For someone who doesn’t have a marble island in their kitchen I spend a disproportionate amount of time staring at marble kitchen islands, slack-jawed, brain...
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For someone who doesn’t have a marble island in their kitchen I spend a disproportionate amount of time staring at marble kitchen islands, slack-jawed, brain...
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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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First, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines...
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Senate Republicans race to resolve tax and health issues in Trump’s tax bill to meet 4 July deadline Republicans in Congress are scrambling to resolve...
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White House: Tariffs to stay despite legal setback Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing...
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Deputy US attorney general Todd Blanche said on Sunday that removing photos from Friday’s Jeffrey Epstein files release, including one of Donald Trump, has “nothing...
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Last Wednesday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American mother. Already, the federal investigation into the killing...
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Maga loyalists push claims that Trump ‘birthday note’ to Epstein is ‘fake’ Several allies of Donald Trump, also prominent Maga figures, have amplified claims that...
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Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller and a mayoral candidate, was arrested on Tuesday by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying...
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Dozens of former rangers, park volunteers, and local residents protested at the gateway to Montana’s Glacier national park on Wednesday against the staff cuts and...
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Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux-arts subway station –...
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Donald Trump has said Venezuela will be “turning over” $2bn worth of Venezuelan crude to the United States, a flagship negotiation that would divert supplies...
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Federal immigration officials have released an Iranian woman whom they allowed to stay in the US without legal status for the last 47 years, until...
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As Donald Trump deteriorates and his grasp on power fades, he has been lashing out furiously at female journalists and ethnic groups, most recently Somali...
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Donald Trump on Saturday evening hosted the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for a medal-presentation ceremony, celebrating country music singer George Strait,...
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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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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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White House says it won’t ‘tolerate gaslighting’ from media following Trump’s pressure campaign on justice department Karoline Leavitt was resolute today when fielding questions from...
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The Trump administration has released solicitations for a grant program meant to stop gun violence in underserved communities. But this year, the non-profits the grant...
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Jessica Plichta was arrested on 3 January after a live interview with a local news station about a Grand Rapids, Michigan, protest against the Trump...
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Top military officials told lawmakers in a closed door briefing on Tuesday that they may not be able to shoot down every Iranian drone being...
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As Labor Day rallies took place across the US, the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson sharply denounced the Trump administration’s threat to deploy federal troops to...
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The Trump administration’s ICE raids across southern California have had disastrous effects on the region’s immigrants and swept up US citizens in the process, community...
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Violent acts and threats at some ‘No Kings’ protests around the US A man intentionally drove an SUV into a crowd of protesters in Culpepper,...
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US supreme court rules fuel firms can challenge California’s emission limits Oliver Milman Fossil fuel companies are able to challenge California’s ability to set stricter...
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State department plans mass layoffs with cuts to nearly 1,800 staff Andrew Roth The US state department has announced that it plans to move forward...
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Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday directing the justice department to release files from the investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, surrendering in...
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‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...
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Jeffries’ ‘magic minute’ speech passes the eight-hour mark The minority leader’s marathon floor speech has stretched into its eighth hour. Jeffries began speaking shortly before...
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A key debate between candidates in New Jersey’s governor’s race descended into acrimony Sunday in a reflection of the tense national political climate over issues...
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On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, the Los Angeles central public library bustled with nearly 100 people making zines: small, DIY magazines made out of a...
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In response to a question about why he did not order flags lowered to half-staff to honor Melissa Hortman, the Democratic speaker of the Minnesota...
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Barack Obama publicly gave his support to demonstrators in Minneapolis for standing up to the “unprecedented nature” of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation...
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Trump says Democrats released Epstein emails to ‘deflect’ from performance during government shutdown In a post on Truth Social, the president has addressed the batch...
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Donald Trump has threatened to use “every tool in our arsenal” to crack down on pharmaceutical giants if they fail to cut drug prices for...
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DHS spokesperson confirms detainees among the injured Tricia McLaughlin, who serves as the assistant secretary of Homeland Security, told Fox News today that detainees “were...
