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Postal Service's electric vehicle overhaul escapes Trump scrutiny

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Cambridgeshire police face questions over decision to hand sexual assault case to US military

Jacob Wulfson, who strangled woman he met online, was allowed to be tried at airbase court martial instead of facing UK justice

Donald Trump hijacked America’s 250 and turned it into a ‘theatre of the absurd’

Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion

Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal

Axon Enterprise has ramped up lobbying in Congress on federal law enforcement technology as ICE pursues a potential $220 million Taser deal.

Races to Watch in Colorado's 2026 Primary Elections

Colorado voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in the state's 2026 primary elections.

Keir Starmer's attempts to placate big tech were a disaster. Andy Burnham must take a stand

Labour came to power promising to tackle Silicon Valley. But from workers’ rights to online privacy it has failed at almost every turn

Mamdani’s socialist housing experiment begins

On Thursday, shortly after his slate of socialist candidates swept Democratic Party primaries in congressional and state House races, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani secured his first big socialist policy victory when the Rent Guidelines Board approved a rent freeze on 1 million apartments in the city. New York residents voted for socialism, and now they are getting it, good and hard.

‘She never says goodbye when she leaves’: the Romanian families separated by migration

Many thousands of children live with at least one parent working abroad in what is one of the EU’s poorest countries

A New Prime Minister Won’t Fix Britain

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Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision for the Military

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What Happened When Affirmative Action Fell

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‘We were broke, but fascinated by freedom’: exhibition showcases East German artist Gabriele Stötzer

Show at Martin Gropius Bau gallery in Berlin is biggest ever celebration of an East German female artist in a state museum