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What’s behind the escalating situation in Ukraine? – podcast
From long-range missiles being launched to North Korean troops being drafted in, Dan Sabbagh looks at whether the rapid escalation could signal the be...
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Trump likely to choose surgeon and writer Marty Makary as FDA chief
Johns Hopkins doctor touted protection from natural immunity and opposed Covid vaccine mandatesDonald Trump is likely to choose the Johns Hopkins surg...
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Tennessee man involved in Capitol riot convicted of planning to kill federal agents
Edward Kelley created ‘kill list’ of FBI agents and others who investigated his role on January 6, prosecutors sayA Tennessee man who was arrested for...
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Biden urged to use clemency powers to tackle ‘crisis’ of US mass incarceration
Members of Congress call on president to pardon or commute sentences before he leaves White HouseMore than 60 members of Congress have written to Joe ...
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Vance pleads with US senators to back Matt Gaetz as Trump’s attorney general
Vice-president-elect makes rounds as ethics committee weighs releasing report on Gaetz over sexual misconduct claimsUS politics live – latest updatesJ...
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Trans congresswoman Sarah McBride posts defiant response to bathroom ban
First trans member of Congress ‘just trying to pee in peace’ after Mike Johnson says trans women cannot use women’s bathroomsIncoming congresswoman Sa...
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US Senate to vote on Bernie Sanders effort to block arms sales to Israel
Joint resolutions of disapproval would prevent Pentagon from sending $20bn to Israel as it continues assault on GazaA vote to block arms sales to Isra...
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Razor-thin House race in California too close to call weeks after election day
Democratic challenger Derek Tran has a 314-vote lead over Republican incumbent Michelle SteelMore than two weeks after election day, there are more th...
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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s plutocrats: money for something | Editorial
The Republicans were always the party of big business, but Mr Trump is turning them into a playpen for oligarchsOne person turns up surprisingly often...
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North Carolina Republicans push last-minute changes to election boards
Changes were tucked into hurricane relief bill and passed by statehouse on Tuesday hours after it was made publicNorth Carolina Republicans are on the...
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Joe Biden turns 82 as Democrats begin search for younger party leaders
Party calls for generational shift and looks to younger governors after Harris’s defeat in presidential electionJoe Biden marked his 82nd birthday on ...
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Trump picks former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as US ambassador to Nato
Whitaker, who is seen as partisan loyalist, has a background in law enforcement and not in foreign policyUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump...
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Republicans renew push to expand government powers to punish non-profits
Bill to strip groups deemed to support ‘terrorism’ of non-profit status seen as threat to Palestinian advocacy groupsHouse Republicans have renewed a ...
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McMahon nomination shows Trump ‘could not care less about students’ futures’ – US politics live
National Education Association criticises WWE founder as an ‘unqualified’ pick for education secretary The Federal Reserve must not remove Wells Fargo...
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The Long Wave: Unearthing the real story of Black voters at the US election
Trump undeniably made gains but alarm over a rightward shift among African Americans is overblown. Plus: Kenyans embrace standupDon’t get The Long Wav...
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Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance | Sidney Blumenthal
With them, Trump will tear down any person or institution that tried to restrain his worst impulses or hold him accountable“Shock” suddenly became the...
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House ethics committee to vote on publication of Matt Gaetz report
Prominent Republicans reluctant to release report into allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump nomineeThe House ethics committee is expected to...
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With Trump heading for the White House, the Democrats must learn these lessons – and fast | Owen Jones
An economic populism for the majority – irrespective of gender, race, religion, sexual or gender – is the way forwardDid the Democrats really lose bec...
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Harris ran from the Biden policies that were actually popular with voters | Daniela Gabor
The Harris campaign dumped Biden’s FDR-style ambitions for boring neoliberal policy planks that were an electoral dead-endThe post-mortems of Kamala H...
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Who is Mehmet Oz, Trump’s pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid?
Dr Oz, best known for his daytime talkshow, leaned heavily into Trumpism during his failed 2022 run for US SenateDonald Trump has chosen Mehmet Oz, be...
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Kevin Rudd says he is ready to work with incoming Trump administration – video
Australia’s ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, says Australia is 'ready' for a second Trump presidency. In a speech to the Sydney International Strateg...
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Trump picks former WWE executive Linda McMahon for education secretary
Cantor Fitzgerald chair and former Senate candidate had served in president-elect’s cabinet in first administrationLinda McMahon, co-chair of Donald T...
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Trump loyalist Kash Patel in contention to be named FBI director
Interviews for key role conducted at Mar-a-Lago on Monday night as Trump appears intent on firing Christopher WrayDonald Trump is keeping his controve...
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SpaceX launch live: Donald Trump to join Elon Musk for test flight of Starship rocket
President-elect arrived in Texas earlier in the day for sixth planned SpaceX launch SpaceX said the propellant load of the Super Heavy booster is now ...
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Trump’s cabinet and White House picks – so far
A look at the people who have been and still could be offered key positions when Trump takes officeDonald Trump, the former US president set to return...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene issues warning to Republicans opposing Matt Gaetz nomination
Congresswoman threatens to release what she says are reports of harassment claims filed against colleagues Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Repub...