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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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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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New York City’s mayoral race is heating up, with Zohran Mamdani, the young progressive who leapt ahead of establishment figures in the primary to win...
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The news began to spread through the Sundance film festival on Saturday morning, as people emerged from early screenings or long nights out at the...
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Democrats will retake the US House’s majority in the 2026 midterm elections, the chamber’s former speaker Nancy Pelosi has confidently predicted – and she hopes...
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You report that Donald Trump claims that the only thing limiting his power as commander-in-chief is his “own morality” (‘I don’t need international law’: Trump...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by...
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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary protected status from up to 350,000 Haitians, a status that allows them to legally...
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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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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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The US supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume plans for mass firings of federal workers that critics warn could...
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Trump says all Canada trade talks ‘terminated’ over ad criticising tariffs Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and...
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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 attack mounted jointly by Israel and the US on Iran had been planned for months, but the timing, in the midst of negotiations between...
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The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday that he will continue allowing the controversial practice of his officers wearing masks...
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Government shutdown enters day 14, as House speaker says it’s ‘barreling toward one of the longest on record’ The government shutdown enters its 14th day,...
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Ontario premier issues pause of advert criticizing Trump tariffs Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, said that he has spoken with Canadian prime minister Mark...
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The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed...
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The New Orleans mayor, LaToya Cantrell, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on corruption charges involving a purported romance with her former bodyguard....
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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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Trump shares carriage procession with King Charles Here are some pictures from the carriage procession. Members of the Royal Navy Ceremonial Guard line up the...
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Saturday Night Live returns with C-Span coverage of embattled US defense secretary Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) taking questions from the press. After chugging a Monster...
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European Council pledges to back Ukraine in joint statement on Trump-Putin summit The European Council have released a joint statement by the French president, Emmanuel...
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Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, American political life has taken on a familiar rhythm. Each week brings another court ruling framed as...
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A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti...
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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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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to 34 “sanctuary cities” and counties that limit cooperation with federal immigration...
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Donald Trump has landed in Switzerland for the Davos global gathering as Nato’s secretary general said “thoughtful diplomacy” was the only way to deal with...
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National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that she had stripped security clearances from 37 current and former national security officials, including some who...
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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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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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Summary Donald Trump declined to deliver a message of national unity when he addressed tens of thousands of people gathered for the memorial to honor...
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Donald Trump has fired all six members of an independent federal agency responsible for reviewing his controversial White House ballroom and planned “Arc de Trump”...
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Amid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine...
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From thousands of miles away in San Antonio, Ashley Fairbanks watched the news pour out of her home town of Minneapolis– federal immigration authorities flooding...
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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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Two West Virginia national guard members were hospitalized in critical condition after they were shot near the White House in Washington. Local officials and federal...
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked prosecutors from accessing materials from a key ally of James Comey on Saturday, making the already uphill criminal case...
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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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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature New Yorkers vote in mayoral primary as polls show Mamdami leading...
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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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Dozens of House Democrats have signed a letter to Donald Trump and secretary of state Marco Rubio, urging the administration to recognize Palestinian statehood. The...
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“Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of a people who will not be...
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Democrats respond to FBI agreement to locate Texas lawmakers: ‘We will not be intimidated’ Democrats have responded to the news earlier that the FBI has...
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The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while...
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Epstein survivors call out Trump’s justice department for ‘extreme redactions’ in latest file release Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse released a new...
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Four Democratic attorneys general, sitting in their offices from New York to California with state flags and books behind them, announced a new lawsuit on...
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In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at...
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The Trump administration unveiled highly contentious conclusions about the causes of autism, together with a push for research purporting to find a possible “cure” for...
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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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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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The US has flown five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to the small, African country of Eswatini – an absolute monarchy with...
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Trump calls Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and says Tesla owner is ‘off the rails’ Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the...
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Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and United States homeland security adviser, is one of the most influential people in...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday evening she will be resigning from office effective 5 January 2026, in the wake of souring relations with President...
