’ says Padilla Padilla goes on: If...
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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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The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments. The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked...
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It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address. Surrounded by Christmas trees and garlands before a fireplace, Donald Trump on Wednesday gave...
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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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President Trump’s signature “Big Beautiful Bill” has precipitated an epic fallout between the US president and one of his closest allies, billionaire Elon Musk. The...
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The Trump administration has indefinitely suspended immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries, marking one of its most expansive efforts yet to restrict legal...
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Marco Rubio will deliver a rare briefing to top US lawmakers on Iran at the White House on Tuesday as Washington deploys its largest force...
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How would you behave if your democracy was being dismantled? In most western countries, that used to be an academic question. Societies where this process...
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A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the US justice department has...
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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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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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Little more than a year ago, Kristi Noem’s political prospects appeared to be in freefall. The then South Dakota governor was criss-crossing the country on...
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Keeping politics at arm’s length for the US men’s hockey team’s gold-medal matchup with Canada was always going to be difficult. The game fell on...
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Peter Mandelson was not subject to in-depth security vetting prior to his appointment as ambassador to Washington, the government has said. The Cabinet Office conducted...
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Harvard University said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s move to bar foreign nationals seeking to study at the Ivy League school from entering the United...
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Utah governor Spencer Cox confirmed today that Tyler Robinson, 22, is the prime suspect in the murder of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk was...
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Britain’s blue-chip stock index has risen through the 9,000-point mark to touch a new high. The FTSE 100 share index hit 9,016.98 points in early...
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There is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit...
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A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the US Capitol on...
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Trump says US is ‘looking at land’ strikes in Venezuela after lethal strikes on boats Asked in the Oval Office if the US is considering...
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Trump announces death of Charlie Kirk Writing on his social network, Donald Trump just announced the death of Charlie Kirk. Trump wrote: The Great, and...
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We in the rest of the world have had to hear a lot – such a lot – about what this US government and its...
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Resistance is growing to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, with the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, signing an executive order to counter the president’s move. The...
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Schumer rejects Trump’s claim that bipartisan shutdown negotiations are under way Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Democrats...
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Philip Glass, the celebrated US composer, has withdrawn the world premiere of his latest symphony at Washington DC’s John F Kennedy Center in protest of...
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As the Trump administration ramps up its crackdown on immigration, undocumented workers in the construction industry claim raids and arrests have emboldened some contractors to...
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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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Trump threatens tariff on ‘countries that don’t go along with Greenland’ Speaking at the White House event, Donald Trump just threatened to impose tariffs on...
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While it’s true no president or political leader has ever used social media quite as prolifically as Donald Trump, no recent secretary of defense has...
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Good morning. The UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its “double-tap” bombing of Nasser hospital, which killed 20 people...
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Johnson says House will come back when Senate Democrats ‘turn the lights back on’ Mike Johnson said the only end in sight for the House...
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Trump threatens to yank federal funds for New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral election In a Truth Social post, Trump called Mamdani the...
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If Donald Trump’s presidency has any theme (beyond self-promotion), it’s that his “America First” agenda will Make America Great Again. Unfortunately for the American people,...
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Rules are great. I think most of us over the age of five will agree that having them is preferable to not. Perhaps there are...
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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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Donald Trump appeared in no mood to patch things up with former top adviser Elon Musk on Friday, doubling down on his new hostility towards...
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Senate again fails to pass DHS funding bill as shutdown nears a month The Senate again failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the...
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It might be most generous to characterize the behavior of major US media organizations since 2024 as negotiating between competing incentives. On the one hand,...
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Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75m to the US government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and...
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So it appears Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, agrees with many of us: she thinks Donald Trump’s cabinet is bonkers. From that...
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White House halts $2.1bn of Chicago infrastructure funding The federal government put $2.1bn earmarked for Chicago infrastructure projects on hold, Office and Management and Budget...
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US Catholic bishops condemn Trump administration’s immigration enforcement Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing...
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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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Polling places opened on Saturday for the start of in-person voting for two of the year’s most closely watched elections: the New York City mayor’s...
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Thousands chanted and marched in New York City on Friday to protest the Trump administration’s escalating mass deportation campaign. Among the protesters were young and...
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Trump: nothing will be good enough for ‘lunatics’ requesting Epstein files Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had asked the justice department to release...
