Trump signs executive orders targeting abortion rights – as it happened

This blog has now closed. Read our latest story hereIn a series of newly unearthed podcasts, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, appears to endorse the theocratic and authoritarian doctrine of “sphere sovereignty”, a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR) and espoused by churches aligned with far-right Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson.In the recordings, Hegeth rails against “cultural Marxism”, feminism, &ldqu