39 m. ago Trump stands by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz after Signal text leak amid calls for resignation: Live

President facing calls to remove senior security officials over app blunder that saw Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg added to highly-sensitive group chat by mistake

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39 m. ago Watchdog speaks out on Oasis Ticketmaster reunion ticket controversy months after 'dynamic pricing' fury

Ticketmaster may have misled music fans seeking to buy tickets to see British band Oasis last year, Britain's competition watchdog has said.

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48 m. ago Trump dismisses White House security failure as ‘glitch’ amid calls for resignations – US politics live

President says national adviser Mike Waltz had ‘learned a lesson’ amid calls for Waltz and Pete Hegseth to resignSignal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of EuropeExploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from leakElon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company. Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by Donald Trump with drastically slashing the federal government workforce and costs. Continue reading...

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54 m. ago Alex Jones slams big Hollywood One Show guest she thought was 'full of himself'

The TV star has interviewed a number of big names for the BBC One programme over the last 15 years but one stands out for all of the wrong reasons

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56 m. ago It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde

We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neitherOnce again, we find ourselves having an anguished debate about mobile phones and online safety, in this case asking: should we ban the devices for US national security advisers under the age of 60? Do you know what your national security adviser is doing on his device? Is he using it to stay in touch with other guys in the big-man-osphere to talk about bombing Hooters? Or did he maybe add the editor-in-chief of a leading general interest magazine to a Signal group in the crucial hours running up to a highly sensitive US military operation in Yemen, seemingly committing so many alleged crimes that he should have a full-body orange jumpsuit tattooed on him for ever?By now, you will have caught up with the tale of one of the most idiotic breaches of security imaginable – executed, regrettably, by the actual US national security adviser. Mike Waltz seems to have bee...

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62 m. ago Donald Trump breaks silence on leaked messages fiasco with 11

Trump on Tuesday in a brief interview with NBC News' Garrett Haake downplayed the incident as "the only glitch in two months" of his administration "and it turned out not to be a serious one"

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64 m. ago Trump reveals fate of 'f***ing idiot' who leaked top secret war messages

President Donald Trump defended his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in the wake of the Signal app scandal, calling him a 'good man' who 'learned a lesson.'

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67 m. ago Elon Musk believes he knows why the Trump admin Signal leak was allowed to occur

Musk previously stated that the ‘best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic’ after its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s explosive Signal group chat report

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79 m. ago Venezuelan migrants deported by the US ended up in a Salvadoran prison. This is their legal status

The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison

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87 m. ago The Kinks musical back for new UK tour that will start in Manchester

The show features all the iconic band's biggest hits

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98 m. ago Steven Gerrard ally plays Rangers trump card after Liverpool icon breaks cover to show where his focus really is

Gerrard has been tipped to be named the next permanent Ibrox boss in the summer – having lifted the title in Glasgow

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99 m. ago ‘Heads should roll:’ Democrats and Republicans calling for action in the wake of Signal text leak

Jeffrey Goldberg says that 18 national security and cabinet officials – including Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and Marco Rubio – were added to the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat

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1 hour ago Transgender athletes stamped out of sport as new bombshell rules force women to prove their birth gene amid pressure from Trump

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said the decision taken by the World Athletics Council was further evidence his organization would 'doggedly' protect the female category.

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1 hour ago Trump stands by Mike Waltz after Signal text leak amid calls for resignation: Live

President facing calls to remove senior security officials over app blunder that saw Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg added to highly-sensitive group chat by mistake

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2 h. ago Trump team sparks fury with 'sickening' choice of emojis while describing their war plans in leaked Signal chat

As news broke of the strikes on Yemen, the journalist checked the group chat where he found a flurry of emojis and congratulations flooding the text chain.

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2 h. ago Leaked US messages 'music to Putin's ears' as Trump team's 'devastating' hatred of Europe exposed

US Vice President JD Vance blasted European allies as "pathetic", claiming that they were "free-loading" off the US in another win for tyrant Vladimir Putin

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2 h. ago Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi

Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holidayDo you like being shackled and strip-searched? Absolutely no judgment if so, but anyone who isn’t into that sort of thing may want to avoid a holiday to the US at the moment. Although I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that. Unless you’ve been hiding under a news-blocking rock (in which case: what’s the address? And can I join you?), you’ll have noticed that Donald Trump’s America hasn’t exactly been rolling out the red carpet for visitors. There have been a number of recent incidents where white westerners – people who aren’t normally targeted by overzealous US immigration authorities – have been detained, deported or denied entry for obscure reasons.Take the 28-year-old Welsh artist Rebecca Burke, for example. She was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) for 19 days in what her father described as “horrendous...

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2 h. ago Jon Stewart jokes that US official was ‘distracted’ by TV when he added journalist to secret war plans chat

‘By the way, I might be in this group chat, I don’t know. I don’t check my group chats,’ joked Stewart

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2 h. ago Exploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from White House security failure

Hostile intelligence agencies are likely to pore over details revealed in chat group planning for Yemen strikesUS politics live – latest updatesThe leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the Houthis in Yemen – revealed by a journalist who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'Trump team's blunder shows they can't be trusted with British lives' Starmer warned

Keir Starmer has been warned it is a 'matter of time' before crucial intelligence putting UK armed forces at risk is leaked by the haphazard Donald Trump adminstration

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