4 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Putin tells Trump in phone call Moscow ready to resume peace talks

President confirms Russia could continue negotiations with Kyiv after current prisoner swaps end; Zelenskyy warns oil price surge could help Russia’s war effort. What we know on day 1,208 Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Trump team tells ICE to stop making arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants: report

President Donald Trump was reportedly unaware of the scale of the ICE operation, leading to a shift in enforcement at hotels, restaurants and farms

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2 d. ago US tells embassy staff to evacuate in Iraq over fears Israel is ready to attack Iran, as trump warns 'it could be dangerous'

Fears of an Israeli attack on Iran have escalated dramatically in recent days, with delicate nuclear talks between Iran and the United States appearing to stall.

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3 d. ago Trump tells administrative judges to speed up dismissing arrest cases so they can deport faster

Justice Department memo instructs justices to move quicker but ICE lacks capacity to hold more detainees

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4 d. ago Trump tells France 'you would be speaking German right now' if not for America as he touts Army parade

Donald Trump needled France Tuesday saying 'you would be speaking German right now' had it not been for the U.S.'s involvement in World War II, as he again touted Saturday's Army parade.

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4 d. ago Veterans slam Trump’s ‘political’ deployment of Marines and National Guard to LA: ‘Citizens are not enemy combatants’

Sending troops to American streets crosses a ‘dangerous line’ that tests how far Trump will go to crush dissent, veterans and legal experts tell The Independent

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8 d. ago Elon Musk's estranged dad tells his 'gorilla' son to make friends again with the president: Trump will prevail

Elon Musk's estranged father Errol told his 'gorilla' son to get back on President Donald Trump 's good side.

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8 d. ago Trump says ‘I’m not even thinking about Elon’ as Musk loses $33bn in net worth amid feud – live

Trump tells CNN Musk ‘has a problem’ and that he does not plan to speak to the Tesla CEO for a whileTrump says Musk has ‘lost his mind’ and dismisses peace offeringTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump tells Putin: ‘It might be better to let Russia and Ukraine fight for a while’

Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine should be left to “fight for a while,” with other nations leaving them to it.

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1 week ago Putin tells Trump Russia ‘will have to respond’ to Ukraine drone attack

US president says phone call with Russian leader won’t lead to ‘immediate peace’ as Moscow rules out ceasefireDonald Trump has spoken for more than an hour with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, but he conceded the talks would not lead “to immediate peace” in Ukraine, and warned that Russia would respond to Ukraine’s successful attacks this week on its airfields.The US president, who repeatedly claimed he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours during his election campaign, did not attempt to discourage the Russian leader from retaliation, according to his description of the discussion on his Truth Social platform. He noted instead that Putin had offered to participate in US talks with Iran about its nuclear programme, which Trump claimed Tehran had been “slowwalking”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Putin tells Trump he will avenge Ukraine attacks on Russian airfields in surprise phone call

American president says call ‘was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace’

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1 week ago Trump scapegoats ‘too late’ Fed Chair as his morning goes from ‘Best May in 30 Years’ to dismal jobs outlook

Jerome Powell has repeatedly defied Trump with interest rate decisions and statements about tariffs

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1 week ago Trump tells Powell to cut rates as data raises concern for US economy

US president says Federal Reserve has been too slow to lower borrowing costs in contrast to ECB

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1 week ago Mum received DWP letter saying her disabled daughter was fit for work – she was dead

Joy Dove, whose daughter Jodey Whiting took her own life after the DWP mistakenly cut her benefits, has warned that further welfare cuts will be 'tantamount to more deaths'

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1 week ago Arnold Schwarzenegger tells world ‘stop whining’ over Donald Trump

Arnold Schwarzenegger told environmentalists critical of Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”

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1 week ago Trump’s new FEMA head stuns staff by telling them he didn’t know US had a hurricane season, report says

Trump administration wants to shutter emergency agency and shift disaster response to the states

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1 week ago White House reveals brand new official Trump portrait with very telling detail

The White House released video of a new official President Trump portrait being hung on a wall, after a first version drew strong comparisons to his mugshot. Experts say there are signs of touchup.

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2 w. ago Subtle way Trump humiliated Elon Musk in Oval Office showdown... and other telltale signs that reveal truth about their breakup

After Elon Musk 's surprise public break from Trump this week, everyone in Washington is desperately trying to determine the status of their once thriving bromance. Perhaps now we have a clue.

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2 w. ago Trump meets with Powell after months of trashing the Fed over interest rates

Jerome Powell emphasized the central bank’s policy decisions will be based solely on objective non-political analysis.

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2 w. ago Trump tells Powell Fed is making a ‘mistake’ by not cutting interest rates

Central bank chair meets president at the White House to discuss economic expectations

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