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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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A manager for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election bid has abandoned a high-profile lawsuit against the Daily Beast, 10 months after complaining the news outlet...
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Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump, who is definitely...
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Gavin Newsom, the California governor, announced the appointment of two prominent scientists who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months...
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A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully led the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year and voided mass...
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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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Donald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. As previewed, the administration set about further militarizing the...
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Donald Trump has announced plans for the US navy to build a new generation of warships – known as “Trump-class”. The ships will be bigger,...
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Barack Obama waded into states’ efforts at rare mid-decade redistricting efforts, saying he agreed with California governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter the new Texas...
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As more health systems end gender-affirming care for patients amid a crackdown from the Trump administration, scientists and advocates say the science of sex and...
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When Hurricane Helene drowned western North Carolina in muck and floodwater last year, it caught folks off-guard. Now, local leaders in places like Asheville expect...
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The hunt for the man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses while impersonating a police officer, killing one legislator and her husband,...
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Federal workers told to return to office after shutdown ends; travel issues also set to improve Several federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the...
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The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about possibly bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats...
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The war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East and the global economy, is not real. This is how it is...
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The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, announced on Monday he will introduce a resolution directing the Senate to take legal action against the justice department...
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US supreme court announces funding will run out this weekend The US supreme court is expected to run out of federal funding on Saturday, according...
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Donald Trump made a series of false and baseless claims in Pennsylvania on Tuesday during a speech that was billed as an address on affordability,...
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Here’s a recap of the day so far In a cabinet meeting that lasted for more than two hours, defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave more...
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Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration employees have missed their first paycheck as the federal government shutdown rolls through its fourth week. They remain...
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Democrats call Trump’s DC police takeover ‘a distraction’ from Epstein, tariffs and tax bill Leading Democrats are lambasting Donald Trump’s decision to federalise the DC...
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Newsom says ‘democracy is under assault’ California governor Gavin Newsom has delivered a blistering address against the Trump administration, warning democracy is “under assault before...
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US ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, Germany’s chancellor says The United States is ready to be part of security guarantees for...
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Twenty-two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and...
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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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Government accountability organization accuses agriculture secretary of unlawfully refusing to use emergency fund created to prevent food stampt disruptions during shutdowns A government accountability organization...
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Trump threatens sending military to Democratic cities, singling out Chicago In between repeating baseless claims that DC crime data is “phoney”, and touting the work...
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The White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump’s reference to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a “piggy” on Thursday, claiming without evidence that...
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Federal workers are scrambling to figure out if they still have a job after the Trump administration launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a...
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Donald Trump has warned that Iran must come to the table to negotiate a deal over its nuclear programme or face the possibility of airstrikes...
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Markwayne Mullin, the Oklahoma senator chosen by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Homeland Security who will be considered by the Senate on Wednesday,...
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Several Republican lawmakers have begun speaking out against the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, with one senator going so far...
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Last week, as growing protests in Iran were met with violent crackdowns, Donald Trump issued a threat to the country’s leadership: “You’d better not start...
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‘It’s the opening of an opportunity,’ say Senate Democrats who broke ranks to end government shutdown The eight Democratic and Independent senators who broke ranks...
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Following a wave of regulations banning the surprise fees that appear at the end of a transaction, Ticketmaster stopped charging the extra few dollars it...
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The head of America’s largest federal workers union says it is time to end the government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, as hundreds...
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The US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to...
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The Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement celebrated this month after the US dairy industry voluntarily pledged to remove all artificial dyes from ice-cream by...
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The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit in federal court on Sunday seeking to block the deployment of 200 national guard troops to Portland, arguing...
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Donald Trump’s attempt to sack the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, is the familiar authoritarian trick of bending institutions to serve the leader’s immediate ends....
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While thousands of protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis on Friday to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents leave the city, a smaller group...
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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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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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Today’s recap Democrats took a victory lap after Tuesday’s election day wins with the chair of Democratic National Committee saying the party “is all gas,...
