67 m. ago FBI reassigns agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers

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93 m. ago Memorial wall to fallen USAID staffers is removed from the agency's former building

Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development, with no immediate word on where it will wind up

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94 m. ago US and Ukraine finally sign mineral deal after Donald Trump turns on Putin

The minerals deal, signed on Wednesday, will give the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine's natural resources - including aluminium, graphite, oil and natural gas

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1 hour ago PHOTO ESSAY: Immigrants in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo under Trump's crackdown

This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors.

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1 hour ago Trump’s loyal footsoldiers doff their Maga caps at cabinet love

Red and navy hats were strategically placed as Trump’s cabinet gushed over 100 presidential days like no otherThere were navy blue and red baseball caps up and down the table, strategically placed in front of every cabinet member, and each bearing the message “Gulf of America”.Yet the unorthodox collection of headwear, embroidered with Donald Trump’s forced new name for the centuries-old Gulf of Mexico, was far from the most bizarre aspect of an extraordinary White House gathering hosted by the president on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago George Clooney's British wife warned she could be BANNED from the US by Donald Trump

Amal, a top international human rights attorney, 47, has reportedly been 'cautioned' by the Foreign Office for legal advice she provided in a war crimes case against the Israeli Prime Minister.

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2 h. ago Donald Trump 'dark horse candidate' after he expresses desire to be next pope

Donald Trump seems not content with being just US President after saying he would kind of like to be the next pope, sparking much mockery online over the Orange Manbaby

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2 h. ago Shares in social media giant Snap dive after it ditches forecasts due to Donald Trump's trade war

Snap, which owns photo messaging app Snapchat, stoked fears that advertisers are cutting spending because of tariffs.

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3 h. ago Ukraine and US say minerals deal ready for signing but 'last minute snag' appears

Two sources have told the Reuters news agency that a deal could be signed on Wednesday

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3 h. ago Microsoft says quarterly profits up 18% as it weathers tech sector turbulence

Microsoft on Wednesday said its profits rose 18% for the January-March quarter, driven by its growth in its cloud computing and artificial intelligence business in a turbulent time for the tech sector

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3 h. ago A former Trump official backs World Heritage status for the vast Okefenokee Swamp

President Donald Trump's former agriculture secretary wants the administration to support adding the Okefenokee Swamp's vast wildlife refuge to a United Nations list of World Heritage site

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3 h. ago Trump 'waiting for right moment to reveal alien bodies' to the world, says Uri Geller

EXCLUSIVE: Mystic and spoon bender Uri Geller has said Donald Trump is gearing up to prove to the world the existence of aliens, and use it to launch his unprecedented 2028 bid

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4 h. ago Trump says he does not know if El Salvador would return Kilmar Ábrego García and hasn’t asked – live

Trump said he hasn’t spoken to Bukele about mistakenly deported man – despite supreme court order requiring administration to facilitate returnKristi Noem says Ábrego García would be deported immediately if sent back to USTrump pressures journalist to accept doctored photo as realDonald Trump promptly claimed this morning that the contraction in the US economy had nothing to do with his tariff wars, repeated his habitual claim that this is all somehow his predecessor Joe Biden’s fault, and predicted the economy would boom when tariffs kicked in. He wrote on his Truth Social platform:This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden “Overhang.” This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE P...

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4 h. ago Feds charge alleged white supremacist over 2019 arson at Tennessee school that trained Rosa Parks

A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center

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4 h. ago Kuwait frees 10 more Americans in the second release in as many months

U.S. officials say Kuwait has released 10 more American detainees in an apparent goodwill gesture

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5 h. ago Trump invites Elon Musk to stay in his administration 'as long as you like' as he takes major step back from DOGE

President Donald Trump invited Elon Musk to stay in his administration as long as he wants - an invitation the came as the Tesla founder is on his way out the door.

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6 h. ago 'Last minute snag' delays signing of Ukraine and US minerals deal

Two sources have told the Reuters news agency that a deal could be signed on Wednesday

Economics

6 h. ago The home of Elon Musk's SpaceX could become an official Texas city called Starbase

Elon Musk has for years made Texas his business home and playground as he launches rockets and builds cars in the Lone Star state

Technology

6 h. ago Kristi Noem says Kilmar Ábrego García would be deported immediately if sent back to US

US homeland security secretary said Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador ‘not under our control’Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said that if Kilmar Ábrego García was sent back to the US, the Donald Trump administration “would immediately deport him again”.Noem repeated White House assertions about Ábrego García, a Salvadorian man who the Trump administration has admitted was mistakenly deported from Maryland last month, in a new interview with CBS. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago AP PHOTOS: US stocks sink after a weak report on the economy

U.S. stocks are sinking following a discouraging report suggesting the U.S. economy may have shrunk at the start of the year, before most of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announced tariffs could take effect.

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