8 h. ago Radical asylum change could send small boat crossings plummeting, report claims

A former advisor to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called on the UK and French governments to copy measures Joe Biden brought in to tackle dangerous migration

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13 h. ago Newsmax host defends Qatar’s gift to Trump then admits he’d ‘definitely criticize’ Biden for the same thing

‘I will say, I would definitely criticize Joe Biden if he cut the exact same deal, and I would criticize Joe Biden if he was about to get a $400 million plane from Qatar,’ Rob Finnerty said on Tuesday night

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29 h. ago Inside the secret wheelchair plan hatched by Joe Biden's aides to hide his decline until after the election

As Joe Biden aged in the White House and his condition deteriorated, those closest to him hatched plans to prop him up, even if it meant putting him in a wheelchair.

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38 h. ago Ivanka Trump is now a food waste entrepreneur – but there's just one glaring problem | Arwa Mahdawi

It’s a little bit rich to talk about food insecurity in the US when your last name is Trump. But after stints as a feminist influencer and political adviser, the president’s favourite daughter has found a new pathIvanka Trump has had her manicured fingers in many pies. She’s designed jewellery and shoes. She’s written a book called Women Who Work, marketed at women who work, full of inspirational quotes and touching anecdotes about how she, a woman, has sometimes worked so hard that she has had to sacrifice massages.That was Early Influencer Ivanka, anyway. Then came Ivanka’s political era. During Donald Trump’s first term as president, she appointed herself Daddy’s special adviser and did a lot of very special advising. In that capacity she gallivanted around the globe, dropping in on the G20 and hobnobbed with world leaders, all while insisting: “I try to stay out of politics.” And, of course, the president’s eldest daughter, who very nearly became the head of the World Bank, tire...

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41 h. ago Nodule found in former President Joe Biden’s prostate during routine physical exam

A small nodule was found in the prostate of former President Joe Biden during a routine physical exam

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42 h. ago Joe Biden in health scare as 'routine exam' uncovers something on his prostate

The discovery raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health just months after he stepped away from political life - the nodule was found during “a routine physical exam”, a spokesperson confirmed.

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43 h. ago Joe Biden's health scare after 'small nodule' found on his prostate during medical exam

Doctors found during a routine exam with former President Joe Biden, 82, a small nodule on his prostate.

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56 h. ago Biden destroyed Harris bid by staying in race too long, top adviser says in book

David Plouffe says Biden ‘totally fucked us’ and calls Harris’s 107-day sprint against Trump a ‘fucking nightmare’Joe Biden “totally fucked us” by leaving it too late to drop out of the 2024 US presidential election, a former top campaign aide to Kamala Harris has told the authors of a new book.David Plouffe, who was manager of Barack Obama’s winning 2008 campaign and a senior adviser in his White House, was drafted in to help Harris’s bid for president after the declining Biden withdrew from the race last summer. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Software update keeps Newark airport radar online but network concerns and flight limits remain

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a new software update prevented a third radar outage over the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend

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3 d. ago From the left and right, US Catholics hope new pope fulfills their hopes

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV’s homeland, raising the question of whether he might be able to ease some of the deep divisions within its ranks

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4 d. ago Biden still thinks he could have beaten Trump. Do we really need this? | Arwa Mahdawi

The former president points to sexism as the reason for Kamala Harris’s election loss. That’s a dangerous cop-outRaise your hand if you’ve been desperate for Joe Biden to pop up and tell us all, yet again, how he would have handily beaten Donald Trump in 2024.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US judge halts plan to transfer Oak Flat land for contested Arizona copper mine

A federal judge has temporarily halted the federal government's plans to transfer land in eastern Arizona for a massive copper mining project that has been years in the making

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5 d. ago Democrats seethe over Biden’s media blitz: ‘Elections are about the future’

Former president provides unwanted reminder of past hurt to party strategists otherwise desperate to move on

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6 d. ago Trump and new German chancellor speak and agree on need to resolve trade disputes – live

Two leaders spoke shortly after Friedrich Merz warned US politicians to ‘stay out of’ Germany’s politics, according to German spokespersonThe winners and losers of Trump’s first tariff war strongly suggest that bankruptcies and farm consolidation could surge during his second term, with major corporations best placed to benefit from his polices at the expense of independent farmers.New analysis by the non-profit research advocacy group Food and Water Watch (FWW), shared exclusively with the Guardian, shows that Trump’s first-term tariffs were particularly devastating for farmers in the Maga rural heartlands. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Jill Biden responds to accusations she limited Joe Biden’s interactions in ‘cocoon’

Dr Jill Biden has responded to accusations that she surrounded Joe Biden in a "cocoon," limiting his interactions with the media.

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6 d. ago The Latest: UK says trade deal slashes tariffs on cars, steel and aluminum

U.S. President Donald Trump said from the White House on Thursday that his government has reached a trade agreement with the United Kingdom

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6 d. ago OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other US tech leaders testify to Congress on AI competition with China

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics

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6 d. ago Joe Biden awkwardly corrects The View hosts about wife Jill’s religion

The Bidens appeared on ‘The View’ for their first joint interview since leaving the White House

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6 d. ago Joe and Jill Biden went on ‘The View’ to let us know they still don’t quite get it

The former president and first lady are perfectly likeable people. But their answers revealed that they’re also out-of-touch, writes Holly Baxter

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6 d. ago Arrogant Joe Biden tells The View he's not surprised Trump beat Kamala and insists HE could have won

Former President Joe Biden revealed on Thursday he still believed he could have beaten President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

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