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US military carried out lethal strike on vessel in Pacific, killing four, says Pete Hegseth
Announcement comes day after Trump said a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving VenezuelaThe US military carried out a lethal st...
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Trump news at a glance: Dan Bongino ‘wants to go back to his show’ says president, as deputy FBI director resigns
Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned podcaster, will step down in January. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 17 December at a glanceThe ...
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US judge says Trump officials can’t ban surprise lawmaker visits to ICE facilities
District judge says policies deeming ICE field offices ‘off-limits for congressional oversight’ violates federal lawA federal judge on Wednesday said ...
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US Senate confirms billionaire Musk ally Jared Isaacman as Nasa chief
Vote on Isaacman, private astronaut and Mars missions advocate, passes 67-30 for him to be agency’s 15th leaderThe US Senate on Wednesday confirmed bi...
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American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr
Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAPThe US department of health an...
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Trump appears to confirm Dan Bongino will step down from FBI role
President told reporters that deputy director ‘did a great job’ and ‘wants to go back to his show’Donald Trump appears to have confirmed reports that ...
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Fani Willis defends Trump prosecution at contentious Georgia hearing
Fulton county DA hits back at Republican opponents who investigated her over relationship with special prosecutorFulton county district attorney Fani ...
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Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith defends investigation in House testimony
Ex-special counsel tells House panel US president’s actions alone underpinned now-dropped prosecutionsJack Smith, the former US justice department spe...
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FCC chair suggests agency is not independent amid fears of Trump power grab
Brendan Carr’s declaration raises concerns amid Trump efforts to exert greater control over independent agenciesThe Federal Communications Commission ...
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Congress passes $901bn defense bill that includes support for Ukraine and Europe
Senate advances 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which White House says Trump will sign into lawThe US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesda...
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Susie Wiles interview might be a useful distraction from how poorly things are going for Americans
The incendiary quotes don’t disguise how dissatisfied people are about jobs, inflation or the cost of livingThis was originally published in This Week...
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UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
The company says it is protecting nursing home residents by curbing unnecessary hospital transfers. Whistleblowers allege cost-cutting tactics have en...
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Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’The Trump administration is breaking up a research center...
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Four Republicans join Democrats to force vote on bill that would extend Obamacare subsidies
Stunning move comes after House Republicans pushed ahead with bill that doesn’t address soaring premiums if Affordable Care Act tax credits expireUS p...
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Sheinbaum urges UN to ‘prevent bloodshed’ after Trump orders Venezuela blockade
Mexican leader warns of conflict as US president targets sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving VenezuelaWhat action is Trump taking against Vene...
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Health workers decry hasty House bills to ban gender-affirming care for children: ‘They hurt people’
Two bills mark the first time Congress has voted over national care bans and an escalation of anti-trans rhetoricUS politics live – latest updatesNich...
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LaMonica McIver expected a quiet first term in Congress. Instead, she was charged
The New Jersey Democrat was charged with interfering with an immigration arrest while conducting her oversight dutiesThis year marked the start of LaM...
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These immigrants grow the US’s Christmas trees. Trump’s wage cuts may keep them away
Legal temporary farm workers also worry about the H-2A visa program and Trump’s anti-immigration regimeThis article is a collaboration between the Gua...
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Venezuela condemns ‘warmongering threats’ as Trump orders oil blockade – US politics live
Trump has ordered a ‘total and complete’ blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from the countryWe will get a sense later in the day on whether the...
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Maga loyalist expands investigation into intelligence officials who angered Trump
Experts decry Jason Reding Quiñones’s ‘fishing expedition’ as subpoenas reportedly issued to John Brennan and othersA Maga loyalist US attorney in Mia...
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Trump’s $10bn attack on the BBC doesn’t have to make sense. In his absurd world, he has already won | Jane Martinson
The legal action has made news and it will do damage. A potential disaster for the corporation and the UK, but a good day’s work for this presidentLov...
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From ‘odd’ Musk to ‘painful’ tariffs: key takeaways from interviews with Trump’s chief of staff
Susie Wiles has spoken to Vanity Fair magazine in a series of 11 interviews that she has since dismissed as a ‘hit piece’The president’s chief of staf...
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Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans – podcast
The congresswoman told David Smith about how it feels to be targeted by the world’s most powerful man. But why has Donald Trump gone after her and the...
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Trump news at a glance: president ratchets up pressure on Maduro with oil tanker blockade
Trump said US armada ‘will only get bigger’ until Venezuela returns ‘all of the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us’ – key ...
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Trump orders blockade of oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela
Move against all sanctioned vessels comes amid escalating campaign against authoritarian leader Nicolás MaduroDonald Trump has ordered “a total and co...
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UK insists tech deal with US isn’t dead as Trump threatens penalties against European tech firms
Keir Starmer’s office claims UK still in ‘active conversations’ about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperateDowning Street insists th...
