The interior department announced today new “America-first” entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and “resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026”...
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The interior department announced today new “America-first” entrance fees for national parks, commemorative annual passes featuring Donald Trump and “resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026”...
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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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It’s almost impossible to divide superheroes along political lines. Captain America might seem like a patriotic, commie-bashing lunatic, as he was in the 1950s comics...
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The 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a...
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Stock markets slipped amid confusion as to when – and at what level – new US tariffs would be applied, as Donald Trump’s self-imposed 9...
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Summary Thanks for reading the US politics live blog. We’re pausing the blog for now, and here is a look back at our top stories:...
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Your editorial (16 December) rightly calls for collective resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on the BBC. But it is important to name what we are...
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More than two weeks into the US-Israel war on Iran, and the conflict appears at risk of spiraling out of control. Back home, Donald Trump’s...
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Tina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation...
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A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and...
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A Republican Indiana lawmaker whose child has Down syndrome has promised to oppose efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map to favor his party after...
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For decades, a line of storefronts in Jeffersonville, Ohio, a town of 1,200 people 40 minutes south-west of Columbus, lay empty. But now locals are...
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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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An appeals court has temporarily returned control of California’s national guard to Donald Trump, just hours after a federal judge ruled the president’s use of...
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Donald and Melania Trump appeared in good spirits as they settled in on the high table at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC...
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Donald Trump raised the global duty on imports into the US to 15% on Saturday, doubling down on his promise to maintain his aggressive tariff...
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Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, as...
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Donald Trump has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after law enforcement officials identified...
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Six US service members have been killed in the US military operations against Iran, the US Central Command said on Monday afternoon. The announcement comes...
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Things seem to be going well at the CDC, the federal agency charged with protecting US public health. By “well” I mean terrible, thanks to...
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Almost a year after the 2024 election there are still some houses with “Harris” signs in their windows dotted around my liberal Philadelphia neighbourhood. The...
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Soaring fuel prices are threatening air carriers around the world, and in the US the White House is scrambling to save the long-troubled Spirit Airlines....
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Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a...
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Were you bullied as a child? If so, congratulations. You are probably pretty interesting, or maybe you have an extreme body odor problem. Either way,...
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Of the roughly 43 million Americans carrying student loan debt – totaling nearly $1.7tn – only a small fraction have seen their balances erased. For...
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During an early March appearance on CNBC, the Paramount Skydance chief executive, David Ellison, cited a statistic he has come to rely on when laying...
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As the extraordinary Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani shows, there’s a new bellwether in American politics. For years, Ohio played that...
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When Emily Gardiner first started paying attention to politics, she was 15, just beginning high school in 2016. It was the start of the first...
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Donald Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”. Stephen Miller, the...
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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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US health officials appear to be shying away from voicing negative views of vaccines in public as November’s midterm elections loom and key polling indicates...
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Donald Trump on Friday morning launched a fresh defense of his conduct in the Jeffrey Epstein case after the scandal deepened on Thursday following a...
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Republicans in California are proposing a “two-state solution” for the Golden state, in a move that is unlikely to go anywhere, but is reflective of...
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Donald Trump is dispatching a so-called “God squad” of top officials to revoke protections for endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, purportedly to protect...
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In little more than a fortnight, a dramatic Syrian government offensive appears to have undone over a decade of Kurdish self-rule in the north-east and...
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The Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, accused Democrats of being “not serious” in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown, while the Democratic leader accused...
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US judge blocks Trump administration from suspending Snap food aid benefits A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to suspend...
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He wanted to give the king’s speech. Donald Trump entered the US House chamber on Tuesday like a medieval monarch, with Republicans lined up eager...
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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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Donald Trump’s battle to exert control over the Federal Reserve faces a key legal test today, with a governor of the central bank seeking a...
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With Donald Trump back in office for a year, it seems increasingly clear what his motto should be: “Who you gonna believe, me or your...
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Trump’s ‘antifa roundtable’ airs grievances of partisan conservative influencers So far, all of the fact witnesses contributing testimony at the White House “antifa roundtable” hosted...
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The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review...
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The US Senate approved a major government funding package on Friday, after the killings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis upended spending...
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John from New Mexico, a self-professed lifelong Republican, called into C-Span’s Washington Journal earlier this month with penitence on his mind. “I voted for the...
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Seven US states and the nation’s largest city announced this week that they have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, in an effort to strengthen...
