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Minneapolis court considers whether Trump’s deployment of ICE agents violates constitution
Lawyers argue that surge ordered by Trump administration amounts to an illegal occupation of the stateUS politics live – latest updatesA federal court...
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Cruz reportedly says Trump yelled and cursed over warning of midterm election ‘bloodbath’
US senator warned that Republicans would lose elections if prices continue to rise, prompting president to respond ‘fuck you, Ted’US politics live – l...
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Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras and reduced oversight
Administration opposed efforts last year to expand use of cameras by immigration agents and cut oversight staffingUS politics – live updatesDonald Tru...
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US families face ‘impossible choices’ as White House pushes to freeze childcare funding
Childcare workers push back on Trump administration’s ‘ridiculous’ narrative that programs are riddled with fraudUS families are facing “impossible ch...
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Fraud focus: why is Trump granting clemency to convicted fraudsters?
Pardons come as president and Republicans seem intent on investigating fraud in Democratic-run statesDonald Trump’s mass pardoning of those convicted ...
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Donald Trump says his administration is reviewing Alex Pretti shooting
President declines to say whether federal officer who shot nurse acted appropriately as outrage mounts over killingUS politics live – latest updatesDo...
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Judge to hear case on Minnesota’s ICE crackdown after killings by federal agents – US politics live
Suit seeks to reduce the number of agents back to levels before ICE launched its so-called ‘Operation Metro Surge’ last monthAlex Pretti’s family rele...
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‘Our spirit can’t be broken’: Minneapolis city council member on resisting Trump’s immigration crackdown
Aisha Chughtai, who represents the district where Alex Pretti was fatally shot, vows to fight through ‘despair’ caused by federal immigration enforcem...
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‘Embarrassed’ v ‘force to be reckoned with’: Americans on Trump’s foreign interventions
From capturing Maduro to proposing a take over of Greenland – people respond to the president’s rhetoricAs Donald Trump continues to call for the US t...
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Trump officials continue to push lies after fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
Trump and team seem to prioritize vilifying victims of their immigration operations, regardless of conflicting evidenceIn the moments after federal of...
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Trump news at a glance: Pretti killing a ‘wake-up call’ say Obamas as Clinton urges Americans to speak out
Two Democratic ex-leaders warn core American values are under assault – key US politics stories from Sunday 25 January at a glanceDemocratic ex-presid...
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Tim Walz urges Trump to remove agents from Minnesota: ‘You can end this’
Minnesota governor pressures president to end surge of immigration officers in his state before it costs another lifeMinnesota governor Tim Walz appea...
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Obama says Alex Pretti killing a ‘tragedy’ as calls mount for full investigation
Former president says killing should be ‘wake-up call’ and that federal agents are not operating in a lawful wayPressure mounted on Donald Trump’s adm...
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Minneapolis residents, angry and anxious, resolve to fight back as they mourn Alex Pretti
Scene of a growing vigil is all too common in city as killing comes less than three weeks after Renee Good’s death The temperature hovered around zero...
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Appeals court rejects DoJ push to charge more people over Minnesota church protest
Setback for justice department as it pursues demonstrators, including Don Lemon who recorded protest as a journalistA US appeals court rejected federa...
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ICE actions in Minnesota make me despair of humanity | Brief letters
Detention of Liam Ramos | Minneapolis shooting | Duvet drama | Neeps v swedes | Trump’s Greenland threatsSadly, I fear the shocking photos of Liam Ram...
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The Guardian view on Europe’s payments problem: sovereignty starts at the till | Editorial
Donald Trump’s leverage over Visa and Mastercard highlights a blind spot in Europe’s ‘independence’ strategy. Emulating India’s response might helpWhe...
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‘You don’t want to live inside his head’: diplomats’ dilemma in the age of Trump
Flood of boasts, broadsides and conspiracy theories leaves envoys sifting for the signal within the Trumpian noiseHow does one keep tabs on, and then ...
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NRA and pro-gun groups call for ‘full investigation’ into killing of Alex Pretti
Groups typically aligned with Trump call for investigation as NRA wades into the national dialogueThe National Rifle Association (NRA) has joined othe...
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Online fundraiser for Alex Pretti raises nearly $400,000 day after fatal shooting
GoFundMe platform surpasses goal of $20,000 a day after federal agents killed the US citizen in MinneapolisAn online fundraiser benefiting the family ...
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Trump’s not the first US president to fall in love with war. History shows where this is going | Peter Beinhart
In his fresh intoxication with global conquest, Trump is following an established pattern – one that promises disasterTo many observers, Donald Trump’...
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‘Emotionally devastating’: Iranians in US on regime’s deadly protest crackdown
US readers said they were feeling anxious and helpless as authorities’ brutal crackdown has left thousands deadRecent protests in Iran have created th...
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Trump’s Greenland brinkmanship leaves leading Republicans rattled
With midterms looming some in Congress have dissented from the president – but it still falls well short of a rebellionDonald Trump pulled back from t...
