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Kristi Noem responds to South Park’s crude takedown of her in episode targeting Ice
Cartoon series highlighted homeland security chief’s repeated animal killings and poked fun at her looksUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Park’s ...
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Vance says UK and US have ‘disagreements’ over Gaza, as he confirms Trump does not back Palestinian state recognition – as it happened
David Lammy is hosting the US vice-president at Chevening, his grace-and-favour residence in Kent, where they will discuss the Middle EastThe SNP is c...
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The more James Gunn’s Superman is a hit, the more the right will want its own Dean Cain of steel
The star of 90s TV series Lois & Clark and wannabe Ice agent has expressed his horror at Gunn’s ‘woke’ hero. Is there a market for Superman: Borde...
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Trump orders seven-day crackdown on violent crime in Washington DC
President’s directive to federal officers comes a day after threatening to ‘federalize’ city for attack on ex-Doge stafferDonald Trump has ordered fed...
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Stephen Colbert on JD Vance’s water level raising: ‘Insane spoiled baby emperor move’
Late-night hosts discussed the controversial decision to change the water level of a river for the vice-president’s boating trip and Trump’s $200m bal...
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Trump officials reportedly met at White House to discuss strategy around Epstein files
Meeting was attended by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the FBI director, Kash Patel, among othersTop Trump officials reportedly met at the Wh...
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Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliate rejects Medicaid amid fears over Trump cuts
Group fears administration could try to claw back Medicaid payments if judge’s ruling on reimbursements is overturnedAn Ohio affiliate of Planned Pare...
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What could the Cotswolds possibly offer JD Vance? I suggest a swim in one of its rivers | Marina Hyde
The VP of a thousand holidays has done Disneyland and skiing in Vermont. Now it’s time to skive off among the worst people Britain has to offerI don’t...
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Trump orders increased federal law enforcement in Washington DC to combat crime - US politics live
Move comes amid president’s suggestions that his administration could fully take over running the cityGood morning and welcome to the US politics live...
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Trump firing labor statistics head won’t achieve his agenda, says former chief
Erica Groshen says she’s worried about US president bending bureau to his will, but hopes he ‘won’t go that far’Donald Trump will need to take more ra...
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Friday briefing: What will US funding cuts on mRNA vaccines mean for the health of the world?
In today’s newsletter: The global scientific community is reeling after the US announced sweeping cuts to vaccine research, reigniting fears that misi...
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Trump, Sydney Sweeney and the ‘war on woke’ – podcast
Donald Trump needed his Maga base to focus on something other than the Jeffrey Epstein files. Enter Sydney Sweeney and the uproar over a jeans advert....
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Secret Service request to raise river level made ‘without knowledge’ of JD Vance, his office says
Decision to alter Ohio river flow ‘made solely by agents’, the security agency said in a statementA spokesperson for JD Vance said he and his staff we...
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Trump administration doubles reward for arrest of Venezuela’s president to $50m
Nicolás Maduro was indicted in 2020 on federal charges of narcoterrorism and conspiracy to import cocaineThe Trump administration is doubling to $50m ...
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Trump news at a glance: US tariffs now at highest level in almost 100 years; Trump says he will meet Putin
Brazil calls duties ‘unacceptable blackmail’ as other seek talks with US; Trump contradicts reports Putin meeting Zelenskyy was precondition of US-Rus...
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Trump signs order to allow crypto and real estate investments in retirement plans
Experts say allowing alternative assets like cryptocurrency in 401(k) portfolios carries a high degree of riskDonald Trump signed an executive order o...
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Trump signs action forcing higher education to surrender admissions data
Move requires colleges and universities to prove they do not consider race in admissionsDonald Trump signed an executive action on Thursday forcing co...
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Trump administration ousts FBI official who refused to name agents who investigated January 6
Brian Driscoll briefly served as acting FBI director at start of president’s new term, and final day is FridayThe Trump administration is forcing out ...
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Fort Bliss army base on US southern border to take 1,000 Ice detainees
Fort Bliss could be largest US immigration detention facility as White House moves to use military bases for crackdownUS politics live – latest update...
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‘It’s really, really bad right now’: NIH scientists dismayed by Trump cuts
Researchers say scientific community is in state of whiplash and accuse president of trying to ‘destroy’ vital workLast week, the office of management...
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Trump calls for new US census that excludes undocumented immigrants
Census has historically counted all residents regardless of citizenship status, as required by the 14th amendmentDonald Trump announced on Thursday th...
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Vance to urge Indiana to redraw map to help Republicans tighten House grip
The US vice-president is set to meet Indiana Republicans as part of wider effort to redraw districts before midtermsUS politics live – latest updatesJ...
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Shared prayers and tears: how Lammy wooed JD Vance and the White House
Analysts say foreign secretary’s empathy and pragmatism make relationship-forming easy despite political dividesIt was famously something that Tony Bl...
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How Trump’s executive order could criminalize homelessness: ‘Terrifying’
Broad language could allow cities to lock up unhoused people as aid is cut and housing costs soar, experts warnDonald Trump’s executive order that pus...
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Chris Cuomo mocked for response after falling for deepfake AOC video
Cuomo also used the moment to attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Hamas and defend himself in a NewsNation segmentThe US television host Chris Cuomo ...
