17 h. ago ‘What are Democrats doing?’: Political strategists break down where the resistance to Trump went wrong

Democrats suffered from a ‘fractured’ party and a lack of a clear message throughout Trump’s first year back in office, political strategists tell Katie Hawkinson

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46 h. ago Prince Harry v the Daily Mail: high stakes trial could have profound effects on UK media

Royal will join a group of notable figures in his action against the tabloid and its stablemate, the Mail on Sunday, in a trial expected to last nine weeks On Monday morning, Prince Harry’s legal war with the Daily Mail, one of the British media’s most formidable forces, will finally come to trial in court 76 of the high court in London.The prince is joined in his action by some of the most recognisable figures in British life: the singer and songwriter Elton John and his husband, David Furnish; actors Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost; Doreen Lawrence, a Labour peer whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack; and former politician Simon Hughes, who once ran to lead the Liberal Democrats. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Gray wolf is latest victim of Trump’s retaliation campaign, Colorado says

Democrats say the Trump administration is mounting a politically motivated campaign against the state over 2020 election

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59 h. ago ‘You don’t want this smoke’: US sheriff reflects on her viral remarks about ICE

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s words have become a rallying cry against Trump’s immigration crackdown“You don’t want this smoke,” Rochelle Bilal, Philadelphia’s sheriff, warned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during an 8 January press conference. Her words have since become a rallying cry for resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. At the conference with Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney, and city council members, Bilal spoke out against the 7 January fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. “We stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement,” she said at the conference. “I don’t call them none of that. I call them made-up, fake, wannabe law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law.”Bilal is part of a growing body of elected officials who are speaking out against the Trump administ...

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62 h. ago How Jasmine Crockett could ruin the Democrats’ plan to win back the Senate

Jasmine Crockett tells Eric Garcia that she has not heard people criticize her past comments about immigrants. But some Democrats fear she could cost them a chance to flip a seat in Texas

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3 d. ago Democrats target ICE’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill” bucks amid Trump’s Minneapolis crackdown

Both progressives and moderates say ICE has more than enough money. They just don’t agree on what to do it with the agency

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5 d. ago Trump administration is investigating Democratic lawmakers over video message to military

The lawmakers say they have been contacted by the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia

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5 d. ago Senator says Obamacare deal framework still weeks away as Democrats distance themselves from shutdown talk

Moreno wants majority of GOP caucus on board with plan Trump says he may veto

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5 d. ago Sir Nick Clegg takes swipe at Instagram and calls for tougher tech regulation

Sir Nick criticised the ‘TikTokification’ of Instagram, which is owned by Meta, where he claimed users were being ‘bombarded’ by content.

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7 d. ago Democrats warm to making ICE funding a line in the sand: ‘Operating outside the law’

As the government runs out of money at the end of the month, Democrats look at reining in ICE through its pocketbook

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7 d. ago Nearly half of Americans are rejecting affiliation with Democrats or Republicans

This shift, which may not be fully reflected in voters’ actual registration, reverses a three-year Republican advantage held during Biden's tenure

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7 d. ago Dems demand emergency court hearing over access to ICE jails — with funding on the line

Kristi Noem quietly restricted lawmakers from visiting detention centers after Renee Good’s killing

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1 week ago Furious JD Vance tried to cool anger over ICE killing. Instead, he blamed everyone but the shooter

JD Vance blamed media and Democrats for prejudging a situation while he defends ICE agent and assumes a vast lefty conspiracy is at work, writes John Bowden

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1 week ago Flagship Reform council proposes to raise tax almost 4% after pledging cuts

Kent County Council produced a draft budget for 2026-27 on Thursday evening, revealing a 3.99% council tax hike.

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1 week ago Top Democrats decline to say if they would push to rein in ICE funding after Minnesota shooting

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges

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1 week ago Top Democrats decline to say if they would push to reign in ICE funding after Minnesota shooting

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the killing but offer no concrete pledges

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1 week ago JD Vance predicts the Democrats’ ‘dumbest candidate’ will be its 2028 presidential nominee

JD Vance bragged that Venezuela is under US control because South America is in the United States’ ‘neighborhood’

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1 week ago Senate Democrats ridicule Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to ‘steal’ Venezuela’s oil ‘at gunpoint’

Rubio and Hegseth reject criticism that they have ‘no plan’ for Venezuela’s future, even as they can’t say when elections will be held or whether vice president can remain

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1 week ago JD Vance posts bigoted sombrero meme mocking Democrats holding vigil to Jan 6 Capitol violence

Tuesday marked five years since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to keep President Donald Trump in power

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1 week ago ‘I just hate corrupt politicians’: George Conway on his political evolution as he enters Democratic House primary

As George Conway launches his campaign for New York’s 12th Congressional District, he tells Andrew Feinberg about his motivations and explains his political evolution a decade after he celebrated Donald Trump’s first election victory

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