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    Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy

    Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy securitySend us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midtermsOf all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist.Trump is the “greatest gift” to the environmental movement, argued Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, due to the fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran. Continue reading… More

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    Americans are paying millions for a batch of pro-Trump ads | Margaret Sullivan

    The spots, including a recycled campaign ad, are funded by taxpayers and present the president as a heroThe US government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to get a blatantly partisan message in front of voters as the midterm elections loom.And while these TV ads aren’t explicitly campaign ads, they might as well be. Continue reading… More

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    ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too

    ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approachMost of the time, the scene outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the small, coastal town of Scarborough, Maine, could be confused for a nature watch in “Vacationland”, the slogan on state license plates.People sitting in lawn chairs under a tent. Birds chirping. The sound of the breeze moving through the trees. Continue reading… More

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    Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterms

    Our politics and foreign policy reporters will answer your questions live in a Q&A on Tuesday 6 OctoberThe war with Iran has had major implications for Americans’ wallets, government spending and US foreign policy. It’s also been key in reshaping the political landscape as it enters its seventh month before the 2026 US midterms.We’ll be hosting a live midterm election Q&A on Tuesday 6 October 2026 at 12pm EDT on the Guardian US site, with a panel of our politics and foreign policy reporters to help readers understand the costs of the war and political consequences for Trump and candidates running in November.The makeup of the Democratic party, plus key races to watchWho are the groups financially backing the candidates in the midterms? Continue reading… More

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    Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody

    FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in MichiganThe federal government is charging a Michigan nurse accused of illegally helping an undocumented immigrant, who was being treated in a hospital, escape from immigration officials, court records unsealed this week show.An FBI agent’s declaration submitted in a federal court accuses Chloe Renae Freeman, 33, of “instigating or assisting escape”, a federal misdemeanor, by helping a patient leave an Ann Arbor hospital while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in May. The patient, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, had been arrested about two hours earlier by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) border patrol agents. Continue reading… More

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    Pentagon says it has formally completed withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

    Twelve years after US mission against IS began, Trump hails ‘great day for America’ and calls Iraq war ‘a quagmire’The Pentagon has announced it has formally completed its withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, two years after the withdrawal was agreed to and 12 years since the US mission to fight the Islamic State started.After the announcement, Iran and its allies celebrated the departure as a victory, while Iraqi security experts worry that the withdrawal could give IS and others a chance to recover. Continue reading… More

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    US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI

    FTC move is first official US enforcement ⁠action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in JulyThe US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation ⁠into Anthropic, OpenAI and other ⁠AI labs ​to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers.The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is the first official US enforcement ⁠action that delves into rogue AI agents, following a surge in incidents first reported in July that have stoked fears among the public that uncontrolled AI could one day ⁠harm humans. Continue reading… More

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    Federal Reserve watchdog finds no criminal violations for building renovation cost overruns

    Trump criticized $2.4bn rehab amid attempts to pressure then Fed chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest ratesAn internal watchdog said the Federal Reserve mismanaged costs associated with a $2.4bn renovation of its Washington DC headquarters, but noted that no criminal violations occurred, according to a report released on Wednesday.For over a year, Donald Trump has centered his attacks against the Fed and former chair Jerome Powell around the renovations, including a months-long Department of Justice criminal investigation that was dropped in April. Continue reading… More