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Trump leads in five key swing states, new poll shows, despite Biden’s months of campaigning – live
Donald Trump still leads Joe Biden in five of six swing states, according to a new poll from the New York Times, Siena College and the Philadelphia In...
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How the right is weaponizing pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US
Republicans are using a narrative of chaos and ‘philosophical divisions on Israel’ among Democrats to sink Biden’s campaignRepublicans have identified...
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Florida is a prime example of Trump’s vise grip on state Republican parties
With Trump family members as state delegates, as well as national party co-chair, GOP lawmakers fall in line to support ex-presidentIn practical terms...
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Bob Menendez corruption trial to begin: ‘I look forward to proving my innocence’
Trial for New Jersey senator will start Monday as he insists he’s innocent of 16 felony charges, including bribery and extortionThe criminal corruptio...
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French government says Kristi Noem lied about cancelling meeting with Macron
A French official said there is no record of a scheduled meeting with the South Dakota governor – nor had they invited herThe French government has jo...
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‘Strategic and moral mistakes’: US politicians step up condemnation of Israel
Democrat warns Hamas could become stronger if Israel wages all-out Rafah assault, while Blinken offers more measured commentsPoliticians in the US on ...
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Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech
Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’Donald Trump on Saturd...
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Sporadic pro-Palestinian protests staged during college commencements
Small demonstrations held on Saturday, including at Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Wisconsin-MadisonSmall pro-Palestinian protests...
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The Never Trump Republicans who can’t bring themselves to back Biden
Mike Pence, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan refuse to vote for the president despite calling Trump unfit – and their harshest critics are fellow Republic...
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One path for Biden to lure blue-collar voters – find the economic villains: ‘You have to pick fights’
Experts say Biden can win back working-class Americans if he hammers home the message that he is helping them on pocketbook issuesTo the dismay of Dem...
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Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border
Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an i...
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No Going Back: Kristi Noem and other Trump veepstakes also-rans
The South Dakota governor’s book will be remembered as an utter disaster. Other VP hopefuls’ tomes are merely dispiritingDonald Trump will never tap K...
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Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war
Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln – and frightened the s...
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Could new US sanctions threaten future of West Bank settlements? | Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum
Joe Biden’s latest executive order gives scope to target the finances of Israeli politicians and businesses linked to extremistsEscalating US sanction...
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Katie Britt proposes federal database to collect data on pregnant people
Republican US senator from Alabama best known for delivering widely ridiculed State of the Union speech in MarchKatie Britt, the Republican US senator...
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Clarence Thomas: Washington is a ‘hideous place’ of ‘nastiness and lies’
US supreme court justice gives one-hour talk at meeting of judges, attorneys and other court personnel of 11th circuit court of appealsClarence Thomas...
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Barron Trump will not be a delegate at Republican Nation Convention after all
His mother’s office said the 18-year-old high school senior had to decline the honor due to prior commitmentsDonald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump...
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Poor reviews, missing product: firms’ anti-woke offerings soak consumers
A thriving retail niche caters to the performative masculinity of the right wing, oftentimes bilking its chauvinistic client baseRightwing companies a...
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Morning After the Revolution review: a bad faith attack on ‘woke’
Nellie Bowles seeks simply to stoke ‘communal outrage’, whether over protesters, the unhoused or trans peopleWriting on Substack in 2021, Nellie Bowle...
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Kerry Kennedy on the family political split: ‘There’s so much at stake’
Kerry Kennedy discusses the collective decision to back Joe Biden over brother Robert F Kennedy Jr and how his impact on the election will be ‘dangero...
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US campus protests give Trump a target for his violent rhetoric of vengeance
Tough-guy talk about ‘radical-left lunatics’ is an extreme spin on an old playbook but plays well with his Republican baseDonald Trump delights in rai...
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Say More review: Jen Psaki on Biden, Trump and how to make your point
White House press secretary turned MSNBC host offers advice, a little dish and barbed critiques of Republican predecessorsJen Psaki left the Biden Whi...
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Rudy Giuliani suspended by New York radio station over 2020 election lies
WABC owner says Trump ally received warnings not to discuss ‘election fallacies’ and that refusal to do so ‘left me no option’The former New York mayo...
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Abigail Disney evokes Old Yeller in plea to reject Republicans after Kristi Noem kills dog
Exclusive: great-niece of Walt Disney issues appeal to appalled voters on behalf of Progressive Change Campaign CommitteeEvoking the classic Disney te...
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Joe Biden is desperate for this war to end – but neither Netanyahu nor Hamas is in any hurry | Jonathan Freedland
Failing to stop an all-out attack on Rafah would make the US president look weak – an unthinkable prospect in election yearBeware cornering a US presi...
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Pro-Israel Pac pours millions into surprise candidate in Maryland primary
United Democracy Project backing Sarah Elfreth, even with Harry Dunn, former US capitol officer, as fellow Democrat in House raceA pro-Israel lobby gr...
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Mike Johnson touts bipartisanship after Democrats help sink Marjorie Taylor Greene challenge – live
Republican House speaker praised Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and made veiled dig at far-right congresswomanGood morning!After easily su...
