1 hour ago Donald Trump's WWE Wrestlemania history as President rumoured for Vegas appearance

The US President has a long history affiliated with WWE, even having performed in the wrestling competition's Battle of the Billionaires, but will he make a surprise return this weekend?

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3 h. ago Trump’s granddaughter Kai shares behind the scenes footage of UFC appearance

Donald Trump’s granddaughter Kai has shared behind-the-scenes footage of her appearance at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Miami last week.

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3 h. ago RFK's claims about people with autism offer a sinister insight into how Trumpism sees us all | John Harris

The war on science being waged by the US health secretary and the White House is bound to spread. We must be on our guardIn the recent past, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that Donald Trump is “a terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath”. But in the US’s new age of irrationalism and chaos, these two men are now of one voice, pursuing a strand of Trumpist politics that sometimes feels strangely overlooked. With Trump once again in the White House and Kennedy ensconced as his health and human services secretary, what they are jointly leading is becoming clearer by the day: a war on science and knowledge that aims to replace them with the modern superstitions of conspiracy theory.Nearly 2,000 members of the US’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have warned of “slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration”. Even work on cancer is now under threa...

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3 h. ago RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies | John Harris

The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human differenceIn the recent past, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that Donald Trump is “a terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath”. But in the US’s new age of irrationalism and chaos, these two men are now of one voice, pursuing a strand of Trumpist politics that sometimes feels strangely overlooked. With Trump once again in the White House and Kennedy ensconced as his health and human services secretary, what they are jointly leading is becoming clearer by the day: a war on science and knowledge that aims to replace them with the modern superstitions of conspiracy theory.Nearly 2,000 members of the US’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have warned of “slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration”. Even work on...

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5 h. ago Moscow may gain key role in Iran nuclear deal as US talks progress

Russia touted as possible destination for Iran’s uranium stockpile and could also act as arbiter of deal breachesRussia could play a key role in a deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, with Moscow being touted not only as a possible destination for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but also as a possible arbiter of deal breaches.Donald Trump, who abandoned a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and world powers in 2018 during his first term, has threatened to attack Iran unless it reaches a new deal swiftly that would prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago The Nobel is just the start: 16 imagined victories for Donald Trump | Ariel Dorfman

The president has made clear he wants the prestigious prize. That’s just one of many honors to comeFrom the start of his first campaign for president 10 years ago, Donald Trump has incessantly presented himself as a winner, the only man in the world who had the temperament to make America great again. As he said in 2016:“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say: ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it any more, Mr President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say: ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”Ariel Dorfman, a distinguished professor emeritus of literature at Duke University, is the Chilean American author of the play Death and the Maiden and the novel The Suicide Museum and, more recently, Allegro, narrated playfully by Mozart Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate

Arturo Suárez Trejo was caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina and sent to a notorious Salvadorian prisonIn a recording studio in downtown Santiago, where the dad she has never met once sung, a four-month-old baby girl snuggles in her mother’s arms, noise-cancelling earmuffs shielding her tiny ears from the sound.Nahiara Rubí Suárez Sánchez is equally oblivious to the plight of her father, a Venezuelan musician who is thought to be languishing in a maximum-security prison thousands of miles away in El Salvador after being swept up in Donald Trump’s anti-migrant crusade. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Britain 'needs to follow Donald Trump's lead and launch a war on woke universities, rid classrooms of anti

The US President's moves to exert more influence over American colleges has sparked calls for the Labour government to ensure British institutions do not engage in 'ideological overreach'.

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7 h. ago Zelensky says Putin's Easter truce is nonsense as Russia continues shell assault on the front line

Volodymyr Zelensky challenged the Kremlin warmonger to continue the 30-hour ceasefire for 30 days, as Donald Trump had earlier demanded.

