6 h. ago CNN data analyst says Americans agree with Trump on keeping Iran nuke free: A lot more popular than ‘would think’

Just under 80 percent of US adults surveyed by the broadcaster in April – some two months before the latest escalations in the Middle East – agreed with the president

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15 h. ago Keir Starmer calls for Iran nuke talks as Donald Trump keeps pondering joining Israel strikes

"We need to de-escalate this," the PM said. "Yes the nuclear issue has to be dealt with, but it's better dealt with through negotiations than by way of conflict"

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39 h. ago Deep sea fisherman reels in orange crab that 'looks exactly like Donald Trump'

Deep sea fisherman Roman Fedortsov shared a bizarre image of a crab he said looked just like Donald Trump - social media users broke out in hysterics and agreed with this take

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3 d. ago Clumsy Donald Trump drops UK trade deal and announces 'EU agreement' in G7 gaffe

Sir Keir Starmer bent down to pick up several papers and quipped about the 'very important document' after the US Commander-in-Chief embarrassingly spilled them on the ground at the G7 summit

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3 d. ago Do the deal, Donald: Keir Starmer to meet Trump at G7 to try to get UK/US trade agreement over the line to lower tariffs and save jobs

The Prime Minister said that the agreement will be top of the agenda when he sits down with Trump at the G7 in Canada.

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6 d. ago Trump warns Iran next attacks will be MORE brutal with chilling ultimatum after Israel's hit on nuclear sites sparks WWIII fears

President Donald Trump is threatening Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or face further attacks that will be 'even more brutal' following Israel 's shock attack on its nuclear and military facilities.

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6 d. ago The next attacks will be even MORE brutal, Trump warns Iran after Israel wiped out its military leadership and hit nuclear sites from secret drone base

US president Donald Trump has threateningly told Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or face further attacks that will be 'even more brutal', following Israel's shock attack

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6 d. ago Trump says 'I gave Iran chance after chance' and says regime hardliners 'spoke bravely

US president Donald Trump has threateningly told Iran to agree to a nuclear deal or face more 'death and destruction', following Israel's shock attack on its nuclear and military facilities. 

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8 d. ago Trump declares deal with China is ‘done’, with agreement on rare earths and magnets – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsElon Musk says he regrets some of his posts about Trump: ‘They went too far’US-China trade talks: ‘framework’ deal amid dispute over rare earthsShares in Tesla are set to rally in New York later today, after Elon Musk attempted to patch up relations with Donald Trump.Tesla’s shares are up 2.5% in premarket trading at $334.28, as traders react to Musk’s expression of regret over his criticism of Trump last week. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Donald Trump becoming ‘less confident’ about Iran nuclear deal

Trump has been pushing for a revised nuclear agreement to restrict Iran's nuclear operations

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8 d. ago Trump claims U.S. and China reached trade agreement after London talks

Trump claims U.S. and China reached trade agreement after London talks  CBS News

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1 week ago Keir Starmer holds talks with Nato chief as he pushes Britain to agree £30BILLION hike in defence spending demanded by Donald Trump

Mark Rutte has been holding talks with the PM in London, and gave a speech warning of the need for a 'quantum leap' in investment.

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1 week ago US hoping for ‘handshake’ from China at trade talks; takeover flurry in the City – business live

US hoping to get handshake from China over access to rare earths, at meeting in London todayThe presence of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick at today’s talks in London is seen as directly related to China’s export ban on rare earth minerals and permanent magnets, critical in aerospace, military and semi-conductor companies worldwide, my colleague Lisa O’Carroll reports.After the call between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping last week, their first since Trump’s inauguration in January, the US said Xi had agreed to resume shipments of rare earths to the US, breaking the logjam needed for talks to resume. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Between ‘rollover UK’ and ‘retaliatory China’: will EU hardball secure trade deal with US?

Optimism is growing in Brussels, but high-risk strategy has only weeks to play out before pause in tariff threat endsIn Brussels’ corridors of power, quiet optimism is growing that the EU’s hardball strategy to secure a US trade deal is working. While Britain quickly moved to try to cushion the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs with a deal agreed last month – and US-Chinese relations are a tit-for-tat situation – the EU has taken a different stance. “We are positioning ourselves between ‘rollover UK’ and ‘retaliatory China’,” said a Brussels source.The stakes are not just the £706bn in transatlantic trade between the EU and US but the fallout from what diplomats and businesses say is a dangerous assault on the global rules-based system that governs western democracy. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Elon Musk suggests Trump should be IMPEACHED and replaced with JD Vance as he makes chilling recession prediction

Elon Musk agreed Thursday that President Donald Trump should be impeached and replaced with 40-year-old Vice President J.D. Vance amid their fiery falling out on Thursday.

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2 w. ago Hegseth says Nato allies ‘very close’ to raising defence spending target to 5%

US defence secretary says he expects goal of 5% of GDP in next decade to be agreed this monthThe US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said Nato allies were “very close, almost near consensus” to an agreement to significantly raise targets for defence spending to 5% of GDP in the next decade.The Trump administration official indicated he expected the increased target to be agreed at a summit in The Hague later this month – and confirmed that the headline figure was to be split into two parts. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ could add $2.4tn to national debt, nonpartisan analysis says – US politics live

Congressional Budget Office assessment comes as Musk is among prominent critics of the bill; Mexico says it will act over tariffs if no trade deal agreedThe Trump administration has reversed its decision to revoke the legal status of a four-year-old girl, receiving continuing life-saving treatment in the US, and her family after a national outcry.Deysi Vargas, her husband and their daughter – whom lawyers identified by the pseudonym Sofia – had come to the US in 2023 to seek medical care for their daughter who has a rare condition that requires specialized treatment. But in April, the federal government ended their humanitarian parole, a temporary status granted to people on urgent humanitarian grounds, and ordered them to “self-deport”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fears British steel exports could be hammered with Trump's latest 50% tariffs TOMORROW as No10 admits there is STILL no timetable for Starmer's 'trade deal' to be finalised

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump announced the broad terms of an agreement almost a month ago that would exempt the UK from some of the US president's punitive levies on steel and cars.

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2 w. ago Fears British steel exports could be hammered with Trump's latest tariffs TOMORROW as No10 admits there is STILL no timetable for Starmer's 'trade deal' to be finalised

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump announced the broad terms of an agreement almost a month ago that would exempt the UK from some of the US president's punitive levies on steel and cars.

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2 w. ago Do we have a US trade deal or not? Business Secretary meets Trump officials amid fears there is STILL no timetable for terms to be finalised

Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Trump announced the broad terms of an agreement almost a month ago that would excise the UK from some of the US president's punitive levies on steel and cars.

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