3 h. ago Trump says his Georgia election interference case ‘should now be dead for good’ after Fani Willis loses appeal

President calls Fulton County district attorney a ‘criminal’ and slams ‘weaponization’ despite his own felony convictions and threats to prosecute opponents

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14 h. ago It's 'do or die' for electric vehicle maker Rivian as it breaks ground on a $5 billion plant

Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market

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3 d. ago Georgia Democrat defies odds in Trump country, sparking hope for a political shift

Debra Shigley gained nearly 40 per cent of votes in a deeply Republican Atlanta suburb

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8 d. ago The Latest: Trump intensifies promises of federal law enforcement action in Chicago

President Donald Trump has amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation’s third-largest city

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8 d. ago Why Carlos Alcaraz’s brilliance leaves Jannik Sinner with one option to reach the next level

Sinner admitted his game was too ‘predictable’ in defeat to Alcaraz in the US Open final, and that he would be willing to lose matches if it meant evolving to beat his rival

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8 d. ago Jannik Sinner explains why he is willing to lose matches in order to beat Carlos Alcaraz

The former World No.1 says he needs to be unpredictable on court to be better prepared for future matches against Alcaraz

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1 week ago Hyundai plant shut down after hundreds of workers arrested in massive ICE raid

The facility, a $4.3 billion venture, is one of Hyundai’s most substantial investments in the US

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1 week ago Georgia sends troops to DC in sign that Trump's policing push will continue

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

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1 week ago US immigration officers raid Georgia site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles

Immigration agents are conducting a raid at the sprawling industrial site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles in southeast Georgia

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2 w. ago CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than a month on the job, federal officials say

The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job

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3 w. ago Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump's deportation goals

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ramping up its hiring efforts to support President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals

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3 w. ago National intelligence director strips security clearances from 37 current and former national security officials – US politics live

Tulsi Gabbard accuses officials, some of whom worked on intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference in 2016 election, of ‘politicizing intelligence’President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is “hurting” the housing industry “very badly” and repeated his call for a big cut to US interest rates.“Could somebody please inform Jerome “Too Late” Powell that he is hurting the Housing Industry, very badly? People can’t get a Mortgage because of him. There is no Inflation, and every sign is pointing to a major Rate Cut,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials

The Trump administration has ordered the revocation of the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials, including some who worked on the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss it by name

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4 w. ago Republicans want to rig the midterm elections. Will they succeed? | Moira Donegan

The Republican party has already shown that its commitment to democratic elections is paper thinIf one mark of an autocratic regime is the meaningfulness of elections, you can make an argument that the United States has been backsliding away from a properly democratic form of government for a long time. In 2013’s Shelby county decision, the US supreme court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for states to impose a slew of restrictions on the franchise that were previously banned as part of an effort to prevent the re-establishment of Jim Crow; voting quickly became more burdensome and onerous in many Republican-controlled states.Three years before, in Citizens United, the same court declared that corporate money counted as political speech, thereby opening the floodgates on money in politics in ways that allowed the rich to distort public discourses ahead of elections. Donald Trump memorably tried to interfere with the 2020 census so that it would count as few of th...

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