19 h. ago Trump says DC is now ‘crime free.’ It had 400 reported incidents in the last week

Trump began his so-called crime crackdown in D.C. on 11 August, sending National Guard and federal agents into the capital’s streets

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22 h. ago Woody Allen calls Donald Trump a ‘pleasure to work with’ and a ‘very good’ actor

The 89-year-old filmmaker directed the president in his 1998 film ‘Celebrity’

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24 h. ago Trump calls for more Covid vaccine data to stop CDC ‘being ripped apart’

US president demands more proof from drug companies of jab effectiveness

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24 h. ago Noem warns more immigration raids are coming to America’s biggest cities: ‘We do intend to add more’

Noem says other cities should call the Department of Homeland Security to implement the policies the Trump administration put in place in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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27 h. ago Soldiers are doing landscaping in DC parks. I’m thrilled for them | Dave Schilling

They were deployed to fight crime. Instead, some are spreading mulch. It’s almost sweet – if you remove the contextIf soldiers are going to be deployed to your city, what would you prefer they do: point a rifle in your face or mow your grass? This is not a question I ever expected to have to consider in my days on this planet, but life is full of surprises. As part of Donald Trump’s military deployment to address Washington DC’s so-called “crime emergency”, national guard troops are being tasked with various groundskeeping duties around the United States capital. These duties include spreading mulch around cherry trees, picking up trash and general maintenance of public spaces. The president must have been too embarrassed to get Four Seasons Total Landscaping involved again, so he got the military to do it instead.It’s a real “swords into ploughshares” moment, or in this case, “M4 rifles into those grabber sticks you use to pick up plastic bottles full of piss.” It’s almost sweet, i...

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27 h. ago Rosie O’Donnell apologizes for suggesting Minneapolis school shooter was Republican ‘MAGA person’

Killer Robin Westman had written a call for President Trump’s death on a firearm magazine

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43 h. ago JB Pritzker calls for ‘all to stand up’ to Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago

President is preparing for controversial federal takeover of US city in crusade against immigration ‘sanctuary cities’Illinois’s governor JB Pritzker has called on “all to stand up” to Donald Trump as the US president prepares to launch a federally led immigration crackdown across Chicago, a plan which has been met with widespread backlash from local leaders and the public.Pritzker’s comments come as White House officials vow to target Chicago next in its sweeping immigration crackdowns across the country. Recently, the White House requested that a US military base on the outskirts of Chicago assist with immigration operations as the Trump administration plans a broader takeover of Democratic-run “sanctuary cities”. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary

Vermont senator says Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people as head of the US health departmentBernie Sanders has joined in on growing public calls for Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to resign, after recent chaos across US health agencies.In an op-ed published in the New York Times on Saturday, the Vermont senator accused Kennedy of “endangering the health of the American people now and into the future”, adding: “He must resign.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump aide defends Robert F Kennedy Jr over CDC chaos, calling him ‘crown jewel of this administration’ – US politics live

Stephen Miller baselessly claims CDC experts ‘weren’t actually very knowledgable about public health’ as he defends health secretaryA visit to Taiwan by two US senators has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between officials of the two sides.The chair of the Senate armed services committee, Roger Wicker, and the Nebraska senator Deb Fischer arrived in Taipei on Friday for a series of high-level meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders to discuss US-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade and investment, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s de facto embassy in lieu of formal diplomatic relations with the self-governing island democracy.A thriving democracy is never fully assured and we’re here to talk to our friends and allies in Taiwan about what we’re doing to enhance worldwide peace. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Backlash as White House chooses Robert F Kennedy Jr deputy to run CDC – US politics live

Senators’ fury at developments at US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Jim O’Neill picked to replace Susan MonarezWhite House picks Kennedy deputy to replace fired CDC chiefPatty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents

Senator Patty Murray calls Trump’s immigration policy ‘fundamentally sick’ after incident in Washington statePatty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide “immediate answers” about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state.Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000 acre blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Melania Trump calls for 'preemptive intervention' after Minnesota shooter kills two and injures 17 at Catholic school

The First Lady, a passionate advocate for children, reacted to the tragedy with a detailed call for solutions to rooting out potential future threats on social media.

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5 d. ago Keegan Bradley fires back at Rory McIlroy and ignores Trump after huge Ryder Cup call

United States captain says he doesn't care what Europeans say and talked US President plea after not picking himself

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6 d. ago California Governor suggests Donald Trump has dementia as president repeats 'false' claim

California Governor Gavin Newsom took to X to suggest Donald Trump has dementia after the President called him 'Newscum' in a televised cabinet meeting

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6 d. ago Chef Jose Andres calls Trump ‘confused’ over his ‘flat out lie’ that half of DC restaurants closed because of crime

Andres, who launched the global charity One World Kitchen, said the president was ‘confused’ and had not once eaten outside of the White House or his own hotel in all the time he had been in the capital

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6 d. ago Pam Bondi trashed for ‘creepy’ way she keeps addressing Donald Trump to his face

Attorney general’s habit of addressing Trump in this odd manner has been called out by online critics on more than one occasion

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6 d. ago Trump urges Democrats to ‘call him’ to send troops to their cities in apparent attempt to legitimize threats of federal takeovers – live

Despite criticism of repeated threats to take over police and send in National Guard, president claims Democratic leaders should demand takeoversLev Menand, a law professor at Columbia law school, said Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve chief Lisa Cook is a “procedurally invalid removal under the statute”.Menand, who authored a book about the Fed’s actions during the coronavirus pandemic, also said for-cause firings are typically related to misconduct while in office, rather than based on private misconduct from before an official’s appointment. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump calls Cracker Barrel logo outrage ‘a great opportunity’ to cash in for restaurant chain that set off MAGA

‘They got a Billion Dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity,’ the president wrote on Truth Social.

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7 d. ago Fox & Friends calls for Vanity Fair staffers to out colleagues upset over Melania Trump cover: ‘Should be fired!’

‘If you’re at Vanity Fair right now, walk around and look for a mid-level editor that sounds angry, and toss them out,’ Brian Kilmeade fumed on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity | Moira Donegan

In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itselfIn a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian prison camp in June as a kind of protective custody. Ábrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by I agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, a massive prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error. Ábrego became a symbol for the several hundred men who had been deprived of their liberty and deported to the distant foreign prison without due process and in defiance of both American and international law.It was only after e...

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