1 hour ago Trump’s latest Fox News hire looks even worse than Pete Hegseth | Margaret Sullivan

Jeanine Pirro, who hasn’t held a government legal job in decades, does have a key qualification: relentless loyalty to the presidentThe revolving door between the Trump administration and rightwing Fox News took another wild spin this week, as America’s TV-obsessed president tapped Jeanine Pirro for a prominent legal post: top federal prosecutor for Washington DC.Pirro is unqualified, perhaps even more so than was her former Fox colleague Pete Hegseth when he was named Trump’s defense secretary a few months ago. In that crucial position, Hegseth has been a dangerous embarrassment, as his shockingly inappropriate communications have exposed national security secrets to the world.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Patricia Clarkson: ‘When women make equal pay, everybody wins’

The Oscar-nominated actor talks about her new role playing equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and why the Trump administration should be carefulPatricia Clarkson, who portrays late equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in a biopic released this week, has a wish.The Oscar-nominated actor hopes her fellow American women collectively withhold sex from their partners – especially men in power – if the second Trump administration’s assault on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives ever takes aim at the gains won by the subject of her new film. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Trump administration mulling end to habeas corpus, legal right to challenge one’s detention

Presidential adviser Stephen Miller announces potential move, which US has made only four times in historyThe Trump administration is considering suspending the writ of habeas corpus, the legal right to challenge one’s detention, Stephen Miller, a top White House adviser, said on Friday.“The constitution is clear, and that of course is the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus could be suspended in time of invasion. So that’s an option we’re actively looking at. A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not,” Miller said to a group of reporters at the White House. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Trump news at a glance: White House doesn’t trust Hegseth to choose new chief of staff

Exasperated by turmoil dogging defense secretary, the White House will block his new choice, sources say – key US politics stories from 9 May 2025 at a glanceExasperated by the turmoil that has dogged Pete Hegseth’s office in recent weeks, the White House will block the US defense secretary’s choice of chief of staff and select a candidate of its own, according to two people familiar with the matter.Hegseth had suggested giving the chief of staff position to Marine Col Ricky Buria after the first person in the role, Joe Kasper, left last month in the wake of a contentious leak investigation that brought the ouster of three other senior aides. But the White House has made clear to Hegseth that Buria will not be elevated. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka released after arrest at Ice jail protest

Mayor’s wife accuses government of targeting her husband as video showed him being placed in handcuffs by officialsThe mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested for alleged trespass at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in New Jersey on Friday and released after several hours.Baraka was released shortly after 8pm and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: “The reality is this: I didn’t do anything wrong.” Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Rümeysa Öztürk, detained Tufts student, released from federal custody – US politics live

Turkish national and PhD student was arrested by US agents in March over her pro-Palestinian political speechLarge institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars.The revelations raise further questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Donald Trump and his administration via the enterprises he has maintained or commenced. TMTG runs the Truth Social social media platform – on which the US president himself posts almost daily – as well as financial services and a film and TV streaming service.Donald Trump’s refusal to divest from his publicly traded company has predictably prompted huge investments from wealthy special interests that could use a favor from the president.Institutional Wall Street investors and even a foreign company with business before the administration have effectively offered a fo...

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15 h. ago An offshore wind project for New York may be abandoned over Trump administration delays

The Norwegian company Equinor says it will be forced to terminate an offshore wind project for New York within days unless the Trump administration lets construction resume

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16 h. ago Trump ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, top aide Stephen Miller says – US politics live

White House deputy chief of staff told reporters administration is ‘actively’ considering suspending a person’s right to challenge legality of their detentionLarge institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars.The revelations raise further questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Donald Trump and his administration via the enterprises he has maintained or commenced. TMTG runs the Truth Social social media platform – on which the US president himself posts almost daily – as well as financial services and a film and TV streaming service.Donald Trump’s refusal to divest from his publicly traded company has predictably prompted huge investments from wealthy special interests that could use a favor from the president.Institutional Wall Street investors and even a foreign company with business before...

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18 h. ago US considers special status for Greenland amid Trump push for control

Officials float idea of compact of free association (Cofa), used by US to keep close ties with Pacific Island nationsUS officials are discussing a plan to pull Greenland into America’s sphere of influence using a type of agreement that the United States has used to keep close ties with several Pacific Island nations, according to two US officials and another person familiar with the discussions.Under the plan being considered, the Trump administration would propose to Greenland’s leaders that the island enter into a so-called compact of free association, or Cofa, with the United States. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Trump admin weighs cutting protections for mental health treatment coverage

The Trump Administration has until May 12 to decide whether it will defend the Biden-era regulations.

