12 h. ago Trump announces 10 percent credit card cap as banks push back

Strong resistance is anticipated from Wall Street and credit card companies

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15 h. ago Trump administration suspends $129m in benefit payments to Minnesota

USDA notified state’s governor of decision, citing inquiries into alleged fraud by local non-profits and businessesThe Trump administration announced it is suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on social media that was addressed to Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, and the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, notifying them of the administration’s decision and citing investigations into alleged fraud conducted by local non-profits and businesses. Continue reading...

Economics

31 h. ago Washington National Opera leaving the Kennedy Center in latest upheaval since Trump takeover

After WNO announced their departure, the Trump Kennedy Center claimed the decision was due to a ‘financially challenging relationship’

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31 h. ago France changes its G7 schedule because Trump is busy with White House UFC fight on his birthday: report

Trump has announced plans to host a UFC fight at the White House on his 80th birthday

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39 h. ago From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth. It should galvanise all those who oppose himFor a serial liar, Donald Trump can be bracingly honest. We’ve known about the mendacity for years – consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president’s first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election – but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth.At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would “run” that country, before moving in the very next breath to Venezuela’s oil. There was no pious talk of democracy, scant mention even of the drug trafficking that earlier served as a pretext for military action. Instead, Trump said out loud what had once been a slogan on leftist placards in protest at past US interventions, admi...

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44 h. ago Trump announces US strikes in Mexico on drug cartels amid surging WW3 fears

President Trump has said the US will begin land strikes against drug cartels in Mexico and declared his 'own morality' is the only thing that can stop him after the capture of Venezuela's Maduro

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49 h. ago Trump announces US land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico and chillingly declares his 'own morality' is the only limit on his unchecked global power after Maduro capture

Donald Trump said the US will begin land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as he warned that the only limit to his power is his own morality.

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56 h. ago Trump announces $200 billion purchase in mortgage bonds to lower housing costs

The president claims this move will ease the burden of homeownership

Economics

64 h. ago Donald Trump's White House announces unexpected Press Conference after Minnesota shooting

The White House issued a change to the daily schedule, with a press briefing added. It follows fury over the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman by an ICE agent in Minnesota

Events

3 d. ago Full list as Trump announces shock move that will see US leave 66 key international organizations

They inlcude a crucial climate treaty and a UN body promoting gender equality and women's empowerment

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3 d. ago Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations

Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groupsDonald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures.In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, calling them “contrary to the interests of the United States”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago JPMorgan to take over Apple’s $20bn credit card portfolio from Goldman Sachs

Deal extricates the lender from one of the last businesses related to its ill-fated push into retail banking

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3 d. ago Kai Trump announces she's gone under the knife in shock Instagram post

President Trump's granddaughter made the announcement on Instagram on Wednesday afternoon.

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3 d. ago US to discuss future of Greenland with Danish officials ‘next week’

Announcement comes as Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Arctic island leads to alarm among European allies

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4 d. ago Trump says Venezuela will turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil and he will control money that goes to US and Caracas

Donald Trump announced a deal with the Venezuelan regime to give the United States 30 to 50 million barrels of oil.

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5 d. ago Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start | Owen Jones

The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe himAs Venezuela’s skyline lit up under US bombs, we were watching the morbid symptoms of a declining empire. That may sound counterintuitive. After all, the US has kidnapped a foreign leader, and Donald Trump has announced that he will “run” Venezuela. Surely this looks less like decay than intoxication: a superpower high on its own force.But Trump’s great virtue, if it can be called that, is candour. Previous US presidents draped naked self-interest in the language of “democracy” and “human rights”. Trump dispenses with the costume. In 2023, he boasted: “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil, it would have been right next door.” And this was no off-the-cuff remark. The logic of an oil grab, and much more besides, is laid out plainly in Trump’s recently published National Security Strategy. Continue ...

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5 d. ago AI images of Maduro capture reap millions of views on social media

Lack of verified information and rapidly advanced AI tools make it difficult to separate fact from fiction on US attackMinutes after Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela early on Saturday morning, false and misleading AI-generated images began flooding social media. There were fake photos of Nicolás Maduro being escorted off a plane by US law enforcement agents, images of jubilant Venezuelans pouring into the streets of Caracas and videos of missiles raining down on the city – all fake.The fabricated content intermixed with real videos and photos of US aircraft flying over the Venezuelan capital and explosions lighting up the dark sky. A lack of verified information about the raid coupled with AI tools’ rapidly advancing capabilities made discerning fact from fiction about the incursion on Caracas difficult. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Corporation For Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after federal funding cuts

Board of directors vote to dissolve organization after nearly 60 years in operation after funding cuts under TrumpThe nonprofit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Shameless Minnesota Governor Tim Walz rips Trump for 'demonizing our Somali neighbors' in bitter speech announcing he won't seek re

The announcement comes as Walz has been rocked by scandal over massive fraud involving state welfare, including payments to daycares and COVID-era loans.

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5 d. ago Stock market goes ballistic as Wall Street makes huge bet on Trump's Venezuela raid

President Donald Trump announced plans to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and said American companies would revitalize it after capturing President Nicolás Maduro.

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