US Politics

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US historyTrump’s first and second terms have been marked by huge protests, from the 2017 Women’s March to the protests for racial justice after George Floyd’s murder, to this year’s No Kings demonstrations. But how effective is this type of collective action?According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from civil rights to Black Lives Matter, mass movement has shaped the arc of American history. Protest has led to the passage of legislation that gave women the right to vote, banned segregation and legalized same-sex marriage. It has also sparked cultural shifts in how Americans perceive things like bodily autonomy, economic inequality and racial bias. Continue reading… More

Many US immigrants are facing endless separations. In San Francisco, community groups offer solace – and purposeInside St Peter’s Catholic church in San Francisco’s Mission District, families took refuge from a chilly December night to celebrate a mass in honor of immigrant rights.A choir sang hymns. A majestic Christmas tree stood sentinel at the entrance. Continue reading… More

European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of ‘coercion and intimidation’. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 24 DecemberThe EU could “respond swiftly and decisively” against the “unjustified” US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation, a European Commission spokesperson has said.European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of “coercion and intimidation”, after the visa ban on the figures who have been at the heart of campaigns to introduce laws regulating American tech companies. Continue reading… More

DoJ says more documents have been uncovered amid criticisms for missing 19 December deadline for full releaseThe US justice department said on Wednesday that it has been told by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the FBI that they have uncovered more than a million more documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and processing these for release could take “a few more weeks”.In a post on X, the justice department said it had received the documents from the US attorney for the southern district of New York and the FBI in “compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, existing statutes, and judicial orders”. Continue reading… More

Joyce Beatty seeks to remove the president’s name from the newly minted ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’Democratic US representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio sued Donald Trump on Monday to seek the removal of his name from the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC.The lawsuit from Beatty, an ex-officio trustee on the board, argued that the vote to rename the Kennedy Center is a “flagrant violation” of law as congressional approval is required for such an action. Continue reading… More

Judge said cuts were ‘another example’ of Trump administration tying state assistance to its immigration crackdownA federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal homeland security funding, including for disasters, for states that do not comply with immigration enforcement policies.US district judge Mary McElroy of Rhode Island, a 2018 Trump appointee, ruled on Monday that the latest case was “another example” of the Trump administration tying state and local government assistance to its immigration crackdown. Continue reading… More

Legislation that seeks to curb harmful content is viewed as a threat to Silicon Valley by many Maga politiciansUK politics live – latest updatesFor Maga politicians, European tech regulation hits hard in two areas: at the economic interests of Silicon Valley and at their view of free speech.The action against five Europeans who are taking on harmful content and the platforms that host it has had an inevitable feel to it, given the increasingly vociferous reactions to the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA). Both pieces of legislation require social media firms to protect users or face the threat of sizeable fines. Indeed, Elon Musk’s X has been fined €120m (£105m) this month for breaching the DSA. Continue reading… More

The city is responding with ‘strategized resistance’ as masked men roam the streets carrying out immigration raids at traffic stops, supermarkets and courthousesAny Lucia López Belloza will not be home for Christmas. The 19-year-old freshman was on a business scholarship at Babson College near Boston, when she decided to take a surprise flight home to Austin, Texas, to spend Thanksgiving with her parents and sisters.Just before she boarded her flight at Logan airport on 20 November, she was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and within 48 hours was deported back to Honduras, a country she left aged seven seeking asylum, with chains on her waist, ankles and wrists. Continue reading… More