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The ‘foolproof’ election forecaster who predicted Trump would lose – what went wrong?
Allan Lichtman’s forecast model was meant to be foolproof. He explains to David Smith what was different this timeSurely not even Nostradamus could ge...
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Democratic leaders across US work to lead resistance against Trump’s agenda
Democrats from California to Illinois prepare to ‘Trump-proof’ and ‘fight to death’ against his extreme proposalsAfter the November elections ushered ...
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Rudy Giuliani turns over watches and Mercedes to defamed election workers
Judge authorized Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss to begin selling ex-NYC mayor’s assets to meet $148m judgmentRudy Giuliani has relinquished dozens of wat...
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Are US women protesting Trump by ‘swearing off sex with men’? | Arwa Mahdawi
Ever since the election, there have been endless headlines about US women emulating South Korea’s fringe 4B movementSex sells. Sex strikes, meanwhile,...
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Loyalists and jesters fill Trump’s ‘winter White House’ for court of King Donald
A succession of wannabe power brokers are flocking to Mar-a-Lago to seek the favour of the president-electThe shutters are down, the curtains are open...
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Harris campaign failed to connect with working class, US union federation says
AFL-CIO president says Democrats did not listen to low-income voters struggling to make ends meetKamala Harris’s presidential campaign failed to conne...
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US overdose deaths decreased in 2023 – will Trump continue this trend?
Harm-reduction policies have contributed to the first decline in the number of overdose deaths in five yearsThe Biden administration saw unprecedented...
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The Republican and Democratic parties are killing electoral reform across the US | David Daley
There are elements on both right and left who prefer to govern without majorities and view competitive elections as a threatOhio’s extreme gerrymander...
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War by Bob Woodward review – the Watergate veteran on Gaza, Ukraine and Trump
Woodward’s latest page turner takes you inside the room – but can he still claim to be an impartial fly on the wall?Bob Woodward is probably the best-...
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Karoline Leavitt named as Donald Trump’s White House press secretary
Leavitt served as the national press secretary on Trump’s campaign and assistant press secretary during his first administrationTrump’s staffing picks...
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Homophobic and anti-migrant texts target Latinos and LGBTQ+ Americans
FBI investigating texts that follow racist messages sent to Black people in wake of Trump election victoryRacist text messages targeting Black people ...
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Two Trump cabinet choices in jeopardy over sexual misconduct allegations
Uncertainty surrounds nominations of Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Matt Gaetz as attorney generalThe confirmation prospects of two of Donald T...
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RFK Jr could have disastrous global impact on public health, experts fear
Concerns anti-vaccine pick for US health secretary could pursue ‘anti-science positions’ on life-saving interventionsThe appointment of a US health se...
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Mike Pence urges Senate Republicans to reject RFK Jr for US health secretary
Ex-vice-president rebukes Kennedy’s stance on abortion while Matt Gaetz, another Trump pick, faces ‘uphill battle’US politics live – latest updatesMik...
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Biden now has his best opening to end Israel’s war on Gaza – and won’t use it | Mohamad Bazzi
Biden is as free from political constraints as he’s ever been. Yet he has chosen to seal his legacy as Israel’s tepid enablerWhen the histories of his...
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With these outrageous appointments, Trump is showing us exactly how he intends to rule | Jonathan Freedland
From an anti-vaxxer running health to a suspected sex abuser as attorney general, the president-elect has picked a team designed to ensure his dominat...
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Environmental groups alarmed as Doug Burgum picked for US interior secretary
Several groups say North Dakota governor will sacrifice public lands on the ‘altar of the fossil fuel industry’s profits’Donald Trump’s nomination of ...
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Trump skips FBI background checks for controversial cabinet picks – report
Bypassing the standard procedure comes as president-elect’s choices of RFK Jr and Matt Gaetz send shockwavesUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Tr...
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Donald Trump taps his criminal defense lawyers for top DoJ roles
Administration picks Todd Blanche and Emil Bove defended president-elect in New York hush-money caseDonald Trump has tapped three of his personal crim...
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s secretary of defense pick, raises concerns over far-right extremism
Experts sound alarm over the Fox & Friends host, his Christian nationalist ideology and militant languageExtremism experts are sounding the alarm ...
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Snow White star Rachel Zegler apologises for angry Trump post
West Side Story actor soon to take on iconic Disney role backs down after re-election response led to backlashThe West Side Story and Snow White actor...
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To the stars vowing to flee Trump’s America: maybe your excruciating endorsements were part of the problem | Marina Hyde
The cringeworthy campaign for Harris made it clear – voters aren’t simply going to do what mega-rich celebrities tell them toI wish celebrities would ...
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Trump transition team plans to kill Biden’s electric vehicle tax credit
Ending $7,500 consumer tax credit could have grave implications for already stalling EV transition in USDonald Trump’s transition team is planning to ...
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Is Donald Trump TV’s greatest showman? | Fiona Katauskas
It’s not a return to normal programmingSee more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
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Trump’s RFK Jr nomination condemned as ‘public health catastrophe’ – US politics live
Widespread criticism of health secretary role for anti-vaccine activist and purveyor of debunked conspiracy theoriesDonald Trump has made several nomi...
