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US domestic policy

July 2024

  • Protesters wearing yellow hats protest in favor of cancelling student debt, with one holding a sign

    Key plank of Biden student-debt relief plan can move forward, court rules

    Appeals court decision allows millions of borrowers to cut loan payments in half – but does not yet erase debt outright

June 2024

  • Person inside voting booth at polling place

    The fight for democracy
    Millions of US voters lack access to documents to prove citizenship

  • Donald Trump, wearing suit and tie, turns to the side

    Trump plots capture of DoJ in renewed assault on US justice system

  • Migrants at U.S.-Mexico border in California<br>Asylum-seeking migrant children from Ecuador play near the border wall while waiting to be transported by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, U.S. June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Biden’s migrant order is recipe for chaos at US border: ‘It will only cause suffering’

  • Five people, two of them children, sit in the dirt next to a tall fence made of vertical metal bars

    Asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border worry about their next move: ‘We cannot return’

  • Merrick Garland hits back at Trump and Republicans: ‘I will not be intimidated’

  • Biden issues order limiting asylum seekers from crossing US-Mexico border

April 2024

  • marijuana plants

    Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana as lower-risk drug

    Drug Enforcement Administration seeking to downgrade cannabis from top category to Schedule III, but still short of legalization

March 2024

  • Man in suit speaks into microphone

    Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities ‘torn apart’ by highways decades ago

    President announces $3.3bn in infrastructure spending to ‘right historic wrongs’ as he takes 2024 campaign to vital swing states
  • Men in cutouts across red background

    Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes – report

    Compensation for senior bosses at firms from Tesla to T-Mobile US worth more than those companies’ net tax payments, study finds
  • Man wearing glasses and suit and tie speaks in front of microphone

    US lawmakers present bill to fund government and avert shutdown

    The bill sets a discretionary spending level of $1.66tn for fiscal 2024 and still faces opposition from hardline House Republicans

February 2024

  • Man in blue suit puts finger in the air in front of microphone while man watches from behind

    Senate passes short-term funding bill to avert government shutdown

  • Stephen Moore speaks at CPAC on Saturday.

    Revealed: ‘extremist’ Trump economist plots rightwing overhaul of US treasury

  • Abraham Lincoln

    ‘Blood of our blood’: how Lincoln, the first Republican president, embraced immigration

  • three white bottles of pills labelled eliquis

    Medicare makes opening bid to pharma companies in talks to lower drug costs

January 2024

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks in Atlanta.

    Trump’s War on Capitalism review: a Reaganite and RFK Jr walk into a bar…

    David Stockman’s political journey is almost as unlikely as that of the latest Kennedy to seek power. They seem well matched
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders smile at each other

    The Rebels review: AOC, Bernie, Warren and the fight against Trump

    Joshua Green of Bloomberg News offers a smart, sharp and telling account of the Democratic left and its role in the party
  • Voters Cast Ballots During Midterm Elections<br>A "Vote Here" sign stands outside a polling station in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 6, 2018. Today's midterm elections will determine whether Republicans keep control of Congress and will set the stage for President Donald Trump's bid to win re-election in 2020. Photographer: Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    What are the key issues in the 2024 US election?

    From the economy to the climate crisis to abortion and US support for Ukraine, the presidential race is likely to encompass some key themes

December 2023

  • US-ECONOMY-AGRICULTURE-CANNABIS<br>A cannabis flower is seen at East End Flower Farm, in a greenhouse rented by cultivator Marcos Ribeiro, in Mattituck, New York, on November 16, 2023. In the two years since recreational cannabis consumption was legalized in New York, the official market which appeared set to boom has been beset by problems. With more than 200 other growing sites listed in the state, but only 23 stores licensed to sell marijuana in the sprawling region of 20 million people. According to The Cannabis Farmers Alliance, losses could amount to several million dollars in the worst cases. (Photo by Cecilia SANCHEZ / AFP) (Photo by CECILIA SANCHEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

    Biden poised to loosen restrictions on marijuana, but some say it’s not enough

  • A detainee at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

    Detainees speak out against ‘abusive’ US migrant jail: ‘This place is horrible’

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