26 h. ago Jerome Powell keeps interest rates the same — and ignores Trump

Powell maintains the Fed’s apolitical stance even amid president’s badgering, writes Eric Garcia

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56 h. ago Jon Stewart on Trump ignoring the constitution: ‘It’s not optional’

Late-night hosts discuss the president’s unusual take on his oath of office and blaming Biden for economy’s ‘bad parts’ Late-night hosts recapped Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to defending the constitution and blaming Joe Biden for his hits on the economy. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Jon Stewart skewers ‘motherf***er’ Donald Trump for his ‘toy rationing’ plan

‘If a Democrat had even hinted at toy rationing for American children, we’d have a full week of Fox Special Reports on the sobbing children of socialist America,’ Jon Stewart exclaimed on Monday

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59 h. ago Brian Cox blasts Donald Trump 'nonsense' after US President makes latest tariffs demand

The Dundonian acting legend accused of the Trump Administration of "nonsense and a divine ignorance" when it came to understanding how the film industry worked.

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4 d. ago Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary

Ignorance no barrier as president begins to put out approved version of history that ignores American failuresDonald Trump, it could be said, takes a breezy, Sam Cooke style approach to history.Like the legendary “king of soul” in his 1960 hit Wonderful World, the US president has admitted to not knowing much about historical events or figures of the past – even when faced with authorities on the subject. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Vladimir Putin snubs Donald Trump's peace plan AGAIN as WW3 warning issued

Vladimir Putin ignored Donald Trump's pleas to 'stop' the fighting as he unleashed a massive bombing campaign on Ukraine, injuring dozens of civilians including two children

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9 d. ago Jon Stewart says Donald Trump is ageing the nation like Tom Hanks in ‘Cast Away’ as president marks 100 days

The Daily Show presenter also mocked Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary and JD Vance meeting the Pope before his death

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9 d. ago Jon Stewart says Trump is ‘ageing this nation in Tom Hanks’ Cast Away years’ as president marks 100 days

Stewart also mocked Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary and JD Vance meeting the Pope before his death

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9 d. ago Trump 100 days: Trump’s whirlwind start to his second presidency

The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportationsLaw-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the “most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”, and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US’s role in the world. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Macron's Pope funeral snub of Trump: French president warmly embraces Ukrainian leader Zelensky with a 'bro' handshake

The 23 second clip, which has emerged online, shows Macron tightly going in for a friendly 'bro' type handshake with the Ukrainian leader ahead of the Pope Francis ' funeral today.

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1 week ago Putin ignores Pope Francis' funeral and Trump's demand to 'stop the bloodshed NOW' as he launches new deadly kamikaze drone strikes in Ukraine

Strikes in Ukraine were underway today even as the US president reportedly met Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome ahead of the pontiff's funeral, with at least six regions targeted.

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1 week ago Putin ignores Donald Trump's plea for peace and launches overnight blitz on Ukraine

Harrowing images showed the extent of an overnight attack in Ukraine which resulted in several fatalities. The nightmare explosions took place despite Donald Trump telling Russia to 'stop'

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1 week ago Jon Stewart says Elon Musk ghosted him over Daily Show interview invite

‘I think everyone has been left on read at some point by that gentleman’, Jon Stewart said in his latest podcast episode

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3 w. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 authoritarian things Donald Trump's team did in 24 hours as he faces contempt charge

With Donald Trump's administration facing a contempt of court ruling from a federal judge, it raises an unprecedented question: Are there any consequences for Donald Trump ignoring a court ruling? And if not...what happens next?

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3 w. ago Angry voters ask Senator Grassley if they can ignore court orders like Trump

‘The president doesn’t care,’ said a voter. ‘He’s got an order from the Supreme Court and he’s just said: ‘Screw it!’”

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3 w. ago Listen to angry voters ask Senator Grassley if they can ignore court orders like Trump

‘The president doesn’t care,’ said a voter. ‘He’s got an order from the Supreme Court and he’s just said: ‘Screw it!’”

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3 w. ago Handmaid’s Tale showrunners say show’s ‘chilling’ warning ‘was ignored’ by Trump voters

‘The series has been called a cautionary tale about what can happen when power is abused and people’s rights and freedoms are stripped away,’ said showrunner Eric Tuchman

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3 w. ago Make America make again? Trump’s tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams | John Naughton

The president’s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexitiesDonald Trump’s tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it “passeth all understanding” (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to “reshore” the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who’s the big boss around here – or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it, that he “expects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified shopkeepers pleading for mercy from a mafia don”.Cue the UK’s very own Trump whisperer, Keir Starmer, who, according to Politico, plans “to put a review of online safety rules on the table in trade talks” with the US. Which, translated, means that things such as the Online Safety Act and ...

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4 w. ago Dozens saved as CLOTHESLINE stops Ukraine kamikaze drone exploding block of flats

Dramatic pictures showed the stuck drone dangling from the side on the apartment block - the shocking footage comes after Vladimir Putin daringly ignored Donald Trump's plea to 'stop' bombing Ukraine

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