31 m. ago Melania just did something no First Lady has EVER done at extraordinary White House event

Melania Trump touted her first major legislative success on Monday, when she joined President Donald Trump in signing the Take It Down Act into law. 

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35 m. ago Melania SIGNS 'powerful' new law protecting victims from revenge porn in unusual move next to Trump and his closest allies

Melania Trump touted her first major legislative success on Monday, when she joined President Donald Trump in signing the Take It Down Act into law. 

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1 hour ago Trump and Putin hold phone call but Kremlin refuses Ukraine ceasefire

Trump describes call as ‘excellent,’ despite Putin’s lack of support for ceasefire that US said was primary objectiveTrump says Russia-Ukraine ceasefire discussions to start immediately but Kremlin denies timeline for talks – liveVladimir Putin and Donald Trump have held a rare phone call, which the US leader described as “excellent,” but the Kremlin refused to agree to a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine, despite pressure from Washington and European allies.Speaking to reporters in Sochi after the two-hour conversation on Monday, Putin described the call as “very meaningful and frank,” and said he was prepared to work with Ukraine on drafting a memorandum for future peace talks. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump officials reportedly reach $5m settlement in January 6 wrongful death suit

Family sought $30m in damages after Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot by police during 2021 US Capitol breachThe Trump administration has reportedly reached an agreement to pay nearly $5m to the family of the woman who was fatally shot by police while participating in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol carried out by the president’s supporters.Citing multiple sources, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Trump administration had agreed to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle the wrongful death lawsuit they filed after the attack. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump says Putin call went ‘very well’ and suggests talks between Russia and Ukraine will start ‘immediately’

American president suggests the talks could be hosted at the Vatican

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3 h. ago Trump can strip humanitarian protections for more than 350,000 Venezuelans, Supreme Court says

Justices freeze federal judge’s ruling that stopped administration from ending temporary protected status

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5 h. ago Meet Dr. Casey Means: A wellness influencer, vaccine skeptic, and Trump’s pick for surgeon general

The surgeon-turned-author is a vaccine skeptic that has embraced the Health and Human Services Secretary’s ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda

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6 h. ago ‘Cinema doesn’t ship that way’: Wes Anderson mocks Donald Trump’s film tariff plans in Cannes

While acknowledging he is ‘not an expert in that area of economics’, the director criticised Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on films ‘from foreign lands’American director Wes Anderson has mocked Donald Trump’s plan to impose severe tariffs on foreign-made films, suggesting it would mostly financially hit film-makers like him and be unworkable in practice.“Can you hold up the movie in customs?” the world’s chief auteur of cinematic whimsy asked at a press conference at the Cannes film festival. “I feel it doesn’t ship that way. I’m not sure I want to know the details so I’ll hold off on my official answer.” Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Megyn Kelly puts Trump clash behind her to ride the Maga media wave

The former Fox News host once branded ‘nasty’ by Trump is now a cheerleader for him and her podcast is surging in the rightwing media-sphereIt was the night before a US presidential election that Donald Trump had called the most important in history. Who could close the deal at his campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? The answer was Megyn Kelly. Trump “will keep the boys out of girls’ sports where they don’t belong”, the rightwinger podcaster said to rapturous applause. “And you know what else? He will look out for our boys, too. Our forgotten boys and our forgotten men.”Turning around and pointing at Trump supporters wearing hard hats, Kelly eulogised guys “who’ve got the calluses on their hands, who work for a living, the beards and the tats, maybe have a beer after work, and don’t want to be judged by people like Oprah and Beyoncé, who will never have to face the consequences of her [Kamala Harris’s] disastrous economic policies. These guys will. He gets it. President Trum...

