3 d. ago Washington National Opera to move out of Kennedy Center after Trump ‘takeover’

Artistic director of US’s national opera also cites ‘shattered’ donor confidence and box office revenueThe Washington National Opera (WNO) announced on Friday it is moving its performances out of the John F Kennedy Center, where it has been performing since 1971, according to a New York Times report.Francesca Zambello, WNO’s artistic director, had said in November that the move was a possibility as a result of the “takeover” of the center by Donald Trump. Trump declared himself the chair of the institution in February and quickly thereafter fired and replaced its board and leadership. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘We are not for sale’: chair of Greenland’s top labor union rebukes Trump’s call for annexation

Exclusive: SIK leader Jess Berthelsen rejects Trump claim that the US needs Greenland for ‘national security’Greenland “will not be annexed”, the longtime leader of its largest labor union has declared, refuting Donald Trump’s claims that the Arctic territory’s current status poses a national security threat to the US.In an interview with the Guardian, Jess Berthelsen, chair of SIK, Greenland’s national trade union confederation, said people in the territory do not recognize the US president’s allegations that Russian and Chinese ships are scattered throughout its waters. “We can’t see it, we can’t recognize it and we can’t understand it,” he said. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago European leaders appear torn in face of new world order after Venezuela attack

Leaders try to focus on what comes next, as backing for ejection of Maduro mingles uncomfortably with voicing of support for international lawVenezuela crisis: latest updatesEuropean leaders emerged divided and torn as they tried to welcome the ejection of Venezuela’s authoritarian president, but still uphold the principles of international law that did not appear to allow Donald Trump to capture Nicolás Maduro, let alone declare that the US will run Venezuela and control its oil industry.Europe tried to focus on the principle of a democratic transition, pointing out that the continent had not recognised Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela since what were widely regarded as fraudulent elections in June 2024. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago John Swinney 'deeply concerned' by events in Venezuela after US military strikes

Donald Trump has declared that the US intends to seize control of Venezuela.

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9 d. ago The London Plot: Why Donald Trump and the Global Right Are Declaring War on the UK Capital

The London Plot: Why Donald Trump and the Global Right Are Declaring War on the UK Capital  https://debuglies.com

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1 week ago BREAKING: Donald Trump defies doctor's orders as he declares ‘exercise is boring’

Donald Trump has given a bombshell new interview which revealed the US President is defying his doctor's orders - he also said he finds exercise 'boring'

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1 week ago Donald Trump defies doctor's orders as he declares ‘exercise is boring’

Donald Trump has given a bombshell new interview which revealed the US President is defying his doctor's orders - he also said he finds exercise 'boring'

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2 w. ago Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing

As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of powerIt was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable.But as 2025 draws to a close with Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel. Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him. Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the president’s party. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Merry Christmas to all, including dead terrorists': Donald Trump announces Christmas Day ISIS strikes in Nigeria

US President Donald Trump declared via Truth Social that America launched Christmas Day strikes against ISIS terrorists in Nigeria who have been killing Christians

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2 w. ago Trump loomed over sport like never before in 2025. Next year he will take even more

From the Super Bowl to UFC cards to the US Open to the Ryder Cup, the US president has turned sport into his own personal stage. There’s more to comeConsidering he’s the self-declared hardest working president to ever hold the office, Donald Trump has spent a remarkable amount of the past year on down time. In 2025, he loomed over sports like no American politician before him, his visits to stadiums and arenas and golf courses and race tracks so frequent they began to feel like part of the job. But if Trump’s presence on the sporting scene has seemed hard to escape, gird yourselves for 2026, when the American presidency no longer merely intersects with sport but threatens to subsume it. The World Cup is on the way, the Olympics are right behind it, a UFC card is coming to the White House lawn (not a joke) and the commander-in-chief’s well-documented fondness for jumbotrons is becoming less of a habit than a dependency.Trump’s grand tour sportif began less than three weeks after his ...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump 'will declare war on Venezuela tonight', Maga mouthpiece says

US president Donald Trump will tonight finally make the big announcement he has teased for days, and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson says he's been told 'war is coming'

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3 w. ago Tucker Carlson claims Trump will declare war on Venezuela TONIGHT in address to the nation

Tucker Carlson has claimed that Donald Trump will announce war with Venezuela during a televised address to the nation tonight.

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3 w. ago Trump orders 'total and complete' blockade of all oil tankers bound for Venezuela while warning Maduro with 'largest Armada ever assembled'

Donald Trump has declared Venezuelan leadership a foreign terrorist organization and ordered 'a total and complete blockade' of oil tankers headed to and from the country.

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