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8 h. ago Ukrainians mark Easter with little faith in Russia ceasefire

Dozens of Ukrainians have gathered at a bombed-out church in the country’s north to celebrate Easter Sunday, doubting a ceasefire with Russia might be possible

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8 h. ago Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich | Stewart Lee

The pop star is back on Earth, the tech bros are wrecking everything, and my tour isn’t visiting that fine city of the east. Surely doomsday is nighA group of six women returned to Earth from space on Monday, including Katy Perry, the former wife of the Trump cheerleader Russell Brand; and the former Fox news presenter and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, fiancee of Donald Trump’s media lapdog Jeff Bezos, who bent Washington Post editorial policy to favour the New American Fascism ™ ®. It’s a shame they didn’t fly straight into the heart of the sun.The six compliant women were sent to space as a costly PR exercise for Bezos’s commercial space flight ambitions, although Perry said it was actually about “finding the love for yourself” and “feeling that divine feminine”. Tell that to all the women worldwide whom Bezos’s pal Trump’s policies are penalising. Singing idiot. Katy Perry said she kissed a girl and she liked it. As Trump rolls back on LGBTQ+ rights I’m surprised the Trump-adjac...

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9 h. ago Putin's Easter truce sees Russia's ballistic missiles and killer kamikaze drones grounded

Volodymyr Zelensky challenged the Kremlin warmonger to continue the 30-hour ceasefire for 30 days, as Donald Trump had earlier demanded.

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10 h. ago Saturday Night Live has lost its bite, so why would we want it here? | Sarah Manavis

The once fearless, now formulaic, satirical show is on its way from the US. Can it bring back the fun?What makes good satire? The answer might vary depending on who you ask. What is more unifying, however, is what doesn’t. Most would agree it’s things like punching down, cheap jokes, obviousness or, worst of all, failing to actually be funny.We saw a unique combination of all of the above last weekend, when the American live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) attempted to parody the hit HBO series The White Lotus, setting it among current White House staff. Alongside middling caricatures of Donald Trump and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the pre-recorded skit portrayed the English actor Aimee Lou Wood, who has a gap between her teeth, and her character from the show, Chelsea, as uncharacteristically stupid, with bulging eyes and buck teeth. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Saturday Night Live lost its bite long ago, and it’s unlikely to find it on British TV | Sarah Manavis

The once fearless, now formulaic, satirical show is on its way from the US. Can it bring back the fun?What makes good satire? The answer might vary depending on who you ask. What is more unifying, however, is what doesn’t. Most would agree it’s things like punching down, cheap jokes, obviousness or, worst of all, failing to actually be funny.We saw a unique combination of all of the above last weekend, when the American live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) attempted to parody the hit HBO series The White Lotus, setting it among current White House staff. Alongside middling caricatures of Donald Trump and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the pre-recorded skit portrayed the English actor Aimee Lou Wood, who has a gap between her teeth, and her character from the show, Chelsea, as uncharacteristically stupid, with bulging eyes and buck teeth. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago 15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits stall and restoration is incomplete

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt

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12 h. ago Marijuana holiday 4/20 coincides with Easter and Passover this year. Here's what to know

Marijuana culture’s high holiday known as 4/20 falls this year on Easter, as well as the last day of Passover

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13 h. ago Vance set to visit India for bilateral talks on economic, trade and geopolitical ties

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is set to visit India on a four-day tour as the two countries seek to strengthen their partnership by negotiating a bilateral trade deal

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13 h. ago An incessant crackdown in Belarus hurls dozens of independent journalists into harsh prisons

Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko

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14 h. ago Martin Lewis explains Donald Trump tariff effects on UK energy bills

The US President has caused global markets to experience a rollercoaster few days, including historic falls followed by record rises

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16 h. ago Liberals 'cancel' Hollywood star Vince Vaughn as he's pictured with Donald Trump in Oval Office

The Hollywood actor surprised fans after the White House shared a picture of him smiling next to President Trump in the Oval Office, with many saying they were unaware of his political leanings.

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