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Trump announces he will send national guard to Memphis, with Chicago ‘probably next’ Donald Trump announced he will deploy the national guard to Memphis during...
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Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected...
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Donald Trump has floated the idea of ending the filibuster – a procedural technique in Congress that allows a minority of senators to block legislation...
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America’s main streets are a warzone. This should trouble every American, irrespective of their political leaning. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are near...
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New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was detained for several hours after being arrested at an immigration court. Lander, the city’s chief...
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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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Trump administration lays off hundreds of Voice of America employees The Trump administration sent layoff notices today to more than 600 employees at Voice of...
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Donald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any...
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Little in Dan Driscoll’s résumé – past or present – suggests he has the qualifications to understand the often-tortured and bloody history of relations between...
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A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a US Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington DC has been charged with assaulting a federal...
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The former US congressman John Burton, a salty-tongued and unabashedly liberal San Francisco Democrat who stood up for the working class and nurtured countless political...
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked prosecutors from accessing materials from a key ally of James Comey on Saturday, making the already uphill criminal case...
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The Trump administration remains barred from deploying the national guard in Portland, Oregon, following a federal appeals court ruling. The ninth circuit court of appeals...
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suspended the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs that give approved participants a fast-track through bag...
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After deploying the national guard to the streets of the American capital, Donald Trump is now eyeing longer-term powers over authorities, saying on Wednesday that...
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Top House Democrats on Tuesday told Donald Trump to fire Kristi Noem or they would launch impeachment proceedings against the homeland security secretary, in response...
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Trump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges According to Illinois’ lawsuit, Donald Trump is deploying the military to Illinois based on...
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Washington DC’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, appeared to bow to Donald Trump’s military occupation of the nation’s capital on Tuesday, signing an executive order that formalizes...
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President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday....
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The temperature hovered around zero degrees as news crews and mourners stopped by the site where another Minneapolis resident was shot and killed by federal...
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Schumer faces calls to step aside as minority leader, as Democrats break party ranks to end shutdown The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, is facing...
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“Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of a people who will not be...
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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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Donald Trump has said he will issue an executive order to mandate voter identification at all US elections, with “no exceptions”. “Voter I.D. Must Be...
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Donald Trump’s mega-bill has been widely criticized in the press. News outlets and Democrats have warned that millions of people could be stripped of their...
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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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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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Almost half of EU citizens regard Donald Trump as an enemy of Europe, a new survey across nine countries revealed last week. The poll, conducted...
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A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for...
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Trump administration urge judges to release Epstein-Maxwell grand jury transcripts Hello and welcome back to our coverage of US politics. Donald Trump’s administration urged two...
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Donald Trump’s policies are likely to drive soaring rates of lung disease and premature death, according to a wide-ranging new study by pulmonary specialists and...
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Edwin Torres DeSantiago received a text message on Wednesday morning as he was tracking immigration enforcement across Minneapolis – a person was shot by ICE...
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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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Of the 3,800 children and infants taken into immigration custody between January and October of 2025, a majority – 2,600 – were detained by ICE...
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The former Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioners and non-partisan economic groups have criticized Donald Trump’s shock firing of BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the...
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Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site,...
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Kilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday. Ábrego...
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The US military seized another Venezuela-linked tanker known as Veronica in a pre-dawn action on Thursday. Monochrome video showed a helicopter flying next to the...
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Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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A deadly shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas has been met with markedly different reactions from the political...
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Donald Trump’s administration has imposed sanctions against the judge overseeing the prosecution of his far-right ally Jair Bolsonaro and hit Brazil with huge tariffs amid...
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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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With Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” set to alter how families and students finance higher education starting in July 2026, a new survey suggests the...
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A powerful committee that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy voted on Friday against recommending that people obtain...
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Donald Trump’s first travel ban in 2017 had an immediate, explosive impact – spawning chaos at airports nationwide. This time around, the panic and chaos...
