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    Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration to be Trump’s attorney general

    Gaetz’s withdrawal comes amid intense scrutiny of allegations of sexual misconduct against the cabinet nominee
  • Matt Gaetz at a Trump campaign event in Milwaukee

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    House committee reportedly told of second sexual encounter between Matt Gaetz and 17-year-old – live

  • FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump confront U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Capitol in Washington. The House panel investigation of the riot at the U.S. Capitol issued sweeping document requests on Friday, Aug. 27, to social media companies, expanding the committee’s investigation as it seeks to examine the events leading to January’s insurrection. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

    Tennessee man involved in Capitol riot guilty of plot to kill federal agents

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    Trump’s cabinet and White House picks – so far

  • United States Capitol Building, Washington Dc - 07 Nov 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aashish Kiphayet/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14882719s) A view of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, United States, on November 7, 2024, days after the national election. The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, serves as the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. United States Capitol Building, Washington Dc - 07 Nov 2024

    US House passes bill to punish non-profits deemed to support ‘terrorism’

  • two women standing together

    AOC calls Republican Capitol bathroom ban targeting Sarah McBride ‘disgusting’

Opinion

  • Anatol Lieven

    The Democrats must radically rethink foreign policy

    Anatol Lieven
  • man wearing grey suit and blue tie behind microphone

    Hear me out: RFK Jr could be a transformational health secretary

    Neil Barsky
  • Activists march in favor of climate legislation in Washington DC in 2021.

    As we wait for national legislation, let’s launch a Green New Deal from below

    Jeremy Brecher
  • President-elect Donald Trump walks with Elon Musk before the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Texas.

    The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s plutocrats: money for something

In depth

  • Composite image of black voters

    The Long Wave: Unearthing the real story of Black voters at the US election

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      ‘This is not his first rodeo’: will federal courts be able to rein in Trump?

    • silhouette of person wearing hat against bright flames

      How Trump 2.0 might affect the wildfire crisis: ‘The harms will be more lasting’

    • a pedestrian walks outside by a building with a mural of a woman surrounded by flowers

      Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win

    • a woman speaks into a microphone

      ‘A change from the status quo’: the voters who backed Trump and AOC

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