Republican senator John Cornyn and Democratic congressman Greg Casar of Texas squabbled outside Austin’s international airport on Monday over funding for the Department of Homeland...
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France summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem...
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Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has settled a long-running defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over lies...
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Top Senate Democrat says he’s ‘deeply disturbed’ after seeing footage of strikes on suspected drug boats Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate armed...
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The people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation...
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He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting...
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Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, said on Wednesday he would put the bill compelling the release of government files related to late sex offender...
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A proposed peace agreement between Iran and the US seemed to remain on the table on Tuesday despite US bombing Iranian targets. The Iranian foreign...
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A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump permanently barred the justice department on Monday from releasing the former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the...
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An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested by federal...
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Trump says Ukraine is able to win back all the land it lost since the beginning of the invasion In a post on Truth Social,...
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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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With a pair of executive orders on Thursday, Donald Trump has tried – once again – to undermine the guarantee of birthright citizenship, a right...
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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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How do we commemorate America’s democracy as Donald Trump undermines it? By embracing his opposition. The United States was founded by breaking from a monarchy....
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The words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have...
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Donald Trump is expected to sign his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, setting...
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US federal agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after the Trump administration’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio,...
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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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Iran has described the latest round of indirect talks with the US as “more constructive” than the previous set earlier this month, and said agreement...
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Late-night hosts talked cratering public opinion on the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in US communities and the president’s apparent preference...
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The US government’s authoritarian and vexatious attack on Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, should be seen in the light of America’s affordability...
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At a campaign event in the Bronx last month, a congressional candidate quizzed a cheering crowd: “What do you think would happen if the US...
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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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For many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same. During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants...
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At 12.23pm on Wednesday, as the rightwing influencer and provocateur Charlie Kirk was addressing a large crowd at Utah Valley University, a single shot rang...
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Republican Senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday he believes White House adviser Stephen Miller “should go” and that his role in the Trump administration has...
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So much for low viewership: Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback monologue is now his most-viewed one on YouTube. The nearly 30-minute segment, in which Kimmel acknowledged his...
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At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new US poet laureate: the...
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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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Donald Trump was described as “that dog that hasn’t barked” in an email by Jeffrey Epstein. Don’t tell Kristi Noem, who has a way of...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump’s LA national guard deployment cost taxpayers $120m, Newsom says Dani...
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The US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, failed to disclose $80,000 that she accepted while serving as South Dakota’s governor, according to a report published...
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The House gave final approval on Tuesday to a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing, with lawmakers in both parties eager...
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It was quite a day in Davos. Donald Trump began his time at the World Economic Forum Wednesday with a rambling, racism-drenched speech in which...
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Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy militarized immigration agents in US cities may finally be reaching a reckoning as he faces widespread opposition across the US,...
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Cory Booker on Thursday introduced legislation that would create a federal “right of action”, allowing people to sue pesticide makers such as Bayer and Syngenta,...
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Democratic senator tells McMahon ‘students will pay price’ for plan to dismantle education department Baldwin says she is “deeply concerned” the administration is planning to...
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In the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would...
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The United States government is officially closed. Starting on Wednesday at 12.01am Washington time, the federal government ran out of money. Agencies and departments designed...
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Raskin says Trump’s threat to withhold back pay from federal workers after shutdown is illegal Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who represents many federal...
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Liberal politicians outside the US have watched Zohran Mamdani’s election win as New York mayor with interest, with some saying it offers lessons in how...
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A US senator has condemned the Trump administration after she alleged that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “attack dog” mauled one of her constituents....
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Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on Tuesday on federal fraud charges, alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the...
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Top Senate Democrat says he expects justice department to respond to Epstein demand by 15 August At the Capitol, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is...
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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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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosted a state dinner for King Charles and Queen Camilla at the White House. In his remarks,...
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There may be swarms of bugs, rain showers and thunderstorms, but this isn’t Exodus, or the apocalypse: the president of the United States will host...
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At least 15 people were taken into custody outside the Broadview Ice detention center in the Chicago area after heated confrontations between Illinois state police...
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Extremists are exploiting political violence on online platforms to recruit new people to their causes and amplify the use of violence for political goals, according...
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In fulfillment of clause 1 of section 3 in article II of the US constitution, Donald Trump duly gave Congress “Information of the State of...
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Trump arrives amid ear-splitting roar from crowd inside stadium Lauren Gambino at the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona An ear-splitting roar just broke out...
