2 h. ago The Latest: White House distances Trump from ‘assassin’ remarks on killed Minneapolis protestor

The White House on Monday made an effort to distance President Donald Trump from comments made by several members of his administration that criminalized Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed Saturday by a Border Patrol officer

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6 h. ago What Trump is forgetting: American nations have a long history of open borders | Daniel Mendiola

The US cites the ‘wisdom’ of historical immigration policy. But nation states in the Americas have spent more time with open borders than closedLate last year, Donald Trump’s White House published a new National Security Strategy (NSS) outlining its vision for the world. At the time, the plan raised alarm for dismissing European alliances (now largely confirmed after Trump threatened Nato allies over Greenland), previewing interventions in Latin America (also largely confirmed by recent military action in Venezuela), and aligning closely with the priorities of the Kremlin.The document also demonizes immigrants. In one widely cited passage, it even claims that “unchecked migration” has gotten so out of control that Europe is facing imminent “civilizational erasure”. On these grounds, the plan makes ending “The Era of Mass Migration” a top priority for the US. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago The global rule of law is not collapsing – Trump is the lone problem and he can be defeated | Simon Tisdall

The president’s approval ratings are plummeting and most Americans see him as an aberration. It is now up to them to curtail his despotic reignDonald Trump is a monster, and a stupid one at that – as his foul slander of British soldiers who served in Afghanistan shows. His bid to seize loyal ally Denmark’s sovereign territory; his norm-shattering, profoundly ignorant speech in Davos last week; and his contemptuous bullying of UK and EU leaders have definitively demonstrated what an existential, unappeasable, unspeakable menace the 47th US president truly is.All the post-Davos talk is about what the UK, the EU and Nato must do in future to resist and constrain Trump, and how to counter his attempts to demolish the global rules-based order. Yet a sense of proportion is required. If his policies and posturing are removed from the equation, it’s clear that the unedifying but familiar postwar world of great power rivalries and de-facto spheres of influence remains largely unchanged. Cont...

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34 h. ago 'King Charles's intervention over Donald Trump comments proves he will do what it takes to stand on the right side of history'

The King was not prepared to stand idly by over the US President's disgraceful slur that British heroes stayed off the front lines during the bloody Afghanistan war

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36 h. ago Nato comments reversal ‘as good as it gets’ from Trump, says Home Secretary

Donald Trump said in a social media post that British troops were ‘among the greatest of all warriors’.

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48 h. ago Trump backed down over Afghanistan comments 'after King Charles stepped in'

King Charles' concerns about Donald Trump's controversial remarks were reportedly passed to the White House through 'private backchannels'. The US President has since backtracked

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50 h. ago Furious Rod Stewart slams 'draft dodger' Trump over 'unbearable' comments

After Trump sparked outrage with his comments that NATO allies did not give their lives to help the US, Sir Rod Stewart has blasted the president for his "unbearable" remarks

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52 h. ago Trump’s ‘new normal’ leaves Australia marooned. We can no longer pretend otherwise | Zoe Daniel

The rules-based global order is rapidly disintegrating. It’s time for middle powers to stand togetherThe French president Emmanuel Macron borrowed some lines from Hugh Grant about bullies at the World Economic Forum in Davos. His target was Donald Trump, who had leaked a conciliatory text message from Macron who, evidently, was trying to get the US president to the table to shore up the rapidly disintegrating global order.In the love-it-or-hate-it Christmas film, Love Actually, Grant – playing the foppish British prime minister of the day – confronts the US president, saying: “A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend, and since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to be much stronger.”Zoe Daniel is a three-time ABC foreign correspondent and the former independent member for Goldstein. She is the chair of Mental Health Victoria Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Trump praises UK troops after remarks about Nato soldiers in Afghanistan

After anger at claim alliance’s troops ‘stayed off frontlines’, US president says British forces are ‘great and very brave’Donald Trump has said UK soldiers who fought in Afghanistan were “among the greatest of all warriors” after previously drawing criticism for his claims that Nato troops stayed away from the frontlines during the conflict.In a post on social media on Saturday, the US president said: “The great and very brave soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago ‘The invisible man’: Joe Biden has disappeared in almost every way – except in Trump’s daily commentary

The 46th president largely exists as Trump’s foil, with his successor blaming him for the country’s woesIn bitter cold beneath the US Capitol dome, he walked to a marine helicopter and shared parting words with Donald Trump. Then, arriving at Joint Base Andrews, Joe Biden offered farewell remarks to his loyal staff. “We’re leaving office,” he said, “We’re not leaving the fight.”But, one year later, Washington, and the world, have mostly moved on from the 46th president. Biden, 83, has been writing a lucrative memoir, planning a presidential library and fighting prostate cancer. He was once the most powerful man on the planet, but now Biden’s public appearances have been scarce and his influence has palpably diminished. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Meghan posts pictures of Prince Harry serving in Afghanistan amid Trump’s claims UK troops ‘stayed back from frontline’

MEGHAN Markle has made a pointed show of support for Prince Harry after he criticised Donald Trump over insulting Afghanistan comments. She posted a series of pictures to social media featuring her husband in military service, after Trump claimed Nato allies had dodged the front lines. Harry spent 10 years in the British Army, during which...

