4 d. ago MAGA rages after NFL picks ‘Trump Hater’ Bad Bunny for 2026 Super Bowl halftime show

Announcement follows Bad Bunny’s decision not to tour in the U.S. over fears that Immigration, Customs and Enforcement agents ‘could be outside’ his concert venues

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6 d. ago Trump’s pick for State Dept. deletes violent tweets as GOP blames left for political violence after Charlie Kirk killing

Some tweets labeled January 6 Capitol rioters as “political prisoners,” another suggested Joe Biden should be imprisoned, and one called for a political opponent to be executed.

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7 d. ago If Starmer wants to beat Reform, he’ll need more than ‘patriotic renewal’ – whatever that is | Zoe Williams

Today’s big ‘fightback’ speech continued with the prime minister’s curious strategy of ceding ground to his enemiesKeir Starmer was at his most clear today not in his speech to the Global Progress Action Summit in London, trailed as a fightback against the politics of hate and division, but in the panel afterwards. That’s when he said he wanted the next election to be an “open fight” between “Labour and Reform”. In the speech itself, however, he identified his enemies in the abstract. He was against the “politics of predatory grievance”, which used the “infrastructure of division”. He also made a lovely case for London at the start, with its plentiful pubs and pleasant parks, remarking wryly that it was nothing like “the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe”.The problem is he needs to pick a lane. Either he was referring to Donald Trump’s comments at the UN earlier this week, when the leader of the free world said Britain’s capital had a “terrible mayor, terrible, t...

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1 week ago Trump’s pick to run the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations says he was fired over Charlie Kirk Instagram post

Commission planning 250th anniversary has been riven with internal tensions for years

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1 week ago Trump’s Fed pick doubles down on calls to aggressively cut interest rates

Stephen Miran says rates should be below 3% by end of year and dismisses fears of US president’s tariffs stoking inflationStephen Miran, Donald Trump’s new appointee on the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate-setting board, has doubled down on his calls for the central bank to more aggressively cut interest rates.Last week, the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point, bringing rates down to a range of 4% to 4.25% – the lowest it’s been since early 2023. Out of 12 voting board members, Miran was the only one to vote against the crowd. He wanted a half-point cut, not a quarter-point cut. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump picks his former lawyer to be top prosecutor, as he pushes Bondi to investigate foes

Lindsey Halligan appointed as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after president demands investigations of his political enemiesDonald Trump said he was appointing his former lawyer Lindsey Halligan to be US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after an extraordinary outburst in which he overtly put pressure on his attorney general to more aggressively pursue senior public officials he regards as his political enemies.“Pam Bondi is doing a GREAT job as attorney general of the United States. She is very careful, very smart, loves our country, but needs a tough prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, like my recommendation, Lindsey Halligan, to get things moving,” Trump wrote on Truth Social post, announcing his decision. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lisa Cook can stay at Fed ahead of rates decision, appeals court rules

Ruling comes as Donald Trump’s pick for central bank’s board confirmed by the Senate

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3 w. ago Peter Mandelson was picked as UK's Trump whisperer as White House is 'uncoventional'

Sacked US Ambassador Peter Mandelson was selected because of the 'unconventional' White House, Labour minister Douglas Alexander said

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3 w. ago House committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, including letter signed by Trump – follow live

James Comer, the Republican chair of committee, scolded his Democratic colleagues of ‘cherry-picking documents’House Democrats share screenshot of apparent Trump birthday note to EpsteinIntent on vindication after spending four months in prison last year, Peter Navarro asked a federal appeals court on Sunday night to force Donald Trump’s justice department to explain why it would not defend his 2022 conviction for defying a January 6 committee subpoena.The request to the US court of appeals for the DC circuit is fraught for the department as it would have to confront the appearance that it quietly dropped the case in order to shield Navarro after he was tapped as a senior adviser to the president. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Nigel Farage's 'awkward' Oval Office photo proves he's on 'Team Trump' in talking down Britain

After examining the 'awkward' photographs from Nigel Farage's divisive meeting with US President Donald Trump, body language expert Judi James has picked up on a telling sign that the Reform leader is 'Team Trump' all the way

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4 w. ago Donald Trump is having a lovechild with Satan: South Park sets up future chaos

At times, the latest episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s comedy feels like it’s running out of ammo when tackling the US President. But might it just be sowing the seeds of what’s to come?So far, South Park’s 27th season has had one clear goal: to provoke Donald Trump into a tantrum. Every episode has managed to pick on a new and different facet of his authoritarian rule – the silencing of his media critics, his use of Ice agents as an intimidation tactic – while simultaneously telling everyone what a tiny penis he has.So the anticipation levels were off the charts for this week’s episode, entitled Wok Is Dead, which promised to take on Trump’s tariff policy. And in fairness it did do this, but only in a couple of scenes where a Chinese character with an uncomfortably Mickey Rooney-esque accent complained about them. The rest of the episode just settled for a bunch of jokes about Labubu dolls, as well as calling Donald Trump “Satan” as many times as it feasibly could. Continue r...

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