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Construction crews have started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, prompting widespread criticism...
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For Maurene Comey, abruptly fired as a US federal prosecutor without explanation, it may feel like a case of like father, like daughter. Comey was...
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To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence, the treasury department is mulling production of a $1 coin displaying Donald Trump with a clenched...
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The US government shut down on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats refused to support a Republican plan to extend funding for federal departments unless they won...
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In August, Donald Trump started a campaign of aggression against Venezuela. The US president first launched airstrikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of...
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When Dolores Jacoby’s doctor told her there was little she could do to treat her acute myeloid leukemia, a deafening silence filled the hospital room,...
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Charlie Kirk’s widow says his campus tour will continue despite his death Johana Bhuiyan Erika Kirk, the widow of right wing activist and provocateur Charlie...
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Donald Trump, without offering evidence, blamed “vandalism” for “real problems” at Washington’s reflecting pool after an algae bloom in the wake of a $14.2m renovation...
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The Department of Justice’s release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein files has not only prompted questions about his crimes – but renewed attention on authorities’...
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The immigration status of the man who allegedly attacked people with a makeshift flamethrower and other incendiary devices at an event for Israeli hostages in...
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“It looks like it’s about $3.1bn – it went up a little bit or a lot,” said Donald Trump, handing Jerome Powell a piece of...
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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...
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As public outrage grows over the killing of two protesters by Donald Trump’s deportation agents in Minneapolis, the White House is going into damage-control mode....
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Leading US investors and private equity firms could step up their foray into UK new-build housing after Donald Trump’s move to ban institutional companies from...
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Protesters outside a New Jersey migrant detention center where a hunger strike is under way alleged that US immigration agents deployed pepper spray and batons...
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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, loves a video game. That might explain why Saudi Arabia has borrowed billions to buy Electronic Arts. And...
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Donald Trump has sued Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal newspaper reporters for libel and slander over claims that he sent the sex offender...
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She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the...
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John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling and transmitting classified information Hugo Lowell A federal grand jury has indicted John Bolton, the former national security...
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Donald Trump has been sued after a subscription service charging up to $100,000 a month for early access to his posts on his Truth Social...
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Last month President Trump signed an executive order designed to fast track both research and access to psychedelic drugs as treatments for mental health illnesses....
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Donald Trump and his allies quickly seized on an announcement from Mikie Sherrill, the New Jersey governor, on Tuesday that 6,600 noncitizens had registered to...
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Gregory Bovino, the border patrol commander who has become the public face of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is being swapped out for the border...
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Donald Trump kicked off Independence Day by signing into law his sweeping tax and spending bill during a Fourth of July picnic at the White...
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Donald Trump looked out across the White House ballroom at his audience of wealthy donors and business figures – people who had given millions of...
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Moments after Donald Trump rang the ceremonial opening bell on Monday, starting the trading day from the Oval Office, 232 miles north on Wall Street,...
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Good morning. Another week, another tirade against the UK from Donald Trump. The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has further inflamed tensions in the special relationship,...
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US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has refused to acknowledge that the sweeping trade tariffs imposed by Donald Trump around the world are taxes on Americans....
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Mary Beth Barone knows exactly who will be offended by her new Netflix special. “JK Rowling, Republicans, establishment Democrats, the British, the Irish and Zionists,”...
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Trump says US must be ‘very careful’ in removing mandates for ‘vaccines that are so amazing’ Asked about Florida’s move to lift mandates on vaccinations...
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has been changed to reflect the belief of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health and...
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Donald Trump renewed his push Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills...
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The media pundits have written article after article desperately trying to understand why progressive candidates, despite being heavily outspent, keep defeating establishment Democrats in primaries...
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Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete...
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Federal health officials are seeking to launch a “bold, edgy” public service campaign to warn Americans of the dangers of ultra-processed foods in social media,...
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Pope Leo has reiterated his disapproval of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying foreigners in the US are being treated in an “extremely disrespectful way”. Leo,...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized Donald Trump’s plan to hold a UFC fight on the White House lawn, as the president prepares to host seven...
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US supreme court: Trump can resume deporting migrants to countries not theirs The US supreme court has ruled that the Trump administration can continue deporting...
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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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They cracked the White House situation room, unearthing secrets from the heart of a secretive administration. But the reporters behind Regime Change, a blockbuster new...
