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The office connected government leaders with academic experts, thinktanks and research institutions US politics live – latest updates A state department intelligence program that linked government analysts with outside experts has been quietly closed, part of the latest chapter of Donald Trump’s disengagement with the broader academic and research community. The office of analytic outreach, […]

US health secretary calls leading medical journals such as Lancet ‘corrupt’ and pushes to create state-run alternatives Robert F Kennedy Jr has threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, which he branded “corrupt”, and to instead create alternative publications run by the state. “We’re probably going to stop publishing […]

Latest pardons build on pattern of granting clemency to people who align with president politically Donald Trump pardoned the hosts of a reality TV show convicted of defrauding banks to fund their luxurious lifestyle in the same week that he pardoned a sheriff who accepted bribes from businessman in order to make them into law […]

With the court slated to issue a flood of rulings by early July, the justices have an important choice: to bend to Trump or to grow a real backbone With the most authoritarian and lawless president in history sitting in the White House, the US supreme court is no doubt worried about looking weak in […]

Couple was found guilty in 2022 of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30m and tax evasion Donald Trump has pardoned a reality TV couple who were sentenced to prison after defrauding banks of at least $30m, the White House announced on Tuesday, the latest in a string of gestures that appear […]

Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has raised the alarm over how patients in the agency’s clinical trials are facing setbacks in treatment A 43-year-old woman and mother of two with advanced cancer is experiencing life-or-death delays in treatment because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institutes of Health. Natalie Phelps, […]

Remarks may widen rift between US president and Tesla boss as Musk appears to criticise Trump’s One Beautiful Bill Act Elon Musk has publicly criticised Donald Trump’s tax bill, saying the US president’s spending plan undermines cost-cutting efforts that the Tesla boss spearheaded, in comments likely to widen a rift between the two men. The […]

Mrs Trump is seemingly so disinterested in her role as first lady that along with being mostly absent from the White House, she’s got an AI to read her audiobook. How long before she replaces herself with a robot? I imagine students at the US Military Academy at West Point are trained to handle unexpected […]

If we want to solve injustices in Africa today, we cannot forget the injustices that shaped our shared history John Dramani Mahama is the president of the Republic of Ghana The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was, at its heart, about the preservation of essential […]

New cable directs US embassies to stop processing visas for new students; federal agencies cancel $1oom in contracts with Harvard. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 27 May at a glance The Trump administration has continued its crackdown on American universities by ordering US embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students. […]

Richard Leon deems order unlawful as firm says ruling ‘strongly affirms our foundational constitutional rights’ Donald Trump’s campaign against the legal profession hit another setback Tuesday as a federal judge struck down yet another executive order that sought to place sanctions one of the country’s most prestigious law firms. The order in favor of WilmerHale […]

Tuberville, who transitioned from college football coach to politician, aims to succeed Republican governor Kay Ivey Republican US senator Tommy Tuberville has officially entered the race for governor of Alabama, revealing a campaign website on Tuesday to launch his candidacy. If the campaign is successful, Tuberville could become Alabama’s governor-elect by the end of 2026. […]

The move ends the CDC’s booster recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women, bypassing norms The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, announced that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would remove Covid-19 booster shots from its recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women. Legal experts said the Trump […]

Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue US politics live – latest updates The Trump administration has ordered US embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students as it prepares to implement comprehensive social media screening for all international applicants. A Tuesday state […]

Lawsuit argues executive order violates constitution by targeting NPR for news coverage Trump feels is biased US politics live – latest updates National Public Radio, the US public broadcaster that provides news and cultural programming to more than 1,000 local stations, has filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration, challenging an executive order that […]

Mary Trump talked about her uncle, the US president, at a festival in Wales, describing him as someone who ‘isn’t close with anybody’ US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has “never evolved” and “isn’t close with anybody”, according to Mary Trump, the US president’s niece and a vocal critic of his business and […]

These people once said they cared about ‘cancel culture’. But look at how they are trying to cancel the children’s YouTuber Ms Rachel for featuring a toddler from Gaza on her channel Thoughts and non-denominational prayers to all the anti-woke warriors out there. It may seem as though everything is going their way now Donald […]

The Trump administration has canceled $100m in contracts as the US president escalates his war on elite universities US politics live – latest updates The Donald Trump administration is set to order federal agencies to cancel all government contracts with Harvard University worth an estimated $100m, dramatically escalating the president’s assault against America’s most prestigious […]

Scott Jenkins had been found guilty of accepting more than $75,000 in exchange for appointing auxiliary deputy sheriffs Donald Trump announced on Monday that he had issued an unconditional pardon to a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted on federal fraud and bribery charges. Scott Jenkins, 53, had served as the sheriff of Culpeper county […]

Federal contracts worth an estimated $100m set to be pulled, according to media reports The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency […]