Maduro sings, dances and threatens to 'smash the teeth' of the 'North American empire'




Measure to redistrict, which would add two GOP-friendly seats, failed 19-31 after 21 Republicans joined 10 Democrats
Indiana Republicans rejected an effort to redraw the state’s congressional map on Thursday, a stunning and blunt rebuke of Donald Trump and Republican efforts to reconfigure the state’s congressional districts to add two more Republican-friendly seats.
The measure failed 19-31, with 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats in rejecting the new maps.
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Votes came as premium tax credits for estimated 21.8 million enrollees of plans set to expire at end of month
The US Senate on Thursday rejected competing proposals to address the imminent expiration of subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, greatly increasing the chances that healthcare costs will soon rise to unaffordable levels for millions of Americans.
The votes, part of a deal brokered between Republican majority leader John Thune and the Democratic senators who agreed to reopen the government after a historically long shutdown last month, came as premium tax credits for an estimated 21.8 million enrollees of the plans are set to expire at the end of the month. Health policy research group KFF estimates that annual premiums will more than double if the subsidies are allowed to expire.
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C'est une décision qui a de quoi laisser stupéfait, et qui montre que la guerre culturelle qui se joue aux États-Unis se glisse jusqu'à des détails insignifiants. Le secrétaire d'État Marco Rubio a ordonné aux diplomates de ne plus utiliser la police de caractères Calibri. Le motif ? Trop « woke ». Il vaut mieux re-basculer sur le bon vieux Times New Roman.

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C'est une décision qui a de quoi laisser stupéfait, et qui montre que la guerre culturelle qui se joue aux États-Unis se glisse jusqu'à des détails insignifiants. Le secrétaire d'État Marco Rubio a ordonné aux diplomates de ne plus utiliser la police de caractères Calibri. Le motif ? Trop « woke ». Il vaut mieux re-basculer sur le bon vieux Times New Roman.

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Lindell, an election conspiracist who still maintains the 2020 election was stolen, joins a crowded Republican field
Mike Lindell, a pillow salesman and election conspiracist, is running for governor of Minnesota, he announced on Thursday.
Lindell, an ally of Donald Trump’s and major player in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, joins a crowded Republican primary in the left-leaning state, where his pillow company, MyPillow, is headquartered.
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US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s campaign against the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, whose government called the seizure an act of international piracy.
The Trump administration is facing increasing scrutiny over a series of attacks on boats off the Venezuelan coast. At least 87 people have been killed in 22 known strikes since early September. Lucy Hough talks to the Guardian’s deputy head of international news, Devika Bhat
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Heckler shouts ‘end the deportations’ as Mississippi congressman Bennie Thompson says, under Noem’s direction, DHS has ‘detained Americans’
Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic senator from Maryland, was among the lawmakers speaking out against the Trump administration and its actions around Venezuela, taking to the senate floor on Wednesday to call on Congress to block Donald Trump from “using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war”.
“Last time I checked, the constitution of the United States gives Congress – this body – the power to decide questions of war or peace,” he said.
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