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It’s a shame Nigel Farage ducked the announcement of his victory in the Clacton byelection, which confirmed his return as MP for the seat he...
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Donald Trump walked out of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press after he repeatedly made false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged...
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The interior department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks...
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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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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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Following a devastating loss to Donald Trump, Kamal Harris returned home to California in January with a decision to make about her political future: to...
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Gavin Newsom has stumbled upon the perfect slogan for his likely upcoming presidential campaign: “Strong and Wrong.” In a recent interview, California’s governor said Americans...
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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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Trump issues blunt message to Senate majority leader to pass voter ID legislation As John Thune battles conservative blowback for refusing to alter Senate rules...
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I’ve always wanted to visit the UK. This might sound absurd to you, considering I’m from California – home of sunshine, half-naked bodies and the...
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Full confession: I am one of those who have come to think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can essentially do no wrong. At times when I most...
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Following the fatal shooting earlier this month of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, his colleagues received reassurance that they continued to...
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A prosecutor installed by Donald Trump may have been able to secure an indictment against the New York attorney general, Letitia James, but actually obtaining...
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Donald Trump signed a sweeping new proclamation that will bar or partially restrict entry from nearly 20 countries, citing national security concerns. The ban prohibits...
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The Republican senator who heads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments apparently in support of extrajudicial military killings. “Killing cartel...
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Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral candidate, said on Monday evening he was willing to appear at a town hall hosted by a local...
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The armies of lefty America and of Maga were assembled ready to watch their champions do battle. After all, Donald Trump had called Zohran Mamdani...
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Fears that it would take weeks or even months for flight schedules in the US to return to normal in the wake of the US...
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US senators on Saturday were scrambling to open debate on Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill, which is key to the president’s second-term agenda. The...
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Hating legal constraints, Donald Trump has repeatedly taken unilateral actions for which he had zero legal authority unless he found some national emergency to declare....
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Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s mass federal layoffs The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass...
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Police on Friday discovered the wreckage of a boat that sank this week in the San Francisco Bay after recovering the body of a missing...
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Was it the blanket that did it? On Thursday, Donald Trump announced he fired Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, in a post on...
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Investigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC...
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Trump tells Canada’s prime minister he is no longer invited to join his ‘board of peace’ In a post on his social media platform, apparently...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Wednesday. Here are the...
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Iran has described the latest round of indirect talks with the US as “more constructive” than the previous set earlier this month, and said agreement...
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On a Sunday in late March, dozens of White House staffers dressed in florals and pastels gathered at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia...
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Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian As I write these words, the No 1 trending story on the Guardian is titled: “The history and future of societal...
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It’s been a dramatic week at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the space of seven days, the agency’s head was...
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As the US continues making unprecedented changes to its vaccination recommendations, one figure appears unexpectedly: Tracy Beth Høeg, a Danish American sports physician and epidemiologist...
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Federal judge grants temporary restraining order, blocking mass firings of federal workers Judge Susan Illston has issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the firing of...
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio headed to Israel on Sunday amid tensions with US allies in the Middle East over Israel’s strike on Hamas...
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Donald Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was...
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US forces hit another vessel allegedly carrying illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela, Trump said during his remarks at the Titans of the Sea:...
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Don’t believe the Trump administration’s rationale for its new volley of tariffs against everybody. The new levies, ostensibly to punish countries for failing to do...
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Donald Trump has threatened to “blow up” Oman if it fails to “behave” in a casual aside during a cabinet meeting, as the US scrambles...
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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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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior aides conducted polygraphs on their own colleagues this spring, in some cases as part of an effort to flush out...
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Randy “Duke” Cunningham, whose feats as a US navy flying ace during the Vietnam war catapulted him to a House of Representatives career that ended...
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An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a...
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The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new trade investigation into manufacturing in foreign countries – an effort that comes after the supreme court struck...
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Elon Musk formally exited his role in the Trump administration on Wednesday night, ending a contentious and generally unpopular run as a senior adviser to...
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The Utah legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled on Monday that the Republican-controlled body drew them in...
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I have no idea if you know who I am, but I was asked to deliver this year’s alternative Christmas message (which I’ve heard is...
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Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a...
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They also spent plenty of time seeking to reprimand each other by passing censures, as the House’s formal mechanism for discipline is known. A search...
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A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent...
