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Minnesotans strike in protest against ICE surge: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans marched in Minneapolis and otherwise participated in an economic blackout on Friday to protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge in the state. About 100 clergy members were arrested by police...
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Trump claims Nato troops ‘stayed a little off the frontlines’ in Afghanistan
Donald Trump has again disparaged America’s Nato allies, claiming that troops from allied nations “stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines” while fighting in Afghanistan in support of the US campaign against the Taliban. The only time Nato...
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Trump declaration of Greenland framework deal met with scepticism as doubts persist
Donald Trump’s announcement of a “framework of a future deal” that would settle the issue of Greenland after weeks of escalating threats has been met with profound scepticism from people in the Arctic territory, even as financial markets rebounded and...
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US justice department subpoenas Minnesota Democrats accused of impeding ICE efforts
The justice department subpoenaed several top officials in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of its investigation into whether Minneapolis officials have conspired to impede federal immigration efforts there. A copy of a subpoena to the office of the...
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Spain to hold three days of mourning after train crash that killed at least 40
Spain will begin three days of mourning on Tuesday as rescuers continue to comb through the wreckage of twisted train cars and scattered debris to locate victims after a train collision that killed at least 40 people and injured dozens. On Monday,...
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‘It’s unforgiving’: California park officials grapple with recent deaths on Mount Baldy
The peak is just there in the distance, hovering above Los Angeles, snow-capped and tantalizing to the city-bound. About an hour from the sands of the Pacific coast, Mount Baldy and the surrounding Angeles national forest have long been a wilderness...
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‘Absolutely no detail’: experts alarmed as Trump unveils healthcare plan
Donald Trump has finally unveiled his long-awaited framework for healthcare affordability, almost a year and a half after announcing during a pre-election presidential debate that he had the “concepts of a plan” for healthcare reform. The short...
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Trump gives heckler the middle finger during Michigan Ford plant visit
Donald Trump middle finger on Tuesday, reportedly responding to shouts admonishing him as a “pedophile protector” as he toured a Michigan Ford plant. The celebrity news and gossip site TMZ shared a short video featuring the US president’s flustered...
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Trump says he is considering ‘very strong’ military options against Iran as protester death toll climbs
Donald Trump has claimed Iran has reached out and proposed negotiations, as he considers “very strong” military action against the regime over a deadly crackdown on protesters that has reportedly killed hundreds. Asked on Sunday by reporters aboard...
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Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows
Renee Nicole Good calmly said everything was “fine” and “I’m not mad at you” seconds before an onduty Immigration Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot her in Minneapolis as she drove away, according to a cellphone video shared on Friday by Donald...
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White House says using US military is ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland
Donald Trump and his advisers are looking into “a range of options” in an effort to acquire Greenland, noting in a White House statement on Tuesday that using the US military to do so is “always an option”. “President Trump has made it well known that...
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Deposed Maduro pleads not guilty after capture in shock US attack on Venezuela
The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges on Monday, two days after his capture by US special forces in an operation ordered by Donald Trump that sent shockwaves around the...
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‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say
has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters, according to emergency management experts. The first year of his second term was marked by crackdowns on climate science that produced world-class...
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US homeland security condemned for using Japanese artist’s work without consent
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing backlash once again, this time from a Japanese artist who has condemned the agency for using, without permission, his work to promote deportations. In a post on X on New Year’s Eve, the department...
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Abortion may no longer be a top priority for Democratic voters ahead of 2026 midterms, polls show
Up to seven states will vote on abortion rights this year. But recent polling indicates that Democrats may not be able to count on the issue in their efforts to drive votes in the 2026 midterms, after making abortion rights the centerpiece of their...
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California snowpack gets a boost from series of December downpours
A series of December storms delivered a welcome boost to California’s snowpack, scientists said on Tuesday in a closely watched assessment of the state’s water resources for the year ahead. The snowpack survey recorded a snow depth of 24in (61cm),...
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Hamas will have ‘hell to pay’ if it fails to disarm, Trump warns after Netanyahu meeting
Donald Trump has warned that Hamas will have “hell to pay” if it fails to disarm while offering fullthroated support to Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Florida. In a bravura display of mutual admiration,...
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Trump says Ukraine peace deal ‘closer than ever’ after meeting with Zelenskyy in Florida
Donald Trump has said a deal to end the war in Ukraine is “closer than ever” but has admitted that “thorny” questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a twohour meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in...
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Mudslides bury cars and homes up to their windows in California town
Mudslides buried cars and homes up to their windows in a California mountain town as a powerful storm system brought the wettest Christmas in decades to the southern part of the state. As much as 12in of rain fell across the area on Wednesday,...
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Southern California sees third death from atmospheric river storm drenching region
A strong rain and wind storm, carried by an atmospheric river from the Pacific, has been blamed for a third death in southern California as flooding, road closures and debris flows are reported across the region. A flood watch was also extended...
