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Democrats' big blue wave wins you may have not heard about - video
While Democrats notched major midterm wins in Senate and House races, the blue wave extended further down the ballot – into races that received far le...
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Trump says US war in Iran ‘effectively over’ as he plays down escalation concerns
President, after talks with Qatari PM, suggests end to war coming ‘fairly soon’ and military escalation not neededDonald Trump has said that the war i...
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Republican Thomas Massie speaks after introducing articles of impeachment for Hegseth - video
Republican congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky holds press conference after issuing eight articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, accusing the...
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Progressives head to US House in record numbers after winning red districts
Caucus had 100 members in the last Congress, and six of the nine candidates it endorsed won, flipping seatsHouse progressives, long dismissed as the D...
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Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Pete Hegseth
US representative accuses defense secretary of illegally waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powersUS politics live – lates...
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Former RFK Jr adviser accuses Trump officials of prioritizing special interest groups over voters
Calley Means claims officials abandoned Maha agenda and took money from sugar industry leading up to midtermsA former top Trump administration health ...
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John Fetterman to be challenged for Senate seat by democratic socialist born in Gaza
Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said he would run in a primary to be the Democratic nominee in 2028US politics live – latest updatesJohn Fetterman...
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Senate votes on bill to speed up projects from gas pipelines to clean energy
Environmentalists torn over procedural vote to boost infrastructure projects but weaken environmental lawsIt’s a bill that would make it easier to bui...
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Stephen Miller is in. Is Pete Hegseth out? With Ben Rhodes – Stateside with Kai and Carter
Starting today, Stephen Miller is officially Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Now what? Kai Wright speaks with Ben Rhodes, co-host of Crooked Media’s Po...
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Obama granted me clemency after 23 years in prison. What will it take for Trump to do similar? | Letter
Danielle Metz wonders whether the president will extend the forgiveness he has shown the 6 January insurrectionists to other prisoners, in response to...
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John Oliver on Pete Hegseth’s military plans: ‘Dr Seuss for concussed bigots’
Late-night host discussed the defense secretary’s attacks on DEI, time as a Fox News host and ties to nationalist groupsOn his HBO show on Sunday nigh...
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Elon Musk and the tech bros banked on Trump and lost. Humbled, humiliated: what will they do next? | Jonathan Liew
Democrats won seats on anti-datacentre tickets and Musk wasted nearly half a billion dollars. Big tech may be losing its grip, but it won’t go quietly...
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Dolores Huerta obituary
American activist and trade unionist who fought for the rights of farm workersAlthough she was never the president of the United Farm Workers union, D...
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Hardline Trump aide Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff
Miller, known as the architect of Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown, is replacing Susie Wiles in new roleUS politics live – latest updatesSt...
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Joe Biden to limit White House memoir promotion due to advancing cancer
Former president’s new book Promise Me America provides an inside look at January 6, Covid-19 response and moreJoe Biden will undertake only limited p...
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Time to fight back: five leading thinkers on what Democrats should do post-midterms
Democrats have taken control of Congress in a sweeping blue wave – now the real work beginsWelcome to a special edition of How We Win, a Guardian opin...
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Trump is humiliated and angry – and Europe is where he’s free to lash out | Nathalie Tocci
The US president sees Europeans as the mirror image of his ‘woke’ domestic foes. They should brace for further betrayal this winterEuropeans have gree...
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Diversity, decency and a new south: who were the real winners in the US midterms? |
Tuesday was a victory for equity and inclusivity and a rejection of hate and fear. The biggest losers? Megadonors and Super PacsRather than regurgitat...
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Donald Trump 'kidding' about making UFC boss Dana White US press secretary – video
Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was 'only kidding' when he announced a day earlier that he had offered the job of White House press secretary to D...
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‘A complete repudiation’: public health won big in US midterm elections
Election wins of Annie Andrews, Abdul El-Sayed and more who ran on healthcare issues are viewed as sign of home as Trump administration unravels US he...
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Deportation policy ‘might have been too tough’, says Trump, as Miller starts chief-of-staff role – US politics live
President’s admission appears at odds with the elevation of immigration hardlinerTrump admits deportation policy was ‘too tough’ despite Miller promot...
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Anti-AI populism is the future of American politics | Garrison Lovely
Democrats should drag Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk before the world and make them explain just what it is they’re trying to do and whyThe AI...
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We can’t just ‘move on’: Democrats must hold Trump accountable | Jan-Werner Müller
The new Congress cannot maintain the culture of political impunity that got us here in the first placeFresh from an overwhelming victory, Democrats mi...
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Economic relief is on the way, Democrats say. But what, how and when?
Winning candidates promised to cut costs, rein in corporations, curb billionaire power and improve the economyDon’t worry, cash-strapped Americans, “r...
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Michael Lewis on the ‘blockers’ who stood up to Elon Musk’s Doge - video
What happens when Elon Musk and a bunch of tech bros try to rip up the US government? Journalist Michael Lewis – the acclaimed author of Moneyball and...
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Stephen Miller, immigration hardliner, in his own words
Trump’s most controversial aide begins his first day as White House chief of staffStephen Miller, the influential architect of Donald Trump’s aggressi...
