Ex-president formally asks appeals court for injunctionManchin wavers on spending bill after US inflation surgeSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailSpeaking at Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day, Joe Biden thanked a…
Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner: ‘He ripped my heart out and stomped on it over and over again’
She was Hillary Clinton’s aide and the wife of a star politician when a sexting scandal sent him to prison, destroyed their marriage – and derailed her boss’s bid to become president. How did she cope?Read an extract from her memoir hereWalk of shame, …
‘Get shit done’: how Republican dog-whistles beat Democratic inaction
Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race by playing dirty over CRT – and the Democrats had no answerNo film director could have choreographed it better. At the very moment Joe Biden emerged from his helicopter into a cold, dark night on the Whit…
Democrats pass Joe Biden’s $1tn infrastructure bill after chaotic day
Intense lobbying helped break an impasse between progressives and moderatesHouse Democrats have passed a $1tn bill to rebuild the nation’s ageing infrastructure after months of delay, delivering Joe Biden a long-awaited legislative victory that he boas…
It’s clear capitalism isn’t working when US politicians try to bring back child labor | Arwa Mahdawi
There is something very, very wrong with a system that would rather recruit more kids instead of paying better wages and providing more benefits to adultsBack in the good old days American children didn’t sit around playing video games, making TikToks,…
Trump seeking to block call logs and notes from Capitol attack panel
Ex-president sued to stop the National Archives from transmitting documents to the House committee‘Roadmap for a coup’: inside Trump plot to steal the presidencyDonald Trump is trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speech…
Reconciliation bill ‘almost there’ after Manchin’s demands to scale it back – live
Psaki on bill: don’t let ‘the perfect be the enemy of the historic’‘Progressives are troubled … with the cuts,’ says Ilhan Omar60% of Americans say oil firms are to blame for the climate crisisSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emai…
White House concedes $3.5tn bill will shrink: ‘Fewer dollars will be spent’ – live
Vice-president: ‘We must not shy away from this painful past’Concerns growing over slow pace of Congress in passing billsSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailVice president Kamala Harris said today that Europeans who colonized th…
Democrats blocking Biden’s agenda represent some of nation’s poorest
Joe Manchin and Henry Cuellar’s districts have high rates of poverty and income inequality but they are holding up a crucial bill in Congress that would benefit working-class AmericansSeveral of the leading Democrats in Congress who have stood in the w…
Donald Trump’s own treasury secretary blocked Ivanka World Bank role – report
Steven Mnuchin said to have stopped move likely to have upset world leaders, which ‘came incredibly close to happening’Only direct intervention from his own treasury secretary stopped Donald Trump nominating his daughter, Ivanka Trump, to lead the Worl…