The Guardian view on Myanmar, four years on: the army unleashed terror, but the people are defiant | Editorial

The junta’s brutality has failed to secure victory in the civil war, but is devastating the country Myanmar’s coup must have looked like an easy win to the generals, given their long record of crushing dissent. Their grudging experiment with limited democracy reached its end when Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide second election … Read more

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Medical debt reforms threatened by Trump pause on new regulations

Treasury secretary paused all work at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, agency that was enacting reform US politics live – latest updates The Trump administration’s pause on new regulations threatens reforms made to ease the burden of medical debt. Although such reforms are broadly popular, and half of Americans worry they will be bankrupted by a … Read more

US begins flying migrants to Guantanamo Bay

The Trump administration has begun flying detained illegal migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday.  The move comes just days after President Donald Trump announced that he would instruct the Pentagon to prepare the facility to hold around 30,000 “criminal illegal aliens” at the U.S. military … Read more

Tulsi Gabbard advances out of Intel Committee in boost to confirmation odds

Tulsi Gabbard passed a key committee hurdle on Tuesday, and her nomination will now head to the Senate floor where she’ll get a final confirmation vote.  President Donald Trump tapped Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in his second term.  “I’m pleased that the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to … Read more