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Move comes after state refused to remove gender identity, trans and nonbinary references from sex-ed curriculum The Trump administration has terminated a grant that provided millions of dollars for a California sex education program after the state refused to remove all references to gender identity, transgender people and … Trump officials cut California sex-education funds over gender identity referencesRead more

Selected employees will join Trump’s mass deportation campaign and ‘offer critical support’ to Ice operations The Pentagon is recruiting civilian employees to join Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and asking staff to sign up for deployments to immigration enforcement facilities across the United States. The defense department has … Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportationsRead more

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is latest figure targeted by Trump administration over claims of mortgage fraud The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve to remove governor Lisa Cook, after the economist declared she had “no intention of being bullied” into stepping down. Cook, … Trump officials urge Fed to remove governor after she refuses to quitRead more

Trump was sued by New York over inflated financial statements used for favorable terms from lenders and insurers An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump, ruling on Thursday in New York state’s lawsuit accusing him of exaggerating his wealth. The decision … Court throws out $500m civil fraud penalty against Donald TrumpRead more

Survey shows 60% of students say they would personally feel impact of bill that sets new caps on borrowing With Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” set to alter how families and students finance higher education starting in July 2026, a new survey suggests the majority of college students … Majority of college students say they will be affected by Trump’s new tax bill: ‘Honestly, I’m cooked’Read more

President threatened ‘harsh measures’ if Tina Peters – sentenced to nine years – isn’t released from prison Donald Trump again called for the release of a former election clerk in Colorado who was convicted for her role in breaching election data in a quest to find fraud, threatening … Trump again calls for release of ex-clerk in prison for role in breaching Colorado election informationRead more

Moscow appears to back away from accepting postwar western security guarantees for Ukraine Russia-Ukraine war – live updates Moscow threw Donald Trump’s Ukraine peace initiative into disarray on Thursday, insisting it must have a veto over any postwar support for the country as its forces carried out a … Russia upends Trump peace efforts with ‘foreign intervention’ veto demandRead more

Continued detention of Mario Guevara is retaliation for his reporting and violates his first amendment rights, filing says The ACLU called Immigration and customs enforcement (Ice)’s continued detention of Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara an act of retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids, according to a federal petition … Ice’s detention of Atlanta reporter seeks to ‘silence him’, ACLU petition saysRead more

Republicans once championed the policy on economic grounds. Undoing it is disrupting students’ lives and sowing confusion on campuses Ximena had a plan. The 18-year-old from Houston was going to start college in the fall at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she had been awarded $10,000 … Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented college students – what happened next?Read more

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism On 4 March, Donald Trump delivered his epic 100-minute speech to Congress, the longest such presidential address in US history. Having finished … The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in AmericaRead more

Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show When Donald Trump’s administration escalated immigration raids in Los Angeles earlier this summer, protest organizers responded with actions staged in an unusual setting: the hotels where immigration officers were staying. Protests took place … LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’Read more

A town had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration issued a ‘pollution pass’ to keep it open Donald Trump has made several unusual moves to elongate the era of coal, such as giving the industry exemptions from pollution rules. But the gambit to keep … A coal-fired plant in Michigan was to close. But Trump forced it to keep runningRead more

Measure to redraw congressional maps comes as Texas prepares to vote on its own redistricting The California state legislature was poised on Thursday to vote on a plan to redraw its congressional boundaries and create five potential new Democratic House seats – an answer to the Republican redistricting … California legislature poised to vote on redistricting plan in response to Texas gerrymanderingRead more

It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracy It may be difficult for a real-estate mogul like Donald Trump to recognize, but Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not about slices of war-torn land in eastern Ukraine. It is about Ukraine’s democracy. Putin fears that … Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about | Kenneth RothRead more

Glaswegian teacher’s moan about the weather has racked up 4m views – and opened conversations about race on both sides of Atlantic It began with a good-natured rant about the Scottish summer weather and has developed into a global conversation about history, diaspora and diversity on both sides … Not just Braveheart: black Scots become TikTok hit among African AmericansRead more

