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US supreme court blocks Missouri’s new congressional map backed by Trump
Decision marks setback for president and Republicans, who set in motion national redistricting battle last yearThe US supreme court turned back an eme...
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South Park changes name to South America in response to Trump changes
Satirical program’s new title is ‘inspired by bravery and patriotism’ of Apple and Google, who capitulated to Trump’s requests to change Lake Ontario ...
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US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case
Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights A US appellate court has decided tha...
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Trump renames places and poses as superhero in bizarre social media blitz
Trump passed the long weekend posting a torrent of memes and musings on his Truth Social platformThe long weekend may have proved too long for Donald ...
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Mass polygraphs at the Pentagon show Hegseth’s weakness | Margaret Sullivan
The more defense secretary Pete Hegseth tries to flex his manly strength, the wimpier he looksThe more the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, tries to f...
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Trump’s call to rename New Mexico ‘New America’ is a distraction tactic, Democrats say
Amid unpopular Iran war and persistent inflation, governor says state has had its name since before US existedDemocrats have hit back against Donald T...
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New Hampshire voters head to polls in race crucial to Democrats’ Senate hopes
Centrist Chris Pappas faces progressive primary challenger Karishma Manzur while Republicans eye chance to flip seatNew Hampshire voters head to the p...
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Democrats need to win. Here’s the message our research says works
Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing prioritiesAs the November election approaches with contr...
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Students are suffering from US colleges’ shaky finances. Trump policies are making everything worse
Many four-year colleges will resort to laying off faculty, cutting services and increasing prices amid financial stressNalia Mutz started her freshman...
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Donald Trump’s midterm strategy? Make it all about him | Robert Reich
The president apparently plans to focus on the person he most admires – himself – even if Republicans would rather he didn’tWith the midterm races off...
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New Hampshire and Rhode Island electorate to vote in state primaries - US politics live
Voters will choose candidates across full slate of federal, state and local offices over next two daysIceland summoned the US ambassador on Monday aft...
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US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid ac...
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Giuliani says Mamdani should skip 9/11 ceremony during rant against Islam
New York City mayor confirms he will attend memorial service but declines to respond to Giuliani’s remarksNew York mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to come...
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Legal veterans lead fightback against Trump’s ‘full-out assault on democracy’
Advocacy groups expand legal challenges and condemn president’s ‘self-serving attempts to take over midterms’A cluster of advocacy groups that boast v...
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‘The most anti-union president’: how Trump turned his back on US workers
Labor experts stunned at how anti-worker Trump has been with actions since last Labor Day that have hurt unionsDonald Trump has repeatedly vowed to ch...
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‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new HHS report
HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conductedThe US Department of Health and Human...
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Republican midterm convention will be ‘Trumpist pageantry’ - at the party’s own risk
A historically unpopular president will take centre stage as the party seeks to sway voters with an unprecedented eventIt seemed like a good idea at t...
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Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, campaign says
Team says armed suspect attacked Amy Acton during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several peopleAmy Acton, Democratic candidate for Ohi...
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Trump again asks supreme court to restrict mail-in voting as midterms loom
Legal fight continues as states begin sending out ballots for voters to vote by mail in November’s midterm electionsThe Trump administration renewed i...
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This smokejumper says the US has lost its empathy. That’s why he’s running for Congress
Montana’s Sam Forstag says US working class is left playing a game of chance while neither party serves its interestsAt around five o’clock on a winte...
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Game on: November elections kick into high gear with control of Congress in the balance
Trump is unpopular and inflation is still high – and Democrats are looking to use that to their advantageWhen voters went to the polls in the 2022 mid...
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Falling ceiling debris at Kennedy Center may mire debate over renovations
Preservationists worry board may seize on incident ‘to make the point that the whole thing needs to be shut down’Falling debris from a ceiling in the ...
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Judge orders Trump administration to reveal who set up $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization fund’
Judge issued order as part of discovery process in lawsuit brought by non-profit into now defunct compensation fundA federal judge has ordered the Tru...
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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner land in Moscow aiming to revive Ukraine talks
US envoys expected to meet Vladimir Putin before going to Kyiv, after peace efforts floundered in recent monthsThe US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared K...
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Cut the cameras: Flock surveillance cameras spur rare bipartisan backlash
Politicians on the right and left are pushing back against Flock as more Americans voice opposition to the techGrowing factions from both sides of the...
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The US attorney general is fretting about a ‘pandemic’ of gender transitions in schools | Arwa Mahdawi
Todd Blanche’s remarks are part of a totally-not-invented moral panic that stretches the limits of the imaginationBeing a public school teacher in the...
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Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it
Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook...
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Captain calamity: Pete Hegseth under fire for ‘inept’ leadership of US military
The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions...