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The government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of the Trump administration’s multimillion-dollar...
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Trump administration to sue Gavin Newsom over California’s new redistricting maps The Trump administration is suing California governor Gavin Newsom after the state adopted new...
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few but what I’d really like to talk about...
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For Orlando Gutierrez in Kansas City, the thought of cancelling his community’s summer Colombian Independence Day festival first surfaced “the week after the inauguration” in...
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Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs For a third time this week, a bipartisan group of Senators rallied to nullify the global “reciprocal” tariffs...
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Donald Trump on Sunday accused Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, of being an “illegal drug dealer” and said he would move to immediately cut US funding...
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A southern California community is calling for the release of a high school student whom US immigration agents arrested earlier this month while he was...
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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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The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it. Bolstered by the president,...
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Six years after the US justice department launched an immediate criminal investigation of the video-recorded killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, deputy...
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Donald Trump says he will be ‘not happy’ with any deal made over DHS funding Donald Trump sent mixed signals on a nascent deal emerging...
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Trump confirms that ‘drug-carrying submarine’ was the target of latest strike in the Caribbean Donald Trump just said added that a submarine was the target...
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Just days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House shared an interesting picture on X....
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Any Lucia López Belloza will not be home for Christmas. The 19-year-old freshman was on a business scholarship at Babson College near Boston, when she...
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The Utah governor, Spencer Cox, on Sunday told national talkshows that the man suspected of killing Turning Point USA executive director Charlie Kirk was living...
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Article 52 of the first additional protocol to the Geneva conventions prohibits attacks on civilian targets. It is on those grounds that the international criminal...
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Communities are on edge as the long-discussed arrival of federal law enforcement and Ice agents to Chicago is reportedly set to begin in the coming...
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Louisiana Republicans eliminated an elected position days before a Democratic exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based post was set to take office on Monday....
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On 4 July – as Americans celebrated their country’s independence – Donald Trump signed into law his sweeping tax and spending bill. Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful...
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One morning last June in an immigration courtroom in New York City, a lawyer named Estefani Rodriguez looked as if she was on the verge...
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Donald Trump has asked a US court to order a swift deposition for billionaire Rupert Murdoch in the president’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street...
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Donald Trump has loomed large over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with European leaders, after the US president took aim at the Ukrainian leader once again. It...
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Last week, the office of management and budget (OMB) revealed plans to freeze all outside funding for National Institutes of Health research this fiscal year,...
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US national guard troops began to deploy in downtown Los Angeles after an immigration crackdown saw police use teargas on protesters in a move that...
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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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If you were hoping Jennifer Lawrence might be able to tell you who to vote for and why, you’re in for some disappointment. “I don’t...
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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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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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A second man being held at a US immigration detention facility in Texas has died in two weeks, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said...
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Trump casts doubt on commitment to defending Nato partners Before landing in Amsterdam, Donald Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One, the president apparently...
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On the first Tuesday of November, Americans will decide whether to keep Congress under Donald Trump’s control, or hand power to the Democrats. The first...
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Texas house fails to meet quorum for third day The Texas legislature failed to meet quorum for a third time today, after only 95 of...
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The US supreme court starts a new term on Monday, and the nine justices are preparing to take on cases that could prove crucial to...
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CBS parent company Paramount on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, in the latest concession by a...
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Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, signed a new gerrymandered congressional district map into law Monday that gives Republicans an electoral advantage in four additional races...
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US regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat...
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Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) copied and uploaded sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) data to a vulnerable cloud server, potentially risking the...
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Elizabeth Warren demands clarity from Jeanine Pirro over threat to reopen investigation into Jerome Powell and Trump’s role Senators Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin, the...
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Have we ever seen a year in recent memory begin with as much deliberate turmoil as 2026 has? Less than two weeks into 2026, we...
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Maxwell’s lawyer suggests Trump might be sympathetic to her case for a pardon After Donald Trump reminded everyone on Friday that he is “allowed to”...
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Britain’s attorney general has warned ministers that getting involved in Israel’s war against Iran could be illegal beyond offering defensive support, it has emerged. Richard...
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Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy talk about Donald Trump’s erratic social media posts, as commentators try to understand the US president’s strategy on peace talks...
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Laura Friedman’s love affair with film started young, staying up late to watch old Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney flicks. “It definitely gave me big...
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A senior US public health official called on Americans to get vaccinated against measles as outbreaks continue in multiple states and concerns grow that the...