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A man identified in court filings as having an affair with former senator Kyrsten Sinema received almost $9,000 from Sinema’s former campaign committee in October,...
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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to get the US out of “endless wars”, put “America first” and focus on domestic policy. After...
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The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass...
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A group of men removed from the US to Djibouti, in east Africa, are stranded in a converted shipping container together with the US Immigration...
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Senate votes down Democratic continuing resolution The Senate just voted 47-53, with all Republicans opposed, to reject the Democrats’ counterproposal to fund the government. It...
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Donald Trump has staged a year of “unrelenting attacks on working people,” according to the head of the largest federation of the labor unions in...
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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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‘He keeps encouraging me … to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,” Keir Starmer said in...
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The family of 18-year-old Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz was shocked when they found out that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) had discreetly moved him out of...
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Closing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close. Thanks for reading, and here are some of the latest...
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A recap of overnight events in DC As the federal takeover of the DC police and deployment of national guard troops entered its fourth night,...
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The US defence secretary has claimed that President Trump ‘did not start’ the war with Iran but is ‘finishing it’, speaking at a Pentagon press...
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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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‘We’ve got trillions of manufacturing that’s going to come back,’ says treasury secretary Bessent As Donald Trump’s tariffs on swathes of major US trading partners...
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Jerome Powell said on Sunday that the Department of Justice had threatened him with a criminal indictment and served grand jury subpoenas over Congressional testimony...
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Donald Trump said on Monday morning that he would rule out running for the vice-presidency in the 2028 US election, an unorthodox approach that some...
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Muhammad Akbar Ali, a 21-year-old recent college graduate, won a runoff election for a state house seat in Atlanta’s suburbs earlier this month, becoming the...
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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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Closing summary This brings our live coverage of the second Trump administration to a close for the day. We will return on Friday morning. Here...
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As Democrats continue to sift through the wreckage of the 2024 election, one truth should be impossible to ignore: they are bleeding support among working-class...
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The anger was raw and resolute. Speaking at the Republican congressman Mike Flood’s town hall in Lincoln, Nebraska, a woman pointed to the estimated $450m...
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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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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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‘They fired the first shot, Texas’, Newsom says before signing bill to put redistricting to California’s voters California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed legislation on Thursday...
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No matter how you slice it, Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is an act of naked aggression. It is blatantly illegal and sets a disturbing...
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Trump says he hopes ‘there will be others’ after Comey indictment Earlier, on the south lawn of the White House, Donald Trump took a few...
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Late-night hosts tore into Pete Hegseth’s Venezuelan boat blame game, Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting naps and the annual Spotify Wrapped lists. Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel...
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Of the 3,800 children and infants taken into immigration custody between January and October of 2025, a majority – 2,600 – were detained by ICE...
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Less than an hour before Donald Trump met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to discuss a deal that could end the trade war between the...
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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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National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday that she had stripped security clearances from 37 current and former national security officials, including some who...
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Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump” and dumping brown sludge onto protestors, in...
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The gerrymandering wars are back. Perhaps they never really went away. Extreme GOP gerrymanders have remade American politics over the last 15 years. They have...
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Donald Trump continued to face questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein as he landed in Scotland ahead of meeting British prime minister Keir Starmer...
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JD Vance assailed what he called the “far left” and its increased tolerance for violence while guest-hosting Charlie Kirk’s podcast on Monday, saying the administration...
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When you think of the politician Donald Trump isn’t, when you think of the norm he broke, the archetype he shattered, you might well picture a man...
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Five years ago, a gunman went on a shooting rampage at three Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The brazen...
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Federal immigration officers on Saturday began a sweep through Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina, federal officials confirmed. Local media reports said that among...
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Donald Trump said “it’s too bad” he is not allowed to run for a third term, conceding the constitutional reality even as he expressed interest...
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The justice department subpoenaed several top officials in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of its investigation into whether Minneapolis officials have conspired to impede federal...
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Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil- and human-rights trailblazer who died on 17 February, imagined a version of America where the marginalized became the center. His...
