54 h. ago Top military lawyer raised concerns about Trump’s ‘drug boat’ strikes and was promptly ignored: report

The senior judge advocate general reportedly raised concerns that the airstrikes against the alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ could amount to extrajudicial killings

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6 d. ago The Guardian view on a new nuclear age: great powers should not restock a house of dynamite | Editorial

Donald Trump’s remarks on resuming nuclear testing have highlighted the risks. Proliferation must not be considered inevitableWhen Eisaku Satō, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not making nuclear bombs, owning them or allowing them on its territory, he assured the audience: “I have no doubt that this policy will be pursued by all future governments.”Yet last week, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister, declined to say whether the country that understands the cost of nuclear war better than any other would stand by its commitment – reflecting the bleak broader outlook. Eighty years after the US dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, incinerating tens of thousands of people, and almost 40 after Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan seriously discussed nuclear abolition in Reykjavik, the spectre looms once more. Last month, Donald Trump ordered the US military to match other countries’ nuclear weapons testing. Continu...

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8 d. ago Fox News avoids Epstein controversy during JD Vance interview after Trump ignores questions over fallout: Live

Fox News’ Sean Hannity did not ask the vice president about the newly-released Jeffrey Epstein emails that mention Donald Trump

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1 week ago BBC boss Tim Davie 'ignored concerns about Trump documentary'

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee's chairwoman Dame Caroline Dinenage has said that the BBC director general 'didn't take concerns seriously' when it came to the Panorama doc

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1 week ago Tim Davie ignored concerns about BBC Trump documentary – Dinenage

Director-general Tim Davie resigned over the editing of a speech by Donald Trump.

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2 w. ago World leaders ignore Trump’s threats and remind us how high the stakes are at Cop30

President Donald Trump’s loud cries of a climate ‘con job’ are being ignored, Nick Ferris writes from Belém

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2 w. ago Putin warns Russia will consider resuming nuclear weapons tests in retaliation if US stages similar trials

Russian despot Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will consider resuming nuclear tests if the United States did the same. 

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2 w. ago One way to redefine the first lady role: demolish Melania’s office to build a folly

The president’s wife is reported to have ‘privately raised concerns about’ the destruction of the White House East Wing. If so, they were ignored From Eleanor Roosevelt to Melania Trump, the East Wing of the White House served as a base for first ladies. It was where Michelle Obama spearheaded her Let’s Move public health campaign and where Nancy Reagan and her staff worked on the Just Say No drug awareness initiative.“It was a place where first ladies could carry out the important work that they do,” said Katherine AS Sibley, a professor of history at St Joseph’s University. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Ignorant’ Trump can’t resume nuclear testing – he could knock the earth off its axis

EXCLUSIVE: When Donald Trump talks of nuclear testing, it's hard not to imagine a vision of a giant orange baby juggling with a kitchen knife... with experts pointing to the past as an example

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3 w. ago Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuelsHarrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Candace Owens calls out Trump for apparently ignoring the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s death

MAGA influencer Candace Owens has made a rare criticism of President Donald Trump’s administration, arguing the “full story” will never be revealed on Charlie Kirk’s death

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3 w. ago Donald Trump makes 'nuke' threat in bid to scare Russia and China as WW3 fears rise

Donald Trump appeared to announce that the U.S. would resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an "equal basis" with Russia and China.

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3 w. ago Trump orders immediate resumption of nuclear weapons testing

US president’s statement comes ahead of summit with China’s Xi Jinping

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3 w. ago 'Knock them off': Scotland's latest recruits sets ambitions as 'wrestling' fitness test passed

Upbeat about fitness of Zander Fagerson, Darcy Graham and Duhan van der Merwe

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