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US politics

  • people walk on damaged road

    US judge blocks Trump officials from diverting disaster prevention grants

    Government prevented from using money allocated to Bric community program for other purposes
  • NYPD officers between metal gates look at a building's walls

    Trump administration cuts New York City’s anti-terrorism funding days after skyscraper attack

  • closeup of a map

    Texas senator asks FBI to help locate and arrest Democrats for leaving state

  • man wearing orange sunglasses, orange hat and black suit

    Spike Lee, Adam McKay and over 2,000 writers decry Trump’s ‘un-American’ actions in open letter

  • Dile que esta es mi casa, donde nació mi abuelo.

    US House panel subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton for Epstein testimony

Opinion

  • Robert Reich

    I was the US labor secretary. Trump’s latest firing undermines a key agency

    Robert Reich
  • Lloyd Green

    Now is the time for Democrats to hammer Trump on the economy

    Lloyd Green
  • Timothy Garton Ash

    With Trump wreaking havoc, a question for the US Democrats: when will you ever learn?

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • a pixelated map with the global south in red

    What will the AI revolution mean for the global south?

    Krystal Maughan

In depth

  • a man smiles behind a lectern that reads 'Zohran for New York City'

    The Mamdani effect: how his win spurred more than 10,000 progressives to consider run for office

  • Two men holding beers argue at a bar as a bartender hesitates to speak from behind the counter.

    Talking politics has bartenders on edge in Trump’s Washington DC

  • a child creates faces from paper and yarn

    ‘People are scared to go out’: fear of Ice agents forces cancellation of US summer festivals

  • man in jacket and baseball cap stands at podium, a screen saying 'osborn independent for US senate' behind him

    ‘There’s an appetite for this brand of politics’: the independent politician making a bid for US Senate

Video

  • Donald Trump's second presidency has led to allegations of pervasive self-dealing. From the acceptance of a luxury jet from the state of Qatar, to the creation of a Trump cryptocurrency, the president has been accused of monetizing the White House while enacting a swath of extreme policy. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel across south Florida, visiting Turning Point's student action summit, meeting the Republican strategist Steve Bannon, and witnessing events at the harsh new detention centre "Alligator Alcatraz".

    Trump’s new gilded age: fearmongering, mass deportations and self-enrichment – video

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  • Democratic lawmakers in Texas have left the state to prevent Republican efforts to significantly redraw the state's voting maps.

    Texas House vows to 'arrest' Democrats for leaving state to block redistricting plan – video

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  • Former president says some politicians watch deportations of legal immigrants with ‘glee’, in speech to National Bar Association gala

    'These are dark days' Biden warns in speech criticising Trump administration – video

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  • Detainees are made to sleep on floors next to toilets in a facility Ice says is not a detention site

    Footage reveals harsh conditions inside Ice’s New York City confinement centre – video

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