4 h. ago Brazilian president vows to veto bill cutting Jair Bolsonaro’s prison term

Lula acknowledges his decision to uphold 27-year sentence could be overridden by conservative lawmakers Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has promised to veto a bill passed by congress to reduce the prison term of Jair Bolsonaro, the former president who was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for masterminding an attempted coup to overturn the 2022 elections.Lawmakers passed the bill late on Wednesday after it was approved last week by the lower house. On Thursday, Brazil’s leftist president – who, investigations showed, was the target of an assassination plan as part of the coup plot – acknowledged his veto could be overridden by the largely conservative congress. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Alan Dershowitz tells Trump the Constitution ‘wasn’t clear’ on his serving a third term as president continues to joke about running again

Donald Trump has claimed that a donor offered him $250 million to run for an unprecedented third term

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25 h. ago White nationalist Nick Fuentes blasted Trump for his Rob Reiner statement. But, some in MAGA world are OK with it

Fuentes said that he could “overlook the fact that [Trump] is a douchebag" if the president was doing better in his second term

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50 h. ago Trump has ‘alcoholic’s personality’ says chief of staff in tell

Susie Wiles reveals administration’s divisions over tariffs, Epstein files and the vice-president’s shifting allegiances

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55 h. ago Starmer under pressure to tell Trump to call off ‘outrageous’ $10bn lawsuit against BBC

Sir John Whittingdale, the former culture secretary who led the last charter renewal negotiations with the BBC, had told The Independent that Sir Keir Starmer should have already intervened to dissuade Trump from taking legal action

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6 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump and Venezuela: a return to seeking regime change | Editorial

The US is ramping up the pressure on Nicolás Maduro with a tanker seizure and expanded sanctions following threats and boat strikesEarly in his first term, Donald Trump mooted a “military option” for Venezuela to dislodge its president, Nicolás Maduro. Reports suggest that he eagerly discussed the prospect of an invasion behind closed doors. Advisers eventually talked him down. Instead, the US pursued a “maximum pressure” strategy of sanctions and threats.But Mr Maduro is still in place. And Mr Trump’s attempts to remove him are ramping up again. The US has amassed its largest military presence in the Caribbean since the 1989 invasion of Panama. It has carried out more than 20 shocking strikes on alleged drug boats. Mr Trump reportedly delivered an ultimatum late last month, telling the Venezuelan leader that he could have safe passage from his country if he left immediately. There was already a $50m bounty on his head. This week came expanded sanctions and the seizure of a tanker.D...

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6 d. ago White House on the defensive when asked how billionaire Trump can tell average Americans to limit kids’ Christmas gifts

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also ignored a question on why President Donald Trump has falsely claimed a farm bailout program is funded by tariffs

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8 d. ago 9 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he tells struggling voters 'buy your kids fewer toys' in racist rant

Last night was the first stop of Donald Trump's "affordability tour". He kicked it off by telling voters they were imagining higher prices, and they should just buy fewer toys for their kids - before unleashing a vile racist rant

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8 d. ago Trump tells Zelensky he has until Christmas to accept his peace deal

The US president's envoys, son-in law Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, delivered the ultimatum during a two-hour long phone call with Zelensky after discussions with Putin in Moscow.

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8 d. ago Trump tirade against Sadiq Khan slammed by Cabinet minister who tells of 'pride' in London Mayor

The Culture Secretary has sprung to the London Mayor’s defence, telling of her ‘pride’ in what he had achieved

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8 d. ago Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years

In stunning upset victory, Higgins also becomes first woman in post and first non-Hispanic candidate since 90sDemocrat Eileen Higgins was elected mayor of Miami on Tuesday night in a stunning upset victory that reversed a run of recent Republican successes in Florida.The election of Higgins, 61, a former county commissioner, also added to a string of Democratic wins across the country that have served to highlight the growing level of resistance to Donald Trump in his second presidential term. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Oslo appearance by Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado cancelled

Press conference was expected to have been Venezuelan opposition leader’s first public appearance in 11 monthsA press conference in Oslo with the Nobel peace prize laureate María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader in hiding, has been cancelled, the Norwegian Nobel Institute has said, adding that it was “in the dark” as to her whereabouts.Machado last appeared in public on 9 January at a demonstration in Caracas protesting against the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro for his third term as president. The press conference, traditionally held by the Nobel laureate on the eve of the award ceremony, had been expected to be the 58-year-old’s first public appearance in 11 months. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Donald Trump shockingly tells Zelensky to 'get your act together' over Putin peace deal

Donald Trump blasts Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he must “get his act together and start accepting things” if progress is to be made in ending the war

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9 d. ago Oslo appearance by Nobel peace prize winner María Corina Machado delayed

Press conference expected to go ahead later, Venezuelan opposition leader’s first public appearance in 11 monthsA press conference in Oslo with the Nobel peace prize laureate María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader in hiding, has been postponed but should take place later in the day, the Norwegian Nobel Institute has said.The press conference, traditionally held by the Nobel laureate on the eve of the award ceremony, is expected to be the 58-year-old’s first public appearance in 11 months. Machado last appeared in public on 9 January at a demonstration in Caracas protesting against the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro for his third term as president. Continue reading...

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1 week ago False claims Afrikaners are persecuted threaten South Africa’s sovereignty, says president

Cyril Ramaphosa says theories, promoted by Donald Trump, ‘conveniently align with wider notions of white supremacy’White supremacist ideology and false claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner minority is being racially persecuted pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and national security, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned.Since taking office for his second US presidential term in January, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that South Africa’s government is seizing land and encouraging violence against white farmers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago White supremacist notions threaten sovereignty of South Africa – Ramaphosa

President hits out at false claims promoted by Donald Trump and Elon Musk that Afrikaner minority is being racially persecutedWhite supremacist ideology and false claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner minority is being racially persecuted pose a threat to South Africa’s sovereignty and national security, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned.Since taking office for his second US presidential term in January, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that South Africa’s government is seizing land and encouraging violence against white farmers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago JD Vance tells crude Trump sex joke in front of wife Usha: 'We won't ask the second lady for comment'

The vice president retold a crude sex joke by Donald Trump while standing next to his wife Usha.

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1 week ago MTG accuses Trump of ‘directly fueling’ death threats against her son by calling her traitor

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tells 60 Minutes she blames President Donald Trump after receiving a pipe bomb threat at her home in first major interview about imminent departure from Congress

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1 week ago London peace talks: Zelensky tells of split with US on Trump plan to hand swathes of eastern Ukraine to Putin

Sir Keir Starmer to welcome Ukraine’s president to Downing Street to discuss peace plans with France and Germany leaders Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz

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1 week ago MTG accuses Trump of ‘directly fuelling’ death threats against her son by calling her traitor

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tells 60 Minutes she blames President Donald Trump after receiving a pipe bomb threat at her home in first major interview about imminent departure from Congress

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