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Democrats to block Senate nominations over Bondi’s ‘failure’ on Epstein files
Senate duo condemn Trump administration and say ‘there can be no business as usual until justice is delivered’Two Democratic senators have announced t...
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Trump signs order to further restrict entry of foreign nationals to US
US imposes restrictions on Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria, in addition to initial list of 12 countriesDonald Trump has signed a proc...
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Trump’s chief of staff says he believes ‘there’s nothing he can’t do’ as president
Susie Wiles gives strikingly unguarded comments in 11 interviews, starting before election, with Vanity FairDonald Trump believes “there’s nothing he ...
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Pentagon won’t release full video of Caribbean strike that killed two people, Hegseth says
Legal experts have raised concerns US forces may have committed a war crime by killing survivors of initial strikeUS politics live – latest updatesThe...
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US designates Colombia’s biggest drug cartel Gulf Clan as terrorist organization
Marco Rubio calls drug-trafficking militia, present in at least 20 of Colombia’s departments, ‘violent and powerful’The US has designated the Gulf Cla...
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US Muslim civil rights group sues Ron DeSantis over ‘foreign terrorist’ label
Cair claims in lawsuit that Florida governor’s order blocking group from state resources was unconstitutionalA leading Muslim civil rights group in th...
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Donald Trump and the Goldwater rule | Letter
There’s a difference between armchair diagnosis and legitimate observation, and we must allow medical expertise to inform public discourse, writes Rob...
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Rob Reiner’s lesson on power for Trump | Brief letters
The American President | A new low | Labour elegy | Accidental felling | Life stagesInstead of trying to sully the reputation of Rob Reiner with a typ...
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Trump’s cannabis reform would revolutionise US policy. Just don’t expect the ‘war on drugs’ to end | Kojo Koram
Rescheduling marijuana might seem an unlikely move for a Republican president – but it perfectly coheres with his ‘America First’ worldviewFor decades...
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Democrats condemn Republicans calling for Muslim ban on the heels of Australia shooting
Randy Fine and Tommy Tuberville, US legislators, face backlash for Islamophobic calls to deport MuslimsDemocrats are condemning two Republican members...
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‘A shifting system’: concerns over students’ civil rights rise as DoJ changes priorities
Under Trump, the department that once rooted out race- and disability-based discrimination has begun opening investigations over antisemitism and tran...
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I spent a month trying to smile like Zohran Mamdani – it’s no easy feat | Arwa Mahdawi
While the New York mayor-elect is constantly smiling in the face of his detractors, having a perma-grin didn’t come so easily to meAs a big fan of cit...
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US lost 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 in November, according to delayed data
Data shows the headline unemployment rate continued to climb and hit 4.6%, a four-year high, last monthThe US labor market grew by more than expected ...
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‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE
From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdownsWhen Immigration and Customs Enforce...
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Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is matter of national security
Court filing was response to lawsuit asking judge to halt project until it goes through independent reviews and wins approval from CongressUS politics...
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Hegseth and Rubio to brief members of Congress on boat strikes as questions mount – live
On Monday night, the US military said it attacked three more boats believed to have been smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing eight p...
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‘An unhealthy and creepy obsession’: Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks
The Zen-like US representative from Minnesota has had the highest level of death threats of any congressperson because of the president’s attacks“That...
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Ilhan Omar says Trump’s repeated attacks fuel climate of political violence
The US House member says president’s rhetoric about her and Somali Americans could have dangerous consequencesUS congresswoman Ilhan Omar has warned t...
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She has stage four cancer. Her husband is a federal worker. Will she survive the Trump administration?
Michaela’s husband is away 14 hours a day amid Trump’s ban on remote work, the threat of layoffs is ever-present and their health premiums are set to ...
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Five key moments in the assault on the rights of women and girls in 2025
Since Trump’s second term began in January, global healthcare, especially for sexual and reproductive health, has been under constant attackThis time ...
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Behold, it’s the Trump who stole Christmas | Robert Reich
The president continues to preach austerity and hate to people struggling to make ends meet. No wonder voters are turning on himTrump gave what was bi...
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Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut
Survey by world’s largest network for sexual and reproductive health shows devastation to services, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and am...
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BBC bosses ‘right to stick by their guns’ against Trump, says minister
Keir Starmer urged to ‘stand up for the BBC’ after US president files $10bn lawsuit against corporationBBC bosses are “right to stick by their guns” a...
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Donald Trump sues BBC for up to $10bn over edit of January 6 speech
President accuses corporation of ‘intentionally, maliciously and deceptively’ editing speech in Panorama broadcastDonald Trump has filed a lawsuit aga...
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Trump brands fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ in drug war escalation
Order classifies opioid as potential chemical weapon amid administration’s attempts to combat drug smugglingDonald Trump signed an executive order on ...
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Trump news at a glance: US president condemned over comments about Rob Reiner
Lawmakers from both sides criticize ‘petty’ posts; Trump seeking $5bn in damages from BBC – key US politics stories from 15 December 2025Celebrities a...
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