2 h. ago Young activists won a landmark state climate trial. Now they're challenging Trump's orders

Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are challenging President Donald Trump's energy agenda

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3 d. ago Wealth and power shape the climate emergency – the most important tool we have to defend ourselves is the facts | Naomi Klein

The corporate-financed backlash to calls for global climate progress has been greatly empowered by the Trump administration. It’s never been more critical to challenge the misinformation that could turn a crisis into a catastropheSupport the Guardian’s independent, fact-based journalism todayA little over a decade ago I published a book, This Changes Everything, which explored the reality of the climate crisis as a confrontation between capitalism and the planet. For a few years after the book came out, it seemed like we might just win a breakthrough. A cascade of large and militant mobilisations pressed the case for keeping warming below 1.5C as global calls for a green new deal grew louder and louder. Countries across the world announced long-term plans to reduce emissions and to hit net-zero targets; so did some of the largest corporations on the planet.And then well, we all know what happened. A corporate-financed backlash on all fronts. In the first 100 days of Trump’s second t...

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5 d. ago Lisa Cook to remain at Federal Reserve while fighting Trump’s attempt to fire her, judge rules

Agency governor is legally challenging Trump after he sought to remove her, citing unconfirmed mortgage fraud allegationsA federal judge has ruled that Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook can stay in her post while suing Donald Trump over his unprecedented bid to fire her.Cook is legally challenging the US president after he sought to remove her, citing unconfirmed allegations of mortgage fraud, amid an extraordinary campaign by his administration to strengthen its control over the US central bank. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump administration tells Supreme Court that handing out $4B foreign aid poses ‘grave’ threat to presidency

Trump tees up major challenge to Congress’ constitutional authority to control federal spending

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9 d. ago Yvette Cooper: the Labour stalwart tasked with boosting Britain’s global standing

New foreign secretary faces challenges from Ukraine to Gaza — and her unflattering comments on Donald Trump

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1 week ago DC lawsuit challenges Trump's National Guard deployment as a forced 'military occupation'

The District of Columbia has sued to stop President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard during his law enforcement intervention in Washington

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1 week ago Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart | Simon Tisdall

The three-way partnership on show in Beijing is united in opposition to US hegemony and a western-dominated financial systemSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreDonald Trump’s first reaction to the disconcerting spectacle of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un marching side-by-side at a huge military parade in Beijing was, predictably, all about him. This show of solidarity and strength, he complained, was nothing less than an attempt to “conspire” against the United States. Trump likes military parades – his own, that is. Even more, he likes to be on the podium, at the centre of attention. He casts himself as world number one. The images coming out of the Chinese capital this week challenged him on all three counts.This puncturing of Trump’s insecure ego, and the striking feebleness of his response, will greatly grat...

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un arrives in China as President Xi challenges Trump with bid to establish new world order at anti

The North Korean leader's rare trip marks his first visit to China in six years and comes as the trio tighten their alliance in a direct challenge to the West.

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1 week ago Longtime New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, 78, cites generational change for retirement after ‘watching the Biden thing’

The 78-year-old congressman said he was initially reluctant to step down but was ultimately persuaded that a younger replacement could help challenge President Donald Trump’s ‘fascism’

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2 w. ago AmeriCorps gets $184 million in funding back after lawsuit challenged Trump cuts, officials say

AmeriCorps was started in 1993 and was tasked with supporting state and local civic programs with members and volunteers from across the country

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2 w. ago Donald Trump is directly challenging the foundations of US democracy

Is the American mood shifting across red and blue states?

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2 w. ago Gavin Newsom is surging in primary polls as he leans in to role as Trump’s troll

Building support comes as Newsom has mocked Trump online and challenged Republican redistricting plans

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2 w. ago Melania Trump is putting 'heart into' White House passion project with new nationwide challenge for American kids

First Lady Melania Trump announced Tuesday a new contest for school children to use artificial intelligence to solve problems in their communities.

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2 w. ago Takeaways from scientists on the Trump administration's work on climate change and public health

Scientists are criticizing two key documents from the Trump administration that challenge the idea that climate change endangers the public

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2 w. ago Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding

Scientists are criticizing two key documents from the Trump administration that challenge the idea that climate change endangers the public

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3 w. ago Trump mandates flag burners face prosecution in one of biggest challenges to the First Amendment in decades

Burning an American flag has been considered protected speech since 1989

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3 w. ago Trump mandates flag burners face prosecution in one of the biggest challenge to the First Amendment in decades

Burning an American flag has been considered protected speech since 1989

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3 w. ago Key things to know about how Trump's war on higher education has ensnared an unexpected campus

The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs has faced challenges under the Trump administration’s higher education policies

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3 w. ago Fed chair Jerome Powell signals interest rate cuts amid Trump attacks

Jerome Powell – who Trump has urged to resign – addressed ‘challenging’ dichotomy of economic risks, including tariffsThe Federal Reserve is gearing up to resume cuts to interest rates, its chair, Jerome Powell has signaled, as he warned Donald Trump’s tariffs and immigration crackdown had roiled the global economy and hit the US workforce.For months, Powell has ignored demands from the president to cut interest rates and defied the US president’s calls to resign. But as Trump ramps up his extraordinary attack on the Fed’s independence, Powell suggested on Friday that Fed officials are considering a rate cut. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Supporting freedom of expression is not wrong, Jimmy Lai’s lawyer tells court

Closing arguments made in Hong Kong media mogul’s national security trial, which has lasted more than 140 daysA lawyer for Jimmy Lai has argued that it is not wrong to support freedom of expression, as he began his final argument in the prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and newspaper founder’s landmark national security trial.The barrister Robert Pang is representing Lai in his fight against charges of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to issue seditious publications. Lai, 77, faces up to life in prison if convicted under a national security law imposed by Beijing after anti-government protests in 2019. Continue reading...

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