The Guardian (USA)
Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds
The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. A report released by the department’s inspector general concluded...
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Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
The US supreme court upheld nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision on Thursday. Louisiana sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency’s...
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US Senate confirms Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, replacing Jerome Powell
The US Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve, one of the most powerful roles in the federal government that holds enormous sway over the economy. The 54-45 Senate vote on Wednesday was split along party lines, with the exception...
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Marty Makary departs FDA after clashes with Trump over fruit-flavored vapes
Marty Makary resigned from his position as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, concluding a 13-month tenure at the regulatory agency that frequently drew the ire of the White House, Congress, industry and the public,...
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US supreme court temporarily extends access to mail-order abortion medication mifepristone
The US supreme court extended a short-term order to continue allowing nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadowdocket decision on Monday. The US court of appeals for the fifth circuit in Louisiana ordered a ban...
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After Standing Rock, could a canceled mine project offer a roadmap for opponents of a new oil pipeline in South Dakota?
Almost exactly a decade since the start of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access pipeline gained national and international attention, new disputes are simmering over tribal rights in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Earlier this month,...
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Virginia supreme court strikes down new congressional maps in win for Republicans
supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win ahead of November’s midterm...
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Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district
Republicandominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act. The...
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Uncertainty looms as last oil tanker from Middle East arrives in California
The average price of a gallon of gas in California already stands at more than $6, but more uncertainty looms as the last oil tanker from the Middle East arrived in the Golden state this week. The reported on Sunday that the New Corolla, which left...
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Senate Republicans propose package including $1bn that could go to Trump ballroom
Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m ballroom that is part of Donald Trump’s “East Wing modernization project”. Senator...
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US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms
The US supreme court its way on Monday to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by allowing a recent ruling that gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act to take effect ahead of schedule. The...
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Rudy Giuliani hospitalised in ‘critical but stable’ condition
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, has been hospitalised and is in a “critical but stable condition”, his spokesperson said on Sunday evening. Ted Goodman, the spokesperson, posted on social media: “Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced...
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Voting rights groups sue to block Louisiana from suspending primary elections
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit on behalf of Louisiana voting rights groups on Friday, asking a state court to block the state’s governor, Jeff Landry, and secretary of state, Nancy Landry, from suspending congressional...
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Hegseth ‘dangerously exaggerated’ US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears
Pete Hegseth has failed to give Donald Trump an accurate picture of the war on Iran while resorting to “dangerously exaggerated” statements to create an inaccurate picture of a US military triumph, a senior Democrat told a Capitol Hill hearing on...
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Florida approves US House map meant to boost Republicans in midterms
The Florida legislature approved a new congressional map intended to maximize Republicans’ advantage in the state as part of the national redistricting battle that Donald Trump launched before this year’s midterms. The vote came just two days after...
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King Charles praises Nato and urges defence of Ukraine in key speech during Trump visit
King Charles has extolled the importance of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US in a speech to Congress that made pointed reference to the importance of Nato, the defence of Ukraine and the climate crisis. In a speech that will be read as a...
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Virginia weighs legality of new congressional map favoring Democrats that could reshape US House
Virginia supreme court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s Democratic-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters, in a case that carries high stakes for the balance...
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US strike kills three on alleged narco boat as campaign death toll hits 185
The US military said on Sunday three men were killed when it struck a boat it claimed was “engaged in narco-trafficking operations” in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. This latest strike - which follows dozens of similar attacks on alleged drug boats in...
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US justice department drops criminal investigation against Jerome Powell
The US Department of Justice is dropping its criminal investigation against the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, clearing the path for Donald Trump’s new nominee for chair to be confirmed. Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s appointed US attorney for the...
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India voices anger after Trump shares comments calling it a ‘hellhole’
India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shared comments that called the South Asian country a “hellhole”. The inflammatory post on Truth Social comes ahead of a planned visit next month to India by the US...
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RFK Jr faces intense questions in US Senate on measles and flu deaths
The health secretary, Kennedy Jr, faced intense questioning from several US senators on Wednesday during a hearing largely focused on how the administration has responded to the measles outbreak and the spread of vaccine misinformation. In his...
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Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia wins New Jersey special election for US House
Democrat Analilia Mejia won a New Jersey special election for the US House on Thursday, defeating Republican Joe Hathaway on a message of standing up to Donald Trump. Mejia, a former head of the Working Families Alliance who had support from the...
