23 m. ago Donald Trump issues chilling new 'World War 3' nuclear warning if Ukraine peace talks fail

President Donald Trump issued the stark warning on Friday, while revealing ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine are progressing - but catastrophe could yet be unleashed without peace.

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1 hour ago Donald Trump issues grim World War Three warning if Ukraine peace fails

The US President said a global conflict would be "a war like no other", but said he was "in pretty good shape" to sign a peace deal with Vladimir Putin and end the war in Ukraine

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1 hour ago Democratic Senator Mark Kelly to let go of his Tesla over Musk’s federal cuts

Arizona senator had also clashed with billionaire over the latter’s ‘traitor’ jibe after Kelly posted about his Ukraine visitThe Arizona Democratic senator Mark Kelly announced he was ditching his Tesla car, because of brand owner Elon Musk’s role in slashing federal budgets and staffing and attendant threats to social benefits programs.“Every time I get in this car in the last 60 days or so, it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump is doing to our country,” Kelly said, in video posted to X, the social media platform owned by Musk. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Canada's new prime minister Mark Carney immediately attacks Trump within seconds of taking office

Canada 's new Prime Minister Mark Carney has put US President Donald Trump in the dog house just seconds after taking office following Justin Trudeau's exit.

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2 h. ago Law launching deportation of Columbia student was condemned in 1996 by a judge – Donald Trump’s sister

Arrested student’s lawyers argue that deportation order violates First Amendment

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2 h. ago Donald Trump issues grim World War 3 nuclear warning which would be 'a war like no other'

Donald Trump said World War III could begin 'very easily' - and claimed Ukraine peace talks are in 'good shape' despite Vladimir Putin rejecting the 30-day ceasefire proposal

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2 h. ago Donald Trump's 'fixer' is 'kept waiting for eight hours' for Kremlin meeting before swift departure

Mr Trump's chief negotiator Steve Witkoff spent two thirds of his just 12 hours in the Russian capital waiting before he could deliver the US President's proposals for a 30-day ceasefire.

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2 h. ago Playing for time, Vladimir Putin is toying with Donald Trump

Editorial: After Washington brokered a 30-day ceasefire plan for Ukraine, the US president believed the ball was firmly in the Kremlin’s court. But it has been served back and Trump must stand by those his country promised to defend

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3 h. ago Donald Trump's fixer forced to wait eight hours to see Putin in humiliating 'power play'

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss the proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine - but was reportedly made to wait eight hours first

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3 h. ago Canada ‘will never be part of the US’, says new PM Mark Carney amid trade war

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor sworn in and expected to call election soonMark Carney has said Canada will never be part of the US, after being sworn in as the country’s 24th prime minister in a sudden rise to power.“We will never, in any shape or form, be part of the US,” the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England told a crowd outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa, rejecting Donald Trump’s annexation threats. “We are very fundamentally a different country.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Zelensky says Putin dragging out ceasefire talks to go on fighting as Ukraine denies Kursk troops 'surrounded'

Ukraine leader makes statement as Donald Trump described talks with Putin on America’s 30-day Ukraine ceasefire plan as ‘very good and productive’

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4 h. ago Vladimir Putin calls for Ukrainian forces fighting in Kursk to surrender after Donald Trump urged Russia to 'spare' their lives

Putin insisted that Ukrainian forces in Kursk would be 'guaranteed life and dignified treatment' if they laid down their arms, after Mr Trump called on him to avoid a 'horrible massacre'.

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4 h. ago Nancy Pelosi calls Republican funding bill ‘a devastating assault’ on working families as Schumer urges Democratic backing – live

At least eight Senate Democrats need to vote with Republicans to advance bill ahead of midnight deadline to fund governmentDemocrats at odds over Republican bill to fund government operationsDanish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen rejected on Friday president Donald Trump’s latest remarks about annexing Greenland, saying the Danish autonomous island could not be taken over by another country.“If you look at the Nato treaty, the UN charter or international law, Greenland is not open to annexation,” he told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky timeline as Vladimir Putin sets his conditions for Ukraine ceasefire

The Russian president demands answers before he can move forward with a ceasefire deal in Ukraine

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5 h. ago Dollar General CEO makes grim admission amid Trump’s trade war

The CEO of Dollar General has admitted that the chain is “not anticipating improvement” for core customers in 2025, amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing foreign trade wars.

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5 h. ago Judge won't block destruction of old USAID classified documents as the building is cleaned out

A federal judge is refusing to block the destruction of classified documents as part of the building cleanout at the U.S. Agency for International Development

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6 h. ago Greenland Prime Minister makes shock move after Trump hints at sending soldiers: 'Enough is enough'

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede declared 'enough is enough' about President Donald Trump's wish to annex the island. 

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6 h. ago Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news | Jonathan Freedland

Addicted to Fox News and outlets even more extreme, the president finds support and justification for actions disastrous to Americans and the worldNot content with shattering the post-1945 international order, which delivered prosperity and power to his country for eight long decades, Donald Trump is seemingly set on destroying the US economy. And he’s doing it because he, and the American right, have lost their ability to grasp reality.Start with the economic vandalism, unfolding in real time and mesmerising to watch. For weeks, you could see the US stock market falling and falling until on Thursday the S&P index passed an unwanted milestone: it stood more than 10% down from the peak it had reached less than a month earlier, a fall that meets the Wall Street definition of a “correction”. In other words, even if the market eventually rallies, this is no blip. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Trump's tariff wars forge rare bipartisan alliance in Kentucky as bourbon makers fear escalation

President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs has forged a rare bipartisan alliance among Kentucky’s top leaders — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul

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6 h. ago Mark Carney sworn in as Canada's prime minister as country deals with Donald Trump's trade war

Former Bank of England governor replaces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

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