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Trump promised US oil bosses to scrap climate laws for $1bn donation: report
Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitchesDonald Trump dangled a br...
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RFK Jr says he’ll eat brain worms and ‘still beat’ Biden and Trump in debate
Robert F Kennedy Jr makes comment after New York Times reports worm got into his brain, ‘ate a portion of it and then died’In a US presidential campai...
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Biden threat to stop Israel arms shipments welcomed by Democrats and criticized by Israeli officials and Republicans – live
US president applauded by progressive lawmakers amid criticism from Israel and RepublicansBiden: US will stop supplying some weapons to Israel if it i...
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‘Madman in a circular room screaming’: ex-aide’s verdict on Trump in book
Former adviser Tom Bossert relays view of defense secretary James Mattis and describes how Trump leaked own meetingsDonald Trump’s defense secretary c...
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Former US town clerk and her lawyer charged for allegedly accessing 2020 voter data in hunt for fraud
Stephanie Scott and Stefanie Lambert charged for promoting ‘baseless conspiracies’ and showing ‘disregard for voter privacy’Michigan’s attorney genera...
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Stormy Daniels’s testimony paints a dark picture of Trump’s view of sex and power | Moira Donegan
Trump’s hush-money trial is, at heart, about the ways powerful men work to prevent women from telling ugly truthsHe seems to have understood it as a b...
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Trump’s strategy to delay cases before the election is working
The ex-president scored two huge legal victories this week that make it all but certain two of his trials will take place after NovemberDespite some d...
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Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind
At some deep level, the former adult film star clearly has his number and knows how to hit him where it hurtsThe spectacle of Stormy Daniels on the wi...
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Pete McCloskey, Republican who tried to unseat Richard Nixon, dies aged 96
The California congressman co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, co-founded Earth Day and in his later years disavowed the GOPPete McCloskey, a pro-env...
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House quashes Marjorie Taylor Greene motion to oust speaker Mike Johnson
Far-right congresswoman booed on House floor before chamber votes 359-43 to kill proposal to remove fellow RepublicanThe House easily quashed Congress...
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Peta unveils Kristi Noem ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume
Animal rights group says South Dakota governor is ‘scarier than any horror movie villain’ after admission of killing 14-month dogKristi Noem, the Sout...
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Trump has yet to decide his VP pick – and it’s turning into a pageant of its own
It’s less than six months until election day, and Donald Trump is choosing his running mate. It’s quite the spectacleSign up for The Stakes: a free ne...
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Hunger strikes for Gaza: a look inside the Princeton student protests – video
Princeton University students have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza since 25 April, their goal being to get the US university t...
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Georgia will allow Trump to challenge order keeping Fani Willis on election interference case
Appeals court said it would allow Trump to challenge decision not to disqualify Willis over relationship with her deputyThe Georgia state court of app...
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Biden to announce $3.3bn AI center during visit to battleground state Wisconsin – US politics live
President’s trip is his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year and contrasts with Donald Trump, who six years ago promised a Foxconn factory at the same ...
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Just how low will Republican politicians stoop to be Trump’s running mate? | Margaret Sullivan
The ‘veepstakes’ see prominent Republicans discarding any last shreds of integrity to impress Trump. It’s a grim omenKristen Welker, the moderator of ...
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‘Keep the door open’: Nashville’s mayor on governing a blue island in a sea of red
Freddie O’Connell is leading his progressive city in a heavily Republican state with equanimity and a spirit of cooperationTennessee’s legislative ses...
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Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial - podcast
It was the moment Donald Trump was dreading. The former president could only sit and watch as the adult film actor Stormy Daniels told her version of ...
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Republican candidate loses Indiana House primary in victory to pro-Israel lobbyists
John Hostettler, who pro-Israel groups deemed ‘antisemitic’, loses to Mark Messmer, who led his opponents with 40% of the voteRepublican John Hostettl...
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Biden reasserts ‘ironclad’ commitment to Israel as pro-Palestine protests roil US campuses
President warned of ‘surge of antisemitism’ amid Israel military’s deadly attacks that have killed more than 34,000 people in GazaJoe Biden warned aga...
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Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s disgraced former attorney somehow frittered way almost $120,000 in January. As a cash-strapped millennial, I’m delighted to share some money-s...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Johnson standoff continues with ouster vote looming – live
The next round of talks between firebrand extremist and House speaker are scheduled for todayGood morning, US politics blog readers.The never ending s...
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New York governor said Black kids in the Bronx do not know the word ‘computer’
Kathy Hochul made comment at California conference to showcase upstate AI center before apologizing on Monday nightThe governor of New York, Kathy Hoc...
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Trump’s scattershot attacks on justice system are causing real damage
Prosecutors, witnesses, jurors – all are in the ex-president’s sights and it could lead to violence, former federal prosecutors and judges sayDonald T...
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Bernie Sanders to run for fourth term in US Senate
Independent senator, 82, stresses need to improve healthcare and protect abortion rights – and condemns ‘extremist’ NetanyahuBernie Sanders, the Vermo...
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