7 h. ago Trump says Xi told him China will not invade Taiwan while he is in office

US president says Chinese counterpart told him ‘I am very patient and China is very patient’The US president, Donald Trump, has said that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office.Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News on Friday, ahead of talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Trump told cops to do ‘whatever the hell they want’ to fix DC. Here’s why that’s ‘extremely dangerous’

White House mandate ‘runs roughshod over constitutional rights and due process protections,’ civil rights groups and legal experts tell Alex Woodward

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57 h. ago Trump ‘did not like’ moment Macron called him out over Putin during high

The French president took ‘very tough positions,’ and reportedly told Trump that the meeting was ‘a very big thing’ to give Putin

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62 h. ago Zelensky warns Trump Putin is ‘bluffing’ ahead of crunch Ukraine peace talks

Volodymyr Zelensky said he told Donald Trump that Vladimir Putin was “bluffing” on being open to ceasefire negotiations, ahead of high stakes “one-on-one” talks between the US and Russia on Friday (15 August).

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64 h. ago Trump gives assurances to Europeans over talks with Putin on Ukraine

US president indicates before Alaska summit he will not make territorial concessions without Kyiv’s involvementDonald Trump told European leaders on Wednesday he would be seeking a ceasefire in Ukraine at his summit with Vladimir Putin on Friday and gave reassurances that he would not make any territorial concessions without Kyiv’s full involvement.Trump’s approach at the video conference, disclosed by France’s Emmanuel Macron, appeared to reassure some of the leaders, who were making a final collective plea to the unpredictable US president that he had a duty to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty – and European security – at the talks in Alaska. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago China records more cases of deadly chikungunya virus as country battles 'largest outbreak ever'

More people have been sickened in China's record-breaking outbreak, officials say, after cases were also detected in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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6 d. ago Trump reportedly considers reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous drug

President told people at a fundraiser last month he was considering changing marijuana’s Schedule I classificationDonald Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.At a $1m-a-plate fundraiser at his New Jersey golf club earlier this month, Trump told attendees he was interested in making such a change, the people, who declined to be named, told the newspaper. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump ‘very disappointed’ in Putin on his deadline day for Russia to move towards Ukraine ceasefire – Europe live

The US president said further action in the form of sanctions and tariffs now dependent on the outcome of talks with his Russian counterpartThe US president Donald Trump’s original deadline for Russia to move on ending its invasion of Ukraine ends today.Asked if he was ready to follow through on his threats of sanctions and secondary tariffs, Trump told reporters last night:It’s going to be up to him. We’re going to see what he has to say. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Steve Bannon is secretly plotting a sensational run for president in 2028 ... and he's already knifing his likely rival: 'I created him'

Sources close to Steve Bannon and President Trump told the Daily Mail that Bannon is now seriously considering running for president in the next term.

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8 d. ago He told Jan 6 rioters to ‘kill’ cops. After Trump’s pardon, he got hired at the Justice Department

Administration officials call Jared Wise a ‘valued member’ at the nation’s top law enforcement agency after avoiding trial on riot charges

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9 d. ago Laura Loomer testified that Bill Maher’s joke about her sleeping with Trump torpedoed her chance at White House job

Laura Loomer claimed that the Trump campaign told her that the joke caused a ‘media frenzy’ and she was no longer welcome on the campaign plane

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9 d. ago Top Trump aide hints at real possibility aliens exist as team 'hunts for truth'

Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has told a podcaster that she believes aliens could possibly be real and that she has 'a lot of questions'

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9 d. ago Ghislaine Maxwell told Justice Department she never saw Trump do anything concerning with Epstein, report says

The Trump administration is now considering whether to release the transcript from Blanche’s meetings with Maxwell last month

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1 week ago Attorney for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has approached Trump administration for pardon: report

A member of the music mogul’s defense team told CNN that ‘conversations’ had taken place with the Trump administration

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1 week ago Harvard president reportedly says he is not considering $500m deal with Trump

Alan Garber told faculty a settlement with the White House is not imminent, according to Harvard’s student newspaperThe Harvard University president, Alan Garber, has told faculty a deal between the Ivy League institution and the Trump administration is not imminent – and denied reports that the university is considering a $500m settlement with the White House, Harvard’s student newspaper the Crimson reported.The Crimson attributed that information to three unnamed faculty members in a report published early on Monday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump's six weird words after learning Sydney Sweeney is a Republican

President Donald Trump was told that Sydney Sweeney, who sparked controversy with an advert for jeans, is a registered Republican which took him by surprise and led him to make an odd statement

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1 week ago Trump says he 'loves Sydney Sweeney' as president responds to the actress's 'great jeans' advert controversy

President Donald Trump could barely contain his excitement as he told Daily Mail that he 'loves' Sydney Sweeney amid the actresses controversy over her American Eagle jeans advert.

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3 w. ago Atlanta journalist fights deportation from Ice jail despite dropped charges: ‘I’m seeing what absolute power can do’

A Salvadorian reporter with an audience of millions, Mario Guevara was arrested while livestreaming a protest against Trump in June – and is still struggling for freedomProsecutors dropped the last remaining charges against Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara last week after he was arrested while livestreaming a protest in June. But the influential Salvadorian reporter remains penned up in a south Georgia detention center, fending off a deportation case, jail house extortionists and despair, people familiar with his situation told the Guardian.Donald Trump’s administration has been extreme in unprecedented ways to undocumented immigrants. But Guevara’s treatment is a special case. Shuttled between five jail cells in Georgia since his arrest while covering the “No Kings Day” protests, the 20-plus-years veteran journalist’s sin was to document the undocumented and the way Trump’s agents have been hunting them down. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount?

The fallout from the Trump payoff comes as a merger threatens the company’s integrity and A-list talent, such as Stephen Colbert, have already been sacrificedFor a decade the comedian Stephen Colbert has mocked, ridiculed and eviscerated Donald Trump from every conceivable angle. On Thursday Colbert told his audience at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York that his popular late night TV show is being cancelled. “Yeah, I share your feelings,” he said in response to a chorus of boos.The CBS network insisted that it had made “a purely financial decision” to wind up The Late Show next year. But others are not so sure. Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator who was a guest on Thursday’s show, tweeted: “If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Donald Trump 'told Jeffrey Epstein may every day be another wonderful secret' as calls to resign grow

The President has sparked a civil war among his once-loyal supporters who are refusing to accept his claim that a “client list” of the late paedophile does not exist

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