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Eric Adams, the embattled mayor of New York, has denied having conversations with Donald Trump about being given a government job in exchange for dropping...
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Donald Trump’s administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and...
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Wealthy Republicans on the west coast received an emailed invitation in July to an upcoming fundraiser titled “Keep the Senate”. The email, obtained by the...
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New renderings released this week provide the most detailed vision yet of Donald Trump’s proposed $400m White House ballroom addition. The renderings, submitted by the...
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When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection agents descended on North Carolina last month, many local businesses were ready to push...
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The US House of Representatives delivered a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump over his war on Iran on Wednesday, as representatives backed a move to...
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Senate fails again to pass short term funding bill as government shutdown enters eighth day The Senate has rejected a House-passed funding bill that would...
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Homosexuality is an illness that therapists can and should cure: that’s the rationale for “conversion therapy”, a practice promoted as a way to change an...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is a chaotic person, but his Make America Healthy Again (Maha) agenda tends to follow a predictable...
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The Trump administration blocked two permitted US wind energy projects from development this week, with an agreement to pay millions of dollars in refunds to...
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Donald Trump looked out across the White House ballroom at his audience of wealthy donors and business figures – people who had given millions of...
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Final New York mayoral debate begins Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa have taken the stage for a two-hour debate in Queens, New York,...
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1. Putting people over fish A delta smelt at the University of California Davis fish conservation and culture lab in Byron, California, on 15 July...
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School nutrition workers and advocates have “lots of concerns about bananas”, said Erin Ogden, policy associate for federal child nutrition programs at the Center for...
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On 2 September, the US government released grainy footage of a fishing boat ploughing through the waters of the Caribbean sea. Suddenly, after a flash...
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The White House correspondents’ dinner will be rescheduled for 24 July after the Washington event was abruptly cancelled this spring following a shooting. Donald Trump,...
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Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders press incoming CBS owner on ‘side deal’ with Trump and cancelling Colbert Citing concerns over possible violations of bribery laws,...
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The US president, Donald Trump, has announced that his administration has begun developing the so-called ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system, set to be finished before...
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Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults, spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and...
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The Pentagon on Friday released an initial group of previously secret files documenting reports of UFOs – a move sought for decades by some. “These...
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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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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin...
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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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Crowds amassed across the US in planned No Kings protests on Saturday, opposing what participants view as Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic tendencies and anti-democratic actions...
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What we know so far from newly released Epstein files If you’re just joining us, the day in US politics has been dominated by the...
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The White House has chosen a top aide to health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to temporarily lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Trump ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second strike on Caribbean boat Speaking to reporters on Air Force One yesterday, the president defended Hegseth, saying he believed his...
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New Orleanians are bracing for a major deployment of US border patrol officers to the city, as Donald Trump forges on with his mass deportation...
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Trump tells foreign companies to ‘respect’ immigration law after Hyundai Ice raid Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and...
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She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the...
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Donald Trump alleged “triple sabotage” at the United Nations, after the US president was plagued by a series of unfortunate events surrounding his address to...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Nick Robins-Early Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple...
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A few days before Christmas in Pérez Zeledón, a city in Costa Rica, Greidy Mata stared at two photographs of her late brother. In one...
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The US trade court on Thursday ruled against Donald Trump’s latest 10% global tariffs, finding across-the-board tariffs were not justified under a 1970s trade law....
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Senior Trump official says president hasn’t decided when to nominate replacement for Lisa Cook Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council,...
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A new Senate committee report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, described the events as a...
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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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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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More than a year after the election that handed Donald Trump a decisive comeback victory, the Democratic party has still not released its postmortem analysis. But...
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The US’s largest public health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid, turn 60 years old on Wednesday – a birthday that will be celebrated only weeks...
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After months of negotiations, threats and refusals, Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally agreed to testify in front of Congress as part of a Republican-led...
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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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One of two US national guard soldiers shot in a targeted attack near the White House this week has died, while the second is fighting...
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Kharg Island – through which 90% of Iran’s oil exports flow – is arguably the country’s most sensitive economic target but the export terminal has...
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In late April, the Department of Justice announced that it was ending a decades-long consent decree in Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, in a school district that...
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The Guardian’s Tom Silverstone speaks to peaceful protesters and local residents in Washington DC, who express a mixture of anger, concern and curiosity over the...