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Alleged killer of Minnesota politician and her husband expected to plead not guilty in court
Vance Boelter, charged with killing top Democrat and her husband and wounding two others, to be arraigned in federal courtThe man charged with killing...
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Democrats sound alarm over Trump’s reported $1bn plan to retrofit gifted Qatari jet
Elizabeth Warren and others pen letter over alleged plan to divert funds from nuclear arsenal to convert jet into Air Force OneLeading Democrats are s...
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US universities’ settlements with Trump ‘will only fuel his authoritarian appetite’
Experts say settlements worth hundreds of millions will further embolden US president’s use of ‘coercive tactics’With the Trump administration’s campa...
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JD Vance visits Indiana to discuss redistricting amid Trump pressure on GOP states – US politics live
Protests set to greet vice-president on visit after governor said redistricting ‘looks like it’s going to happen across many Republican states’The US ...
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US national parks staff in ‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts
Park bosses say they’re running visitor centers and even cleaning bathrooms as remaining staff try to keep sites openAcross the US’s fabled but overst...
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‘It’ll be beautiful’: behind Trump’s $200m plan to build a White House ballroom
The president, who made his money in construction, takes on one of the biggest White House projects in over a century“Sir, why are you up on the roof?...
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A new generation of populists is showing Democrats how to defeat Trump | Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara
In difficult races, Democrats are leaning into economic populism with promising resultsAs Democrats continue to sift through the wreckage of the 2024 ...
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Trump news at a glance: president hails progress on Ukraine war and threatens India with steep tariffs
Trump may meet Putin as early as next week to discuss the war in Ukraine, White House officials have said – key US politics stories from 6 August 2025...
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Trump to announce Apple’s plan to invest $100bn in US manufacturing
Tech giant’s plan to up domestic investment over next four years comes as it seeks to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffsDonald Trump on Wednesday is exp...
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The Guardian view on Putin’s propaganda: the strongman myth hides great strategic weakness | Editorial
The Russian president had a friend in Donald Trump but a paranoid addiction to war prevents him doing a dealFor a quarter of a century, Russian media ...
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JD Vance to meet with top Trump officials to plot Epstein strategy – report
Gathering reportedly to include Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Susan Wiles to discuss strategy for dealing with scandalJD Vance, the US vice-president, wil...
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US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says
Incineration of $9.7m of contraceptives to lead to 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions, IPPF saysA decision by the US governmen...
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Trump ally Marsha Blackburn launches bid for governor of Tennessee
The Republican senator and vocal abortion foe supported Trump’s baseless claims of fraud during the 2020 electionThe Republican senator Marsha Blackbu...
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‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities
Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inaugurationA new report has found hundreds of...
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Texas governor Greg Abbott sues to oust Democrat from office as showdown escalates
Petition adds pressure on Democratic lawmakers who remain out of state to fight new congressional mapThe showdown between Texas Republicans and the De...
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Trump threatens to ‘federalize’ DC after attack on Doge staffer
The US president cites youth crime in call to strip the capital of local rule, despite declining violence and local oppositionDonald Trump is threaten...
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The US supreme court paved the way for Texas’s gerrymandering mess | Steven Greenhouse
In a 2019 case, John Roberts said federal courts shouldn’t intervene in such matters. Trump’s team is taking advantageWith Texas Republicans rushing t...
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World awaits Trump’s next move as Russia ceasefire deadline approaches
US president has been unusually reticent about plans to punish Russia if it does not agree to end Ukraine warEurope live – latest updatesAfter needing...
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Trump threatens to take ‘federal control’ of DC after Doge staffer attack – US politics live updates
President claims on social media that DC is ‘totally out of control’ and if the city doesn’t ‘get it’s act together’ he will have ‘no choice but to ta...
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I’ve spent my life fighting bullies. I still believe there’s hope for America | Robert Reich
As a child, an activist, and secretary of labor, I’ve seen the harm bullies cause. Yet I can see what led to Trump’s riseI was born on 24 June 1946, 1...
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The Voting Rights Act at 60: still the frontline for democracy
Decades after its passage, the revolutionary law continues to face threats and attempts to pervert its purposeFacing images of violent white mobs defe...
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FBI report disproves Trump’s claim of a Biden-era out-of-control crime wave
Annual figures released Tuesday reflect a 4.5% year-on-year decrease in all violent crime nationally in 2024When Donald Trump fought for and won the 2...
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Trump cuts shut down an LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline. What happens now?
Advocates fear ‘tragic outcomes’ now that queer youth no longer have access to free specialized counseling under the 988 national hotlineBecca Nordeen...
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Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, our voices are being eroded | Al Sharpton
The 1965 law, a rare and profound act of consensus, has been hollowed out. We cannot forget the power Dr King saw in the right to voteIn a moment when...
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My travels in Trump’s Florida: Maga superstars, gen Z Republicans – and the shame of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Is the US in a new gilded age of inequality? On a 400-mile journey from a triumphant conservative youth summit to a hastily constructed immigration de...
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RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemicThe US Department of Health and Human Ser...
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Texas house remains without quorum amid redistricting standoff – video
The Texas house of representatives remained without a quorum after the state's Democratic lawmakers fled the state capital to prevent the legislature ...
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