53 m. ago DC lawsuit challenges Trump's National Guard deployment as a forced 'military occupation'

The District of Columbia has sued to stop President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard during his law enforcement intervention in Washington

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57 m. ago RFK Jr and Democrats spar in tense hearing about chaos at federal health agencies and vaccines – live updates

Trump’s health secretary faces tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to ‘make America healthy again’Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will appear before a congressional committee on Thursday, where he’s expected to face questions about turmoil at federal health agencies.The US Senate finance committee has called Kennedy to a hearing about his plans to “Make America Healthy Again”. Continue reading...

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82 m. ago Fox News executives called Jeanine Pirro a ‘reckless maniac’ while she still worked at network

Former anchor provided cause for concern among studio bosses who worried about what she might say on air about Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, court filings show

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1 hour ago Rosie O’Donnell hits back at Trump with Epstein dig after president threatens to revoke her citizenship

‘She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so,’ Trump wrote of the comedian on Truth Social

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1 hour ago RFK Jr defends chaos at federal health agencies as Democratic senators attack his ‘disaster’ tenure – live updates

Trump’s health secretary faces tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to ‘make America healthy again’Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will appear before a congressional committee on Thursday, where he’s expected to face questions about turmoil at federal health agencies.The US Senate finance committee has called Kennedy to a hearing about his plans to “Make America Healthy Again”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Epstein victim who voted for Trump blasts president for calling survivors liars: ‘I put my hope in him’

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the Epstein case is ‘a Democrat hoax,’ which has infuriated survivors

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2 h. ago Energy company Orsted sues Trump administration for stopping work on major offshore wind farm

The developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut is suing the Trump administration for halting construction

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2 h. ago Republicans move to lift drilling and mining restrictions in Western states

Republican lawmakers in Congress are moving to eliminate limits on energy development in several Western states

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2 h. ago RFK Jr to be grilled by senators on chaos at federal health agencies and vaccine policy changes – live updates

Trump’s health secretary is expected to face tough questions on about department layoffs and budget cuts amid scrutiny over his plans to ‘make America healthy again’Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will appear before a congressional committee on Thursday, where he’s expected to face questions about turmoil at federal health agencies.The US Senate finance committee has called Kennedy to a hearing about his plans to “Make America Healthy Again”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Trump’s domestic troop deployments aren’t about crime – they’re about intimidation | Moira Donegan

The president is targeting Chicago in his latest bid to assert authority over Democratic governance and racial pluralism“We’re going in,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday, when asked whether national guard troops would be sent to invade Chicago. The comment came as reports emerged that national guard troops from Texas – not yet federalized under direct presidential control – were preparing to deploy to Chicago in the coming days, in defiance of the opposition repeatedly and forcefully expressed by the Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, and the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, both Democrats.The White House and the president’s allies have claimed that the deployment is a response to violent crime in Chicago. This is a lie. Crime in Chicago has dropped dramatically over the past decades, as it has in every major American city – including Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the national guard and the marines earlier this year, and Washington DC, where armed federal agents have patrolled the stre...

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3 h. ago Trump health fears whirl as sleuths spot new 'bulge' and it's not his you know what

Social media sleuths over recent weeks have pronounced Donald Trump as 'dead' and 'ill', despite the president appearing in public several times – with another clothing theory added into the mix

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4 h. ago Nigel Farage's 'awkward' Oval Office photo proves he's on 'Team Trump' in talking down Britain

After examining the 'awkward' photographs from Nigel Farage's divisive meeting with US President Donald Trump, body language expert Judi James has picked up on a telling sign that the Reform leader is 'Team Trump' all the way

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5 h. ago Takeaways: Gregory Bovino is breaking norms while leading immigration enforcement in Los Angeles

Two years ago Gregory Bovino was relieved of command of the Border Patrol’s El Centro, California, sector and encouraged to retire

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5 h. ago 'Turn and burn': Head of Los Angeles campaign shows how immigration agents are racking up arrests

The Border Patrol agent leading immigration enforcement in Los Angeles was removed from his position in 2023 under President Joe Biden

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5 h. ago Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first | Sidney Blumenthal

The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agendaOf all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it – is surely the most ignorant of American history itself.What Trump doesn’t know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief librarian he has fired, along with driving out the heads of the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as dissolving programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which as a result has paused the acclaimed American Experience documentary series. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Nigel Farage strangely shows 'little signs of friendship' in grim Donald Trump photo

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage met with US President Donald Trump this week, and a telling photograph of the pair emerged, with an expert claiming it shows 'little signs of friendship'

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5 h. ago UK firms axe jobs at fastest pace for almost four years, survey finds

Companies are also increasingly pessimistic about future employment amid concerns over the wider economic outlook.

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6 h. ago Trump shares distorted Rosie O’Donnell photo amid threats to revoke her US citizenship

‘She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so,’ Trump wrote of the comedian on Truth Social

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6 h. ago Trump’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers sets a dangerous precedent | Kenneth Roth

Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and curtailed, it will enable US authorities to summarily shoot anyone they chooseThe US military’s killing of 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers traveling by boat in international waters in the Caribbean is an illegal use of war powers to address what should have been a situation of law enforcement. Unless this dangerous precedent is condemned and curtailed, it will enable US authorities to summarily shoot anyone they choose by simply declaring a “war” against them.Last month, it was reported that Donald Trump had signed a secret decree authorizing the Pentagon to use military force against certain designated Latin American drug cartels, claiming that they were “terrorist” organizations. On Tuesday, Trump wrote that on his orders the military had targeted Tren de Aragua “narcoterrorists”, accusing them of “operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro”, the Venezuelan leader, and being “responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, ...

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6 h. ago U.S. envoy Witkoff meets European leaders on Ukraine security

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with European leaders in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine

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