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Donald Trump says he will deploy national guard in Washington DC – video
The US president says he is placing the Washington DC police department under federal control and deploying the national guard. Speaking at a press co...
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US judge to consider if Trump team broke law during LA Ice protests
Federal judge will review evidence and arguments on administration deploying national guard and marinesUS politics live – latest updatesA federal judg...
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Trump vows to ‘clean up’ Washington DC crime despite sharp drop in violence
President calls US capital ‘one of the most dangerous cities’ in world despite 30-year low in violent crime this yearUS politics – live updatesDonald ...
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Ohio law requires buses for private school kids. Public school students have to find their own ride
School districts are responsible for transporting private and charter school kids, leaving thousands of public school students behindFor about 2,000 s...
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Farmers displaced by $1.5bn Trump golf course reportedly being offered rice and cash
White House denies suggestions resort in Vietnam presents conflict of interest amid row over compensation ratesVillagers whose farms in Vietnam will b...
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Trump to hold press conference after ordering homeless to leave Washington DC – US politics live
President says he has plans to make capital ‘safer and more beautiful’ after social media attack on homeless peopleThe Democratic mayor of Washington,...
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US veterans agency lost thousands of ‘core’ medical staff under Trump, records show
Departures are exacerbating existing shortages and creating ‘very unsafe’ conditions for patients, veterans and health workers sayThe Department of Ve...
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Trump news at a glance: Epstein case haunts administration even as Vance blames Democrats for mishandling
Vice-president tries to deflect criticism of government’s refusal to release so-called Epstein files, triggering renewed calls for transparency – key ...
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Nvidia and AMD reportedly agree to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US
Chipmakers agree to quid pro quo deal as condition for obtaining export licenses for Chinese market, FT reportsNvidia and AMD have agreed to give the ...
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JD Vance’s attempt to blame Democrats
Vice-president tries to deflect criticism and blames Biden for doing ‘absolutely nothing’ about convicted sex offenderFour days after JD Vance reporte...
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Court overrides Trump officials’ rollback and blocks fishing in Pacific Islands monument
Judge in Hawaii rules that commercial fishing is illegal in federally protected area in the central Pacific OceanA federal judge in Hawaii has ruled t...
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Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC
President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrestsIn a social media post on Sunday, Dona...
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Texas redistricting fight with Democrats ‘could last years’, threatens Greg Abbott
Governor warns lawmakers who left to foil redistricting plan that he coould call special session to extend battleTexas governor, Greg Abbott, has step...
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Confusion over the Alaska summit shows Vladimir Putin still calls the shots
Donald Trump rewarding the Kremlin’s hardline attitude shows Russia can still sideline Ukraine from deal to end warIn the five months since Donald Tru...
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Pam Bondi fired him for prosecuting January 6 rioters. He’d do it again: ‘it’s about justice’
After volunteering to take on cases, Mike Gordon became known as a skilled litigator who took on high profile defendantsWhen he showed up to work on 2...
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Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues
Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president’s enormous detention and deportation machinery, report ‘unprecedented growth’The tech, surveillan...
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Trump’s sweeping bill looms large over Democrats and Republicans as they head for recess
Republicans see it as the epitome of Trump keeping his promises, while for Democrats it’s an opportunity to return from the political wildernessEarlie...
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Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. We’re now past day 200
Donald Trump’s second term has seen a sustained assault on democratic institutions – political, judicial, media, cultural, academic – that appears to ...
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Trump news at a glance: Lutnick threatens Harvard patents; former Fox commentator bound for UN
Commerce secretary begins process could let the government seize Harvard patents; Tammy Bruce nominated for deputy US ambassador to UN – key US politi...
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Trump administration threatens to strip Harvard University of lucrative patents
White House escalates offensive on Ivy League university by calling for review of federally funded researchThe latest phase of the Trump administratio...
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Trump nominates ex-Fox commentator Tammy Bruce for deputy UN ambassador
Bruce, dubbed a ‘great patriot’ by Trump in announcement, now serves as state department spokespersonDonald Trump said on Saturday he was nominating T...
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IRS commissioner’s removal reportedly over clash on undocumented immigrant data
Trump removed Billy Long from post months after agency said it couldn’t release information on some taxpayersThe removal of the Internal Revenue Servi...
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Vinay Prasad returns to FDA days after leaving under pressure from Laura Loomer
Prasad left the agency after far-right influencer released edited audio that misleadingly suggested he was anti-TrumpVinay Prasad is returning to his ...
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Trump reportedly considers reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous drug
President told people at a fundraiser last month he was considering changing marijuana’s Schedule I classificationDonald Trump is considering reclassi...
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Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
Progressive evangelical group says ideas shared by pastors and amplified by defense secretary are ‘very disturbing’The US defense secretary, Pete Hegs...
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How did we get all this gerrymandering? A short history of the Republican redistricting scheme
A plan to redistrict states to benefit Republicans was conceived of 15 years ago. It’s been an enormous successThe gerrymandering wars are back. Perha...
