38 h. ago House votes on Trump’s sweeping tax bill after Democratic leader delivers record

House speaker Mike Johnson calls final vote after Hakeem Jeffries held floor for more than eight hours in an effort to stall Republicans from passing Trump’s tax billWhat’s in Trump’s major tax bill?Jeffries breaks House floor speech recordJeffries has just passed the five-hour mark and has no intention of stopping: “We still got some ground to cover.”“We are going to continue as Democrats to take our sweet time on behalf of the American people because the issues are too significant to ever walk away from,” Jeffries said, to cheers from the Democrats in the chamber. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Trump bill latest: Breakthrough as ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ set for floor vote after president rants ‘MAGA is not happy’

President’s tax and spending plan advances after long night of haggling with Republican holdouts

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68 h. ago Johnson to quell internal House Republican revolt over Senate changes to Trump’s tax bill – live updates

House vote expected to be tight after so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ cleared the Senate by the narrowest of margins with JD Vance breaking a tieWhat’s in Trump’s major tax bill?Donald Trump on Tuesday toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience.The president was chaperoned by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, who hailed the tented camp on mosquito-infested land 50 miles west of Miami as an example for other states that supported Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago BREAKING Trump claims he's made US 'hottest nation in the world' as he's 'right about everything'

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68 h. ago Trump claims he's made US 'hottest nation in the world' as he's 'right about everything'

Trump has pushed hard for his signature legislation to pass Congress and on Wednesday urged Republicans to vote it through, saying he is "right about everything" and will be right about the bill

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69 h. ago Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill heads to House – US politics live

Vote expected to be tight after so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ cleared the Senate by the narrowest of margins with JD Vance breaking a tieSenate Republicans pass Trump’s sweeping policy billWhat’s in Trump’s major tax bill?Legally mandated US national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their back yards from a warming world.Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the US Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within Nasa to comply with the law, but gave no further details. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago UK's single worst place to be if WW3 breaks out revealed – and it's all Trump's fault

EXCLUSIVE: While most would assume that London, specifically Downing Street, would be the biggest target should nuclear war break out, it turns out somewhere else is more dangerous . . .

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3 d. ago The Latest: Senate passes Trump tax bill after turbulent all

Senate Republicans have narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts bill after a tense overnight session

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3 d. ago Senate narrowly passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill after three Republicans vote no – live updates

Vice-president JD Vance was in the chamber to break the tieWhat’s in Trump’s big, beautiful bill? Tax cuts, deportations and moreThe senate has adopted an amendment offered by Republican senator Joni Ernst – who represents Iowa - to prevent jobless millionaires from claiming unemployment compensation.Lawmakers voted 99-1 to strike the AI regulation ban from the bill by adopting an amendment offered by Republican senator Marsha Blackburn. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he threatens Elon Musk in another epic breakup

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have fallen out again - and it's not going to end well. Meanwhile the Donald is off to visit "Alligator Alcatraz" - and we show you how to smell just like Trump.

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3 d. ago Trump 'will take a look deporting Elon Musk' after huge beautiful bill row

The spat between Trump and car salesman Elon Musk has taken another dramatic turn after the South African threatened to launch a rival political party if the Orang Manbaby's Big Beautiful Bill passes

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3 d. ago Dutch Queen Maxima breaks her silence after appearing to 'mock' Donald Trump on live TV

The Dutch royal had been stood right next to her husband King Willem-Alexander and Trump as they posed for pictures after the US president arrived in the European country.

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3 d. ago Trump tells Musk 'to close up and head back to South Africa' as he warns of DOGE action

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have carried on their war of words weeks after Musk apologised - and now the United States President has slammed the Twitter/X owner on Truth Social

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4 d. ago Musk slams Trump's 'porky pig party' as war breaks out again with threat to set up rival

Musk and Trump have been at war for months, and now the owner of Twitter/X and Space X has threatened to set up a new political party in the United States if Trump's bill passes

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6 d. ago BREAKING Trump wants 'no tax dollars for riots' legislation passed claiming 'groups paid to destroy a city'

The US president has gone on another one of his classic Truth Social rants, this time urging his administration 'not to pay any money to radicalised groups'

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6 d. ago Trump wants 'no tax dollars for riots' legislation passed claiming 'groups paid to destroy a city'

The US president has gone on another one of his classic Truth Social rants, this time urging his administration 'not to pay any money to radicalised groups'

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8 d. ago Donald Trump breaks silence on Iranian 'lorries' after bombshell strike claims

Donald Trump has issued a statement on an image of lorries at an Iranian nuclear site prior to the US' strikes, following rumours that nuclear material may have been transported away beforehand

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8 d. ago Donald Trump and Netanyahu 'agree to end Gaza war in two weeks' in secret call

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are said to have agreed to end the war in Gaza as the embattled strip's future leadership has reportedly been decided

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9 d. ago Trump admits 'it's possible' Putin has territorial goals beyond Ukraine but he's 'misguided'

White House reporter with CNN Alayna Treene took to X to announce the MAGA man's description of Vladimir Putin as 'misguided...I'm very surprised actually'

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9 d. ago BREAKING NATO chief says 'Daddy Trump has to use bad words sometimes' as he 'sorts out' war

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