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All told, Democrats already seem as though they’re headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have...
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Supporters of abortion rights have spent much of the last year trying to fight Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine access to the procedure. Now, Democrats’...
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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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A federal judge has ruled that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook can stay in her post while suing Donald Trump over his unprecedented bid...
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The Trump administration has said it plans to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda, months after he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, in a...
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Virginia supreme court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s Democratic-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters,...
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Texas Democrats who left state in protest can ‘stay out long enough to stop this deal’, says O’Rourke Former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke, who has...
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Donald Trump’s voracious desire for retribution has quickly evolved into a regular and predictable system. In the year since his election, the president’s rage and...
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A suspect has been arrested in southern Utah in connection with the fatal shooting of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, Spencer Cox said on Friday morning,...
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About 200 US marines arrived in Los Angeles on Friday morning and detained a man soon after in the first known detention by active-duty troops...
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It was a normal Tuesday morning for Mohamed when he left his San Diego, California, house for his daily exercise in mid-January. But as he...
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Donald Trump fired Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, late on Monday, in a move viewed as a sharp escalation in his battle to exert...
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Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who heads the US Senate’s commerce committee, has urged Donald Trump to support international efforts by an airline trade group...
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‘I don’t think this is the last shoe to drop,’ Trump’s FCC chair tells Fox In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, the chairman...
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Donald Trump quietly pardoned on Tuesday a sports and entertainment executive, Tim Leiweke, who was indicted by the president’s own justice department this year. Leiweke,...
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Federal appeals court moves to reconsider ruling in Trump’s favor on Portland troop deployment A decision in Donald Trump’s favor by a three-judge panel issued...
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Vladimir Putin loves bombing Ukraine and taking his shirt off – not necessarily in that order. The Russian leader is well known for his macho...
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Donald Trump on Saturday said he had ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his criticism...
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Senate receives and passes bill to release Epstein files, heads to Trump for signing The Senate has now officially received the bill, passed in the...
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The US Senate on Sunday took a key vote on a bill that would end the record-setting federal government shutdown without extending the healthcare subsidies...
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Four months into Cuba’s deepening energy crisis, the consequences are no longer abstract: they are visible in the rhythm of daily life. Streets fall silent...
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Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey called on Sunday for the federal government to allow his state to become involved in the investigation of an Immigration and...
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The longest US government shutdown in history ended on Wednesday after more than 42 days, following the House of Representative’s passage of a bill negotiated...
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The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has expressed a violent antipathy towards Iran for years in books, Fox News broadcasts, educational videos and a 2018...
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A federal court has ruled that Donald Trump’s proclamation of an “invasion” at the US-Mexico border is unlawful, saying that the president had exceeded his...
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Oregon’s governor says she told Kristi Noem ‘there is no insurrection in Oregon’ There was a bit of an unexplained delay earlier between Kristi Noem’s...
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The Trump administration has quietly recalled nearly 30 ambassadors and other senior overseas diplomats as the Trump administration plans to promote appointees loyal to the...
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The 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a...
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Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he will raise US tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for an anti-tariff advertisement sponsored by the Ontario...
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Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to back the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an abrupt reversal, is a rare instance of the president being...
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A five-year-old boy and his father were back in Minneapolis on Sunday after being released from a Texas immigration detention center where they were held...
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EJ Antoni, Trump’s pick to oversee job numbers, was at the Capitol on January 6 The White House confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday that...
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It might be most generous to characterize the behavior of major US media organizations since 2024 as negotiating between competing incentives. On the one hand,...
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On Tuesday morning, just a few stalls were open among the dozens that normally sell food, rugs, clothing and jewelry at Karmel mall, a Somali...
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Rights groups have sued to protect voter information that was seized by the FBI in a controversial raid in Georgia at the behest of Donald...
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“There are two types of politician,” Tony Blair observed in 2012. “Reality creators and reality managers.” While postwar politics was generally a matter of steady...
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He can’t live with him and can’t live without him. But, finally, the conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson seems to have made up his mind about...
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The justice department filed new criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, on Tuesday. Comey was charged in federal court in the eastern...
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Democrats celebrate major redistricting win in Virginia Barack Obama has praised Virginia voters for backing the redrawn congressional maps that could give Democrats a significant...
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Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats...
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Rap and EDM. Clips from action movies. Heads-up displays from video games. As the war with Iran approaches its second week, the White House has...
