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US college campuses have faced hoax calls about gunmen since Charlie Kirk shooting – live
The AP reported several historically Black colleges locked down or canceled classes after receiving threats, a day after the fatal shooting of Charlie...
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Six great reads: rebels in Nazi Germany, how creativity works and Europe’s biggest pornography conference
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days Continue reading...
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Trump news at a glance: president urges death penalty in Charlie Kirk killing, as widow says: ‘we’ll never surrender’
President sought to cast people on the left as sole problem of US politics, while widow of Charlie Kirk said her ‘cries will echo around the world lik...
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US immigration officers kill man trying to flee vehicle stop near Chicago
Officer shot after man had ‘attempted to drive his vehicle into the arrest team, striking an officer’, according to Ice statementA man was fatally sho...
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Missouri Republicans approve redistricting that gives GOP additional seat in Congress
Move is win for Trump before midterms, but opponents pledge to take it to voters next year in referendumMissouri Republicans approved a new congressio...
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’ The University of California, Berkeley h...
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Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ about uniting US after Charlie Kirk killing
President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forwardDonald Trump has said he “couldn’t care less...
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Government shutdown draws near as Democrats push for healthcare funding
Top Senate Republican says Democrats see shutdown as ‘politically advantageous’ as 30 September deadline looms The US government is drawing nearer to ...
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Trump can block Medicaid funds to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood, court rules
Reproductive rights group condemns ruling as ‘backdoor abortion ban’ and says 200 US clinics may face closureThe Trump administration can move forward...
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The US is on the brink of another era of political violence – and Donald Trump ‘couldn’t care less’ | Jonathan Freedland
In their humane responses to the killing of Charlie Kirk, Democrats are observing the old norms. Things are different now: anger and division ruleSign...
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Trump ally Laura Loomer ridiculed for swinging from Charlie Kirk attacks to leading backlash against detractors
Loomer accused TPUSA founder of betraying president in July but now bashes those she perceives to ‘celebrate’ his assassinationCharlie Kirk shooting –...
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'We got him': Utah governor announces arrest of Charlie Kirk murder suspect – video
Utah governor Spencer Cox confirmed today that Tyler Robinson, 22, is the prime suspect in the murder of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk was sho...
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Zohran Mamdani proudly embodies what I often feel alienated in: my own identity as an unapologetic Muslim and progressive | Sarah Malik
Watching from Australia, I feel both an elation at his win as well as exhaustion at the suspicion brown Muslims inevitably experience in the public sp...
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‘She doesn’t have the power to stop him’: DC mayor walks a tightrope with Trump
As the federal takeover of DC police ends, Muriel Bowser is balancing leftwing pressure with a rightwing presidentDuring a press conference at the end...
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RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down | Bernie Sanders
Kennedy is unfit to be our nation’s leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern scienceSince taking office,...
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Being born in north-east England gives you grit, says Fiona Hill
Former White House adviser turns spotlight on ‘resilient’ region with new podcast Forged in the NorthThere is a “resilience and grit” that comes from ...
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Workplace safety issues at Georgia’s Hyundai plant may have led to Ice raid
Three people have died in two years at the South Korean Hyundai-LG battery plant in EllabellA week after a federal immigration raid on a South Korean ...
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Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear
A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria, Louisiana, facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts ...
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The real bias monitor at CBS is Donald Trump | Seth Stern
The hiring of Kenneth Weinstein as an ombudsman hands the US president a seat at the editors’ deskNews outlets, including CBS, are free to run their e...
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Virulent debater and clickbait savant: how Charlie Kirk pushed a new generation to the right
The far-right activist, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory viewsCharlie Kir...
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UK needed ‘unconventional’ US ambassador when picking Mandelson, minister says
Douglas Alexander says he would not have been appointed if PM had known the depth of his links to Jeffrey EpsteinUK politics live – latest updatesThe ...
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Charlie Kirk shooting: new video of suspect released by FBI amid urgent appeal for help from the public
FBI reward of $100,000 and direct appeals for public support appear to signal law enforcement’s continued struggles to identify the killer of Trump al...
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Trump news at a glance: president says his supporters should respond peacefully to Charlie Kirk killing
A day after Trump blamed the ‘radical left’ for shooting, vowing a crackdown, president says Kirk advocated nonviolence and ‘that’s the way I’d like t...
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A quiet Utah town reckons with Charlie Kirk’s shooting: ‘Nothing like this has happened here’
People paid respects to the far-right activist and Trump ally as they pondered his divisive legacyCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the latest updatesOre...
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Senators say US is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Democrats Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley reach ‘inescapable conclusion’ after fact-finding trip to regionTwo Democratic senators claim they have re...
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Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his reactionary views on current eventsCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the latest upd...
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Dispatch call reveals moment police were alerted to shooting of Charlie Kirk – audio
Utah officials have released the county dispatch audio on the moment police were alerted to the shooting of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. Kirk was speaki...
