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Trump declares that drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are ‘unlawful combatants’
President also said the US is now in a ‘non-international conflict’, according to a White House memoDonald Trump has declared that drug cartels operat...
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Slash and burn: Trump budget chief relishes chance to cut, fire and cancel
Russ Vought, architect of rightwing Project 2025, has been waiting for his moment to pursue deep cuts to governmentDonald Trump’s social media post ea...
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Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to punish Democrats as shutdown enters day two
Republicans and Democrats engage in war of words as White House also uses impasse to cut government spendingUS government shutdown – latest updatesAs ...
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Judge denies Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum in the US
Salvadorian man, who was deported to El Salvador in March before being returned to the US, has 30 days to appeal rulingAn immigration judge in Baltimo...
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Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas
Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fearsDonald Trump is offering ni...
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People in the US: share your views on the US government shutdown
We’re interested to hear what people make of the Democrats’ refusal to vote for the Republican spending bill, and what people think the party should d...
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Supreme Court opens with cases on voting rights, tariffs, gender identity and campaign finance to test the limits of a constitutional revolution
With partisan advantage, clashing perceptions of reality and revolutionary readings of the Constitution all in play, the Supreme Court’s cases this ye...
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Supreme Court to decide if Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy violates free speech
If conversion therapy is deemed speech, then bans on it likely will fall.
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Focus on US mass shooters’ political beliefs undermines fight against gun violence
Leaning so heavily on politics to understand mass violence fails to capture rapidly changing landscape of radicalizationIt’s a common feature in the r...
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LA 2028 Olympics: fears of mass displacement and homeless sweeps as Trump threat looms
The city has been here before, with arrests during the 1984 Olympics that had long-term consequences for the city’s Black and brown peopleIn the lead-...
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Moral panics intensify social divisions and can lead to political violence
From the Salem witch trials to McCarthyism and Charlie Kirk’s killing, an exaggerated fear of a particular group has resulted in repression from liber...
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Where George Washington would disagree with Pete Hegseth about fitness for command and what makes a warrior
Washington’s ‘warrior ethos’ was grounded in decency, temperance and the capacity to act with courage without surrendering to rage. That ideal built a...
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Shutdowns are as American as apple pie − in the UK and elsewhere, they just aren’t baked into the process
With hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed as part of the latest US government shutdown, a scholar explains why such events never occu...
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James Comey’s real ‘crime’? Daring to put the law before loyalty to Trump | Lawrence Douglas
The former FBI director prioritized fidelity to his office. The case against him is flimsy – but that’s cold comfortIn 1931, an exceptionally talented...
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US government shutdown: Democrats hold firm on healthcare demands amid Trump’s layoff threats – live
Senate votes continue to fail as both Republicans and Democrats cannot agree on a stopgap funding measure to reopen the US governmentHere’s what the s...
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Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’
Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again...
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Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka
Donald Trump’s White House reveals a new ‘portrait’ of Joe Biden – and in his world, if you don’t laugh, the joke’s on youOn 24 September, a White Hou...
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Democrats finally have some leverage in the shutdown fight. They should use it | Robert Reich
The government has effectively been shut down since Trump returned to office, as officials clamp down on work they opposeThe United States government ...
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What does the US government shutdown mean for everyday people?
Several thousand federal employees will be furloughed or must do unpaid work. Regular people will feel it differentlySince the US government shut down...
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