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Pope Leo came top with 42%. Donald Trump was just behind with 41%. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) scored 38% and TV host Stephen Colbert...
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It took only a few days for footage of a violent brawl in downtown Cincinnati in July to catch the attention of some of the...
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It’s tough to beat the prices at Golden Dawn, an Italian restaurant that first opened its doors in 1932 on the north side of Youngstown,...
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Chris Tackett started tracking extremism in Texas politics about a decade ago, whenever his schedule as a Little League coach and school board member would...
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Officials correct death toll in Ice shooting to say one person killed, two in critical condition The Department of Homeland Security just issued a correction...
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill demanded by Donald Trump, ending weeks of negotiations over the comprehensive legislation and putting...
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Donald Trump said on Saturday he was nominating Tammy Bruce, the state department spokesperson, as the next US deputy representative to the United Nations, which...
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Donald Trump gave a rambling, freewheeling address at the Charlie Kirk memorial in Alabama on Sunday, taking aim at Joe Biden and trailing a major...
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For more than 200 years, common wisdom and policymakers have assumed that to get people to work, you had to make them hungry. New work...
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The deadly Texas floods could signal a new norm in the US, as Donald Trump and his allies dismantle crucial federal agencies that help states...
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Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump’s...
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Red Cross ‘outraged’ as latest Israeli strikes kill at least 254 people in Lebanon The Red Cross said it was “outraged by the devastating death...
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The Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, accused Democrats of being “not serious” in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown, now on its fifth day...
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Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show Jon Stewart has hosted the first edition of The Daily Show since his fellow late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel,...
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The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions for using Russian oil and gas, a White House official said on Friday,...
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In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently,...
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The failure of negotiations to end the US war with Iran has unleashed a barrage of starkly partisan political responses, with leading Republicans making hawkish...
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Mexico was rocked this week by a wave of brutal violence after the capture of the drug lord Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, AKA “El Mencho”,...
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Odd things are happening in the markets. Last Monday, 15 minutes before Donald Trump posted an announcement that “productive talks” with Iran had taken place,...
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One of the US so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) service’s best-known employees, 19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the US government, a White House...
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The closely watched New York mayoral and governor’s races appear to be forming into shapes that will bring little comfort to centrist Democrats, with elections...
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The US justice department has released more than 3m pages of documents related to its investigation into the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...
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Trump will not recommend special prosecutor in Epstein case Trump’s allies have been pushing the president to name a special counsel in the Epstein case,...
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Newsom praises California redistricting package as chance to ‘fight back’ against Republican gerrymandering Governor Gavin Newsom praised California lawmakers for introducing a legislative package that,...
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The US Senate left Washington DC on Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of Donald Trump’s nominees, calling...
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US Senate Democrats are launching an investigation into whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the CBS parent company, Paramount, prevented Stephen Colbert, the network’s...
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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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Leavitt calls Trump-appointed judge ‘untethered in reality’ following national guard ruling Karoline Leavitt said that the ruling from Karin Immergut, a Trump-appointed federal judge, was...
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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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The US Senate on Thursday blocked a Democratic war powers resolution that would have forced Donald Trump to seek congressional approval to launch strikes in...
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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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Zohran Mamdani’s stunning win in New York’s mayoral primary has been a tale of two cities, and two Americas. In one, a young man with...
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Two federal judges issued back-to-back rulings on Friday in separate cases ordering the Trump administration to use contingency funds to continue paying for food stamps...
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The justice department on Thursday asked election officials in Fulton county, Georgia, to turn over records related to the 2020 election, a request that underscores...
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Some historians are wary of discussing their work in light of modern events, comparing subjects to current political players. Not Matthew Pinsker of Dickinson College,...
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Trump says he intends to cancel all executive orders signed by Joe Biden using an autopen Donald Trump has said that he is cancelling all...
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An appeals court has temporarily returned control of California’s national guard to Donald Trump, just hours after a federal judge ruled the president’s use of...
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US Customs and Border Protection implemented a rule this week that will require airlines to disregard “X” sex markers on passports and input an “M”...
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As the US reaches record-breaking rates of illness and hospitals scramble to care for flu patients, officials have stopped fully recommending the flu shot, casting...
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Since Ghislaine Maxwell met with federal prosecutors last week, the imprisoned British socialite’s legal team has portrayed her as a beacon of truth willing to...
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They are more than a year away – a lifetime in today’s fast and furious political cycle. But one man is already paying attention, pulling...
