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Brazil condemns US move to impose 25% tariffs next week
Trade office cites investigation of Brazilian trade practices while Marco Rubio says Lula’s policies ‘bad for Americans and bad for Brazilians’ Brazil...
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Trump says Iran has released US citizen detained since 2024
Dena Karari, dual US-Iranian citizen, ‘now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition’, president posts on Truth SocialDonald Trump said Wednesday ...
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Drained reflecting pool reveals Trump’s ‘American flag blue’ liner is now closer to gray
Trump’s effort to revamp the landmark stretched well past the goal of having it ready by the Fourth of JulyThe newly drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecti...
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‘We screwed up the comms’: JD Vance admits errors over Epstein files release
Vice-president tells Joe Rogan administration botched handling and should have released all documents from startJD Vance, the US vice-president, agree...
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CDC nominee Erica Schwartz pressed on whether she will resist RFK Jr’s vaccine agenda
During confirmation hearing Wednesday, Trump’s pick tells Senate health committee she will ‘never betray the science’Erica Schwartz, the Trump adminis...
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House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill
Effort is latest attempt to pass bill that seeks to ban mail-in ballots and imposes voter identification requirementsHouse Republicans on Wednesday ma...
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Over 100 House Democrats vote to end military aid to Israel in rebuke to US ally
Backing by 103 Democrats underscores how sentiment in party towards Israel and Netanyahu government has souredMore than 100 House Democrats on Wednesd...
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Mexico asks US state attorneys general to investigate immigrant ICE deaths
Since start of Trump’s second term, 14 Mexican immigrants have died in ICE custody and three in agency operationsMexico formally requested that US sta...
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Germany warns US against election interference after it announces grants scheme
State department says plan will provide funding to ‘address national sovereignty, migration, censorship and lawfare’Friedrich Merz has warned Donald T...
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Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
US defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the ‘right testosterone levels’Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that t...
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Trump’s barbed eulogy for Lindsey Graham reveals how fragile his ego is
In interviews and social posts, the loyalty-obsessed president couldn’t help but weave criticism into his praiseThis was originally published in This ...
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Wisconsin panel finds Elon Musk’s $1m state supreme court voter giveaway was likely illegal
Musk distributed money to three people before the 2025 election, which he claimed was critical to Trump’s agendaBillionaire Elon Musk likely violated ...
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Will the death of the ‘Trump whisperer’ change US politics? – podcast
When Senator Lindsey Graham unexpectedly died this week, he left behind a new uncertainty in US politics. Known as a critical deal-maker in Congress, ...
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Trump endorses MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in Minnesota governor’s race
Republican Trump ally has spent years promoting discredited claims about 2020 electionDonald Trump has endorsed Mike Lindell’s bid for Minnesota gover...
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Former Obama White House counsel to face House questioning over Epstein ties
Kathryn Ruemmler welcomes closed-door interview and says she had no knowledge of ongoing criminal activityKathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House ...
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Joe Biden to publish memoir of presidency after November midterms
Promise Me, America to cover everything from economy to decision to drop bid for re-electionFormer president Joe Biden will publish a memoir this fall...
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Trump intelligence pick Jay Clayton to face senators in confirmation hearing
Clayton, if confirmed, would replace Bill Pulte, whose position as acting intelligence chief has prompted outcryJay Clayton, the US attorney for the s...
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Trump’s pick for attorney-general faces Senate hearing later today – US politics live
Trump’s nominee – his former personal defense lawyer – will face what is expected to be a contentious Senate nomination hearing US officials are facin...
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‘Fear, intimidation, violence’: calls mount to remove ICE from US streets after agents killed two men
Agents killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, even though both were not targets of enforcement actionUS o...
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US sanctions against UN official and rights groups violate first amendment, lawsuit claims
Plaintiffs allege ‘profound’ chilling effect on protected work of international criminal court officials and othersTwo US advocacy groups sued the Tru...
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The Mitch McConnell mystery is solved. But it doesn’t look good for America | Moira Donegan
The senator is alive, a key requirement to maintain one’s job in the US SenateLike any good proof-of-life photo, it featured that day’s newspaper. Aft...
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Todd Blanche to sit for confirmation hearing in bid for attorney general
Trump’s nominee will face tough questions over purging of career prosecutors, Epstein files and moreTodd Blanche will appear in front of the Senate ju...
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Man killed by semi after fleeing from immigration officials in Florida
Death of unidentified 28-year-old man marks third immigration enforcement-related death in one weekA person died during an encounter with federal immi...
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Senate Democrats block advancement of defense bill to protest Trump’s hostilities with Iran
Chuck Schumer says Republicans are ‘ignoring the nation’s most urgent national security crisis’ amid US exchange of fire with IranUS politics live – l...
