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Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday....
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A coalition of 25 US states sued the Trump administration on Monday over new tariffs pegged at 10% to 12.5% on goods from 60 trading...
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The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to...
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Republican-led committees launching probes There’s been a swift response from lawmakers...
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Mamdani’s victory marks a ‘seismic shift’ with voters who are ‘fed up with the status quo’, says WFP The Working Families party, which ranked Zohran...
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The US Department of Homeland Security is now requiring lawmakers to provide 72 hours of notice before visiting detention centers, according to new guidance. The...
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US revokes visas from six foreign nationals for social media comments critical of Charlie Kirk In a stunning departure for an administration that came to...
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Donald Trump’s attacks this week on Pope Leo, for his criticism of the US attack on Iran and the US president’s decision to post an...
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Senator Kelly says he’s ‘not backing down’, amid Pentagon investigation Senator Mark Kelly said that he’s “not backing down” amid a Pentagon investigation that claims...
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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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Twelve years ago, George Hunt needed a new roof on his cow barn in Orange, Massachusetts. Solar was “hot” back then, Hunt said, thanks to...
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Progressive Aisha Wahab has been elected to Congress in a special election following a bitter intra-party battle over the seat formerly held by Eric Swalwell,...
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It was the week in which Republicans took a beating at the polls, the government shutdown became the longest in history, and 42 million people...
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Prospects for an immediate end to the war between Iran and the US remained uncertain on Friday amid a chaotic series of conflicting claims and...
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Senate Democrats failed on Friday to get a war-powers resolution passed to limit Donald Trump’s ability to single-handedly escalate the war with Iran. The resolution,...
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The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez answered a question about potentially running for higher office in 2028 by declaring: “My ambition is to change the...
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Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era” for America’s largest city...
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Christchurch in New Zealand isn’t the only place where spoof signs appear (‘Slightly haunted but manageable’: new signs cause confusion – and delight – in...
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David Brooks knows there are plenty of podcasts out there. But as the veteran commentator prepares to launch his own, he believes there is still...
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Christian nationalists in the US are positioning Charlie Kirk as a martyr for their movement, one that has grown in popularity and whose rise was...
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On a warm evening in June, hundreds of people holding candles marched toward the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of the US...
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White House claims image of Epstein birthday note ‘proves’ Trump did not draw or sign it The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, insists that...
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On the morning of 2 May, Florida teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two...
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Senate passes funding package to end government shutdown as Democrats face party backlash Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. The...
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A federal judge on Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7m in punitive damages in a defamation lawsuit he filed against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne. Biden...
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House Democrats released a handful of photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island, offering a rare glimpse into a secretive place where Epstein...
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When we think of what governments do, we think of everything from building highways to waging war. What they also do is capture the world...
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A joint US-Israeli operation that appeared to use nuclear negotiations as cover. Gulf leaders courting Donald Trump as he decided to launch a major Middle...
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A generational divide over the Iran war has emerged between older attendees and their political heirs at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in...
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Virginia’s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four...
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A high-profile Democrat has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner’s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner reportedly sent a number of sexually...
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A majority of Latinos disapprove of Donald Trump and his economic and immigration policies, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. After...
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Supreme court allows Trump to resume deporting people to third countries for now while justices weigh policy The supreme court has allowed the Trump administration...
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Vance reposts new footage from perspective of ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good Vice-president JD Vance has reposted video footage that is...
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Trump arrives in Arizona for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service Donald Trump has arrived on Air Force One in Arizona for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service. Trump,...
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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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A federal judge on Wednesday said he was resuming his long-stalled court proceeding to determine whether Trump administration officials willfully violated a court order by...
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Viktor Orbán (top) and Donald Trump. The US president and those around him have long talked up Orbán’s Hungary Composite: Guardian On a sunny April...
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Natalie Harp worked at White House without security clearance for nearly a year – report Natalie Harp, special assistant to Donald Trump, continues to be...
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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 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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“It clouds your mind,” recalls Deb Haaland, the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico’s next governor. “They say that, after the...
