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Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds
Monument made from shattered pieces of original statue tossed into Baltimore’s inner harbor by protesters in 2020US politics – live updatesA statue of...
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LaGuardia closed after deadly collision; Trump’s deployment of ICE agents at US airports begins – live
About 40 people taken to hospital after Air Canada Express crash, some with serious injuries; ICE agents seen at several US airports amid partial DHS ...
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Trump whistleblower Alex Vindman: ‘Sitting on the sidelines was not an option’
Democratic Senate hopeful says experience of being key witness in Trump’s first impeachment makes him right choice for FloridaAlex Vindman is not a ma...
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Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death | Jan-Werner Mueller
The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violenceIt appears that members of Trump’s cabinet get chosen not despite their endorse...
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Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik in Iran
What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hitThe war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabil...
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‘In 20 years most of the world could be racist dictatorships’: Ibram X Kendi on book bans and far-right fear-mongering
How have the rich and powerful convinced so many voters that the reason they are struggling is the poor and powerless? The American historian talks ab...
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Trump news at a glance: president gives Iran an ultimatum, Iran issues Middle East a threat
Trump vows to ‘hit and obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if it fails to reopen strait of Hormuz by his deadline – key US politics stories from 22 March ...
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Senate advances Mullin nomination to lead DHS, paving way for confirmation
If approved on Monday, as expected, Mullin would replace Kristi Noem, whom Trump fired in early MarchDonald Trump’s nomination of Republican senator M...
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ICE agents will be deployed to US airports on Monday to ease long lines
Trump and border czar Tom Homan confirm plan to assist TSA agents amid partial government shutdown standoffDonald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan...
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Is the truth out there? US registers aliens.gov as Trump pledges UFO files release
Web domain added to government registry a month after president directed agencies to release files relating to UAPsIt was a gift to conspiracy theoris...
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Child labor violations rise in US – as Republicans still roll back protections
Nebraska, Indiana and West Virginia Republicans have all rolled back child labor regulations while the number of violations has risen fivefold in the ...
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It’s time to take politics out of the Small Business Administration
The White House’s politicization of the agency will have a real-world impact on small business owners in the USKelly Loeffler, the new administrator o...
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Charges dropped against woman in anti-ICE church protest over mistaken identity
Heather Danae Lewis who was one of 30 people charged in Minnesota church protest showed she did not attend eventFederal prosecutors have dropped crimi...
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Middle East crisis live: Trump gives Iran 48-hour ultimatum to open strait of Hormuz; 100 injured in Israel
Trump tells Iran to reopen strait to shipping or face destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launches its most destructive attack yet on ...
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Trump news at a glance: president says ICE agents at airports would ‘do security like no one has ever seen before’
Donald Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents to US airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety – key...
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Eight US states ask judge to temporarily stop $3.5bn Nexstar and Tegna merger
States argue deal would create largest broadcast station group in US, cut jobs and increase consumers’ cable billsEight states asked a US judge on Fri...
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Trump threatens to send ICE agents to US airports unless DHS deal reached
President attacks ‘Radical Left Democrats’ after homeland security funding bill again sinks in SenateDonald Trump threatened on Saturday to deploy fed...
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Robert Mueller, special counsel who investigated Trump-Russia ties, dies at 81
Family says Mueller, who also examined Russian interference in 2016 election that Trump won, ‘passed away last night’Robert Mueller, the former specia...
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Republican says he lied about racist posts on porn site to protect Trump
Mark Robinson, who ran for North Carolina governor in 2024, tells podcast he had ‘obsession’ with porn and sexThe former Republican North Carolina lie...
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How the Trump administration is undermining legal immigrants
The US has been targeting not only people who have violated the law but many who are in the country legallyThe Trump administration’s aggressive anti-...
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Middle East crisis live: Trump says US considering ‘winding down’ war; Iran fired missiles at UK-US base on Diego Garcia
President says US ‘getting very close to meeting our objectives’; missiles fired at joint US-UK military base in Indian Ocean but neither hitCircling ...
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US counter-terrorism chief who resigned says he fears retaliation but has no regrets
Joe Kent, who left Trump administration over Iran war, tells Megyn Kelly ‘facts are on my side’ amid FBI investigationSign up for the Breaking News US...
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The Trump administration kills children abroad while being ‘pro-life’ at home | Arwa Mahdawi
In Georgia, a woman was charged with murder after allegedly taking pills to induce a termination. Yet America happily drops bombs on children abroadHo...
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Trump’s Iran war stirs anger in Maga country Kentucky
In Appalachia, a deeply red region hit by poverty and cuts, some ask why billions are going to war instead of homeWhen it comes to politics in Appalac...
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Trump is eager to disclose details on others’ health – but not his own
President revealing congressman’s terminal diagnosis follows caginess about his own health, such as recent rashWhen Donald Trump revealed that Republi...
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Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures
Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplainedSign up for the Breaking News US email ...
