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Trump news at a glance: president fights ‘woke’ Smithsonian after claims it is too focused on ‘slavery’
Amid review of institution, a White House document argues Smithsonian has overly negative portrayal of American history. Key US politics stories from ...
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Obama calls California’s redistricting plan ‘a responsible approach’
Former US president wades into national conflict over House maps, as Texas lawmakers approve map to favor GOPBarack Obama waded into states’ efforts a...
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US court allows Trump officials to end protected status for 60,000 migrants
Administration officials given legal right to move towards deportation of people from Nepal, Honduras and NicaraguaA federal appeals court on Wednesda...
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JD Vance booed during hamburger handout to national guard troops in DC
US vice-president, at Washington’s Union Station with Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth, defends use of troops in area with less crimeJD Vance was booed...
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Trump administration to expand review of Smithsonian museums to ‘get Woke out’
Exclusive: White House flagged institutions including those for Latino, African and Asian art for review, document showsAmid the Donald Trump administ...
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US sanctions international court officials in ‘flagrant’ move against independent judiciary
Secretary of state Marco Rubio announces US assets frozen over efforts to prosecute Americans and IsraelisThe Trump administration has ramped up its e...
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Texas Republicans bring redistricting bill to house floor after finally reaching quorum
Democrats were quick to file a series of amendments, which were voted down, but used process to raise objectionsTexas Republicans brought a bill to th...
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Texas threatens to sue organizations and doctor for increasing abortion pill access
Attorney general Ken Paxton orders two organizations and an individual to end ‘unlawful conduct’ or face lawsuitThe heated US war over abortion pills ...
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Judge rejects Trump administration’s request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts
Ruling by Richard Berman comes after judge presiding over case against Ghislaine Maxwell also turned down requestA federal judge in New York who presi...
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Non-binary park ranger fired for hanging trans pride flag in Yosemite
Shannon ‘SJ’ Joslin among group who hung 66ft flag on El Capitan as others could face prosecution under protest lawsA Yosemite national park ranger wa...
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US health agency workers accuse RFK Jr of fueling violence against them
More than 750 workers in letter say HHS secretary’s rhetoric played a role in recent attack at CDC’s Atlanta headquartersMore than 750 current and for...
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Texas can’t require public schools to display Ten Commandments in class, judge rules
Law temporarily blocked after group sought preliminary injunction, saying it violated first amendment protectionsTexas cannot require public schools t...
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Trump calls on Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to resign, renewing attack on central bank
Ally of the president has accused the first Black woman to sit on the central bank’s board of mortgage fraudUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Tr...
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DoJ says voting machine maker funneled LA county money into slush funds used to pay bribes
US government is seeking to prove Smartmatic has a long pattern of bribing election officialsThe justice department is alleging in a new court filing ...
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Trump administration revokes clearances for 37 security officials
The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, says move targets officials accused of politicizing intelligenceUS politics live – latest update...
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Uganda says it has not struck a deal with Trump to take in US deportees
Ugandan official said the east African country does not have the capability to take in undocumented immigrantsUganda said it has not reached any agree...
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‘Rural America costs a lot of money’: Trump cuts are decimating a radio station at the edge of the world
KSDP brings vital information – from tsunami warnings to salmon levels – to an Alaskan town of 600 people. Can it survive losing 70% its budget in fed...
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National intelligence director strips security clearances from 37 current and former national security officials – US politics live
Tulsi Gabbard accuses officials, some of whom worked on intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference in 2016 election, of ‘politicizing...
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First Thing: Trump rules out sending US troops to Ukraine to enforce peace deal
President says US may provide air support to Kyiv as part of security guarantees. Plus, the boy who founded his own countryGood morning.Donald Trump h...
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More than 2.8m people in US identify as trans, including 724,000 youth, data shows
Exclusive: largest data analysis of its kind counters Trump’s aggressive efforts to deny trans minors’ existenceMore than 2.8 million people now ident...
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Trump’s tariffs replace diplomacy as other US tools of statecraft are discarded
Measures meant to rebalance America’s economy are wielded instead against the likes of Canada, India and Brazil ‘to compel loyalty to the president’On...
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Trump news at a glance: Gabbard strips security clearance from dozens of intelligence officials
Officials who worked on assessment that Russia interfered in 2016 election stripped of clearance; teen detained by Ice walking dog. Key US politics st...
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White House launches official TikTok account after Trump vowed ban in 2020
US president was concerned over app’s Chinese ownership, but has softened after believing it won him 2024 electionThe White House launched an official...
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Leading US economists urge peers to fight Trump’s attack on environment
Experts say undermining green protections and research funding is against the principles of economicsThree leading US economists are urging their peer...
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‘Boston will not back down’: mayor hits back at Trump officials’ sanctuary city threats
Michelle Wu replies to attorney general’s letter threatening prosecution for ‘undermining’ immigration enforcementBoston’s mayor Michelle Wu has hit b...
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Federal prosecutors launch inquiry into Washington DC police over allegedly fudged crime statistics
Move comes after Donald Trump posted on social media about US capital’s ‘fake crime numbers’Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation...
