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Smithsonian rejects Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director
Trump tried to force out Kim Sajet, calling her ‘highly partisan and a strong supporter of’ of diversity initiativesThe Smithsonian Institution has re...
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Judge blocks Trump administration from enforcing anti-DEI orders in grant funding
California judge says government can’t force recipients to halt programs that promote diversityA federal judge in California has blocked the Trump adm...
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Republican House chair of homeland security committee to retire early
Mark Green had previously announced he wouldn’t run again but changed his mind when Republicans urged him to stayMark Green, the Republican chair of t...
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US universities are moving to the right. Will it help them escape Trump’s wrath?
Harvard, Columbia and other higher education institutes are facing funding cuts over their policies, but reform may not be the administration’s goalIn...
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Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi
The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’Donald Trump was ...
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‘The language of authoritarianism’: how Trump and allies cast LA as a lawless city needing military intervention
As a pretext to sending in the national guard, the White House marked the Ice protests as a broader threat to the USDonald Trump and his allies turned...
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‘Demoralizing’: Venezuelans experience confusion and fear amid Trump travel ban
Travelers reported hastily rearranging their travel plans ahead of the ban taking effectAs the sun rose over Caracas, Yasmin Quintero, a grandmother, ...
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Los Angeles protests: Donald Trump deploys more National Guard troops and marines as disorder goes into fourth day – live
California says deployment of National Guard to LA over protests against immigration authorities is illegalAustralia’s prime minister on Tuesday denou...
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Tuesday briefing: What Trump’s response to the LA protests could mean for US democracy
In today’s newsletter: A lauded human rights lawyer on the anti-immigration protests in Los Angeles – and just what is at stakeLate last week, Los Ang...
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Trump, Musk and the end of a bromance - podcast
Andrew Roth details the explosive falling-out between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and what it tells us about the future of the US presidencyIt started...
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Los Angeles mayor says city is being used as a 'test case' and 'an experiment' – video
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass has accused the federal government of using her city as a 'test case' for the federal government taking over from local a...
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Trump faces questions over deployment of national guard to LA protests – video
Donald Trump defended his decision to deploy national guard troops to confront immigration protesters in Los Angeles, criticising California's governo...
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Trump sends thousands more national guard troops to LA as protests continue
California leaders condemn ‘authoritarian’ president while Trump border czar threatens to arrest Gavin NewsomLA protests – live updatesThe Trump admin...
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Donald Trump’s latest TV drama makes for terrifying viewing | Fiona Katauskas
There are a lot of bad actors Continue reading...
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Trump news at a glance: president ratchets up threats, troop deployment amid LA protests
Protests showed no signs of stopping, as families of detained immigrants pleaded for their loved ones to be released – key US politics stories from 9 ...
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‘Kidnapped’: families and lawyers desperate to contact LA workers arrested in Ice raids
As many demand the release of loved ones, Trump’s ‘border czar’ admits some were arrested without criminal recordsGabriel says he has not been able to...
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LA cleans up and protests some more after weekend of defiance against Trump
Cleaners remove graffiti and burned cars after mostly peaceful protests that saw some vandalism and violence Outside the federal courthouse complex in...
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RFK Jr to remove all members of CDC panel advising on US vaccines
Health secretary says he’s getting rid of members sitting on panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committeeThe health secretary, Robert F K...
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Trump announces $1,000 government-funded accounts for American babies
The tax-deferred investment accounts will track the stock market for children born between 2025 and 2029Donald Trump unveiled a federal program Monday...
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Talkshow host Dr Phil joined Ice agents for Los Angeles immigration raids
Conservative channel MeritTV says psychologist and TV host was there to get ‘first-hand look at targeted operations’The television personality Dr Phil...
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California to file lawsuit over Trump’s ‘illegal’ deployment of national guard
Lawsuit claims administration ‘trampled’ on states sovereignty by bypassing Governor Gavin Newsom The state of California will file a lawsuit against ...
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Democratic senators call on private firm to reveal how it will profit from Trump’s Medicaid cuts
Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden demand answers from Maximus Inc, largest private contractor to states outsourcing benefitsTwo Democratic senators are d...
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Los Angeles protests: a visual guide to what happened on the streets
The Trump administration’s immigration raids in the California city prompted mostly peaceful protests, which escalated when the president sent in the ...
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Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control | Gaby Hinsliff
The protests in LA are what everyone feared, and a warning to countries that flirt with populismShe was live on air to viewers back home, her TV micro...
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University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations
Outcry after report that private investigators had been trailing and recording pro-Palestinian protesters for monthsThe University of Michigan has can...
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Hegseth aide upended Pentagon leak inquiry with false wiretap claims
Exclusive: ex-Doge staffer Justin Fulcher suggested he had evidence of wiretap that would help investigationDays before Pete Hegseth fired three top a...