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Democrats to attend Cop31 climate talks boosted by midterms and eager to make up for Trump-era setbacks
US government will have no official presence at UN’s annual climate summit, this year’s Cop31 held in Antalya, TurkeyThe US will be absent from key UN...
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Trump tells 60 Minutes that deportation policy was ‘too tough’
President makes unusual acknowledgement that one of the defining policies of his second administration had become a political liabilityDonald Trump ha...
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Trump says he was ‘only kidding’ about making UFC’s Dana White next press secretary
President says it was ‘just a little fun’ to picture White, UFC boss and Trump’s friend, in briefing room with fightersDonald Trump said on Sunday tha...
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‘Seismic shift’: Native American women made significant gains in US midterms
Nationwide, voters elected at least 75 Native women or non-binary candidates in Tuesday’s elections, report saysThe US midterm elections saw voters el...
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Hakeem Jeffries supports impeachment of Pete Hegseth: ‘He has got to go’
House Democrat is a ‘hard yes’ on impeachment resolution against defense secretary who ‘has abused his power’House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, po...
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Saturday Night Live: Druski hosts and James Talarico cameos, but where’s the post-election comedy?
SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’Four days after the historic “...
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Trump set to lurch further right, claiming US took ‘giant step back’ in elections
Trump poised to double down on immigration crackdown and refuse concessions to new Democratic majority in CongressDonald Trump set the stage for his a...
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Challenging the politics that brought Donald Trump to power | Letters
Readers respond to an editorial commenting on the Republicans’ rout in the US midterm electionsYour editorial on the US midterms (4 November) notes th...
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Abdul El-Sayed’s Oxford years: PhD, political awakening and sporting distinction
Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwichesIn the cold, twilight da...
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The political playbook that unraveled US transgender rights in the past decade
From the military to healthcare, Trump systematically dismantled Obama-era protections for transgender rightsShelby Chestnut remembers turning on the ...
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‘The light of dawn is on the horizon’: the best moments from US midterm victory speeches | Ted Widmer
Tuesday’s winners offered a new politics at a time when ‘there is something broken in America’As the US election returns came in throughout the night ...
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How CrossFit helped shape the macho fitness culture of Trump’s America
The movement founded by Greg Glassman grew into an empire, helping popularize the masculinity aesthetic embraced by Pete Hegseth and RFK JrComparative...
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Centrism did not win the Democratic party the election
The blue wave, while a rebuke of Trump’s policies, was also a referendum on the party’s status quoOn election night I stood in a crowd at Harlem Taver...
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Healthcare, tariffs – but not Trump impeachment: Democrats chart next two years of power
Midterms success gives party potent leverage over Trump – expect tough campaigns of investigating and lawmaking“Costs, chaos, corruption”: after almos...
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Trump’s shattered ‘mirror world’: American voters roundly reject president’s alternate reality
President claimed to have ushered in a ‘golden age’ even as prices soared and war dragged on – and midterm voters did not buy his looking-glass narrat...
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Wisconsin state patrol trooper detained by ICE released from custody
Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe immigrated to US at 14 and has been waiting seven years for asylum case to be heardA Wisconsin state patrol trooper, whom fe...
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Trump says he asked Dana White, UFC boss, to be his new White House press secretary
President said the ‘violent Fighter and Warrior’ plus some UFC brawlers would ‘defend us from the Lunatic Left’Donald Trump has offered the job of Whi...
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Judge to appoint special master to determine whether Trump lawyers purposely misled her over golf course
Ana Reyes wants to know whether federal officials lied about extent of renovation plans at East Potomac golf courseA federal judge said on Saturday th...
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‘People are active, they are fed up’: young voters fueled the Democratic wave
After helping Trump to victory in 2024, young voters swung decisively toward Democrats, helping deliver a wave of midterm victoriesThe 2026 blue tsuna...
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Did the Bay Area just save its transit system from the brink of certain death?
Voters approved two measures to save the region’s financially distressed public transit agenciesVoters in the San Francisco Bay Area overwhelmingly ap...
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Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming chief of staff, pledges ‘total devotion’ to the president
Hardline aide offers ‘unwavering commitment’ to president amid fears White House will double down on far-right immigration agendaStephen Miller, Donal...
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LA’s newer, bluer wave: Nithya Raman leads way as city’s progressives make their mark
Democratic socialists won the mayorship, a US House seat and powerful positions in Los Angeles – and a large network of volunteers helped them do itAs...
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Not a pretty sight: Trump’s ‘beautiful’ Republican men flop at midterms
President spent weeks praising his favored candidates’ physiques, from their jawlines to their shoulders – but most of his hot guys lostIt was either...
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Will Pete Hegseth be the blue tsunami’s next victim? | Arwa Mahdawi
The ‘secretary of war’ and his shameful history are facing bipartisan scrutinyCan you smell the schadenfreude in the air?Watching some of the worst pe...
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Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller a middle finger to millions of voters
Architect of Trump’s far-right immigration agenda is now most powerful unelected figure in government – it suggests White House is moving to a war foo...
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Flip voters discovered that Trump’s racism and xenophobia are expensive
Maga’s regret voters were all-in for Trump’s racism. Then they found out they couldn’t afford itFor the first time in a decade, election predictions f...
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