2 h. ago Al Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality’

Former vice president and environmentalist slammed the Trump administration for walking back climate policies

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14 h. ago White SEAL Team writer who says he was denied CBS job because of DEI suggests Trump spurred settlement

Brian Beneker, who worked as a freelance writer on the CBS show, reached a settlement after he filed a claim alleging he wasn't given a permanent position because of DEI policies.

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28 h. ago White House stands behind Hegseth over new Signal chat allegations

Defence secretary alleged to have shared details of Yemen military strike in group that included family members

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40 h. ago Trump news at a glance: Hegseth reportedly had Yemen Signal chat with wife, brother

Defence secretary reportedly sent the group flight schedules for strikes on Houthis; draft order calls for drastic restructure of state department – key US politics stories from 20 AprilDefence secretary Pete Hegseth is in the spotlight for a communications blunder in which he reportedly created his own Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, in which he shared confidential details of a US strike on Yemen this March.The chat on Signal, a commercially available app not authorized as a means to communicate sensitive or classified national defense information, allegedly included more than a dozen people. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Hegseth had another Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reports

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared the same details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders

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55 h. ago Trump's team to travel to London next week for Ukraine ceasefire talks

Trump's team to travel to London next week for Ukraine ceasefire talks  Українська правда

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55 h. ago Trump’s team plans to travel to London to finalize discussions on the Ukraine ceasefire issue, according to Kellogg

Trump’s team plans to travel to London to finalize discussions on the Ukraine ceasefire issue, according to Kellogg  Latest news from Azerbaijan

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59 h. ago The big picture: Wolfgang Tillmans’s tender image of two boys off the coast of Denmark

The German photographer captures a moment of tranquility one Scandinavian summer“Who has known the ocean?” asked the pioneering American marine biologist, conservationist and writer Rachel Carson in her groundbreaking essay Undersea, published in the Atlantic in 1937. With our “earth-bound senses”, neither you nor I can grasp how profoundly the ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is shallow and deep, light and dark, placid and chaotic, benign and dangerous – filled with surprise and, possibly overall, beauty. For this reason, Carson observed, “no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry”.The same is perhaps true of visually representing the ocean, from prints to films to multimedia installations. A new book, Ocean, accompanies a sprawling group show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, a country in which one is never more than 32 miles (about 51 kilometres) from the sea – the fluid, changeable body laps at every just-distant horizon. Ann...

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66 h. ago Kellogg says Trump's team will head to London to 'lock down' ceasefire issue

Kellogg says Trump's team will head to London to 'lock down' ceasefire issue  MSN

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67 h. ago Kellogg says Trump's team will head to London to 'lock down' Ukraine ceasefire issue

Kellogg says Trump's team will head to London to 'lock down' Ukraine ceasefire issue  MSN

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3 d. ago Ukraine war live: Trump denies being ‘played’ by Putin as Russia launches overnight attack

Ukraine says five regions damaged overnight after wave of drone and missile attacks by RussiaAnalysis: Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon peace talksDonald Trump has said the US will “take a pass” on a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine if “parties make it difficult”. The US president made the comments to reporters during the swearing-in ceremony for Mehmet Oz as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.Trump added that he believed there was a “good chance” of “solving the problem”. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, had earlier said the US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement unless there are clear signs a settlement can be reached. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump threatens to abandon Ukraine peace efforts unless deal reached ‘very shortly’

President says US may ‘take a pass’ on brokering agreement as Kyiv signs minerals memorandum Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon Ukraine peace talksDonald Trump has said the US is ready to “take a pass” on brokering a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless a settlement is reached “very shortly”, as Kyiv announced it has signed a memorandum with the US over a controversial minerals deal.“Now if for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say: ‘You’re foolish. You’re fools. You’re horrible people’ – and we’re going to just take a pass,” Trump told reporters in Washington. “But hopefully we won’t have to do that.” Continue reading...

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5 d. 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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5 d. ago Trump weighs in on Japan trade talks but Tokyo team leaves without deal

First-in-queue negotiations closely watched for signs of US strategy

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7 d. ago Trump team has not said what it wants in trade talks, says EU

Top negotiators met in Washington on Monday to discuss how to remove so-called reciprocal tariffs

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7 d. ago JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit

Vice-president unable to hang on to trophyBuckeyes were celebrating last season’s title winJD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the team’s national championship trophy.After laudatory speeches by Donald Trump, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Lawn, the Vance – an Ohio State graduate – tried to lift the trophy. He didn’t appear to realize that the top of the trophy is detachable from its base. After a moment of struggle, the vice-president lost his grip on the two pieces. OSU running back TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped top of the trophy, but the base fell to the ground, forcing Vance to grasp around as it rolled away from him. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Immigration lawyer 'deported' via Team Trump email...but they made huge mistake

US citizen Nicole Micheroni was stunned when she opened the letter from the Department of Homeland Security on Friday morning.

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9 d. ago ‘There’s no way’: Experts doubt Trump team’s plan to reach 90 trade deals in three months

‘There's no way during this timeframe we're doing a comprehensive agreement with any of these countries,’ one expert said

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1 week ago China raises US tariffs to 125% as Xi invites EU to team up against Trump ‘bullying’

Chinese leader canvasses Spain and other trading partners on how to tackle economic fallout as market turmoil continuesBusiness live – latest updatesWhy did ‘strongman’ Trump back down on tariffs? – podcastChina has raised its tariffs on US products to 125% in the latest salvo of the trade dispute with Washington, just hours after Xi Jinping said there were “no winners in a tariff war”.Xi made the comments during a meeting with the Spanish prime minister in which he invited the EU to work with China to resist “bullying”, part of an apparent campaign to shore up other trading partners. Continue reading...

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1 week ago F1 team issues statement as Donald Trump's US tariffs prompt changes

Donald Trump's tariff announcements and their economic impact are being felt in all sectors and have prompted a statement from one Formula 1 team after their parent company's announcement

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