40 h. ago Trump unveils makeover of iconic White House room with very telling details about his personal style

President Donald Trump's redecorated White House Cabinet Room includes a painting of James K. Polk, who led the U.S. during war with Mexico. Trump told officials he picked some art for the frames.

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57 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: US weapons supply pause ‘caught Trump off guard’

Russian claim of deadly Ukrainian attack on Kursk beach; convictions over Wagner arson attack in London. What we know on day 1,232Trump criticises Putin and promises Patriots for UkraineDonald Trump was reportedly caught off guard by the Pentagon’s abrupt move to pause Ukraine weapons deliveries, which the president has overturned. The Associated Press cited three people familiar with the matter, one of whom described Trump as being caught “flat footed” by last week’s announcement. A Pentagon spokesperson denied that the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had acted without consulting the president. But asked by a reporter on Tuesday who had approved the pause, Trump bristled at the question while he was gathered with his Cabinet. “I don’t know. Why don’t you tell me?”Trump on Tuesday voiced his frustration with Vladimir Putin and promised to send Ukraine 10 Patriot missiles, which are claimed to be in short supply. Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump said he was getting in...

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3 d. ago Frustrated judge blasts Trump team over deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘Like trying to nail Jell

ICE plans to arrest and deport the Salvadoran dad, again, if he’s released from pretrial detention in criminal case

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3 d. ago King tells of ‘profound sadness’ in letter to Trump after Texas floods

The British Embassy in Washington said Charles had offered his condolences.

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7 d. ago UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar fundingThe head of the global agency tackling Aids says she expects HIV rates to soar and deaths to multiply in the next four years as a direct impact of the “seismic” US cuts to aid spending.Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million Aids-related deaths by 2029. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr arrested by Ice over alleged cartel ties

Boxer Chávez Jr arrested by Ice in Los AngelesDHS flagged him as threat but let him re-enter USLinked to Sinaloa cartel and faces deportationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has arrested Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr in California and begun proceedings to deport him, citing cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for weapons trafficking and organized crime.Chávez Jr, 39, the son of the legendary world champion Julio César Chávez Sr, was taken into custody by Ice agents on Tuesday in Studio City, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for celebrity residences. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he had been living in the US unlawfully and posed a significant threat to public safety. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Former world champion Julio César Chávez Jr arrested by Ice over alleged cartel ties

Chávez Jr arrested by Ice in Los AngelesDHS flagged him as threat but let him re-enter USLinked to Sinaloa cartel and faces deportationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has arrested the Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr in California and begun proceedings to deport him, citing cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for weapons trafficking and organized crime.Chávez Jr, 39, the son of the legendary world champion Julio César Chávez Sr, was taken into custody by Ice agents on Tuesday in Studio City, a Los Angeles neighborhood known for celebrity residences. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he had been living in the US unlawfully and posed a significant threat to public safety. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Judge blocks order barring asylum access at border and gives administration two weeks to appeal

A federal judge has ruled that an executive order by President Donald Trump suspending asylum access at the southern border is unlawful

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9 d. ago Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for many Haitians

A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for more than 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States

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9 d. ago Republicans fall into line again and bring Trump’s agenda closer to reality

The odds of a ‘John McCain moment’ look much dimmer after Murkowski approved Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ while telling reporters she doesn’t like it, writes John Bowden

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1 week ago Trump tells Musk 'to close up and head back to South Africa' as he warns of DOGE action

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have carried on their war of words weeks after Musk apologised - and now the United States President has slammed the Twitter/X owner on Truth Social

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1 week ago Federal judge seeks clarity on whether birthright citizenship order means babies could be deported

A federal judge is questioning when the Trump administration will try to enforce its birthright citizenship executive order

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1 week ago As Trump targets birthright citizenship, the terrain is once again ‘women’s bodies and sexuality’

From 22 Chinese women detained in 1874 for being ‘lewd and debauched’, experts point to a grim US traditionOne day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, five pregnant immigrant women – led by an asylum seeker from Venezuela – sued over the president’s executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship, out of fear that their unborn children would be left stateless.The case went before the supreme court, which sided with the Trump administration Friday by restricting the ability of federal judges to block the order. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump gives telling update on his relationship with former 'First Buddy' Musk after billionaire reignited feud

Trump's remarks came just a day after Musk reignited the feud on Saturday by again weighing in on Trump's $2.8trillion spending bill.

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1 week ago Trump basks in triumph as supreme court kicks away another guard rail

The decision to limit judicial power to curb the president caps a week of – in Trump’s telling – endless winning, from the Middle East to Nato to AfricaHe strode into the White House briefing room feeling invincible. In his own telling, he had fixed the Middle East. He had made Nato pay up. He had pacified the heart of Africa. And now Napoleon Trump had once again just been crowned emperor by the US supreme court.“We’ve had a big week,” Donald Trump, orange hair shimmering, blue tie drooping below the waist, mused from a lectern anointed with the presidential seal. “We’ve had a lot of victories this week.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago US Supreme Court curbs nationwide injunction on Trump birthright order

Ruling avoids substance of citizenship issue but focuses on disputes between administration and lower-level judges

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2 w. ago Trump’s telling of the Iran strikes is like a deleted scene from Top Gun 3. The truth is much murkier.

Much like Wile E. Coyote, Trump appears to believe the bombs dropped on the Fordow facility in Iran were so large that they couldn’t possibly have failed. But questions about the success of the mission persist, writes Richard Hall.

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2 w. ago Trump administration sues Maryland federal judges over removal of immigrants

The Trump administration is suing federal judges in Maryland

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2 w. ago Trump said he crippled Iran’s nuclear plants — but US intel tells a different story | Debunked

A leaked preliminary intelligence assessment reportedly found that the US military strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend did not destroy the nuclear programme, despite Donald Trump repeatedly claiming the US “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

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2 w. ago Trump administration sues Maryland federal judges over order blocking removal of immigrants

The Trump administration is suing federal judges in Maryland over an order that blocks the immediate removal of any detained immigrant who requests a court hearing

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