3 d. ago Hegseth jokes about US allies doing nothing in Afghanistan – despite hundreds losing their lives

‘Don’t try and make it look like I don’t care’, insisted secretary after saying he saw a ‘lotta flags’ but not a lot of effort from US partners

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4 d. ago Diddy trial live: Defense rips feds’ push to remove Black juror from panel as ex

Sean Combs’s former partner accused him of leaving her with nothing but ’trauma’ in Tuesday’s testimony

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4 d. ago Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth admits Russia aggressor in Ukraine war but won’t say who he wants to win

Hegseth accused senators of being against ‘peace’ in the three-year-old conflict

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4 d. ago LA protest live: Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act after deploying National Guard and Marines

Almost 5,000 military personnel have been deployed to Los Angeles, as demonstrations against ICE raids continued into Monday evening

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4 d. ago Trump says LA ‘would be on fire’ if troops had not been deployed

US president’s comments come as defence secretary is grilled over dispatching of Marines to ‘enforce immigration law’

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4 d. ago Veterans slam Trump’s ‘political’ deployment of Marines and National Guard to LA: ‘Citizens are not enemy combatants’

Sending troops to American streets crosses a ‘dangerous line’ that tests how far Trump will go to crush dissent, veterans and legal experts tell The Independent

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4 d. ago Diddy trial live: Defense grills Jane about her drug use and ‘hotel nights’ with Combs in cross

Sean Combs’s ex-girlfriend Jane accused him of treating her ‘like an animal’ during Monday’s testimony

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5 d. ago Hegseth hearing live: Defense Secretary grilled on LA protest deployment, Ukraine and ‘warrior ethos’

Hegseth appeared in front of the House Committee on Appropriations in the Subcommittee on Defense

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5 d. ago Hegseth hearing live: Defense Secretary testifies on Capitol Hill with grilling on Signalgate expected

Hegseth is appearing in front of the House Committee on Appropriations in the Subcommittee on Defense

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution on Ch4: All fired up like an angry Aga, chef Jamie gave the minister a roasting

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Has Radio 4's Amol Rajan been coaching Jamie Oliver on how to grill politicians? When he confronted the Education Secretary, she could barely finish a sentence.

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5 d. ago World War 3 fears ramp up as Japan's live fire military training takes place on mountain

Worrying images from the training exercise show Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) battle tanks firing ammunition during a live-fire exercise, while others show troops firing mortors into the air

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7 d. ago ‘The stuff of dictatorships’: Trump admin threat to deploy military to LA protest met with angry reactions

The White House on Saturday said it would send 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to make arrests as anti-ICE protests entered their second day.

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3 w. ago China ‘seriously concerned’ over Trump’s Golden Dome defense system – live

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Trump’s project carries ‘strong offensive implications’ and heightens risks of space militarization and arms raceA small southern California school district must immediately pause its ban on critical race theory (CRT), a California appeals court ruled on Thursday morning.The 4th district court of appeals ruling put a halt to the Temecula Valley unified school district ban until its litigation is settled in the California legal system. The decision is the latest in a long-running legal battle over the CRT ban, which was first adopted as a resolution by the Temecula Valley Board of Education in December 2022 as they attempted to purge elementary school textbooks that reference gay rights icon Harvey Milk. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader

Gen Michael Guetlein of space force will be in charge of defense system that could exceed $540bn over 20 yearsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing a multibillion-dollar missile defense system, called “Golden Dome,” that he envisions will protect the United States from possible foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons.Flanked by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, in the Oval Office, Trump also said that he wanted the project to be operational before he left office. He added that Republicans had agreed to allocate $25bn in initial funding and Canada had expressed an interest in taking part. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump announces $25bn in funding for Golden Dome missile defense project – US politics live

Funding for Trump’s missile defense shield idea to protect the US from long-range strikes included in tax bill facing opposition from some RepublicansThese are challenging days for Florida governor Ron DeSantis, the man who would have been king. Barely two and a half years since his landslide re-election and anointment as “DeFuture” of the Republican party in a fawning New York Post cover, he stands isolated from the national political stage, feuding with his once blindingly loyal Florida legislature, and limping towards the finish line of his second term with an uncertain pathway beyond.It has been, in the view of many analysts, a fall of stunning velocity and magnitude. And while few are willing to completely rule out a comeback for a 46-year-old politician who was the darling of the Republican hard right until he dared to challenge Donald Trump for his party’s 2024 presidential nomination, it is also clear that everything has changed.He’s lost the ability to push things through. ...

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