6 h. ago Anxious Democrats await key Election Day results in NYC, NJ and Virginia in first big test of Trump’s second term: Live updates

Trump threatened to send only the ‘minimum’ federal funds to New York City if Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins

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29 h. ago Trump's secret plan to deploy US troops to Mexico revealed with drone strikes in the works

Donald Trump is planning to send US troops to Mexico in the latest escalation against drug cartels.

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29 h. ago BREAKING: Donald Trump to send US troops into Mexico as shock plan revealed

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29 h. ago Trump 'sending US soldiers to Mexico' in new crackdown on cartels and narcotic traffickers

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3 d. ago What the New York mayor’s race will reveal about the Democratic party

The political differences between the two main candidates could have major implications for next year’s midtermsNew Yorkers will find out the identity of their next mayor on Tuesday, in a race that will decide who will run, and defend, the US’s largest city at a time when Donald Trump has threatened to send military troops there.Against that backdrop, New York has seen a mayoral election that has pitted two very different Democrats against one another. The race has become an increasingly bitter face-off, laced with alleged racism and Islamophobia, but it is the political differences between the two main candidates that could have major implications for how the Democratic party performs in next year’s midterm elections. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump’s charm offensive in Asia sends Nikkei 225 to record heights

Shares are mostly higher in Asia and Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index has surged more than 2% to another record

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6 d. ago Court to reconsider ruling that allowed Trump to send troops to Portland

President remains barred from deploying national guard as appeals court agrees to ‘en banc’ rehearing of caseThe Trump administration remains barred from deploying the national guard in Portland, Oregon, following a federal appeals court ruling.The ninth circuit court of appeals agreed on Tuesday that it would rehear a case over the president’s authority with a broader court of 11 judges. The appeals court also vacated a ruling from a three-judge panel last week that sided with the Trump administration. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump live: Border Patrol chief ordered to appear in court every day amid uproar over agents tear gassing kids in Chicago

In a speech to service members in Japan, Trump vowed to continue sending the military into US cities

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7 d. ago Jimmy Lai’s son sends message to Trump before key summit: Please convince Xi Jinping to free my father

Exclusive: Son of British media tycoon welcomes US president’s promise to raise issue during Thursday’s landmark meeting

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7 d. ago Trump live: President threatens to send National Guard into more cities – ‘We can do as we want’

President Trump met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a conservative nationalist, in Tokyo and inked a deal to strengthen US access to rare earth minerals

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1 week ago Donald Trump sends world's largest warship USS Gerald R Ford into war on drugs

Donald Trump has deployed a true military behemoth in his striking war on drugs - the menacing vessel could cause huge problems for one of his greatest foes

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1 week ago Trump was planning to send troops to San Francisco. Now he’s not. Here’s why | Joe Eskenazi

The US president’s reversal was as capricious as his original plan. What if local billionaires had urged him to stick with it?This story was published in collaboration with Mission Local.The mayor of San Francisco said on Thursday that Donald Trump had simply called him – no go-betweens or consigliere required – and told him there would no longer be a deployment of federal agents or troops to the city.Joe Eskenazi is an editor and columnist for Mission Local. Io Yeh Gilman and Xueer Lu contributed reporting Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pentagon chief announces another US military strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean

Pete Hegseth claimed that six ‘narco-terrorists’ onboard craft were killed in night strike in international watersUS politics live – latest updatesThe United States has carried out another military strike against what it claimed was a vessel carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean, killing six people onboard, the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, said.In a social media post on Friday morning, Hegseth stated: “The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pentagon chief announces another US strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean

Pete Hegseth claimed that six ‘narco-terrorists’ onboard craft were killed in night strike in international watersUS politics live – latest updatesThe United States has carried out another military strike against what it claimed was a vessel carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean, killing six people onboard, the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, said.In a social media post on Friday morning, Hegseth stated: “The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump denies sending supersonic bombers to Venezuela coast. The flight data says otherwise

Reports suggest the military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday

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1 week ago Trump backs down on sending federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Protesters flood streets in show of resistance, as president calls off deployment after speaking with city’s mayor and Silicon Valley leadersDonald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding into the streets.The Bay Area region had been on edge after reports emerged on Wednesday that the Trump administration was poised to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, a city in the East Bay, as part of a large-scale immigration-enforcement plan. By early Thursday morning, hundreds of protesters had gathered outside the Coast Guard base, holding signs with slogans such as “No ICE or Troops in the Bay!”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump called off sending border agents to San Francisco after mayor’s phone call

The president wrote on Truth Social he was pausing the long-threatened crackdown after a call with the mayor and pressure from top tech CEOs

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1 week ago Trump won’t send federal troops to San Francisco after ‘friends in the area’ asked him not to: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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1 week ago Trump cancels plans to send federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Mayor Daniel Lurie says he spoke with Trump as protesters took to streets in anticipation of a large-scale deploymentSan Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has said that Donald Trump was cancelling plans for a “federal deployment” to the city as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in anticipation of a major immigration operation.Lurie said he spoke with the president late Wednesday evening, amid reports of that dozens of federal agents were headed to the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump told to send National Guard to major US city to combat deadly opioid crisis

Crystal West, 42, lost her 20-year-old son Xi'Risse Kiev West-Owens to a fentanyl overdose in September and is now calling for the National Guard to be sent to Baltimore

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