10 h. ago Trump considers criminal charges for USAID staff after DOGE uncovered wild 'abuse'

Lawmakers have been briefed by a top Trump official that criminal recommendations could be made for fraud, waste and abuse at USAID, DailyMail.com has learned.

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19 h. ago Trump will consider restoring aid if talks with Ukraine progress, White House national security adviser says – Europe live

Mike Waltz says ‘president will take a hard look at lifting this pause’ if negotiations confidence-building measure put in placeRussia takes a positive view of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement last night that he is willing to negotiate over the war, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, however, that it was not clear how this would work because Ukraine had a legal ban on negotiating with Russia, Reuters noted. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago The Florida attorney general's office is investigating Andrew and Tristan Tate

Florida’s attorney general says his office has opened a criminal investigation Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania

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33 h. ago Florida attorney general opens criminal investigation into Andrew Tate and brother

Inquiry launched after pair was able to fly into state despite facing trial in Romania on rape and trafficking chargesThe attorney general of Florida has opened a criminal investigation of Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after the pair were able to fly into the state last week despite facing trial in Romania on charges of rape, sex with a minor, people trafficking and money laundering.James Uthmeier, appointed to be the state attorney general by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, said on Tuesday he had begun an “active criminal investigation” of the brothers and was prepared to use the “full force of law” in his examination of their conduct. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Trump considers 'relinquishing leadership of NATO' and insist UK and France take more responsibility as Starmer plans return to DC WITH Zelensky to present 'united front' on peace plan

EXCLUSIVE: In line with the US's insistence that European allies take more responsibility for the security of the continent, it also expects a British or French general to take up this position.

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38 h. ago Stephen A. Smith now boasts he’d be favorite in 2028 Democrat primary: ‘I can beat them all!’

Acknowledging that he’s personally ‘not qualified’ to be president, ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith said that one merely needs to ‘consider who is on the other side’ and how Trump has ‘gotten away with saying very little in terms of being coherent.’

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45 h. ago ‘Flawed decisions’ saw 262 child asylum seekers wrongly classed as adults

The Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium said the mistakes are exposing children to safeguarding risk and sometimes criminal charges.

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58 h. ago Trump reveals which ally he's eyeing next for major tariffs amid immediate hike for Mexico and Canada

Trump's remarks on the tariffs he is considering came at an event where he said 25 percent tariffs will go into effect tomorrow on Mexico and Canada. He is also slapping an additional 10 percent tariff on China.

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64 h. ago Two men are charged with criminal damage after Paddington Bear statue was cut in half and stolen

The statue, in Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berkshire, was damaged before the broken piece was stolen shortly after 2am on Sunday, Thames Valley Police said.

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64 h. ago Trump mulls suspending ALL military aid to Ukraine as top aide warns U.S. ammunitions are 'not unlimited'

President Donald Trump is considering ending all military aid to Ukraine after the White House meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky blew up on Friday.

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4 d. ago Socialite sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell 'considers pardon bid' from old pal Donald Trump

"Given how many pardons Trump has issued in the weeks since being back in power, those in Ghislaine clique joked she should push for one."

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4 d. ago Ghislaine Maxwell 'is considering seeking presidential pardon from her old friend Donald Trump' as she rots in jail for 20 years for trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell is considering pursuing a presidential pardon from her old friend US President Donald Trump, a prison source has claimed.

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4 d. ago Pardoned January 6 rioter said ‘I’m shooting myself’ before Indiana deputy fatally shot him

Killing of Matthew Huttle, 42, during traffic stop ‘legally justified’ and will not lead to criminal charges, lawyers sayThe pardoned US Capitol attacker who was shot to death by an Indiana sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop in January had first told the officer: “I’m shooting myself,” before attempting to retrieve a gun from his car, according to officials as well as newly released video of the encounter.Matthew Huttle’s killing by the deputy – whose body-worn and dashboard cameras captured video of the traffic stop – was “legally justified” and would not lead to any criminal charges, prosecutors said in a statement published on Thursday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Jury begins deliberations in trial of Illinois landlord charged with murdering Muslim boy

A jury in Illinois began deliberations on Friday in the criminal trial of a landlord charged in the brutal 2023 attack on a Palestinian American family that left a 6-year-old dead

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5 d. ago How Trump made Farage look a fool and Starmer a prime minister

The Reform UK leader – who considers himself Britain’s ‘Trump whisperer’ – will have been left crestfallen after hearing the man in the Oval Office describe the prime minister as ‘a very special person’, writes David Maddox

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6 d. ago Transgender service members and advocates ‘devastated’ by ‘un

Pentagon begins process of removing all trans service members while federal judges consider blocking Trump’s order

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8 d. ago Tusk says European leaders heading to London to discuss joint plans on defence – Europe live

Polish prime minister says EU leaders will meet on Sunday and calls for greater defence mobilisation across EuropeThe London summit is understood to be still in planning and would serve as a forum for European leaders to get debriefed on both Macron and Starmer’s conversations with Trump during their respective visits to the White House and to consider implications for European and Ukrainian security.It so happens that Starmer is due to speak in UK parliament in the next half hour, so we could get an official confirmation of what Tusk said.I hope that this greater [defence] mobilisation of Europe, of member states and Europe more broadly, will become a fact.[Before meeting at the next European Council,] we will be in London on Sunday, together with our British friends and a group of leaders, to talk about these joint plans on defence. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘He did his best’: Macron’s meeting with Trump prompts cautious optimism in France on Ukraine

Commentators say French president’s visit to the White House was amicable – but that differences remainRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesFrench political commentators reacted with cautious optimism after Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Donald Trump on Monday, which was considered by some as a “last chance” to ensure a balanced and lasting peace in Ukraine.Gérard Araud, a former French ambassador to the US, said the French president had undertaken what he called “mission impossible” but pointed out that Macron had experience of dealing with the volatile US leader. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Macron the ‘Trump whisperer’ works his magic but US and Europe remain an ocean apart

Mixing flattery and firmness, the French president sought to heal the transatlantic schism over Ukraine, giving Keir Starmer a tough act to followIt was a delicate balancing act for the man once considered Europe’s “Trump whisperer”.Emmanuel Macron, the French president, was seated in the Oval Office gently trying to factcheck Donald Trump in real time as the US president pushed a narrative that Ukraine had taken advantage of US support during its defense against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Now, said Trump, it is time to get paid back. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago US personnel office walks back email ultimatum from Musk to workers

OPM says failure to respond to email will not be considered resignation but Trump ally digs in and threatens job lossesThe US government’s human resources office has walked back an ultimatum issued by Elon Musk that would have forced its workers to resign if they did not submit a bullet-point list of their recent accomplishments, in one of the first signs of internal pushback to the Tesla billionaire’s campaign to downsize the federal workforce.The demand, made in an email sent to million of government employees over the weekend and quickly sued over by a coalition of labor and advocacy groups, represented the latest salvo by the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Trump-sanctioned cost-cutting initiative Musk chairs. Continue reading...

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