4 h. ago Donald Trump 'secretly recruited as KGB agent' on trip to build Moscow hotel in 1987

It has been claimed that when Donald Trump travelled to Moscow for the first time back in 1987, as a 40-year-old real estate developer, he was recruited as a KGB agent

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23 h. ago Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner refused to sign memo saying Trump was not antisemitic, book says

Pair declined to give public endorsement of Trump in wake of 7 October attacks, All or Nothing by Michael Wolff revealsDonald Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, refused to sign a statement saying Trump was not antisemitic, according to a new book by the veteran Trump tell-all author Michael Wolff.“As he kept seeming to be incapable of offering absolute support for Israel in the wake of October 7,” Wolff writes, referring to the deadly 2023 attacks by Hamas, “Trump, not for the first time, turned to Jared for Jewish cover, explicitly asking him and Ivanka for a public endorsement. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago ‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right

In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists todayIs Donald Trump a feminist?There was a time when anyone asking such a question could reasonably expect to be laughed out of the room. Yet, just three weeks into Trump’s second term, the man responsible for stripping women in the US of the right to an abortion was declared a “feminist kween”, “feminist hero” and “feminist icon” by several prominent feminist writers in the UK. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Andrew Tate’s alliance with Trump has been in the making for a long time

Trump’s attempts to intervene in Tate’s rape and human trafficking cases in Romania might seem strange, but their worlds are intimately linkedEver since I began reporting on Andrew Tate four years ago (during which time my colleague Jamie Tahsin and I made two documentaries, wrote a book on him and interviewed his alleged rape victims), I’ve been sounding the alarm on the far-right disinformation network that connects him to Trump’s inner circle. Earlier this month, US special envoy Richard Grenell, a vocal supporter of Andrew Tate pressured the Romanian government to remove judicial control restrictions on the Tate brothers, demanding that the alleged human traffickers be allowed to travel freely, according to sources who spoke to the Financial Times. The Romanian government has since confirmed this was a request but denied there was political “pressure”.The alliance between the Trump administration and the Tate brothers has been in the making for a long time. Paul Ingrassia, one o...

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55 h. ago Donald Trump 'spends nearly 1/3 of time' on expensive hobby – not related to presidency

According to a campaign group, recently-inaugurated US President Donald Trump has spent close to 30% of his days on a rather expensive pastime that is not linked to his job

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55 h. ago Six biggest talking points when Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump

Keir Starmer will visit Washington DC next week to meet Donald Trump at a crucial time for UK-US relations as the President cozies up to Putin and threatens his allies with tariffs

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5 d. ago Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik

This mortifying dilemma goes to the very soul of the region - and its leaders have brought it on themselvesArab states are in a bind. King Abdullah of Jordan squirmed in the Oval Office last week, as the press asked him and Donald Trump about the latter’s Gaza plan. He is in a tight spot, wanting to keep Trump onside while at the same time not agreeing to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Immediately after, anonymous Egyptian “security sources” – not parties prone to leaking without strategic direction from President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – said that Sisi would not accept an invitation to visit Washington as long as the Gaza displacement plan was on the agenda. Now, this was probably more for the Egyptian public’s consumption than for Trump’s benefit – Egypt is in no position to make an enemy of the new administration – but it nonetheless shows how hard it is for Trump to secure the acquiescence of even the US’s closest allies.Saudi Arabia also postponed a visit to the US once Trump annou...

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