5 d. ago CDC officials who quit in protest lead call to ‘get politics out of public health’

Staffers gather in Atlanta to applaud senior leaders who resigned after CDC chief Susan Monarez was firedWho’s who in the CDC crisis?Senior CDC vaccine research and public health leaders who resigned in protest told hundreds of supporters across the street from the campus on Thursday that the Trump administration needs to “get politics out of public health”.The agency is reeling from the firing of the CDC chief, Susan Monarez, but Monarez, who was confirmed as CDC chief just a month ago, has refused to be removed. Three senior leaders – Debra Houry, Demetre Daskalakis and Daniel Jernigan – resigned shortly after in protest, citing the alleged spread of misinformation under the Trump administration and political interference in their work. The staffers cheered and applauded them at the event on Thursday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US applications for jobless benefits fell last week as layoffs remain low

Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the economy has slowed

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6 d. ago A look at Nvidia's latest results and its prominence in the stock market, by the numbers

Nvidia reported a 56% increase in second-quarter revenue Wednesday and a 59% rise in net income compared to a year ago

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6 d. ago Local DC cases are landing in federal courts. A judge says the results are problematic

Hundreds of people have been arrested since President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown flooded the nation’s capital with federal agents and troops

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7 d. ago Photos of week three of Washington's federal takeover, as troops on patrol start carrying guns

Washingtonians are in their third week of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement patrolling their streets, now carrying firearms and drawing sporadic protests against President Donald Trump's directive.

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7 d. ago ‘Zero self awareness’: Newsom trolls Trump deputy’s description of ‘crooks’ in government over Lisa Cook ouster

Trump’s ‘firing’ of Fed board governor scares Wall Street and sets up another protracted court battle

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8 d. ago Asian shares track Wall Street's rally after Powell hints at rate cuts

Asian shares have tracked Wall Street's rally after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted that cuts to interest rates may be on the way

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9 d. ago France summons US ambassador Charles Kushner over antisemitism allegations

Kushner says in letter to Macron he’s concerned over ‘rise of antisemitism’ and ‘lack of sufficient action’ to confront itFrance summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem antisemitic violence, a French foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to U.S President Donald Trump’s daughter, published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal amid deep divides between France and the US and Israel. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Murdoch paper Trump is suing slams president’s ‘vendetta campaign’ against John Bolton

Wall Street Journal faces defamation lawsuit over coverage of Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

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9 d. ago Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from striking deep inside Russia – report

Wall Street Journal says move is part of Trump administration’s effort to get Putin into peace talksUS defense officials have blocked Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia since late spring as part of a Trump administration effort to get Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks , according to a report on Saturday.The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from using US-made Army Tactical Missile Systems, or Atacms. Continue reading...

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1 week ago FBI raid on John Bolton's home 'linked to him sending highly sensitive classified documents using private email server'

The ex-Trump adviser turned acidic critic returned to his home in Bethesda, Maryland Friday evening, nearly eight hours after the FBI raided the property.

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1 week ago Trump targets Chicago and New York as Hegseth orders weapons for DC troops

President plots expansion of crime crackdown as Pentagon chief says troops patrolling DC streets will be armedDonald Trump has threatened to take his federal crackdown on crime and city cleanliness to New York and Chicago, as the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered that national guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington DC under federal control will now be armed.The US president talked to reporters in the Oval Office and said: “When ready, we will start in Chicago Chicago is a mess.” He added that then the administration “will help with New York”, amid the controversial and aggressive federal efforts to control leading Democratic-voting cities, each of which has a Black mayor. Continue reading...

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1 week ago National Guard members on DC streets for Trump's crackdown will soon be armed, military says

The U.S. military says National Guard members who are on the streets in Washington for President Donald Trump’s crackdown will soon be armed

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1 week ago Trump to go on 'secret' night patrol alongside law enforcement and the military to watch his DC crime sweep in action

Donald Trump will go out to survey the streets of Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

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1 week ago Asian shares are mostly higher after a mixed finish on Wall Street

Asian shares are mostly higher after a mixed finish on Wall Street, where shares in Nvidia, Palantir and other superstar stocks pared their earlier steep losses

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2 w. ago Federal prosecutors launch inquiry into Washington DC police over allegedly fudged crime statistics

Move comes after Donald Trump posted on social media about US capital’s ‘fake crime numbers’Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Washington DC police systematically manipulated crime statistics to make the city appear safer than it actually is.The probe, anonymous sources tell the Washington Post, NBC News and Fox News, being conducted by the US attorney’s office for the District of Columbia under Jeanine Pirro, is the latest escalation between the Trump administration and DC officials over federal control of local policing. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jesse Watters declares ‘Big Balls, we love you,’ as he celebrates Trump’s DC crime crackdown

Fox News host credits 19-year-old Elon Musk acolyte for President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to the streets of the U.S. capital

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2 w. ago Trump news at a glance: DC crackdown expands with national guard to be deployed by three more states

The states of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio will deploy hundreds of national guard troops to DC in the coming days – key US politics stories from Sunday 17 August at a glanceAfter deploying the national guard to the streets of Washington DC, Donald Trump’s federal crackdown is moving into a new phase.Three more states – West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio – have said they will deploy hundreds of national guard troops to DC in the coming days. But crime prevention workers say the move will do little to prevent crime, and address systemic cycles of violence and property crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How dare the public be told to tackle criminals... when politicians have left them to roam with impunity: By retired policeman NORMAN BRENNAN

Last week, Donald Trump deployed National Guard soldiers to Washington DC, to enact his promise of 'historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse'.

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2 w. ago Asian shares mostly gain after uptick in inflation pulls US stocks lower

Asian are mostly higher after most stocks on Wall Street fell following a disappointing report that said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists had expected

Economics