38 m. ago Conservative former federal judge says Trump has ‘declared war’ on US rule of law

J Michael Luttig said a constitutional crisis is brewing due to Trump’s defiance of a court order over deportationsNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Donald Trump has “declared war on the rule of law in America” and is pitching the country into a constitutional crisis, a prominent former conservative federal judge said.“The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America,” J Michael Luttig told MSNBC. “In the past few weeks the president himself has led a full-frontal assault on the constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation’s legal profession. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Dispute between parents' group, Ohio school district over gender pronoun policy goes before judges

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati is hearing arguments in a lawsuit pitting a suburban Ohio school district’s policy on preferred pronouns against the free speech rights of classmates who believe there are only two genders

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3 h. ago Ralph the dog reunited with tearful owners after he was suspected of being XL Bully and seized

It comes after hundreds called for Ralph's return, insisting he was an American bulldog and not an illegal breed. His owner said he had been in tears and unable to sleep while he waited to hear his dog's fate

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3 h. ago Urgent warning to Britons as South American SPIDER arrives in the UK: Egg sac from venomous arachnid hitches a ride on a bunch of Aldi bananas

A shopper got an unexpected freebie with her bananas when she discovered an egg sac thought to be from a venomous South American spider.

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3 h. ago There’s still over one million Americans who can claim $1,400 stimulus check – here’s how to know if you qualify

IRS warns that taxpayers who fail to file their returns by April 15 could forfeit the pandemic-era relief payment

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4 h. ago There’s still over a million Americans who can claim $1,400 stimulus check – here’s how to know if you qualify

IRS warns that taxpayers who fail to file their returns by April 15 could forfeit the pandemic-era relief payment

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4 h. ago How sly Putin kept Trump waiting for historic phone call knowing he was 'holding all the cards' over Ukraine

Vladimir Putin was an hour late for his Tuesday call with Donald Trump and seemingly unbothered by the fact that he had kept the American president waiting.

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4 h. ago Russian drones strike Ukraine after Putin's ceasefire talks with Trump

Russia has launched a series of drone strikes that struck civilian areas overnight and damaged a hospital in Ukraine following the refusal by President Vladimir Putin to back a full 30-day ceasefire during discussions with his American counterpart

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4 h. ago China rehearses star wars with the West: Beijing has been holding satellite

China has been rehearsing 'dogfighting in space' with satellites, a top American space official has revealed. 

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4 h. ago ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional societyIn the opening moments of A Body to Live in, a documentary by American film-maker Angelo Madsen, we are confronted with two black-and-white photographs. Taken in 1944 by the teenage Roland Loomis, they show him stripped to his underwear, his waist heavily restricted by a leather belt, a rope wrapped several times around his neck.Loomis later renamed himself Fakir Musafar and became one of the founders of the modern primitive movement – a subculture that revolves around body modification practices including branding, suspension, contortion and binding. A Body to Live in, which premieres internationally at London’s BFI Flare film festival this week, dissects Musafar’s body of work, which explored the tension between masculinity and femininity, pain and pleasure, spirituality and S&M. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Takeaways from the AP's report on how USAID cuts are imperiling Agent Orange cleanup

A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed

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5 h. ago Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed

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5 h. ago Meghan Markle mercilessly mocked by US late night hosts as her Netflix show becomes a laughing stock

Jimmy Fallon has become the latest American celebrity to mock Meghan Markle as he made a joke with sidekick Steve Higgins about her making her own pretzel bags on her Netflix show.

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6 h. ago Trump issues WW3 warning and says Americans 'could' be dragged into Ukraine war if it escalates

President Donald Trump has warned that American troops 'could be' involved if Russia 's war on Ukraine escalates to 'World War III'.

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7 h. ago Americans try Tesco, Sainsbury's and M&S meal deals – one leaves them fuming

The best meal deal has long been a topic of great debate among Brits but some neutral Americans gave popular supermarket offers a try to determine what the fuss was all about

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9 h. ago Fed faces threat from US consumers’ soaring inflation expectations

University of Michigan survey shows American households’ outlook for price growth is at its highest since the early 1990s

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11 h. ago Judge makes major decision in case of American last seen with missing spring breaker Sudiksha Konanki

The college student, 22, who is being held under de facto house arrest as authorities probe the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki, made an audacious bid for freedom.

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11 h. ago JFK document dump has Americans all saying the same thing after Trump promised to reveal truth behind assassination

Americans are digging through the latest trove of John F Kennedy files released, but there's disappointment after President Trump vowed they would be unredacted.

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16 h. ago Nasa astronauts back on Earth after being stuck months on ISS: ‘grins, ear to ear’

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore back safely with American Nicholas Hague and Russian Aleksandr GorbunovTwo Nasa astronauts stuck onboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024 finally arrived back on Earth on Tuesday evening, more than nine months after the failure of Boeing’s pioneering Starliner capsule scuppered their originally scheduled week-long mission.A SpaceX Dragon capsule containing four astronauts, including Starliner’s test pilots Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Tallahassee, at 5.57pm ET (9.57pm GMT) after a 17-hour descent. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago The impact of Trump 2.0 on Australia is evidence of how American we suddenly aren’t | Van Badham

Our two countries once shared a history fighting together for freedom. But does the US, like, even do that any more?Australians have found the behaviour of our American cousins challenging of late. Cultural differences yawn as wide as the Pacific between us. We were not sad to see “the baby wombat grabber” go.The first mistake made by Montana-based tourist Sam Jones, Online Influencer, was to snatch a joey from its mother at night. Her second mistake was to sway the frightened creature in front of some gormless chucklehead who filmed her – giggling – and to upload the footage to the internet. Continue reading...

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