7 d. ago Mike Johnson claims ‘progress’ on Trump spending bill but unclear if Republicans have votes to pass it – live

Democrats criticize tax and spending bill as House Republicans scramble to get legislation passed by Trump-imposed deadlineWhat’s in Trump’s major tax bill?Donald Trump on Tuesday toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience.The president was chaperoned by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, who hailed the tented camp on mosquito-infested land 50 miles west of Miami as an example for other states that supported Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump bill latest: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ moves forward as Republicans narrowly pass House rule vote

President’s megabill facing further opposition in House in key procedural vote after narrowly passing Senate on Tuesday

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7 d. ago Trump presses Republican House dissidents to pass US tax bill

Legislation’s deep healthcare cuts and implications for national debt spook parts of president’s party

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7 d. ago Trump claims he's made US 'hottest nation in the world' as he's 'right about everything'

Trump has pushed hard for his signature legislation to pass Congress and on Wednesday urged Republicans to vote it through, saying he is "right about everything" and will be right about the bill

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7 d. ago Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill heads to House – US politics live

Vote expected to be tight after so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ cleared the Senate by the narrowest of margins with JD Vance breaking a tieSenate Republicans pass Trump’s sweeping policy billWhat’s in Trump’s major tax bill?Legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their back yards from a warming world.Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the US Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within Nasa to comply with the law, but gave no further details. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Senate Republicans pass Trump’s sweeping policy bill, clearing major hurdle

Legislation goes to House but unclear if lower chamber will accept changes to tax and spending bill amid factional splitsSenate Republicans on Tuesday passed a major tax and spending bill demanded by Donald Trump, ending weeks of negotiations over the comprehensive legislation and putting it another step closer to enactment.But it remains unclear if changes made by the chamber will be accepted by the House of Representatives, which approved an initial draft of the legislation last month by a single vote. While Republicans control both house of Congress, factionalism in the lower chamber is particularly intense, with rightwing fiscal hardliners demanding deep spending cuts, moderates wary of dismantling safety net programs and Republicans from Democratic-led states expected to make a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any one of these groups could potentially derail the bill’s passage through a chamber where the GOP can lose no more than three votes. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Senate Republicans barely pass Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ after record

Vice President JD Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote after 50-50 Senate deadlock

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9 d. ago Senate races to pass Trump’s flagship tax bill as deadline looms

Republicans can only afford to lose three votes to secure a simple majority, with all Democrats opposed

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1 week ago Republicans struggle to pass Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ as debate drags on

Lawmakers scraped together just enough votes to bring the tax and spending legislation to the Senate

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1 week ago Trump administration slaps down UK after MPs pass assisted dying bill

The Trump administration claimed Britain was legalising ‘state-subsidised suicide’

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2 w. ago Minnesota GOP leader slams activists for ‘too soon’ protest against violent rhetoric outside of party’s state headquarters

Republicans hit back against ‘reckless’ demonstration just over a week after the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman and arrest of Vance Boelter

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago David Lammy refuses to say whether US attack on Iran was ‘right’ or ‘legal’

In an awkward interview, the foreign secretary refused four times to say whether Donald Trump’s regime’s airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilites would pass the legal test

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2 w. ago LA protests: US court allows Trump to keep control of California national guard while lawsuit proceeds

Appeals court in San Francisco extends pause on district judge ruling that president called troops into federal service unlawfullyA US appeals court has let Donald Trump retain control over California’s national guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Republican president’s use of the troops to quell protests and unrest in Los Angeles.A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US circuit court of appeals on Thursday extended a pause it had placed on US district Judge Charles Breyer’s 12 June ruling that Trump had called the national guard into federal service unlawfully. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Republicans fear the Mexican flag at the LA protests. But I see it as a symbol of our power | Daniel Peña

The flag serves as a reminder of a fundamental truth about Mexican Americans: we are from here; we are also from thereRepublicans are using images of Ice protesters waving Mexican flags atop burning Waymo cars to foment fear among Americans. Like this photograph that Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday: a shirtless protester wielding the Tricolor atop a vandalized robotaxi as flames billow toward the weak sunlight backlighting the flag. His dark curls fall to his bare shoulders. He stares into the camera.Frankly, the image belongs in a museum. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Republicans use LA protests to push holdouts to pass Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

House Speaker Mike Johnson says ‘it's those men and women, the federal law enforcement officers who deserve our support right now’

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