2 h. ago Trump news at a glance: Marjorie Taylor Greene raises fears for her safety as row with Donald Trump escalates

President’s one-time ally says she has been contacted by private security firms after denunciation by president. Key US politics stories from Saturday 15 November at a glanceMarjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime Republican ally who previously fiercely defended Donald Trump and his Maga movement, said on Saturday she had been contacted by private security firms “with warnings for my safety” after Trump announced on Friday he was withdrawing his support for and endorsement of the Georgia representative.In a post on X, Greene said that “a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world”, without referring to Trump by name, adding it was “the man I supported and helped get elected”. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Questions arise over strikingly similar signatures by Trump on recent pardons

Seemingly identical signatures appeared on clemency orders, which White House blamed on technical errorThe Trump administration’s clemency drive is coming under scrutiny after the justice department this week replaced pardons posted online that bore strikingly similar copies of Trump’s signature with others that are distinctively variable.The corrections came after online commenters seized on the similarities in the president’s signature granting “full and unconditional” pardons to seven men, including to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon, on 7 November. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn't work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures

President Donald Trump has justified American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs by saying the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels has been a major failure

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17 h. ago Inside El Salvador’s hellish supermax prison: Migrant detainees deported by Trump tell of harrowing abuse and torture

The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of the US’s migration crackdown

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17 h. ago Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj

Official Trump social media accounts have been The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings “pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes”, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance, and the first and second ladies. The second and third were posted by Team Trump, the official account for the Trump Campaign. One, set to Father Figure, riffs on the lyric “this empire belongs to me” with the caption “this empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump”, while the other, celebrating Melania Trump winning something called the Patriot of the...

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24 h. ago ‘Outrageous’: 21 arrested and four officers injured in protest clashes at Chicago

The Chicago-area facility has been a hub for protests since the Trump administration began its Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown on the city in September

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28 h. ago Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California

A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration from immediately cutting funding to the University of California over claims the school system allows antisemitism and other forms of discrimination

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32 h. ago Tucker Carlson claims Patel’s FBI ‘doesn’t want us to know’ truth about ‘right

Ex-Fox host turned right-wing podcaster claims Trump administration is hiding that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a supporter of the man he came within inches of killing last year

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33 h. ago Judge says government is still blocking immigrants' access to attorneys at LA detention facility

A federal judge on Friday said the Trump administration is still violating detained immigrants’ constitutional rights by restricting their access to attorneys at a detention facility in Los Angeles and ordered the government to remedy the matter

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33 h. ago The Latest: Epstein emails reveal ties to influential figures even after conviction

Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee offer a new glimpse into what Jeffery Epstein’s relationships with business executives, reporters, academics and political players looked like over a decade

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34 h. ago Trump to deport Ukrainians back to bombed out war zone ... to fight Putin

President Trump and his administration is gearing up to send back Ukrainians to their war-torn homelands.

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35 h. ago Tucker Carlson claims Patel FBI ‘doesn’t want us to know’ truth about ‘right

Ex-Fox host turned right-wing podcaster claims Trump administration is hiding that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a supporter of the man he came within inches of killing last year

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35 h. ago Tucker Carlson claims Patel FBI and Bondi DOJ ‘doesn’t want us to know’ truth about ‘right wing’ Trump shooter Crooks

Ex-Fox host turned right-wing podcaster claims Trump administration is hiding that would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was a supporter of the man he came within inches of killing last year

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35 h. ago US tariffs on Swiss goods cut to 15% in deal struck with Trump administration

In exchange, Swiss officials committed to series of quotas for imports from the US on a duty-free basisUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump agreed to cut US tariffs on Switzerland from 39% to 15% as part of a new trade pact, lowering duties that strained economic ties and hit Swiss exporters.The two countries have signed a “non-binding memorandum of understanding”, the Swiss government announced, following bilateral talks in Washington and intense lobbying by Swiss firms. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Trump team axes Biden plan that would have paid passengers for flight delays

Airlines have pushed the Trump administration to go further and praised the action to rescind the Biden plan

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38 h. ago US Catholic bishops issue rare condemnation of Trump administration’s immigration enforcement – live

US Conference of Catholic Bishops calls for ‘meaningful immigration reform’ in first message of its kind in 12 years The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, said that the US has “essentially reached a deal with Switzerland”, after the country was hit with a 39% tariff on Swiss exports to the US.“We’re really excited about that deal and what it means for American manufacturing,” Greer told CNBC today in an interview. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago US catholic bishops issues rare condemnation of Trump administration’s immigration enforcement – live

US Conference of Catholic Bishops calls for ‘meaningful immigration reform’ in first message of its kind in 12 years Donald Trump has cranked up his intense pressure campaign on congressional Republicans to oppose the full release of the justice department’s files related to Jeffrey Epstein, before a crucial and long-awaited House vote on the matter next week that scores of Republicans are slated to support.The belated swearing-in on Wednesday of the Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva – which the House speaker, Mike Johnson, had refused for almost two months during the government shutdown – brought the number of signatures on Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna’s discharge petition to the 218 needed to force a floor vote on legislation demanding the Department of Justice release all of its investigative files on Epstein within 30 days. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Catholic bishops condemn Trump administration’s immigration enforcement – US politics live

US Conference of Catholic Bishops issues rare condemnation of president immigration crackdown and calls for ‘meaningful immigration reform’Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.We start with news that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a rare condemnation of president Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and advocated for “meaningful immigration reform.”Donald Trump is facing the prospect of a politically damaging congressional vote on releasing the Jeffery Epstein files after attempts to press two female members of Congress to withdraw their backing for it appeared to have failed. The reported refusal of Lauren Boebert, a Republican representative from Colorado, and Nancy Mace, from South Carolina, to remove their names from a discharge petition to force a vote leaves Trump exposed on an issue that carries the possibility of turning segments of his Maga ba...

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53 h. ago Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing sensitive housing data

A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor

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54 h. ago You can end a shutdown overnight — but you can’t reopen a government that fast

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history may be officially over, but getting everything back up and running won't happen all at once

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