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A messy day for Starmer: is Labour ungovernable? – podcast
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A messy day for Starmer: is Labour ungovernable? – podcast

Keir Starmer kicked off the day with a speech aimed at persuading MPs against launching any kind of leadership challenge. By lunchtime, Angela Rayner was speaking at the CWU conference calling for Andy Burnham to return. In the afternoon the list of MPs calling on him to resign was slowly creeping u...

Presented by Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey, produced by Frankie Tobi, music by Axel Kacoutié, the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj
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Democrats express ‘grave concerns’ over secretive ICE deportation flights
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Democrats express ‘grave concerns’ over secretive ICE deportation flights

Exclusive: In a letter 40 lawmakers demand the FAA address allegations of mistreatment of immigrants and the ‘urgent need for transparency’ A group of 40 House Democrats have described “grave concerns” over the Trump administration’s secretive program of deportation flights and demanded the Federal...

Oliver Laughland in New Orleans
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Lawsuit seeks to halt Trump's makeover of Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool
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Lawsuit seeks to halt Trump's makeover of Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool

The Cultural Landscape Foundation seeks to block the replacement of pool’s ‘gray stone’ appearanceA historic preservation group on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking to halt Donald Trump’s ongoing renovation to the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool, the latest in a string of court challenges to efforts...

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Starmer began the day damaged and then things got worse
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Starmer began the day damaged and then things got worse

A growing number of Labour MPs are in no mood to heed calls from the PM’s allies to keep faith with their leaderUK politics live – latest updates“Has Keir done enough to survive?” was the question anxious Labour MPs were asking each other throughout Monday, after the speech regarded by many as cruci...

Pippa Crerar Political editor
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Drug gang attacks ‘force hundreds of Indigenous families to flee’ in Mexico
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Drug gang attacks ‘force hundreds of Indigenous families to flee’ in Mexico

Violence in Guerrero state has driven as many as 1,000 households from their homes, rights group saysHundreds of Indigenous families have been forced to flee their homes in the mountains of central Mexico by intense attacks from a local criminal group, including drone bombings, an Indigenous rights...

Oscar Lopez in Mexico City
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Trump says ceasefire with Iran on ‘life support’ after rejecting peace proposals
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Trump says ceasefire with Iran on ‘life support’ after rejecting peace proposals

US president says he is considering restarting naval escorts in strait of Hormuz in attempt to end Iranian blockadeMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has said the ceasefire with Iran is on “life support” and that he is considering restarting US navy military escorts of ships through the s...

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor
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Newly elected Reform councillor resigns after social media claims
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Newly elected Reform councillor resigns after social media claims

Stuart Prior, who was elected in Essex last week, allegedly celebrated the rape of Sikh woman and called Muslim people ‘rats’A Reform UK councillor has resigned days after being elected, after he allegedly celebrated on social media the rape of a Sikh woman in the Midlands, declared white people the...

Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
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Senate Democrats to fight Republicans’ $1bn funding plan for Trump’s ballroom
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Senate Democrats to fight Republicans’ $1bn funding plan for Trump’s ballroom

Chuck Schumer accuses GOP of ‘asking working families to pay the price while Trump pockets the perks’ in letterUS politics live – latest updatesChuck Schumer, the US Senate’s top Democrat, has vowed to oppose a Republican plan to spend $1bn on security improvements for the ballroom Donald Trump is s...

Chris Stein in Washington
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More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit
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More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit

Move comes after PM insisted he would prove his doubters wrong and fight any leadership challengeUK politics live – latest updatesMore than 60 MPs have called on Keir Starmer to set a timetable to depart as prime minister, including backers of his leadership rivals Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting.MPs...

Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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Drought fears in central and southern England as dry April leaves rivers low
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Drought fears in central and southern England as dry April leaves rivers low

Month was one of driest Aprils on record with rainfall 23% less than average, according to Met Office figuresOne of the driest Aprils on record for central and southern England has left river levels below normal, raising fears of drought in some areas over the summer.The latest UK hydrological surve...

Sandra Laville
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Israeli troops jailed for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon
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Israeli troops jailed for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon

IDF says two soldiers will spend weeks in military prison over incident it said was viewed with great severityTwo Israeli soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian object after one stuck a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon...

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Savannah Guthrie will host Wordle TV game show
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Savannah Guthrie will host Wordle TV game show

Jimmy Fallon will produce show, which will begin filming over the summer, based on New York Times’ hit word game Savannah Guthrie is to present a TV game show based on the New York Times’ hit word game Wordle, the newspaper announced Monday.It will be the first new onscreen venture for the host of N...

Richard Luscombe
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Brussels prepares to offer UK concession in agricultural deal
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Brussels prepares to offer UK concession in agricultural deal

Exclusive: UK can keep ban on live animal exports, sources say, in fillip for Keir Starmer’s efforts to negotiate closer ties with EUUK politics live – latest updatesBrussels is preparing to offer Keir Starmer a key concession in talks over an agricultural deal, giving the beleaguered prime minister...

Kiran Staceyand Helena Horton
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Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows
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Theatre streaming is not a threat to in-person attendance, new research shows

Report suggests that popular initiatives such as NT Live and NT at Home are making UK audiences more adventurousTheatre streaming services and cinema screenings of stage performances are not a threat to “in-person” attendance and are making audiences more adventurous, according to new research commi...

Chris Wiegand Stage editor
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Victorian politics still exposed to ‘dark money’ and foreign donations as MPs struggle to agree on urgent reforms
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Victorian politics still exposed to ‘dark money’ and foreign donations as MPs struggle to agree on urgent reforms

Exclusive: state is now without caps on political donations or disclosure requirements, months out from November electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“Unlimited dark money” will keep flooding into Victorian politics after Labor failed to reach agreement with the Liberal...

Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent
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Muslim Votes Matter says anonymous bid to create political party under same name an attempt to ‘mislead’ voters
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Muslim Votes Matter says anonymous bid to create political party under same name an attempt to ‘mislead’ voters

Exclusive: Push to register unaffiliated party with identical name to grassroots group follows Avi Yemini’s plan to use ‘Free Palestine party’ to funnel votes to One NationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMuslim Votes Matter (MVM) has complained to the Victorian Electoral C...

Benita Kolovos and Adeshola Ore
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Stafford man who called for ‘killing migrants’ pleads guilty to terrorism offences
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Stafford man who called for ‘killing migrants’ pleads guilty to terrorism offences

Far-right extremist Ivan Jennings had earlier pleaded guilty to dissemination of a terrorism publicationA rightwing extremist who called for “killing migrants when they arrive on their boats” has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences.Ivan Jennings, 46, from Stafford, admitted encouraging terrorism be...

Chris Osuh Community affairs correspndent
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Hegseth says Pentagon will review Mark Kelly’s US weapons stockpile remarks
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Hegseth says Pentagon will review Mark Kelly’s US weapons stockpile remarks

Defense secretary accuses senator of disclosing classified info but Kelly says ‘that’s not classified, it’s a quote from you’Pete Hegseth said he has referred Senator Mark Kelly to Pentagon lawyers for allegedly disclosing classified information about depleted US weapons stockpiles – information Kel...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington
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