46 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

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3 d. ago NASA terminating $420 million in contracts not aligned with its new priorities

Space agency reportedly being pushed to focus on Mars, a priority of commercial partner SpaceX founder Elon Musk

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5 d. ago Family of Milwaukee mother deported by Trump to Laos launches fundraiser to bring her home

Ma Yang’s partner says Milwaukee is the only home the Hmong-American woman has known since arriving in the US at eight months old

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6 d. ago Rosie O'Donnell floats bizarre conspiracy theory about Elon Musk after fleeing US after election

Rosie O'Donnell has fled the US for Ireland, citing fear for her family's safety under Trump and suggesting a bizarre conspiracy theory about the election.

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7 d. ago Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies

In a memo on Friday, president also revoked clearances for Antony Blinken, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Letitia JamesDonald Trump moved to revoke security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and a string of other top Democrats and political enemies in a presidential memo issued late on Friday.The security clearance revocations include former secretary of state Antony Blinken, former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, former Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump for fraud, as well as Biden’s entire family. They will no longer have access to classified information – a courtesy typically offered to former presidents and some officials after they have left public service. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump yanks security clearances from foes Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Biden family

President Donald Trump on Friday yanked security clearances from a round of top Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden’s family members.

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7 d. ago Trump pulls security clearances for Biden family, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, among others: Live updates

As backlash over billionaire Elon Musk’s role in administration grows, president says he was at Pentagon on DOGE cost-cutting business, not to see secret plans for combat with China as reports said

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9 d. ago ‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prisonDonald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘He’s in an abyss’: Family members say innocents swept up in Trump crackdown on Venezuelan migrant gang

Ongoing lawsuit is challenging administration’s use of emergency wartime law to deport Venezuelans without due process

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1 week ago British backpacker detained by US in 'Trump crackdown' after 'breaking visa rules' is released and on her way home after two weeks following family appeal

Rebecca Burke, 28, was on a 'once in a lifetime' solo travelling trip across the US and Canada when she was handcuffed while trying to cross the Canadian border on February 26.

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2 w. ago LADY VICTORIA HERVEY: What Trump privately told me about the royal family... and other thrilling insights from my intimate evening at Mar

It's 9pm on Friday night and Mar-a-Lago is heaving. Just four hours earlier, the famous patio had been empty.

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2 w. ago Trump family has held deal talks with Binance as crypto exchange’s founder pushes for a pardon, says report

White House has looked to ally with crypto sector with president and first lady both launching crypto projects before inauguration

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2 w. ago Scotland’s first minister holds ‘warm’ meeting with Eric Trump in Edinburgh

John Swinney says business meeting focused on Trump family’s golfing interests, days after Turnberry course was targeted by protestersScotland’s first minister hosted a “warm” meeting with Donald Trump’s son Eric in Edinburgh on Thursday, days after the US president’s golf course at Turnberry was targeted by protesters.John Swinney met Eric Trump at his official residence, a listed Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh’s New Town, for what both sides described as a routine business meeting that focused on the Trump family’s golfing interests. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump turns on Rupert Murdoch for 'polluted thinking' after WSJ bombshell on his family's business

President Donald Trump attacked the Wall Street Journal as a 'globalist' paper that was 'owned by the polluted thinking' of the EU. The paper ran a bombshell over a Trump crypto business play.

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2 w. ago ‘Baby jails’ and first steps behind bars: Trump’s immigration agenda embraces family detention again

As the US ramps up enforcement, scenes of family separation and despair from Trump’s first term are repeatedThe United States has resumed placing immigrant families in detention, re-embracing harrowing operations where scenes unfold such as toddlers learning to walk under the supervision of private prison corporations and children marking their birthdays at government facilities they can’t leave.If the Obama and first Trump administrations are anything to go by, parents will have to watch their little ones go hungry without familiar foods, the kinds families cook if their children aren’t stuck in so-called “baby jails”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Justin Trudeau weeps as he gives emotional farewell speech in front of his family and makes one FINAL dig at Donald Trump

A weeping Justin Trudeau has taken one last swipe at Donald Trump during his final speech as Prime Minister of Canada. 

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3 w. ago Trump admin resumes detention of migrant families and kids. Critics warn it’s the ‘start of another dark chapter’

‘We need family residential centers,’ border czar Tom Homan said this week

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3 w. ago ‘Trump Gaza’ AI video intended as political satire, says creator

Film-maker reacts after US president shares video on his Truth Social account last weekThe creator of the viral “Trump Gaza” AI-generated video depicting the Gaza Strip as a Dubai-style paradise has said it was intended as a political satire of Trump’s “megalomaniac idea”.The video – posted by Trump on his Truth Social account last week – depicts a family emerging from the wreckage of war-torn Gaza into a beachside resort town lined with skyscrapers. Trump is seen sipping cocktails with a topless Benjamin Netanyahu on sun loungers, while Elon Musk tears flatbread into dips. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘For the love of God’: Sean Hannity begged Trump to stop attacking Fox News amid Dominion lawsuit, new book says

Fox News host reportedly pleaded with Trump not to ‘hit the Murdoch family’ during a 2023 phone call

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3 w. ago All the juicy moments from Trump's speech to Congress that you didn't see

Democrats storming out in protest, Elon Musk getting a warning from security and a seemingly unamused Trump family were all sights cameras couldn't catch during Donald Trump 's speech.

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