3 d. ago Trump kicks off Christmas Day with over 100 posts attacking Somalis, praising the economy and alleging voter fraud

Donald Trump shared conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19 and reiterated his claim that the 2020 election was stolen

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6 d. ago Trump and Putin share a craving for status. That’s why they both want to destroy Europe | Henry Farrell and Sergey Radchenko

Liberal democracies view Putin’s Russia as a bully – and Trump’s US as an angry drunk with a bazooka. The response is pure venom There are people who argue that Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is not motivated by fears or imperial ambitions, but by other countries’ disrespect. Russia once commanded authority as one of the world’s two superpowers, but it has since forfeited that status. It knows it has lost the respect of other countries (Barack Obama famously dismissed Russia as just a “regional power”), and the Ukraine war is its way of winning it back.What is perhaps surprising is that Donald Trump’s turn against Europe has similar motivations. Putin knows his aggressive revanchism won’t win Russia any love among countries whose respect he craves. But if he can’t be loved, he hopes at least to be feared. If you are in a social order that regards you as inferior, you have every incentive to turn spoiler.Henry Farrell is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation professor of international aff...

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8 d. ago MPs showdown over free bus passes for over 60s in England in big update

A petition calling for all over-60s to be given free bus travel throughout England has triggered a parliamentary debate, with MPs set to scrutinise the issue

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1 week ago Trump suspends green card lottery program that allowed Brown University and MIT shootings suspect into the US

In a post to X, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said President Trump has directed to suspended a green card lottery program

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1 week ago Coast Guard drops references to swastikas and nooses being 'potentially divisive'

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” have been removed

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1 week ago Mad Vlad vows war goals 'will be achieved' in chilling address amid rising WW3 fears

Vladimir Putin boasted that Russia's nuclear arsenal is the most advanced in the world and said his country was readying missiles as he claimed NATO countries are 'actively building up' their forces

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1 week ago Donald Trump bans 20 more countries from visiting US ahead of mystery announcement

Donald Trump has shared that he has banned 20 more countries from visiting the US in his latest scheme to crack down on immigration ahead of a mystery announcement

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1 week ago Asian shares are mixed and oil prices jump as Trump orders a blockade of oil tankers to Venezuela

Asian shares are mixed, with strong buying of technology shares helping to lift some benchmarks, while oil prices surged more than 1% after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela

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1 week ago Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo claims three countries tried to buy his citizenship

The sprinter, who is from Botswana, revealed that he received citizenship offers from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Tunisia

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2 w. ago Serial killer Dennis Nilsen's ashes scattered near hometown in 'insensitive' sendoff

Notorious serial killer Dennis Nilsen was given a final sendoff in the River Philorth, near the Scottish town of Fraserburgh, seven years after he died in 'excruciating pain'

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2 w. ago Donald Trump slammed by BBC Question Time MP for 'trying to divide Europe'

Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP at Westminster shared his outrage at Donald Trump's comments about Europe "decaying" on BBC Question Time's discussion from Paisley tonight

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2 w. ago Ukraine sends Trump details of land it is prepared to give up in huge peace talks breakthrough

Merz said the document was shared with Trump after he spoke by phone with several European leaders on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago US senator calls for insider trading inquiry over Trump donors buying $12m worth of shares

Co-chairs of LNG firm, who bought stock worth almost $12m each after meeting with Trump officials, deny wrongdoingA senior Democratic senator is calling for an investigation into potential insider trading by fossil-fuel billionaires close to the Trump administration, after a Guardian investigation raised questions about an unusual share buying spree.Robert Pender and Michael Sabel, the founders and co-chairs of Venture Global, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company headquartered in Virginia, bought more than a million shares worth almost $12m each, just days after meeting with senior Trump officials in March. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Putin sends man who 'skinned wife over soup' to frontline as killer dodges trial

DISTRESSING CONTENT Rafis Khuzin has been accused of killing and then attempting to dismember his own wife during a brutal attack in Berezovsky, near Yekaterinburg in Russia

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3 w. ago Trump says Netflix market share ‘could be a problem’ for $83bn Warner deal

US president says he will be involved in decision over media merger

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3 w. ago Trump’s sweeping changes to US immigration policy – here’s what to know

President orders pause on asylum claims and extra scrutiny of migrants from 19 countries after Washington shootingDonald Trump is seizing on the shooting of two national guard members, allegedly by an Afghan man, to press his immigration crackdown still farther. In the aftermath of the attack, which left guard member Sarah Beckstrom dead and colleague Andrew Wolfe in critical condition, Trump directed US Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause all pending asylum applications.USCIS followed up that announcement with more seismic shifts to immigration policy. This is how the White House is reshaping the process for requesting asylum, green cards and citizenship. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Bitcoin firm connected to Trump brothers sees value tank after investors unload their holdings

Eric Trump said he would hold onto all of his shares in the company

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3 w. ago Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm loses half its value in half an hour

American Bitcoin Corp’s shares fell from $2.39 to $1.90 after closing in what some are calling ‘crypto winter’Shares in Eric Trump’s crypto mining business lost more than half their value in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday.The nosedive of American Bitcoin Corp, which triggered repeated trading halts, followed the steep decline of many cryptocurrencies and crypto-linked companies into what some observers are calling the onset of a “crypto winter”. Bitcoin’s value has fallen sharply since the start of October and erased a year of large gains. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's security chief planning US travel ban after National Guard shooting

Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, vowed to slap the ban on nations sending "killers, leeches and entitlement junkies" in the wake of a double shooting in Washington DC

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3 w. ago Trump shares post from Noem calling for a ‘full travel ban’ on unnamed countries she claims are sending ‘killers’ to the US

The DHS secretary’s vague yet aggressive announcement comes amid an unprecedented crackdown on legal immigration in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members

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