40 minutes ago The 'Trumpesque' Democratic mayor who's finally tackling the drugs apocalypse ravaging her Blue city

The day after Donald Trump's inauguration, the mayor of this northeastern blue city defied progressives with a bid to reclaim her streets from hordes of homeless zombified drug addicts.

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7 hours ago Incredible UK castle on sale for 1st time in 700 years – but it'll cost you £21m

Ripley Castle near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, is on the market for the first time in the family's 700-year history, but interested buyers will have to fork out £21million and potentially compete with the likes of Donald Trump

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1 hour ago Trump orders airstrikes targeting ‘senior IS attack planner’ in Somalia

The US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, indicated multiple operatives were killed and no civilians were harmedThe US military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African country during Donald Trump’s second term as president.Trump said on Saturday that he ordered strikes on a senior IS attack planner and others from the organisation. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago The Taliban have no legal right to multibillion dollar Afghan fund, says US watchdog

The watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan says the Taliban have no legal right to billions of dollars in funds set aside to help Afghan people

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2 hours ago Donald Trump ordered military airstrikes on ISIS attack planner in Somalia

"These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump posted on social media. "The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians."

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4 hours ago JPMorgan’s $4bn delivery of gold bullion adds to fears Trump’s tariffs will reshape global trade

US bank, world’s biggest bullion dealer, says it will deliver raw material against contracts that will expire in FebruaryUS banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4bn of gold bullion weighing more than 937 tons to New York this month, before an anticipated escalation of Donald Trump’s trade-rebalancing tariff moves planned for Saturday.The US bank, the world’s biggest bullion dealer, said it would deliver the hefty raw material, weighed as 30m troy ounces of gold, or 1.875m lbs, against contracts that will expire in February. Continue reading...

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32 hours ago AstraZeneca cancels £450m Liverpool investment, blaming UK government funding cuts – business live

Pharmaceutical company says that it will not go ahead with investment at Speke, near LiverpoolDonald Trump’s White House will invoke emergency powers to introduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Reuters reports:Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump was expected to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal basis for the tariffs, declaring a national emergency over fentanyl overdoses that killed nearly 75,000 Americans in 2023 and illegal immigration.The statute enacted in 1977 and modified after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 gives the president broad powers to impose economic sanctions in a crisis. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Donald Trump bizarrely 'quotes' iconic Liam Neeson film in ISIS terrorist rant

Donald Trump has taken to 'Truth Social' to share a lengthy rant about ISIS terrorists where he 'quotes' an iconic line from Liam Neeson classic 'Taken'

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4 hours ago The Last Leg star Adam Hills apologises multiple times for Brian Cox's furious Donald Trump rant

Fans tuning in to The Last Leg on Channel 4 on Friday night were stunned when Succession actor Brian Cox did not censor his thoughts - or language - about President Donald Trump

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34 hours ago FTSE 100 on course for biggest monthly gain in two years – business live

Live rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Smiths Group leads index after promising break-up of FTSE 100 engineering companyDonald Trump’s White House will invoke emergency powers to introduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Reuters reports:Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump was expected to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal basis for the tariffs, declaring a national emergency over fentanyl overdoses that killed nearly 75,000 Americans in 2023 and illegal immigration.The statute enacted in 1977 and modified after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 gives the president broad powers to impose economic sanctions in a crisis. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago With plans in the works and troops on the way, military assumes a mostly familiar role on the border

Until now, the military has limited itself to a supporting role at the border: surveilling for illegal crossings by ground and air, repairing vehicles and building barriers

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6 hours ago DAN HODGES: Our politicians fawn over King Donald. But he only respects those who take a stand

It had become a crowded and competitive field. But last week, Suella Braverman snatched the award for the most cringe-making attempt to ingratiate herself with Donald Trump.

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4 hours ago US military conducts airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term

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8 hours ago Donald Trump's 12th day back in office: Tariffs, FBI purges and Elon Musk's unchecked power

Donald Trump's 12th day back in office saw him take his biggest gamble yet with the economy and empty a couple of reservoirs for no reason, as well as oversee some deeply troubling - likely illegal - actions

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8 hours ago The low keep getting lower, as shown by Trump’s response to the DC plane crash

When asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’Every day, the world seems to get stupider and stupider and our leaders seem to get nastier and nastier. Nobody expects empathy or accuracy from Donald Trump but, even by the extremely low standards to which he is held, his reaction to the tragic mid-air collision in Washington DC that killed 67 people on Wednesday night was shocking. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago As London is in the grips of a gold shortage, many are blaming Donald Trump for it; here's why

As London is in the grips of a gold shortage, many are blaming Donald Trump for it; here's why  The Economic Times

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10 hours ago 8 deeply troubling things Donald Trump did on his 12th day back in the White House

Donald Trump yesterday oversaw some of the most chilling - and probably illegal - actions ever taken by a US President. Also, he emptied some reservoirs for no reason

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8 hours ago The Last Leg host forced to repeatedly apologise as actor Brian Cox unleashes shocking tirade at Donald Trump during live show

The Last Leg host Adam Hills was forced to apologise after actor Brian Cox cursed out Donald Trump during the live broadcast of the Channel 4 talk show.

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11 hours ago NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin strikes hit across Ukraine hours after Trump says he is talking to Russia about ending war

The wave of attacks by Vladimir Putin - which led to power cuts in multiple regions - came soon after Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office that his administration was actively talking to Moscow.

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10 hours ago Nigel Farage compares Reform polling rise to Donald Trump's election victory: 'There's going to be an earthquake‘

Nigel Farage compared Reform’s polling rise to Donald Trump's US election victory, declaring “There's going to be an earthquake in British politics”.

