44 m. ago Gavin Newsom pushes back on Trump AI executive order preempting state laws

California governor says order pushes ‘grift and corruption’ instead of innovation just hours after president’s dictumThe ink was barely dry on Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence executive order when Gavin Newsom came out swinging. Just hours after the order went public Thursday evening, the California governor issued a statement saying the presidential dictum, which seeks to block states from regulating AI of their own accord, advances “grift and corruption” instead of innovation.“President Trump and David Sacks aren’t making policy – they’re running a con,” Newsom said, referencing Trump’s AI adviser and crypto “czar”. “Every day, they push the limits to see how far they can take it.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Paranoid Putin ‘encircles forest palace with new air defences’ to guard gymnast ‘lover’ and young sons from attack

PARANOID tyrant Vladimir Putin has reportedly boosted air defences around his bunker palace where he cowers with his gymnast "lover" and two sons. Despite the Russian president pretending to engage with Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine - in reality he is preparing to hunker down as his brutal invasion rages on. The...

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2 h. ago The Katie Miller Podcast: an aggressively vibeless curriculum for the Maga mom

The wife of the Trump adviser aims to entice conservative women into Maga – but like much of the rest of the movement, her sales pitch is fundamentally lackingWhen Katie Miller, the wife of Donald Trump’s powerful adviser Stephen Miller, interviewed Pete Hegseth on her podcast last week, she didn’t ask him about whether the war secretary had ordered the US military to kill the shipwrecked survivors of an airstrike. She didn’t ask him about the settlement he paid a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her. Nor did she ask about allegations of alcohol abuse, or the accusation that he had made his ex-wife so terrified that she hid in a closet.Instead, when Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, appeared on the Katie Miller Podcast, the titular host asked questions like: “If you could write one Hegseth family rule on that whiteboard, what is that?” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed

Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nationA rally on affordability in Pennsylvania on 9 December devolved into a racist tirade when Donald Trump said to the crowd: “We only take people from shithole countries. Why can’t we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few? From Denmark. Do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.”Referring to the US representative Ilhan Omar’s hijab as a “little turban”, Trump continued: “She should get the hell out. Throw her the hell out.” His supporters erupted in chants of: “Send her back.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Trump attacks old foe Biden – but presidential parallels hard to avoid

US president finds himself shouldering same burdens of affordability crisis and the inexorable march of timeHe was supposed to be touting the economy but could not resist taking aim at an old foe. “Which is better: Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe?” Donald Trump teased supporters in Pennsylvania this week, still toying with nicknames for his predecessor Joe Biden. “Typically, Crooked Joe wins. I’m surprised because to me he’s a sleepy son of a bitch.”Exulting in Biden’s drowsiness, the US president and his supporters seemed blissfully ignorant of a rich irony: that 79-year-old Trump himself has recently been spotted apparently dozing off at various meetings. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Will Farage's Trumpian strategy work against him? He has good reason to believe it won't | Samuel Earle

The Reform leader bit back over allegations of racial abuse and revealed his strategy: the best form of defence is dragging everyone else into the mireAs the allegations of Nigel Farage’s racist and antisemitic school bullying multiplied, it was hard to keep up with his shifting array of responses. At times, in his evasiveness and discomfort, he has looked like that most un-Farage of things: a nervous politician, anxious not to say the wrong word.Last week, however, he angrily returned to his preferred posture: brimming with indignation at the moral hypocrisy of elites. He lashed out at the BBC’s “double standards” for indulging the allegations, when the broadcaster itself showed racist jokes and skits back in those days. Farage announced it was not he who should apologise, but apparently the BBC that should say sorry “for virtually everything you did throughout the 1970s and 1980s”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Top Putin aide issues chilling WW3 threat to UK and NATO over Zelensky peace talks

Vladimir Putin's sycophant aide Kirill Dmitriev claimed NATTO was undermining President Donald Trump's peace plan and accused it of wanting to start WW3 rather than see him succeed

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5 h. ago 2 killed in Russia while Ukraine's energy infrastructure is targeted as peace talks press on

A drone attack in Russia's Saratov region has killed at least two people and damaged a residential building

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6 h. ago Trump loomed over baseball’s Hall of Fame. But voters still said no to Bonds and Clemens