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At least two people dead in Philadelphia nursing home explosion
An explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia collapsed part of the building and has left at least two people dead, and five others unaccounted for. The exact number of those injured and trapped inside has yet to be announced, authorities...
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Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’
The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already under construction, in the heaviest blow yet to an industry that the administration has relentlessly targeted throughout the year. Trump’s...
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Trump does presidency via Truth Social - what are Americans missing out on?
When Donald Trump has something to say, he takes to Truth Social. Trump has used the platform to announce policies on everything from the economy to travel bans, making declarations that are key for Americans seeking information about his...
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US launches airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria
The US military launched airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday in retaliation for an attack on US personnel, two US officials said on Friday. The attacks come after Donald Trump vowed to hit back after an attack last...
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Four Republicans join Democrats to force vote on bill that would extend Obamacare subsidies
In a major setback for Mike Johnson and the House GOP, four Republicans have joined with the Democrats to sign a petition forcing a vote on legislation that will extend for three years premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act healthcare plans. The...
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Jared Kushner’s firm exits takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery
Jared Kushner’s private equity firm has reportedly stepped back from previous efforts to take over the entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery, following scrutiny of his involvement. Affinity Partners emerged as a key backer of a $108.4bn hostile...
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Donald Trump sues BBC for up to $10bn over edit of January 6 speech
Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made to supporters in Washington before they stormed the US Capitol in 2021, requesting up to $10bn in damages. The US president alleged the broadcaster “intentionally,...
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Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead
A person of interest in the shooting that killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday has been detained, police have said. Col Oscar Perez - the Providence police force’s chief confirmed at a...
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House Republicans propose healthcare plan with no extension of tax credits
With health insurance premiums set to rise sharply for at least 22 million Americans who purchase their coverage through Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces using tax credits that will expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts, the US...
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Fed cuts interest rates by a quarter point amid apparent split over US economy
The US Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it was cutting interest rates by a quarter point for the third time this year, as the embattled central bank appeared split over how best to manage the US economy. The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, has...
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Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Officers at the large immigration detention camp located at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas are allegedly mistreating detainees, with accusations including beatings, sexual abuse and clandestine deportations of nonMexican nationals into Mexico,...
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Trump unveils $12bn aid package for US farmers amid tariff fallout
Donald Trump announced on Monday $12bn in economic assistance to farmers, which he said would be drawn from tariff revenue. “This relief will provide muchneeded certainty to farmers as they get this year’s harvest to market and look ahead to next...
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First phase of Gaza ceasefire plan nearly complete, says Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the first phase of the UN-endorsed Gaza ceasefire plan is close to completion, and that the second phase must involve the disarmament of Hamas. The Israeli prime minister said he would discuss the next steps later this...
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US supreme court to decide on legality of Trump birthright citizenship order
The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship, the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States...
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Grand jury declines to re-indict Letitia James after judge dismissed first case
A grand jury declined to indict Letitia James on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the decision, a decision that came less than two weeks after a judge ruled that a similar mortgage fraud case brought by federal prosecutors against the New...
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Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks
Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards, significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. It marks the US president’s...
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Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September. The petition...
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National guard shooting suspect spent ‘weeks on end’ in isolation, emails show
The suspect in the shooting of two West Virginia national guard soldiers in Washington DC on the eve of Thanksgiving had been struggling with his mental health, sometimes spending “weeks on end” in isolation, as he tried to assimilate in the years...
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Trump invites families of national guard members who were shot to White House
Donald Trump said on Sunday that he invited the family of a national guard member fatally shot last week to the White House, adding that he spoke to her parents and they were “devastated”. US army specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, was killed in a...
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Before Charlie Kirk was killed on their campus, students felt happy there. They want that again
The spot where was killed is fenced off. The fountain beside it shut down. The American flags nearby hang low above the spot where he fell. Every so often, someone stops to leave flowers or say a prayer. There are far more police officers and security...
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Two national guard members in critical condition after Washington DC shooting
Two West Virginia national guardsmen shot near the White House remained in critical condition on Wednesday in an attack that rattled the country’s capital. The incident comes amid a controversial deployment of troops to Washington DC ordered by the...
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Trump may have inadvertently issued mass pardon for 2020 voter fraud, experts say
may have inadvertently pardoned any citizen who committed voter fraud in 2020 when he granted a pardon to Rudy Giuliani and other allies for their efforts to overturn the election, legal experts say. The pardons of Giuliani and others who participated...
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Pentagon investigating US senator over call for troops to refuse illegal orders
The Pentagon says it is investigating the Arizona senator Mark Kelly for possible breaches of military law after the federal lawmaker joined a handful of other Democrats in a video calling for US troops to refuse unlawful orders. It is extraordinary...
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Epstein survivor condemns Trump for calling file release fight a ‘hoax’
A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse has condemned Donald Trump for dismissing the victims’ fight for transparency as a “hoax”. Shortly after signing a bill to release the Epstein files, the US president posted a lengthy social media rant accusing...