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He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s billionaire best friend wants young people to ‘fear’ childlessness. He’ll be right at home in an incoming administration set on rolling back r...
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He has already fathered 12 children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s billionaire best friend wants young people to ‘fear’ childlessness. He’ll be right at home in an incoming administration set on rolling back r...
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Jared Polis on why Colorado bucked trend for Democrats: ‘What can we do to get government out of the way?’
Governor, who has praised pick of Robert F Kennedy Jr for health secretary, says he is open to working with TrumpDespite launching a governors’ group ...
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough brushes off backlash to his meeting with Trump
Morning Joe host accuses critics of being disconnected from ‘the real world’ amid outcry over Mar-a-Lago visitThe Morning Joe star Joe Scarborough bru...
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Trump reportedly picks Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
Billionaire founder of financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was one of president-elect’s biggest fundraisersDonald Trump has reportedly picked one of his ...
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Trump reportedly doubts senators will back Matt Gaetz but still lobbies hard
President-elect’s nominee for attorney general is dogged by sexual misconduct allegationsDonald Trump has reportedly told associates that Matt Gaetz, ...
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Why Kamala Harris couldn’t convince an anti-establishment America | Samuel Hammond
This election was a referendum on America’s political establishment. And Harris was firmly on the side of the establishment Two weeks have passed, and...
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Republican bathroom bill targets Congress’s first transgender member
South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduces bill two months before Sarah McBride is to be sworn inAfter Delaware elected the first ever openly tra...
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To protect US democracy from tyrants, we must protect the truly free press | Robert Reich
No billionaire or corporation controls us: the Guardian answers only to the public. Please help us raise the $4m we need to hold power to account in 2...
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‘This is not his first rodeo’: will federal courts be able to rein in Trump?
Hope that federal judiciary can provide guardrails as Trump plans for largest domestic deportation effort in US historyA week after Donald Trump enter...
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Donald Trump facing new ruling in hush-money case after election victory – US politics live
Prosecutors in president-elect’s criminal hush-money case expected to submit paperwork on Tuesday indicating how they believe case should proceedHere ...
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US Republican politician must resign after pleading guilty to sexual assault
Indiana county commissioner John Jessup won re-election while on house arrest, but will not be able to serve in officeDays after winning elected offic...
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Trump selects Fox News contributor Sean Duffy as transport secretary
Former Republican congressman from Wisconsin was also a cast member on The Real World: BostonDonald Trump has named Sean Duffy, a former Republican co...
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Trump allies attack Biden for allowing Ukraine to use US missiles inside Russia
President-elect’s surrogates accuse president of seeking to spark ‘world war three’ over decision to allow limited strikesAllies of the president-elec...
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ACLU files lawsuit to gain information about Trump mass deportation plans
Suit made against Ice comes as Trump vows to deport millions of undocumented immigrants upon taking officeThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ha...
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Trump pick Matt Gaetz under further scrutiny amid fresh allegations
Lawyer representing two women alleges Gaetz paid them for sex and that one witnessed him having sex with minorAn attorney representing two women who h...
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Federal agents raid hotel owned by Eric Adams supporter linked to suspicious donations
Weihong Hu, a New York City hotel developer, was previously the subject of a joint investigation by the Guardian, the City and DocumentedFederal law e...
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Trump advisers contemplating cuts to Medicaid and other welfare programs
Further plans include blows to food stamps that could threaten millions of Americans to fund tax cut extensions Donald Trump’s economic advisers and c...
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Union calls Democratic party staff layoffs after record fundraising ‘callous’
Leadership accused of betraying party values after sudden announcement of layoffs without severanceThe union representing workers at the Democratic Na...
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Trump confirms he will utilize US military to conduct mass deportations
President-elect plans to declare a national emergency for undocumented immigrants with help of hardline cabinetDonald Trump said on Monday that his ad...
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The final straw in Jacob Rees-Mogg interview | Brief Letters
Rees-Mogg gets candid | Sex-obsessed Romans | Bluesky thinking | Paying for presidentsI thought I would encounter a fair degree of cant and hypocrisy ...
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Joe Biden’s last-gasp missile decision is momentous for Ukraine – but Putin will retaliate | Simon Tisdall
Zelenskyy must now show that missiles will change this war, and his European allies must unify ahead of the Trump presidencyUS president Joe Biden’s l...
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‘It will be much harder to reverse’: how Trump 2.0 might affect the wildfire crisis
As the US grapples with smokey skies, Trump is solidifying an anti-science agenda – here are the challenges aheadIn the days that followed Donald Trum...
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US non-voters: tell us why you abstained in the 2024 US presidential election
We’re keen to hear from people who were legally able to vote in the election but did not, and want to know whyThe 2024 US election was heralded by bot...
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What are Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul US colleges and universities?
Republican president-elect says he wants to dismantle the US education department and fire ‘radical left accreditors’Donald Trump hates the state of h...
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Cruise line offers ‘escape’ from Trump presidency with multi-year packages
Villa Vie Residences says program will cost less than $40,000 a year and traverse 425 ports across 140 countriesAs Donald Trump prepares to begin his ...
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