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Musk’s Doge gains access to federal payroll system despite staff warnings
Officials said accessing system that processes 276,000 employees’ salaries could put unit at risk of cyber-attacksMembers of Elon Musk’s so-called “de...
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Trump administration deports more alleged gang members to El Salvador
Move is latest in controversial method of deporting people to be imprisoned abroad without due process in USThe US has sent 17 more people accused of ...
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John Oliver on Signal leak: ‘Deeply unserious people doing deeply stupid things’
The Last Week Tonight host digs into Trump officials’ group chat leak and the lack of regulation of Taser stun gunsJohn Oliver ripped Donald Trump’s W...
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Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’
US president receives bipartisan criticism after saying there are ‘methods’ he could defy constitution to seek third termUS politics live – latest upd...
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No 10 concedes UK will be hit by new Trump tariffs as trade deal talks drag on
Downing Street says it ‘reserves right’ to respond to protect national interest when US levies are announced this weekUK politics live – latest update...
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NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
University called Dr Joanne Liu, ex-head of Doctors Without Borders, after planning to speak on Gaza and federal cutsThe former international head of ...
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More Republican voters think Pete Hegseth should resign, poll finds
Total of 38% of Republican voters agree Hegseth should quit, compared to just a third who think he should keep jobMore Republican voters think that Pe...
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White House to cut down tree thought to be planted by Andrew Jackson
Donald Trump says deteriorating magnolia will be removed but wood ‘may be used for other high and noble purposes’A nearly two-century-old tree with a ...
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Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants | Robert Reich
Attacks on the pillars of civil society are chilling speech. But American democracy was built on criticismI was talking recently to a friend who’s a p...
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As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist | Charlotte Higgins
The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern: the battle lines are now clearIt has come to th...
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Clean energy spending boosts GOP districts. But lawmakers are keeping quiet as Trump targets incentives
We asked 18 Republicans whose districts benefit most from Biden’s IRA climate law if they back Trump’s demandsBillions of dollars in clean energy spen...
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Palestinians must have the final say in Gaza’s reconstruction | Ahmad Ibsais
Rebuilding is more than reconstruction: it is resistance. It is our refusal to be erased, our determination to remain and exist on our landOn the 17th...
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Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters | Alexis Anderson-Reed
The so-called Save Act would strip millions of their access to the vote and make the process harder for everyone elseThe first months of the new Trump...
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The US government’s round-up of student protesters is genuinely shocking | Jameel Jaffer
These are the kinds of scenes we expect to see in the world’s most repressive regimes. And they won’t stop at foreign studentsThe defining feature of ...
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Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’
Trump administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemicThe federal government has cancelled...
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Tesla investors brace for global sales data amid consumer backlash over Elon Musk
First-quarter deliveries will be significantly down, say analysts, with the CEO and his links with Donald Trump the ‘core toxic issue’Tesla investors ...
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Will Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ be the start of a trade war – or another climbdown?
After myriad false starts and much fluctuation, the lingering question is not how far Trump can take his trade wars, but how far he willDonald Trump w...
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Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race
Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Elon Musk gave...
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Ministers brace for more Trump tariffs as UK races to agree US trade deal
Government fears hit from new US trade barriers but remains hopeful of progress in ongoing negotiationsMinisters believe Britain will be hit by more t...
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the askingNo one would...
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Trump news at a glance: ‘I’m not joking’ – Trump says he could seek third term
Trump also says in interview he was ‘very angry’ with Putin and threatened to bomb Iran – key US politics stories from 30 March 2025Donald Trump has s...
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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House
In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as presidentDonald Trump has said there are “methods...
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Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’
Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausibleAtlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg ha...
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Minnesota officials seek answers after Ice detains graduate student
Leaders call on federal authorities to explain actions after University of Minnesota student detained on ThursdayOfficials in Minnesota were seeking a...
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Advertising giant WPP cuts diversity section from annual report
Owner of Ogilvy and Grey agencies follows other multinationals in dropping or downplaying DEI policies since Trump’s electionThe British advertising g...
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The Guardian view on attacks on lawyers: democracies must stand up for justice | Editorial
From Russia to the US, those who seek to uphold the law are coming under increasing pressureWhat the law says on paper is irrelevant if it cannot be u...
