30 h. ago Donald Trump says it's time to 'call in the troops' to tackle 'prevalent murder and crime' in Chicago

Donald Trump has said it is time to 'call in the troops' to tackle the 'prevalent' murder and crime that has long plagued Chicago. 

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56 h. ago Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and other GOP operatives for trying to overturn 2020 election

President Donald Trump has pardoned one-time ally Rudy Giuliani and other Republicans for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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3 d. ago Donald Trump's city destroying nuclear missile 'spotted for the first time' during test flight

The AGM-181 LRSO, billed as the Air Force's next-generation stealth nuclear cruise missile, is poised to arm both the B-52 and the newly built B-21 stealth bomber

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4 d. ago Businesses worldwide brace for extra Trump tariffs on steel imports

Commerce department expected to add about 700 more items with steel content to levy list at request of US firmsBusinesses around the world are steeling themselves for another round of Donald Trump’s tariffs, this time on goods ranging from bicycles to baking trays, as US industry embraces a call for more products to tax on import.Small, medium and large American companies have asked the US Department of Commerce to add about 700 more items to an August list of 407 products already facing extra tariffs because of their steel content, which hit items such as Ikea tables with metal nuts and bolts and German combine harvesters. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump 'falls asleep' at worst time in chaotic press conference

A White House guest also collapsed behind the US president during an announcement of cheaper weight loss drugs in the US. Fortunately, he was caught by two others nearby and Trump later said the man was "fine"

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6 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 7 unhinged Donald Trump moments as weird confused moment at speech prompts concerns

Donald Trump, for the first time in his presidency, is limping - and he's starting to make more mistakes and look confused during his speeches

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1 week ago What the New York mayor’s race will reveal about the Democratic party

The political differences between the two main candidates could have major implications for next year’s midtermsNew Yorkers will find out the identity of their next mayor on Tuesday, in a race that will decide who will run, and defend, the US’s largest city at a time when Donald Trump has threatened to send military troops there.Against that backdrop, New York has seen a mayoral election that has pitted two very different Democrats against one another. The race has become an increasingly bitter face-off, laced with alleged racism and Islamophobia, but it is the political differences between the two main candidates that could have major implications for how the Democratic party performs in next year’s midterm elections. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump is toying with a third term. Don’t expect the constitution to stop him | Moira Donegan

What is and is not constitutional is determined, in effect, by loyalists on the supreme court and their bad-faith enablersThe news cycle has continued in a predictable arc. Last week, Steve Bannon, the far-right provocateur and one-time Donald Trump adviser, said in an interview with the Economist that the president would seek an unconstitutional third term. “Trump is going to be president in 28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” Bannon said. (He seemed to be referring to Trump winning the presidential election in 2028 – Trump’s current term will last through 20 January 2029.) “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is.”Like clockwork, Trump commented on the idea soon after, telling reporters following him on Air Force One as he flew from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo: “I would love to do it.”Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago MIKEY SMITH: 9 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he threatens to jail Joe Biden

Donald Trump is flying back to Washington in time for a Halloween nightmare - and some idiot gave him in-flight WiFi

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1 week ago Donald Trump: US president orders testing of nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years

US president Donald Trump has made fresh comments on nuclear weapons testing

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2 w. ago From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones

We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating powerDemocracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, I warned of “Orbánisation” – in reference to Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. There, democracy was not extinguished by firing squads or the mass imprisonment of dissidents, but by slow attrition. The electoral system was warped, civil society was targeted and pro-Orbán moguls quietly absorbed the media.Nine months on, and Orbánisation is in full bloom across the Atlantic. Billionaire Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder, and his filmmaker son, David, have become blunt instruments in this process. Trump boasts they are “friends of mine – they’re big supporters of mine”. Larry Ellison, second only to Elon Musk as the world’s richest man, has poured tens of millions into R...

