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Controversial Arizona ‘audit’ shows Trump lost by even more votes – live updates
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Trump may be gone, but Covid has not seen off populism
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When the pandemic struck, newspaper opinion pages were full of pieces predicting the end of authoritarian populism. Surely Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Jair Bolsonaro couldn’t survive their mishandling of Covid-19?...
Republicans who let Trump ‘bully’ party will seal midterms defeat, senator says
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One of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial warned on Sunday that the former president’s “bullying” of the party would lead to electoral defeat in next year’s...
Wildland review: Evan Osnos on the America Trump exploited
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Ever since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, bookstores have been flooded with volumes attempting to explain America’s unraveling. George Packer’s Last Best Hope, published earlier this year, provided one of ...
Mark Milley, US general who stood up to Trump, founders over Kabul strike
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Three days after a US drone obliterated a car in a Kabul street, General Mark Milley, shrugged off reports of civilian casualties, insisting it was a “righteous strike”. On Friday that word came back to haunt America’...
Peril review: Bob Woodward Trump trilogy ends on note of dire warning
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Donald Trump is out of a job but far from gone and forgotten. The 45th president stokes the lie of a rigged election while his rallies pack more wallop than a Sunday sermon and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. “We won the ...
Joe Biden has ‘great confidence’ in top general Milley after Trump revelation
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Joe Biden threw his weight behind the top US military officer on Wednesday, saying he had “great confidence” in the general who, according to a new book, took steps to prevent the outgoing Republican president Donald ...
Why are there so many Trump staff memoirs? The authors now need to whitewash their reputations
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Stephanie Grisham used to avoid the media like her life depended on it. During her nine-month stint as Donald Trump’s press secretary – a job she juggled with her roles as communications director for both the White Ho...
Top general feared Trump would launch nuclear war, Woodward book reports
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Before and after the assault on the US Capitol on 6 gennaio, the most senior US general took steps to prevent Donald Trump from “going rogue” and launching a nuclear war or an attack on China, according to excerpts of...
‘Bring it’: Liz Cheney throws down gauntlet after Trump endorses primary challenger
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Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney had a short answer for Donald Trump on Thursday, after the former US president endorsed a challenger for her seat in Wyoming. “Here’s a sound bite for you,” Cheney wrote on Twitter...
‘Like Trump and the Republicans’: Lindsey Buckingham reignites Stevie Nicks feud
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One of the bitterest feuds in pop music rolls on, after Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks – once a couple whose breakup powered the classic album Rumours – have strongly disputed Buckingham’s departu...
Trump White House tried to play down US injuries in attack by Iran, says ex-official
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Donald Trump’s White House asked the Pentagon to play down and delay reports of brain injuries suffered by US troops from an Iranian missile attack on Iraq last year, according to a former defense spokeswoman. Alyssa ...
Trump reportedly nears DC hotel rights sale as ally says ‘I think he’s gonna run’
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Donald Trump is reportedly close to selling rights to his hotel near the White House in Washington, a move the website Axios said “would carry a symbolism savoured by opponents”, given it would mean “the removal of Tr...
Trump loyalists team up with anti-vax doctors for ‘health and freedom’ tour
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Top loyalists to Donald Trump, who frequently push lies about election fraud, have joined forces with conservative doctors touting unproven Covid curesand vaccine skepticism, and like-minded evangelical ministers at a...
The main lesson I was given as a college football star? Sports trump academics
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In my four years with Purdue’s football team, I tore ligaments, broke bones, lifted four times my weight a hundred times over, studied football more than my academics, rose before the sun, and stayed up long past its ...
Trump phone records could be sought by Capitol attack panel, reports say
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Donald Trump’s phone records from the day of the 6 January Capitol insurrection could be among those requested by the congressional committee looking into the deadly attack, it was reported on Monday. An anonymous so...