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Polymarket criticized over ‘disgusting’ bets on fate of pilots on US jet shot by Iran
US congressman decried bets on when two crew members on the F-15 jet shot down by Iranian forces would be rescuedAfter strong criticism from a federal...
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Trump to hold press conference on Iran war after profanity-laden threats on social media – US politics live
Trump to speak to media at 1pm ET after threatening Iran on Easter Sunday over the closure of the strait of HormuzSign up for Breaking News US email a...
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US lower court judges are challenging Trump’s ‘war on the rule of law’, experts say
Impact of rulings by these judges has been sizable, slowing or halting some of the president’s most extreme policiesDistrict court judges nationwide h...
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David Ellison says 70% of Americans are centrist. Surveys tell a different story
Paramount Skydance CEO has repeatedly cited the statistic when laying out the approach that CBS News and potentially CNN would takeDuring an early Mar...
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How Middle East conflict is infiltrating the tight US Senate race in Michigan
Heated discourse over Israel and influencer Hasan Piker has created cracks between progressive and establishment Democratic candidates in key swing st...
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Trump news at a glance: president accused of ‘threatening possible war crimes’ in Iran post
Chuck Schumer accuses president of ‘ranting like unhinged madman’ in threat to obliterate Iran’s power plants and bridges. Key US politics stories fro...
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Thousands in Texas protest against border wall through national park: ‘big love for Big Bend’
Rally met with bipartisan support after US border patrol revealed plans for steel wall across parts of beloved parksThousands of people gathered at th...
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‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’Middle East ...
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Trump’s working-class support is waning | Jared Abbott and Dustin Guastella
Our survey finds that 20% of 2024 Trump voters are considering abandoning Republicans in 2028. But the picture isn’t rosy for Democrats eitherA new su...
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US health officials appear to shy away from anti-vaccine talk ahead of midterms
Elections seem top-of-mind for the Maha movement as key polling indicates anti-vaccine views are a liabilityUS health officials appear to be shying aw...
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‘I still think it’s one of the great films of all time’: All the President’s Men turns 50
In April 1976, the flawless Watergate film premiered in Washington – cast members and reporters share their memories of ‘the granddaddy of journalism ...
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Here are three ways we can turn anti-Trump solidarity into political power | Robert Reich
The No Kings protests affirmed widespread opposition to Trump’s actions. As the midterms approach, we have an opportunityLast weekend, millions of us ...
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Trump news at a glance: Administration fights to renew work on White House ballroom
An emergency motion argues that the pause on construction leaves the White House ‘open and exposed’. Key US politics stories from Saturday 4 April at ...
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Halting $400m White House ballroom project is national security risk, Trump officials say
US National Park Service lawyers cite materials that will be installed to make ‘heavily fortified’ facilityDonald Trump’s administration is arguing th...
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Federal judge halts White House effort to collect university data on applicants’ race
Trump ordered data collection after raising concern about race being used as factor in college admissionsA federal judge on Friday halted efforts by t...
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US authorities arrest relatives of late Iranian military commander who were living in Los Angeles
State department said niece and grandniece of Qassem Soleimani, killed in 2020 US drone strike, celebrated attacks against US soldiersUS federal agent...
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Why US and Russia are backing Viktor Orbán in Hungary election
As voters head to polls, Washington support and alleged interference from Moscow raise questions about influenceThe official announcement that JD Vanc...
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‘The good old days are gone’: how will US prices stand as war in Iran surges on?
Beyond rising costs of gas and air travel, experts say this is likely just beginning of higher prices amid global volatilitySign up for the Breaking N...
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#MilitaryTok reactions to Iran war stray from White House messaging: ‘Now I’m regretting everything’
As Trump’s administration aims to bring ‘warrior culture’ back to the military, young service members express anxiety and snark online over potential ...
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‘It broke our home’: family demands answers after death of man abandoned by US border agents
Nurul Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, was left alone in a Buffalo parking lot. His death has been ruled a homicide – what now?On 19 Februa...
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Forget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against Iran
The Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of IraniansOn 23 March, Donald Trump said that if things didn’...
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Trump news at a glance: president enlists JD Vance as his ‘fraud czar’, targeting Democratic states
Trump said Vance would focus on blue states and, without providing evidence, accused Democrat leaders of rampant ‘theft’ – key US politics stories fro...
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Trump issues order declaring all DHS staff get paid amid partial shutdown
US president issues executive order as longest partial government shutdown in US history enters 49th dayDonald Trump issued an executive order Friday ...
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US military archbishop says Iran conflict does not meet ‘just war’ standard
Catholic Timothy Broglio says ‘hard to cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord’The leader of all Catholic chaplains in the Unit...
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Democratic attorneys general sue Trump over order to restrict mail voting
Over 20 attorneys general challenge the executive order and say it’s an unconstitutional move to disenfranchise votersMore than 20 Democratic attorney...
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Senator decries new shoes-on security policy at US airports as ‘reckless’
Democrat Tammy Duckworth writes letter to TSA calling on agency to reinstate the shoes-off airport security policyNine months after US airports allowe...