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House Democrats release emails that allege Trump knew about Epstein’s crimes In a new batch of emails released by Democrats on the House oversight committee,...
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Federal prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against a woman accused of participating in a controversial January protest at a Minnesota church after the woman apparently...
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The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination that gives the government the ability to regulate climate-heating pollution. The move was described as a...
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About 700 US marines were en route to Los Angeles on Tuesday after Donald Trump mobilized them the day before in response to protests over...
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Two events, juxtaposed, tell us a great deal about what is rapidly taking shape in the US. In one, Melania Trump releases a glossy documentary,...
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Donald Trump’s standing with Hispanic adults has dropped notably since he took office at the start of the year, according to a new poll. Polling...
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When Donald Trump reassured the world that he would not, after all, use force to acquire Greenland – after days of threatening as much –...
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When it comes to the rise of autocracy in America, Justice Potter Stewart’s famous pronouncement on pornography might be particularly appropriate at the moment: “I...
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Trump says US will terminate trade talks with Canada over technology tax Trump has accused Canada of a “direct and blatant attack” on the US...
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Elon Musk has announced on social media that he is leaving his role in the Trump administration, a departure the White House confirmed was in...
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Donald Trump’s move to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran came as those inside his orbit who were opposed to US intervention in the conflict...
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Six US service members have been killed in the US military operations against Iran, the US Central Command said on Monday afternoon. The announcement comes...
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The scene seemed so far-fetched you could be forgiven for thinking you might be hallucinating. On the weekend in which psychonauts celebrate “Bicycle Day” –...
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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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Celebrities and lawmakers from both of the US’s major political parties have condemned Donald Trump after the president blamed the death of Rob Reiner on...
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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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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Rachel Leingang A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against...
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For decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics. Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators,...
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A southern California community is calling for the release of a high school student whom US immigration agents arrested earlier this month while he was...
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Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was named the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Good morning. It looks like the bromance between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is over. Maybe for good. Last night an exasperated...
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The Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, announced a lawsuit on Monday against the federal government, seeking to end the surge of ICE agents in the...
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Oil prices plunged by almost 15% and global stock markets have rallied sharply after the US and Iran agreed a two-week conditional ceasefire. Investors hailed...
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Liset Fernandez spent most of the summer worried about her dad, Luis, but a few weeks ago she got some good news. After being held...
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A guest of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was arrested by Capitol police during the State of the Union address. Omar had invited...
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The Senate voted on Tuesday to debate a sweeping restrictive voting bill that would require proof of US citizenship for new voters, among other measures....
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The justice department is alleging in a new court filing that three Smartmatic executives who were indicted last year on bribery and money-laundering charges transferred...
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Opening summary Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news...
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Oregon’s governor says she told Kristi Noem ‘there is no insurrection in Oregon’ There was a bit of an unexplained delay earlier between Kristi Noem’s...
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Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges...
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When Elon Musk vowed late last year to lead a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he claimed it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it...
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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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Trump asks for ‘prayers’ for Charlie Kirk after shooting at Utah university Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social about the shooting at Utah Valley...
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Harvard University said on Thursday that Donald Trump’s move to bar foreign nationals seeking to study at the Ivy League school from entering the United...
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Eric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father’s second term in the White House...
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Donald Trump on Monday released a series of memos that doubled down on his support of increased domestic fossil fuel production for purported “defense readiness”....
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The longest US government shutdown in history ended on Wednesday after more than 42 days, following the House of Representative’s passage of a bill negotiated...
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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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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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Trump says he spoke to FBI’s Bongino amid Epstein uproar Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will...
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The number of people in immigration detention in the US has hit an all-time high according to data published by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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The Democrats had a great day on Tuesday. It’s crucial that they hone their economic message for next year’s midterms to focus on affordability and...
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A Wall Street Journal reporter was kicked out of Donald Trump’s press pool for his upcoming weekend trip to Scotland. The removal marked increased retaliation...
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Federal agents clashed with protesters in Minneapolis on Tuesday, nearly a week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good. People who had gathered in protest...
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A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and later pardoned by Donald Trump was found guilty on...
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The US secretary of state has confirmed Donald Trump’s announcement that all trade negotiations with Canada have been suspended. Marco Rubio spoke during a visit...
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Jonathan Mahler didn’t plan to publish his new book about New York City from 1986 to 1990, tumultuous years culminating in a historic mayoral election,...