With Trump championing Pete Rose and pressuring MLB’s commissioner, the Hall of Fame vote became a referendum on power, memory and whether integrity still mattersSince mid-May, when Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Pete Rose would be eligible for Hall of Fame consideration and explained his specious reasonings behind it, last week’s Hall of Fame vote by the 16-member Classic Era committee carried with it a certain air of inevitability for Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, the two greatest players currently not enshrined in Cooperstown.Rose was championed by Donald Trump, who used his populism to demand the Hit King finally be allowed into the Hall, an honor denied Rose since 1989 when baseball placed him on the permanently ineligible list for betting on games when he managed the Cincinnati Reds. After Rose died in September 2024, Trump then won the presidency five weeks later and immediately increased the pressure on Manfred to end Rose’s 36-year banishment – de...

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6 h. ago Starmer to pick new US ambassador as relations with Trump tested

Exclusive: A trio of candidates have been interviewed by the PM, but he could still decide to directly appoint someone elseKeir Starmer is poised to choose a new ambassador to Washington from a shortlist of three as relations with the US are tested over Ukraine and Donald Trump’s attacks on European leaders.The prime minister held interviews with three finalists for the role this week, the Guardian has learned, with Downing Street preparing to make an appointment before the end of the year. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Trump's leaked schedule defies growing scrutiny over health as president's marathon days of meetings, calls go into late nights

Donald Trump's schedule shows the president as busy as ever amid reports that the president is 'facing the realities of aging.'

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9 h. ago Deal or no deal? The inside story of the battle for Warner Bros

As Paramount, with close ties to the Trump administration, entered the bidding, experts predict any merger will ‘raise red flags’ among regulatorsOver the first 10 months of his second presidency, Donald Trump has not hidden his desire to control the US media industry – from encouraging TV networks to fire journalists, comedians and critics he dislikes to pushing regulators to revoke broadcast licences. Now he seems determined to set the terms for one of the biggest media deals in history.It’s a deal that could have repercussions not just in the US, but across the world, with not just the future of Hollywood at stake but also the landscape of news. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Historic rains and flooding trigger dramatic rescues in Washington state

Record floodwaters are slowly receding in Washington state after triggering evacuations, inundating communities and prompting dramatic rescues from rooftops and vehicles

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10 h. ago What to know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from immigration custody

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, has been released from immigration detention, and a judge has temporarily blocked any further efforts to detain him

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12 h. ago Thai villagers stay behind to guard empty homes as border clashes forced mass evacuations

Fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border has forced hundreds of thousands of Thai villagers to flee since Monday

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12 h. ago Justice Department faces hurdle in seeking case against Comey as judge finds constitutional problems

A federal judge says the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director

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13 h. ago Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia continues despite Trump claim of renewed ceasefire

Trump announced the agreement after calls with Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian prime minister Hun ManetThailand-Cambodia fighting explainedCambodia said Thai forces including fighter jets continued to strike targets across their disputed border hours after Donald Trump said both countries leaders had agreed to renew a truce brokered in October that has been strained by days of deadly clashes.“Thai forces have not stopped the bombing yet and are still continuing the bombing,” the Cambodian ministry of information said. Thailand’s military countered with accusations that Cambodia was committing “repeated violations of international rules” by targeting civilian locations and laying landmines. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Thailand deny Trump ceasefire claim as battles with Cambodia continue at border

Thai PM says military will keep fighting and Cambodia suspends border crossings as casualties riseThailand-Cambodia fighting explainedThailand’s caretaker prime minister has denied the existence of a ceasefire with Cambodia, despite US president Donald Trump announcing that both countries had agreed to halt fighting, as heavy clashes continued along the border between the two countries.Prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Saturday that Thailand had not agreed to a ceasefire with Cambodia and that its forces would continue fighting. Cambodia, meanwhile, announced it had suspended all border crossings with Thailand. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Trump shrugs off raunchy Epstein pics released by Democrats as he shows up three hours late to bill signing

President Donald Trump said Friday evening he has not seen the latest Jeffrey Epstein files.

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16 h. ago Donald Trump breaks silence on photos of him being in bombshell new Epstein files

The US President dismissed the significance of photos of him being in a trove of Jeffrey Epstein's photos after more lurid images were published by congress

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