5 d. ago Trump official who oversaw dismantling of USAID leaves US state department

Under Pete Marocco’s lead, nearly all USAID staff was fired, with funding slashed and contractors dismissedPete Marocco, the Trump administration official who played a major role in dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has left the state department, a US official said on Sunday.Donald Trump’s administration has moved to fire nearly all USAID staff, as billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” has slashed funding and dismissed contractors across the federal bureaucracy in what it calls an attack on wasteful spending. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Lyon vs Man Utd LIVE: Second error from Andre Onana leaves Europa League quarter

United are yet to lose in the Europa League this season and are one of the favourites to win the trophy

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8 d. ago Lyon vs Man Utd LIVE: Yoro equalises for visitors after Onana error helps hosts score first goal

United are yet to lose in the Europa League this season and are one of the favourites to win the trophy

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8 d. ago Lyon vs Man Utd LIVE: Andre Onana error puts hosts into lead in Europa League quarter

United are yet to lose in the Europa League this season and are one of the favourites to win the trophy

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1 week ago Musk’s growing public feud with Trump trade adviser over tariffs dismissed by White House: ‘Boys will be boys’

The world’s wealthiest man has been engaging in an online spat with Peter Navarro over the president’s tariff policies

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1 week ago Trump tariffs live: President dismisses tariff pause as Netanyahu vows to ‘eliminate’ US trade barriers

US president describes sweeping tariffs as ‘medicine’ as major volatility in global markets continues

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1 week ago Rollercoaster for US stock markets as tariff uncertainty puts investors on edge

Wall Street shows some recovery after initial falls as Trump’s team dismiss rumours of a 90-day pause on tariffs as ‘fake news’US Politics Live: Trump says Federal Reserve should cut ratesVolatility grips global stock markets as Trump insists on tariff ‘medicine’Hong Kong stocks have plummeted more than 9% at open, while Singapore stocks dropped over 7%, according to reports.Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of the widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession, Reuters says. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump dismisses China tariff retaliation and implores Fed to cut interest rates as stock market dives: Live

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stocks sliding further after worst day since 2020

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2 w. ago JD Vance reveals Elon Musk's next move after news of DOGE 'shock' exit

Vice President JD Vance dismissed reports that President Donald Trump was dissatisfied with billionaire Elon Musk's work at DOGE and that he was preparing to head for the exits.

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2 w. ago Judge throws out Eric Adams corruption case and sides with Trump’s DOJ

Judge overseeing Adams’ case said he would drop the charges, in part, to protect the DoJ from using them as ‘leverage’

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2 w. ago Karoline Leavitt dismisses major Trump Administration blunder as 'clerical error' amid backlash on MS

The White House said a Maryland resident who got deported to the notorious Salvadoran prison due to an 'administrative error' won't be coming home, and claimed he was a leader of MS-13.

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2 w. ago Thousands of US health agency workers laid off in overhaul led by RFK Jr

Trump administration begins reducing Health and Human Services workforce as Kennedy plans up to 10,000 job cutsThousands of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees across the country are being dismissed on Tuesday as the Trump administration begins implementing its workforce-reduction plan, which could ultimately remove 10,000 staff members from the department through forced layoffs.The job cuts mark the first tangible impact of the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s departmental overhaul announced last week, landing just days after Donald Trump moved to strip collective-bargaining rights from workers at HHS and other federal agencies. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago There's something eerily Orwellian about Donald Trump's America, where truth is dismissed as a lie, and lies are disseminated as truth: ANDREW NEIL

There is something increasingly Orwellian about Donald Trump 's America in 2025, where truth is dismissed by government as a lie.

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3 w. ago Trump's dark underside is showing. These are the sinister omens that this administration won't end well for America: ANDREW NEIL

There is something increasingly Orwellian about Donald Trump 's America in 2025, where truth is dismissed by government as a lie.

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3 w. ago Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

Restraining order was issued to ensure that records of Yemen attack group conversation are retainedA federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all Signal messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist.The temporary restraining order from James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, compelled defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, CIA director John Ratcliffe and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to save their texts from 11 to 15 March. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Even Tomi Lahren is blasting the White House for trying to parse words to shift blame on Signal blunder

‘I’m honestly getting sick of the whatabout isms from my own side ... Admit the F up and move on,’ said right-wing pundit

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3 w. ago Americans think Signal blunder is as big a deal as Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server: Poll

Americans view the Signal leak in as bad a light as Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State

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3 w. ago Mike Waltz faces new scrutiny over public Venmo account after Signal chat blunder – live

National security adviser’s Venmo account reveals journalists, lobbyists and military personnel, Wired reportsTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake.’” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump names ‘first buddy’ and DOGE leader Elon Musk to investigate Signal blunder

Musk offered ‘his technical experts’ to help investigate how a journalist was added to a group chat with national security officials

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3 w. ago Spring statement 2025 live: Trump tariffs could wipe out Reeves’s thin margin of error on budget, OBR warns

Office for Budget Responsibility said the most “severe” scenario would ‘almost entirely eliminate’ the Chancellor’s £9.9 billion headroom against her fiscal rules

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