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2 w. ago Trump told Pence ‘you’ll go down as a wimp’ in January 6 phone call, book says

Book cites Pence’s notes from call with Trump, who called vice-president a ‘wimp’ if he certified Biden’s 2020 victoryOn the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol because his 2020 re-election run ended in defeat, Donald Trump called his vice-president at the time, Mike Pence, and told him he would go down in history as a “wimp” if he certified the election result, a new book says.Those details were revealed on Sunday when ABC News published a preview excerpt of an upcoming book by its political correspondent Jonathan Karl. The book, titled Retribution, cites Pence’s notes from the 6 January 2021 phone call with Trump, who was purportedly trying to shame his vice-president into refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory weeks earlier in the White House. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Playboy, fighter, golfer and wearer of a George Washington wig: Donald Trump’s best magazine covers

The US president has called his latest Time magazine cover ‘the worst of all time’. Our writer found some he may hate even more – and others pivotal to his riseIn a turn of events that may surprise some, Donald Trump expressed a few relatable insecurities this week. First he questioned the attractiveness of his beach body, then he blasted Time magazine for an unflattering cover photo. In fairness, he wasn’t wrong. He called the picture, taken from below, “the worst of all time”. People have focused on the wattle neck, the gossamer hair, the inside of his nostrils.The question he asked of the editorial decision was actually a pertinent one. “What are they doing, and why?” This is the kind of scrutiny that the press should attract, except that media literacy is dying a fast death – and that has a lot to do with Trump himself. Constantly lambasting Pulitzer prize-winning publications as “fake news” and then retweeting Photoshopped images and deep fakes isn’t helping the situation. Cont...

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3 w. ago Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s Time magazine cover – cartoon

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3 w. ago BRYONY GORDON: My alopecia left me with a huge bald patch. I tried everything to fix it but this is the only thing that helped my hair grow back... and what actually caused it

I found a bald patch on my head the other day - much like Donald Trump, who this week complained about Time magazine's cover image of him for 'exaggerating' his baldness.

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3 w. ago Trump hates this ‘super bad’ photo of him in Time magazine. I almost feel sympathy almost | Emma Brockes

This is a man who once mocked the movements of a disabled reporter, so we’ll take what schadenfreude we can getIt is, in my experience, often the photo that does it. You can be nice or mean, bland or snide, accurate or wildly off-base. But none of what you write as a journalist matters much in comparison with the photo that runs alongside it. That’s the main determinant of how bitterly a subject will complain about a piece, or whether they will tip from mildly annoyed to actively raging. In this regard, Donald Trump, who went after Time magazine this week for using a photo of him on the cover he has called “super bad” and “the Worst of All Time”, has acted in a way that, unusually for the president, is in line with how other people act.Even more unusually, he’s not wrong. The Time cover, shot from below to give readers an unrestricted view up Trump’s nose, is extremely unflattering. His turkey wattle neck looks like a ski run after the snow has melted. His eye is reptilian. His hair...

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4 w. ago AI shows Donald Trump totally bald after president slams 'worst ever' photo of him

Donald Trump has raged about a recent TIME magazine cover that he says has "disappeared" his hair, so we asked AI to imagine what he would actually look like with "disappeared" hair

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4 w. ago ‘The worst of all time’: Trump rails against ‘super bad’ Time magazine cover

Despite the glowing story, the cover earned the ire of the US president with criticism of his appearanceIt is a glowing story in a publication Donald Trump has long exalted – but for one catch. The cover picture, the president decreed, “may be the Worst of All Time”.Time magazine’s paean to Trump’s role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a photo of the president taken from below and with the sun behind his head. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Social media erupts over TIME magazine cover hated by Trump that makes him look bald

Internet users are split over Donald Trump's Time Magazine cover photo which the president branded 'really weird'.

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4 w. ago Donald Trump fumes over 'disappearing hair' on TIME magazine cover

The President was furious after seeing a magazine cover featuring the photo, which was taken during his visit to Israel.

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