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After Graham’s death and McConnell’s absence, conspiracy theories abound
A collision of online conspiracy theories came for two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate in recent daysIt was Russia. It was Israel. Coul...
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Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham, sworn in to fulfill his Senate term
Lindsey Graham’s younger sister appointed by South Carolina’s governor three days after senator’s deathDarline Graham Nordone: Lindsey Graham’s sister...
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Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel
House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calls amendment ‘overly broad’ as party grapples with backlash over IsraelUS politics live – latest updatesTop...
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ICE pauses vehicle stops after deadly shootings in Texas and Maine
Deaths of Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo have prompted calls for independent investigationsFederal immigration officials have been...
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Inflation cools to 3.5% in June in relief brought by brief US-Iran peace deal
Recent strikes have sent oil prices climbing again, with average gas price per gallon up by 70 cents on last yearInflation cooled to an annual rate of...
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Supreme court justices testify to House on budget request to increase security
Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appear before House lawmakers to request more security for the judiciarySupreme court justices Elena Kagan ...
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ICE identifies man agents fatally shot in Maine as Joan Sebastian Guerrero
Witnesses and officials have offered differing accounts of the shooting as questions remainThe man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
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EU rejects Trump administration claims that ICC threatens US sovereignty
US government says it wants to ‘systematically disable’ The Hague-based international criminal courtA spokesperson for the EU has pushed back against ...
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Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees
The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in AuroraAt least 12 people detained at a federa...
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US rapper Boosie seeks $300,000 refund after failed Trump pardon bid
The rapper paid $600,000 to JM Burkman & Associates, but the firm says no partial refund was promisedLouisiana rapper Boosie Badazz is reportedly ...
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Jon Stewart on the advanced age of Congress: ‘This is not right, the stakes are too high’
After the death of Lindsey Graham, late-night hosts discussed the problems with an aging government and Trump’s bizarre responseLate-night hosts discu...
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The truth about Pete Hegseth's strange campaign against beards | Arwa Mahdawi
His facial hair fixation might seem perplexing – but it is part of an aestheticisation of politics that is central to the Trump projectThe year is 201...
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Cincinnati has a $1.9bn infrastructure fund – why can’t it spend it to fix its housing crisis?
Money from rail selloff could help solve Ohio city’s most pressing problems but political mistrust dictates how profits can be usedCincinnati, Ohio’s ...
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US House committee advances bill to make daylight saving time permanent
Bid to end clock-changing has bipartisan support, including the backing of Trump and some Democratic co-sponsorsA bill to end the practice of changing...
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New US Ebola patient arrives in Germany for treatment
Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flightsA US national who contracted Ebola in the ...
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Lindsey Graham’s hawkish ideology leaves a legacy of destruction | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mourn him if you wish, but let’s be honest about what he promoted. The longer this thinking lives on, the more peril we will all faceThe sudden death ...
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Trump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund
Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-born ...
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Fatal ICE shooting in Maine comes just days after similar incident in Texas – US politics live
Monday’s ICE-involved killing in Maine is at least seventh instance of a person shot dead during immigration enforcement operations since January 2025...
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Victims of Trump purge call supreme court ruling a ‘dagger in heart’ to civil service
Rebecca Slaughter, who was fired by Trump from the FTC in 2025, worries agencies will be undermined by threat of removal if a decision is contrary to ...
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‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds
Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’It’s been a...
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is dead. How long will ICE be allowed to hide its face?
A government that demands instant obedience while concealing its identity cannot expect trust – or escape responsibility for the consequencesThere are...
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Hunter Biden says ‘rule of law prevailed’ in defamation lawsuit netting him $1.7m
Biden sued ex-CEO of Overstock.com Patrick Byrne over claim that Biden sought bribe from Iran government in 2021Hunter Biden says he is “grateful that...
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With New York Times subpoenas, Trump is brazenly escalating his attacks on the press | Margaret Sullivan
Federal agents showed up at reporters’ homes, targeting journalists for doing exactly what the first amendment protectsTo non-journalists, receiving a...
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The Todd Blanche hearings will test senators’ commitment to the rule of law | Claire Finkelstein
Trump’s former personal attorney has a vast slate of conflicts of interest. Will lawmakers do their job in his confirmation hearings?Todd Blanche is t...
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Darline Graham Nordone: Lindsey Graham’s sister and interim US senator
Nordone was 13 when brother became her legal guardian – and was a key presence as he rose in the Republican ranksWhen Lindsey Graham was in college, h...
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US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal
Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffsThe US government has alrea...
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Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle International criminal court
US secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operationsMarco Rubio, the US secretary of state,...
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One of strictest US abortion bans could be overturned in November’s election
Idaho to have ballot measure for reproductive freedom law that would reverse ban on abortions at all pregnancy stagesOne of the strictest abortion ban...
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