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US Senate refuses to push through ICE funding amid row over Trump’s ballroom
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US Senate refuses to push through ICE funding amid row over Trump’s ballroom

Senate will not pass the $70bn legislation ahead of a 1 June deadline set by Trump ahead of the Memorial Day recessA bid to restore funding to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and border patrol has been derailed by rows over a $1bn proposal for security measures tied to Donald Trump’s Wh...

Joseph Gedeon, Lucy Campbell and Guardian staff
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Italian police stop party attended by Mick Jagger over music ban
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Italian police stop party attended by Mick Jagger over music ban

Music is banned on Wednesdays on island of Stromboli where Rolling Stones frontman was celebrating wrapping a filmPolice on an Italian island stopped a party attended by Mick Jagger – because music is banned on Wednesdays.The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, the volcanic island among Sicily...

Angela Giuffrida in Rome
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Met Palantir row gets to heart of how public services should use AI
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Met Palantir row gets to heart of how public services should use AI

UK’s largest police force says Palantir is only company that can supply what it needs. Is that worth the controversy that comes with it?London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with PalantirIt’s bot vs bobby. The row over whether the controversial US AI company Palantir should be paid £50...

Robert Booth UK technology editor
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Prospect of Labour leadership race brings out different sides of rivals
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Prospect of Labour leadership race brings out different sides of rivals

Burnham and Streeting’s latest stances confound caricatures of left and right as party faces electoral bindThe Labour party has seemed to inhabit three parallel worlds over the past fortnight.There is a prime minister celebrating good news on the economy and lower migration figures and breezily insi...

Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website
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US homeland security put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website

DHS issued ‘Bolo’ for Ben Palmer, whose videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants went viralThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigrat...

Aura Bogado, Injustice Watch
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Ebola: US ban on travellers from DRC, Uganda or South Sudan ‘not the solution’
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Ebola: US ban on travellers from DRC, Uganda or South Sudan ‘not the solution’

Africa CDC says restrictions could increase public health risks and highlight ‘deeper structural injustice’ in global healthA US travel ban for people coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or South Sudan in response to the Ebola outbreak could make the situation worse, critics hav...

Kat Lay Global health correspondent
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Diplomat who abruptly left Washington embassy was honoured by the king
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Diplomat who abruptly left Washington embassy was honoured by the king

Charles conferred LVO after his US visit on James Roscoe who had been standing in for Peter MandelsonA top diplomat who abruptly left his post at the British embassy in Washington earlier this week after standing in as interim ambassador for Peter Mandelson has been honoured by King Charles.No reaso...

Donna Ferguson
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Assisted dying bill could return after ballot for private member’s bills
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Assisted dying bill could return after ballot for private member’s bills

Two MPs who came in top five of draw backed Kim Leadbeater’s bill in the CommonsCampaigners have a narrow path to revive the assisted dying bill after two MPs who backed it came in the top five of the new private member’s bill ballot.Supporters of Kim Leadbeater’s original private member’s bill, whi...

Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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New weight-loss shot appears to outperform other obesity drugs on market
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New weight-loss shot appears to outperform other obesity drugs on market

Eli Lilly says participants in a sizable trial of retatrutide lost much more weight compared to other weight-loss drugsA new weight-loss drug has helped participants in a sizable trial lose much more weight than other obesity drugs already on the market – up to an average of 28% of their body weight...

Maya Yang
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TUC leader ‘angry’ at state of Labour but says it can recover to win next election
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TUC leader ‘angry’ at state of Labour but says it can recover to win next election

Exclusive: Paul Nowak recognises frustration with Keir Starmer’s government but urges party not to be fatalisticThe UK’s most powerful union leader has said he is angry at the state of Labour and Keir Starmer’s government and warned that significant change is needed to prevent Reform UK from winning...

Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem
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OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoningOpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.The company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first pose...

Dan Milmo and Ian Sample
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Former head of Minnesota nonprofit gets nearly 42-year prison sentence for fraud
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Former head of Minnesota nonprofit gets nearly 42-year prison sentence for fraud

Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, which claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children during the pandemicSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence – nearly 42 years – to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who...

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Five arrested after police investigate alleged electoral fraud in Tameside
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Five arrested after police investigate alleged electoral fraud in Tameside

Greater Manchester police made the arrests after concerns over several independent candidates in May’s local electionFive people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into allegations that fake independent candidates were used to influence the outcome of a local election in Tameside.G...

Sundus Abdi
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Nervy time for Havana neighbours of top officials as fears of US attack grow
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Nervy time for Havana neighbours of top officials as fears of US attack grow

Cubans express outrage at US charges against Raúl Castro but view military strikes as serious possibilityA new question in being asked in Havana as people digest the news that the US has brought criminal charges against Cuba’s 94-year-old former president, Raúl Castro: who’s your neighbour?If you ha...

Ruaridh Nicollin Havana
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Oil markets nearing ‘red zone’ as holiday season nears, warns IEA chief
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Oil markets nearing ‘red zone’ as holiday season nears, warns IEA chief

Surging demand, low reserves and reduced Middle East exports predicted to cause global crunch by AugustOil markets will enter “red zone” by July and August as stocks dwindle before the summer travel season amid a shortage of fresh oil exports from the Middle East, the executive director of the Inter...

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
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Music industry risks excluding working-class talent, says Tinie Tempah
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Music industry risks excluding working-class talent, says Tinie Tempah

Singer Skye Newman also highlights how becoming a performer is becoming inaccessible to those without moneyThe music industry risks becoming a more hostile place for working-class artists, musicians including Tinie Tempah and Skye Newman have said.Without work to save small music venues that act as...

Kevin Rawlinson
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Former boss of collapsed investment firm jailed for illegally selling hot tub
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Former boss of collapsed investment firm jailed for illegally selling hot tub

Michael Thomson admitted to breaching a restraining order by selling a range of luxury itemsThe former boss of collapsed investment firm London Capital & Finance (LC&F) has been imprisoned for six months for contempt of court, after admitting breaching a restraining order by selling luxury i...

Simon Goodley
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Democrats belatedly publish 2024 presidential election autopsy report
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Democrats belatedly publish 2024 presidential election autopsy report

DNC chair Ken Martin apologizes for initial bid to block release of report on the party’s disastrous election defeatThe Democrats have belatedly published a postmortem on the party’s disastrous 2024 election defeat, after an initial decision to withhold the document triggered an angry backlash.Ken M...

Robert Tait in Washington
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The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists – The Latest
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The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists – The Latest

Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has triggered global outrage after sharing footage of himself taunting bound activists who had been detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid. The video has been widely condemned by world leaders, including the Italian prime minis...

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