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20 h. ago The Guardian view on Pope Leo XIV: a different kind of American leader | Editorial

The first pontiff from the United States can be a powerful countervailing voice in the Trump era, and help protect Francis’s legacyTwelve years ago, in the words of the late Pope Francis, the Catholic church went “to the ends of the Earth” in its search for a new pontiff. On Thursday, after surprisingly brisk discussions, the most geographically diverse conclave in history went to the heart of a superpower to find his successor.The election of the first American pope is a remarkable moment. In part the cardinals’ choice of the Chicago-born Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, can be seen as a robust progressive response to the signs of the times. While senior Catholic figures around Donald Trump prosecute an insular Maga agenda, the new pope is as at home in Latin America, having spent two decades working in one of the poorest regions of Peru. Previous posts on a social media account under his name suggest he shared Francis’s withering views on the Trump administration’s...

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20 h. ago Trump gets the Fox News band back together for his second administration

In just his first few months in office, Trump has already hired 23 Fox Newsers to work in his administration, Justin Baragona reports — including one of the network’s most loyal MAGA sycophants to serve as DC’s top prosecutor

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20 h. ago Former Trump official faints live on Fox News in horror moment as medics rush in

Former Trump administration official and right-wing pundit Camryn Kinsey shocked Fox News anchor Jonathan Hunt when her eyes rolled back and she fell off of her chair

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21 h. ago Pope Leo XIV live updates: Cardinal hopes Pope will ‘build a bridge’ with Trump — despite past criticism of administration

The 69-year-old former cardinal was chosen to be the 267th pope by the Conclave after more than two-thirds of the cardinals voted for him to succeed the late Francis

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22 h. ago Trump to reportedly unveil Medicare drug pricing plan after teasing ‘earth

Trump’s upcoming announcement is to revive his plan to lower Medicare drug costs, CBS reports, a policy blocked during his first term and scrapped by Biden administrationThe major “earth-shattering” announcement Donald Trump teased earlier this week in the Oval Office is a “most favored nation” plan to cut Medicare drug prices, sources have told CBS News.In his first administration, Trump signed an executive order to implement a “most favored nation” clause that would have required Medicare to pay drug companies the lowest price paid in similar countries for some expensive, physician-administered drugs. The Biden administration rescinded the proposal under pressure from hospitals and drug companies.We’re going to have a very, very big announcement to make – like as big as it gets. It will be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Pope Leo 'deliberately' downplayed being American to make sure he won Papacy

Chicago-born Pope Leo was slammed by MAGA conservatives in the US who lashed out at his shared social media posts attacking the Donald Trump administration, leading to accusations of him being "woke"

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23 h. ago Aid groups voice alarm as US pushes Israeli plan for Gaza assistance

Groups say plan to resume limited humanitarian assistance under strict Israeli rules ‘risks enabling war crimes’US politics live – latest updatesAid groups have voiced alarm at US moves to pressure them into accepting an Israeli proposal to resume limited humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory under strictly controlled conditions.The Trump administration has attempted to strong-arm international agencies – including the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) – into accepting Israel’s stringent rules for resuming deliveries, according to sources familiar with the discussions and news reports. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago ‘Fed up’ crowd in Massachusetts swarms ICE agents attempting to arrest mother

Worcester locals formed a ‘human ring’ around the mother and her two children before cops ‘slammed’ her teen daughter’s face into the ground

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24 h. ago US politics live updates: majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s higher education approach, poll finds

Fifty-six percent of Americans said they disapprove of Trump’s approach to higher education, while about four in 10 express approval in new AP pollThe quote Trump is referring to from George HW Bush comes from the former president’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on 18 August 1988.And my opponent won’t rule out raising taxes. But I will. And the Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again. And I’ll say to them: Read my lips. No new taxes.But Bush’s mistake was that he made that anti-tax pledge in the first place and stuck to it in the first part of his presidency. His courageous 1990 reversal on fiscal policy set the stage for a decade of economic growth that eventually achieved budget surpluses.The budget deal that Bush reached with congressional Democrats in 1990 may indeed have contributed to his failure to win re-election in 1992. There is no question that the timing was terrible. The m...

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25 h. ago Large investors increased stake in Trump Media by hundreds of millions

SEC filing revelations raise questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Trump and his administrationLarge institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars.The revelations raise further questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Donald Trump and his administration via the enterprises he has maintained or commenced. TMTG runs the Truth Social social media platform – on which the US president himself posts almost daily – as well as financial services and a film and TV streaming service. Continue reading...

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