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Fears mount over Kash Patel’s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups
Concern over crackdown on anti-facists and Black Lives Matter movement as Trump loyalist takes control of agencyFears are mounting that Kash Patel, an...
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I’m a transgender veteran. Trump’s military order is reckless and dangerous | Alleria Stanley
Trans people are twice as likely as US adults overall to serve in the armed forces. But we’re regularly told our careers and lives aren’t worth saving...
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USDA cuts more than $1bn in local food purchases for schools, food banks
Millions of children could lose free school meals as food costs rise, warns School Nutrition Association presidentThe US Department of Agriculture (US...
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Ice accessed car trackers in sanctuary cities that could help in raids, files show
Westchester county has laws limiting cooperation, but Ice has accessed trove of data that holds license plate readersAs Donald Trump’s administration ...
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Pronatalists are ascendant on the right. Can they agree on how to make Americans have more babies?
The movement unites ‘family values’ conservatives and tech bro rightwingers. Will this incoherent coalition hold?In his first address to the United St...
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Trump pick for Washington US attorney made derogatory and racist comments
Revealed: rhetoric by interim US attorney for DC includes falsely claiming Kamala Harris ‘self-identified’ as BlackTrump’s appointee as interim US att...
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Arrest of Palestinian student activist raises alarm about free speech – US politics live
American Civil Liberties Union decries attack on free speech after immigration authorities arrest Mahmoud KhalilGood morning, and welcome to our US po...
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Where has the left’s technological audacity gone? | Leigh Phillips
The belief that technology will usher in a golden age for humanity is in vogue once more with billionaires. But can the left offer its own vision for ...
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Moscow hit by ‘largest ever’ drone attack before US and Ukraine officials meet for peace talks – Europe live
US and Ukraine officials meet in Jeddah after Moscow authorities said one person was killed in a drone attack on the Russian capitalAnd just hours bef...
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Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones
The president has slashed $400m in funding from Columbia University. He wants to stifle criticism of Israel – but the real target is dissentFor those ...
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Taoiseach must tread carefully amid tensions before Trump meeting
Defence, the Palestinians and Irish-American trade will all be on the agenda as Micheál Martin heads to WashingtonSt Patrick’s Day has long been one o...
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Protests in New York over attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil – video
Several people were arrested during a march through New York to protest against the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University stud...
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Trump administration briefing: Mahmoud Khalil’s detention, ‘Trumpcession’ fears and gutting USAid
From cries of ‘McCarthyism’ over Palestinian activist’s detention to fears over a ‘Trumpcession’ – key US politics stories from Monday at a glanceThe ...
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RFK Jr directs FDA to revise ‘self-affirm’ rule to improve food ingredient safety
Health secretary accuses food companies of ‘exploiting loophole’ over food safety and urges greater transparencyThe US secretary of health and human s...
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US rebrands immigration app to CBP Home with ‘self-deport’ function
Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, announced the new version, raising privacy concerns for those using CBP OneOn day one of his presidency, Donald Trump ...
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Trump’s January 6 pardon doesn’t cover FBI murder plot conviction, judge rules
Judge denies Edward Kelley’s motion to dismiss separate charges of plotting to kill federal agents investigating himA man pardoned by Trump for his ro...
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State department official reportedly deleted abusive tweets about Rubio
Darren Beattie, former Trump speechwriter who founded far-right website, repeated baseless innuendo on X A top official in the US state department del...
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The Guardian view on Nigel Farage: not even Donald Trump is as damaging to Reform as its own leader | Editorial
The rightwing leader’s latest feud isn’t with remainers or ‘woke’ elites – but with his own party, fuelled by Elon Musk’s interventionOne constant of ...
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Canada’s designated PM Mark Carney meets with Trudeau as Trump threat looms
Former central banker won landslide victory in Liberal party race as trade war with US hastens transfer of powerCanada’s incoming prime minister, Mark...
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The Guardian view on Ursula von der Leyen’s first 100 days: the steepest of learning curves | Editorial
The European Commission president has had a tumultuous beginning to her second term. Going forward, she should channel the spirit of Jacques DelorsIn ...
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Trump calls arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil ‘first of many to come’
President says in post his administration ‘will not tolerate’ actions of protesters at Columbia and other US universitiesDonald Trump said on Monday t...
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Trump says US in talks with four groups over TikTok sale: ‘It’s up to me’
President suspended implementation of law ordering app to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or face US banDonald Trump said on Sunday the United...
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Trump tariffs policy ‘misguided’ and US economy ‘very wobbly’, ex-adviser says
Stephen Moore, who contributed to Project 2025, urges Congress to pass tax cuts by Memorial DayDonald Trump’s focus on tariffs as an economic weapon i...