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US to ‘root out anti-Americanism’ in reviewing immigration applications
Trump administration to vet social media for ‘hostility’ and whether applicants ‘promote anti-Semitic ideologies’The Trump administration said on Tues...
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Community rallies around LA teen detained by Ice while walking dog
Days after his 18th birthday, Benjamin Marcelo Guerrero-Cruz arrested in Van Nuys in what family call kidnappingA southern California community is cal...
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Republicans sue to block Newsom’s fast-track California redistricting plan
GOP lawmakers say the move to counter Texas maps bypasses voters and violates rules on how legislation must be introducedUS politics live – latest upd...
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Ice used Marriott chain to detain immigrants, despite hotel’s 2019 pledge not to cooperate
Sheraton in Louisiana held father and teenage son this month in apparent contradiction of former positionA Sheraton hotel in Louisiana has been used b...
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Is Trump abandoning his ‘America First’ policy for Ukraine? – podcast
Donald Trump has been all smiles with both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the last few days, but in trying to be ‘peacemaker-in-chief, is...
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Trump tariffs and green energy rollbacks push household electricity bills up 10%
A new report links rising electricity bills to Trump’s fossil fuel policies, data center promotion and clean energy cutsHousehold electricity bills ha...
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There is no ‘Trump Doctrine’ in foreign policy. Just chaos | Sidney Blumenthal
The recent summit meeting in Alaska between Trump and Putin was nothing short of a theater of the absurdAll the elaborate efforts of the European alli...
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DC residents question troops’ focus on low-crime areas amid Trump takeover
Many federal agents have been seen standing around in tourist areas, with few spotted addressing violent crimeUS politics live – latest updatesAs Dona...
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Jeffries: Noem will be ‘one of the first hauled up to Congress’ if Democrats win midterms
US House minority leader outlines his concerns on the Bulwark Podcast about homeland security secretaryThe US House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, ...
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Republicans want to rig the midterm elections. Will they succeed? | Moira Donegan
The Republican party has already shown that its commitment to democratic elections is paper thinIf one mark of an autocratic regime is the meaningfuln...
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Trump administration speechwriter linked to hate speech online
Eric Lendrum, of Department of Homeland Security, likened US conservatives to Jews in Nazi GermanyUS politics – live updatesA speechwriter for the Tru...
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UK has backed down on demand to access US Apple user data, spy chief says
Tulsi Gabbbard says Home Office no longer demanding ‘backdoor’ to encrypted materialThe UK government has dropped its insistence that Apple allows law...
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‘We’re all going backwards’: dismay as Trump undoes Biden student-debt plan
Borrowers say higher repayments under changed Save plan means placing life on hold and creating further anxietyWhen Faith, a 33-year-old in Burlington...
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Raging bulls: why Maga is pushing cow products on to America
From RFK Jr’s beef tallow endorsement to Bannon’s roasted marrow order, Trump officials are promoting cattle maniaThe US health secretary, Robert F Ke...
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Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’
India Walton, who defeated incumbent mayor only to lose general election, says ‘moderating is what got us here’India Walton has a warning message for ...
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Texas Democrats shadowed by law enforcement officers to stop them repeating protest over redrawing congressional districts – US politics live
Democratic representative Nicole Collier of Fort Worth remained on House floor on Monday after refusing to sign ‘permission slip’ agreeing to round-th...
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Tuesday briefing: What last night’s meeting between Trump, Zelenskyy and Europe means for the war in Ukraine
In today’s newsletter: The Ukrainian president and fellow continental leaders descended on the White House to squeeze support from the US – did they g...
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Trump news at a glance: President hosts Ukraine talks, announces plan to end mail-in voting
Trump makes claim in Truth Social post after White House meetings with Zelenskyy and European leaders – key US politics stories from 18 August 2025Don...
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Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting
Announcement comes days after Putin allegedly told Trump US elections were rigged because of postal ballotsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Tru...
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Newsmax and Dominion settle for $67m in defamation suit over US election lies
Settlement came as case was headed to trial for jury to consider if conservative outlet was liable for damagesUS politics live – latest updatesThe con...
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A Nobel peace prize for Donald Trump would be ludicrous | Letters
Dr Peter van den Dungen says the US president is complicit in destruction, not peace. Plus a letter from Malcolm RushDonald Trump may be persuaded tha...
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees face abuse and are denied due process, say lawyers
Judge hears arguments in ACLU suit about Florida immigration facility Trump hailed for its harsh conditionsA federal judge in Miami was hearing argume...
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Democrats return to Texas as California kicks off push to pass new electoral map
California effort to add Democratic seats is in response to Texas’s effort to redraw map there to add Republican seatsUS politics live – latest update...
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Zelenskyy’s European ‘bodyguards’: which leaders will join Trump talks in Washington?
Presidents, PMs and heads of Nato and European Commission to accompany Ukraine’s leader at White HouseRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesEuropean...
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Washington DC restaurants suffer sharp drop in diners since Trump crackdown
Eating out drops by up to 31% amid federal takeover of policing that Democrats call ‘stunt’ to distract from EpsteinUS police – live updatesThe number...
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Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors
Exclusive: Public comments show that a crackdown on signs ‘disparaging’ Americans is not popularAs part of his administration’s war on “woke”, Donald ...
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