10 h. ago Lanarkshire Bodycare store remains open as administrators are called in

Its East Kilbride branch was among the nine remaining shops in the country kept open as they try and find a way forward for the struggling business.

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4 d. ago US to urge G7 to impose high tariffs on China, India over Russian oil purchases

Trump administration extends call for tougher measures beyond EU as it pushes Moscow to agree Ukraine peace deal

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1 week ago JD Vance heckled during visit to Minneapolis church shooting site: ‘Protect our kids’

The Vances received a frosty reception at Annunciation Catholic Church, with protestors calling the vice president a ‘coward’ and imploring the Trump administration to ‘do better’ on gun safety

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2 w. ago Federal judge blocks US from deporting unaccompanied children to Guatemala

Washington-based judge says removals of 10 children would violate US laws and schedules hearing for afternoonA federal judge on Sunday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after lawyers said the removals would violate US laws.The Washington DC-based district judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered the administration to refrain from deporting the children for 14 days and called for a hearing at 12.30pm. The National Immigration Law Center, a pro-immigration advocacy group, brought the challenge on behalf of the children, who are ages 10-17. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump aide defends Robert F Kennedy Jr over CDC chaos, calling him ‘crown jewel of this administration’ – US politics live

Stephen Miller baselessly claims CDC experts ‘weren’t actually very knowledgable about public health’ as he defends health secretaryA visit to Taiwan by two US senators has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between officials of the two sides.The chair of the Senate armed services committee, Roger Wicker, and the Nebraska senator Deb Fischer arrived in Taipei on Friday for a series of high-level meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders to discuss US-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade and investment, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s de facto embassy in lieu of formal diplomatic relations with the self-governing island democracy.A thriving democracy is never fully assured and we’re here to talk to our friends and allies in Taiwan about what we’re doing to enhance worldwide peace. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump administration tells states to remove references to 'gender ideology' from sex ed materials

President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials

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2 w. ago Backlash as White House chooses Robert F Kennedy Jr deputy to run CDC – US politics live

Senators’ fury at developments at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Jim O’Neill picked to replace Susan MonarezWhite House picks Kennedy deputy to replace fired CDC chiefPatty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents

Senator Patty Murray calls Trump’s immigration policy ‘fundamentally sick’ after incident in Washington statePatty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000 acre blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity | Moira Donegan

In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itselfIn a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian prison camp in June as a kind of protective custody. Ábrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by I agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, a massive prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error. Ábrego became a symbol for the several hundred men who had been deprived of their liberty and deported to the distant foreign prison without due process and in defiance of both American and international law.It was only after e...

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3 w. ago Democrats ask Trump to resume a major offshore wind project near Rhode Island

The Democratic governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut, members of Congress and union workers are calling on the Trump administration to allow a major offshore wind project to move forward

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3 w. ago Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves? | Stephen Marche

For centuries, Canada hasn’t needed to prioritize its military. But the US transformation calls for a Finland-style approachThe second Trump administration has been worse than Canada’s worst nightmare. The largest military force in the history of the world, across a largely undefended border, is suddenly under the command of a president who has called for our annexation. Canada could not be less prepared. The possibility of American aggression has been so remote, for so long, that the idea has not been seriously considered in living memory. Donald Trump has focused on economic rather than military pressure, but the new tone in Washington is finally forcing Canada to ask itself the most basic question: how do we defend ourselves?For most other countries in the world, self-defence is the key to national identity. Canada’s immense good fortune has been that we haven’t really needed a strong military to build our country. In the war of 1812, we were British, and the British kept us aliv...

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