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Karen Bass heads to LA mayoral runoff after falling short of majority
Incumbent comes out on top in primary election – but with less than 50% of votes – and will take on challenger in NovemberKaren Bass has come out ahea...
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George Santos reportedly investigated by DoJ over suspicious Kalshi bets
Disgraced former congressman said to have put bet on whether he would be at Trump’s State of the Union speechFederal authorities are investigating whe...
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‘Jilly, I had no choice’: Jill Biden recalls pressure Joe Biden faced to drop out of 2024 race
Former first lady speaks about Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race at event for her new memoirJill Biden recalled the immense...
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Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional mapSign up for the Breaking News US newslette...
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Iowa primary elections: Josh Turek to face Ashley Hinson for US Senate seat
Democratic state house representative beats Zach Wahls and will face off against Trump-backed Republican HinsonSign up for the Breaking News US newsle...
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Trump news at a glance: US and Iran exchange fresh strikes
Trump’s attempts to secure a new ceasefire agreement with Tehran remain in jeopardy – key US politics stories from Tuesday 2 JuneThe US and Iran have ...
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Graham Platner’s Maine Senate bid wobbly with news of sexting infidelity
Democratic candidate already cites PTSD for racist, sexist, homophobic online posts and has covered up Nazi tattooMidterm primaries – live results and...
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Pentagon appoints convicted January 6 rioter to sensitive counterterrorism role
Alarm after Elias Irizarry is hired to position in office that manages highly classified military operationsThe Pentagon has appointed a rioter convic...
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Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system
Ocean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cutsThe Trump administration plans to dis...
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Midterm primaries 2026 live: results and reaction after six states including California and Iowa cast ballots
All the latest results and updates as New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico and Montana also vote in primariesCalifornia elections: governor, LA mayor ...
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Acting attorney general says Trump’s $1.8bn anti-weaponization fund is scrapped
However, Todd Blanche said the IRS will still be prohibited from auditing Donald Trump, his family and related entities‘Outright theft’: legal experts...
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Trump endorses absent Republican incumbent in New Jersey House primary
Tom Kean has been out with health issue since March. Democrats are sharpening their knives for general electionUS politics live – latest updatesOn the...
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Trump administration proposes 25% tariffs on Brazil despite US trade surplus
US claims world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in ‘unreasonable’ trade practices that ‘restrict US commerce’Sign up for the Breaking News US newslette...
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Why Benjamin Netanyahu poses an obstacle to US and Iran peace deal
Prime minister under pressure to show his campaigns against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have brought results as he faces elections with his political su...
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White House correspondents’ dinner rescheduled for July after shooting
Trump, who was swiftly evacuated from April gala after incident, confirmed his attendance at summer eventThe White House correspondents’ dinner will b...
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Alarm in Washington as Trump taps staunch loyalist to serve as intelligence chief
Bill Pulte, who does not have any national intelligence experience, is nicknamed ‘Little Trump’ among some Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Bill Pul...
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Rubio says Iran ready to discuss nuclear deal as Tehran declares peace talks over
Secretary of state appears before Congress and repeats Trump administration’s claims that a deal is within reachIran has agreed to negotiate aspects o...
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Trump signs executive order seeking early access to new AI releases
Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public releaseDonald Trump signed an executive orde...
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Six US states sue Trump administration over deal to kill windfarm project
State attorneys general argue $1bn deal to terminate major offshore wind lease off the coast of New York is unlawfulSix states sued the Trump administ...
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Democrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon Solomon
If Tom Steyer wins, that could send positive shockwaves through the Democratic partyThe next governor of deep-blue California will almost certainly be...
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Trump taps ally Bill Pulte to serve as top intelligence chief
US president says head of Federal Housing Finance Agency will serve as acting director days after Gabbard exits roleDonald Trump has tapped a close al...
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‘A rude awakening’: more doctors running for office in rebuke to Trump’s health policies
Medical professionals are entering the political arena as funding cuts, layoffs and RFK Jr’s vaccine skepticism spur them to actionWhen Abdul El-Sayed...
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What is California’s ‘jungle primary’ – and why are Democrats calling to change the system?
Practice begun in 2012 under ex-governor Schwarzenegger could see two Republicans advance to general electionAs Californians cast their ballots in Tue...
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‘Outright theft’: legal experts decry $1.8bn Trump anti-weaponization fund
Critics from both sides and legal scholars say ‘slush fund’ is scheme that will help January 6 riotersA legal and political firestorm is growing over ...
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Life inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention camp is a travesty | Moira Donegan
The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outsi...
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‘They want the country to be what it was in 1776’: anger in Memphis after Republicans redraw voting maps
Tennessee Republicans eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district after the supreme court gutted part of the Voting R...
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Aipac affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since 7 October, filings reveal
Revealed: AIEF, a charitable affiliate of pro-Israel lobby Aipac, has spent millions on travel for lawmakers from both parties, even as voters’ suppor...
