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Bill negotiated by Republicans and a group of Democrat-aligned senators extends government funding to January
House Republicans release thousands of Epstein files amid emails alleging Trump spent time with sex trafficking victim
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House to vote on deal to end US shutdown amid Democratic splits
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Vote of 60-40 breaks six-week stalemate after a small group of Democrats ratified deal with Republicans
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Zohran Mamdani win leaves New York’s financial elite facing life under a ‘Marxist’ mayor
Mamdani tapped into people’s desperation for change but now has to convince the business class he is more than a charismatic novice
After fairytale in New York, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani starts a new chapter
City’s rising star and mayore-elect may reflect a shifting mood among the electorate
Zohran Mamdani has lifted New Yorkers out of their pessimistic and reactionary funk
The promise is simple: a city worth living in, that everyone can afford to live in
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In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to Donald Trump
New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani issues challenge to Donald Trump after stunning win
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Former vice-president dismisses placing her as an outsider to win a place on Democratic White House ticket for 2028
Trump is deploying the military to wage war against an imagined ‘enemy within’
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Joan Kennedy, who married into a political dynasty, dies at 89
She stood her then husband Ted Kennedy, most notably over the fatal car crash at Chappaquiddick in 1969
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Bondi cast her responses as a defence of the Trump administration
Democrats take major gamble over US government shutdown
Democrats’ refusal to pass funding Bill sees Republicans threaten mass federal lay-offs
US government shutdown: standoff could lead to thousands of federal job losses
Senate rejects short-term spending measure, deepening partisan divide
US government shuts down after senators fail to pass Republican funding Bill
An estimated 750,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay, as Republicans and Democrats blame each other
Trump says ‘no choice’ but to cut federal workers if government shuts down as deadline looms
Office closures could delay flights and send thousands of workers home
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‘Everything is being censored’: Jimmy Kimmel suspension sparks fears for free speech
Move comes two months after CBS announced it was cancelling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
‘Your friends love you,’ UK ambassador Mandelson told Epstein after charges, emails show
Former business and Northern Ireland secretary faces questions over friendship with late disgraced financier
Should Harris have told Biden not to run? ‘Perhaps,’ she writes in new book
Former vice-president accuses his White House aides of helping fuel negative narratives and failing to defend her against right-wing attacks
Democrats rekindle Trump’s Epstein problem with ‘birthday note’
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