15 h. ago Common depression drugs among those linked to autism after Trump's bombshell Tylenol announcement

Health experts around the world have been grappling to find a cause behind the rapid rise of autism and President Donald Trump recently pointed to acetaminophen as a potential factor.

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16 h. ago ‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferencesTo many observers, both in the US and abroad, Donald Trump has been behaving strangely recently. Especially online.As a government shutdown loomed in the US last week, the president posted an AI video which depicted Hakeem Jeffries, the first Black House minority leader, wearing a sombrero and exaggerated moustache, with mariachi music playing in the background. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago At America's national parks in the Trump era, the arc of history bends toward revisionism

The National Park Service under President Donald Trump is looking to reshape what it tells Americans about their history

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19 h. ago Trump plans aid package for US soybean farmers while seeking trade deal with China

President Donald Trump is making plans for a significant aid package for U.S. soybean farmers

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22 h. ago Trump's Department of War gives ultimatum on next place National Guard may be sent

US president Donald Trump could soon be sending National Guard troops into Chicago after seizing control of the Illinois National Guard - the state governor has decried the plans as 'un-American'

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24 h. ago Israel agrees to ceasefire in Gaza as Trump announces 'withdrawal line' in peace plan

Israel has agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza as part of a peace plan to end the conflict in the region, with President Donald Trump announcing the 'withdrawal line'

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24 h. ago ‘Daddy’s watching!’ SNL is back with a bang as Trump sketch rips president over wars, late

‘I’m just keeping an eye on SNL, making sure they don’t do anything too mean about me,’ James Austin Johnson, playing Trump, quipped during the cold open

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25 h. ago Trump’s bullying of Latin America isn’t part of any plan – he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing | Simon Tisdall

The president’s threats to attack Venezuela are regressive, dangerous and almost certain to backfireRunning for president in 2024, Donald Trump vowed to avoid costly, often disastrous overseas US military interventions like Iraq and Afghanistan. This was a key plank in his isolationist “America first” platform. Yet within months of his inauguration, US forces were bombing Yemen and Iran. Looking south, Trump threatened to seize the Panama canal. Now, the Pentagon is gearing up for attacks on “terrorist” drug cartels deep inside Colombia and Mexico. Of most immediate concern is a possible renewed White House effort to forcibly impose regime change on Venezuela.Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s hard-left authoritarian president, believes this effort is already under way. He says the US is waging “undeclared war” on his country after several deadly strikes on Venezuelan vessels in international waters. Trump notified Congress last week that the US is engaged in “armed conflict” with drug car...

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29 h. ago Trump reveals phone call that pushed Netanyahu to accept Gaza ceasefire: 'This is your chance for victory'

President Donald Trump told an Israeli news outlet that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted his plan for a ceasefire with Hamas because of a decisive phone call on Friday.

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30 h. ago MARK ALMOND: Critics may dismiss Trump as vain but they miss how he manages to bend foes

MARK ALMOND: Donald Trump is the most revolutionary President in US history. Because of his rhetoric about 'making America great again', many people think he is backward-looking.

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30 h. ago Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland

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36 h. ago ‘I feel like we are in a trap’: Gaza residents hopeful but wary of Trump’s peace plan

Hamas’s agreement to release all hostages and surrender power hailed internationally as Israeli attacks continueWhen Arij al-Farra heard that Hamas had partially agreed to Donald Trump’s plan and that the US president had ordered Israel to stop bombing Gaza, the first thing she felt was a flicker of hope. The second thing she felt was an explosion. An Israeli aircraft had dropped a bomb close to her tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.Though it was luck that saved al-Farra from death, she took the attack as a bad omen for the prospects for peace in Gaza. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago ‘I feel like we are in a trap’: Gaza residents hopeful but wary of Trump’s plan

Hamas’s agreement to release all hostages and surrender power hailed internationally as Israeli attacks continueWhen Arij al-Farra heard that Hamas had partially agreed to Donald Trump’s plan and that the US president had ordered Israel to stop bombing Gaza, the first thing she felt was a flicker of hope. The second thing she felt was an explosion. An Israeli aircraft had dropped a bomb close to her tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.Though it was luck that saved Farra from death, she took the attack as a bad omen for the prospects for peace in Gaza. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Donald Trump issues new warning to Hamas to move quickly on hostage release or 'bets are off' over peace deal

President Donald Trump warned Hamas to 'move quickly' and release the hostages or else 'all bets will be off' amid efforts to broker a peace deal to end the violence in Gaza.

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41 h. ago Legal setbacks mount for Trump’s birthright order before likely Supreme Court review

Now it's five federal courts that have rejected President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end automatic citizenship for the children of people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily

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44 h. ago Trump officials cut nearly $8bn in clean energy projects in Democratic states

Democrats and environmental groups slam move as ‘sick political game’ and say it will drive up energy billsThe Trump administration is cancelling $7.6bn in grants that supported hundreds of clean energy projects in 16 states, all of which voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.The move comes as Donald Trump threatens deep cuts in his fight with congressional Democrats over the government shutdown. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago “‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’”: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink

Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapseNo other nation means more for what Nato is than the United States. It holds a unique position among member states due to its political, economic and military weight. Which is why the forces that dominate American politics – and who is in the White House – are such decisive factors. The presidential election in November 2016 was therefore not only important to the US, but also to all of Nato.For the first six months of 2016, Hillary Clinton was ahead in every poll. By autumn, election experts were predicting her victory. I, too, had a gut feeling this would be the outcome. On election night, my wife Ingrid and I arranged a party with friends and colleagues at the residence in Brussels. We rigged up a large television in the living room, and hamburgers were served. A long day lay ahead, so I turned in befor...

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47 h. ago ‘Trump’s decomposing ear of corn’: what does ‘hair certainty’ tell us about our leaders?

From Starmer’s stiff quiff to the Maga movement’s glossy TV locks, a politician’s mane can speak volumes – it says as much about what side of the divide they sit on as it does about the prevailing political windsLabour has an image problem. In a recent YouGov survey, people expressed a view that the party is “dishonest”, “only interested in themselves”, and “the same as the rest”. It’s no wonder that they are currently, terrifyingly, 10 points behind Reform in the polls. They also, by a slightly different – you could say less data-driven – metric, have a different kind of image problem. They lack “hair certainty”, from the top down. The idea of “hair certainty” was coined by the writer Simon Doonan. Writing in the buildup to the 2016 presidential election that would see Donald Trump first take office, he explained: “Presidential hair = hair with certainty Hair-certainty describes hair that is what it appears to be. No illusions. No Greco-Roman fakery. Presidential hair can be thick ...

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54 h. ago Starmer calls for ‘agreement without delay’ on peace plan in Gaza

Hamas accepted elements of the plan to end the nearly two-year war put forward by US President Donald Trump.

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55 h. ago Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can't end birthright citizenship

A federal appeals court in Boston has ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily

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