5 h. ago Trump gives morbid answer when asked about his hopes for 2026: ‘I want to survive’

Trump’s comments come just a month after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University

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3 d. ago Trump's nuclear warning to Moscow: President tells Kremlin America has more nukes than anyone else and confirms he sent 'lethal' submarine to the coast of Russia after Putin ally's WW3 threat

Donald Trump has threateningly reminded Russia that the US has the most nuclear weapons in the world. 

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3 d. ago Trump claims US faces ‘invasion from within’ in address to military leaders after Hegseth declares war on diversity efforts – live

US president tells hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia they will ‘straighten out’ US cities after defense secretary rails against ‘fat troops’Hegseth declares war on racial and gender diversity efforts in US militaryThe US government is hurtling towards its first shutdown in six years, with no signs congressional leaders are near agreement on legislation to continue funding beyond the Tuesday night deadline to prevent workers from being furloughed and agencies from shutting their doors.Congress’s Republican majority is pushing legislation to fund the government through 21 November, but Democrats have refused to vote for it unless it includes a series of concessions centered on healthcare. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump ally Dana White breaks with White House over Charlie Kirk assassination as he condemns 'cancel culture'

White, who much like Kirk is a friend and supporter of Donald Trump, was asked whether any of his fighters could say anything on social media where 'there've gotta' be consequences.'

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5 d. ago Moldova heads to polls in pivotal vote that could steer it closer to EU or Russia

President tells voters ‘our dear home is in danger’, as her pro-west party tries to hold on to parliamentary majority Moldovans have begun voting in a pivotal parliamentary election that will decide whether the country of 2.4 million stays on its path towards EU membership or drifts back into Moscow’s orbit, amid widespread reports of Russian meddling.The president, Maia Sandu, and her pro-western Action and Solidarity party (PAS), face a stiff challenge in Sunday’s election from an alliance of Soviet-nostalgic, pro-Russian parties led in part by the former president Igor Dodon, whom Sandu defeated in 2020. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Lisa Cook urges supreme court to reject Trump’s bid to fire her from Fed board

Cook’s lawyers say president’s unprecedented move would destroy Fed’s independence and disrupt financial marketsFederal Reserve governor Lisa Cook urged the US supreme court on Thursday to reject Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her, telling the justices the Republican president’s unprecedented move would destroy the central bank’s independence and disrupt financial markets.Lawyers for Cook filed a written response opposing the justice department’s 18 September emergency request to lift a federal judge’s order that blocked Trump from immediately removing Cook, an appointee of Democratic former president Joe Biden, while her legal challenge continues. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Israel carrying out crime against humanity in Gaza, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas tells UN – Middle East crisis live

Speech by Palestinian Authority president also says Hamas should have no role in governing Palestine and must disarmAlimi says the policy of containment has given the Houthis time to expand its arsenal.“It has become clear the peace we seek cannot be asked for but must be imposed by force,” he says. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 'God saved' Trump from assassin's bullet, Zelensky tells UN after US president's 'big shift' on Ukraine

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed at the UN that 'God saved' Donald Trump from assassination. 

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9 d. ago Zelensky: World living through 'most destructive arms race' ever, as Trump says Kyiv can win land back

Zelensky referenced the attempted assassination of President Trump and the killing of Charlie Kirk in his speech to the 193-member body

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9 d. ago Ukraine’s president says the world is in `the most destructive arms race in history’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is telling world leaders that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in history."

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9 d. ago How Trump’s breakup with Putin helped push his startling shift on Ukraine

In his biggest policy shift to date, Trump has declared that Ukraine could take back all its land from Russia and ‘go further’. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew asks: what happened?

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9 d. ago Farage refuses to criticise Trump over paracetamol despite health experts dismissing autism claims

Reform UK leader says he has ‘no idea’ if US president is right to tell women to avoid drug during pregnancyUK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage has refused to criticise Donald Trump’s claims that paracetamol, sold in the US as Tylenol, could cause autism, insisting “science is never settled” and he would never “side with” medical experts.The Reform UK leader said he had “no idea” if the US president was right to tell pregnant women to avoid taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol and paracetamol, and suggesting that those who could not “tough it out” should limit their intake. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago What to know about the man found guilty of trying to assassinate Trump at a Florida golf course

A jury has found Ryan Routh guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year

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9 d. ago Ryan Routh stabs himself in the neck with a pen as he is found guilty of plotting the assassination of Donald Trump

Ryan Routh, 59, faces life in prison after being found guilty of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course

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1 week ago Ryan Routh tried to stab himself as he was found guilty of plotting Trump assassination at Florida golf course

Routh, 59, represented himself during fast-paced trial over 2024 attempt to kill Trump

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1 week ago Man guilty of trying to assassinate Donald Trump stabs himself in neck in courtroom chaos

Ryan Routh, 59, pointed a rifle through a fence as Trump played golf in West Palm Beach, Florida, last September but told a court that he did not intend to kill the President

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1 week ago Ryan Routh found guilty of 2024 attempted assassination of Trump in Florida

Routh represented himself in trial over botched attempt on Trump’s life at West Palm Beach golf course The man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump on his West Palm Beach golf course two months before Trump clinched his second presidency in the 2024 White House election has been found guilty by a jury in Fort Pierce, Florida.Ryan Routh – who now faces up to life in prison at a later sentencing hearing – reportedly tried to use a pen to stab himself in the neck as the guilty verdict was read in court. Officers quickly swarmed him and dragged him out of the courthouse. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ryan Routh tries to stab himself in neck after Trump assassination attempt verdict

Ryan Routh, 59, tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen after he was found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign

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1 week ago Man who represented himself is found guilty of trying to assassinate Trump at Florida golf course

A man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump last year at a Florida golf course has been found guilty

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1 week ago Man representing himself against charges of trying to kill Trump to give closing argument

A man representing himself in federal court against charges of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year at his Florida golf course is set to present his closing argument

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