17 h. ago Trump and cabinet tear into CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins in Oval Office showdown

Donald Trump and his cabinet hit out at a CNN journalist during a tense Oval Office showdown after she asked about a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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26 h. ago Trump swipes at CNN's Kaitlan Collins in brutal exchange alongside his allies in the Oval Office

President Donald Trump on Monday shut down CNN's Kaitlan Collins at the White House as he met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.

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31 h. ago El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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31 h. ago El Salvador president refuses to return wrongly deported man with US protected status

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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61 h. ago RFK Jr giving families ‘false hope’ on autism, says outgoing US vaccine official

Dr Peter Marks, forced to resign by Trump administration, sees no ‘possible way’ to determine cause by SeptemberThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, should not offer “false hope” to families by boasting he can figure out what causes autism as soon as September, says the physician who resigned as the nation’s top vaccine official amid what he called anti-vaccination misinformation from the Trump administration cabinet member.In an interview during which he alluded to his help helming Operation Warp Speed – the initiative that took only about nine months to develop, manufacture and distribute the vaccines protecting the public from Covid-19 – Dr Peter Marks warned that autism “is an incredibly complicated issue”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Elon Musk dubbed 'dork' over what he did at meeting with President Trump

A joke from Elon Musk, spotted during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, has gone down like a lead balloon after X users dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency head a 'dork'

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5 d. ago Trump called a cabinet meeting after walking back his tariff plans. It might as well have been held in Moscow

ANALYSIS: Trump’s cabinet meetings have turned into North Korean-style propaganda shows, writes Richard Hall

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5 d. ago Trump insists ‘it’s all going to work out really well’ and admits to ‘transition costs’ to get new trade deals

Markets continued to slide as president opines that the U.S. is ‘in very good shape’ and ‘doing very well’

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7 d. ago Senate Democrats looking to block Trump nominees over administration’s ‘lawlessness’

Move follows bipartisan support for some Trump Cabinet picks, including Marco Rubio

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1 week ago I worked in Trump’s first administration. Here’s why his team is using Signal | Kevin Carroll

Using the platform was dangerous and wrong – but officials appeared to prioritize shielding themselves from litigationNo senior US government official in the now-infamous “Houthi PC Small Group” Signal chat seemed new to that kind of group, nor surprised by the sensitivity of the subject discussed in that insecure forum, not even when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, chimed in with details of a coming airstrike. No one objected – not the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was abroad and using her personal cellphone to discuss pending military operations; not even the presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who was in Moscow at the time. Yet most of these officials enjoy the luxury of access to secure government communications systems 24/7/365.Reasonable conclusions may be drawn from these facts. First, Trump’s national security cabinet commonly discusses secret information on insecure personal devices. Second, sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China inter...

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1 week ago The last time this led to Great Depression, Irish money minister warns

An Irish Cabinet minister has compared US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime to the circumstances which precipitated the Great Depression.

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1 week ago Musk to remain ‘friend and adviser’ to Trump after leaving Doge, says Vance

Vice-president makes remark after reports that president told cabinet members billionaire will be stepping backJD Vance said on Thursday that Elon Musk would remain a “friend and an adviser” to the vice-president and Donald Trump after he leaves his current role with the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).In recent days, several news outlets, including Politico, reported that Trump had told members of his cabinet that the tech billionaire, who holds the position of “special government employee”, would soon be stepping back from his role in the administration, and would take on a supporting role and return to the private sector. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump has told Cabinet members that Musk will step back to ‘supporting role’ soon

Musk’s designation as a ‘special government employee’ is set to expire in late May or early June

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1 week ago Elon Musk dramatically steps down from DOGE in shock move after Trump expressed private doubts

President Donald Trump has told his Cabinet and inner circle that Elon Musk is stepping back from his government role.

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1 week ago Donald Trump tells cabinet Elon Musk will leave top government role 'soon'

Musk has been heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) taskforce since Trump returned to office in January.

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1 week ago Elon Musk 'set to leave Donald Trump's cabinet', president tells allies

Donald Trump has told close allies that Tesla CEO Elon Musk will take a step back in the coming weeks, it has been reported, as backlash of Musk's influence over the government grows

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1 week ago Donald Trump tells cabinet Elon Musk will be stepping down from duties 'soon'

Donald Trump is reported to have made the comments about Elon Musk's future to his cabinet after weeks of simmering tensions between the Tesla billionaire and senior White House officials

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1 week ago Republicans win special elections for two key House seats in Florida

Randy Fine beats Josh Weil in Mike Waltz’s former district, and Jimmy Patronis wins seat vacated by Matt GaetzRepublicans on Tuesday won special elections for two US House of Representatives seats in Florida vacated by Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, dashing Democratic hopes for an upset victory in the first federal special elections held since the president began his second term.But Democratic candidates Josh Weil and Gay Valimont are on track to lose the solidly red districts by much smaller margins than the more than 30 points that Democrats lost them by in November. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump tariffs will damage UK economy, Reeves tells Cabinet amid job loss fears

Sir Keir Starmer admits UK unlikely to be spared from sweeping measures to be announced by Donald Trump

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer 'won't hit back' at looming Trump tariffs as he vows a 'calm response'

Keir Starmer is gathering Cabinet on the eve of the Donald Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day' - when he has vowed to impose huge levies on imports from around the world.

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