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Federal agents shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota congresswoman, said the...
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White House continues to say new release of Epstein emails is a distraction and ‘hoax’ White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has said that the...
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Timothy Garton Ash has produced an excellent list of safeguards against extremism (My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late, 25 November)....
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‘I don’t think this is the last shoe to drop,’ Trump’s FCC chair tells Fox In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, the chairman...
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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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Lawmakers decry Trump’s pressure campaign on justice department to investigate political opponents As we reported over the weekend, the president has ramped up his demands...
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Tulsi Gabbard, the director of US national intelligence, hoped to uncover evidence that Barack Obama and his national security team conspired to undermine Donald Trump...
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The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear....
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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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Donald Trump said arrangements were under way for a face to face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to be followed by a trilateral...
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The justice department has sued the state of Minnesota over its sanctuary city immigration policies, making it the latest locality to face legal threats as...
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Kevin McCarthy says Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for Republicans Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Majorie Taylor Greene’s abrupt...
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Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom The term-limited governor has reprised his role as Democrats’ most visible Trump foil, setting off high-profile clashes with the president and...
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Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide, was sworn in on Monday as the interim US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after Donald Trump...
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The cryptocurrency industry spent big and lost often in this week’s Illinois primaries. As the industry prepares to make massive donations in the 2026 midterm...
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Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian...
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Democratic minority leader passes fourth hour of speaking on House floor Hakeem Jeffries, now passing four hours on the House floor, said the tax and...
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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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Air travelers should expect worsening cancellations and delays this week even if the US government shutdown ends, as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rolled out...
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Let’s be honest: America needs another nuclear weapon about as much as Donald Trump deserves a Nobel peace prize. Yet on Thursday, the last remaining...
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Mike Johnson wants more time for negotiations as JD Vance blames Democrat over potential shutdown More reactions from Congressional leaders’ meeting with Trump on the...
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Number of Democrats say they won’t vote for DHS funding amid alarm over ICE tactics Multiple democrats say they will not vote to fund the...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature And that concludes our live coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s historic inauguration....
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Judicial opinions allowing the government to suppress speech in the name of national security rarely stand the test of time. But time has been unusually...
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On Monday, Paramount Skydance launched a $108bn takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, the entertainment giant that owns Hollywood movie studios, along with CNN, HBO...
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The man suspected of opening fire on two Minnesota legislators and their spouses on 14 June, killing one legislator and her husband, was in custody,...
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The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America...
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As the cleanup continues from this month’s torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the...
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The Trump administration’s communications licensing tsar fired a warning shot over the US broadcasting industry Saturday, threatening to cancel the spectrum permits of broadcasters pushing...
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The future of the deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, is unclear after he stormed out of a meeting with Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and...
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More than 800,000 ride-hailing drivers in California will soon be able to join a union and negotiate for higher wages and better benefits under a...
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The White House said on Wednesday that China had agreed to postpone Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, as war in the Middle East rages on,...
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It shouldn’t really be a surprise that South Park has become “the most important TV show of the Trump 2.0 era”. Trey Parker and Matt...
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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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A Kentucky congressman singled out by Donald Trump on Christmas as a “lowlife” after co-authoring a law requiring the federal government to release all of...
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Saudi crown prince arrives at White House Mohammed bin Salman arrived at the White House to fanfare and a jet flyover moments ago, in his...
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using,...
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This year, the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday forces Americans to grapple with the crisis and protests that have spread across the country, particularly...
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The cost of electricity is poised to surge across the US in the wake of Republican legislation that takes an axe to cheap renewable energy,...
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The Aukus submarine deal will proceed as planned after reportedly surviving the Pentagon’s review of the security pact. The Japan-based Nikkei Asia reported the Trump...
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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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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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In the latest sign the honeymoon is over between Donald Trump and his tech billionaire sidekick, Elon Musk, the president confirmed he will go ahead...
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Al Sharpton calls his ‘mentor’ Jesse Jackson a ‘transformative leader who changed the world’ The civil rights campaigner, Al Sharpton, has paid tribute to his...
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Peter Thiel famously isn’t into academia. And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made...
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Law enforcement officials have identified the suspected gunman in Wednesday’s shooting of two national guard members near the White House as a man from Afghanistan,...
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A group of progressive politicians and advocates are reframing emissions-cutting measures as a form of economic populism as the Trump administration derides climate policy as...