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Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect, are scheduled to meet at the White House this afternoon in an encounter between two...
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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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Who’s the comedian? Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chairperson, pressured the Disney company to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night talkshow host on ABC,...
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The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to back the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members...
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In a sort-of ceasefire, the killings – including of children – have slowed, not stopped. Israeli military operations continue to displace hundreds of families in...
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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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Scott Wiener, the California state senator, is expected to run for the San Francisco congressional district long held by Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker,...
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The Texas senate has given final approval to a redrawn congressional map that gives Republicans a chance to pick up as many as five congressional...
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Considering he’s the self-declared hardest working president to ever hold the office, Donald Trump has spent a remarkable amount of the past year away from...
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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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On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID, the international aid agency once described as “the world’s single...
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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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On Tuesday, Democrats won right, left and center. In purple Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the staunchly anti-socialist former CIA official won handily over her Republican counterpart....
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During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of “no more wars” but global events have radically changed his views. In what could...
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The US Senate approved a major government funding package on Friday, after the killings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis upended spending...
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After Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the Smithsonian Institution – a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and culture –...
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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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Newsom praises California redistricting package as chance to ‘fight back’ against Republican gerrymandering Governor Gavin Newsom praised California lawmakers for introducing a legislative package that,...
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Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, state media confirms Iranian state media has now reported that the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
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Washington was in a flurry late on Saturday as Donald Trump announced that the US had completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, directly...
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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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In describing his foreign policy agenda, Donald Trump has proclaimed an “America First” policy. But on Saturday the US president threatened to launch attacks in...
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Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch will probably be part of a group of investors that will buy TikTok in the US, Donald Trump...
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Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously...
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The abandoned homes and razed lots along the meandering Troublesome Creek in rural eastern Kentucky is a constant reminder of the 2022 catastrophic floods that...
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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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Powell confirms Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump’s tariffs Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning...
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The red carpet is being used increasingly as a platform for protest – and one accessory in particular has become key: the pin badge. At...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump thanks Netanyahu for agreeing to Gaza plan He thanks Netanyahu...
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The acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Sunday defended new criminal charges filed against former FBI head James Comey, insisting that the case was...
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A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the...
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For Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech....
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A man was fatally shot during a vehicle stop on the outskirts of Chicago by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers after attempting to...
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The US supreme court on Tuesday appeared poised to uphold laws banning transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in two conservative states,...
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A 31-year-old man has been charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, after a thwarted attack at Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner. Immediately after this,...
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The man suspected of planting pipe bombs in Washington DC the night before the 6 January 2021 deadly attack on the US Capitol by supporters...
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Trump claims bin Salman ‘knew nothing about’ murder of Khashoggi, despite US intelligence finding he approved it An ABC reporter then addresses the elephant in...
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For about 2,000 students attending high school in Dayton, Ohio, there won’t be a bus in sight when they walk out the door for the...
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‘I don’t like you either. And I probably never will,” the US president, Donald Trump, tells Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd at the White House cabinet...
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Bhante Saranapala gazed down at more than a hundred Buddhist monks wearing burnt-orange, saffron and maroon robes, most sporting woolly hats, a few clutching flowers....
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An influential US medical journal is rejecting a call from the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to...
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Kristi Noem first denied that federal agents were using chemical agents against protesters, then after being shown video footage turned to blaming the protesters themselves,...
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* Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sued California over state policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ school sports, alleging that their participation violates...
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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the Trump administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South...
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Johnson says he doesn’t know how much footage of strike on alleged drug-trafficking boat should be released While answering questions from reporters today, Mike Johnson...
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Large anti-authoritarian No Kings rallies took place across 50 states and 16 countries on Saturday, in the third such protest against the Trump administration. People...
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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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US citizens living in the Middle East say they’re “angry” at the US state department, criticising the Trump administration for having no “backup plan” to...
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Fifty-three allegations of workplace sexual harassment have been made against at least 30 House and Senate lawmakers over the past two decades, an advocacy group...
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Democratic congresswoman criticizes Trump’s comments about a third term Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s Democratic representative, has criticized comments from Steve Bannon after the former White House...
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Once upon a time there was a boy called Baron Trump, who was growing weary of his privileged life at Trump Castle. Then, one fateful
Once upon a time there was a boy called Baron Trump, who was growing weary of his privileged life at Trump Castle. Then, one fateful