Lower chamber passed vote following two-week delay after Democratic lawmakers walked out in attempt to stop plan to define five new Republican-friendly districts Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines … Texas house passes redrawn electoral map aiming to help Republicans keep majority in 2026 midterms – US politics liveRead more

Amid review of institution, a White House document argues Smithsonian has overly negative portrayal of American history. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 August After Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the Smithsonian Institution – a premier museum, education and research complex for US history and … Trump news at a glance: president fights ‘woke’ Smithsonian after claims it is too focused on ‘slavery’Read more

Former US president wades into national conflict over House maps, as Texas lawmakers approve map to favor GOP Barack Obama waded into states’ efforts at rare mid-decade redistricting efforts, saying he agreed with California governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter the new Texas congressional map by launching an … Obama calls California’s redistricting plan ‘a responsible approach’Read more

Exclusive: White House flags institutions including those for Latino, African and Asian art for review, document shows Amid the Donald Trump administration’s heavy-handed review of Smithsonian museums, the Guardian has seen a document compiled by the White House that details examples of how the widely visited cultural institutions … Trump administration’s anti-woke campaign targets seven flagship museumsRead more

US vice-president, at Washington’s Union Station with Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth, defends use of troops in area with less crime JD Vance was booed and heckled with chants of “Free DC!” during a photo op with national guard troops at Union Station in Washington on Wednesday afternoon. … JD Vance booed during hamburger handout to national guard troops in DCRead more

Administration officials given legal right to move towards deportation of people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America … US court allows Trump officials to end protected status for 60,000 migrantsRead more

Attorney general Ken Paxton orders two organizations and an individual to end ‘unlawful conduct’ or face lawsuit The heated US war over abortion pills warmed up another degree on Wednesday, as the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sent cease-and-desist letters to two organizations and an individual that he … Texas threatens to sue organizations and doctor for increasing abortion pill accessRead more

Democrats were quick to file a series of amendments, which were voted down, but used process to raise objections Texas Republicans brought a bill to the floor of the state legislature on Wednesday to redraw the state’s congressional districts, making quick use of their regained quorum after the … Texas Republicans bring redistricting bill to house floor after finally reaching quorumRead more

Secretary of state Marco Rubio announces US assets frozen over efforts to prosecute Americans and Israelis The Trump administration has ramped up its efforts to hobble the international criminal court in what the ICC has denounced as a “flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution”. … US sanctions international court officials in ‘flagrant’ move against independent judiciaryRead more

Ruling by Richard Berman comes after judge presiding over case against Ghislaine Maxwell also turned down request A federal judge in New York who presided over the sex-trafficking case against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein has rejected the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts. The ruling on … Judge rejects Trump administration’s request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcriptsRead more

Law temporarily blocked after group sought preliminary injunction, saying it violated first amendment protections Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said on Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement, making it the third such state law … Texas can’t require public schools to display Ten Commandments in class, judge rulesRead more

More than 750 workers in letter say HHS secretary’s rhetoric played a role in recent attack at CDC’s Atlanta headquarters More than 750 current and former federal health employees on Wednesday accused health and human services (HHS) secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, of fueling harassment and violence directed … US health agency workers accuse RFK Jr of fueling violence against themRead more

Shannon ‘SJ’ Joslin among group who hung 66ft flag on El Capitan as others could face prosecution under protest laws A Yosemite national park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan, while some park visitors could face prosecution under protest restrictions that have been … Non-binary park ranger fired for hanging trans pride flag in YosemiteRead more

The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, says move targets officials accused of politicizing intelligence US politics live – latest updates Tulsi Gabbard, the director of US national intelligence, announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration has revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former national security … Trump administration revokes clearances for 37 security officialsRead more

US government is seeking to prove Smartmatic has a long pattern of bribing election officials The justice department is alleging in a new court filing that three Smartmatic executives who were indicted last year on bribery and money-laundering charges transferred money from a 2018 voting machine contract with … DoJ says voting machine maker funneled LA county money into slush funds used to pay bribesRead more