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Supreme Court grants Trump immunity for ‘official’ acts in landmark ruling that will delay trial

Conservative majority of the court agreed the Constitution entitles the president to immunity for official acts

The Independent UK

Why Joe Biden refuses to step aside

Presidents and other politicians used to resign or retire for the good of the country. What's changed?

Salon

Biden v Trump: what are the five things we learned from the presidential debate?

This was the first time that Donald Trump and Joe Biden had debated since the 2020 campaign so The Conversation asked US government and security academic Dafydd Townley to watch the head-to-head and analyse what he thought were the most important points.

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Can Joe Biden be replaced as the Democratic nominee after debate debacle? If so, by whom?

The fact leading Democrats are even having to ask the question shows the trouble they are in

Evening Standard

Biden and Trump nixed the debate commission. What does it mean for voters?

Experts say the US presidential candidates ‘cut their own deals’ with networks, giving their campaigns greater control.

Al Jazeera

US presidential debates: the 10 most memorable moments

Ahead of Biden and Trump’s first debate of the 2024 election cycle, here are some memorable moments from history

The Guardian - US

What people say today about the first televised presidential debate, between Nixon and JFK, doesn’t match first reactions in 1960

The run-up to the Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate at the end of June 2024 has brought reminders about the first-ever televised presidential debate – and how Vice President Richard Nixon’s sweaty, haggard appearance that autumn night in 1960 opened a pathway to the White House for the tanned and telegenic…

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I’m worried about Biden’s debate with Trump this week

Trump has convinced many Americans that stridency is a sign of strength while truth and humility signal weakness

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court’s slow roll on deciding Trump’s immunity is the opposite of politics

Frustration is mounting as the country waits – and waits and waits – for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue its decision in Trump v. United States, the case that asks whether the former president is immune from criminal prosecution for what he did in the wake of the 2020…

The Conversation

The national debt is over $34 trillion. It’s time to tell the truth about the U.S. government’s finances

The U.S. government will pay close to $900 billion this year just in interest payments on the national debt.

Fortune

Even the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are polarized about the state of American politics

Polarization is both essential to a functioning democracy and a threat to it.

The Conversation

Trump keeps citing the Presidential Records Act in his Mar-a-Lago defense: What does it say?

Ex-president has ‘never been able to explain how the PRA trumps laws about handling classified and national defence [information]. It doesn’t,’ former US attorney says

The Independent UK

Trump’s dangerous attacks on rule of law have US historical precedents

Past politicians tried to undermine democracy. They failed because Americans refused to tolerate their wrongdoing

The Guardian - US

America first declared war on cancer half a century ago. Today’s regulatory hurdles won’t help us win

Exciting new technologies can help the U.S. government win the war that it declared 50 years ago—but the very same government may be hampering progress.

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The Guardian - US

The Republican party has transformed into the Trump Maga party

When Richard Nixon’s perfidy was exposed, his party support crumbled. But with Trump, GOP leaders rallied around him

The Guardian - US

Lawless and disorderly: Republicans line up behind Trump after conviction

Trump and his Republican allies sow distrust in US judicial system as analysts warn backlash could tear at social fabric in already volatile election year

The Conversation

Trump’s prosecution is unprecedented in US – but other countries have prosecuted former leaders

A Manhattan jury on May 30, 2024 convicted former President Donald Trump on charges he falsified business records related to the cover-up of his relationship with a porn star.

The Conversation

US election: why Latino and Hispanic voters are shifting to Trump after a long history of supporting the Democrats

Several recent polls suggest that the Hispanic and Latino vote is shifting towards Donald Trump as the election moves closer.

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Pete McCloskey's life reminds us how politics long in the past live on in the present

McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing to champion are as salient as ever.

Salon

Trump the crime boss summons his mob

Looking so gangster Trump’s high-powered sycophants attend his Manhattan trial

Top News

Former White House Counsels Testify Against Presidents In Trials

Michael Cohen testifies in hush money trial involving Trump, compared to John Dean. Dean questions Cohen's credibility.

Crikey

Trump, ’68 and screaming into the darkness: The return of George Wallace

Is the 2024 presidential election shaping up like that of 1968? In key ways, no — but there are disturbing echoes.

The Guardian - US

How the right is weaponizing pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US

Republicans are using a narrative of chaos and ‘philosophical divisions on Israel’ among Democrats to sink Biden’s campaign

Salon

Project 2025 targets election 2024

Targeting the voting booth for Trump is a massive operation to return the authoritarian to the White House

Salon

Trump trial delays bring focus to SCOTUS

The Supreme Court is preparing to make Donald Trump a de facto dictator

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