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California outlaws child marriage, joining 17 other US states
Advocacy group that pushed for the legislation says 9,000 children are married in California every yearCalifornia has outlawed child marriage, joining...
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New Washington DC law bans landlords from imposing dog breed restrictions
Landlords can no longer refuse pit bulls, rottweilers, dobermans or other breeds considered ‘scary’Landlords in Washington DC will no longer be able t...
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US states and cities sue over Trump EPA’s repeal of emissions rules
Democratic-led coalition says gutting key protections will set US back decades and worsen climate crisisStates and cities sued the Trump administratio...
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Supreme court to hear case challenging Trump’s immigration detention policy
Court will review practice of indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants living in the US The US supreme court agreed on Thursday to take up a c...
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Brazil attorney general says meddling ‘cannot be tolerated’ after Trump funding plans revealed
Jorge Messias calls Guardian report ‘an important alert for Brazilian sovereignty’ as nation prepares to go to pollsBrazil’s attorney general has said...
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The Guardian view on the death penalty: Christa Pike’s execution was botched, but cruelty is inherent | Editorial
Three-quarters of nations have rightly abolished capital punishment in law or practice, but killing by the state has surged in the USWhat is the kinde...
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The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan
Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very b...
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DNC sues Trump administration over last-minute changes to overseas voting form
DNC accuses Pentagon of pushing through changes to how voters abroad request absentee ballots ahead of midtermsThe Trump administration broke the law ...
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Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors
Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentagon defense board raises conflict of interest concernsBy installing the tech billiona...
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Death row inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injections in Tennessee - The Latest
A woman convicted of murdering a schoolmate 30 years ago has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee. Chri...
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US woman on death row survives two lethal injections in Tennessee - The Latest
A woman convicted of murdering a schoolmate 30 years ago has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee. Chri...
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Trump dismisses low poll ratings as ‘fake numbers’ in Time interview
President also doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterms and deflects responsibility for Iran warDonald Trump deflected responsibi...
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Trump administration accused of pushing ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote president
House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for Trump’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’The Trump administration is facing gr...
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White House removes CNN from press pool for second time in a week
Network was listed as primary TV pool covering Thursday’s presidential activities but then was abruptly removedFor a second time in a week, the White ...
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Trump and his allies credit deportations with record low crime. Experts disagree
Administration says increased immigration enforcement led to fewer homicides, but they have been on the decline since Joe Biden’s termOver the last ye...
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Is Trump to blame for Americans getting explosive diarrhea? | Arwa Mahdawi
As the midterms approach, Americans’ digestive health has become a bizarre talking pointDonald Trump seems to spend an unusual amount of time thinking...
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Ukraine persists with Russian oil refinery strikes, defying Trump on fuel price warnings
Kyiv’s long-range strikes are headache for Trump before crucial midterms, while analysts’ claim war in Iran is responsible for rising pricesEurope liv...
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White House airs new taxpayer-funded ad praising Trump’s war on Iran
New ad features audio from Trump’s declaration of war and Pete Hegseth saying ‘if you kill Americans … we will kill you’The latest in a series of pro-...
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Mamdani’s nuanced plan offers a roadmap to tackle antisemitism – and reignites criticism of the mayor
Critics noted that the plan does not discuss Israel; others praised it for not conflating Jews with the state of IsraelWhen the New York City mayor, Z...
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‘Page one of repressive playbook’: critics warn of Trump’s conspiratorial attacks
President’s outlandish and extensive conspiracy theories endanger US freedoms, health and science, experts saySince the start of his second presidency...
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Democratic senators accuse Trump administration of worsening childcare crisis
Six lawmakers demand information on childcare center closures, cost changes, Head Start and government grantsDemocratic senators have accused Donald T...
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Americans are paying millions for a batch of pro-Trump ads | Margaret Sullivan
The spots, including a recycled campaign ad, are funded by taxpayers and present the president as a heroThe US government is spending millions of taxp...
