12 h. ago Trump to consider final proposal on TikTok future as US ban deadline looms

Owner ByteDance required to find non-Chinese buyer for video app’s American operations by SaturdayDonald Trump is preparing to consider a final proposal to decide the future of TikTok before a deadline for the app to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a US ban.The US vice-president, JD Vance, the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday to discuss the issue, Reuters reported. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago What are UK laws on abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’ and what has US been saying?

US vice president JD Vance and now the US State Department have drawn attention to legal cases in the UK.

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55 h. ago As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist | Charlotte Higgins

The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern: the battle lines are now clearIt has come to this: we are now in Ministry of Truth territory. In Washington DC, the Smithsonian Institution, the US’s ensemble of 21 great national museums, last week became the subject of an executive order by President Donald Trump. “Distorted narratives” are to be rooted out. There will be no more of the “corrosive ideology” that has fostered a “sense of national shame”. The institution has, reads the order, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” that portrays “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive”. The vice-president, JD Vance, is, by virtue of his office, on the museum’s board. He is charged by Trump to “prohibit expenditure” on programmes that “divide Americans based on race”. He is to remove “improper ideology”. The order is titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. George Or...

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67 h. ago I'm JD Vance's 'British Sherpa' mentor. This is what he REALLY thinks of Europe, the Ukraine war and Putin

Cambridge academic Dr James Orr has been dubbed 'JD Vance's English philosopher king' and Donald Trump 's Vice-President fondly calls him his 'UK Sherpa'.

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3 d. ago The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice

His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House teamNot for the first time, JD Vance, America’s outspoken vice-president, has made a public fool of himself. He insisted on visiting Greenland despite unequivocal statements by the territory’s leaders and Denmark’s government that he was not invited and not welcome. Vance’s trip was confined to a remote Arctic base, where he briefly spoke to a few Americans. Plans to make a wider tour and speak to Greenlanders were cancelled – because Greenlanders did not want to speak to him.Such hostility is entirely understandable, given the repeated, provocative and disrespectful declarations by Vance’s boss, Donald Trump, that the US plans to annex Greenland and may do so illegally and by force. Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark. Election results this month showed the vast majority of local people back expanded self-rule or outright independence. The...

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4 d. ago JD Vance admits that he wasn’t entirely sure why Trump wanted Greenland in the first place

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance visited the territory for just a few hours

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4 d. ago Fox News host Jesse Watters suggests US ‘may have to burn a bridge’ with Denmark over Greenland

Fox News host Jesse Watters has suggested the US 'may have to burn a bridge' with Denmark in order to claim Greenland, after vice president JD Vance visited the Danish territory on Friday.

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4 d. ago Donald Trump reveals two word reason why he wants to take over Greenland

Donald Trump condensed his reasoning to why he wants a bigger US influence in Greenland to just two words - his and vice president JD Vance's comments have annoyed Danish officials

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4 d. ago Fox News host Jessie Watters suggests US ‘may have to burn a bridge’ with Denmark over Greenland

Fox News host Jesse Watters has suggested the US 'may have to burn a bridge' with Denmark in order to claim Greenland, after vice president JD Vance visited the Danish territory on Friday.

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4 d. ago Danish foreign minister responds after Vance stakes US claim for Greenland: ‘We don’t appreciate your tone’

US vice president JD Vance has been issued a warning by a Danish government minister, as Donald Trump's administration continues to express an interest in owning Greenland, despite it being a territory of Denmark.

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4 d. ago What is the Smithsonian Institution and why is it important?

A Trump executive order aims to uproot ‘anti-American ideology’ from the US museum and research complexOn Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, a behemoth of a research and museum organization that operates more than 20 museum and research centers and is visited by millions of people each year, mainly in Washington DC and New York City. The museums include the National Museum of African Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), which Trump name-checked in his executive order. Trump’s executive order instructs Vice-President JD Vance to “eliminate improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian’s museums.The Smithsonian has already come under scrutiny by Trump and his allies. Earlier this year, the institution was forced to close its diversity office and froze all federal hiring. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago JD Vance repeatedly attacks media during Signalgate questioning during Greenland trip

Vice President JD Vance attacked the media’s ‘obsession’ with Signalgate after being asked about an internal investigation into the security leak.

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5 d. ago JD Vance says Denmark ‘has not done a good job by the people of Greenland’ – Europe live

US vice-president says Denmark has not ‘kept Greenland safe’ and this is why ‘President Trump’s policy is what it is’Making some of the Danish fears come true (8:23), it appears that US vice-president JD Vance could speak later from the Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, according to the Danish broadcaster TV2 reporting a notice from the European Broadcasting Union.The speech is expected 5.45pm GMT (6.45pm CET), according to the report. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump declares US 'cannot do without Greenland' after JD Vance lands

Donald Trump's vice-president JD Vance's visit to Greeland has been scaled back from original plans to tour the island after a row with the governments of Greenland and Denmark

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5 d. ago JD Vance says he will talk about ‘US interest in Greenland’ as he arrives for visit – Europe live

US vice president lands at Pituffik space base and says ‘there is some interest in Greenland from the Trump administration’Making some of the Danish fears come true (8:23), it appears that US vice-president JD Vance could speak later from the Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, according to the Danish broadcaster TV2 reporting a notice from the European Broadcasting Union.The speech is expected 5.45pm GMT (6.45pm CET), according to the report. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago JD Vance touches down in Greenland after Trump claimed US will inevitably take island

Vice President JD Vance's trip has been scaled back from original plans to tour the island more widely after a row with the governments of Greenland and Denmark over a lack of invitation

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5 d. ago So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start | Marina Hyde

The widely reviled veep and his wife may not see much of the island they’d like to annex, but the US military base will be lovely at this time of yearThere’s a Gerard Butler movie called Greenland, which – via a series of cataclysmic events handled incredibly Butlerishly – ends with Gerard cocooned in a remote secure bunker in Greenland. As the week has worn on, this has increasingly become the mood of today’s supposedly super-fun tourist trip to Greenland by the second lady of the United States, Usha Vance, and her husband, the vice-president, JD Vance. Who, come to think of it, does actually look like the Cabbage Patch Gerard Butler.Anyway: Greenland. Like I say, the trip has evolved this week both in style and substance. Originally, it was announced that the second lady was going to take one of her sons, immerse herself in various local events – she’s apparently simply fascinated by Greenland’s culture – and attend the famous Avannaata Qimussersua dog sled race. No more. Now, it’...

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5 d. ago What to know about the U.S. military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland

The remote Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, which Vice President JD Vance is visiting on Friday, is the U.S. Department of Defense’s northernmost installation

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5 d. ago Usha Vance: US second lady and wife of JD Vance's visit to Greenland cancelled after locals refuse to host

Usha Vance, like her husband, has been on a rightward political journey and was part of a delegation due to visit the territory President Trump covets for the US

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5 d. ago Usha Vance: Who is JD Vance's wife as Greenland travel agency withdraws from hosting Vice President's spouse

Usha Vance, like her husband, has been on a rightward political journey and was part of a delegation due to visit the territory President Trump covets for the US

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