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US Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs on more than 100 countries
Vote passes 51-47 in latest bipartisan effort to challenge tariffs, but House is unlikely to take any similar actionThe US Senate took a stand against...
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Britain would do well to remember where its power over China lies | Simon Jenkins
It’s ridiculous for the government to splurge on defence while it slashes spending on its most valuable asset: cultureThe US has backed down in its ta...
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US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecutionThe Trump administrati...
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Share how the ongoing US government shutdown could affect your access to food or health insurance
We’re interested to hear how the looming pause of Snap benefits, as well as rising insurance costs due to a loss of subsidies, could affect AmericansM...
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Senate postpones hearing for Trump’s surgeon general pick after she goes into labor
Casey Means, a leading Maha figure with an inactive medical license, is Trump’s second pick for the roleThe Senate hearing for Donald Trump’s nominee ...
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The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision | Moira Donegan
Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different pathA young po...
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The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor
Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, hopes to defeat Jacob Frey by focusing on affordability, wages and public safetyOn a rainy October day, dozens of ...
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Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention lengthIm...
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Trump is using the shutdown to make life tougher for millions of workers | Steven Greenhouse
Food stamps are in danger and hundreds of thousands of federal workers may go unpaid, as thousands more are laid offFor many Americans, government shu...
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Wife of British journalist ‘abducted by ICE’ speaks out: ‘We’re being kept in the dark’
Soumaya Hamdi says she has barely spoken to Sami Hamdi since he was taken over his pro-Palestinian advocacyThe wife of a British political commentator...
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Extremists exploit political ‘trigger events’ to recruit people online, says study
NYU report monitored social feeds and found groups call for retaliatory action after politically motivated violent eventsExtremists are exploiting pol...
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Donald Trump says rare earths dispute ‘settled’ after Xi Jinping meeting in South Korea – live updates
Summit on sidelines of Apec was the first between the leaders of US and China since 2019, and comes after tensions have been strained by Trump’s trade...
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Trump directs Pentagon to ‘immediately’ start testing US nuclear weapons
US president references China and Russia in Truth Social post shortly before meeting with President Xi JinpingTrump meets Xi in South Korea – latest u...
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Trump news at a glance: president’s effort to sue his own DoJ is ‘absurd’ and ‘frivolous’, expert says
The two justice department officials with power to sign off on the claims are Trump appointees and allies – key US politics stories from 29 October at...
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Trump’s ‘absurd’ DoJ compensation bid would be rejected if he were anyone else, experts say
President’s effort to win $230m in damages from Mar-a-Lago and Russia investigations criticized as ‘frivolous’Donald Trump’s effort to get his justice...
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Meta reports mixed financial results amid spree of AI hiring and spending
Tech company brings in record quarterly revenue but major tax bill dampens earnings per shareMeta reported mixed financial results for the third quart...
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Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests
Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent’Kat Abughazaleh, a progressive candidate f...
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DeSantis urges Florida universities to stop hiring foreign visa workers
Governor tells universities to end use of H-1B visas, though legal experts say states lack authority over federal programFlorida governor, Ron DeSanti...
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US could lose between $7bn and $14bn during shutdown, budget office says
Federal agency also estimates country’s GDP will reduce by one to two percentage points over shrinking demandThe US is set to lose between $7bn and $1...
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US military to reduce number of troops in Romania as start of European drawdown
Army says 2nd Infantry Brigade combat team of 101st Airborne to redeploy to Kentucky ‘without replacement’The US military is reducing the number of tr...
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Revealed: Pentagon orders state guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrestUS politics li...
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Obamacare insurance prices will jump up 26% next year, report predicts
Enhanced subsidies keeping premiums affordable for millions will expire, threatening to more than double what households pay out of pocketPeople in th...
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Trump fires federal arts board in charge of reviewing White House ballroom and ‘Arc de Trump’
All six members of the independent Commission of Fine Arts were reportedly dismissed TuesdayDonald Trump has fired all six members of an independent f...
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Jared Kushner is back – and so are big questions about his financial ties | Mohamad Bazzi
Kushner’s investment firm is backed by three Arab petrostates critical to the Gaza agreement. And the deals keep comingIn Donald Trump’s first term, h...
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JD Vance did nothing as Trump cuts costs his Ohio home town millions. Will it reshape the city council?
Two progressives are running for seats on Middletown’s non-partisan, yet Republican-leaning, council in next month’s electionWhen the Middletown high ...
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Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE
A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootle...
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‘No Trump’ protests in South Korea as US president finalises trade deal with Lee Jae Myung - US politics live
Progressive groups and opposition politicians hold anti-US protest as Donald Trump sounds optimistic note about China summitSouth Korea welcomed US pr...