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Last week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland...
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Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...
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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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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 immigration authorities arrested a visiting professor at Harvard law school after he was charged with discharging a pellet gun outside a Massachusetts synagogue the...
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Ukrainian negotiators have met US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington’s proposed framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Kyiv faces...
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The US Secret Service shot and killed an armed intruder who breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club in Palm...
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Hundreds of national guard troops remained in the Chicago area as city and Illinois officials awaited a judge’s decision to stop Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration...
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This is the third Gulf war and umpteenth outbreak of conflict since the United States took over as the dominant power and influence in the...
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Trump: nothing will be good enough for ‘lunatics’ requesting Epstein files US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had asked the justice department...
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Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220m as settlement to Trump administration Columbia University announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with...
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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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Closing summary This is the end of our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Tuesday....
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White House officials sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump and top officials from their initial portrayals of the man fatally shot by federal officials in...
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FBI says it has recovered weapon believed to have been used to kill Charlie Kirk Speaking to the press, Robert Coles, the Special Agent in...
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Donald Trump on Monday ordered the approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other...
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Independent and organic farmers say chaos created by the Trump administration’s cuts has hurt their businesses, even as the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy...
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A public feud erupted between Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday, with the president saying he was “very disappointed” by the former adviser’s opposition...
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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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The sharks can smell blood in the water. After a decade in eerie command of the Republican party, with primary voters in his cult-like thrall...
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JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, announced on Tuesday that they are expecting their fourth child this summer. “We’re very excited to share the...
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Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the...
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The Trump administration said it would provide partial relief to recipients of food stamps on Monday as the federal government shutdown approached a record-breaking length....
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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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Donald Trump has spoken about Jeffrey Epstein and his links to the president’s Mar-a-Lago club, saying that the late sex offender “stole” Virginia Giuffre and...
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The Trump administration has once again put Dreamers on a rollercoaster ride. The federal government is sending mixed signals about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
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A US federal judge will issue an injunction blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students. The university was in...
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Trump makes misleading claims about crime in ‘red cities’ When asked if the president would consider sending National Guard troops to ‘red cities’ that are...
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Two protesters have been blinded by so-called “less-lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to...
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As the extraordinary Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani shows, there’s a new bellwether in American politics. For years, Ohio played that...
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Attorney general vows to appeal dismissal of criminal cases against ex-FBI director Comey and NY attorney general James Good morning, and welcome to our live...
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‘We will not be bullied’: House Democrats confirm FBI requests for interviews over video to troops Four Democratic members of the US House, who appeared...
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We shouldn’t beat around the bush: Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful...
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Donald Trump – the oldest person ever to be elected US president – had what he has described as a “semiannual physical” at the Walter...
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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics, with the shutdown entering its third day. Although the Senate is scheduled to return...
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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two...
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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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Wait, Donald Trump is naming a stadium after himself? That’s if a well-sourced report from ESPN is to be believed. The US president has apparently...
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In the opening weeks of Donald Trump’s second term, Gavin Newsom wagered that peacemaking was best: a tarmac greeting for Air Force One, an Oval...
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Pete Hegseth has used a press conference at the Pentagon to criticize journalists over their coverage of the war in Iran, at one point proposing...
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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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Federal investigators have been interviewing multiple people who are pushing unfounded claims that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, the Guardian has...
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House speaker Mike Johnson calls Musk ‘terribly wrong’ for slamming megabill Politico reports that House speaker Mike Johnson said Elon Musk is “terribly wrong” after...
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He got by with a little help from his friends. From British royalty to White House alumni, from a Silicon Valley investor to a leftwing...
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The EU was weighing up retaliatory tariffs on American goods and even deploying its most serious economic sanctions against the US as European leaders lined...
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One crisp morning in 2018, Sandra Ibarra pulled on a pair of gloves to ward off the winter chill and picked up the first cardboard...
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The fracas over the Jeffrey Epstein files – and declining poll numbers on every issue that won Donald Trump the 2024 election – indicate cracks...
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Powell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...
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It was a feast fit for a king – and any billionaire willing to be his subject. From gold-rimmed plates on gold-patterned tablecloths decorated with...
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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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1. US is in Venezuela for the long haul When asked how long he would be “running Venezuela”, Trump said it would be “much longer”...