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Leftist insurgents are storming the midterms – just don’t call them all democratic socialists
Progressive candidates navigate their ties to the DSA as the group faces historic growth and mounting pressureDays before he won the Democratic primar...
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Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes journalists
Ruling allows defense department to proceed for now in exerting greater editorial control over military news outletA federal judge has declined to sto...
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Trump order directs officials to consider stripping protections for gray wolves
Interior department given three months to decide whether wolves can be removed from endangered species listDonald Trump signed an executive order on F...
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US judge extends block on Trump order to restrict mail-in voting
Indira Talwani’s ruling presents major setback for president as first states begin to send out mail ballots for midtermsA federal judge on Friday exte...
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Trump’s ‘retribution’ could now include Falklands as favor to Milei – and revenge on the UK
US president suggests he might support his Argentinian acolyte’s drive to reclaim sovereignty of disputed islandsDonald Trump has long embraced vengea...
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‘‘Never Forget’ is not a slogan’: Mamdani designates 9/11 as a Day of Remembrance and Service
The New York City mayor will sign two executive orders honoring those impacted by the attacks, as he faces campaign to exclude him from the 25th anniv...
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Trump’s ex-labor secretary drank on job and created ‘toxic’ work environment, report alleges
Labor department report alleges Lori Chavez-DeRemer also made a staffer attend a strip club while on a personal tripDonald Trump’s former secretary of...
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How much does Donald Trump care about winning the midterms? Apparently, not much at all | Jonathan Freedland
Such is the US president’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable – meanwhile, his every decision spells c...
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North Carolina becomes first state to send out mail-in ballots for US midterms
State decides to proceed hours after Trump administration asks supreme court to let it carry out proposed crackdownNorth Carolina became the first sta...
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Missouri supreme court blocks congressional maps backed by Trump for midterms – US politics live
The decision marks a setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battleSign up for US Breaking News emailsA Missouri House race has been rocke...
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Unprecedented: the US deportees forcibly flown to a fourth country
Six detainees who refused to disembark a US plane in Liberia are now in detention in Equatorial GuineaIn late August, around 20 people were put on a f...
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Founding editor of Ms magazine on Gloria Steinem: ‘The least egomaniacal person’
Letty Cottin Pogrebin says Steinem taught the younger feminist how to change a ‘man’s world’ not adjust to itGloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist c...
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Is Jon Ossoff the key for Democrats in 2028? – podcast
In August, the Democratic senator from Georgia, Jon Ossoff, implied Donald Trump was not interested in being president because he just wanted to ‘buil...
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Missouri state legislative candidate accused of trying to plant cocaine on opponent
Republican candidate Thomas Ross and his former campaign manager devised a plan to stash drugs in their opponent Louise Secker’s purse or vehicleA Mis...
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Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following the departure of Driscoll
Telle has previously worked for Trump during his first term as a special assistant to the president for legislative affairsDonald Trump on Thursday na...
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Split verdict in New Orleans murder trial tied to staged-wrecks scheme
Sean Alfortish and Leon Parker convicted on some counts but not murder charges linked to insurance fraud plotA federal jury in New Orleans on Thursday...
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Missouri supreme court throws out new congressional maps backed by Trump
Setback for Republicans in redistricting battle as court forbids maps from being used in November electionsThe Missouri supreme court has unanimously ...
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship
Supreme court ruled in June against president’s earlier order to change citizenship rules for babies born in USA federal judge has temporarily blocked...
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Excavation work on Trump’s towering, gilded arch to begin over next two weeks
Project that critics say will disrupt historic sightlines in Washington DC is facing a lawsuitThe Trump administration said on Thursday that excavatio...
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JD Vance reacts to airstrike that killed four at Iran wedding: ‘Things happen’
US vice-president says he’s ‘extremely skeptical’ of Iran reports when asked whether US was responsible for deathsThe US vice-president, JD Vance, sai...
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ICE officer who shot Venezuelan man in Minneapolis charged with lying to investigators
Julio Sosa-Celis, who was shot in the leg by Christian Castro and survived, was one of three people shot by federal immigration agents during Trump’s ...
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Former pardon attorney sues DoJ over ‘unlawful’ firing tied to Mel Gibson case
Liz Oyer says department fired her after she refused to recommend restoring gun rights of actor and Trump allyThe former pardon attorney for the US ju...
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Donald Trump’s shallow renaming of the Great Lakes | Letters
Readers respond to the Trump administration’s decision to change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’I think too much is being made of this (Apple Maps rena...
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US House passes bill penalizing universities that participate in boycott of Israel
GOP-backed bill mandates institutions receiving federal funds not impose restrictions on programs related to IsraelThe US House of Representatives on ...
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