4 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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4 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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7 d. 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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8 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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2 w. ago White House says naming new Washington Commanders stadium after Trump would be 'beautiful'

The White House says it would be “beautiful” to name the new stadium for Washington’s NFL team after President Donald Trump

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2 w. ago Over 100 US leaders to attend Cop30 climate summit as Trump stays away

Dozens of US state and local leaders will be at talks in Brazil with president’s team expected to send no representativesThe Trump administration appears to be sitting out this month’s United Nations climate talks known as Cop30, telling the Guardian it will not deploy any high-level representatives to the negotiations.But dozens of US subnational leaders attend to promote their climate efforts. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump team admits it doesn’t have legal backing for Venezuela strikes but wants DOJ green light

The administration reportedly told lawmakers on Wednesday it is not currently planning strikes inside Venezuela, though the White House is exploring its options

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2 w. ago Zohran Mamdani hails New York mayoral victory as ‘step from old into new’

34-year-old appoints all-female team to attempt radical agenda in defiance of Donald Trump

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2 w. ago American Airlines announces cuts to management at its Texas headquarters

American Airlines has announced plans to cut a small number of management and support roles, mainly at its headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas

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2 w. ago Trump team will partially fund SNAP benefits after judge’s order, USDA tells court

Nearly $5 billion in emergency funds will only cover 50 percent of benefits for November, officials say

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3 w. ago Judges call on Trump team to use emergency funds for SNAP food stamps hours before families face ‘terror’

Federal judges say USDA must tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to keep critical food assistance afloat

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3 w. ago Noem says foreigners can’t drive and ‘endanger our citizens’ as she defends Trump team’s new rules for migrant drivers

‘If you are here driving on our streets illegally and our highways, you are endangering our citizens, and your days are numbered,’ the Homeland Security Secretary warned

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3 w. ago Stephen King's attack on Trump backfires spectacularly as he falls for fake World Series post

The acclaimed author vented his frustrations on X on Sunday night after he heard that Trump had opted not to invite the winning team from the World Series to the White House .

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