7 h. ago Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok after dad tells users they ‘owe’ him for saving platform

The president has previously claimed that users ‘owe’ Barron Trump for saving the social media platform in a video from the Oval Office

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14 h. ago Emotional moment Donald Trump tells families of Israeli hostages they are 'coming home Monday'

Hamas has agreed to the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, which will see Israeli troops withdraw to a pre-agreed area, and the exchange of the 20 surviving hostages for Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli jails

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15 h. ago Watch: Emotional moment Donald Trump tells Israeli hostage families their loved ones are coming home

The US president announced that Israel and Hamas will begin releasing hostages and prisoners, with Sir Keir Starmer calling it a ‘moment of profound relief felt around the world’

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16 h. ago Trump tells hostage families their loved ones will return from Gaza in days after peace deal agreed

This is the moment Donald Trump tells hostage families their loved ones will return from Gaza in days after a historic peace deal was agreed.

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17 h. ago Trump tells families of Israeli hostages 'they're all coming home Monday' in heartwarming video as he celebrates 'peace in the Middle East'

Donald Trump spoke to the families of Israeli hostages on Wednesday night just hours after he announced a peace deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza.

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25 h. ago Judge forces Trump administration to tell what security clearance Musk had when he oversaw DOGE and cost cutting

Musk wrote in February: ‘I’ve had a top secret clearance for many years and have clearances that themselves are classified’

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53 h. ago Can Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize – and who nominated him?

The US president claims he has ended ‘seven wars’ - even though many of the conflicts are still taking place. Experts tell Maira Butt that Trump is unlikely to win, but not to rule him out

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56 h. ago Pam Bondi spars with Democratic senator over Epstein ‘client list’ and national guard deployments in tense hearing – live

Illinois senator Dick Durbin grills Trump’s attorney general on the Epstein investigation and Bondi tells him ‘national guard is on the way’ to ChicagoBefore we turn our attention to Capitol Hill, we’re also keeping an eye on Illinois today. On Monday, a federal judge did not immediately block the president’s move to deploy national guard troops, including hundreds from Texas, to Chicago.Instead, the judge set a hearing for Thursday, leaving room for the military to make their way to the windy city as soon as today. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump talks Diddy and Ghislaine Maxwell pardons as he bafflingly tells reporter, ‘I haven’t heard the name in so long’

Maxwell’s last-ditch appeal of her sex trafficking conviction was rejected by the Supreme Court on Monday

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3 d. ago Trump takes to TikTok to tell young people they ‘owe him big’ after ‘saving’ platform during bizarre motivational speech

It was the president’s first post on the Chinese-owned video app since Election Day 2024, alongside Vice President JD Vance

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3 d. ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago At America's national parks in the Trump era, the arc of history bends toward revisionism

The National Park Service under President Donald Trump is looking to reshape what it tells Americans about their history

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5 d. ago Trump tells Hamas to ‘move quickly’ on hostage deal during pause in Israeli bombardment

US president’s intervention has raised hopes of ending the two-year conflict

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5 d. ago ‘Trump’s decomposing ear of corn’: what does ‘hair certainty’ tell us about our leaders?

From Starmer’s stiff quiff to the Maga movement’s glossy TV locks, a politician’s mane can speak volumes – it says as much about what side of the divide they sit on as it does about the prevailing political windsLabour has an image problem. In a recent YouGov survey, people expressed a view that the party is “dishonest”, “only interested in themselves”, and “the same as the rest”. It’s no wonder that they are currently, terrifyingly, 10 points behind Reform in the polls. They also, by a slightly different – you could say less data-driven – metric, have a different kind of image problem. They lack “hair certainty”, from the top down. The idea of “hair certainty” was coined by the writer Simon Doonan. Writing in the buildup to the 2016 presidential election that would see Donald Trump first take office, he explained: “Presidential hair = hair with certainty Hair-certainty describes hair that is what it appears to be. No illusions. No Greco-Roman fakery. Presidential hair can be thick ...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to release hostages in peace plan breakthrough

Hamas says it has agreed to release all remaining Israeli hostages, but asks for further negotiations on issues outlined in the US peace plan on Gaza

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6 d. ago Trump tells Israel it ‘must immediately stop’ bombing Gaza to enable hostage release after Hamas accepts elements of peace plan

President says the militant group is ‘ready for a lasting peace’ based on the plan he announced on Monday

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6 d. ago Trump tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agrees to release hostages

US president says he ‘believes’ Palestinian militant group is ‘ready for a lasting peace’

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6 d. ago Plane makes emergency landing after what passenger 'wearing 15 face masks' did

A plane was forced to land after a passenger is said to have gone on a mid-air rampage, telling others 'Trump is here' and blaming LGBTQ people for 'cooking' him

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6 d. ago Hegseth reveals fourth airstrike on ‘narco’ boat off Venezuela after Trump declares ‘armed conflict’ with traffickers

Trump ordered another ‘lethal’ strike after telling Congress that US is formally engaged in ‘armed conflict’ with cartels

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7 d. ago Donald Trump issues telling message to Royal Family following UK state visit

Donald Trump was welcomed by the King and Queen last month and spent two days in Windsor.

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