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14 hours ago Washington plane crash: Black box recovered from Black Hawk helicopter as 41 bodies pulled from Potomac river

Questions grow about air safety in the US capital as Donald Trump says Black Hawk chopper was 'flying too high' at time of collision

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10 hours ago Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China: will they spark a trade war?

As the US president imposes import taxes on three major trading partners, we examine the potential repercussionsDonald Trump has vowed to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China this weekend.There will be 25% tariffs on goods coming into the US from Canada and Mexicoand 10% on imports from China. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago A deadly flight out of Wichita has one of America's most historic aviation cities reeling

A deadly collision between a passenger airliner and an Army helicopter left Kansas’ largest city grieving

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11 hours ago Pamela Anderson discloses fee she received to attend Donald Trump’s birthday as a Playmate

Actor and former Playboy cover star previously said the US president was ‘nothing special’

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21 hours ago Trump White House marks Black History Month while Defense Department declares 'identity months dead'

The Trump White House has issued a proclamation recognizing February as Black History Month around the same time the Defense Department issued guidance declaring “identity months dead.”

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11 hours ago How Trump has spent his first weeks targeting transgender and nonbinary people

President Donald Trump has targeted the rights of transgender people in executive orders in his first two weeks back

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23 hours ago Trump is discussing military strikes against Mexican drug cartels, Pete Hegseth suggests

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are open to using military force like airstrikes and special forces against drug cartels in Mexico.

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14 hours ago In Trump’s fantasy politics, he can accomplish anything – but reality will prevail | Andy Beckett

His second term seems to represent an unassailable victory for conservative white men – but soon he’ll be another incumbent in an anti-incumbent worldWhy exactly is Donald Trump’s new presidency so disorienting? So far, explanations have tended to focus on its manic pace, contempt for political conventions and blatant subversion of supposedly one of the world’s most robust democracies.But all these elements were also present in his first presidency. Meanwhile, other features of both his terms, such as his cult of personality, scapegoating of immigrants and accusation that liberal elites have caused national decline, are standard practice for hard-right strongmen, and have been for at least a century.Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Health data and webpages disappear as Trump administration targets 'gender ideology'

A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has rippled through the federal government as agencies scrambled to make changes to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails

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15 hours ago The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s pretense as king has quickly devolved into his strutting insult routine. He will always exploit tragedy to display his self-regardOutrages of Donald Trump’s rancid character topple over each other so rapidly and in such volume that they long ago became banal. His vileness is unremarked upon, his rottenness unworthy of further commentary. Trump’s offensiveness is an unspoken assumption. Rules and norms exist for him to break. More, he is rewarded. Meta, after discarding monitoring of hateful content and disinformation on Facebook, is paying him $25m in tribute to settle his lawsuit against it for having banned him after his attempted coup on January 6 and his potential “instances of violence” and threats to “public safety”. All is forgiven, if not forgotten. There are no gates; there are no gatekeepers. Let the bad times roll.But Trump crashed through a new boundary after an army helicopter collided with an airliner about to land at Washington’s Reagan National airport on 29 ...

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24 hours ago Trump targets FAA diversity efforts in plane crash probe despite no evidence they played any role

President Donald Trump's remarks this week blaming diversity recruitment at the FAA as a potential reason for the plane crash that killed 67 people has drawn attention to the agency’s attempts to address its most pressing and long-standing staffing problem

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21 hours ago A list of government web pages that have gone dark to comply with Trump orders

U.S. government websites have gone dark as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders declaring his administration would recognize only two genders and ordering an end to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

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29 hours ago Pete Hegseth says Trump is 'exactly right' to blame DEI for DC plane crash and details the key to the probe

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended Donald Trump's criticism of DEI hiring practices in government and revealed new details about the plane crash investigation.

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22 hours ago CBS agrees to hand over '60 Minutes' Harris interview transcripts to FCC

CBS says it will turn over unedited transcripts of its October interview with Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission

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31 hours ago All the expert theories on DC plane crash that shut down Donald Trump's unhinged rant

President Donald Trump has recklessly blamed diversity hires for the American Airlines disaster. Several experts have given possible explanations for the deathly crash

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22 hours ago Leaders in the Pacific raise alarm over ‘direct impact’ of Trump’s climate retreat and aid freeze

Samoa’s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is ‘very disappointing’ and puts the survival of Pacific countries at greater riskLeaders and environmental advocates in the Pacific have expressed alarm over Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and freeze foreign aid, warning the moves will accelerate the existential threats they face as nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis.The Paris agreement is the world’s main effort to address the impacts of the climate crisis. Trump has called it “unfair” and a “rip off”. Continue reading...

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31 hours ago American Airlines crash: 'Numbskull' columnist booted off show over wild Donald Trump claim

"Very happy to have Trump supporting guests on my show, but you sir, bring shame on your proud country."

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23 hours ago Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government

Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D

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31 hours ago 7 erratic and shameless things Donald Trump did in the aftermath of the DC plane crash

On his eleventh day back in the White House, Donald Trump reminded everyone that he's the last person you want to be in charge the day after a national tragedy

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23 hours ago Pentagon prepares to deploy 1,000 more troops to bolster Trump's immigration crackdown

U.S. officials say the Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration

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31 hours ago Donald Trump reveals cause of American Airline plane crash that killed 67 people

American Airlines chief executive Robert Isom said the plane was making a normal approach when “the military aircraft came into the path” of the jet.

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23 hours ago Justice Department official orders firing some of some prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases

A top Justice Department official has ordered the firing of some prosecutors who were hired to work on cases against rioters charged in the U.S. Capitol riot, according to memo obtained by The Associated Press

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32 hours ago Washington plane crash: Air traffic controller 'allowed to leave early' before mid

Questions grow about air safety in the US capital as Donald Trump says Black Hawk chopper was 'flying too high' at time of collision

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