15 h. ago Greenland Prime Minister issues defiant rebuke to Trump over island grab in scathing 48

Party leaders addressed Trump Friday, stating: 'Greenland's future must be decided by the Greenlandic people.'

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3 d. ago Date set for Trump to give State of the Union address to Congress

House Speaker Mike Johnson has invited the president to give the annual address to Congress on Tuesday February 24

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3 d. ago Trump blames 'disorderly agitator' for 'horrible' ICE shooting in Minneapolis

President Donald Trump has issued a statement addressing the deadly shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis.

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3 d. ago Speaker Johnson to address UK parliament as Europe spirals over Trump's campaign for Greenland

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson will visit London later this month to address the UK Parliament, per a statement issued Wednesday.

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3 d. ago ‘We were sitting with our calculator saying “we can afford that!”’ Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach

The cost of medication was too high for thousands of CF sufferers around the world. Now a Bangladeshi company is making a generic version that will change livesSeven-year-old Grant Leitch had an important question for his mother. He asked if his little brother, Brett, who has cystic fibrosis (CF), was going to die.The South African family, like tens of thousands around the world, have been priced out of access to modern cystic fibrosis therapies, and if Grant had asked at the start of 2025, he might have received a less optimistic answer. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Venezuela live: Trump addresses nation as he reveals location of seized Maduro and wife

It comes amid Donald Trump's escalating threats against the country's leader Nicolas Maduro - although the cause of the blasts is yet to be confirmed.

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8 d. ago Trump says he wants ‘nice, thin blood’ and addresses health rumors in revealing new interview

Donald Trump has insisted that ‘genetics’ allows him to maintain his fast-food-based diet and his frequent use of aspirin

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9 d. ago Donald Trump admits wearing MAKEUP as President addresses health fears

Donald Trump has admitted in a bombshell interview that he applies makeup to his hands after he gets 'whacked again by someone' which 'takes about 10 seconds'

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1 week ago Despite Trump pressure, Big Pharma is raising hundreds of drug prices

Costs of at least 350 branded medications, including vaccines against Covid-19, shingles and cancer treatment Ibrance, will reportedly be hiked

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1 week ago New 2026 laws from ‘red stripe’ on driver’s licenses to ‘America First’ plates on roads

California is targeting high prescription drug prices by getting into the business itself

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2 w. ago ‘Not an enabler’? A glimpse behind the curtain at Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles

Are her recent candid remarks about Trump an attempt to distance herself from an increasingly unpopular president?She was now one of the family. When Donald Trump addressed supporters in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in early December, he asked: “Susie Trump – do you know Susie Trump? Sometimes referred to as Susie Wiles.”The US president was referring to his chief of staff, who he said had persuaded him to return to the campaign trail ahead of the 2026 congressional midterm elections. But a week later, Wiles appeared at risk of becoming the family outcast. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco

Previously vessels would be sunk once they had completed their cargo runs from South America to EuropeThe plummeting price of cocaine is forcing drug-traffickers to reuse the “narco-submarines” they would previously have scuttled once the custom-built vessels had completed their cargo runs from South America to Europe, according to a senior Spanish police officer.While semi-submersible vehicles have been used regularly in Colombia and other parts of South and Central America since the 1980s, they were not detected in European waters until 2006, when an abandoned sub was found in an estuary in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2025

Trump has shown erratic and bizarre behavior throughout the year, leading to questions about his mental acuityIn an address from the White House in December, Donald Trump claimed that, over the past 11 months, his administration had brought “more positive change” than any government in US history.“There has never been anything like it,” Trump added.America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling down stairs.”I said: ‘It’s not our president. We can’t have it.’ I’m very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs for – like I’m on stairs, like these stairs, I’m very – I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record, just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.We don’t want that. Need to walk nice and easy. You not have – you don’t have to set any record. Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don’t,...

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2 w. ago Why are drug prices so high in America? Trump doesn’t have the right answer | Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron

Americans are not paying high prices because of other western countries. Pharmaceutical companies are to blame When Donald Trump spoke about drug prices on 19 December, he struck a familiar note. Americans, he said, were paying far too much for medicines – and it was everyone else’s fault.There would be no talk of reining in private insurers or pharmaceutical profits. Instead, Trump blamed foreign governments for getting a better deal. Countries like France, Germany and Japan, he argued, were piggybacking on the United States by keeping their drug prices low.Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron are the authors of Peak Pharma: Toward a New Political Economy of Health (Oxford University Press) Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US to build new ‘Trump class’ warships as military pressure campaign around Venezuela ramps up

Trump denies new ‘Golden Fleet’ is aimed at countering China

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3 w. ago Donald Trump promised a new ‘golden age’ for the US economy. Where is it?

Most Americans have yet to see this boom – but they’ve certainly heard a lot about it from the presidentMoments into his second term, opening his inaugural address, Donald Trump was unequivocal. “The golden age of America begins right now,” he declared.At a White House reception last weekend, a little over 10 months later, the US president appeared to acknowledge just how far his timeline had shifted. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago More drug companies sign on to Trump’s health exchange that promises to lower prescription prices

Administration officials say the ‘Trump Rx’ website should be up and running next month

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3 w. ago Howard Lutnick addresses Trump’s ‘mathematically impossible’ claim he’s cutting drug prices by 600% during Fox News grilling

Trump claimed he has negotiated with drug companies to cut prices by ‘as much as 400, 500 and even 600 percent’

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3 w. ago Trump live updates: Dozens more Epstein photos, texts and documents released ahead of administration’s deadline for all files

Health Secretary RFK Jr announced move to end gender-affirming care for minors Thursday

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3 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s speech: ‘Surprise primetime episode of The Worst Wing’

Late-night hosts recapped Trump’s national address and further insights from chief of staff Susie Wiles’s interviewLate-night hosts discussed – or ignored – Donald Trump’s surprise primetime address and dug further into the explosive new interview the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Continue reading...

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