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One of the most heated debates in the Democratic party is how left it should go – especially after a year that has seen several...
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the...
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When you hate the mainstream press as much as Donald Trump does, nothing gets in the way of the punishment fantasy. Not court rulings. Not...
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Newsom calls Republican redistricting to eliminate Black-majority congressional districts ‘stone-cold racism’ Asked on Thursday for his response to Republican efforts to eliminate majority-Black congressional districts...
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For as long as I can remember, the White House correspondents’ dinner was where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s...
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Jeffries holds the floor for six hours Jeffries is still speaking, passing the six-hour mark. The Democratic leader just indicated that he plans to keep...
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Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ Oliver Holmes Donald Trump has dismissed a secretive inquiry into the late sex...
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The US’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed president Donald Trump’s $9bn funding cut to public media and foreign aid early on Friday, sending it to...
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Donald Trump is alone. That’s different from the United States being alone. We – that is, the vast majority of Americans who were against Trump’s...
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Donald Trump has faced sharp criticism after threatening to wipe out Iran’s power plants and bridges in an expletive-riddled social media post on Sunday. The...
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A nearly blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned by border patrol agents has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, city officials confirmed. Nurul Amin...
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California plans to sue again to stop Trump from restricting mail voting and could make blocking delivery a felony California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, said on...
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Donald Trump, the 80-year-old president of the United States, spent his weekend whining about a lake and posting memes of Donald’s Ducks. While he was...
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Kimberly Guilfoyle is stepping down as US ambassador to Greece after weeks of reports that she sought payment from a Trump donor in exchange for...
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Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk, had her prison sentence commuted on Friday by Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, after months of pressure from Donald Trump...
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When Donald Trump ordered the US military to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend, the debate among intelligence officials, outside experts and policymakers over...
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US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his push to deploy national guard members to an...
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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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Trump to meet Darline Graham at White House later today Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump is due to meet...
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At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional map to try and gain as many as five congressional...
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I do not wish Trump ill. While he hasn’t shown a shred of compassion for anyone other than himself, this doesn’t justify any of us...
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The head of America’s largest federal workers union says it is time to end the government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, as hundreds...
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Donald Trump accused China of interfering with the 2020 election in a primetime televised address that laid bare his continuing obsession with his defeat to...
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Want to hear a cute little story about JD Vance and a Dutch baby? Don’t worry, he didn’t deport it, he cooked one for breakfast....
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Democratic US representative Jasmine Crockett is under fire for honoring musician Chris Brown, a convicted abuser, with an official recognition at a Texas concert over...
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Will Donald Trump order a US military attack on Iran? That question captivated the world for the past two weeks, as the US president issued...
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Discussions are reportedly under way within Donald Trump’s administration about the US possibly granting asylum to Jewish people from the UK, according to the Telegraph,...
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Donald Trump announced on Wednesday night that he had signed the bill overwhelmingly approved by US legislators that directs the justice department to release more...
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As leadership pairings go, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a match made in heaven. It is a far cry from the warm rapport...
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‘No city is expendable’: Republican candidate for competitive San Diego House seat slams Trump’s rally comments Jim Desmond, the Republican candidate for a competitive San...
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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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A justice department lawyer working in Todd Blanche’s office pressured prosecutors to file criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) despite their concerns...
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A bitter primary contest between the four-term Republican US senator John Cornyn and the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, ended in a runoff on Tuesday....
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Trump promotes voter ID act, dismisses concerns about gas prices and falling stock market As his war on Iran sends the stock market plunging and...
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White House officials sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump and top officials from their initial portrayals of the man fatally shot by federal officials in...
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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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At what point will the US’s top military brass decide that enough is enough, that loyalty to the constitution and the rule of law supersedes...
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John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be...
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Pete Hegseth’s plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game. Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime...
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Where is James Talarico? The question ricocheted around rightwing echo chambers before metastasising into a conspiracy theory – and a reminder of the persistent danger
Where is James Talarico? The question ricocheted around rightwing echo chambers before metastasising into a conspiracy theory – and a reminder of the persistent danger
