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‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess

There’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt

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Trump barely knows who Britain’s next prime minister is. How will Burnham handle him?

Little-known abroad, Andy Burnham has a chance to define a new era of US-UK relations. Should he seek to charm or bargain with the bully in the White House – or treat him ‘like a poorly informed constituent’?

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As Donald Trump turns 80, he faces a foe he can never defeat: Father Time. That’s a problem for us all

Alarm over the judgment and behaviour of the world’s most powerful man, and the consequent risks to the world, can only get worse

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‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall

War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it

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What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trump’s ICE crackdown?

The Democratic-leaning midwestern state where federal agents killed two citizens is in many ways anathema to the administration

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Pressure grows on Stephen Miller after Alex Pretti killing but Trump unlikely to cut ties

Outrage followed ‘would-be assassin’ lie but experts say architect of ICE drive too dominant a figure to be shunned

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‘Sprint toward autocracy’: Trump’s first year in office has been a norm-busting, boundary-pushing power play

From gutting federal agencies to funding freezes for Democratic cities and states to sending the National Guard and ICE agents around the nation, Trump has shown himself to be the strongman many didn’t know they were electing president.

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‘Godfather of the Trump presidency’: the direct through-line from Dick Cheney to Donald Trump

A proponent of the unitary executive theory, Cheney helped expand the vast presidential powers Trump enjoys today

The Guardian - US

The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor

Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, hopes to defeat Jacob Frey by focusing on affordability, wages and public safety

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Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. We’re now past day 200

Donald Trump’s second term has seen a sustained assault on democratic institutions – political, judicial, media, cultural, academic – that appears to be only accelerating

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Home discomforts send Trump rushing to project image of global patriarch

The tortured progress of the president’s tax-and-spend bill is likely to bring his supporters a big, ugly surprise – little wonder he was so keen to turn the focus to Iran and Nato

The Guardian - US

Megyn Kelly puts Trump clash behind her to ride the Maga media wave

The former Fox News host once branded ‘nasty’ by Trump is now a cheerleader for him and her podcast is surging in the rightwing media-sphere

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No retreat on tariffs, Trump promised. Hours later, he blinked

As the economic and political pressure became unbearable, the US president changed course – but has the damage been done?

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Revolution is in the air as Trump arrives with a bang – but can he follow through?

The president has wasted little time in pushing a radical rightwing agenda at the start of his second term

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Trump lobs threats at Greenland, Panama and Canada – should we take him seriously?

It all seems like political theatre of the absurd – but the disrupter-in-chief has a habit of making the unthinkable inevitable

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Twenty Minnesota ballots went missing in key race that hinges on 14 votes

Race for state house seat, which will determine whether Republicans win control of chamber, separated by 14 votes

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Voters rejected historic election reforms across the US, despite more than $100M push

Election reform advocates had hoped for a big year at the ballot box

The Guardian - US

Shock-and-awe staff picks spark fears of radical Trump administration ‘off and running day one’

A flurry of controversial and extremist picks for Trump’s administration has provoked criticism and made heads spin

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The evolution of Tim Walz: from high school teacher to VP nominee

Beneath his folksy, ‘aw, shucks’ midwestern demeanor, the Minnesota governor is a skilled political operator

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Not done yet: still-smarting Joe Biden to focus on his legacy in final months

With a diary suddenly freed up by the end of his re-election bid, the president is looking to safeguard his achievements

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Biden may have pulled off a great escape – but the curtain can fall at any time

The president might have wiggled out of a dire circumstance after his debate after Democrats missed their chance, but uncertainty still lingers

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Ranked choice is 'the hot reform' in democracy. Here's what you should know about it

Roughly 50 American voting jurisdictions have now moved to a ranked choice voting system, and it's shaping up to be one of the political subplots of 2024.

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Too old to govern? The age problem neither US party wants to talk about

The top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, 81, has suffered high-profile lapses but Democrats are reluctant to question his age when Joe Biden, 80, is America’s oldest president

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States’ rights make a comeback as Republicans rush to defy Washington

Several red states are rejecting the authority of not just the federal government – but also the conservative supreme court

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Republican red meat: Ron DeSantis bids to outflank Trump on the right

From Covid to crime, from immigration to cultural issues, the Florida governor is aiming to paint Trump as too liberal

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