19 m. ago Donald Trump attacks Keir Starmer just days before meeting between pair

Donald Trump criticised Keir Starmer only days before the pair meet at the White House - we'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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44 m. ago ‘See you in court’: Democratic governor confronts Trump at the White House over trans sports ban

Trump threatened to pull federal funding from Maine after Governor Janet Mills said she won’t be ‘intimidated’ by his executive order targeting trans athletes

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48 m. ago Hunter Schafer shares poignant TikTok after new passport lists her as male following Trump’s executive order

‘Euphoria’ star said the change does not take away ‘my transness’

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58 m. ago Newsmax and Fox News quietly back AP over White House ban — after celebrating it on air

Fox News hosts have urged the White House to ‘kick them out’ while Newsmax stars have labeled the wire service the ‘Associated Propaganda’

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59 m. ago Trump says Starmer and Macron ‘haven’t done anything’ to end Ukraine war

Sir Keir has faced pressure to take a firm line with Mr Trump on support for Ukraine when he visits the US next week.

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64 m. ago Starmer urged to stand up to Trump’s ‘torrent of lies’ as he accuses UK of doing nothing to end Ukraine war

Starmer urged to challenge Trump over Ukraine lies as US president accuses Britain of ‘doing nothing to end the war’

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70 m. ago Hunter Schafer reveals passport now lists her as male after Donald Trump order

Convicted felon and US President Donald Trump announced that under his leadership, the US Government would only recognise two genders - male and female - based on what was assigned at birth

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88 m. ago Three people killed in Louisville, Kentucky, motor vehicle office shooting

One person was dead at the scene and two others died at the hospital; no reported arrests nor information on the shooterThree people were shot and killed at a motor vehicle office in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, police said.Major Donald Boeckman of Louisville metro police department told reporters that officers found one person dead at the scene and another two wounded. The two wounded were taken to hospitals and died there. He said there was no ongoing threat to public. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago REVEALED: The real reason behind Vogue's Melania snub... and what she must do to secure a First Lady cover

She's well into her second term as First Lady and still there's no sign that she will receive one of the most prestigious accolades of the role - being featured on the cover of Vogue.

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2 h. ago Donald Trump 'will join Putin in Moscow' for World War Two commemorations

Donald Trump will make a shock visit to Moscow for a World War II commemoration event, according to new reports, following days of deepening ties between the US president and the Kremlin

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2 h. ago 'Trump's lies make him as dangerous as the Nazis, we are living George Orwell's 1984'

In George Orwell's classic, the proles swallowed up all the newspeak ­propaganda from Big Brother, and Brian Reade fears too many people today are falling for the US president's blatant reality twisting

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2 h. ago US general goes against Trump as he brands Zelenskyy 'courageous leader' after Putin

Keith Kellogg, a retired US Army lieutenant general, has branded Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a 'courageous leader', marking a sea-change from Donald Trump's comments

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2 h. ago Justice department drops discrimination case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Case brought during Biden presidency accused space company of refusing, unlawfully, to hire certain immigrantsThe US Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.The justice department last month signaled it could back away from the case, brought during Joe Biden’s term. Musk, a top adviser and donor to Donald Trump, is leading a commission tasked with identifying waste in the federal government, dubbed the “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. Continue reading...

Technology

2 h. ago Justice department drop discrimination case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Case brought during Biden presidency accused space company of refusing, unlawfully, to hire certain immigrantsThe US Department of Justice on Thursday said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain immigrants.The justice department last month signaled it could back away from the case, brought during Joe Biden’s term. Musk, a top adviser and donor to Donald Trump, is leading a commission tasked with identifying waste in the federal government, dubbed the “Department of Government Efficiency”, or Doge. Continue reading...

Technology

2 h. ago Shakhtar Donetsk accuse Fifa of failing to support Ukrainian football during war

Chief executive reflects on the three years since invasion‘Fifa forgot about us their door is always closed’Shakhtar Donetsk’s chief executive, Serhii Palkin, has accused Fifa of failing to support Ukrainian football in the three years since Russia undertook its full-scale invasion of the country.Ukraine’s domestic league has managed to play on after an initial six-month pause but resources are scarce and the long-term outlook remains uncertain. Palkin claimed the world governing body had kept its doors “closed to us” and he repeated previous entreaties for the creation of a fund to help maintain a sport that has endured severe physical and financial damage. He also urged Fifa and Uefa to hold firm on their commitment to bar Russian teams from international competitions amid an increasingly precarious geopolitical climate. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump says Starmer has done 'nothing' to stop Ukraine war and repeats attack on Zelensky

Russian president expected to make the claims on the third anniversary of his Ukraine war on February 24

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2 h. ago Woman facing deportation after stealing $850,000 worth of TrumpCoin from ex

‘We don’t care about her in the end what happens to her. We just want the money’, said the victim’s private investigator

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3 h. ago Feeling blue: Donors have pulled back in wake of Democrat failures and Trump running roughshod in DC

Trump has only been in office for a month, but some donors and liberal groups are retreating as they struggle to fight the pace of the new administration

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3 h. ago Starmer to tell Trump that UK’s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China

PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional disputeKeir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands, including the strategic US military base at Diego Garcia, may stoke tensions similar to those in the South China Sea.Starmer is due to meet Trump next Friday mainly to discuss the future of Ukraine, but also a UK plan for Gaza’s reconstruction under international protection with no need for Palestinians to be required to quit the Gaza Strip. The paper is similar but not identical to proposals being discussed by Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh, which has a strong international component and would prevent Hamas ruling in Gaza. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Starmer urged to stand up to Trump’s ‘torrent of lies’ as he accuses Britain of doing nothing to end Ukraine war

Starmer urged to challenge Trump over Ukraine lies as president accuses Britain of ‘doing nothing to end the war’

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