39 h. ago Gay state senator zings Republicans over their new ‘Daddy Trump’ nickname

Watch as a gay state senator takes a jab at Republicans over their new nickname of “Daddy Trump” for the US president.

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42 h. ago Daddy’s home! White House takes NATO chief’s description of Trump to a new level

Trump administration posts cringeworthy video set to 2010 song by Usher and viral mockery ensues

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54 h. ago Tories vow to rip up the workers' rights charter: Rayner's 'Unemployment Bill' would hand more power to unions

Industry leaders will be asked if the rest of the Employment Rights Bill, which even the Government's own calculations admit will cost firms £5 billion a year, should also be scrapped.

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55 h. ago Tories vow to rip up the workers' rights charter: Rayner's 'Unemployment Bill' would hand more power to unions

Industry leaders will be asked if the rest of the Employment Rights Bill, which even the Government's own calculations admit will cost firms £5 billion a year, should also be scrapped.

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56 h. ago Mike Pence writes letter to Jan 6 rioter praising her for refusing to take Trump’s pardon

The former vice president praised a January 6 defendant who refused to accept one of Trump’s sweeping pardons

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59 h. ago Trump administration could deport immigrants to 58 other countries after Supreme Court opened door for swift removals

Diplomats have reportedly been offering payments and potential relief from Trump’s renewed travel ban to entice countries to take deported ‘third-country’ immigrants

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60 h. ago Change in Nato mindset brought on by Vladimir Putin as much as Donald Trump

Allies agreed to raise defence spending to counter likely prospect of Russian remilitarisation if Ukraine war endsThe price was high, but for now, at least, a crisis in Nato has been averted. Donald Trump may like to take the credit for almost all of the 32 allies agreeing to a sharp increase in defence spending, but the reality is that the dramatic change in the Nato mindset was as much brought on by Vladimir Putin.The Russian president’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was the first jolt, but there is a second uncomfortable reality. If there is a sustainable ceasefire in Ukraine, it will mean the deployment of a European-led peacekeeping force in the country – and after a while, Russia’s military might will inevitably recover. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago In line with Trump, North Carolina legislature takes aim at transgender rights

The North Carolina Senate advanced two bills that deal with transgender issues as lawmakers prepare for their anticipated summer recess by this week's end

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3 d. ago This is the shocking next move desperate Donald Trump will take if the ceasefire between Israel and Iran fails

Amid the fog of war, one thing remains quite clear: in spite of increasingly furious calls for peace from the world's most powerful man, Israel and Iran want to fight.

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3 d. ago Why dreams of regime change in Iran will end in a rude awakening | Rajan Menon

It would be naive to believe that the US could take a wrecking ball to the Iranian state and walk away unaffectedDuring his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump lambasted “forever wars” and “regime change” interventions. More than any candidate, he sensed the war-weariness of Americans after the fiascos in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and especially the dismay of military veterans, 60% of whom voted for him over Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Trump’s maverick, anti-interventionist “America First” narrative also resonated strongly with those in the Maga movement who have never served in the military, particularly blue-collar workers.Now, Trump, once an unsparing critic of military misadventures, has bombed the nuclear enrichment installations of Iran, a country that hadn’t attacked the US, wasn’t preparing to and didn’t even threaten war. Since the bombing, Trump has gone further: he has ruminated about regime change in Iran. His transformation has startled many ...

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3 d. ago Shock poll reveals how Americans really feel about Donald Trump's Iran attack

A poll taken in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump 's decision to unleash 'bunker buster' bombs on Iran 's nuclear facilities reveals how Americans feel about the attack.

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3 d. ago From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings their owners couldn’t seeIt’s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandstone mills, Grimsby without its fishing docks, or parts of Liverpool without their streets of terrace houses. Yet all these things could have victims of the wrecking ball, if it weren’t for one small band of plucky activists. You may not have heard of Save Britain’s Heritage, or Save as it likes to style itself. But the tiny charity, which celebrates its 50th birthday this month, has had more influence than any other group in campaigning for the imaginative reuse of buildings at risk, most of which had no ...

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3 d. ago Netanyahu 'biggest loser in town' as 'man of peace' Trump has taken back control

EXCLUSIVE: The US has long been a key ally of Israel, but one expert believes the PM Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest loser in America's intervention in their conflict with Iran

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3 d. ago Can Donald Trump secure a ceasefire that lasts? Take our poll and have your say

Despite Trump hailing a massive breakthrough, the ceasefire between Israel and Iran collapsed in a matter of hours. With missiles flying and tensions surging, his claim of peace now looks embarrassingly premature. Can the president secure a robust truce?

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3 d. ago Fragile truce appears to take hold after Trump rebukes Israel and Iran

US president had accused both sides of violating ceasefire

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3 d. ago Fragile truce takes hold after Trump rebukes Israel and Iran

US president had accused both sides of violating ceasefire

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3 d. ago Delicate truce takes hold after Trump rebukes Israel and Iran

US president had accused both sides of violating ceasefire

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3 d. ago With Andrew Cuomo, Democrats are doing a disastrous imitation of Trump | Moira Donegan

The former governor, now a New York City mayoral candidate, marks the party’s drift into boorishness and crueltyAs the far right has gained ascendancy, and the 2024 election is historicized as a blowout victory for Donald Trump rather than the relatively close contest that it actually was, members of the Democratic establishment and party leadership seem to be settling on the lesson that they will take into the second decade of the Trump era: if you can’t beat him, imitate him.It’s long been the impulse of the party to move right, chasing Republican victories by replicating Republican policy positions, and since their loss last November many Democrats have followed in this decades-old tradition, shifting their rhetoric still further rightward on border policy, crypto, foreign policy, trans rights and DEI. They respond to polling and to a vague sense of the cultural zeitgeist, aiming less to persuade than to imitate. Often, Democrats seem as if they are not offering a different polic...

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4 d. ago Macron labels Trump's Iran air strikes 'illegal', pressures Starmer to take a stand

Emmanuel Macron has hit out at Donald Trump's air strikes on Iran, branding them 'illegal' and deepening the row over whether the US action broke international law

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4 d. ago As a hotel boss, I saw the chaos unions unleashed on Britain in the 1970s. Now Rayner's workers' rights Bill is set to drag us back to the age of socialism on steroids

Many people today will not remember the 1970s. Indeed, most of the leading figures in our Government are too young to do so. But I recall them only too well.

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