10 h. ago Mike Pence slams Donald Trump over shocking Oval Office moment: 'I would not have said that'

During a visit to London, Pence said that if he had been President the meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman would "have gone a little different"

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5 d. ago Furious Trump orders Pam Bondi to investigate Bill Clinton over Epstein after exploding at 'weak Republicans'

Amid the fallout from the Epstein email debacle, the White House deployed young children to surround the president in a tender moment caught on video in the Oval Office.

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5 d. ago Trump explodes at 'weak Republicans' about Epstein... moments after sweet White House moment

Amid the fallout from the Epstein email debacle, the White House deployed young children to surround the president in a tender moment caught on video in the Oval Office.

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1 week ago Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage

Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speechTim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.In a shock move, Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech. Continue reading...

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1 week ago A year after devastating Trump loss, have the Democrats begun to find their way back?

Party was shell-shocked after 2024 defeat but Tuesday night’s coast-to-coast romp signals brighter times aheadIt has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself.Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump’s second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its aging leadership class, and their brand, in Democrats’ own words, had become “toxic”: a party increasingly confined to coastal states, big cities and college towns. And even there, warning signs were flashing. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID

When Donald Trump set about dismantling USAID, many around the world were shocked. But on the ground in Sierra Leone, the latest betrayal was not unexpectedEarlier this year, Donald Trump appointed a 28-year-old Doge alumnus, Jeremy Lewin, to oversee his administration’s approach to global aid. Lewin’s primary task has been to gut the US’s aid funding. In an interview with the New York Times, Lewin argued that the traditional approach, which he termed the “global humanitarian complex”, didn’t help poor countries “progress beyond aid”, instead keeping them dependent. The system, he continued, has “demonstrably failed”.This isn’t just the Trump administration’s view. For decades, there has been a robust debate in academic and policy circles, discussed over drinks by development practitioners, written about by critical economists and postcolonial independence leaders, and percolating into the broader consciousness, that aid isn’t working, or at least not as promised. When the news of T...

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2 w. ago The BBC accused of 'shocking' breaches of impartiality by a senior whistleblower

The BBC has been accused of 'shocking' breaches of impartiality by a senior whistleblower.

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2 w. ago BREAKING: Donald Trump to send US troops into Mexico as shock plan revealed

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2 w. ago Donald Trump crucified in prison suit as artist shocks world by asking 'saint or sinner'

Trump is now hanging from a cross in a prison suit in Switzerland to ask us if he's a 'saint or sinner?'

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2 w. ago A year of Donald Trump: British people's trust in the US has collapsed since he was elected

A year on from Donald Trump's shock victory, most people in Britain now say they don't trust the US - a massive drop from last November

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