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The Guardian view on the killing of Charlie Kirk: a perilous moment that may lead to more | Editorial
The shooting of the Turning Point USA co-founder should not be used to foment further division in a polarised country“Democracy is the way that we hav...
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Where does the US go after the Charlie Kirk shooting? - podcast
On Wednesday night, Charlie Kirk, an influential rightwing activist and Donald Trump ally, was shot dead at a university campus in Utah. The US presid...
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State department to punish foreigners in US ‘making light of’ Charlie Kirk death
Deputy secretary of state says ‘foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors’US politics – live updatesAction will be taken aga...
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Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants
Court declined preliminary injunction in case brought by scientists seeking to halt purge of more than 1,600 grantsThe Trump administration can go ahe...
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Charlie Kirk obituary
Activist and star of the US Republican right with a direct line to President TrumpThe US political activist Charlie Kirk, who has been murdered at the...
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Trump blamed ‘radical left’ for Charlie Kirk’s death – even as shooter’s identity remains unknown
In Oval Office address, president decried the demonization of political opponents, ignoring his own past rhetoricCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the la...
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Trump to award Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
During a 9/11 memorial address, the president honored the far-right activist who was fatally shot on WednesdayCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the lates...
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‘We are in a war’: rightwing media vow retribution for Charlie Kirk killing
Furious reaction from media figures and Donald Trump blames left for shooting of conservative activistUS politics – follow liveThe killing of Charlie ...
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Trump to award Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom – video
The US president, Donald Trump, announced that he will be awarding Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.Speaking at the memorial se...
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FBI says rifle used in Charlie Kirk shooting has been recovered – video
The FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, Robert Bohls, says police have recovered a 'high-powered bolt-action rifle' they believe to be t...
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How the Charlie Kirk shooting unfolded – in maps, videos and images
Conservative activist and Trump ally was shot dead at a Utah Valley University event on WednesdayCharlie Kirk shooting – latest updatesThe conservativ...
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US inflation rises in August as companies push Trump tariffs cost onto consumers
New CPI update shows prices increased 2.9% over the last year, but Wall Street optimistic Fed will cut interest ratesInflation rose slightly in August...
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From ‘hellhole’ UK to ‘stolen elections’ in South Korea, Charlie Kirk took his message abroad
The US rightwing activist also addressed supporters in Japan and visited Greenland with Donald Trump JrCharlie Kirk shooting: latest updatesCharlie Ki...
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Charlie Kirk’s death is a tragic marker of the indiscriminate nature of political violence | Margaret Sullivan
Like an infectious disease, it efficiently finds more and more victims. It’s not picky about who they areOnce unleashed, political violence comes for ...
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Utah Republican senator faces backlash over post condemning Kirk’s killing
Only months ago, Mike Lee had posted disparaging tweets after Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband were fatally shotThe official X account of Mike...
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‘What have we become?’: shock across US political parties after Charlie Kirk shooting
After rightwing activist was killed, nation already grappling with polarization faces shock bordering on despairCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the lat...
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Charlie Kirk shooting latest: search for killer under way as Trump vows crackdown on ‘political violence’
In an address delivered before the person who killed Kirk had even been identified, Donald Trump blamed ‘the radical left’ for the shooting The shooti...
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As the Epstein case shows, Trump’s Maga faithful care about only one kind of sex-crime victim | Emma Brockes
E Jean Carroll won her case, but in Trumpland the only sex offences that matter are committed by paedophiles with links to DemocratsOn Monday, Donald ...
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Charlie Kirk shooting: police search for suspect amid condemnation of ‘targeted’ killing
Shooting of conservative activist Kirk in Utah still an active investigation, say authorities, as Donald Trump vows to find everyone ‘who contributed ...
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Charlie Kirk shooting: suspect still at large after rightwing activist shot and killed – video
Charlie Kirk, the founder of rightwing youth activist group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and a close ally of Donald Trump, was fatally shot while speakin...
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Trump blames 'radical left political violence' for killing of Charlie Kirk – video
In an Oval Office address delivered before the person who killed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been identified, Donald Trump blamed ‘the ...
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'Screaming and running': witnesses describe crowds at Charlie Kirk shooting – video
Rightwing activist Charlie Kirk died after being shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University in Utah. Kirk was about 20 minutes into a p...
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Trump news at a glance: President orders flags to be flown at ‘half mast’ to honour Charlie Kirk
Labelling the conservative activist a ‘Great American Patriot’ Trump said the flags would remain at half mast until Sunday evening. Key US politics st...
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Charlie Kirk: influential rightwing activist and trusted ally of Trump
Author, activist and host co-founded Turning Point USA and used huge social media reach to push rightwing causesCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the lat...
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Charlie Kirk’s death shows political violence is now a feature of US life
Shooting of the commentator comes as a series of events show a rising level of violence related to political dissentCharlie Kirk shooting – follow the...
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