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Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell amid pressure campaign
Donald Trump threatened to fire Jerome Powell if he stays on as US Federal Reserve chair past the end of his tenure and doubled down on a criminal investigation into renovations of the central bank’s headquarters. As the White House pushes Trump’s new...
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Can the Punk Rock flea market save the soul of Seattle?
Strolling the commercial corridor atop Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on a recent Friday afternoon, I catch a cappella voices booming down the block: Every woman, every man, join the caravan of love … It’s the unlikely siren song flowing from the...
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Pam Bondi will not appear at scheduled House hearing on Epstein files, DoJ says
Former US Attorney General Bondi, the former US attorney general, will not appear next week for a scheduled deposition before the House oversight and government reform committee to answer questions about the justice department’s handling of the...
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Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran
As unleashes curse-filled threats against Iran, Democrats are raising alarm over his mental stability and calling for his removal from office - while Republicans remain conspicuously silent. Democrats are escalating their rebukes as the 79-year-old...
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Second ex-staffer accuses Texas lawmaker of sending sexually explicit messages
A second former female staffer for Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, has come forward claiming Gonzales sent her sexually explicit messages. The San Antonio ExpressNews first reported the text messages on Monday and NBC News later...
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Worker for US defense contractor killed in Iraq as colleagues say they are pressured to stay
A man employed by the US defense contractor V2X has been killed in a drone attack on Erbil airbase, amid concerns from colleagues that they are being placed in harm’s way and pressured to remain in Iraq despite security risks, five sources said. The...
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Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California
Donald Trump announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states and tapped JD Vance to lead the charge. Officials swiftly announced a string of arrests in California. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the US president announced that his...
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Trump fires Pam Bondi, a loyalist and ally, as attorney general
Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice department but still failed to please a president fixated on prosecuting political enemies and frustrated with the politically explosive release...
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Nasa’s Artemis II rocket lifts off for historic moon mission
Nasa’s moon rocket Artemis II launched on Wednesday evening, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years. The rocket is now orbiting Earth and will continue to do so until Thursday, when the translunar injection burn will...
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US judge orders Trump to halt $400m White House ballroom project
A US judge has halted the construction of Donald Trump’s $400m White House ballroom. The US president demolished the historic East Wing of the White House last year to make way for the project. US district judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a...
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‘What’s going on?’: US judge calls aspects of new Pentagon press policy ‘weird’
Federal judge Paul Friedman seemed skeptical of the new press policy implemented by the Pentagon last week, calling aspects of it “weird” and Kafkaesque. Friedman struck down key aspects of the previously implemented Pentagon media policy on 20 March,...
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Dozens of No Kings protesters arrested in Los Angeles after clash with police
Police arrested dozens of protesters and shot teargas into a crowd on Saturday night at a No Kings protest in Los Angeles. The conflict is the latest of many that have taken place outside the Metropolitan detention center, which has become a focal...
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‘Break your silence’: Jane Fonda leads rally against Trump crackdown on arts and media
The actor Jane Fonda joined journalists, musicians and writers outside Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday in urging US citizens to “break your silence” and “stand tall against authoritarianism”. At a damp but defiant...
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Venezuelans deported by US detail fresh claims of torture and abuse at El Salvador mega-prison
A group of 18 Venezuelan men whom the US expelled a notorious Salvadorian mega-prison are demanding that Salvadorian authorities be held internationally accountable for violation of human rights - detailing new allegations of torture, sexual assault...
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Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
Meta and YouTube have been found liable for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led to her being harmed, a jury ruled on Wednesday. Jurors found the tech companies to be both negligent and having failed to provide...
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Court blocks California effort to stop Republican sheriff’s ballot recount
A three-judge panel has denied a filing by California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, seeking a court order to stop the Riverside county sheriff’s department from continuing its recount of ballots from the November 2025 special election. The LA Times...
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TSA lines stretch for hours as Trump deploys ICE agents to US airports
Security lines stretched for hours on Monday at US airports where unpaid Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) screening agents refused to report for duty and ICE agents deployed by Donald Trump were reportedly seen in a dozen cities. The...
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‘Nobody else is responsible’: Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chief says
Donald Trump is stuck between “a rock and a hard place” after three weeks of war in Iran and “sending a message of weakness” to the world, Leon Panetta, a former US defence secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director, has told the...
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Democrats outraged as Fetterman votes to advance Markwayne Mullin nomination
Democrats reacted with outrage to their party colleague John Fetterman’s decision to advance the nomination of Republican US senator Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary. Fetterman, the senior US senator from Pennsylvania, has in recent...
