19 h. ago ‘The president is ... unwell’: Mike Johnson doesn’t refute claim as Democrat assails Trump to his face over generals address

Pennsylvania rep Madeleine Dean also took Johnson to task over ‘racist’ AI meme Trump shared of Democratic leaders during shutdown negotiations

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44 h. ago What do Trump and Hegseth’s inflammatory speeches to military generals signal? | Moira Donegan

The Trump administration evidently seeks to transform the US military into a partisan tool of the president’s regimeShortly after Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary, summoned all the military’s generals to Quantico, Virginia, from their positions around the world in an unusual demand for an in-person assembly, Ben Hodges, a retired general, took to social media to evoke a bit of history. “July 1935,” Hodges said. “German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weiman constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.” Hegseth’s account replied to Hodges post: “Cool story, General”.Yet when the meeting finally happened on Tuesday morning, the army generals and navy admirals were treated to a 45-minute speech by Hegseth, followed by a rambling, hour-long address by Trump, which confirmed at least some of what Hodges ...

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66 h. ago The Department of War: Only manly men doing manly things in the name of America, thanks to our manly leaders Trump and Hegseth

It’s ‘highest male standard’ — zero fat, zero beards and zero diversity, writes Holly Baxter, as Hegseth exhorts US generals to WAR ... on culture

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2 d. ago Trump claims US faces ‘invasion from within’ in address to military leaders after Hegseth declares war on diversity efforts – live

US president tells hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia they will ‘straighten out’ US cities after defense secretary rails against ‘fat troops’Hegseth declares war on racial and gender diversity efforts in US militaryThe US government is hurtling towards its first shutdown in six years, with no signs congressional leaders are near agreement on legislation to continue funding beyond the Tuesday night deadline to prevent workers from being furloughed and agencies from shutting their doors.Congress’s Republican majority is pushing legislation to fund the government through 21 November, but Democrats have refused to vote for it unless it includes a series of concessions centered on healthcare. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Great news — Trump and Hegseth have finally gotten rid of the woke, pronoun

It’s ‘highest male standard’ — zero fat, zero beards and zero diversity, writes Holly Baxter, as Hegseth exhorts US generals to WAR ... on culture

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4 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy urges west to cut off Russia’s energy revenues, saying decisive action ‘long overdue’

President’s plea comes after Russia bombards Kyiv and elsewhere in one of its most sustained attacks of the war. What we know on day 1,314See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskyy has again urged the international community to act decisively to cut off Russia’s energy revenues that fund its Ukraine war after Moscow carried out one of its worst attacks on Kyiv of the war. “The time for decisive action is long overdue, and we count on a strong response from the United States, Europe, the G7 and the G20,” the Ukrainian president said on Telegram. While the United Nations was holding general assembly sessions, Russia had “literally used every day, every hour, to strike at Ukraine”, he said in his nightly video address. Ukraine has so far failed to convince US president Donald Trump to impose punitive sanctions on Moscow.The onslaught on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine killed at least four people in what Zelenskyy called a described as a “vile and cowardly” attack, Luke ...

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5 d. ago More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz

Behind the US president’s speech lay the long-term logic of neoliberalism: winners and losers, racialism and a crude, exclusionary nationalismEleanor Roosevelt, Doc Evatt, Jessie Street, Dag Hammarskjöld and the other founders of the United Nations must be spinning in their graves.No one who believes that the world could be a better place thinks that the UN is perfect, but the language the US president used in his address to the general assembly offered no hope. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Whoopi Goldberg suggests invoking 25th Amendment after Trump’s ‘unhelpful’ address to UN

The co-host of ‘The View’ said that other world leaders did not consider Trump to be ‘serious anymore’

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9 d. ago Zelenskyy to address UN as Russia dismisses Trump’s claim Ukraine can regain all land lost – Europe live

Kremlin responds after US president’s show of support for Ukraine at the United Nations general assemblyA Spanish defence ministry spokesperson said in a statement shared with Reuters that “there has been an attempt to disrupt the GPS signal,” but the plane was not affected as it had its own encrypted system.They also noted that it’s a common occurence on this route with commercial flights. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 'Green scam': At UN, watched by drowning nations' leaders, Trump assails the ethos of climate change

In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues

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9 d. ago Donald Trump’s sharia law attack on Sadiq Khan outrages Labour MPs

Keir Starmer urged to take action over US president’s inflammatory speech to the UNKeir Starmer is facing demands from Labour MPs to reprimand Donald Trump’s administration after the US president falsely claimed London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”, Sadiq Khan.In an address to the UN general assembly, Trump said: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump scolds world leaders and says ‘your countries are going to hell’ in blistering UN General Assembly address: Live updates

President addressed 80th UN General Assembly in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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9 d. ago 'Your countries are going to hell': Trump's extraordinary address accuses UN of 'funding an assault' on West, rails against 'uncontrolled immigration' and predicts death of Europe

Donald Trump accused the United Nations of 'funding an assault' on the West through immigration during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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9 d. ago Secret Service smashes massive telecom ‘network’ threat to NYC cell service ahead of Trump’s United Nations address

The threats threat were ‘directed towards senior U.S. government officials,’ according to the Secret Service

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9 d. ago Donald Trump takes aim at 'terrible mayor' Sadiq Khan: US president claims London 'wants Sharia law'

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump claimed the UN was 'funding an assault on Western countries and their borders'.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump claims London wants Sharia law as he takes swipe at 'terrible mayor' Sadiq Khan

In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, US President Donald Trump claimed the UN was 'funding an assault on Western countries and their borders'.

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9 d. ago Trump attacks London mayor in UN address as he claims Europe is being ‘invaded’

The US president renewed his feud with London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, calling him a ‘terrible, terrible mayor’.

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9 d. ago Trump scolds world leaders and says ‘your countries are going to hell’ in blistering UN General Assembly address: Live

President addressed 80th UN General Assembly in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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9 d. ago Trump scolds UN over escalator, teleprompter and inaction in first General Assembly address since 2020: Live

President speaking in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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9 d. ago Trump to highlight ‘return of American strength’ in first address at UN General Assembly since 2020: Live

President to speak in New York at contentious moment for international relations

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