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones
We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating powerDemocracy may be dying in the US. Whe...
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Too bad I can’t run, but we’ll see what happens, says Trump on unconstitutional third term
Trump says he has read about constitutional two-term limit preventing him from running for president in 2028 and it was ‘pretty clear’, but that he ‘w...
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Court to reconsider ruling that allowed Trump to send troops to Portland
President remains barred from deploying national guard as appeals court agrees to ‘en banc’ rehearing of caseThe Trump administration remains barred f...
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Trump news at a glance: senators pass measure that would scrap Brazil tariffs in rare fightback against trade war
Bipartisan measure would terminate sweeping tariffs on coffee, beed and other products – key US politics stories from 28 October at a glanceThe Republ...
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Border patrol leader told to go to court every weekday to report on Chicago enforcement
Federal judge gives orders to Gregory Bovino in exceptional bid to impose oversight over Trump officials’ raids in cityA federal judge has ordered Gre...
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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole...
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US Senate votes to rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil
Vote passes 52-48 with Republican support in rare bipartisan rebuke of US president’s trade policiesThe US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that w...
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Air traffic controllers receive $0 paychecks as government shutdown stretches
Nearly 11,000 air traffic controllers, deemed essential workers, did not receive wages for two weeks of workAir traffic controllers and Transportation...
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Man deported to Laos despite US court order blocking his removal, attorneys say
District judge told Ice to keep Alabama man in US while he showed what judge called ‘substantial claim’ to citizenshipImmigration officials have depor...
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Shutdown stretches into 28th day as Senate again fails to pass spending legislation
As funding for food aid program is about to be exhausted, Congress fails for 13th time to advance Republican billUS politics live – latest updatesThe ...
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Two dozen states sue White House over food stamps suspension amid shutdown
Federal food assistance benefits for low-income families set to expire on 1 November due to government shutdownA coalition of more than two dozen stat...
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Trump demanded trans issues be excluded from sex education. 11 states complied
16 other states have sued the White House over the federal program, saying it’s trampling on authority of CongressUS politics live – latest updatesAt ...
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Trump’s third term? Don’t laugh. He’s never let the rules stop him before | Arwa Mahdawi
He has floated the idea more than once – and his inner circle is already gaming it out. The US constitution might say no, but Trump has a habit of fin...
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Jon Stewart on Trump’s taunts of an illegal third term: ‘We know he’s thought about it’
Late-night hosts discussed the president trolling Democrats with Trump 2028 hats as the shutdown enters fourth weekLate-night hosts reacted to Donald ...
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US military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth
US forces in recent weeks carried out at least eight strikes against boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, killing about 40 peopleUS politics ...
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Tattoo fixers on removing Nazi symbols: ‘You don’t know if they’re changing or hiding’
Senate hopeful Graham Platner covered up his tattoo once he learned of its Nazi associations. It’s a problem so common there are free programs for itL...
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House Republicans revive Biden ‘autopen’ claims in new report
Report offers no proof of wrongdoing but repeats disputed claims about Biden’s awareness of decisions in officeUS House Republicans on Tuesday unveile...
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Trump administration will revamp ICE leadership in quest to intensify deportations
Government intends to reassign multiple directors of field offices as it falls well short of its targets on immigrationUS politics live – latest updat...
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Haitians helped boost Springfield’s economy – now they’re fleeing in fear of Trump
Ohio city’s economic fortunes spiral and local businesses suffer as Haitians leave due to administration’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policiesEvery m...
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Trump and new Japanese prime minister share praise and vow to strengthen ‘remarkable’ relationship – US politics live
The president also suggested he could deploy the National Guard in more US cities at an address aboard the US naval baseMario Guevara has said he may ...
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Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by Trump officials
Emmy award-winner Mario Guevara warns administration ‘has the power’ after he was arrested and sent to El SalvadorMario Guevara has said he may have b...
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Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich
Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani. And The New York Times wrongly cautions against him. Both are wrongThe only ups...
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Forget diplomatic niceties: it's beyond time Europe denounced Trump's trashing of democracy in the US | Paul Taylor
The convention to stay out of allies’ internal affairs does not apply. What happens in America does not stay in AmericaWhat do you do when you discove...
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Trump says he would be allowed to run third term as vice president – video
US president Donald Trump has given conflicting answers to whether he will attempt to run for a third term in 2028. At first he said he hadn't really ...
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Trump news at a glance: president floats a third term as Democrats vow ‘no way in hell’
President has not definitively ruled out seeking to extend time in office. Key US politics stories from Monday 27 October at a glanceA third term for ...
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