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Trump demands Senate allow him to circumvent hearings to appoint cabinet
Trump urges support from Rick Scott, John Thune and John Cornyn for ‘recess appointments’ while US Senate is pausedUS politics live – latest updatesUS...
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John Oliver on the US election: ‘Despair doesn’t help anything’
Last Week Tonight host tries to process the re-election of Trump, counts the small victories and looks ahead“It has been a rough week,” said John Oliv...
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Trump didn’t just win. He expanded his voter base | John Zogby
Trump outperformed his 2016 and 2020 election runs substantially with groups such as young men and Black peopleDonald Trump defied the polls and pundi...
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Not changing course on Gaza was a colossal mistake by Kamala Harris | Moustafa Bayoumi
It was a fatal error certainly for Palestinians and quite likely, as we now see, for Americans, tooCould Kamala Harris have won the election if she ha...
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Arizona attorney general says she won’t drop Trump fake electors case
Kris Mayes has ‘no intention’ of breaking up criminal case on president-elect’s alleged plot to overturn 2020 electionUS politics live – latest update...
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First came the bots, then came the bosses - we’re entering Musk and Zuck’s new era of disinformation | Joan Donovan
Tech leaders’ politics are encoded into their platforms – and with Trump’s ascent, they have direct access to the Oval OfficeI’m a researcher of media...
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Former Harris aide suggests Biden resign so she can serve as president
Jamal Simmons says move would help Democrats seize public’s attention before Trump begins term in JanuaryUS politics live – latest updatesA former com...
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US politics live: Trump appoints former Ice director as ‘border czar’; Republicans move closer to winning US House control
Tom Homan has previously said he would ‘run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen’; Republicans close to controlling both congressi...
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Black women on what Harris’s loss says about the US: ‘Voters failed to show up for her’
Some supporters believe race and gender were underlying reasons many won’t admit to for why the vice-president lostIn the hours after Joe Biden’s deci...
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EPA staff fear Trump will destroy how it protects Americans from pollution
Workers face being targets in what could be Environmental Protection Agency’s biggest upheaval since its foundingAfter several years of recovery after...
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What is voter certification – the process that Trump targeted in 2020?
With voting complete, election officials will now certify results before the electoral college meets in DecemberWith voting completed in the US presid...
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What kind of host will Donald Trump be for the World Cup and Olympics?
The president-elect could spark tension between the culturally open cities staging events and a national government promoting insularityVery soon afte...
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US election briefing: Trump demands Senate streamline his cabinet picks as recruitment begins
Rick Scott has emerged as front runner for the role of Senate majority leader, as Trump urges Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine Continue readin...
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Trump speaks with Putin and advises him not to escalate Ukraine war – report
In phone call, Trump reminds Putin of US’s ‘sizeable military presence in Europe’, Washington Post reportsDonald Trump spoke on the phone with Vladimi...
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Sweep of swing states rubs salt in Democrats’ wounds as Trump prepares to meet Biden
Trump to visit Oval Office on Wednesday as Biden says he will ‘ensure a peaceful and orderly transition’Donald Trump was declared the winner in Arizon...
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Bernie Sanders says he opposes urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down
Senator says he doesn’t support forcing justice to retire so that Biden can pick replacement before finishing his termBernie Sanders said he opposes a...
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How a second Trump term could further enrich Elon Musk: ‘There will be some quid pro quo’
Experts say new government could blunt regulation and appoint officials sympathetic to Musk’s brood of companiesDonald Trump owes his decisive 2024 pr...
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Ukraine’s MPs hopeful Donald Trump’s victory ‘not a catastrophe’ for war effort
Complexity of negotiating with Putin may benefit Kyiv, with US defence and security appointments criticalUkrainian politicians are expressing tentativ...
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‘I hate lying to her’: US couples on voting against their partners’ candidates
Americans recount political clashes inside the home and how they get past it – or don’tIn the 2024 election, women turned out for Kamala Harris, while...
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Trump’s wild threats put press freedom in the crosshairs in second term
Free press advocates are alarmed by Trump’s talk of revoking broadcast licenses and jailing journalists – but express hope in the US’s first amendment...
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‘I blame the party’: recriminations abound among Democrats – including in Scranton
Harris won Biden’s home county in Pennsylvania by less than 1%, a steep drop from Biden’s and Obama’s winsFrom gold-high top sneakers to Women-for-Tru...
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A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr
The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging eliteIn hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And ...
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From Trump’s victory, a simple, inescapable message: many people despise the left | John Harris
The tumult of social media and rightwing propaganda have successfully cast progressives as one judgmental, ‘woke’ massThere is no need to pick only a ...
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Terrorist groups embrace chance of weakened US hegemony under Trump
One post from ex-members of neo-Nazi group says ‘we’re happy’ with Trump’s plans to slash national security jobsWhile Donald Trump has cultivated his ...
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‘No time to pull punches’: is a civil war on the horizon for the Democratic party?
Accusations and recriminations abound as Democrats try to figure out what went wrong after an electoral trouncingJoe Biden stood before the American p...
