2 h. ago Trump expected to order rebrand of Pentagon as ‘Department of War’

Move is attempt to formalize name change without an act of Congress, as US president says: ‘We’re just going to do it’Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday authorizing the US Department of Defense to rebrand itself as the “department of war”, the White House said, as part of an attempt to formalize the name change without an act of Congress.The order will designate “department of war” as a “secondary title”, an administration official said, as a way to get around the need for congressional approval to formally rename a federal agency. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump to sign executive order changing Pentagon’s name to ‘Department of War’

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday that will officially change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

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3 h. ago Shock poll: Even Republicans agree Donald Trump should quit if his health deteriorates

An exclusive poll has found that the overwhelming majority of US voters believe that President Trump should resign if his health 'deteriorates significantly'

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7 h. ago Trump ignites culture war with extraordinary plan to ban transgender Americans from owning guns

President Donald Trump's Justice Department could take a huge step to address gun violence that goes against decades of precedent set by previous Republican administrations.

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7 h. ago Epping Council applying to Supreme Court over asylum seekers at The Bell Hotel after legal challenge rejected

The legal challenge, which centred around migrants being housed at The Bell Hotel, was rejected by the Court of Appeal

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7 h. ago ‘They don’t have our backs’: Judges slam Supreme Court’s scant rulings in Trump cases as president asks for another appeal

With its conservative majority, the Supreme Court has frequently overturned lower courts’ decisions in Trump’s favor — but offered only brief explanations to support those rulings

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8 h. ago Trump’s nominee to join Fed says president ‘entitled’ to take policy views

Stephen Miran tells Senate banking committee that he views central bank independence as ‘paramount’

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8 h. ago President of Northwestern University quits amid layoffs forced by Trump cuts

Michael H Schill led the institution for three years, during which Trump administration slashed nearly $800mThe president of Northwestern University said Thursday that he was stepping down amid a turbulent period marked by clashes with Republican lawmakers and steep federal funding cuts under the Trump administration that forced widespread layoffs.Michael H Schill, who has led the institution for three years, has been under heavy scrutiny in conservative circles this year. The Trump administration slashed nearly $800m in research funding after sustained criticism from Republicans. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago FBI seized phones, computer equipment, folders during search of Bolton's home, records show

The FBI seized phones, computer equipment and typed documents from the home of John Bolton as part of an investigation into whether President Donald Trump's first-term national security adviser mishandled government secrets

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10 h. ago West Coast states join together to lead vaccine defense as red Florida ends mandate and DC skepticism grows

The states formed the alliance in response to ‘President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists’

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10 h. ago DC lawsuit challenges Trump's National Guard deployment as a forced 'military occupation'

The District of Columbia has sued to stop President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard during his law enforcement intervention in Washington

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11 h. ago Rosie O’Donnell hits back at Trump with Epstein dig after president threatens to revoke her citizenship

‘She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so,’ Trump wrote of the comedian on Truth Social

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12 h. ago Epstein victim who voted for Trump blasts president for calling survivors liars: ‘I put my hope in him’

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the Epstein case is ‘a Democrat hoax,’ which has infuriated survivors

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13 h. ago Trump’s second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says

Former Senate leader likens administration’s fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s US politics live – latest updatesThe world during Donald Trump’s second presidency has entered a period of danger with “certain similarities to the 30s”, according to Mitch McConnell, the veteran Republican former Senate leader.McConnell made the comments primarily in reference to tariffs and foreign affairs, in a wide-ranging interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader published on Wednesday as he prepares to enter his final year in office. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Trump health fears whirl as sleuths spot new 'bulge' and it's not his you know what

Social media sleuths over recent weeks have pronounced Donald Trump as 'dead' and 'ill', despite the president appearing in public several times – with another clothing theory added into the mix

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14 h. ago Nigel Farage's 'awkward' Oval Office photo proves he's on 'Team Trump' in talking down Britain

After examining the 'awkward' photographs from Nigel Farage's divisive meeting with US President Donald Trump, body language expert Judi James has picked up on a telling sign that the Reform leader is 'Team Trump' all the way

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15 h. ago Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first | Sidney Blumenthal

The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agendaOf all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it – is surely the most ignorant of American history itself.What Trump doesn’t know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief librarian he has fired, along with driving out the heads of the National Archives and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as dissolving programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities and defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which as a result has paused the acclaimed American Experience documentary series. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Nigel Farage strangely shows 'little signs of friendship' in grim Donald Trump photo

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage met with US President Donald Trump this week, and a telling photograph of the pair emerged, with an expert claiming it shows 'little signs of friendship'

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16 h. ago David Byrne: Who Is the Sky? review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Matador)His last album was criticised for being too upbeat during Trump 1.0 but became a phenomenal live show, and the Talking Heads frontman remains sunny – almost to a faultIt is seven years since David Byrne released his last solo album, American Utopia. So much has happened in the intervening period that it’s easy to forget that, initially, the record received a mixed response. There was praise for its expansive and experimental approach: songs built on rhythms by Brian Eno were handed over to a wide selection of producers to tinker with, then Byrne compiled the finished product. Part of a larger multimedia project called Reasons to Be Cheerful, it attempted to engender a spirit of positivity, but there were complaints that this amounted to a blithe abdication of responsibility amid the first Trump presidency. Respectful long-service-medal reviews coexisted with angry fulminating over the complete absence of female contributors.A mixed response was business as usual as far as B...

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16 h. 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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