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Hegseth refuses to commit to obeying courts on marines in LA Defense secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to say whether he would follow the courts...
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California state supreme court rejects Republican effort to stop mid-decade redistricting On Wednesday night, the California state supreme court declined an emergency request by Republican...
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Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this...
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Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has said Iran is willing to negotiate with the US about its nuclear programme on the basis of respect, but...
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JD Vance has said the US is “not at war” with Iran – but is with its nuclear weapons program, holding out a position that...
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The Democratic National Committee’s decision to block the release of its own autopsy report on the 2024 election is stunning but not surprising. Averse to...
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Brazil’s president rejects Trump’s effort to use tariffs to extract political concessions Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, firmly rejected Donald Trump’s demand that...
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DC national guard to begin deploying on Tuesday night The DC national guard will begin deploying on the city’s streets Tuesday night, the White House...
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White House officials and attorneys for Washington DC have agreed to scale back the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department. Under an agreement...
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Artificial intelligence and robotics will transform the world. It will bring unimaginable changes to our economy, our politics, warfare, our emotional wellbeing, our environment, and...
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Kevin McCarthy says Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for Republicans Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Majorie Taylor Greene’s abrupt...
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The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding...
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As Jay Bhattacharya temporarily takes the lead at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), employees at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),...
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Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Republicans are entitled to the five more seats they could pick up if congressional maps proposed by Texas Republicans...
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Since January 6, roughly 2,000 ICE agents have been deployed to Minnesota under the pretext of responding to a fraud investigation. In practice, these largely...
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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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Donald Trump has assembled the least diverse US government of the 21st century, filling the corridors of power with white men at the expense of...
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Donald Trump has voiced his irritation with Vladimir Putin, telling a cabinet meeting he was getting increasingly frustrated with the Russian leader. The US president...
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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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Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the...
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Mamdani: ‘In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light’ In a defiant speech, Mamdani vowed to change to city hall –...
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Democratic minority leader passes fourth hour of speaking on House floor Hakeem Jeffries, now passing four hours on the House floor, said the tax and...
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CBS News was dealing with internal and external uproar on Monday after it pulled at the last minute an investigation for its flagship 60 Minutes...
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US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said the Federal Reserve is and should be independent but that it had “made a lot of mistakes”, as...
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Dynamism, courage, and wit are words that few are likely to associate with the mainstream Democratic party, particularly after its capitulation to Republicans’ budget demands...
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For Donald Trump, the indictment of former FBI director and longtime foe James Comey was,“justice in America”. Legal observers and lawmakers see something far more...
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The closely watched New York mayoral and governor’s races appear to be forming into shapes that will bring little comfort to centrist Democrats, with elections...
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The Trump administration wants to offer immigrant children $2,500 to self-deport, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian. The memo, sent by the US...
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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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Nothing is more insufferable than someone saying “I told you so”; so please forgive me for being insufferable. On 29 September 2023, after a couple...
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So to peace in our time. And why not? The Nobel committee is meeting in Oslo to divvy up its annual gongs and Donald Trump,...
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Britain’s blue-chip stock index has risen through the 9,000-point mark to touch a new high. The FTSE 100 share index hit 9,016.98 points in early...
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Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would...
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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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Footage posted by US Southern Command and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, appears to show the US military intercepting a Venezuela-linked tanker in the...
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It’s easy to get lost in the Sáttítla Highlands in remote north-eastern California. There are miles of rolling lava fields, untouched forest and obsidian mountains....
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Donald Trump has claimed the world is “richer, safer and much more peaceful than it was just one year ago” as he hosted a launch...
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Pregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of prominent...
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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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Donald Trump is not known for taking advice, especially from foreign leaders who often seek to flatter and compliment the US president. But El Salvador’s...
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President Donald Trump has said foreign workers sent to the United States are “welcome” and he doesn’t want to “frighten off” investors, 10 days after...
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Early Saturday morning, Minnesota woke to the news of two targeted attacks on its lawmakers. A gunman killed the top Democratic state legislator, Melissa Hortman,...
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The Trump administration has so radically transformed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration...
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OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster...
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A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately lift her order blocking the deployment of federalized national guard...
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Days after officially exiting the White House, Elon Musk has grown increasingly critical of President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill, describing it as a “disgusting...
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Donald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, have confirmed that the president’s administration is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to US airports
Donald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, have confirmed that the president’s administration is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to US airports