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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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Days before Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, an investment firm controlled by a senior member of the United Arab Emirates royal family...
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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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The US supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to access the sensitive records kept by the Social...
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Chuck Schumer rejects Trump’s ‘Save America Act’ ultimatum amid DHS shutdown Chris Stein An indignant Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer swatted aside Donald Trump’s insistence...
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In just 14 months, Daniel Suhr, the 40-year-old president of a two-person, Chicago-based, conservative legal organization called the Center for American Rights, has emerged as...
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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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The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, suggested on Wednesday that he would not obey a federal court ruling against the deployments of national guard troops...
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A federal judge on Friday morning issued a temporary restraining order to prohibit immigration officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García just hours before he was...
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Trump calls Senate bill a ‘very big victory’ in Arlington cemetery remarks The president has congratulated House speaker Mike Johnson and Senate majority leader John...
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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump illegally deployed the California national guard to suppress protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles and...
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Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions during a closed-door congressional deposition on Monday, prompting criticism from a House representative backing efforts to release Jeffrey Epstein...
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Trump threatens Iran with further attacks if Hormuz does not reopen within 48 hours Donald Trump has posted this on Truth Social in the past...
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An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most...
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A high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and top congressional Democrats on Monday resulted in no apparent breakthrough in negotiations to keep the government open, with...
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After days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on...
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With months of escalation between US cities and the Trump administration amid the deployment of national guard troops, former military officials released a report on...
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When it comes to Ukraine peace talks, Donald Trump is “sick of meetings just for the sake of meetings”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt...
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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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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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Bowser says she ‘greatly appreciates’ impact of federal law enforcement surge on DC crime rate “We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what...
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The US government has shut down for the first time since 2018. Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments...
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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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I knew they would come here. If you’re a president hell-bent on retreading 2020 and retaliating against your enemies, the midwestern state that started the...
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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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Donald Trump said Monday he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political...
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It was as close as Donald Trump might get to a lucid statement of his governing doctrine. “I may do it. I may not do...
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The transportation department has unveiled a first crash test dummy in the US modeled specifically on female anatomy, a move officials say is meant to...
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As the war in the Middle East rages on, US president Donald Trump has acknowledged that deploying ground troops in Iran in future is not...
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After weeks of false starts and failed votes, a procedural vote passed in the US Senate with a 60-40 tally, as seven Democrats and one...
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An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive was executed by nitrogen gas – a form of suffocation which defense lawyers have...
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Donald Trump announced a one-year cap that would limit credit card interest rates to 10% this week, in a move that has prompted mixed reaction...
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European stock markets fell on Monday and gold and silver prices hit record highs after Donald Trump threatened to impose additional tariffs on eight European...
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Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure...
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Mahmoud Khalil squinted in the afternoon sun as he walked away from the fences topped with razor wire, through two tall gates and out into...
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Late-night hosts mocked the Republican party’s inaugural “America First” award for Donald Trump as he finally reveals the “present” he received from Iran. Jimmy Kimmel...
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, a public intellectual of some standing in the US, dislikes the Trumpian right for its erratic authoritarianism. But he dislikes its hysterical leftwing critics...
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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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Proclaiming the US would “run” Venezuela after abducting its president and his wife, president Trump has now qualified his claim. Amid questions, including from top...
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Donald Trump called for the arrest of a group of Democratic lawmakers he accused of engaging in “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH”. The president’s remarks,...
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Donald Trump falsely claimed that crime in Washington DC is “the worst it’s ever been” on Thursday, amid a federal takeover of the city’s police...
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US marines deployed to Los Angeles on Friday temporarily detained a civilian, the US military confirmed, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed...
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father...
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The US supreme court declined on Friday to speed up its consideration of whether to take up a challenge to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs even...
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During a ceremony at the White House late last week honoring the US Naval Academy football team, Donald Trump gave a shoutout to the man
During a ceremony at the White House late last week honoring the US Naval Academy football team, Donald Trump gave a shoutout to the man