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If I were Captain America, I’d quit | Stewart Lee
Progressive postwar culture in the US – rock’n’roll, cinema and comic-book characters – no longer makes sense in a Trumpian worldThe presidency of Don...
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‘People feel terrible. They want to laugh’: can comedy make light of Trump 2.0?
A second Donald Trump presidency may be darker than the first, but his victory has unleashed the creative energies of satirists and standups “When Tru...
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Donald Trump wins Arizona as US House moves closer to Republican control – US politics live
President-elect completes clean sweep of seven battleground states; Republican representative defeats former Navajo Nation president for House seatYou...
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Will Typhoon Orange wreak havoc on Britain? Keir Starmer has to prepare for the worst | Andrew Rawnsley
Downing Street may be making friendly overtures but the cabinet’s stomachs are in knots about the threats to the UK’s security and prosperityPeas from...
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Republicans on the verge of clinching control of the US House
With votes still being counted from general election, a win would be critical for Trump to advance agendaUS elections 2024 – live updatesRepublicans o...
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Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle
Thousands of people take to streets to protest threats to reproductive rights and pledges of mass deportationsProtests against Donald Trump erupted in...
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Fema worker fired for telling Milton relief team to skip homes with Trump signs
Fema chief calls action ‘reprehensible’ while Florida governor calls it a ‘weaponization of government’A employee at the Federal Emergency Management ...
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The Observer view on US election: lessons for the left in wake of damning defeat
Donald Trump’s overwhelming mandate is a wake-up call for progressive parties who have lost touch with voters’ concernsDonald Trump’s unexpectedly cle...
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We can rage about Donald Trump. Or we can be curious about why he appealed to so many | Peter Hyman
Progressives would do well to try to understand how millions of Americans turned to him because he offered real hope of prosperity, security and fewer...
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Joe Biden to welcome Donald Trump to the White House on Wednesday
Trump refused to welcome Biden in 2021 after his defeat by the Democratic nominee, insisting he had won the electionUS elections 2024 – live updatesJo...
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Arizona endures tense wait for final election result in last battleground
Tallies are 83% complete, with Trump at 52.7%, but 602,000 uncounted votes give Harris a chance to catch upUS elections 2024 – live updatesArizona rem...
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The US has lost faith in the American dream. Is this the end of the country as we know it?
The Republican’s second presidential term heralds a more inward-looking US where resentment has replaced idealism and nobody wins without someone else...
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‘It gave me a new perspective’: student exchange program attempts to bridge divided US
American Exchange Project helps high school seniors travel and meet youths from different sociopolitical backgroundsFor Baltimore native Jessica Osei-...
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How Trump won over voters in deep-blue New York City
Harris still won with 68% of the city’s vote, but it was still a steep drop from Biden’s 53-point margin of victory in 2020Donald Trump’s win was ulti...
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None of the conventional explanations for Trump’s victory stand up to scrutiny | Ben Davis
This election has blown a hole in the worldviews of both leftists and centrists. The pandemic may be a more important factorDonald Trump has won, and ...
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‘They blew it’: Democrats lost 22,000 votes in Michigan’s heavily Arab American cities
Trump’s courting of Arab American voters and the Biden-Harris Gaza policy turned votes away from the DemocratKamala Harris received at least 22,000 fe...
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How Elon Musk became Donald Trump’s shadow vice-president
The world’s richest man has risen to become the second most powerful man in US politics. None of it was accidentalAs Donald Trump watched election res...
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‘Fascism comes not with goose-steps but dance moves’: European writers react to Trump’s win
Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran offers a ‘friendly warning’ about authoritarianism, Joseph O’Connor predicts a cooling of Irish-American relations – and...
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Why has the American center right disappeared from the ballot box? | Jan-Werner Müller
Americans voted for the far right without necessarily wanting to endorse a far-right mandate. Trump will claim one anywayThe blame game’s in full swin...
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Trump’s ‘golden age of America’ could be an unrestrained imperial presidency
Emboldened by a strong mandate, the Republican will bring his dark Maga vision to the US with little resistanceAt 2.25am, Donald Trump gazed out at hi...
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Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want
We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the stormHere we are in a crisis in which almost everythi...
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From Barron to Kai: a who’s who of Trump’s family - and the roles they could play
After some big roles in Donald Trump’s last administration, here are those likely to feature this time roundDonald is not the only Trump back in the p...
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Nancy Pelosi blames Joe Biden for election defeat as Democrats turn on each other – US politics live
Pelosi told the New York Times that had Biden left sooner, the party could have had an open primaryIraqi prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, expr...
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US election briefing: military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump
Trump has promised to turn back migrants at the southern border, but US law generally prohibits active-duty troops from being deployed for law enforce...
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White noise: why hatred of Donald Trump fuels his success as much as his supporters’ love
A network of organised disinformation sows doubt, kills policy reform and keep us at odds as we debate Trump-maniaHistorians will long scratch their h...
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Nancy Pelosi says Biden’s delay in exiting race blew Democrats’ chances
Had Biden left sooner, she noted, the party could have an open primary. Now they must ‘live with what happened’Joe Biden’s slowness in exiting the 202...
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