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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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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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During Tuesday’s State of the Union, Donald Trump welcomed members of the US men’s national hockey team to the House gallery to chants of “U-S-A,...
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Four people have been arrested after images of Donald Trump alongside deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle, where the US...
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DoJ racing to redact documents ahead of deadline to release Epstein files – report Congress has mandated that the Trump administration release a trove of...
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The White House’s office of management and budget (OMB) is arguing that federal workers who are furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown are not entitled...
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On 2 June, at St Mark’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, people packed the sanctuary – elders in denim jackets, seminarians in collars, organizers clutching...
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Donald Trump has urged a controversial loyalist he installed as the country’s top intelligence official to fire “a lot of people” overseeing intelligence for the...
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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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David Scott, a Georgia congressman and moderate Democrat representing Atlanta’s southern suburbs since 2003, has died at the age of 80. Scott’s health had been...
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Summary of today’s supreme court rulings The supreme court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s bid to strip temporary protected status (TPS) from hundreds...
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Republicans continue to lead the California governor’s race amid a crowded field of Democrats, a new poll commissioned by the state’s Democratic party found, fueling...
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Opening summary Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you the latest news...
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Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: Two West Virginia national guard...
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Donald Trump announced on Friday he had commuted the sentence of George Santos, the disgraced former New York representative and serial fabulist who had been...
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The Texas house of representatives reconvened without the necessary number of lawmakers to conduct business on Friday, the deadline set by top state Republicans before...
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On Wednesday morning, Pedro Sánchez delivered a 10-minute televised address with the rather bland title: “An institutional declaration by the prime minister to assess recent...
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For the last two months, US forces have amassed outside Venezuela and carried out a series of lethal strikes on civilian boats. The Trump White...
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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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When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection agents descended on North Carolina last month, many local businesses were ready to push...
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Summary The Pentagon was reportedly aware there were survivors after a September attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, but the US military still...
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As the clock ticks toward the congressionally mandated deadline of 19 December by which Donald Trump’s justice department must release its files related to Jeffrey...
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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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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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More than a thousand people rallied for Justin Pearson, a Democratic state representative running for Congress, in the wake of four fatal shootings by members...
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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 veteran civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who has died aged 84, made history when he stood for the White House in 1984 and 1988....
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The Trump administration has extended protections shielding about 11,000 Lebanese people from deportation, allowing them to stay and work in the United States for another...
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Pope Leo has reiterated his disapproval of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying foreigners in the US are being treated in an “extremely disrespectful way”. Leo,...
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Starships are meant to fly, but Nicki Minaj’s musical career is now doing a Maga-propelled nosedive. For the past few months, the rapper and former...
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Faced with high demand for GLP-1 drugs, some American cities and states that previously covered the cost of the weight-loss medication for low-income residents and...
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Trump staged ‘hostile takeover’ of US 250th anniversary to serve ‘political ideology’ Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump hijacked the...
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As Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, splurged more than $250m on Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election campaign, the US president commissioned his new ally to...
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Donald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve chair past the end of his tenure and doubled down...
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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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Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers’ money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail known as Alligator Alcatraz, court...
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Dan Osborn is a man who does not like to lose, and if you had asked him on election night last year whether he would...
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On a rainy Detroit afternoon at a gas station off Interstate 75, Victor Rodriguez watched the pump tally tick up as he filled up his...
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A brother is torn from his sister. A father arrives for his immigration hearing with his family, only to find that they will be leaving...
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Trump seeks $1.5tn for defense department in budget request to Congress Donald Trump has asked for $1.5tn in defense department funding in his latest budget...
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The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his...
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The Democratic party faces a crucial test of its direction today as voters in the midwestern swing state of Michigan decide whether to nominate for...
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TikTok has reached a deal to form a joint venture that will allow it to continue operating in the US, five years after Donald Trump...
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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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Donald Trump has said he cancelled planned military strikes against Iran on the basis of “rapidly” reaching a deal on its nuclear programme and the...
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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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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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The Microsoft founder Bill Gates told US members of Congress that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had sought to “blackmail” him over his extramarital...
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Senate’s latest war powers resolution fails in 49-50 vote as some Republicans side with Democrats Meanwhile, the latest attempt by Congress to rein-in president Donald...
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Lindsey Graham, a longtime US senator and key ally of Donald Trump, has died from a sudden illness, his office said on Sunday. He had...
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The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced on Sunday that he is abandoning his faltering bid to win re-election, just over a month...
