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  • person wearing suit and shorts crosses arms while posing for photo

    Doge employee ‘Big Balls’ has resigned, says White House official

    One of Doge’s best-known workers Edward Coristine, 19, quits a month after his former boss Elon Musk’s departure
  • Car and electric vehicle chargers

    Judge blocks Trump from withholding EV charger funds awarded to 14 states

  • President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding the Marine One presidential helicopter and departing the White House

    Trump news at a glance: profanity and push-back over success of Iran strikes

  • New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo votes in the Democratic primary.

    Ex-Obama aide says it’s ‘insane’ to think Cuomo is best choice for New York mayor – as it happened

  • FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian walks near an aid distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip<br>FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian carries a sack as he and others gather to collect aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo

    US to give $30m to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation despite violent and chaotic rollout of food distribution

Opinion

  • Election 2025 NYC Mayor<br>Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani takes selfies with supporters after speaking at his primary election party, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

    Zohran Mamdani offered a political revolution. And won

    Bhaskar Sunkara
  • Rafael Behr

    Trump is angry with a world that won’t give him easy deals

    Rafael Behr
  • Owen Jones

    Socialist Zohran Mamdani could be New York’s next mayor. This is what the western left could learn from him

    Owen Jones
  • Sarah Akinterinwa on Donald Trump's mixed messages after the US strikes on Iran – cartoon

    Sarah Akinterinwa on Donald Trump’s mixed messages after the US strikes on Iran – cartoon

In depth

  • a man looking at camera

    Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace – but New York’s big beast won’t stay dead

  • Marines stand guard outside the federal building downtown in Los Angeles.

    Militarized LA: troops here to stay as Trump doubles down on deployments

  • a man shaking hands with young women

    Free buses, more housing, taxing the rich: how Zohran Mamdani has gone viral in the New York mayor’s race

  • people hold signs that read 'we speak for those who can't' and 'undocumented hands feed you'

    ‘I’m scared to death to leave my house’: immigrants are disappearing from the streets – can US cities survive?

Video

  • A look back at how the world's political leaders have resorted to swearing to express themselves

    Hot mics, faux pas and protests: the colourful language of our world leaders – video

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  • Feed from Ice detention days earlier, Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil stood outside the gates of Columbia University to renew his commitment to the cause of Palestinian freedom and opposition to both the university and the Trump administration

    Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil and his supporters rally in NYC after release – video

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  • Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released from US immigration detention, where he had been held for more than three months over his activism against Israel’s war on Gaza

    Mahmoud Khalil speaks after release from Ice detention – video

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  • Trump says Iran has ‘a lot of trouble’ and that no decision has been made on whether the US will join Israel in launching airstrikes

    'I may do it, I may not': Trump gives update on US response to Iran – video

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