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William H Webster, former director of FBI and CIA, dies aged 101
Appointed by Carter to head FBI in 1978, Webster helped improve the image of an agency tarnished by scandalWilliam H Webster, the former FBI and CIA d...
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Trump-backed World Liberty proposes $1.5bn crypto holder, Bloomberg News reports
Co-founded by president’s eldest sons, Eric and Don Jr, World Liberty has earned the family $500m since its launchWorld Liberty Financial, a crypto ve...
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Trump Burger owner in Texas faces deportation after Ice arrest
Roland Beainy from Lebanon, who opened chain of restaurants in support of president, says charges ‘not true’ The owner of a Donald Trump-themed hambur...
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‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling
US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the USThe Trump administration’s plan to expand oil a...
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Azerbaijan and Armenia sign peace deal at White House that creates a ‘Trump Route’ in region
Deal to end four-decade conflict includes creation of transit corridor named ‘Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity’The leaders of Armeni...
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What is going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene? | Arwa Mahdawi
The far-right Republican and conspiracy theorist is suddenly speaking (a small amount of) sense. Weird!Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: Ma...
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‘She’s the one that matters’: the growing influence of Melania on Donald Trump
First lady is facing increased scrutiny as political experts suggest she is behind US president’s recent volte-faces on Gaza and PutinWhen Melania Tru...
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Trump news at a glance: President reportedly orders military to target drug cartels; plans to meet Putin on Ukraine
Directive reportedly gives Pentagon a basis to operate against cartels on foreign soil; Trump to meet Russian president in Alaska next week – key US p...
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Trump removes IRS commissioner Billy Long two months after he was sworn in
Long is reportedly now in line for Iceland ambassador post as treasury chief Scott Bessent takes over as acting IRS headDonald Trump is removing Billy...
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Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding
University of California president says ‘a payment of this scale would completely devastate’ public university systemThe Trump administration is seeki...
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Several people arrested at anti-Ice protest outside NYC immigration court
Demonstrators reportedly accused the agency of operating a covert detention facility at the federal courthouseSeveral protesters outside New York City...
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Texas house meets without necessary number of lawmakers after Democrats left state
Top state Republicans had set Friday deadline before Democrats who have left face arrest or removal from officeUS politics live – latest updatesThe Te...
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US court tosses judge’s contempt order over Trump’s El Salvador deportations
Decision from divided three-judge panel vacates a district judge’s finding of contempt against Trump administrationAn appeals court on Friday tossed o...
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Trump’s justice department reportedly subpoenas New York attorney general
Department issued two subpoenas to Letitia James for civil fraud case against Trump and an investigation into the NRAThe Department of Justice has iss...
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Kristi Noem responds to South Park’s crude takedown of her in episode targeting Ice
Cartoon series highlighted homeland security chief’s repeated animal killings and poked fun at her looksUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Park’s ...
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Vance says UK and US have ‘disagreements’ over Gaza, as he confirms Trump does not back Palestinian state recognition – as it happened
David Lammy is hosting the US vice-president at Chevening, his grace-and-favour residence in Kent, where they will discuss the Middle EastThe SNP is c...
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The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel
The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Borde...
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Trump orders seven-day crackdown on violent crime in Washington DC
President’s directive to federal officers comes a day after threatening to ‘federalize’ city for attack on ex-Doge stafferDonald Trump has ordered fed...
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Stephen Colbert on JD Vance’s water level raising: ‘Insane spoiled baby emperor move’
Late-night hosts discussed the controversial decision to change the water level of a river for the vice-president’s boating trip and Trump’s $200m bal...
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Trump officials reportedly met at White House to discuss strategy around Epstein files
Meeting was attended by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the FBI director, Kash Patel, among othersTop Trump officials reportedly met at the Wh...
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Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliate rejects Medicaid amid fears over Trump cuts
Group fears administration could try to claw back Medicaid payments if judge’s ruling on reimbursements is overturnedAn Ohio affiliate of Planned Pare...
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What could the Cotswolds possibly offer JD Vance? I suggest a swim in one of its rivers | Marina Hyde
The VP of a thousand holidays has done Disneyland and skiing in Vermont. Now it’s time to skive off among the worst people Britain has to offerI don’t...
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Trump orders increased federal law enforcement in Washington DC to combat crime - US politics live
Move comes amid president’s suggestions that his administration could fully take over running the cityGood morning and welcome to the US politics live...
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Trump firing labor statistics head won’t achieve his agenda, says former chief
Erica Groshen says she’s worried about US president bending bureau to his will, but hopes he ‘won’t go that far’Donald Trump will need to take more ra...
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Friday briefing: What will US funding cuts on mRNA vaccines mean for the health of the world?
In today’s newsletter: The global scientific community is reeling after the US announced sweeping cuts to vaccine research, reigniting fears that misi...
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