24 h. ago The financial markets no longer believe in Donald Trump’s ‘stable genius’

Editorial: The president’s obsession with tariffs risks a repeat of the mistakes of the 1930s – and on ‘Liberation Day’, the world may pay a heavy price

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27 h. ago Donald Trump and JD Vance 'pathetically cosplay as Putin' with Greenland annex plans

Russian despot Vladimir Putin appears to be playing a game of 'hurty words' with Trump and Vance after setting one of his media mouthpieces loose on national television

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28 h. ago 'Forget about Ukraine – Donald Trump's latest fallout with Putin is all about keeping China at bay'

Inderjeet Parmar, professor of International Politics at the City, University of London, believes a major fall out between Putin and Trump would 'disadvantage the US'

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56 h. ago Democrats have never been so angry. Who will step up and lead them?

At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are unleashing their fury with Donald Trump, stoking what some believe is a populist backlashDemocrats are furious. And they want their leaders to get mad, too.“I wish you’d be angry,” a constituent told representative Gil Cisneros, a Democrat of California, at a recent town hall. At an event in Minnesota featuring a panel of Democratic attorneys general, an activist voiced a similar sentiment: “Get angry, man,” punctuating the message with a profanity. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice

His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House teamNot for the first time, JD Vance, America’s outspoken vice-president, has made a public fool of himself. He insisted on visiting Greenland despite unequivocal statements by the territory’s leaders and Denmark’s government that he was not invited and not welcome. Vance’s trip was confined to a remote Arctic base, where he briefly spoke to a few Americans. Plans to make a wider tour and speak to Greenlanders were cancelled – because Greenlanders did not want to speak to him.Such hostility is entirely understandable, given the repeated, provocative and disrespectful declarations by Vance’s boss, Donald Trump, that the US plans to annex Greenland and may do so illegally and by force. Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark. Election results this month showed the vast majority of local people back expanded self-rule or outright independence. The...

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3 d. ago Why President Donald Trump now has a problem with the Smithsonian

Trump believes institutions have fallen prey to ‘woke’ ideology

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4 d. 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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5 d. ago Putin hints at backing Trump's plans to annex Greenland as he speaks on 'historical roots'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hinted at backing Trump's plans to annex Greenland - Putin is currently

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6 d. ago Trump blames leaked war plan group chat on 'lower level' Mike Waltz staffer: 'Somehow this guy ended up on the call'

Donald Trump revealed who he believes is at fault for a reporter being added to a White House group chat that was detailing war plans.

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6 d. ago Jeff Bezos' unfiltered rant to Trump about 'crazy' staff at his newspaper revealed

Donald Trump said that Jeff Bezos believes his staff at the Washington Post are 'crazy' as the owner of the leading liberal paper works to make sure he's 'more fair' to the president.

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7 d. ago Elon Musk believes he knows why the Trump admin Signal leak was allowed to occur

Musk previously stated that the ‘best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic’ after its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s explosive Signal group chat report

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7 d. ago Greenlanders stand together as Trump looks to annex their island

Locals are ‘doing everything in their power to make their voices heard’

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7 d. ago Social media goes ballistic over Hegseth chat accidentally sharing secret Houthi bomb plans with journalist

Social media critics could scarcely believe their eyes when they read that Donald Trump’s inexperienced Defense Secretary and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth discussed secret airstrke plans against Houthis in Yemen earlier this month in a group chat that accidentally included a prominent journalist.

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1 week ago Chuck Schumer believed Republicans would dump ‘turd’ Trump after 2020 and return to Bush’s party, book claims

Senator has cancelled his own book tour following blowback for his decision to vote against a government shutdown

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1 week ago Now Boris Johnson turns on Donald Trump: ‘Putin is laughing at us’

Mr Johnson’s comments were in marked contrast to his stance days before, when he said, “I trust and believe Trump will hit Putin with every shot in his locker”.

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2 w. ago The economy was always Trump’s strength. Polls show it might be cracking

Analysis: Americans voted for Trump because they believed he would lower prices and the cost of living. New surveys show people are losing their faith that he’ll accomplish that

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2 w. ago Trump’s tariffs will be paid by the poor – while his tax cuts help the rich | Robert Reich

The math doesn’t work in the president’s economic promises, which will create a giant upward transfer of wealthDonald Trump apparently believes his tariffs will bring so much money to the US treasury that the US will be able to afford another giant Trump tax cut.But Trump’s tariffs – and the retaliatory tariffs already being imposed on American exports by the nation’s trading partners – will be paid largely by the American working class and poor.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

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2 w. ago California Democrat believes Trump and his allies are creating a ‘civil war’

Waters said Trump’s recent changes to the government are an attempt to consolidate power and rile up Democrats

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2 w. ago BORIS JOHNSON: I trust and believe Trump WILL hit Putin with every shot in his locker

No, folks, Vladimir Putin is not interested in peace. He doesn't want to stop the slaughter in Ukraine - or at least, he doesn't want to stop until he has won. He wants to keep bombing and killing.

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2 w. ago Trump goes for the jugular with his Canada threats — and does it with a smile

Trump’s insistence that Canada is not a real country bears a striking resemblance to Putin’s in the run-up to his invasion of Ukraine, Richard Hall writes.

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