20 h. ago Democrats call for Trump to be removed under the 25th Amendment after military threats to US cities. But can he be?

It’s not the first time Trump has faced calls to step down since he returned to the White House in January

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21 h. ago Can Trump be removed under the 25th Amendment? Democrats join call to oust president after military threats to US cities

It’s not the first time Trump has faced calls to step down since he returned to the White House in January

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30 h. ago Fifa says Donald Trump can’t move World Cup matches despite threat to ‘left lunatic’ cities

President Trump said last week his administration would make sure cities were ‘safe’

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44 h. ago Democrats liken Trump to Putin after call to use US cities for military training

Illinois governor JB Pritzker and others condemn the US president for suggesting cities be used as military training groundsA leading Democrat has compared Donald Trump to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin after the US president told military leaders on Tuesday that the armed forces should use US cities as “training grounds”.JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, which is bracing for Trump to deploy national guard troops to his state, questioned the president’s mental health and accused him of behaving like an autocrat. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Federal Reserve governor will keep job for now despite Trump’s bid to remove her

Supreme court defers action on request to remove Lisa Cook from post, at least until it hears oral arguments on caseUS government shutdown – live updatesLisa Cook, the US Federal Reserve governor, will keep her job for now, despite Donald Trump’s extraordinary bid to remove her from the central bank’s board with immediate effect.The US supreme court deferred action on the Department of Justice’s request to allow the president to fire Cook, at least until it hears oral arguments on the case in January. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago What do Trump and Hegseth’s inflammatory speeches to military generals signal? | Moira Donegan

The Trump administration evidently seeks to transform the US military into a partisan tool of the president’s regimeShortly after Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary, summoned all the military’s generals to Quantico, Virginia, from their positions around the world in an unusual demand for an in-person assembly, Ben Hodges, a retired general, took to social media to evoke a bit of history. “July 1935,” Hodges said. “German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weiman constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.” Hegseth’s account replied to Hodges post: “Cool story, General”.Yet when the meeting finally happened on Tuesday morning, the army generals and navy admirals were treated to a 45-minute speech by Hegseth, followed by a rambling, hour-long address by Trump, which confirmed at least some of what Hodges ...

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47 h. ago Supreme Court declines Trump’s request to immediately remove Lisa Cook from Federal Reserve board

Justices will revisit Trump’s request to remove Lisa Cook as a Federal Reserve governor in January

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69 h. ago Congo military court sentences former President Kabila to death for treason

A military court in Congo has convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and other charges and sentenced him to death

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2 d. ago Trump announces deal with Pfizer to lower drug prices; Hegseth and president outline military changes in rare gathering – live

US won’t pay more than other countries for Pfizer drugs; Trump tells hundreds of military leaders they will ‘straighten out’ US cities after Hegseth rails against ‘fat troops’Trump says US cities should be ‘training grounds for our military’ in incendiary speechThe US government is hurtling towards its first shutdown in six years, with no signs congressional leaders are near agreement on legislation to continue funding beyond the Tuesday night deadline to prevent workers from being furloughed and agencies from shutting their doors.Congress’s Republican majority is pushing legislation to fund the government through 21 November, but Democrats have refused to vote for it unless it includes a series of concessions centered on healthcare. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Nicolás Maduro ready to declare state of emergency if US attacks Venezuela, says vice

Delcy Rodríguez, one of Maduro’s closest allies, warns of ‘catastrophic’ consequences if onslaught materializesNicolás Maduro is ready to declare a state of emergency in the event of a US military attack on Venezuela, the country’s vice-president has said, warning of “catastrophic” consequences if such an onslaught materializes.Donald Trump’s administration has turned the heat up on Caracas in recent weeks, with a major naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea and a series of air strikes on Venezuelan boats that have killed at least 17 people. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago New permit for removed Trump and Epstein statue revoked again ‘without explanation’, organizers claim

Early Tuesday morning, the Trump-Epstein statue appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., but was quickly removed

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7 d. ago Lisa Cook urges supreme court to reject Trump’s bid to fire her from Fed board

Cook’s lawyers say president’s unprecedented move would destroy Fed’s independence and disrupt financial marketsFederal Reserve governor Lisa Cook urged the US supreme court on Thursday to reject Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her, telling the justices the Republican president’s unprecedented move would destroy the central bank’s independence and disrupt financial markets.Lawyers for Cook filed a written response opposing the justice department’s 18 September emergency request to lift a federal judge’s order that blocked Trump from immediately removing Cook, an appointee of Democratic former president Joe Biden, while her legal challenge continues. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Whoopi Goldberg suggests invoking 25th Amendment after Trump’s ‘unhelpful’ address to UN

The co-host of ‘The View’ said that other world leaders did not consider Trump to be ‘serious anymore’

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8 d. ago Top Vladimir Putin ally threatens to drop nuclear bomb on two major UK cities

Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was speaking with Sergei Karaganov on his state-run TV show when he laughed before making the chilling comment and calling the UK government 'idiots'

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1 week ago France recognises state of Palestine, Macron tells UN; Abbas says Hamas to ‘surrender their weapons’ – Middle East crisis live

French announcement followed by Morocco, Belgium, Malta and Luxembour; Palestinian president says Hamas must have ‘no role’ in governing GazaThe Israeli military, which justifies its assault on Gaza City by saying it wants to “destroy Hamas military infrastructure” hasn’t given a timeline for the ground offensive, but there are indications it could take months.Amid this flurry of diplomatic activity, Israel is continuing to launch deadly attacks on Gaza, including on Gaza City, the biggest urban centre in the territory. Continue reading...

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1 week ago British activist is pardoned by Egypt's president after six years in hellhole prison having threatened to give up his UK citizenship at the government's inability to secure his release

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned high-profile Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison and repeated hunger strikes

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1 week ago Hiring of military lawyers as immigration judges alarms law experts

Move is high-risk and potentially unlawful amid Trump’s deportation push since military lawyers lack immigration expertiseThe Trump administration has started recruiting hundreds of military lawyers to sit as immigration judges, presiding over what are often life-and-death federal decisions for immigrants in the US, as experts warn the White House strategy is high-risk and arguably unlawful.The judgeships are temporary, but renewable, and the government’s goal is to fill an acute need for more immigration judges amid Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission – which is now happening even as experienced immigration judges seemingly deemed to have fallen foul of the president’s agenda are being purged from the courts. Continue reading...

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1 week ago British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition

ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, leaving some believing bots’ prediction skills could soon overtake expertsAn artificial intelligence system has beaten scores of forecasting enthusiasts, including several professionals, in a contest to predict events ranging from bust-ups between Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch being removed from the Conservative party leadership.A British AI startup, co-founded by a former Google DeepMind researcher, has ranked in the top 10 of an international forecasting competition, which requires entrants to forecast the likelihood of 60 events over the summer. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump announces new deadly strike on suspected drug boat in Caribbean

President says US military carried out strike ‘on my orders’, killing three men he said were carrying illegal narcoticsDonald Trump announced on Friday that the US military has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel in the the Caribbean, killing three males on board the vessel whom Trump alleged were trafficking illicit narcotics.“On my orders”, Trump wrote in a social media post shared by the White House and defense secretary, “the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain use its military to stop illegal migrants, as Trump suggests?

President Donald Trump signalled during his state visit to Britain that military intervention could be used to deal with illegal migration to the UK.

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