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Tennessee governor halts executions after second botched lethal injection attempt this year – US politics live
Bill Lee pauses state’s remaining executions for the rest of the year after inmate Christa Pike survives two lethal injectionsTennessee woman on death...
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approachMost of...
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Trump officials abandon effort to investigate election threats, experts warn
Credible threats appear to have been overlooked as administration focuses on unverified claims of voter fraudThe Trump administration has abandoned ke...
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Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra clash in testy California governor’s race debate
The candidates running to replace Gavin Newsom sparred over taxes, immigration and regulating AIXavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, the candidates runnin...
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Man arrested over alleged plot to attack Texas state capitol
Suspect Benny Caldera Jr held on bond as officials say they received ‘credible’ information about Austin threatA 40-year-old man was arrested early We...
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Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
Pentagon head hails military with ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in anti-DEI rantSend us your questions abou...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good gracesPete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that El...
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Senate blocks Republican bill restricting stock trades by US Congress members
Democrats block measure they say didn’t go far enough – and was bundled with ‘poison pill’ voter ID rulesThe US Senate on Wednesday blocked a Republic...
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‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – live
Defense secretary summons military leaders for speech railing against diversity policiesSign up for the Breaking News US emailRachel Leingang and Rile...
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Trump DoJ indicts 10 individuals on noncitizen voting related charges in Minnesota
The charges are senior officials’ latest attempt to heighten voter fraud concerns amid midterm election campaigningUS politics live – latest updatesTh...
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Kristi Noem, former Trump homeland security chief, files for divorce
Noem cites irreconcilable differences in filing that comes after husband Bryon Noem involved in tabloid scandalKristi Noem, who was fired by Donald Tr...
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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in MichiganThe federal government is charging a Mich...
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Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect the US midterms
Our politics and foreign policy reporters will answer your questions live in a Q&A on Tuesday 6 OctoberThe war with Iran has had major implication...
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US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in JulyThe US’s main trade regulator...
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Federal Reserve watchdog finds no criminal violations for building renovation cost overruns
Trump criticized $2.4bn rehab amid attempts to pressure then Fed chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest ratesThe Federal Reserve’s internal watchd...
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Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill
Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumptionSenate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legi...
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‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error
Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AIThe White House ...
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Seth Meyers on Trump canceling $1bn in federal funds: ‘Is he adding a waterslide to the reflecting pool?’
Late-night hosts weighed in on Trump’s relationship with tech leaders and the White House’s new AI-powered siteOn Tuesday night, late-night hosts disc...
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Republican urges Trump administration to ‘step back’ and rethink immigration agenda
Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia criticizes immigration crackdown as ranchers’ associations condemn ICE activity A close political ally of Donald ...
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Pentagon says it has formally completed withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
Announcement comes two years after withdrawal was agreed to and 12 years since US mission to fight IS began The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that i...
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‘Of course I’m the underdog’: the British former spin doctor trying to turn California red
Steve Hilton’s long-shot campaign for governor is courting Golden state voters with unapologetically populist messageSteve Hilton stands almost no cha...
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Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson saysDonald Trump’s administration has withdraw...
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How Trump is meddling in Brazil's upcoming election – explainer
Brazil will head to the polls on 4 October for the first vote in its presidential race. The incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is neck-and-neck wit...
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Burundi agrees to receive ‘third-country’ migrant deportees from US
Burundi joins several other African nations in accepting people deported under Trump’s hardline policyBurundi has agreed to join a clutch of other Af...
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‘So much uncertainty’: Michigan’s Arab American businesses navigate Trump’s Canada trade war
Arab communities on both sides of the border grapple with ongoing tensions as US-Canada relations continue to sourIn Dearborn, Michigan, home to the l...
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Top Trump figures push to direct human rights funding to rightwing causes
Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rightsWith hours left before the funding exp...
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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the USWhen federal agents fatally shot US citizen pr...
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A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maga – with social media influencers
Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line Some of the biggest food...
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Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal | Sidney Blumenthal
The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicismKen Paxton’s political career, more t...
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As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’
Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the publicAn image o...
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