62 h. ago Kate Middleton shares touching Mother's Day message reminding us to 'nurture our inner selves'

Kensington Palace released a video message from the Princess of Wales, which sees her share her family's special connection to nature.

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62 h. ago Kate Middleton shares touching Mother’s Day message and video with William

Kensington Palace has released a message from the Princess of Wales, which sees her speak on her family's special connection to nature

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64 h. ago Kate Middleton shares sweet Mother's Day message that fans call 'beautiful'

Kensington Palace has released a message from the Princess of Wales, which sees her speak on her family's special connection to nature. In the heartfelt clip, the mum-of-three revealed that nature has been their "sanctuary"

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3 d. ago 7 unhinged things Donald Trump's team did in 24 hours as JD Vance doesn't rule out an invasion

Donald Trump sent JD Vance to Greenland to insult them - and he wouldn't rule out using the military to take the island by force - and he didn't even wear a tie

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4 d. ago Putin and Trump will 'team up against Europe' because they have 'same core values'

A Russian TV propagandist and Mad Vlad bootlicker reckons Donald Trump and the Vladimir Putin will team up against Europe becuase they have the same 'core values'

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4 d. ago Donald Trump moves to end union rights for many government agency employees – US politics live

White House signs executive order limiting numerous federal workers from unionisingTrump news at a glance: judge orders now-infamous Signal chat be retainedFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Signal fiasco is a political gift to Democrats but their power is limited

The ball now appears to be in the Republicans’ court, where there have been some signs of diverging from TrumpFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump faces 'massive loss of authority' after 'total lies' in leaked war messages scandal

The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was minding his own business when he received an invite into a Signal messaging chat where secret war plans were being discussed by the key players in Donald Trump's team

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6 d. ago Democrats call on defense secretary Pete Hegseth to resign over group chat scandal – live

Criticism of defense secretary grows as Democrats rejected assertions by Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe that no classified material was included in the chatNewly released messages show Trump advisers discussed Yemen attackUnder pressure from his rightwing base to challenge judges who have ruled against Donald Trump, speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested on Tuesday that Congress could consider eliminating certain federal courts.It forms part of a broader assault on the judiciary, spurred by court decisions that have blocked several Trump administration actions, NBC News reports. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Full Signal group chat messages detailing US strikes on Yemen released by magazine

The disclosure includes screenshots of timing and targets.

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6 d. ago Top Democrat accuses Trump officials of lying as Gabbard again denies classified information shared in group chat – live

Senator Mark Warner, who questioned national intelligence director and CIA director on Tuesday says messages clearly classified as Gabbard doubles down on claimsNewly released messages show Trump advisers discussed Yemen attackUnder pressure from his rightwing base to challenge judges who have ruled against Donald Trump, speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested on Tuesday that Congress could consider eliminating certain federal courts.It forms part of a broader assault on the judiciary, spurred by court decisions that have blocked several Trump administration actions, NBC News reports. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Donald Trump's demands to 'charge Europe for missile strikes' exposed in leaked texts

A member of Donald Trump's team revealed the White House's plans to 'levy' its allies after Vice President JD Vance said the US strikes on Houthi rebels could 'bail out' Europe and raise oil prices

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6 d. ago Donald Trump's top team embarrassed as more bombshell war messages released

The latest messages appear to disprove Donald Trump's team's claims that no war plans were made during the private discussion, which was leaked to the public when a journalist was accidentally added to the group.

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6 d. ago Donald Trump's top team HUMILIATED as MORE bombshell war messages released

Further texts have been leaked from Donald Trump's top security team after a major national security blunder saw a journalist added to a group chat discussing US military strikes on Yemen

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6 d. ago Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted When Donald Trump won November’s election, a small team working on a key new US government tool charting impacts of the climate crisis scrambled into action. They hastily renamed the resource to remove the word “climate” and quietly released it without fanfare in December, before Trump’s return to the White House. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Is Jeffrey Goldberg legally allowed to release the Signal messages he received?

Goldberg published vague information about the attacks in Yemen more than a week after they occurred

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7 d. ago Donald Trump war plan text leaks expose major problem nobody is talking about

Donald Trump's team has been left red-faced after classified information was shared to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine following a 'huge security failure'

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7 d. ago Donald Trump's leaked war chat shows his 'unreliable' team act like 'kids in playground'

Body language expert Judi James told The Mirror of the Trump administration texts: 'Group chat messaging like this reduces communication down to its most basic and unreliable level.'

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7 d. ago Russia and Ukraine agree to Black Sea ceasefire, US says – Europe live

White House says both sides agree to ‘ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes’A former head of Dutch cybersecurity has expressed his surprise at Donald Trump’s top team’s use of Signal for classified communications that revealed “visceral anti-European messaging”.Bart Groothuis, an MEP for the Dutch liberal VVD party, who used to run the cybersecurity bureau at the Dutch ministry of defence, said he was “a bit surprised” at the US government’s use of a commercial app for highly classified conversations. Continue reading...

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