58 h. ago Trump declares Operation Southern Spear & ‘could strike Venezuela in days with Don offered war plans by war chiefs’

DONALD Trump has stepped squarely onto a war footing, declaring Operation Southern Spear as senior military officials warn he could order strikes on Venezuela “in the coming days”. Washington is now giving clear signs that the window for tyrant Nicolás Maduro is closing fast, and the US is now openly preparing for confrontation. CBS News...

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65 h. ago Trump plans shock Venezuela strikes within days... as nuclear death fortress is set to unleash on Maduro

The President was briefed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, sources confirmed.

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3 d. ago Australia’s first treaty with Aboriginal people signed in Victoria

Treaty delivers formal apology and gives First Nations people more oversight over decision concerning them

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4 d. ago Trump sings along to handful of words to ‘God Bless America’ at Veterans Day event

Donald Trump sang only a few words of “God Bless America” at a Veterans Day event in Washington on Tuesday (11 November).

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4 d. ago Trump’s diss to France, UK and Russia in his Veterans Day speech: ‘We’re the one that won the wars’

Trump’s Veterans Day remarks veered into grievance as he suggested America — not her allies — should be celebrating victories in both world wars

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1 week ago Election Day 2025: What to watch out for in key test for Trump and Democrats

The most prominent battles are unfolding in Virginia, New Jersey and New York

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2 w. ago HMRC cuts child benefit for 35,000 families based on incomplete travel data

UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routesParents who went from Liverpool to Amsterdam with their autistic children are among thousands who have had their child benefit wrongly stopped as part of a crackdown on benefit fraud, it has emerged.The error by HM Revenue and Customs emerged 48 hours after the Guardian and the Detail reported on hundreds of families in Northern Ireland who had child benefit stopped after they returned home from holiday via Dublin airport, leaving HMRC with the impression they had taken a one-way ticket out of the country and were fraudulently collecting child benefit. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago HMRC cuts child benefit for 23,500 families based on incomplete travel data

UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routesParents who went from Liverpool to Amsterdam with their autistic children are among thousands who have had their child benefit wrongly stopped as part of a crackdown on benefit fraud, it has emerged.The error by HM Revenue and Customs emerged 48 hours after the Guardian and the Detail reported on hundreds of families in Northern Ireland who had child benefit stopped after they returned home from holiday via Dublin airport, leaving HMRC with the impression they had taken a one-way ticket out of the country and were fraudulently collecting child benefit. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Joe Biden urges Americans to stay positive amid political ‘dark days’

Americans are facing attacks on free speech and tests of executive power, Biden said

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2 w. ago Reform MP apologises after hitting out at adverts ‘full of black people’

She said her comments were "phrased poorly" but insisted that many adverts are "unrepresentative of British society".

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3 w. ago Reform UK MP apologises after hitting out at adverts ‘full of black people’

Sarah Pochin later said her comments had been "phrased poorly".

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3 w. ago Reform MP Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after criticising ads 'full of Black people'

After sparking a backlash, Reform MP Sarah Pochin said she hadn't meant to offend anyone with her rant about diversity in advertising and the comments were 'phrased poorly'

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3 w. ago Reform’s Pochin apologises after hitting out at adverts ‘full of black people’

The MP said her comments had been phrased poorly.

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3 w. ago Transport for London accused of 'lying' to smear vigilantes cleaning graffiti

Andy Lord is facing calls to apologise after claiming he had ‘evidence of people creating then erasing’ graffiti

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3 w. ago Disgraced former lawmaker George Santos appears on Fox News days after Trump pardon: ‘I owe the American people an apology’

Republican expelled from Congress for lying about his personal history offers mea culpa

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