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Trump deploys the national guard in LA – Today in Focus Extra
The Guardian’s US live news editor in London, Chris Michael, on the president’s shock decision and what could happen nextWhen Donald Trump came to pow...
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Eric Adams signs order adopting controversial definition of antisemitism
Move comes ahead of Democratic primary for New York City mayor, where support for Israel has become key issueEric Adams, the mayor of New York City, s...
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Democratic lawmakers denied entry to detention centers in LA and New York
Members of Congress sought to check on individuals who were detained during immigration raids and protestsDemocratic members of Congress from Californ...
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Reaction to Trump’s crackdown on LA protests splits sharply on party lines
Marjorie Taylor Greene says ‘2,000 National Guard is not enough’ as Democrats warn of ‘path toward tyranny’LA protests – live updatesUnrest in Los Ang...
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They hoped their children’s deaths would bring change. Then a Colorado bill to protect kids online failed
Parents who lost children to online harms helped draft the bill – then watched it collapse under political pressureBereaved parents saw their hopes fo...
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Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill is built on falsehoods about low-income families | Brigid Schulte and Haley Swenson
Republicans portray those in poverty as lazy people who make poor decisions. They’re using that trope to justify huge cuts to the social safety netAs ...
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Glendale terminates ‘divisive’ Ice detainee holding contract amid California protests
Decision comes as federal actions to enforce US immigration laws inspired three days of protests in the LA areaLA protests – live updatesThe Californi...
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Latinas for Trump co-founder criticizes president’s immigration arrests: ‘Unacceptable and inhumane’
Florida state senator joins US House member in expressing alarm over ‘arbitrary measures to hunt down people’A co-founder of a group for Latinas who s...
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Trump’s EPA set to claim power-plant emissions ‘not significant’ – but study says otherwise
US power sector would be world’s sixth largest emitter of planet-heating greenhouse gas if it were a country – studyDonald Trump’s administration is s...
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‘History will judge us as cowards or heroes’: Ras Baraka, the mayor arrested by Ice, won’t be intimidated
The politician, who’s been labeled ‘too progressive, too Black’ in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of p...
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How can US cities resist Trump’s mass deportation agenda? Look to Chicago
The sanctuary city has a long history of protecting immigrant communities“Know Your Rights” posters, with critical information for interactions with I...
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Trump’s travel ban could cement racism as his most dangerous legacy
From his so-called ‘Muslim ban’ to slashing DEI measures, the US president has turned taboo behaviour into normsThis month marks exactly 10 years sinc...
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Will the Trump-Musk rift really change anything? | Jan-Werner Müller
Much has been made of the falling out, but Doge’s destruction continues and Musk’s fate is entwined with Trump’sThinking about the constant stream of ...
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Los Angeles protests live: tensions flare after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
Police fire rubber bullets and teargas while protesters block a major freeway and set self-driving cars on fireFull report: Teargas and flash-bangs us...
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Trump travel ban barring citizens from 12 countries goes into effect
Afghanistan, Haiti and Iran included in full 12-country ban and citizens from seven other countries partially restrictedDonald Trump’s new ban on trav...
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Trump news at a glance: California’s Newsom compares Trump to a ‘dictator’ over national guard deployment
The governor is in a showdown with the president over the policing of protests in LA and Paramount – key US politics stories from Sunday 8 June at a g...
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Newsom is warned of ‘criminal tax evasion’ if he withholds federal taxes
California governor made threat amid reports Trump is weighing huge federal funding cuts targeting stateThe US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has ...
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National guard deploys in downtown LA amid eerie calm after two days of unrest
Guardsmen pressed into service outside a federal complex to quell what Trump called a ‘rebellion’ against governmentUS politics live – latest updatesO...
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ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters
Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’ABC News has suspended its senior n...
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Trump uses LA protests to redirect dissent from policy failures to the ‘enemy within’
Critics see deployment of national guard as an authoritarian flex by a strongman who has relentlessly trampled normsDonald Trump walked out to a thund...
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Senator Cory Booker says he will not accept any donations from Elon Musk
Top Democrat adds he would support tech billionaire ‘sounding the alarm’ to Americans on Trump bill amid feudA leading elected Democrat rejected the i...
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Sanders warns of authoritarianism after Trump deploys national guard to LA
Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s ...
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British photojournalist hit by non lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests
Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protestersNick Stern, a British news photographer ba...
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US immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy marshal in Arizona
Deputy marshal ‘fit the general description of a subject being sought’ and was briefly detained, Marshals Service saysA US marshal was detained by Imm...
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Protesters and authorities face off for second day in LA over Ice raids – video
Donald Trump authorised the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles on Saturday, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass pro...
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Gavin Newsom calls threats to deploy US marines in California ‘deranged’
Defense secretary Hegseth raises possibility of deploying marines amid protests that erupted in wake of Ice raidsThe California governor, Gavin Newsom...
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