9 h. ago Iowa's civil rights protections no longer include gender identity as new law takes effect

Iowa has become the first state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code

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13 h. ago Elon goes nuclear on 'insane spending bill' with new pledge that could threaten Trump's Republican majority

Ex-Trump ally billionaire Elon Musk 's latest promise could throw a major wrench into Trump's governance plans for his second term.

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16 h. ago Trump vents online about service provider after conference call marred by glitch

President Donald Trump is complaining about technical difficulties he experienced while trying to hold a conference call with faith leaders across the country

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36 h. ago Republican Thom Tillis won’t ‘bow to anybody’ after Trump falling out over Senate megabill

GOP senator’s announcement that he will not seek re-election after Trump criticism puts crucial swing Senate race in play

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47 h. ago Trump hits out at Republican senator for refusing to back ‘big, beautiful bill’

Trump threatened to back primary challenge against Senator Thom Tillis for opposing his domestic billDonald Trump has hit out at Senator Thom Tillis over the North Carolina Republican’s refusal to back his “big, beautiful bill”, even as the president’s signature piece of domestic legislative action narrowly passed a procedural vote in the Senate late Saturday.In a post on Truth Social, Trump threatened Tillis, who is up for re-election in 2026 in the battleground state, by saying he would meet with potential candidates to challenge him in a Republican primary. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Elon Musk calls Trump’s big bill ‘utterly insane and destructive’ as Senate debates

Passing the package, Musk said, would be ‘political suicide’ for the Republican partyThe billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Saturday criticized the latest version of Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive.“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on Saturday as the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago What's in the latest version of Trump's big bill now before the Senate

At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations

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2 d. ago Who do voters want as the 2028 Republican candidate? New poll shows clear frontrunner to succeed Trump

One figure in the GOP is emerging as the leading candidate to stand in 2028 – notwithstanding Trump’s hints at an unconstitutional third term

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3 d. ago What's next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court's ruling

The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions

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4 d. ago Supreme Court meets Friday to decide 6 remaining cases, including birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court is meeting Friday to decide the final six cases of its term, including President Donald Trump’s bid to enforce his executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally

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5 d. ago Zohran Mamdani has unleashed a political earthquake | Ben Davis

Mamdani’s popularity represents the total collapse of a Democratic party establishmentThe surprise electoral success of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist running to be mayor of New York, most prominent city on Earth, is a political earthquake. The breadth and scope of his performance were predicted by no polls, no prognosticators, none of the wise men. The ramifications of this upset will be felt for years, across the US and the developed world.In the end, it wasn’t even close. Mamdani’s widespread appeal represents the total collapse of a Democratic party establishment that had weathered Donald Trump’s first term with rhetorical resistance, and fumbled the beginning of the second with triangulating appeasement. This year, the favorability of the Democratic party has collapsed to record lows, not because of the popularity of the Trump administration or the Republican party, but because of its unpopularity with its own voters. Chuck Schumer caving to the president ...

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5 d. ago CDC nominee Susan Monarez sidesteps questions about disagreements with RFK in Senate hearing

CDC nominee Susan Monarez says she values vaccines and rigorous scientific evidence but has largely sidestepped questions about widespread cuts to the agency and whether she disagreed with any of Health Secretary Robert F

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5 d. ago Not just 'Alligator Alcatraz': DeSantis floats building another immigration detention center

Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s aggressive push to support the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration

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7 d. ago Republican Lisa Murkowski on Trump’s America and the ‘intensity on the security of our democracy’

The Alaska senator, who helped deal Trump’s first big legislative setback, believes there can be only so much fear that Americans can handleLate one night about six months into Donald Trump’s first term, John McCain stepped onto the Senate floor and with a dramatic thumbs-down gesture dealt the president his first major legislative setback by defeating an attempt by his fellow Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.It was the last major political effort of the Arizona senator, who would die the following year from brain cancer, but his no vote would not have been effective had he had not been joined by fellow Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – who gives that incident, and many other brushes with Trump, a prominent place in Far from Home, the memoir she released on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Karoline Leavitt dismisses MAGA dissent on Iran while praising Trump for ‘steps towards peace’

Karoline Leavitt has responded to Republican criticism following Donald Trump’s strikes in Iran, claiming that the president is taking steps to "successfully implement peace in the Middle East.”

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7 d. ago Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands

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7 d. ago 'Smartest man in the world' responds to Donald Trump with six

Dr YoungHoon Kim, who has an IQ of 276, has issued his verdict on US President Donald Trump after the Republican leader authorised the launch of air strikes on Iran

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8 d. ago What to know about debate over protesters and ICE agents wearing masks amid immigration crackdowns

People fearful of being arrested for wearing masks while protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles and other cities have voiced anger over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents covering their faces

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8 d. ago Trump says he’ll primary Republican Thomas Massie in extended Truth Social rant: ‘Pathetic loser’

President rages at GOP congressman by calling him ‘lightweight’ and a ‘negative force’ after he breaks ranks to criticize the administration for launching Iran strikes without consulting Capitol Hill

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9 d. ago I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman

Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examplesAround the end of 2022, I had an idea for a book about the history of resistance to Nazism. I wanted to show that Nazism has faced nonconformity, refusal and protest ever since it was born in 1920. I also wanted to explore beyond a handful of famous heroes and cast a spotlight on people who changed history without entering popular memory. When I began my research, Donald Trump had just announced his candidacy for the Republican ticket in 2024. When I gave the manuscript to the publisher a little over two years later, he was president-elect.His comeback, the darker version of Maga that came with him, and the Democratic party’s collapse gave fresh relevance to the stories of resistance to far-right extremism that I was finding. Even as I was piecing them together, they began to intrude on the present. It was a haunting transformation – and it helped me to understand...

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