California Gov. Gavin Newsom commutes all 548 death sentences
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Bomb threats made against over a dozen European flights, two newsrooms on Friday
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Could El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele be Haiti’s savior?
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US Democrats win enough seats nationwide to (potentially) end Electoral College via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 2
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In Asia, US midterms spark worries about diplomatic uncertainty, economic pressure
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Want to rent an internet address at the White House?
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2026 United States midterm elections megathread
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Finnish court convicts Russian captain and a senior crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for damaging two undersea telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year
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Israel election: Inconclusive?
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Danish government plans to cut student allowances has drawn thousands to the streets on Wednesday, adding to a wave of European youth anger
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Turbulent times call for experimental law
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Exiled journalists at the small Norwegian news outlet Barents Observer face growing intimidation as Moscow seeks to control media beyond its borders
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Justices seem likely to side with Colorado Catholic schools seeking public money
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A website for comparing endorsements in California elections
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Federal agency emails praising US President Donald Trump may violate ethics laws, experts say
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 26
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Brazilian lower house speaker pushes to overhaul electoral system
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Greek container ship sinks after drone attack off Bulgaria
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England's children's homes are in crisis – minister Josh MacAlister has travelled to Copenhagen to see what can be learned from the Danish system
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Evacuees arrive to safety from besieged Ukrainian city of Oleshky
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Extreme poverty in India falls to 2.6% from 27.1%: World Bank
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Brazil election: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beats Flavio Bolsonaro in shock upset
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Shaun reviews UK right wing politician's new book
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NPR investigation finds that more than 15,000 US military veterans were put into higher cost home loans due to the Donald Trump administration
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Massive leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security workers—including undercover US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
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Europe's first deportation center for failed asylum seekers to open in Rwanda
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Hackers target US Federal Election Commission system, disrupting campaign finance disclosures days before midterms
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Denmark and Sweden publicly rebuked their counterparts in Finland and Norway for holding a surprise phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Pete Hegseth barred trans troops. US military boards are rejecting those orders.
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 19
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Serbia's strongman leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift
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White House directly intervened to shut down Jeffrey Epstein files probe
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Israel frees dozens of Americans, including US Congress nominee, after West Bank arrest
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Ukraine reports record Russian war losses in a day
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US federal judge restricts Department of Homeland Security field operations looking for noncitizen voters
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US State Department unveils plan to only promote Donald Trump supporters
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The cost of a civil service under attack: how people pay the price
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 12
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Alberta voters reject plan for referendum to leave Canada
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Ukraine accuses SpaceX of crippling drone missions as ties with US worsen
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How drones created a kill zone in the Ukraine war
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Epstein family values
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Ukraine takes out six Russian Su-34M bombers with a single airbase strike, navy says
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US Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
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Those viral claims about plummeting Russian ‘bot’ activity have no basis in fact
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Donald Trump strikes deal with Vladimir Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy weeks before midterms
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UK is set to begin work on a new National Centre for Information Defence – here's what it can learn from Sweden's own dedicated agency
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What Flock actually costs cities across America
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What it means when the US right refers to the ‘Indian question’
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