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It was on 18 October 2024, just weeks before presidential election day that candidate Trump announced at a rally in Hamtramck, a small, diverse city...
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The Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state. The secretary of...
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The FBI director, Kash Patel, is denying allegations detailed in a new report that he drinks to excess and has been unreachable at times during...
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Staffing shortages at US airports are anticipated to cause further disruption to air travelers on Wednesday as effects from the US government shutdown, now in...
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This term, the US supreme court handed down decisions on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration and birthright citizenship, reshaping life for millions of...
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After a scramble in the Senate, Republicans voted on Saturday to advance Trump’s signature “big, beautiful” bill, with a 51-49 vote. Republicans had been divided...
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Republican and Democratic senators have offered starkly contrasting interpretations of Donald Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities after a delayed behind-closed-doors intelligence briefing that the...
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The presumption that US elections are legitimate died last week in Washington. It was 237 years old. It did not die of one wound. It...
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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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Indian oil refineries will continue to buy oil from Russia, officials have said, before threatened US sanctions next week against Moscow’s trading partners over the...
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Kamala Harris announces she won’t run for California governor Lauren Gambino Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, announced on Wednesday that...
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Donald Trump abruptly shelved plans to sign a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing on Wednesday, demanding Congress first approve his...
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Cuba’s capital city, Havana, is facing rolling blackouts amid a US blockade that has caused the country to completely run out of diesel and fuel...
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Republican senator John Cornyn and Democratic congressman Greg Casar of Texas squabbled outside Austin’s international airport on Monday over funding for the Department of Homeland...
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In a combative series of interviews on Sunday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that “both sides are going to have to make...
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A judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from federalizing or deploying the national guard in Illinois after Donald Trump ordered hundreds of troops to...
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1. Trump claims unnamed countries ‘want to go in and wipe out Hamas’ if the militant group fails to disarm Asked about the dispute between...
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Paul Ingrassia, Trump nominee to lead ethics office, withdraws after racist texts Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a government ethics office, just announced...
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Bill and Hillary Clinton announced they would not comply with a subpoena demanding congressional testimony about their relationships to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, while...
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Donald Trump’s posting of a video depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes was the most overtly racist act...
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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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1. Trump and Mamdani <3 New York The president likes a winner and he loves New York – and both were clear on Friday, when...
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In a move that has left anti-abortion advocates reeling, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly approved a request to manufacture a new abortion...
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Donald Trump has warned that Hamas will have “hell to pay” if it fails to disarm while offering full-throated support to Benjamin Netanyahu during a...
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Joe Rogan, the world’s most popular podcaster, is struggling to sleep. In an interview last week, he complained that the “madness” of the news cycle...
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When dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places...
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Amid the trees clustered with jackfruit and the boda boda motorcycles weaving precariously around Kampala’s congested roads earlier this year was a campaign poster for...
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The Democratic party is at a crossroads. It can continue to push policies that maintain a broken and rigged economic and political system and ignore...
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ICE agents deployed last summer to the Los Angeles area referred to the subjects of their immigration operations with racial slurs, according to newly released...
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The number of international students enrolling in US colleges and universities plunged this year as the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown on higher education began...
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Hundreds of global CEOs, finance titans, and more than 60 prime ministers and presidents are in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual confab of the world’s...
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Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in a congressional special election in the western Nashville suburbs, which was being closely watched for signs...
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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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In August, Donald Trump started a campaign of aggression against Venezuela. The US president first launched airstrikes on alleged drug boats off the coast of...
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There was a whirlwind of emotions on the streets of Caracas on Sunday, 24 hours after the first-ever large-scale US attack on South American soil...
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In the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Congresswoman Robin Kelly has announced the filing of three articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem,...
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Donald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding...
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Even without the national guard, law enforcement agencies of the federal government have been using military hardware and tactics on civilian targets. At a low-rent...
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Foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the United States to secure green cards will have to do so from outside the country via...
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Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said about 700 federal agents would leave Minnesota, a large drop in agents on the ground but still...
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Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives. “Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim...
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Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democratic mayoral candidate, said on Monday evening he was willing to appear at a town hall hosted by a local...
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The pillow salesman, Trump supporter and election denier Mike Lindell has offered to personally fund a recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in
The pillow salesman, Trump supporter and election denier Mike Lindell has offered to personally fund a recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in