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Ontario sets 25% surcharge on US energy exports to counter Trump tariffs
Premier Doug Ford says province ‘won’t back down’ until US president retracts duties on CanadaThe Canadian province of Ontario is imposing a 25% surch...
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Canada’s lonely battle in the face of Trump threats | Letters
Readers respond to an editorial on the US president’s malign strategy against its neighbour Donald Trump has consistently threatened to forcibly annex...
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‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist
Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groupsFree speech organizations and advocate...
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Tariffs and a possible recession: updates from week 7 of Trump administration
Other major updates from second Trump administration’s first 100 days include cuts to intelligence-sharing and reports of infighting between Musk and ...
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Lauren Boebert accused of racism and ableism over her criticism of Al Green
Republican faces backlash for saying Democrat shook ‘his pimp cane’ at Trump during congressional addressThe extremist Republican US House member Laur...
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Trump backs temporary funding bill that would avert government shutdown
President tells Republicans to support measure boosting defense and deportation budgets before Saturday deadlineRepublican lawmakers are scrambling to...
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Drag artists rally to save the Kennedy Center and Bill Nye stands up for science – in pictures
From Washington to Sacramento, communities rallied against the Trump administration Continue reading...
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Trump supporter wrongly detained by Ice questions his support for president
Jensy Machado, a naturalized US citizen from Virginia, believes US immigration agency profiles Hispanic peopleUS politics live – latest updatesA Virgi...
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Rubio says 83% of USAid programs terminated after six-week purge
Surviving aid to be administered by state department in radical narrowing of definition of US national interestUS politics live – latest updatesThe Tr...
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Doge takeover of social security seemed ‘based on myth’, says ex-senior official
Tiffany Flick claims agents from Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting unit assailed staff with questions about fraudA former chief of staff at the US S...
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JD Vance’s cousin says vice-president and Trump are ‘useful idiots’ to Putin
Nate Vance reportedly spent three years trying to help Ukraine repel Russian troops and has been alarmed by his cousin’s remarksUS politics live – lat...
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The making of Elon Musk: how did his childhood in apartheid South Africa shape him?
The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal oneWith an imposi...
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Rubio and homeland security confirm arrest of Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests
Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Ice despite having a green card and his lawyers do not know where he’s being heldUS politics live – latest updatesA spo...
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US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’
Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) fo...
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Donald Trump’s tariffs hurting US business, Republican lawmakers warn – US politics live
Business owners, exporters and farmers tell lawmakers trade wars and tariffs are having direct impactThe United States has been added to the Civicus M...
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As Wyoming slide further to the right, legislators double down on trans bills
Lawmakers proposed seven bills curbing trans rights in this legislative session. Five passedWhen Wyoming legislators in 2022 passed a law banning tran...
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Alzheimer’s research centers face Trump-imposed $65m funding delay across the US
Researchers report difficulties retaining staff as White House cost-cutting stresses US medical research systemMajor Alzheimer’s disease research cent...
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We are stuck. Declining. And spiraling. We need a breakthrough | Amana Fontanella-Khan
We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?Today we live in a...
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Kleptocrats to benefit from Trump DoJ’s anti-corruption pause, experts warn
Former prosecutors criticize Pam Bondi’s decision to halt enforcement of bribery laws as short-sighted and dangerousA radical makeover at the US depar...
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The left needs to abandon its miserable, irrational pessimism | Aaron Bastani
A hundred years ago the average person, in one of the the world’s wealthiest societies, could expect to live until 40. Now global life expectacy is 73...
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Trump administration briefing: President downplays market volatility; US placed on civic decline watchlist
US president ducks question on whether he thinks the US will face a recession; watchdog fears US seeing a rapid decline in civic freedoms – key US pol...
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‘I hate to predict things’: Trump downplays US recession fears amid trade tariffs – video
US President Donald Trump dismissed business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and t...
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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and SerbiaThe United States has been added ...
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Kristi Noem names new Ice leadership and vows to punish media ‘leakers’
Homeland security secretary pledges lie detector tests for employees she suspects are passing information to pressHomeland security secretary Kristi N...
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‘I hate to predict things’: Trump doesn’t rule out US recession amid trade tariffs
President downplays recent stock market volatility that followed his ducking and weaving over tariff policyDonald Trump on Sunday refused to rule out ...
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Ella Baron on the US’s changing international status – cartoon
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Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest comes as Trump vows to deport foreign students involved in protests against Israel’s warA prominent Palestinian activist who h...
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New York: firefighters continue to battle wind-driven brush fire on Long Island
Three of the fires are contained, while one is still burning in Westhampton, officials sayFirefighters in New York were continuing to battle at least ...
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Democrats are reeling. Is Stephen A Smith the way back to the White House?
The charismatic sports news host has become an unlikely force in a party that needs critical friends and fresh ideasThe View, one of the US’s most pop...
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