1 hour ago Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace deal. What’s next?

U.S. President Donald Trump announced the deal Wednesday evening, calling it ‘the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace’. Bel Trew explains what may come next.

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10 h. ago Acting CDC director wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots – despite no science backing the idea

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

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60 h. ago Why Trump’s peace plan is so existentially terrifying for Hamas

Donald Trump may be frantically calling for an agreement between Israel and Hamas, but the latter has always created chaos and ridden its violent waves - and has little incentive to pursue peace, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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62 h. ago Hamas does not know its purpose when it is not fighting a war

Donald Trump may be frantically calling for an agreement between Israel and Hamas, but the latter has always created chaos and ridden its violent waves - and has little incentive to pursue peace, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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3 d. ago Kristi Noem calls Chicago a ‘war zone’ after federal agents shoot woman

Homeland security secretary takes aim at city’s mayor who has called deployment of national guard ‘unhinged’Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, called Chicago “a war zone” on Sunday after federal agents shot a woman and the governor of Illinois accused the administration of fueling the crisis rather than resolving it.Speaking on Fox News Sunday morning, Noem took aim at the city’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s Ice raids and deployment of the national guard in Illinois, a measure he called “unhinged and unhealthy”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘Glimmer of hope’: Families in Gaza and Israel hold breath over Trump’s peace plan to end bloodshed

Donald Trump calls on Israel to stop bombing Gaza immediately as Hamas agrees to release hostages under US-proposed peace plan

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4 d. ago ‘Glimmer of hope’: Families in Gaza hold breath over Trump’s peace plan to end bloodshed

Donald Trump calls on Israel to stop bombing Gaza immediately as Hamas agrees to release hostages under US-proposed peace plan

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8 d. ago Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts

President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admiralsUS politics – latest updatesAt an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department.”Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ACLU calls James Comey indictment ‘a grotesque abuse of presidential power’ – live updates

Civil rights group says ‘Trump has yet again proven his disdain for the principles that have actually made America great’; US president calls Comey a ‘dirty cop’Well, the president is awake.Donald Trump has posted the following on his Truth Social social media network:JAMES COMEY IS A DIRTY COP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED! It is not a complex lie, it’s a very simple, but IMPORTANT one. There is no way he can explain his way out of it. He is a Dirty Cop, and always has been, but he was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge, so he’s off to a very good start. Nevertheless, words are words, and he wasn’t hedging or in dispute. He was very positive, there was no doubt in his mind about what he said, or meant by saying it. He left himself ZERO margin of error on a big and important answer to a question. He just got unexpectedly caught. James “Dirty Cop” Comey was a destroyer of l...

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1 week ago UEFA and FIFA on collision course over Israel decision after Donald Trump call

A panel of United Nations advisers has called on UEFA to suspend Israel, after a UN Commission of Inquiry decided the nation is committing genocide in Gaza

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1 week ago DeChambeau calls on Trump to inspire US team to Ryder Cup glory at Bethpage

President will attend first day of competition on FridayDeChambeau: ‘I think he’ll be a great force for us’Bryson DeChambeau has called on Donald Trump to “inspire” the US team to Ryder Cup glory at Bethpage Black. DeChambeau’s rallying call arrived on the eve of the president making an appearance for day one of the contest between the US and Europe.The American’s message contrasted sharply with the approach of Europe’s Robert MacIntyre, who shrugged off any notion Trump could influence proceedings in New York. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump wants to rebrand his tax bill as the ‘Working Families Tax Cut’. Don’t be fooled | Steven Greenhouse

The budget measure will hurt poor people and boost rich people. It should really be called the Billionaires’ Tax Cut ActJust a few months ago, Donald Trump sought to bamboozle the American people into believing that his One Big Beautiful Bill Act – with its trillions in tax cuts for the rich – was a legislative wonder stuffed with one marvel after another. But a Pew opinion poll in August found that millions of Americans have wised up about the measure and now view it as a big, unbeautiful monstrosity.Many Americans have come to realize that Trump’s not-so-beautiful bill – instead of being filled with good things that benefit average Americans – is overflowing with big tax cuts for the wealthy as well as many unfortunate things that will hurt typical working families. As we saw in the town halls held across the US, many Americans are furious about some painful things that Trump and congressional Republicans inserted into the bill: cuts that will make health insurance more expensive,...

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1 week ago Former FBI director James Comey expected to be indicted on criminal charges, reports say – US politics live

Comey has long been focus of Donald Trump, who sacked him from FBI role in early months of presidencyA gunman, who wrote “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet, fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas from a nearby rooftop on Wednesday, killing a detainee and badly wounding two others before taking his own life, officials said.President Donald Trump and members of his administration seized on the attack as the latest instance of what they characterized as an escalation of politically motivated violence incited by the left.Donald Trump demanded an investigation of what he called “triple sabotage” of his UN address on Tuesday: a malfunctioning escalator, a faulty teleprompter and an apparent sound problem in the hall. UN officials said the US delegation was responsible for the first two, and the third was less dramatic than Trump claimed.JD Vance, the vice-president, claimed without evidence that a gunman who opened fire at an Ice facility in Dallas, killing one...

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2 w. ago China’s Xi sets out conservative climate goal for next decade

President contradicts Donald Trump by calling the green energy transition ‘the trend of our time’

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2 w. ago Family of three become first asylum seekers to arrive in UK as part of ‘one in, one out’ deal with France

Donald Trump has told Keir Starmer to ‘call out the military’ to stop small boats crossings in the Channel

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2 w. ago Sadiq Khan vs Donald Trump: The ongoing feud reaches new low mayor calls US President 'racist'

In the latest saga of Sadiq Khan and Donald Trump’s decade long feud, the London mayor called the US President “racist and Islamophobic”

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2 w. ago Sadiq Khan calls Donald Trump racist, sexist and Islamophobic after 'sharia law' claims

The US President labelled Sir Sadiq a 'terrible mayor'

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2 w. ago What Macron said to Trump after motorcade blocked route in New York City

Emmanuel Macron called Donald Trump from the streets of New York City on Monday, 22 September after he and his entourage were blocked from crossing a route being kept clear for the US president's motorcade.

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2 w. ago Scottie Scheffler: I get calls and messages from Donald Trump following a win

Golf-loving Trump will attend the first day of the Ryder Cup this week.

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2 w. ago Tylenol makers hit back as Donald Trump issues advice to pregnant women about autism

Donald Trump vowed to rip up a vaccine schedule he called "disgraceful" because the US President has insisted pregnant women should not use the drug tylenol, which contains acetaminophen

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