2 h. ago Trump state visit live: US president facing protest on arrival in UK with Melania before meeting King Charles

Trump invited for historic second state visit to UK involving ceremonial welcome and state banquet

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3 h. ago Trump team plans to give historically black and tribal colleges $500 million in money taken from DEI program cuts

Shifts in education budget to HBCUs as Trump administration has slashed civil rights investigations and sought to de-emphasize parts of Black history in major U.S. museums

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5 h. ago Trump state visit live: US president facing huge protest on arrival in UK with Melania before meeting King Charles

Trump to be welcomed for historic second state visit to UK involving ceremonial welcome and state banquet

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8 h. ago Trump state visit live: US president set to arrive in London before meeting King Charles

Trump to be welcomed for historic second state visit to UK involving ceremonial welcome and state banquet

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10 h. ago How UK will welcome Trump during historic state visit, from banquet to Red Arrows flypast

The US president will meet with the royal family and prime minister over three days

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10 h. ago A British banquet and a royal salute: Inside Windsor Castle’s preparations for Trump’s state visit

Staff across the royal household have been working behind the scenes to impress the US president

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31 h. ago Windsor's ring of steel for Trump: Metal fences are secured ahead of US State visit this week

Pictures have emerged of metal fences being constructed at strategic locations in the historic royal town as the King prepares to host both Trump and his wife Melania.

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3 d. ago Brazilians take to the streets to celebrate Bolsonaro conviction

Indigenous groups and other minorities praise verdict while US officials issue warnings of possible sanctions• Operation World Cup: the murder plot at the heart of Brazil’s trial of the century• Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in BrazilThousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to rejoice at Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction for plotting a coup, as progressive politicians celebrated the historic move and rightwing figures linked to Donald Trump responded with anger and threats.Chile’s leftwing president, Gabriel Boric, led regional congratulations of the decision to jail Bolsonaro for 27 years for leading a criminal organisation that sought to seize power after the far-right populist lost the 2022 election. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Donald Trump to get special treatment on UK visit with stay in Windsor estate

Donald Trump will be treated to a flypast by the Red Arrows and UK and US F-35 military jets on the East Lawn at Windsor Castle and a special Beating Retreat military ceremony

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5 d. ago King Charles suffers major blow ahead of historic Donald Trump state visit

A new survey has recorded the lowest level of support for the monarchy in 40 years, with calls for complete abolishing of the Firm starting to rise

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7 d. ago Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence himWhen a history of resistance to the lurching authoritarianism of Donald Trump’s second presidency is written, it could well begin on 11 April 2025, inside a small immigration courtroom in remote, central Louisiana.It was there, in the early afternoon, that a slight young man dressed in a blue uniform jumpsuit spoke calmly but directly to the new administration – away from the gaze of television cameras and 1,000 miles (1,610km) from his friends and family. Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian organiser, had been arrested a month earlier – snatched from the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building as he returned home with his wife. Now, detained in the small town of Jena, he sat before a judge who had just ruled that he was eligible to be deported from the United States purely for his political views....

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1 week ago International Ayr Show spectators given chance to meet the Red Arrows pilots

An "exclusive meet and greet" with the pilots of the Red Arrows will take place at the International Ayr Show – Festival of Flight tomorrow.

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1 week ago Ayr International Air Show 2025 Times: Here's when you can see the Red Arrows and other amazing aerial displays at the free festival of flight

The skies above Ayr will be filled with amazing sights over the next couple of days.

Culture

1 week ago Trump to sign executive order renaming the Pentagon in historic move

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order renaming the Department of Defense on Friday to its former namesake.

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1 week ago Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first | Sidney Blumenthal

The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agendaOf all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it – is surely the most ignorant of American history itself.What Trump doesn’t know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief librarian he has fired, along with driving out the heads of the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as dissolving programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which as a result has paused the acclaimed American Experience documentary series. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stephen King shares theory about how Donald Trump will be remembered in history

Author is outspoken critic of president and recently called presidency ‘horror story’

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2 w. ago Pentagon is reinstalling portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that includes a slave

An Army spokesperson said that under the revived instructions of President Trump, they were not prepared to ‘erase’ history

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2 w. ago Trump’s history of praising Pam Bondi after awkward remark about attorney general’s appearance

President Trump says his political career would ‘end’ if he said his highly accomplished attorney general and long time supporter was ‘beautiful’

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2 w. ago Handshakes and hope but little progress: a short history of Trump

US president is keen for a fourth meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but has little to show from the previous three encountersDonald Trump’s unshakeable belief in his ability as a peacemaker has raised the prospect of another attempt to solve one of the world’s most implacable crises: North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons.During an occasionally fractious meeting with Lee Jae Myung in the White House on Monday, Trump did at least agree with South Korea’s liberal president on the need to engage with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Federal Reserve governor 'fired' by Trump issues scathing rebuke claiming president has no authority over central bank

Cook's sacking was the first in the 111-year history of the Federal Reserve, as Trump all but guaranteed a replacement that would back the president's calls to slash interest rates.

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