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US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022The US Senate on Tuesday evening reject...
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Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’
US president also issued executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’ Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that...
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Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas charged with assaulting an officer
Garcés Pérez, who was shot in his car by agents, is accused of striking officer with side mirror while trying to drive awayFederal prosecutors on Tues...
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Trump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll case
The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against TrumpDonald Trump has agreed to stop fighting in court the disbu...
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‘You make me want to throw up’: Republicans attack ex-special counsel Jack Smith at Senate hearing
GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate informationFormer special counsel Jack Smith, who ...
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry workedInformation is missing on over h...
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CDC reports second measles death in US while excluding Pennsylvania deaths
Pennsylvania has reported over 900 measles cases and four deaths as governor and health chief RFK Jr spar over dataA second measles death in the US ha...
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EPA union sues Trump administration to restore collective bargaining contract
Federal workers’ union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissentThe union representing more than 8,000 ...
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Donald Trump's Maga cult is finally crumbling | Arwa Mahdawi
With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck presidentIt took a dea...
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US senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approval
Mike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designatesUS politics live – latest updatesA Republica...
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RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’Robert F Kennedy Jr laid ou...
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‘It takes a lot of work’: Deb Haaland puts addiction struggles at center of New Mexico governor bid
First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisis “...
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Senate passes bipartisan Protect College Sports Act amid ‘chaos’ in industry
College sports have been upended by athlete paymentsCritics say legislation does not go far enoughThe Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Mond...
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New campaign disclosures reveal how much American political campaigns spend on AI tools
Though politicians are quiet about how they use AI, the book Rewiring Democracy examines how AI is starting to influence American politics New campaig...
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Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief for nuclear concessions – US politics live
President uses social media post to deny reports that he was willing to ease sanctions in return for ‘concrete’ steps over its nuclear programSign up ...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in the latest phase of Trump’s anti-immigration campaignGone in ...
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How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert
Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight backHaving los...
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Samuel Alito steps aside in a major climate case amid scrutiny over oil stock holdings
Decision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US publicSupreme court justice Samuel Alito rec...
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Trump unveils plan for $15bn Iowa steel plant he calls biggest in US history
President seeks midterms boost as White House says project, built by Indian-owned company, will begin in 2030 Donald Trump on Monday announced what he...
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FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey steps down amid agency shake-up
Bailey, who oversaw some of Trump’s election crackdown investigations, to resign about a year after assuming roleAndrew Bailey, a deputy director of t...
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Trump’s deportations to third countries violate human rights, UN experts warn
Sending migrants to countries they do not come from can have deadly consequences and must be halted, says reportThe deportation of thousands of migran...
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Texas Republican called for public execution of Democratic leaders – report
Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements onlineBo French, a Texas Republican runni...
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Trump administration to slash clean car rules aimed at cutting climate emissions
Environmentalists decry move that relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered carsThe Trump administration on Monday anno...
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the storiesAbortion has faded from the headl...
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argueRecent attacks on US univers...
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Gouged: why Americans are being ripped off – and what to do about it
How can we fix our pricing crisis? Economic sociologist Lindsay Owens urges tough new rules – and a consumer uprising“Repeat after me: it’s not my fau...
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Are you man enough? Republicans bet on ‘virile, brawny’ testosterone to juice the midterms
Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinityTwo years ...
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As the US midterms approach, Trump’s boasts on the economy fall flat with voters
Trump’s tariffs and his war against Iran caused prices to rise, but the US president continues to claim it’s ‘the greatest economy in history’Donald T...
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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled islandDonald Trump off...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere Continue reading...
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John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’
Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slipWith speculation about whether he may defect ...
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Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It’s a privilege … not a right’
US attorney general argues that president is ‘sick and tired’ of inaccurate reporting by CNN, MS Now and PoliticoDonald Trump’s attorney general Todd ...
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Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads
John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump ‘public service announcements’ air before midtermsAs the White House expands a taxpayer-fu...
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Republican says Trump’s support of Ken Paxton in Texas primary was ‘colossal mistake’
Thom Tillis says Trump’s decision to back Paxton over John Cornyn has put the Senate seat at risk for RepublicansUS senator Thom Tillis on Sunday crit...
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Facing up to the threat that Reform poses to our democracy | Letters
Readers respond to an article by John Harris in which he urges Labour to offer hope and change John Harris writes: “Reform is apparently in deep troub...
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UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war
Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’The Trump administration’s ambassador to the Un...
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Saturday Night Live: Jalen Brunson makes for stiff host in underwhelming season premiere
There are some promising moments from newer cast members, but the show’s return, after a politically tumultuous period, was lacking in biteThe 52nd se...
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Two giant pandas set off to Atlanta zoo from China after Xi-Trump summit
Pandas departed Chengdu for their new homes in Georgia as part of agreement between Chinese and US governmentsTwo giant pandas departed Chengdu in sou...
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What Democrats are getting right – and wrong – in run-up to midterms: ‘We can’t just be anti-Trump’
Grassroots organizer Yasmin Radjy on the Democratic ground game leading into the midterm electionsIn the run-up to the US midterm elections, Swing Lef...
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How the Trump administration is trying to defend its firing of Maurene Comey
Star federal prosecutor is fighting her no-cause firing, as DoJ dances around Trump’s loathing of her father, James ComeyTwo weeks after Maurene Comey...
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Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open
President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public officeWith a lifetime of political memori...
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I spent a full hour watching Trump TV. It’s a digital pathway to hell | Dave Schilling
The streaming channel was full of the president’s vanity and myopia. It was also deeply, deeply dullAre you currently at an airport? Strapped to a hos...
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Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’The Stanford ethicist Rob ...
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Trump allies could use midterms ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warn
Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claimsElection experts have warned Donald Tr...
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Who cares about Hasan Piker?
The popular Twitch streamer has been vilified by Republicans, but the socialist commentator has a large audience that some Democrats have courtedIt’s ...
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Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on SundayBill Gates has called on the US’s federal legisl...
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Trump tells female MS Now reporter to ‘be quiet’ amid questions on press pool ban
US president doubles down on criticism of CNN and MS Now as Akayla Gardner questions attempted White House banA day after the White House barred CNN f...
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Pennsylvania measles outbreak spreads, with 55 new cases reported since Wednesday
173 people hospitalized and four deaths in state so far, with less than 1% of those infected having been vaccinatedThe Pennsylvania department of heal...
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Kamala Harris is belatedly courting progressives. Is it too little, too late? | Arwa Mahdawi
As she mulls another presidential run, the former VP is building bridges with progressive and Arab American leadersDoes Donald Trump secretly want Rep...
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Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today
Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agricultureA remarkably prescient letter written by Thomas ...
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The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand
Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidatesThe debate over artificial intelligence...
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The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented Donald Trump ha...
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