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U.S. Trade Deficit Widens Despite Trump’s Tariffs

The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show.

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Trade flows have fluctuated wildly this year because of President Trump’s tariffs.
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Trump Warns Iran With Military Muscle, but Risks a Regional War

Iran’s Islamic Republic, weakened by airstrikes in June and huge popular unrest, warns that it will strike back hard if attacked by the United States. This time, Iran may mean it.

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Smoke from an explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes in Tehran in June. President Trump has shown that he likes military action to be short and limited, as it was in Iran at the time.
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From worst of times to even worse: the Trump administration continues to spiral | Sidney Blumenthal

In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene

It was the worst of times and then even worse; it was the age of lies and then more lies; it was an epoch of preening and cowardice. In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene. It was a tale of two films, one featuring the stark killing of a protester on a cold Minneapolis street and the other starring Melania Trump striking poses in a “documentary” shown at a private screening at the White House.

Throughout the day of Saturday, 24 January, videos of the killing by ICE agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Veterans Administration hospital, on a street in Minneapolis were broadcast endlessly on TV news channels and seen by tens of millions online. The videos clearly showed Pretti with his phone in his hand, holding his hands up as he approached ICE agents who had pepper-sprayed a woman. He was coming to her aid, a Good Samaritan. The ICE agents instantly attacked him. One frame of a video shows one agent with his gun drawn, pointed at Pretti’s back as he fell hands still in the air. Agents appear to have shot him 10 times in five seconds.

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© Photograph: Tim Evans/Reuters

© Photograph: Tim Evans/Reuters

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Amy Klobuchar Announces Run for Minnesota Governor

The Democratic senator, who signaled her bid after Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn’t run again, talked about moving past political divides in a video announcement.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar’s campaign will test how Democrats can harness the deep anger over ICE’s tactics among their base without losing moderate voters who still support border enforcement.
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A Crisis for President Trump

The Department of Homeland Security is in turmoil after the killing of Alex Pretti.

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Trumped ordered Gregory Bovino, right, to leave Minneapolis.
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A State Senate Race in Texas Offers Republicans a Warning

A State Senate runoff on Saturday in the Fort Worth suburbs will preview whether a backlash against conservative social policies will give Democrats a chance to gain.

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Fort Worth is in Texas’ Ninth District, which will hold a runoff election for the Texas Senate on Jan. 31.
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The Journey of a Group of Cuban Deportees Stuck at Guantánamo

The tale illustrates how inefficient the ICE operation has been in the year since President Trump ordered the base to prepare for up to 30,000 “criminal aliens.”

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An upper tier at Camp 6 detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2019. It is a former prison for Al Qaeda suspects, which now houses dozens of Cuban men designated for deportation from the United States.
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For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History

The crackdown on unauthorized immigrants is resonating deeply among the Dakota and other tribes, as residents confront what they call a federal occupation of their land.

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Sophie Watso, of the Mdewakanton Dakota tribe, was arrested in a dispute with federal agents in Minneapolis.
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The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House - and what they teach us

Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling

It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it’s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics are calling “slopaganda” – an unholy alliance of easily available AI tools and political messaging. “Shitposting”, the publishing of deliberately crude, offensive content online to provoke a reaction, has reached the level of “institutional shitposting”, according to Know Your Meme’s editor Don Caldwell. This is trolling as official government communication. And nobody is more skilled at it than the Trump administration – a government that has not only allowed the AI industry all the regulative freedom it desires, but has embraced the technology for its own in-house purposes. Here are 10 of the most significant fake images the White House has put out so far.

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© Illustration: @WhiteHouse/X

© Illustration: @WhiteHouse/X

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The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too | Aditya Chakrabortty

After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failed

For most politicians and journalists, the answer to nearly every question is to look up. Not at the moon, the stars or even the chimney tops, but at their leaders: the people who sit atop institutions, wield power and set the line that others follow. The top of the totem pole is the sole focal point, and the stories that count usually come from the heights of power.

Bend your neck back far enough and Davos becomes not a talking shop in a Swiss ski resort, but a gathering of world leaders; Keir Starmer flying into Beijing is a summit of great powers; even who should be the MP for Gorton and Denton is really all about the Labour leadership. For this piece, the Guardian’s research librarians counted how many times the words “leader” or “leadership” appeared across the British press. Over the past week alone, the rough total stands at 2,000. A third of those stories concern one man: Donald Trump.

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist

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© Illustration: Ben Jennings/The Guardian

© Illustration: Ben Jennings/The Guardian

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What does the US want from Iran? Tracking one month of Trump’s changing demands

After saying the US would attack if protesters were harmed, the president appears now to be tying the threat of airstrikes to Iran’s nuclear programme

Donald Trump has warned that Iran must come to the table to negotiate a deal over its nuclear programme or face the possibility of airstrikes and regime change, capping off a month of bellicose posturing and whiplash inducing u-turns from the US president.

The US president’s demands threaten to open a new chapter in America’s long and tumultuous relationship with Iran, which in just over a decade has seen rapprochement, broken deals, targeted assassinations and unprecedented airstrikes.

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© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

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F.B.I. Agents Search Georgia Election Center

F.B.I. agents searched a Fulton County, Ga., election center for ballots from 2020, escalating an investigation of a heavily Democratic jurisdiction the president has criticized over his defeat.

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Votes are counted in November 2024 at the election hub and operations center in Fulton County in Union City, Ga.
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Trump and Schumer Move Toward Possible Deal to Avert a Shutdown

The president and the top Senate Democrat were discussing an agreement to split off homeland security funding from a broader spending package and negotiate new limits on immigration agents.

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Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, at the Capitol on Wednesday.
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