6 h. ago Democratic senators balk on vote against Marjorie Taylor Greene’s anti

The bill would need seven Democratic senators to join Republicans

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37 h. ago Deadline nears for release of Epstein files – what we know so far

Justice department must release most documents by Friday, and failure to do so would provoke a firestormIn less than 48 hours, Donald Trump’s justice department must release most of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein in its possession. Last month, Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the release of those materials by 19 December, except in narrow cases where they would jeopardize current investigations, harm national security or foreign policy goals, or reveal information about Epstein’s victims.Since Trump signed the legislation, his administration has been silent on its progress. Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of lawmakers asked Pam Bondi, the attorney general, for a briefing on the department of justice’s progress, but she did not provide one. Two Democratic senators among that group subsequently pledged to block some civilian nominees, because they were concerned the administration “is gearing up to disregard the law we led the fight in th...

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50 h. ago Democrat and Republican senators unite on investigation into AI children’s toys

A letter from two U.S. senators asks companies to provided detailed information about their safety tools, documenting how they prevent products from ‘generating sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise inappropriate content for children’

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59 h. ago Venezuela condemns ‘warmongering threats’ as Trump orders oil blockade – US politics live

Trump has ordered a ‘total and complete’ blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from the countryWe will get a sense later in the day on whether the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has any misgivings about Donald Trump’s strategy towards Venezuela, when a war powers resolution intended to halt his escalation against the country comes up for a vote.Proposed by Democrat James McGovern, the resolution would require the president to remove troops from the country’s vicinity. It has 39 Democratic co-sponsors, and, perhaps crucially, three Republicans: Don Bacon of Nebraska, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Kentucky. The latter two are not on good terms with the president. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes Trump over ‘classless’ Rob Reiner comments

Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed Donald Trump for his “classless” comments about Rob Reiner following his murder.

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3 d. ago Trump’s cannabis reform would revolutionise US policy. Just don’t expect the ‘war on drugs’ to end | Kojo Koram

Rescheduling marijuana might seem an unlikely move for a Republican president – but it perfectly coheres with his ‘America First’ worldviewFor decades, the issue of cannabis reform was firmly viewed as a leftist pipe dream. To most conservatives, particularly US Republicans, legalising weed was as realistic as nuclear disarmament, or abolishing national borders.Think of the phrase “war on drugs” and the first people that probably come to mind are Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan and George HW and George W Bush. Although the clampdown reached its harshest levels during the presidency of Mr “I didn’t inhale” Bill Clinton, it always seemed as if the GOP owned the position of being “tough on drugs”. As recently as 2023, Mitch McConnell, then Senate Republican leader, reaffirmed this reputation by stating that: “Democrats are struggling with the basics. This should not be this hard. Drugs belong off our streets.”Dr Kojo Koram is professor of law and political economy at Loughborough U...

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3 d. ago Trump administration escalates military probe into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly following ‘illegal orders’ video

The Arizona senator and former naval aviator said the Pentagon’s ‘corrupt’ investigation against him ‘should send a shiver down the spine of every patriotic American’

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3 d. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene announces engagement to MAGA reporter Brian Glenn

Glenn has earned notoriety this year for his fawning behavior towards Donald Trump even as his now-fiancé began to explosively fall out with the president

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4 d. ago Donald Trump blasted by former ally after sickening Rob Reiner post

After Donald Trump said film director Rob Reiner had 'a mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome', Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia hit out at the president

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5 d. ago Manchin urges lawmakers to stop acting in ‘attack mode’ amid political violence

Former senator’s comments echo recent call from Erika Kirk that ‘everyone has responsibility’ to tone down hatredPoliticians should “calm down” and stop approaching one another in “attack mode” amid the US’s climate of political violence, former US senator Joe Manchin said on Sunday.The West Virginia independent who generally caucused with Senate Democrats echoed similar comments made at a town hall Saturday by Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to death in September. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago MTG’s last act in Congress could be a longshot plot to oust Mike Johnson, report says

The Georgia Republican plans to resign in early January, following an acrimonious public feud with her former close ally President Trump

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7 d. ago Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse

Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take actionNowadays there seems to be nonstop discussion about AI, with much of the conversation focused on whether there’s a speculative bubble or whether the chipmaker Nvidia is really worth $5tn or whether OpenAI will beat its rivals in developing new generations of artificial intelligence. But the vast majority of Americans – just like the vast majority of Europeans and Asians – couldn’t care less about those things.Their big concern is whether AI is going to cause huge layoffs and create a disastrous job market, especially for younger workers. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, a leading AI company, fed those fears when he said that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years and increase unemployment in the US to 10% to 20%. In October, Bernie Sanders, the top Democrat on the Senate education and labor committee, i...

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8 d. ago Paramount chief does damage control over ‘60 Minutes’ MTG interview that incurred Trump’s wrath

While the Ellisons have looked to temper the president’s rage over the Marjorie Taylor Greene sitdown, they’ve also assured Donald Trump that they’d make sweeping changes at CNN if Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery.

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8 d. ago Senate rejects dual healthcare bills as Obamacare tax credits expiration nears

Votes came as premium tax credits for estimated 21.8 million enrollees of plans set to expire at end of monthThe US Senate on Thursday rejected competing proposals to address the imminent expiration of subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, greatly increasing the chances that healthcare costs will soon rise to unaffordable levels for millions of Americans.The votes, part of a deal brokered between Republican majority leader John Thune and the Democratic senators who agreed to reopen the government after a historically long shutdown last month, came as premium tax credits for an estimated 21.8 million enrollees of the plans are set to expire at the end of the month. Health policy research group KFF estimates that annual premiums will more than double if the subsidies are allowed to expire. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Democrats need a midterm win in Texas to take back the Senate. Jasmine Crockett just made things interesting

Trump nemesis’ decision to run in Texas instantly shook up the race, and she faces detractors on the right and left. But some believe she could end up surprising everybody, writes John Bowden

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9 d. ago MAGA reporter Brian Glenn is ditching White House gig to follow girlfriend MTG back to Georgia

‘Well, I gotta go with ‘Mom’ here,’ Brian Glenn said when asked who he was going with following the ‘divorce’ between Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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9 d. ago US senator calls for insider trading inquiry over Trump donors buying $12m worth of shares

Co-chairs of LNG firm, who bought stock worth almost $12m each after meeting with Trump officials, deny wrongdoingA senior Democratic senator is calling for an investigation into potential insider trading by fossil-fuel billionaires close to the Trump administration, after a Guardian investigation raised questions about an unusual share buying spree.Robert Pender and Michael Sabel, the founders and co-chairs of Venture Global, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company headquartered in Virginia, bought more than a million shares worth almost $12m each, just days after meeting with senior Trump officials in March. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Democratic Senator fears Trump is ‘sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela’ to take its oil

President Donald Trump has said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered”

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1 week ago Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on CNN and trashes an old friend: ‘Fox News doesn’t ever invite me on’

‘They invited me one time recently after I resigned. We’ve responded back to the producer and they still haven’t said when I can come on,’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Tuesday.

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1 week ago Donald Trump's unhinged latest: Sadiq Khan attack, 'ended wars' not ended and Hegseth's AI army

All Americans want Trump to do is make their shopping cheaper. And all he wants to do is stop wars that aren't actually stopping, shout at Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sadiq Khan and give AI to soldiers

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