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The Year of Living Constitutionally: a man, a political plan … and a musket
For AJ Jacobs, living according to the founders’ rules cast a spotlight on the power – and absurdity – of originalist thoughtWould you fly the Jolly R...
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‘We don’t have a democracy’: why some Oregonians want to join Idaho
Proponents of the Greater Idaho movement have argued Democrats in Portland don’t understand their way of lifeUnder a large tent at the Crook county fa...
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Trump trial judge rebuked for donations to Democrat-aligned groups in 2020
Ex-president’s legal team sure to make hay out of Juan Merchan’s $35 gift to Biden for President and anti-Republican groupsThe judge overseeing Donald...
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Missouri Republican party fails to boot KKK-linked candidate from gubernatorial ticket
Judge declines to remove Darrell McClanahan, who merely claims one-year honorary membership in terror group, from GOP primary raceA long-shot Missouri...
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‘She’s in the pantheon now’: Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct
The dog-killing South Dakota governor’s VP hopes are in tatters. But she’s not the first politician to flame out with an own goalShe could have been a...
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Trump to address NRA after threatening to roll back gun control laws if elected
Ex-president to take to stage in Dallas at annual convention amid fears a second term would imperil Biden’s firearm restrictionsAmid fears that he wou...
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Red flag? Samuel Alito scandal casts further doubt on supreme court’s impartiality
The court will play a crucial role in November’s election. Alito’s pro-Trump flag adds fuel to an already raging ethics debateWith less than six month...
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The Darkness Has Not Overcome: limp pro-Trump piety for a second coming
Cliff Sims wrote Team of Vipers, an early Trump tell-all. His new book is nowhere near as compelling – even the bits he repeatsThe Darkness Has Not Ov...
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Colorado voters to decide on abortion rights after measure qualifies for ballot
Supporters gather enough valid signatures to put measure – that would enshrine abortion rights into constitution – on to ballotVoters in Colorado will...
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South Dakota to decide on abortion rights in fall as ballot initiative advances
Advocates gathered enough signatures for voters to decide on whether the state can regulate procedure before second trimesterSouth Dakota voters will ...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clash in chaotic US House hearing – video
The oversight and accountability committee hearing descended into chaos, with several members shouting and hurling insults at each other as Alexandria...
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Keir Starmer must beware the Biden factor: you can govern well and lose the country | Jonathan Freedland
Politics is about achieving things and telling a compelling story. But neither the president – nor Starmer – can match Trump’s gift for narrativeThe s...
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Harrison Butker’s jersey sales rise as right wing lauds Chiefs kicker after rant
Josh Hawley among conservatives delighted by football player’s commencement speech pummeling Pride and working women Harrison Butker’s university comm...
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Forget the Maga caps – check out Trump’s new Courtroom Collection! | Fiona Katauskas
Who says (alleged) crime doesn’t pay?See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
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AOC v MTG: House hearing dissolves into chaos over Republican’s insult
Squabble started when Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted House member, spurring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to demand apologyThe two most famous sets of ini...
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Biden and Trump are betting on debates to help magnify the other’s weaknesses
Trump will look to again cast Biden as greatly diminished while Biden will aim to remind voters why they rejected Trump in 2020US politics live – late...
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Upside-down US flag reportedly hung outside Samuel Alito’s home days after Capitol attack
Incident casts doubt on supreme court justice’s impartiality in upcoming cases as inverted flag is associated with Trump’s stolen election claimsAn up...
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Supreme court justice Samuel Alito faces criticism after Trump-supporting flag reportedly seen outside his home – live
Upside-down US flag, used by Trump supporters rallying around false 2020 election fraud claim, flew outside justice’s house, according to the New York...
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Trump to speak at NRA convention as US gun-safety groups sound alarm
Fears grow that former president will follow through on threat to roll back gun-control regulations if he wins White HouseWhen Donald Trump last addre...
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Trump and Johnson spread unfounded fears by urging non-citizen voting ban
Trump falls back on false claim that non-citizen voting threatened his popular vote, despite data proving that it’s a lieDonald Trump and Mike Johnson...
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Gaetz invokes Trump’s call to far-right Proud Boys at hush-money trial
Republican congressman travels to New York to support former president and says he is ‘standing back, and standing by’Matt Gaetz echoed Donald Trump’s...
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Biden asserts executive privilege to block release of special counsel interviews
House Republicans seek recordings of classified documents case interviews, in what Democrats call a ‘purely political’ moveJoe Biden asserted executiv...
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Republican ‘veepstakes’ heats up as contenders court Trump at court
JD Vance and others dressed up in ex-president’s favorite outfit to show obsequiousness as stalwart Trump aide lifts Tim ScottWho will be Trump’s VP? ...
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Washington is pushing policies to combat antisemitism. Critics say they could violate free speech
In the wake of campus protests, some say proposals are part of of a broader effort to silence criticism of IsraelAgainst the backdrop of demonstration...
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Michael Cohen to take stand again for cross-examination in Trump trial
Former lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump is expected to undergo fierce attacks on his credibility by the ex-president’s legal teamDonald Trump’s lawye...