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Senate committee advances Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead homeland security
A key committee on Thursday advanced Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a near party line vote, a day after the Republican senator faced questions at his confirmation hearing about his approach to Donald...
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Lawmakers and community leaders react to ‘indefensible’ César Chávez sexual abuse allegations
Lawmakers, union leaders and several community organizations expressed their shock and disgust after several women shared allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and abuse by the late labor organizer César Chávez. The New York Times released an...
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Venezuela win first World Baseball Classic title after taming USA in politically fraught final
Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 on Tuesday night to win their first World Baseball Classic title, a landmark triumph in a politically charged final that resonated far beyond the diamond. Eugenio Suárez drove in the winning run in the top of...
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Federal judge blocks RFK Jr’s overhaul of vaccine recommendations
The appointment of a controversial slate of vaccine advisers by Robert F Kennedy Jr likely violated federal law, and all votes taken by the committee over the past year have been stayed, a federal judge ruled on Monday. The advisory committee on...
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Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions
Hacked data from the Department of Homeland Security’s technology incubator shows it funding a variety of companies that would expand its surveillance capabilities with artificial intelligence, the Guardian can reveal. The projects at the Office of...
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Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
A group of protesters in Texas was found guilty of providing support for terrorism and other charges on Friday in a closely watched case in which prosecutors alleged antiICE activists were actually part of an antifa cell. The case was seen as a major...
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Suspect dead after ramming vehicle into Michigan synagogue, officials say
A man who rammed his vehicle into a Michigan synagogue and drove through a hallway on Thursday died during the incident, officials said. There were no other serious casualties at the Temple Israel in West Bloomfield township, a suburb in Oakland...
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Trump hits back at Republican Senate majority leader over Save America act
Donald Trump hit back at Republican Senate majority leader John Thune over the latter’s refusal to alter rules to force a vote on the Save America act, a sprawling bill that would upend elections for American voters amid the midterms. Trump delivered...
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Republican and Democrat head for run-off in election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat
Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller and retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat, will head to a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election Tuesday to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress. The election for the state’s 14th...
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Trump administration’s embattled FDA vaccine chief departing for the second time
The top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency - the second time in less than a year that he’s departed after decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare...
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Trump says ‘likely more’ deaths of US troops to come before Iran conflict ends
recorded a new video address on Sunday, vowing to avenge three American deaths after the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and accusing the Iranian regime of “waging war against civilization itself”. The US president addressed the deaths, saying “we...
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Trump advisers scramble to justify possible US military intervention in Iran
Donald Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran - which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war - is fraught with contradictions, and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for...
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Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks
Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities. The Department of...
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Maine university pulls support from conference on Palestine, citing Trump sanctions
The University of Southern Maine abruptly revoked access to an oncampus venue days before a conference about Palestine was to take place there, citing the participation in the program of an individual under US sanctions and following pressure from...
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FBI investigations hindered by Kash Patel, whistleblower tells top Democrat
A top Senate Democrat alleged on Tuesday that FBI director Kash Patel’s personal travel and decision-making have undermined high-profile investigations, citing a whistleblower report. Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary...
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Trump Iran airstrikes decision to be guided by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s advice
decision to order airstrikes against Iran will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, about whether Tehran is stalling over a deal to relinquish its capacity to produce nuclear weapons, according to...
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Secret Service fatally shoots armed man who breached Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
The US Secret Service shot and killed an armed intruder who breached the perimeter of Mar-aLago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club in Palm Beach, early on Sunday. Although the US president often spends weekends at the oceanfront...
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Furious Trump signs global 10% duty after supreme court issues tariff blow
Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling them a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signing documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries. Trump said he would immediately sign an order...
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Six victims of California avalanche identified as part of close-knit friend group
Six of the eight people who died after a major avalanche swept through the Castle Peak area of the Sierra Nevada this week have been identified, according to multiple reports. The identified victims - Carrie Atkin, Liz Clabaugh, Danielle Keatley, Kate...
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Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace
Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, as major European allies declined to join the group and criticised the organisation’s murky funding and...
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Obama, Trump and Biden lead tributes to Jesse Jackson: ‘one of America’s greatest patriots’
Three Democratic former presidents led a wealth of tributes to Jesse Jackson, a “titan” of the civil rights movement and “one of America’s greatest patriots” who has died at the age of 84. Joe Biden said history would remember Jackson as “a man of God...
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