80 m. ago Things to know about the ruling blocking President Trump's refugee ban

President Donald Trump’s effort to suspend the system for resettling refugees in the U.S. is on hold after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it

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83 m. ago The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility

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2 h. ago Judge OKs prison abuse settlement, rejecting Trump administration's push to rewrite protections

A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring and increased transparency in the wake of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California

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2 h. ago Mike johnson delivers major win for Trump as House narrowly passes GOP budget plan calling for steep cuts

Johnson squeaks through chaotic vote session with first legislative victory for Donald Trump’s second term

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3 h. ago Trump administration creates registry for immigrants who are in the US illegally

The Trump administration is creating a registry for all people who are in the U.S. illegally, and those who don’t self-report could face fines or prosecution

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3 h. ago Trump’s agenda passed its first hurdle. Now comes the hard part

House Speaker Mike Johnson twists enough arms. But, Eric Garcia warns, the internal disputes between House and Senate Republicans remain

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3 h. ago Mike Johnson wins over holdouts as House passes budget framework calling for steep cuts

Johnson squeaks through chaotic vote session with first legislative victory for Donald Trump’s second term

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4 h. ago Republican budget blueprint to fund Trump’s agenda narrowly passes House

Vote passes 217-215 in win for president as Democrats assail proposal over planned cuts to social safety-net programsRepublicans unified behind a budget blueprint, a major step toward delivering Donald Trump’s sprawling tax-cut and immigration agenda over unanimous opposition from Democrats – and deep concerns that it would slash social safety net programs – to advance Trump’s 2025 agenda.The vote on passage was 217-215, with one Republican voting in opposition and no Democrats supporting the controversial measure. One Democrat did not vote. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump live updates: House Republicans narrowly pass budget bill; president offers ‘gold card’ as route to US citizenship

House Republicans pulled the budget proposal Tuesday evening after it became they didn’t have enough votes to pass, due to several GOP holdouts

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5 h. ago Trump live updates: Lawmakers return to House floor to vote on Republican budget bill moments after pulling it

House Republicans pulled the budget proposal Tuesday evening after it became they didn’t have enough votes to pass, due to several GOP holdouts

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5 h. ago EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Former Newsnight's Emily Maitlis is ticked off by co

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Podcasting former Newsnight glamour puss Emily Maitlis wails of President Donald Trump: '[Britain] being a supplicant to a psychopath! He's a psychopath, Jon!'

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5 h. ago Fued between Canada and Musk deepens as more than 250,000 sign petition to revoke his citizenship

More than 250,000 Canadian citizens and residents have signed a petition to revoke Musk's citizenship following his close relationship with Trump, who has taken repeated shots at Canada’s sovereignty

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5 h. ago Trump loses in court three times – on USAID, refugees and frozen funds – within 90 minutes

Trump faces three major setbacks to his agenda from Biden-appointed judges

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5 h. ago Elon Musk ‘doesn’t give a s**t’ that he’s making Trump’s job ‘1000 times harder,’ warns Mark Cuban

Tech billionaire and DOGE king Elon Musk is on track to make Donald Trump’s job dismantling the federal government “1,000 times harder” — and Musk couldn’t care less, Shark Tank entrepreneur Mark Cuban warned at a political conference

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5 h. ago Teachers union sues over Trump administration's deadline to end school diversity programs

A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate “race-based” practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money

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5 h. ago Apple promises to fix dictation bug that replaces ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

Glitch comes as the iPhone maker is seeking to shore up its relationship with the US president

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5 h. ago Kremlin denies Donald Trump's claim it agreed to plans for British and international peacekeepers in Ukraine

Yesterday the Kremlin flatly denied there had been any change in Russia 's position, insisting such a scenario was a red line.

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6 h. ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy's big move with Donald Trump to stride towards peace settlement

A proposed US-Ukraine minerals deal is likely to provide insight into how the war-torn country could be divided as part of any peace settlement - and it appears close

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6 h. ago Starmer to meet Trump in Washington as Kyiv and US agree minerals deal

European nations must ‘step up and do more on defence’ Rachel Reeves said after the UK pledged to raise defence spending.

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6 h. ago Trump says Zelenskyy set to visit White House on Friday to sign minerals deal

President says ‘I hear he’s coming on Friday’ amid reports that terms of US-Ukraine aid exchange have been reachedDonald Trump has said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to visit the White House on Friday to sign a rare earth minerals deal to pay for US military aid to defend against Russia’s full-scale invasion.The announcement followed days of tense negotiations between the US and Ukraine in which Zelenskyy alleged the US was pressuring him to sign a deal worth more than $500bn that would force “ten generations” of Ukrainians to pay it back. Continue reading...

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