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The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seamy world shot through with moral rot | Robert Reich
The former president’s orbit is a sell-or-tell, catch-and-kill society where money and power are the only true valuesThere is something important abou...
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I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned | Maurice Isserman
I was struck by the mystery of why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movementI’ll leave...
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Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds
Ex-president at Mar-a-Lago last month hosted more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and OccidentalA “deal” allegedly offered by Donald...
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Redone, hidden, burnt: seven famous subjects and the portraits they hated
Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart has asked the National Gallery of Australia to remove her portrait, painted by Vincent Namatjira. Others have gone much fu...
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‘Good chance’ we’ll leave US if Trump acquitted, Stormy Daniels husband says
Barrett Blade says wife, who testified in hush-money trial, ‘wants to move past this’ but admits ‘I don’t see people fighting for her’The husband of S...
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Louisiana must use House map with second mostly Black district, US supreme court rules
Ruling on map prevents yet another new one from being drawn, and boosts Democrats’ chances of gaining control of US HouseThe US supreme court on Wedne...
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US interior department staffer is first Jewish Biden appointee to resign over war in Gaza
Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to chief of staff, accused Biden of using Jews to justify US policy in the conflictAn interior department staff...
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Donald Trump comes face to face with former fixer Michael Cohen - podcast
This week, it was Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen’s turn to take the stand in the hush-money trial in New York. Cohen walked the jury throug...
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We’re in a pivotal moment in American history. We cannot retreat | Bernie Sanders
Clearly, our job is not just to re-elect Biden. It’s much more than thatIn 1776, Americans, living in a British colony, put their lives on the line an...
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South Dakota governor banned from seven Native American reservations in her own state
Actions taken after Kristi Noem – fresh off a dog-killing scandal – suggested that tribal leaders were benefiting from drug cartelsThe governor of Sou...
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Outrage after Republican candidate tells voters ‘don’t be weak and gay’
Valentina Gomez, running for Missouri secretary of state, makes remark in video filmed in historically LGBTQ+ neighbourhoodValentina Gomez, a Republic...
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Biden campaign proposes two debates with Trump ahead of November vote
Proposal bucks tradition of three debates organized by bipartisan Commission on Presidential DebatesUS politics live – latest updatesThe Biden-Harris ...
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Are US campus protests antisemitic? Jewish students weigh in | Panel
We asked Jewish students at US universities what they think about pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Our panel respondsI was in California for Passover w...
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Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ‘taking very serious look’ at whether Mar-a-Lago meeting justifies legal actionA powerful watchdo...
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Antony Blinken plays Rockin’ in the Free World in Kyiv bar – video
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, performed Neil Young's 1989 Rockin' in the Free World at a bar in Kyiv during a visit on Wednesday night. H...
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Ex-Capitol officer Harry Dunn loses congressional primary in Maryland
First-time candidate, who lost after pro-Israel group spent millions supporting another Democrat, defeated by senator Sarah ElfrethFormer US Capitol p...
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What’s behind the US tariffs on Chinese EVs and what do they mean for Biden’s re-election chances?
Joe Biden announced huge new tariffs on imports from China, in a move that Donald Trump says does not go far enoughJoe Biden has unveiled US tariffs o...
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What is Trump's hush-money trial really about? We explain on a whiteboard – video
As former US president Donald Trump's hush-money trial plays out in New York, Matilda Boseley breaks down the details on her whiteboard. Here's how fo...
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Mike Johnson says Trump is ‘innocent of these charges’ outside hush-money trial – live
Republican House speaker is in New York to attend Donald Trump’s hush-money trialTrump hush-money trial – live updatesMike Johnson offered a strident ...
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Arizona supreme court delays enforcement of 1864 abortion ban
Court grants motion to stay enforcement of near-total ban for 90 days as Democratic attorney general weighs next stepsThe Arizona supreme court on Mon...
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US House in session with major agenda but its speaker is awol at Trump trial
Devout Christian Mike Johnson supporting ex-president in court over hush-money payments to porn star after extramarital affairThe US House was in sess...
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Trump’s hush-money case has proven he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal? | Margaret Sullivan
This is likely the only Trump trial before the election – and the only hope for a shred of accountability for his endless misdeedsWhen you set out to ...
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More than 60% of Americans say abortion should be legal, poll finds
New data from Pew shows US support for abortion rights has grown since fall of Roe v Wade in June 2022Most Americans have long supported abortion righ...
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Pressure on Democrats as Republicans look to flip Maryland Senate seat
Primary voters to cast ballots on Tuesday, and Republicans sniff a November victory after ex-governor Larry Hogan’s entry into raceRepublicans have a ...
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Kristi Noem banned by two more Native tribes in South Dakota
Governor, plagued by dog-killing story, unwelcome in 20% of her state after she accused tribal leaders of benefiting from cartelsKristi Noem, the Sout...
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Kamala Harris drops F-bomb as she urges young to break barriers
Vice-president offers advice to young people at leadership summit for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groupsTwelve minutes into a...
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Donald Trump leads Joe Biden in five key battleground states, new polls show
Surveys put ex-president up in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Nevada as Biden campaign brushes off significanceDonald Trump leads Joe Bi...
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