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White House correspondents’ dinner cancels anti-Trump comedian’s appearance
WHCA says it was dropping Amber Ruffin’s performance so the event’s ‘focus is not on the politics of division’Comedy is off the menu at the annual Whi...
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Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
US president tells NBC he did not like his Russian counterpart questioning Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibilityDonald Trump has said he is “very angry, p...
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Biotech group warns exit of top FDA vaccine official will ‘erode scientific standards’
Rare admonition from a sector that has largely been silent in the face of the second Trump administrationThe US biotech industry’s main lobby group is...
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Special elections to deliver voters’ verdict on Trump’s chaotic first months
Key elections in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Wisconsin could offer a glimmer of hope to DemocratsSeveral elections on Tuesday will be a crucial test o...
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Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if tariffs make car prices go up
Trump says tariffs on foreign-made cars would would lead to increased sales of US-made carsDonald Trump said on Saturday he did not warn car industry ...
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‘Revenge is his number one motivation’: how Trump is waging war on the media
The president – who believes he has been treated unfairly by the press – is squeezing the media in different ways than his first termOn Tuesday 4 Marc...
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Why Trump’s brutal crackdown on free speech is unprecedented in the US
Experts says rounding up protesters and taking control from universities goes beyond McCarthy’s witch-huntsDonald Trump campaigned on the promise that...
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‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’ Joe McCarthy and the road to Trump
Red Scare author Clay Risen sees parallels between 1950s witch-hunts and the right’s assault on government todayOn 9 June 1954, in a Senate hearing ro...
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‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history
Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complexIn a brightly lit gallery, they see the 66...
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US House to vote on ‘reckless’ $1bn budget cut to Washington DC
Trump and congressional Republicans attempting to exert control over mostly Democratic capital cityWashington DC has found itself in the crosshairs of...
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Sexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America. Was #MeToo an epic failure?
The push to end sexual violence has sparked a revenge campaign setting fire to women’s rights and pushing young men to the right. But organizers can l...
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Revenge review: a luridly fascinating smorgasbord of Trump’s score settling
Pursuit of enemies has quickly emerged as a key theme of Trump 2.0 and Alex Isenstadt is happy to dish the dirtAlex Isenstadt is a senior political re...
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Trump’s counter-terror cuts will harm fight against far right, experts warn
Scale of cuts undermines US president’s own promises of ending stateside terrorism and curtailing antisemitismDonald Trump’s administration has ended ...
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Democrats have never been so angry. Who will step up and lead them?
At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are unleashing their fury with Donald Trump, stoking what some believe is a populist backlashDemocrats are...
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I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter | Stewart Lee
Is it worth me writing jokes about Trump’s US? It looks like they are targeting even their mildest visa-carrying criticsDuring the Brexit era, it beca...
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Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today
From The Apprentice to 13th, our critic selects titles that shed light on the US under Trump. Alex Gibney, whose new documentary examines how ‘dark mo...
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Is Trump’s authoritarian lurch following the playbook of Iran’s Ahmadinejad?
The US president’s rapid dismantling of democratic norms has sent scholars scrambling for global precedentsIt reads like an inventory of Donald Trump’...
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Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets | Kenan Malik
Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the...
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The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice-president should resign
His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House teamNot for the first time, JD Vance, Am...
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Trump news at a glance: anti-Musk protesters target Tesla showrooms around the world
More than 200 demonstrations take place from Australia to Switzerland; senior FDA official resigns citing RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’ – key US ...
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Most employees at US Institute of Peace mass-fired over late-night email
Congressionally created and funded thinktank taken over by ‘Doge’ seeks to prevent and resolve global conflictsMost employees at the US Institute of P...
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Global protests against Tesla CEO Elon Musk – video
Protesters gathered outside Tesla showrooms around the world on Saturday as part of a global day of action against billionaire chief executive Elon Mu...
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Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk
From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal governmentThousands of people worldwide protes...
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Chris Riddell on King Trump: all that he touches turns to… – cartoon
In the US, everything is going down the pan, while the global economy glistens with growthYou can buy a copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
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Trump has managed to spin Signalgate as a media lapse, not a major security breach | Andrew Roth
The US administration believes it can divide public attention until there is a new scandal. It may be a winning strategyWhen it comes to Trump-era sca...
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