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Republicans break ranks as vote passes 52-48 in rare bipartisan rebuke of US president’s trade policiesThe US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and oth…
As funding for food aid program is about to be exhausted, Congress fails for 13th time to advance Republican billUS politics live – latest updatesThe US government shutdown stretched into its 28th day with no resolution in sight on Tuesday, as the Sena…
Hundreds of thousands of employees remain unpaid as second-longest US shutdown stretches into fourth weekThe head of America’s largest federal workers union says it is time to end the government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, as hundre…
Rand Paul’s comments come days after president claimed US lawmakers wouldn’t take issue with Venezuelan strikesExclusive: CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources sayThe Trump administration’s military airtrikes against…
Cory Booker, Ed Markey and others urge Linda McMahon to step in amid violent crackdowns near Chicago schoolsA group of Democratic senators have demanded that the Department of Education stop immigration enforcement activities from taking place close to…
Group of 27 Congress members wrote to Marco Rubio to call for ‘swift release’ of 16-year-old Mohammed IbrahimUS politics live – latest updatesMore than two dozen Democratic lawmakers have written to secretary of state Marco Rubio and the US ambassador …
Graham Platner says he was never questioned about the skull-and-crossbones chest tattoo in the 20 years he had itGraham Platner, a Democratic candidate for US Senate in Maine, said on Wednesday that a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer r…
Jeff Merkley of Oregon gives address to make case that president is ‘violating the law’ through authoritarianismUS politics live – latest updatesJeff Merkley, Oregon’s Democratic senator, is giving a marathon speech on the Senate floor that will soon e…
Report on Paul Ingrassia featured messages where he allegedly described himself as having a ‘Nazi streak’US politics live – latest updatesPaul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections, has dropped out after racist …
This live blog is now closedThe Central Intelligence Agency is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out the controversial lethal air strikes by the Trump administration against small, fast-going boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of c…