17 h. ago Poland sends 40,000 troops to eastern border as Europe moves closer to war with Russia and Putin masses his forces in Belarus for huge Zapad 2025 military drills following drone 'attack'

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has dubbed the upcoming military exercises 'very aggressive' and has closed the country's border with Belarus in anticipation of the intimidating display.

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54 h. ago Judge pauses California's request to bar Trump administration's ongoing use of National Guard troops

A federal judge who ruled last week that the Trump administration broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area says he will not immediately consider a request to bar the ongoing use of 300 Guard troops

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3 d. ago The Latest: Trump intensifies promises of federal law enforcement action in Chicago

President Donald Trump has amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation’s third-largest city

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5 d. ago Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

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6 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: The rise of State capitalism. Politically motivated vendettas. Rule by executive order. The National Guard on the streets... How Trump's America is getting more like China

Imagine a powerful president who grabs chunks of private enterprise for the state and forces companies to invest more at home by threatening penal tariffs if they don't.

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6 d. ago Georgia sends troops to DC in sign that Trump's policing push will continue

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

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6 d. ago US could take lead in ‘buffer zone’ inside Ukraine to protect future Russia aggression if peace deal materializes: report

Trump has thus far declined to commit American forces to any peacekeeping effort in Ukraine

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6 d. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump’s radical agenda will ultimately reach a supreme court stacked in favor of conservatives

Court has already dramatically limited ability of lower courts to issue injunctions to pause administration policies across the USUS politics live – latest updatesThis week’s dramatic court ruling that Donald Trump’s sweeping trade tariffs, which he has used to upend global trade, were in fact illegal is the latest in a series of losses for the president’s radical agenda that are ultimately heading for a final showdown in the US supreme court.Trump has already asked the supreme court to overturn the lower court ruling in the tariffs case. Almost certain to follow are Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, his hostile conflict with Harvard University and his deployment of the national guard and marines to Los Angeles. All have been deemed unlawful in lower courts. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Putin's war threat to the West: Russian leader vows to target any Western troops deployed to Ukraine after 'coalition of the willing' committed to sending soldiers in peace deal

The chilling threat came just a day after Kyiv 's allies said they had signed up to a plan that could see foreign soldiers stationed in Ukraine to guarantee any future peace deal.

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7 d. ago European leaders press Trump over peacekeeper plan for Ukraine

Leaders ask president on call to detail security guarantees US could give to European force in event of ceasefireEuropean leaders have made fresh efforts to pin down Donald Trump on the level of support he is willing to give Ukraine to push back a Russian advance, and asked him to detail the security guarantees he would provide to any European peacekeeping force inside Ukraine in the event of a lasting ceasefire.European leaders spoke with Trump by video call on Thursday after first holding a meeting of the so-called “coalition of the willing” in Paris, co-chaired by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Newsom trolls Trump some more after president calls him ‘incompetent’ and threatens to send troops back to LA

Trump and Newsom have been in a public feud for months

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8 d. ago UK troops could deploy to Ukraine straight away if peace deal reached says minister

Armed forces minister Luke Pollard told The Mirror an 'enormous' amount of planning has gone into a Ukraine peacekeeping operation as he hailed moves to improve recruitment and retention

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8 d. ago Trump's warning to Putin as he promises to send 'more US troops to Poland' if needed

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

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8 d. ago Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members, appeals court rules – US politics live

2-1 decision from fifth circuit is the first federal appeals court ruling on presidential proclamation invoking 1798 lawHello and welcome to the US politics live blog for today. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.We start with the news that a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that president Donald Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he alleged were part of a criminal gang.A judge has found the Trump administration’s use of national guard troops during southern California immigration enforcement protests was illegal. Judge Charles Breyer ruled on Tuesday that the administration violated federal law by sending troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids. The judge did not require the remaining troops withdrawn, however.The US House of Representatives oversight committee released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein from the justice departme...

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9 d. ago Four things to watch as Congress takes over Epstein files probe after Trump inaction on sex trafficker’s ‘list’

The House will have a forced vote, Chuck Schumer dusts off a little-known rule and Trump’s response will all characterize the next phase of the Epstein investigation, Eric Garcia writes

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1 week ago Europe has ‘pretty precise’ plan to send troops to Ukraine, von der Leyen says

Post-conflict security guarantees will be fully backed by US commitments, commission president tells FT

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1 week ago As Trump threatens more Guard troops in US cities, here's what the law allows

Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, President Donald Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — where he claims they are needed to crack down on crime

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1 week ago Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it isIf this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. The move follows raids on the homes of leading dissidents and comes as armed men seen as loyal to the president, many of them masked, continue to pluck people off the streets Except this is happening in the United States of America and so we don’t quite talk about it that way. That’s not the only reason. It’s also because Donald Trump’s march towards authoritarianism is so steady, taking another step or two every day, that it’s easy to become inured to it: you can’t be in a state of shock permanently. And, besides, sober-minded people are wary of sounding hyperbolic or hysterical: their instinct is to play down...

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2 w. ago South Park creators depict Trump with tiny penis but US President won't be able to sue

The creators of popular cartoon South Park are said to be relying on a legal concept known as the 'small-penis rule' as a defence against potential litigation from Donald Trump

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