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Trans Americans brace for Trump’s ‘sinister’ return: ‘It’s almost intolerable’
Facing threats to their rights and their safety, people rush to protect themselves amid discrimination and scapegoatingThis weekend, Atticus Sparks pl...
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Pharma shares hit as Trump picks RFK Jr to lead health department
Appointment of vaccine critic knocks some of world’s biggest drugmakers including Moderna, AstraZeneca and GSKWho is RFK Jr and what are his likely to...
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A ‘gut punch’: Trump’s alleged sexual assault victims and their advocates on his win
Trump’s alleged victims, as well as other victims of sexual abuse, voice disappointment that that he was elected againWhen Donald Trump was elected to...
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We warned the Democratic party that disaster was coming. They didn’t listen | Dustin Guastella
Can they change course? Maybe, but they need a message of commonsense solidarity without liberal elitism Before the election it was clear that Kamala ...
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‘We all have our eyes wide open’: Trump critics brace for dark time of retribution
Public officials targeted by Trump say they’re preparing for extreme scenarios, including possibility of being arrestedMembers of Congress and other U...
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What are recess appointments and can Trump confirm nominees that way?
The president-elect proposed an archaic method to install people such as RFK Jr and Matt Gaetz – here’s what to knowSeveral Republican senators expres...
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US election updates: loyalty trumps all as Kennedy is lined up for health department
Donald Trump’s choice of Robert Kennedy Jr has drawn sharp criticism, setting the stage for fiery scenes in the senate; plus, how do Trump’s 2024 pick...
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Hardliners, loyalists and a dog killer: Trump’s new White House team – podcast
Guardian US political correspondent Laura Gambino talks through Donald Trump’s likely next cabinet and what it tells us about his plans in powerWhen D...
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Trump 2.0: are his cabinet picks more extreme than in 2016?
Trump’s nominations, including RFK Jr, Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, have left US figures ‘stunned’, and drawn comparisons with eight years agoTrump pi...
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RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination
Nominee for health secretary decried as ‘vaccine denier and conspiracy theorist … this is going to cost lives’Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Ke...
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Who is RFK Jr and what might his top priorities be?
Trump’s nominee to oversee key US health agencies is a vaccine denier and experts predict the return of diseases ‘we have controlled for decades’Rober...
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Musk asks ‘high-IQ revolutionaries’ to work for no pay on new Trump project
World’s richest man solicits applications for ‘tedious work’ in newly formed Department of Government EfficiencyElon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are aski...
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Trump expected to announce RFK Jr as his pick to lead US health department
A scion of Democratic dynasty, RFK Jr is known for embrace of anti-vaccine beliefs and other conspiracy theoriesDonald Trump is on the verge of announ...
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Fears mount over Trump’s second term amid flurry of shock selections
Dismay as president-elect picks Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth for key rolesFears that Donald Trump’s second presid...
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Elizabeth Warren denounces Biden administration over Gaza humanitarian situation
Massachusetts senator now joins Bernie Sanders in endorsing joint resolution of disapproval against Joe BidenElizabeth Warren, a leading progressive v...
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Kevin McCarthy predicts Senate won’t confirm Matt Gaetz as attorney general
Ex-House speaker’s remarks come amid calls for release of ethics report into sexual misconduct claims against GaetzUS politics live – latest updatesTh...
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Matt Gaetz: who is Trump’s controversial nominee for attorney general? – podcast
Donald Trump has shocked Democrats and Republicans by announcing far–right congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for the role of attorney general.As the ...
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Who is Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence?
Former Democratic congresswoman, 43, has been publicly suspected of being ‘groomed’ by RussiaTulsi Gabbard’s biography has some rare distinctions, inc...
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Trump fake-elector scheme: where do five state investigations stand?
Five of seven states pursued charges after 84 people signed false files claiming to be electors for the president-electAfter the 2020 election, a grou...
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Line up to kiss the ring! How to join the brownnosers sucking up to Trump | Arwa Mahdawi
Business moguls and world leaders are desperate to weasel into Trump’s good books. It’s humiliating but the payday is worth itLet the humiliation Olym...
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Any line of separation between Fox News and the US government is about to vanish | Margaret Sullivan
Fox News hosts are publicly bemused to see their colleagues tapped for cabinet positions. In private, they’re more shockedWhen Donald Trump tapped a F...
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Trump’s ‘reckless’ attorney general choice sends shockwaves through Washington – US politics live
Republicans express shock and concern after far-right Republican congressman Matt Gaetz nominated by TrumpThe London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has accused Do...
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The Democrats must become an anti-establishment party | Robert Reich
The lesson of this election is that Democrats must attack inequality – and not cede working-class voters to TrumpA political disaster such as what occ...
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‘Partisan politics’: how efforts to overturn the Johnson amendment could upend campaign finance
Experts say undoing the provision, which bans churches from campaign donations, would open a flow of dark moneyDonald Trump has long promised his evan...
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Don’t assume the first amendment will thwart Trump’s pro-censorious agenda | Jameel Jaffer
With Trump in the Oval Office, the US supreme court will find itself having to answer questions it has sidestepped for yearsA president who intends to...
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We’ll need to fight to protect US reproductive rights. Here’s what to expect | Sophie Brickman
Will there be a national abortion ban? A ban on mailed abortion medication? I talked to some expertsAt around 10pm ET on election night, with predicti...
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