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11 h. ago ‘He gave us a sense of pride’: Rev Al Sharpton on Malcolm X’s 100th birthday

Veteran activist reflects on Malcolm’s legacy and decades of progress now rolled back by Trump and ‘white supremacy on steroids’When African Americans protested police brutality in New York, they were portrayed as rioters, Malcolm X told an audience at the London School of Economics. When shop windows were smashed in the Black community, he said, the press gave the impression that “hoodlums, vagrants, criminals” wanted to break in and steal merchandise.“But this is wrong,” Malcolm contended. “In America the Black community in which we live is not owned by us. The landlord is white. The merchant is white. In fact, the entire economy of the Black community in the states is controlled by someone who doesn’t even live there And these are the people who suck the economic blood of our community.” Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Donald Trump Jr breaks political truce over Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis as he posts Jill Biden 'cover

First Son Donald Trump Jr. questioned on Sunday whether former First Lady Jill Biden covered up her husband's cancer diagnosis.

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16 h. ago Trump makes the Gulf states feel powerful, but the real test is: can they stop Israel’s war? | Nesrine Malik

The US president’s deference to his Middle Eastern allies is hollow if they cannot affect what happens in their own back yardDonald Trump’s visit to the Middle East last week was an exercise in disorientation. Both in terms of rebalancing the relationship between the US and the region, and in scrambling perceptions. In Riyadh, he told the Saudi royals there would be no more “lectures on how to live”. He lifted sanctions on Syria so that the country may have a “fresh start”, and he fawned over the camels and lavish architecture (“as a construction guy,” he said at one Qatari palace, “this is perfect marble”). Never has Trump appeared more in his element, surrounded by the wealth of sovereigns, the marshalling power of absolute monarchies, and their calculated self-orientalisation and over-the-top flattery.The same man who enacted the Muslim ban in his first term was strolling around mosques and shrugging off the radical path to power of the Syrian president: “Handsome guy Tough past,...

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18 h. ago Donald Trump Jr breaks political truce over Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis as he posts Jill Biden 'cover up' conspiracy

First Son Donald Trump Jr. questioned on Sunday whether former First Lady Jill Biden covered up her husband's cancer diagnosis.

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19 h. ago Trump news at a glance: president faces intensifying criticism over Qatar plane gift

Top Democrat condemns ‘flying grift’ as senior Republicans join chorus of disapproval – key US politics stories from Sunday 18 May at a glanceDonald Trump is coming under increasing pressure for accepting a $400m luxury plane from Qatar as several senior Republicans join the chorus of criticism.Leading Democratic Chris Murphy on Sunday called it the “definition of corruption”, while even some of Trump’s close allies have been enraged, with some saying it was the opposite of Trump’s promise to drain the swamp and was “a stain on the administration”. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Pope Leo's epic snub to JD Vance after first American pontiff's inaugural mass in Rome

JD Vance and his wife Usha attended the first American pontiff's commencement service in Rome on Sunday, despite Pope Leo's avid criticism of the Trump administration.

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21 h. ago Donald Trump supporters claim 'Democrats knew' about Joe Biden cancer diagnosis

Joe Biden's announcement that he has been diagnosed with "aggressive" prostate cancer has prompted an outpouring of support - but also a fierce backlash from right-wing figures

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22 h. ago Trump supporters score political points from Biden's cancer diagnosis: 'Democrats knew'

From Alex Jones' Infowars to keyboard warriors on X, how the Republican right are already exploiting Biden's tragedy to score political points.

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22 h. ago Trump ‘saddened’ to hear about Biden’s cancer diagnosis and sends ‘warm wishes’ from him and Melania

‘We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery,’ Trump says

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29 h. ago Trump threatens to sue ABC – again – for criticizing him over $400m jet gift from Qatar

Trump issued his complaints about the news station’s coverage of the $400 million jumbo jet

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30 h. ago Who is Dr. Casey Means: wellness influencer, vaccine skeptic and Trump’s pick for Surgeon General?

The surgeon-turned-author is a vaccine skeptic that has embraced the Health and Human Services Secretary’s ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda

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