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Love Actually? Washington’s current relationship with Britain is more like Contempt Actually | Timothy Garton Ash
If the UK wants to regain serious respect in the world, it needs its European leg as well as its transatlantic one“A friend who bullies us is no longe...
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Iran’s willingness to escalate this high-stakes war is its greatest weapon
Regime will do whatever it takes to cling on to power – including sacrificing economies of other Gulf statesMiddle East crisis – live updatesBrinkmans...
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Trump news at a glance: president blasts Nato allies amid reports US will send more troops to Middle East
Trump called alliance members ‘cowards’ for not wanting ‘to help open’ the strait of Hormuz; more than a dozen nations later made vague offer to help ...
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Bill to fund US homeland security fails again as concern grows about airport lines
Proposal fails to advance in Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some airportsA bill to fund the Department of H...
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US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea in bid to ease supply pressures
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says move will bring 140m barrels to market but insists Tehran will not benefitThe Trump administration has issued a ...
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US judge blocks Pentagon’s press access policy after New York Times lawsuit
Lawsuit alleged changes gave DoD free rein to punish reporters and outlets over coverage it did not likeSign up for the Breaking News US email to get ...
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Democrats outraged as Fetterman votes to advance Markwayne Mullin nomination
Calls for Pennsylvania senator – Trump’s ‘favorite Democrat’ – to resign after casting decisive committee voteDemocrats reacted with outrage to their ...
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RFK Jr overstepped in declaring gender-affirming treatments unsafe, judge rules
Judge rules that Trump’s health secretary did not go through proper procedures when issuing declarationRobert F Kennedy Jr, the health secretary, over...
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Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before
‘Teleporting is no fun,’ Gregg Phillips, picked to lead Fema’s office of response and recovery, has said on a podcastA far-right conspiracy theorist t...
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Canadian mother and daughter ‘traumatized’ by ICE detainment, husband says
Tania Warner and Ayla, her seven-year-old with autism, sent to notorious Texas detention center and told to ‘self-deport’Sign up for the Breaking News...
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Trump administration sues Harvard again over accusations of antisemitism
Lawsuit alleges university violated civil rights of Jewish and Israeli people in aftermath of war in GazaThe Trump administration renewed its assault ...
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Chuck Norris, prolific action star and martial arts champion, dies aged 86
Actor who rose to fame after starring in Bruce Lee’s The Way of the Dragon also became a TV fixture with Walker, Texas RangerChuck Norris, the former ...
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Confusion abounds over future of US vaccine advisory committee
Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisionsSign up for the Breaking News US ...
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US veteran charged with ‘conspiracy’ over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty
The right to protest is ‘fundamentally American’, says Bajun Mavalwalla who awaits trial and faces six years in prisonThis story was produced in partn...
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Trump aides tried to block appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to US, reports say – US politics live
Senior figures said to have been skeptical over Keir Starmer’s appointment of ‘arrogant’ veteran politician, later sacked over connections to Jeffrey ...
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IRS glitch masked $51m in political donations, finance watchdog says
Exclusive: Error in second half of 2025 came after IRS saw over a quarter of its workforce reduced after huge cuts by DogeA technical glitch at the un...
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What’s really behind Trump’s latest tantrums over Iran? – podcast
Donald Trump has told his Nato allies: ‘We don’t need you.’ He also threatened to ‘massively blow up’ the world’s largest gasfield, despite Americans ...
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Trump news at a glance: president claims ignorance of Israel’s plan to strike Iranian gasfield, exposing rift
Trump claimed on Truth Social that he had known nothing about the targeting of Iran’s gas reserves in advance – key US politics stories from 19 March ...
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US may remove sanctions on Iranian oil stranded in tankers, Bessent says
US treasury secretary says actions will increase oil supply and bring down prices, but long-term effects in questionThe US may soon remove sanctions o...
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Design for commemorative Trump coin in 24-karat gold approved by appointees
Federal law says living presidents can’t appear on currency, but commission approves design for US’s 250th birthdayA federal arts commission on Thursd...
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Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information?
FBI director, Kash Patel, revealed agency had resumed purchasing private information en masse in possible constitutional violationKash Patel’s disclos...
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Teenager becomes youngest person to die in ICE detention in Trump’s second term
Royer Perez-Jimenez, 19, from Mexico, was found ‘unconscious and unresponsive’ in Florida detention centerSign up for the Breaking News US email to ge...
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US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding
Lawsuit says rescission of endangerment finding – which ruled greenhouse gases threaten public health – was illegalSign up for the Breaking News US em...
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Trump mocks Japan about Pearl Harbor in response to question about Iran war
US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: ‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get new...
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Cryptocurrency firms suffer heavy losses in Illinois primaries after spending big
Cryptocurrency’s biggest Pac spent more than $10m for their candidates, only to be defeated by those who are anti-cryptoSign up for the Breaking News ...
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US moves to soften capital rules: ‘Big banks can declare mission accomplished’
Fed officials expected to lower capital requirements for banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase by 4.8%Sign up for the Breaking News US email ...
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