12 h. ago Trump team cancels funding for World AIDS Day commemorations after 37 years

State Department reportedly informed employees earlier this month to refrain from commemorative messaging on World AIDS Day

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34 h. ago Trump team takes ‘America first’ to National Parks and charges foreign visitors three times what citizens pay

The Department for the Interior announced plans for the updated entry fee policies which start on January 1

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46 h. ago Guns seized and federal drug arrests drop dramatically as Trump team turns agents attention to deportations

Homeland Security hails record high numbers of civil immigration arrests while certain criminal arrests plummet

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54 h. ago US & Russia meet for ‘secret talks’ over Trump’s peace plan as Putin unleashes brutal strikes on Ukraine killing 6

WASHINGTON has held secret, high-stakes talks with Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi as Donald Trump’s team races to lock down a reworked peace plan. It comes as Vladimir Putin unleashed one of his most brutal overnight strikes in weeks, killing at least six people. Donald Trump stoked expectations on Monday, hinting that the breakthrough...

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62 h. ago Team Trump fumbles one legal battle after another — and then starts fresh one against space hero Mark Kelly

President Donald Trump’s enemies-list prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James were tossed by a federal judge on Monday, writes Eric Garcia. The same day, came word that the Pentagon is going after a NASA hero who dared challenge the commander-in-chief.

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68 h. ago Judge tosses Trump team case against James Comey and says Lindsey Halligan’s appointment is ‘unlawful’

The judge also dismissed a case against New York Attorney General Letitia James

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7 d. ago ICA to screen Independent documentary amid unprecedented cuts to global HIV/AIDs response

To mark World AIDS Day, the Institute for Contemporary Arts will screen our film tackling the collapse of USAID funding

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8 d. ago Trump team moves to dismantle the Department of Education and shuttle offices to other agencies

Trump had campaigned on shutting down the Education Department, which would require approval from Congress

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8 d. ago Trump team considering moving FEMA headquarters from DC to Texas

News of the potential move comes as FEMA’s Acting Administrator resigned from his role

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1 week ago Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj

Official Trump social media accounts have been The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings “pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes”, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance, and the first and second ladies. The second and third were posted by Team Trump, the official account for the Trump Campaign. One, set to Father Figure, riffs on the lyric “this empire belongs to me” with the caption “this empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump”, while the other, celebrating Melania Trump winning something called the Patriot of the...

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1 week ago Giveaway: Claim free tickets to see Bel Trew’s documentary at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Independent is offering 10 pairs of tickets to Bel Trew’s eye-opening screening and panel discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

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1 week ago Trump team axes Biden plan that would have paid passengers for flight delays

Airlines have pushed the Trump administration to go further and praised the action to rescind the Biden plan

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1 week ago Trump targets another political enemy with his team referring a congressman to DOJ for mortgage fraud

California congressman and prominent Trump critic surprised ‘that it took him this long to come after me’

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1 week ago Trump targets another political enemy with his team referring a US rep to DOJ for mortgage fraud

California congressman and prominent Trump critic surprised ‘that it took him this long to come after me’

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1 week ago Trump team scrambles to deal with Epstein files as House sets vote to release the documents: Live updates

Bombshell release of emails from disgraced financier by House Oversight Committee rocks president as White House insists scandal is ‘fake narrative’ and a ‘Democrat hoax’

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Starmer fire the political aides behind 'Traitors' coup briefing?

Keir Starmer has faced demands to sack his closest aide for a bungled bid to kill off Labour leadership threats - amid speculation of a leadership challenge.

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2 w. ago Donald Trump celebrates as Tim Davie quits BBC over doctored speech

Donald Trump was ecstatic that Tim Davie resigned from the BBC, saying the organisation edited "my very good (perfect) speech" where he called on his supporters to protest the 2020 election result

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2 w. ago Can Donald Trump really make an NFL team name its stadium after him?

The president reportedly wants the new home of the Washington Commanders to bear his name. There are reasons to think he will succeedThat’s if a well-sourced report from ESPN is to be believed. The US president has apparently let it be known to the ownership group of the Washington Commanders that he wants the team’s new stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2030, to take his name. “It’s what the president wants, and it will probably happen,” a senior White House official told ESPN. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’

Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stabilityMagical thinking is indispensable to understanding Team Trump’s economic policymaking. The White House often seems to believe two opposing policies can work together while one policy can do two or three contradictory things.A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the administration’s dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar’s supremacy in global finance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump team is secretly handing out massive tax breaks to wealthy American corporations: report

The proposed regulations tack on to the tax relief laid out in the president’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Act

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