2025 • Aug 13
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In today’s newsletter: As Russian forces make their deepest push in months and missile attacks intensify, Ukraine finds itself excluded from the very talks that could decide its fateG...
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2025 • Aug 13
National guard begins deploying on DC streets after Trump...
Officials say troops to start appearing in nation’s capital on Tuesday night as president’s move widely condemned
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2025 • Aug 13
Newsom says California will draw new electoral maps after...
Governor calls Trump ‘Taco’ online, short for ‘Trump always chickens out’, prompted by president’s flip-flop deadlinesCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom says the state will draw new electoral ...
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2025 • Aug 13
Trump officials ordered to urgently improve conditions at...
Judge tells Ice to limit capacity and immediately ensure cleanliness in migrant holding cells at 26 Federal PlazaA federal judge ordered the Trump administration Tuesday to immediately impro...
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2025 • Aug 12
Crypto mogul Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud for $40bn...
Terraform Labs co-founder, pleading guilty to two charges, was accused of misleading investors in 2021 about TerraUSDDo Kwon, the South Korean entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that l...
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2025 • Aug 12
New York City mayoral race
Poll says 44% of voters for Mamdani and 25% for Cuomo as Elise Stefanik chips away at Hochul’s lead in governor raceThe closely-watched
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2025 • Aug 12
US court says Trump’s Doge team can access social security numbers and other sensitive data
Court refuses to block ‘department of government efficiency’ from accessing data such as citizenship status
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2025 • Aug 12
Trump law will cut food stamps for 2.4 million people as work rules widen
Parents of teens, adults up to 64 years old and veterans must work, volunteer or train to keep benefits, CBO findsRepublican-led cuts to public assistance programs – carried out at the behes...
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2025 • Aug 12
Trump will ignore crime reduction data for the political value of a show of force
There’s a downward trend in violence in Washington DC in line with those in other cities – but that may not matter“They fought back against law enforcement last night, and they’re not going ...
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2025 • Aug 12
Trump’s Washington DC intervention labelled as ‘unsettling and unprecedented’ by mayor – US politics live
Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, declined to criticise president directly while head of National Action Network calls move ‘disgusting and dangerous’Defense secretary Pete Hegs...
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2025 • Aug 12
Explosion ‘like thunder’ at Pennsylvania US Steel plant leaves two dead
Second fatality reported after body of one worker pulled from wreckage of coking facility in Clairton after explosion sent black smoke into the skyAn explosion at a US Steel plant in
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2025 • Aug 12
Gavin Newsom urges Trump to abandon Texas redistricting effort in letter
Message comes after Texas Democratic lawmakers stymied another GOP effort to gain more seats at president’s behestTexas Democrats once again stymied a Republican effort to redraw the state’s...
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