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Judge orders release of hundreds arrested during Chicago immigration raids
A federal judge has ordered the release of hundreds of people who were arrested over the last few months in the Chicago area amid the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids across the city. On Wednesday, US district judge Jeffrey Cummings...
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Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise
The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibility of the US Southern Command, which covers Latin America and the Caribbean. The deployment of the...
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UK commentator detained by ICE after Israel criticism to be released, family says
The family of British political commentator Sami Hamdi, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in late October while on a speaking tour in the US, say he is set to be released and will be able to “return home soon”. “The...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy: why should I be afraid of Donald Trump?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is not “afraid” of Donald Trump unlike other western leaders and dismissed reports that their last meeting in Washington was volatile, adding that he had good relations with the US president. He also said in an...
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US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments
The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments. The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s...
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US airlines cancel flights after aviation agency directive to cut air traffic
United, Southwest and Delta airlines began cancelling flights for Friday in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s directive that will see reductions in flights at 40 major airports from Friday to help address air traffic controller...
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Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father
Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat. The child’s grandmother said...
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At least seven dead and 11 injured after UPS plane crashes near a Kentucky airport
A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after take off, erupting into a massive fireball near the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport in Kentucky, leaving at least seven dead and 11 injured, the state’s governor, Andy Beshear, said. Beshear said he...
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Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election
On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, President Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay. “If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I...
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California poised to approve Prop 50 as voters signal displeasure with Trump
Proposition 50 began as a warning from the nation’s largest blue state to its largest red one: don’t poke the bear. But when Texas moved ahead with a rare, mid-decade gerrymander, pushed by Donald Trump as Republicans seek to shore up their fragile...
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Trump administration blocked from suspending Snap benefits for millions of Americans
Two federal judges issued backto-back rulings on Friday in separate cases ordering the Trump administration to use contingency funds to continue paying for food stamps during the government shutdown. A federal judge in on Friday afternoon blocked...
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US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 - and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans. The low number represents a dramatic drop...
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Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray,...
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US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil
The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of opposition to the president’s trade war. The legislation...
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Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring
Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence. The...
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Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’
Securing Jewish votes was never going to be a straightforward ride for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayoral hopeful who is on track to become the most prominent Palestine supporter to assume elected office in the US - in the most Jewish city...
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East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump’s ballroom construction
The East Wing of the White House has now been completely destroyed to pave way for Donald Trump’s $300m planned gilded ballroom, just days after the administration announced it would happen and contradicting Trump’s earlier promise that the existing...
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Trump backs down on sending federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown
canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding into the streets. The Bay Area region had been on edge after reports emerged on Wednesday...
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Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa fling zingers in New York mayoral debate as they try to win over voters
New York City’s three mayoral contenders had a fiery debate on Wednesday night in their final televised face-off less than two weeks before voters decide the city’s next leader on 4 November. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independent Andrew Cuomo...
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‘I’m not a secret Nazi’: Maine Democratic Senate candidate addresses tattoo
The Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner attempted to get ahead of potential opposition research by disclosing and explaining a skulland-crossbones tattoo he has on his chest that resembles Nazi imagery, along with an embarrassing personal...
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US appeals court could reconsider ruling in Trump’s favor on Portland troop deployment
A decision in Donald Trump’s favor by a three-judge panel issued on Monday, which lifted a block on his planned deployment of Oregon national guard troops to Portland, could be reconsidered by a new, larger panel of federal appeals court judges. Hours...
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Scramble to shore up ceasefire as Israel hits Gaza with deadly raids
Israel launched waves of lethal airstrikes on Sunday and cut off all aid into Gaza “until further notice” after a reported attack by Hamas, in escalations that marked the most serious threat so far to the increasingly fragile ceasefire in the...
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Fox News employees expressed concerns network was intentionally aiding Trump, legal filings reveal
employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according...
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Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information
The justice department filed federal charges against John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump who turned into one of his biggest critics, accusing him of transmitting and retaining highly classified information under the...
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Trump says he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela as Maduro decries the move as ‘coups d’etat’
said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government. Trump further suggested he was considering strikes on...
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Newsom vetoes California bill banning cookware with Pfas, ‘forever chemicals’
Gavin Newsom vetoed a California bill that was set to ban the sale of cookware and other consumer goods manufactured with Pfas, also known as “forever chemicals”, human-made compounds linked to a range of health issues. The governor’s decision on...
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Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests
US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his push to deploy national guard members to an ever-widening number of American cities. The Guardian has identified eight instances...
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The...
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White House announces federal worker layoffs as shutdown nears third week
The White House announced layoffs of federal workers on Friday, making good on a threat it had made in response to the US government shutdown, which now appears set to stretch into a third straight week. Russell Vought, the director of the White House...
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Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals
A federal grand jury has indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to...
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