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60 h. ago Wall Street landlords have met a surprising opponent in Trump. So why is Starmer courting them? | Adam Almeida

To win votes, Trump can afford to face up to corporate power – to deliver his promised 1.5m homes, Starmer can’tIn an incredibly polarised society, there are fewer and fewer things that seem to unite both sides of the aisle in the US political system. Yet it turns out that an objection to Wall Street’s grand heist of single-family homes has done just that.We might expect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren to rail against the incursion of institutional investors into residential real estate markets, causing rent prices to jump and effectively locking millions of households out of home ownership. However, I admit I was surprised to see JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene striking a similar note. But I was completely dumbfounded to see the real estate tycoon and Wall Street darling Donald Trump sing from the same hymn sheet.Adam Almeida is a writer and researcher living in London Continue reading...

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61 h. ago The EU finally used an economic threat against Trump. But the markets forced his climbdown | Rosa Balfour

While the threat of retaliatory measures to stop the annexation of Greenland worked, it remains to be seen if Europe has the unity to follow throughThe past couple of weeks have seen the most spectacular crisis escalation in the transatlantic relationship, over the US threat to annex Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark. It risked becoming a major conflict among the members of Nato, the most powerful security alliance in world history – until now.On Wednesday, after a meeting with Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, the US president, Donald Trump, backtracked on his threats to slap tariffs on countries that got in the way of his annexation project. As European leaders huddled together over dinner for a post-crisis debrief in Brussels on 22 January, they congratulated themselves on their unity and appreciated the intervention of Rutte, or “Daddy diplomacy”. If these really were the conclusions of the latest debacle in transatlantic relations, they are missing important ...

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62 h. ago BBC Breakfast guest shares sad news on air as son given 'zero chance of survival'

Diane Dernie, the mother of former paratrooper Ben Parkinson, appeared on BBC Breakfast to respond to Donald Trump's comments about Nato troops

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62 h. ago BBC Breakfast guest emotional after son given 'zero chance of survival' after accident

Diane Dernie, the mother of former paratrooper Ben Parkinson, appeared on BBC Breakfast to address Donald Trump's recent comments on the actions of Nato troops

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64 h. ago In this Trump era, we need satire more than ever. Just don’t expect it to save democracy | Alexander Hurst

In the US, comedy has long filled the space vacated by partisan news media. Now France is following its leadSometimes the freedom and openness of comedy means it is better able to respond to world events than news media. Take South Park’s raucous, unhinged and visually disturbing depictions of Donald Trump – most recently, cheating on Satan (who is carrying his spawn) with JD Vance in the White House. Fair enough: Trey Parker and Matt Stone very much own this terrain.But there’s no reason why satirical TV programmes such as The Daily Show should have to take on the role of news provider, investigative journalist and critic. And yet, over the past three decades, the failings of the US corporate media to adequately cover the country’s dilapidated politics has pushed people such as Jon Stewart into filling the void. The problem was identified as long ago as 2000 by the US economist Paul Krugman. He castigated the press for being “fanatically determined to seem even-handed”, to the poin...

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64 h. ago Starmer's furious NATO comment blast could be 'first moment of standing up to Trump'

Keir Starmer slamming Donald Trump's comments about NATO troops in Afghanistan as 'insulting' could be his 'first moment of standing up to Trump', according to an expert

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65 h. ago How we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head

Martin Rowson has been drawing for the Guardian since the 1980s; Ella Baron since 2022. In paint and pixels, each is tasked with capturing the chaos and absurdity of our political momentPhotographs and video by David LeveneGallery: cartoonists Martin Rowson and Ella Baron at work – in picturesMartin Rowson and Ella Baron are both regular contributors to the Guardian’s daily political cartoon. Martin has been with the Guardian for decades; Ella has been contributing since 2022. This week, we challenged the pair to draw on the same subject (Trump and a world in turmoil), on the same day, to see what each – with their different styles, tools and perspectives – would come up with. Martin landed on a Shakespearean scene, with a warped “King Leer” flanked by snickering world leaders. Ella proposed him squatting in a dystopian nest, surrounded by his spoils. Below, each reflects on their process, the challenges and joys of political cartoons, and what they have learned from one another. Co...

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68 h. ago Meghan Markle supports Prince Harry with military photos amid Trump NATO remarks

Meghan Markle posted photos of Prince Harry's military service after he defended British troops against Donald Trump's comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer's 'one tell' in Trump NATO blast that reveals if it was just an act

Keir Starmer's response to Donald Trump's comments about NATO troops in Afghanistan looked "performative", but there was "one tell" that showed whether he genuinely meant it

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