5 h. ago Trump teaming up with Jack Nicklaus to revamp 'president's golf course' at Joint Base Andrews

President Donald Trump says he's teaming up with legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to revamp the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews

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5 h. ago Starmer and Trump agree teams will work together on Ukraine peace plan

Downing Street confirmed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had spoken to US President Donald Trump.

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4 d. ago Trump team moves to dismantle the Department of Education and shuttle offices to other agencies

Trump had campaigned on shutting down the Education Department, which would require approval from Congress

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4 d. ago Trump team considering moving FEMA headquarters from DC to Texas

News of the potential move comes as FEMA’s Acting Administrator resigned from his role

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4 d. ago Mutiny in the Labour ranks over Home Secretary's 'cruel' new migrant rules

The Home Secretary told MPs that radical reforms were needed to restore public confidence in Britain's 'broken' asylum system, saying it 'feels out of control and unfair'.

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5 d. ago Migrant with a 'receding hairline and deep voice' wins age case after an immigration judge rules he is 15

Authorities in Britain believed the asylum seeker was 24 when he arrived because of his 'mature physical demeanour', a tribunal heard - but the migrant insisted he was 15.

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7 d. ago Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj

Official Trump social media accounts have been The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings “pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes”, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance, and the first and second ladies. The second and third were posted by Team Trump, the official account for the Trump Campaign. One, set to Father Figure, riffs on the lyric “this empire belongs to me” with the caption “this empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump”, while the other, celebrating Melania Trump winning something called the Patriot of the...

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8 d. ago Trump team axes Biden plan that would have paid passengers for flight delays

Airlines have pushed the Trump administration to go further and praised the action to rescind the Biden plan

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9 d. ago Trump targets another political enemy with his team referring a congressman to DOJ for mortgage fraud

California congressman and prominent Trump critic surprised ‘that it took him this long to come after me’

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9 d. ago Trump targets another political enemy with his team referring a US rep to DOJ for mortgage fraud

California congressman and prominent Trump critic surprised ‘that it took him this long to come after me’

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9 d. ago Trump team scrambles to deal with Epstein files as House sets vote to release the documents: Live updates

Bombshell release of emails from disgraced financier by House Oversight Committee rocks president as White House insists scandal is ‘fake narrative’ and a ‘Democrat hoax’

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1 week ago Israeli embassy writes to US senators defending detention of Palestinian American teen

The document describes Israel’s case against Mohammed Ibrahim but omits key details about his treatmentThe Israeli embassy in Washington has been circulating a letter on Capitol Hill defending its nine-month detention of a 16-year-old US citizen in military prison as pressure mounts from senators and civil society groups who have called for his release.The document, obtained by the Guardian, describes Israel’s allegations against Mohammed Ibrahim and the medical treatment he has allegedly received in prison. It does not mention his dramatic weight loss or the fact that his family has had virtually no contact with him since his arrest in February. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Outrage as Lib Dem council rules migrant hotel protesters are 'far

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council in Dorset voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion condemning demonstrators outside three asylum hotels.

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1 week ago Donald Trump celebrates as Tim Davie quits BBC over doctored speech

Donald Trump was ecstatic that Tim Davie resigned from the BBC, saying the organisation edited "my very good (perfect) speech" where he called on his supporters to protest the 2020 election result

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1 week ago Can Donald Trump really make an NFL team name its stadium after him?

The president reportedly wants the new home of the Washington Commanders to bear his name. There are reasons to think he will succeedThat’s if a well-sourced report from ESPN is to be believed. The US president has apparently let it be known to the ownership group of the Washington Commanders that he wants the team’s new stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2030, to take his name. “It’s what the president wants, and it will probably happen,” a senior White House official told ESPN. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’

Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stabilityMagical thinking is indispensable to understanding Team Trump’s economic policymaking. The White House often seems to believe two opposing policies can work together while one policy can do two or three contradictory things.A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the administration’s dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar’s supremacy in global finance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump team is secretly handing out massive tax breaks to wealthy American corporations: report

The proposed regulations tack on to the tax relief laid out in the president’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Act

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2 w. ago White House says naming new Washington Commanders stadium after Trump would be 'beautiful'

The White House says it would be “beautiful” to name the new stadium for Washington’s NFL team after President Donald Trump

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2 w. ago Over 100 US leaders to attend Cop30 climate summit as Trump stays away

Dozens of US state and local leaders will be at talks in Brazil with president’s team expected to send no representativesThe Trump administration appears to be sitting out this month’s United Nations climate talks known as Cop30, telling the Guardian it will not deploy any high-level representatives to the negotiations.But dozens of US subnational leaders attend to promote their climate efforts. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump team admits it doesn’t have legal backing for Venezuela strikes but wants DOJ green light

The administration reportedly told lawmakers on Wednesday it is not currently planning strikes inside Venezuela, though the White House is exploring its options

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