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Minnesota workers pressure employers to take action against ICE operations
Target, Delta and Hilton targeted with actions leading up to economic blackout of no work, shopping or schoolSome of the US’s biggest companies are co...
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‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his peopleWearing helmets, gas masks and camoufla...
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Democratic congressman punched in racist attack at Sundance film festival
Maxwell Alejandro Frost says attacker ‘told me Trump was going to deport me’ as police say suspect arrestedThe Florida congressman Maxwell Alejandro F...
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Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the groundTwo witnesses to the killing of Alex ...
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Trump news at a glance: groundswell of anger at second fatal shooting by federal agents in weeks
Protests erupt across US after American citizen Alex Pretti shot dead, as video shows he had been holding a phone and not a gun, contradicting federal...
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Schumer: Democrats will block funding package if it includes homeland security money
Announcement comes as anger toward DHS – which oversees ICE – intensifies after Alex Pretti fatally shotIn the wake of another fatal shooting of a US ...
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Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gunVideo recorded by witnesses to the fata...
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Alex Pretti killing in Minneapolis by federal agents: what we know so far
A 37-year-old nurse was shot and killed on Saturday. Much remains unknown, unclear or unconfirmedMinneapolis shooting – latest updates37-year-old US c...
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‘How many more Americans need to die?’: Minneapolis mayor lambastes Trump after fatal shooting
Jacob Frey’s full response after federal agents shoot and kill 37-year-old US citizen on 24 JanuaryMinneapolis shooting - live updatesThe occupation o...
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‘What the hell happened’ to Tucker Carlson? A new book tries to find out
Hated by All the Right People is the first book to reckon critically with arguably the most dangerous media personality of the Trump ageTucker Carlson...
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Another shooting involving federal agents reported in Minneapolis
Shooting comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was killed by federal immigration agent in cityMinneapolis shooting - live updatesThe occupation...
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‘We need Target to stand up’: activists in Minneapolis press retailer amid ICE arrests at its stores
Activists say the retailer has met with clergy but not spoken out against ICE or safeguarded employees and customersWhile thousands of protesters marc...
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ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’
As Trump-deployed agents pervade the region, students struggle to carry on with lessons while carrying grief and fear that they or their loved ones wi...
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Health groups sue EPA over insecticide that causes testicular damage in rats
Groups say EPA did not adequately consider adverse health effects to children when it approved the pesticidePublic health groups are suing the Environ...
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What else can be done to force Trump’s DoJ to release all the Epstein files? Legal experts weigh in
The deadline for Trump’s justice department to release the files came and went, but experts say there are still optionsFor months, the 2025 news cycle...
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‘The invisible man’: Joe Biden has disappeared in almost every way – except in Trump’s daily commentary
The 46th president largely exists as Trump’s foil, with his successor blaming him for the country’s woesIn bitter cold beneath the US Capitol dome, he...
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Is the supreme court ready to stand up to Trump over Federal Reserve attack?
Conservative majority appears eager to hand president greater power – with one exception: the US central bankDonald Trump has tried his usual tactics ...
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‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
Prosecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justiceThe US Department of Justice has slashed funding ...
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Wall Street landlords have met a surprising opponent in Trump. So why is Starmer courting them? | Adam Almeida
To win votes, Trump can afford to face up to corporate power – to deliver his promised 1.5m homes, Starmer can’tIn an incredibly polarised society, th...
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‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say expertsGermany is facing calls to withdra...
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Trump news at a glance: Starmer rebukes Trump for ‘diminishing’ British soldiers who fought and died in Afghanistan
Starmer suggested Trump should apologise for claiming Nato troops stayed ‘a little off the frontlines’ – key US politics stories from 23 January at a ...
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US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderFederal immigration agents detained a two...
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What are the Trump administration’s policies about detaining immigrant children?
The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years agoThis week, ICE’s detention of a five-year...
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ICE arrests 100 people three days into Maine immigration crackdown, DHS says
Organizers say ICE agents have been targeting African nationals amid surge focused in Portland and LewistonPeople affected by the US visa freeze: shar...
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The Guardian view on Syria’s crisis: Islamic State fighters are not the only concern | Editorial
As a lightning government offensive leaves the Kurdish-dominated SDF reeling, the political horizon needs attention as well as securityIn little more ...
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Trump’s second term has been rife with bizarre moments – here are seven
From derailing meetings by telling fictional stories about serial killers to Davos, the president has left people confused and concernedDonald Trump v...
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Pentagon contractor indicted over alleged leak tied to raided Washington Post reporter
Worker illegally provided classified information ‘related to national defense’ to journalist, justice department saysA federal grand jury in Maryland ...
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‘At the table or on the menu’: a turbulent Davos week with Trump’s circus in town
Dissenting voices were few and far between as the US president brought his smash-and-grab politics to the WEF“If we’re not at the table, we’re on the ...
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Democratic lawmakers accuse Trump of letting white-collar criminals ‘off the hook’
Elizabeth Warren and others call for inquiry into Trump for diverting tax evasion resources to immigration crackdownSenator Elizabeth Warren and fello...
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