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Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him | Representative Ilhan Omar
Trump and Republicans are not interested in combatting fraud and corruption. They are interested in ransacking the public good for their own profitDon...
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‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library
Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi ...
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Trump news at a glance: Trump mediates between Israel and Hezbollah in effort to salvage Iran peace talks
Tehran says Israel’s operation in Lebanon is violation of existing ceasefire with US, throwing wrench in planned peace talks – key US politics stories...
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Pentagon bars journalists from entering its press office citing re-designation
Revocation of access newest attempt by Trump’s defense department to restrict reporting on military affairsJournalists may no longer enter the Pentago...
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California’s conservative Huntington Beach could get a gay, Democratic congressman
Robert Garcia became the lead contender in Tuesday’s primaries for congressional district 42 after redistrictingThe conservative California community ...
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Transgender troops can remain in US military, but enlistment can be blocked, court rules
Split decision deals blow to Trump administration’s anti-diversity agenda, calling the ban ‘arbitrary, and based on animus’Transgender troops can rema...
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The Guardian view on the Mandelson files: the missing vetting document matters most | Editorial
A data dump exposes Labour’s courtier politics. But it still does not explain why the peer was cleared to be US ambassadorThe Epstein files fatally da...
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Democrats split on Israel parade as Schumer attends and Mamdani skips out
New York mayor refused to attend as other Democrats drew rebukes for marching with Israel’s far-right finance ministerAs they’ve done for decades, pro...
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Trump had no plan B for Iran. It shows | Kenneth Roth
The US president’s war of choice has accomplished nothing and cost the world greatlyDonald Trump claims to have mastered the Art of the Deal, but he h...
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Minnesota Republicans rebuked for Derek Chauvin moment of silence
Attorney general Keith Ellison says gesture at convention was an ‘act of profound cruelty’ to George Floyd’s familyThe Minnesota Republican party’s de...
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Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters released from prison after sentence commuted
Peters, a conspiracy theorist convicted after 2020 election, served less than a quarter of her nine-year sentenceTina Peters, the former clerk convict...
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Democrats vow to challenge Trump’s $1.8bn ‘Maga slush fund’ in US Senate
Chuck Schumer shares plans to force vote on ‘anti-weaponization’ fund and accuses Trump of ‘corruption’Democrats in the US Senate vowed to force Repub...
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Ex-Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell sounds alarm over political interference
Powell says central bank has been facing ‘stress test’ under Trump, as supreme court weighs decision on Fed governor that president tried to fireSign ...
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Tech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races. Experts say it’s the tip of the iceberg
From Google co-founder Brin spending $66m to fight a billionaire tax to Google and Meta funding a joint Super Pac, Silicon Valley is engaged in an exi...
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If Democrats are to win Texas, James Talarico must win blue-collar voters | Dustin Guastella
James Talarico got the opponent he – and the Democratic party – wanted, but flipping Texas blue means winning blue-collar voters, not blue-blooded don...
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I know what it’s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump’s health | Robert Reich
Physical and mental health aren’t easily separated, especially at our age. And the president is showing many concerning signsI do not wish Trump ill. ...
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‘Our democracy is run by two private clubs’: can a pro-hunting Democrat lead a blue wave in Iowa?
As Trump’s approval ratings dip and gas prices rise, Democrats see an opening with Rob SandRob Sand, the best-known Democrat in Iowa, appears on podca...
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Monday briefing: Does Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization fund’ signal a new era of law and disorder?
In today’s newsletter: What an unprecedented scheme reveals about an increasingly uninhibited leadership – and what it might mean for American democra...
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Trump news at a glance: how small town’s fight against ICE mega jail could rewrite legal playbook
Georgia town’s lawsuit against turning a warehouse into an immigration detention center could have a wide impact, experts say – key US politics storie...
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Lead prosecutor withdraws from criminal case against James Comey
DoJ filing did not say why Timothy Severo is replacing Matthew Petracca in case over ex-FBI director’s ‘86 47’ postThe lead prosecutor in former FBI d...
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Family visitation partly restored at New Jersey ICE facility after week of protests
Visits were canceled after detainees began hunger strike, which prompted heated protests outside detention centerFamily visitation at the Delaney Hall...
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Cory Booker has ‘concerns’ with Graham Platner’s Senate bid after leaked texts
US senator says Platner, whose wife says he sent sexually explicit messages to other women, has ‘questions to answer’A high-profile Democrat has expre...
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Trump’s interior secretary dismisses calls to identify donors for ‘nonpartisan’ concert series
Doug Burgum complains some musicians ‘segmented their audiences’ after artists back out of 250th anniversary eventThe Trump administration’s interior ...
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US strike on alleged drug boat kills three in eastern Pacific
Attack comes after Friday’s strike that killed three men as well, pushing death toll to more than 200 since last yearThe US military said on Saturday ...
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The ferocious battle in California’s heartland laying bare Democrats’ struggles
Democrats are determined to flip the 22nd district blue. But which vision for the future will prevail?When Jasmeet Bains first announced she was runni...
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