3 h. ago Trust takes Trump to court over ‘damaging’ $300 million White House makeover plan

Donald Trump’s plan for a $300 million ballroom on White House grounds faces an early courtroom test on Tuesday. Preservationists accuse him of illegally tearing down the East Wing in a sweeping makeover critics call an abuse of power.

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18 h. ago Ford to take $19.5bn hit as US carmaker overhauls EV strategy

Group scraps plans for some electric trucks as it contends with Trump regulatory changes and tepid demand

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20 h. ago Casino plans for Mets ballpark and golf course Trump once ran among 3 awarded NYC gambling licenses

The New York Mets’ ballpark, a Bronx golf course once operated by President Donald Trump’s company and a slot parlor near John F. Kennedy International Airport will be the sites of New York City’s first Las Vegas-style resort casinos

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2 d. ago Trump rages in early hours at Indiana Republicans who defied redistricting plan he says he ‘wasn’t working very hard at’

Trump wrote that Republicans who voted against the measure ‘should be ashamed of themselves’

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3 d. ago Top Putin aide issues chilling WW3 threat to UK and NATO over Zelensky peace talks

Vladimir Putin's sycophant aide Kirill Dmitriev claimed NATTO was undermining President Donald Trump's peace plan and accused it of wanting to start WW3 rather than see him succeed

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3 d. ago Justice Department asks appeals court to block judge's contempt inquiry in mass deportation case

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March

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3 d. ago Trump sued over White House ballroom construction as preservationists demand a halt to $300 million project

The Trust wants the court to declare that Trump, by fast-tracking the project, has committed multiple violations of the Administrative Procedures Act and the National Environmental Policy Act

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3 d. ago Trump’s FDA plans to put a ‘black box’ warning on COVID vaccines: report

Black boxes are the FDA’s most serious warning sign and are usually placed on opioid products

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4 d. ago Sir Jimmy Anderson joins list of stars backing Manchester hospital's appeal to build new cinema

The appeal hopes to raise £1.1M to build the new cinema

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4 d. ago Planning to visit the US? Take it from this American citizen – don’t | Eleanor Limprecht

I love many things about the land of my birth but Donald Trump’s America has become an unwelcoming country of deep divisions and waning trustI’m in the US right now, but if I didn’t have family here (and a US passport), I wouldn’t be. My teenagers and I flew over the week of Thanksgiving from Australia, preparing ourselves for long lines and extra questions at customs. It took less than five minutes in the US citizens’ line.With the news this week of the Trump administration planning to implement new invasive requirements for travellers from 42 countries, including Australia, that would require five years of social media history for visas, I would simply not travel here on another passport. There are plenty of places which welcome visitors without trawling their political opinions and family history. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'Trump wants to push Austria into Auxit': Europe up in arms over 'leaked US plan to pull countries away from EU'

The file, reported by Defense One, supposedly claims Trump intends to pull Austria, Italy , Hungary and Poland away from the EU and closer in to Washington's circle of influence.

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4 d. ago Obama revisits old barbershop to get a haircut during Chicago trip

Barack Obama reunited with his old barber on Thursday (11 December) as he finished a trip to check progress on his presidential library in Chicago.

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4 d. ago Trump and Europe want ‘same thing’ for Ukraine, insists Starmer

The Prime Minister said there were a ‘number of issues still to be resolved’ but dismissed suggestions his optimism had been frayed

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4 d. ago Ben Jennings on Trump’s plan to scrutinise tourists’ social media histories – cartoon

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4 d. ago Trump plans to break up the EU by ‘pulling four MAGA allies’ out of the bloc, report claims

The White House pushed back on claims that Washington was seeking to take nations including Italy and Hungary out of the EU

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4 d. ago ‘Censorship pure and simple’: critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors’ social media

Some warn proposal will decimate US tourism industry as free speech advocates say it will lead to people self-censoringFree speech advocates have accused Donald Trump of “shredding civil liberties” and “censorship pure and simple” after the White House said it planned to require visa applicants from dozens of countries to provide social media, phone and email histories for vetting before being allowed into the US.In a move that some commentators compared to China and others warned would decimate tourism to the US, including the 2026 Fifa World Cup, the Department for Homeland Security said it was planning to apply the rules to visitors from 42 countries, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, France, Germany and Japan, if they want to enter the US on the commonly used Esta visa waiver. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Merz offers to host Ukraine talks so deal not done ‘above Europe’s head’

Leaders of Germany, France and UK hold ‘detailed’ call with Donald Trump about latest draft of peace plan

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5 d. ago Football fans fear Trump tourism rule will lead to one major problem at World Cup 2026

The United States is co-hosting the FIFA 2026 World alongside neighbours, Canada and Mexico, but a proposal by the Trump administration may scupper many fans' plans to attend

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5 d. ago Trump plan for World Cup tourists to reveal social media activity described as ‘chilling’

UK tourists would be among those affected by US policy‘Unacceptable’ and ‘chilling’, says European fan groupA plan to require supporters travelling to the United States for the World Cup to disclose information about their social media accounts has been described as “profoundly unacceptable”.Tourists from 42 countries, including the UK, which use the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (Esta) as part of the visa waiver programme would be obliged to provide information about accounts they have held in the last five years in their applications. Previously it had been optional to provide the information. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago New photos show inside Obama's 'eyesore' presidential library

Home Court is a 60,000 square-foot structure that features the same sharp, gray, modern architecture that gave the rest of the Obama library complex viral fame.

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