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Democrats pay visit to ICE detention facility where abuse claims are rife
California House members tour Otay Mesa center, which has faced allegations of poor conditions and sexual assaultsTwo California lawmakers conducted a...
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Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California
US president makes baseless claims about fraud in blue states and says JD Vance will lead clampdown as ‘fraud czar’Donald Trump announced a fresh crac...
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University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war
Aria Fani of University of Washington’s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US universitySign up for the Breaking News U...
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US defense spending would rise $445bn under Trump budget plan, with steep cuts elsewhere
Democrats rebuke White House’s ‘bleak and unacceptable’ view of priorities after 10% cuts proposed to other programsUS politics live – latest updatesS...
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Bondi out, Blanche in: what will a new justice department head mean for the Epstein investigation?
Bondi, reportedly ousted due to her botched handling of Epstein files, is still set to testify before Congress on 14 AprilSign up for the Breaking New...
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Donald Trump is the ageing patriarch of a decaying order | Letters
Geriatric US presidents are a symptom of a failing political order, says Dr Georgios Samaras, while Jim Hatley wonders who would take over if the pres...
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‘Vegas hotel meets aerospace bling’: Trump’s presidential library plan is a gaudy, self-glorifying monstrosity
From JFK’s modernist concrete to Obama’s ‘Tatooine sandcrawler’, the presidential library is where egos burnish their legacies. But the brash, bookles...
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EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
Proposal, a win for RFK Jr’s Maha movement, is a ‘first step’ toward tackling plastic pollution, advocates sayThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
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Courts keep ruling against Trump. But they can’t save our democracy singlehandedly | Margaret Sullivan
Decisions on the White House ballroom, public media and journalists’ access to the Pentagon are heartening. But restoring our institutions is up to us...
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Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?
International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventionsDonald Trum...
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US jobs market surpassed expectations in March but February losses were worse than first reported
Employers added 178,000 new jobs in March and unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, ahead of economists’ predictionsSign up for the Breaking News US email t...
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Todd Blanche takes over justice department after Pam Bondi sacking – US politics live
Trump announced deputy attorney general, who was his former personal attorney, would act up until permanent replacement is confirmedSign up for the Br...
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US judge rules against deporting man whose murder conviction was overturned after 44 years in prison
Decision came after hearing in which Subramanyam Vedam, 64, said he didn’t kill Thomas Kinser when he was 19A judge has cleared the way for the potent...
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Trump accused of running ‘misogynistic administration’ after Bondi dismissal
Bondi and Kristi Noem the only two cabinet members to be removed despite string of scandals involving male officialsDonald Trump has been accused of r...
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Pam Bondi’s firing won’t have the effect Trump desires | Moira Donegan
If the idea was to try to shed some of the liabilities of the Epstein scandal by firing Bondi, the move seems likely to backfireIt was only a matter o...
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US senators rebuke Ticketmaster for raising fees after hidden charge crackdown: ‘bait and switch’
Richard Blumenthal says company acts like it has ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’ as records show it upping fees to cut lossesTicketmaster quietly raised o...
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Trump news at a glance: president gives his loyal enforcer the boot
US attorney general Pam Bondi failed to please a president fixated on prosecuting political enemies – key US politics stories from Thursday 2 April at...
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Epstein accusations and pressure from the boss: Bondi’s time as Trump’s chief enforcer
From attempts to prosecute president’s foes to claims of a cover-up, attorney general endured tumultuous tenureAnalysis: Bondi firing a reminder that ...
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Bondi firing a reminder that even ultra-loyalists get dumped by Trump
Attorney general was key part of effort to go after enemies but even she could not satisfy whims of mercurial presidentPam Bondi’s swift dismissal on ...
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Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general
Bondi earned president’s ire over handling release of Epstein files and failing to prosecute his political enemiesUS politics live – latest updatesSig...
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Democrats cheer Trump’s firing of Pam Bondi and attack Epstein files ‘cover-up’
Hakeem Jeffries predicts Pete Hegseth could be next as party alarmed by damage done by ‘terrible’ attorney generalTrump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist an...
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Trump’s surreal speech on Iran shed no light on his goals | Kenneth Roth
The US president couldn’t give a single coherent reason for why this aggressive war of choice must still be prosecutedDonald Trump’s self-congratulato...
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To a world at a loss as to how to handle Trump, I say this: the only answer may be to wait him out| Simon Jenkins
A great effort will be needed to undo the damage once the US president has gone. But with the constitution unable to bring him to order now, that is w...
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Appeals court orders resentencing of ex-Colorado clerk jailed for election interference
Tina Peters, an election denier, was found guilty in 2024 of allowing unauthorized access to county’s voting equipmentSign up for the Breaking News US...
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‘A litany of lies’: Trump’s rambling primetime Iran address sparks backlash
US president’s 19-minute Wednesday address at the White House was met with bewilderment from commentatorsDonald Trump’s primetime nationwide address o...
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