30 m. ago JD Vance says Denmark ‘has not done a good job by the people of Greenland’ – Europe live

US vice-president says Denmark has not ‘kept Greenland safe’ and this is why ‘President Trump’s policy is what it is’Making some of the Danish fears come true (8:23), it appears that US vice-president JD Vance could speak later from the Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, according to the Danish broadcaster TV2 reporting a notice from the European Broadcasting Union.The speech is expected 5.45pm GMT (6.45pm CET), according to the report. Continue reading...

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31 m. ago Another top US law firm strikes deal with Trump to avoid being targeted – US politics live

Law firm criticized by Elon Musk agrees to $100m in pro bono legal work for the federal government amid criticism of top law firms caving to pressureBig law firms being threatened by Trump face pressure to speak outVance Greenland visit – live updatesCanadian prime minister Mark Carney and Donald Trump’s first phone call will take place this morning, a source with knowledge of the matter has told Radio-Canada.It will be their first conversation as leaders and comes days after Trump announced plans to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on cars from overseas, a move Carney condemned as a “direct attack” on Canadian workers. Trump later threatened further tariffs if the EU worked with Canada “in order to do economic harm to the USA”. Carney said:We will defend our workers, we will defend our companies, we will defend our country, and we will defend it together.I’m available for a call, but you know, we’re going to talk on our terms as a sovereign country, not as what he pretends we are. Conti...

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34 m. ago Elon Musk reveals he will hand out $2 million to voters after speech in Wisconsin on Sunday

Musk’s $2 million promise is due to come two days before Wisconsin’s hotly-contested Supreme Court election

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37 m. ago Keir Starmer says he 'reserves the right' to retaliate against Donald Trump's tariffs

The Prime Minister said his Government was involved in ongoing discussions with the White House aimed at "mitigating the impact" of any levies but that ultimately "our national interest has to come first".

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44 m. ago Stocks tumble on inflation fears as Trump policies continue to cause market volatility

Sell-off comes as 25 percent auto import tariffs set to begin in early April

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46 m. ago JD Vance and wife Usha in Greenland for controversial visit to military base as Trump says US 'needs' island

The visit has caused fury for its ‘underlying agenda’ after Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to take over the Danish semi-autonomous territory

Events

47 m. ago Bill Maher says he has Trump’s ‘respect’ because he’s ‘honest about the woke train to crazy town’

The ‘Real Time’ host also compared his upcoming private dinner with the president to Richard Nixon’s visit to China

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47 m. ago Organizers accuse Trump of trying to silence federal workers with union order

Union leaders say president is union-busting as he seeks to eliminate collective bargaining across agenciesUS politics live – latest updatesUnion leaders have accused Donald Trump of union-busting in a “blatant” attempt to silence them after the president stepped up his attacks on government unions on Thursday, signing an executive order that attempts to eliminate collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.The order limits the departments and classifications of federal workers who can organize a union and instructs the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining. Continue reading...

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54 m. ago Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order

As the US pivots toward territorial ambitions in the western hemisphere, the Kremlin’s support signals a deeper alignment in their challenge to global normsAs JD Vance touched down in Greenland, the Trump administration received an unlikely endorsement for America’s first potential territorial expansion since 1947: Vladimir Putin.Speaking at an Arctic policy forum in the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Thursday, Putin presented a more comprehensive case than any US official yet for Donald Trump’s plan to annex Greenland, crafting a historical argument that sounded suspiciously convenient in terms of Russia’s own territorial designs on Ukraine. Continue reading...

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54 m. ago Rep. Elise Stefanik ‘scrambled’ to try to change Trump’s mind about pulling her UN nomination

Stefanik already gave up a committee slot and most of her congressional staff have resigned, according to a report

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60 m. ago Donald Trump declares US 'cannot do without Greenland' after JD Vance lands

Donald Trump's vice-president JD Vance's visit to Greeland has been scaled back from original plans to tour the island after a row with the governments of Greenland and Denmark

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83 m. ago What is the Smithsonian, and why is President Trump unhappy with it?

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers including the Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is coming under criticism from President Donald Trump

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86 m. ago ‘MAGA junkie’ fired from government job now regrets voting for Trump

Jennifer Piggott was one of 125 people fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service as part of DOGE layoffs

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87 m. ago JD Vance and his wife get a VERY frosty welcome in Greenland as locals pull out all the stops to snub him... and Putin issues his own war warning

Vance and his wife Usha were seen today jetting off for the visit and recently landed at the Pituffik Space Base in north-west Greenland.

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88 m. ago The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide | Moira Donegan

Rumeysa Ozturk, a visa holder, was snatched off the streets by Ice agents and sent to a detention center 1,000 miles away for opposing war crimes in GazaThe abductors wore masks because they do not want their identities known. On Tuesday evening, Rumeysa Ozturk exited her apartment building and walked on to the street in Somerville, Massachusetts – a city outside Boston – into the fading daylight. Ozturk, a Turkish-born PhD student at Tufts University who studies children’s media and childhood development, was on her way to an iftar dinner with friends, planning to break her Ramadan fast.In a video taken from a surveillance camera, she wears a pink hijab and a long white puffer coat against the New England cold. The first man, not uniformed but wearing plain clothes, as all the agents are, approaches her as if asking for directions. But he quickly closes in and grabs her by the wrists she has raised defensively toward her face. Continue reading...

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97 m. ago Trump's dark underside is showing. These are the sinister omens that this administration won't end well for America: ANDREW NEIL

There is something increasingly Orwellian about Donald Trump 's America in 2025, where truth is dismissed by government as a lie.

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1 hour ago Elon Musk reveals he will hand out $2m to voters after speech in Wisconsin on Sunday

Musk’s $2 million promise is due to come two days before Wisconsin’s hotly-contested Supreme Court election

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1 hour ago JD Vance and wife Usha arrive in Greenland for controversial visit to military base

The visit has caused fury for its ‘underlying agenda’ after Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to take over the Danish semi-autonomous territory

Events

1 hour ago University of Michigan shutters all of its DEI offices as Trump continues to exert influence over higher ed

The university cited Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI programs across the country

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1 hour ago ‘Down to the wire’: inside the UK’s crunch talks with the US as it bids to avoid Trump tariffs

Ministers seek carve-out from import taxes before 2 April deadline – but critics believe they have offered too many concessionsMinisters and senior officials at every level of government are holding talks with US counterparts this weekend in a last-ditch effort to secure a carve-out from swingeing import taxes.Government sources said ministers were raising Donald Trump’s looming tariffs as the “No 1” issue in every conversation with the US. Continue reading...

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