9 h. ago White House sparks uncertainty over fate of two major California national monuments

New White House fact sheet has removed references to Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monumentsNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.The White House is fueling speculation over plans to eliminate two large national monuments in California established by former president Joe Biden.Less than a week before leaving office, Biden designated the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla national monument in southern California and the 224,000-acre Sáttítla Highlands national monument in northern California. Native American tribes consider these lands sacred and had urged Biden to protect them from drilling, mining, clean-energy development and other industrial activity. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Trump axes Secret Service protection for Hunter Biden and sister Ashley

Trump has slammed the protection given to Hunter Biden as ‘ridiculous’

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21 h. ago Trump axes Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden

Trump has slammed the protection given to Hunter Biden as ‘ridiculous’

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25 h. ago Donald Trump axes Secret Service protection for Joe Biden's children over 'ridiculous' cost

Hunter and Ashley Biden will no longer have the security afforded to them by the core legal mandate of the Secret Service, in a move that has been branded "ridiculous"

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28 h. ago Donald Trump scraps Secret Service protection for Joe Biden's children

Joe Biden's children, Hunter and Ashley, had been protected by Secret Service details, which Mr Biden extended for six months before his tenure as president came to an end

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30 h. ago Trump ENDS Secret Service protection for Biden children after learning of 'ridiculous' cost to taxpayers

President Donald Trump removed Hunter and Ashley Biden's Secret Service detail, citing Hunter's recent trip to South Africa as the reason. 

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31 h. ago Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Joe Biden’s children

President made change effective ‘immediately’ to security protection for Hunter and Ashley after a reporter’s inquiryUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump said Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Democrat Joe Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended to July shortly before leaving office in January.Trump posted his intention on Truth Social after a reporter asked him about Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail: “Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer,” Trump said. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Can Trump actually void Biden pardons? Legal experts weigh in on the president's shock move

President Donald Trump claimed that President Joe Biden's pardons were 'void' and 'vacant' because he used an autopen. What legal experts have to say in response to the accusations.

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34 h. ago Leo Terrell, Trump’s antisemitism chief, shares post by prominent neo

Tweet was from Patrick Casey, ex-head of a defunct racist group, who said Trump can ‘revoke someone’s Jew card’The leader of a progressive Jewish group has condemned Leo Terrell, the head of Donald Trump’s official antisemitism taskforce, for sharing a post by a prominent white supremacist.The post Terrell shared was written by Patrick Casey last Wednesday. It accompanied footage of the US president saying in the Oval Office that Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic Senate minority leader, “used to be Jewish” and “is not Jewish anymore, he’s a Palestinian”. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Trump makes unsupported claim Biden pardons are ‘void’ as he used autopen

President claims without evidence that January 6 panel members’ pre-emptive clemency was not signed personallyDonald Trump claimed on Monday, without offering evidence, that pardons signed by Joe Biden were “void, vacant and of no further force and effect” because they were signed with an autopen.The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an autopen as “a device that mechanically reproduces a person’s signature”. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago ‘I escaped one gulag only to end up in another’: Russian asylum seekers face Ice detention in the US

Exiles fleeing Putin’s repression in Russia and other post-Soviet states find a harsh welcome when arriving statesideFor most of the four years of Joe Biden was in office, citizens of Russia and other post-Soviet states seeking asylum in the US were generally released into the country while they awaited hearings on their claim in immigration court.But since last summer, many have been detained upon entering the US, and some of them have been held for more than a year, lawyers, activists and detainees say. Some children have been separated from their parents. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago What to know about Yemen's Houthi rebels as the US steps up attacks on Iran

The United States under President Donald Trump has launched a new campaign of intense airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels

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64 h. ago Trump says the economy ‘went to hell’ under Biden. The opposite is true

By standard measures such as job and GDP growth and the stock market, the US economy was in excellent shapeNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Donald Trump keeps saying he inherited a terrible economy from Joe Biden and many Americans believe him, even though that’s not true. During his White House marketing event for Tesla on Tuesday, Trump said the US and its economy “went to hell” under Biden. Last week, in his national address to Congress, Trump said: “We inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.”But the truth is that by standard economic measures, the US economy was in excellent shape when Biden turned over the White House keys to Trump, even though most Americans, upset about inflation, told pollsters the economy was in poor shape. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump environmental rollbacks would boost pollution and endanger lives, former EPA heads say

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health

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4 d. ago Trump administration moves to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma over immigration laws

The Trump administration has moved to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma for their immigration laws

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4 d. ago Joe Biden's daughter Ashley referred to IRS over Meghan Markle's $250,000 donation to her non

Ashley Biden's nonprofit is facing an official IRS complaint after failing to publicly disclose its $250,000 donation from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

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5 d. ago Biden's three word warning to Kamala Harris that prevented her from throwing aging president under the bus before her first debate with Trump

Joe Biden gave Kamala Harris a warning ahead of the vice president's first debate with Donald Trump in the heat of the 2024 campaign.

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5 d. ago British people ‘will rise to challenge’ of green action – ex

John Kerry said he was ‘optimistic’ about decarbonisation efforts in the US and wider global climate action despite the US row back.

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6 d. ago FEMA launches review of migrant shelter aid, suggesting smuggling laws were violated

The Trump administration has launched a review of organizations that provide temporary housing and other aid to migrants, suggesting they may have violated a law used to prosecute smugglers

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6 d. ago Trump admin given bombshell intelligence from ally that Covid was lab

The German Federal Intelligence Service carried out a secret investigation into the origins of Covid and evidence supports the lab-leak theory with '80 to 95 percent certainty.'

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