2 h. ago Donald Trump delivers remarks on ‘affordability’ at Pennsylvania rally – live

Earlier, treasury secretary Scott Bessent criticized Biden’s policies in speech before Trump’s arrival in Mount PoconoA federal judge in New York has granted the justice department’s request to unseal grand jury documents in the sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell – the companion and accomplice of the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed last month.The legislation requires the Department of Justice to release the full tranche of records related to disgraced financier, in a searchable format by 19 December. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump pushes affordability message at Pennsylvania rally amid mounting economic gloom: Live

President Donald Trump graded his economy ‘A plus-plus-plus-plus-plus’ as concerns over cost of living grow

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3 h. ago Donald Trump expected to deliver remarks on ‘affordability’ at Pennsylvania rally – live

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent criticizes Joe Biden’s policies in speech before president’s arrival in Mount PoconoA federal judge in New York has granted the justice department’s request to unseal grand jury documents in the sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell – the companion and accomplice of the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed last month.The legislation requires the Department of Justice to release the full tranche of records related to disgraced financier, in a searchable format by 19 December. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump to push affordability message at Pennsylvania rally amid mounting economic gloom: Live

President Donald Trump graded his economy ‘A plus-plus-plus-plus-plus’ as concerns over cost of living grow

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8 h. ago Trump heads to Pennsylvania for affordability rally after attacking ‘weak’ European allies: Live

President Donald Trump graded his economy ‘A plus-plus-plus-plus-plus’ as concerns over cost of living grow

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10 h. ago Democrats push to ban Trump’s plan to put himself on a new $1 coin

“Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, not the United States of America,” one Senate Democrat said

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11 h. ago Trump heads to Pennsylvania for affordability rally as MTG lashes out at ‘hateful’ president: Live

President Donald Trump graded his economy ‘A plus-plus-plus-plus-plus’ as concerns over cost of living grow

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12 h. ago Trump heads to Pennsylvania for affordability rally after warning reporter not to be ‘dramatic’ about economy: Live

President Donald Trump graded his economy ‘A plus-plus-plus-plus-plus’ as concerns over cost of living grow

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3 d. ago National guard member wounded in DC attack is ‘slowly healing’, says West Virginia governor

Andrew Wolfe was shot in the head on 26 November, while Sarah Beckstrom died from her injuriesThe West Virginia national guard soldier who was wounded in the 26 November shooting that killed a colleague of his in Washington DC is “slowly healing”, according to West Virginia’s governor.Andrew Wolfe, 24, was shot alongside fellow West Virginia national guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom, 20, while they patrolled the US capital as part of the Trump administration’s push to deploy military members on to the city’s streets. Beckstrom died of her injuries the day after she was shot while Wolfe was hospitalized in critical condition. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’

Golden State officials said the tool would help push back against a ‘campaign of terror’ by Trump administration

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6 d. ago Trump is using a tragic shooting to demonize millions | Mohamad Bazzi

The administration is heightening its anti-immigrant crackdown – and punishing people from a country the US helped destroyAfter two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump went on a hate-filled social media rant and vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries.”Trump’s late night Thanksgiving posts devolved into a fury, evidently because the suspected gunman is an Afghan national. He had worked with the US government, including the CIA, and was evacuated to the US in 2021 after the American military withdrew from Afghanistan.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University Continue reading...

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8 d. ago NHS medicines budget set to increase by 25% in push to avoid Trump tariffs

UK move aims to make it easier for drugs to be approved for use in order to secure carve-out from import levies

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8 d. ago The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be

Will the bubble ravage the economy when it bursts? What will it leave of value once it pops?The California Gold Rush left an outsized imprint on America. Some 300,000 people flocked there from 1848 to 1955, from as far away as the Ottoman Empire. Prospectors massacred Indigenous people to take the gold from their lands in the Sierra Nevada mountains. And they boosted the economies of nearby states and faraway countries from whence they bought their supplies.Gold provided the motivation for California – a former Mexican territory then controlled by the US military – to become a state with laws of its own. And yet, few “49ers” as prospectors were known, struck it rich. It was the merchants selling prospectors food and shovels who made the money. One, a Bavarian immigrant named Levi Strauss who sold denim overalls to the gold bugs passing through San Francisco, may be the most remembered figure of his day. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump aid cuts could push next Ebola outbreak to spiral out of control, former US official warns

A countdown is on to declaring the end of a current Ebola outbreak, but former Biden official Jeremy Konyndyk warns that we might not be so lucky again if US cuts to aid continue to bite

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1 week ago US Army secretary takes unlikely role as key negotiator in push to end Russia

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has become a key negotiator in the Trump administration’s push to end the Russia-Ukraine war

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2 w. ago US optimistic over Ukraine peace deal talks but ‘a few delicate details’ remain

Ukrainian official cites ‘common understanding’, but no sign territorial concessions or security guarantees are agreedEurope live – latest updatesDiscussions involving US, Russian and Ukrainian officials are taking place in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, the latest step in the Trump administration’s attempts to push through a peace deal to end the conflict in Ukraine.The White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, put an optimistic spin on the talks, claiming the US had made “tremendous progress” on finding a resolution. There were “a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details” that needed to be ironed out which would require further talks, she said in a post on X. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The unintended consequences of Trump’s ICE raids: Empty classrooms

Thousands of students missed school during Trump’s mass deportation push as teachers and families brace for arrests

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2 w. ago Donald Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had obsession with strange fetish, says FBI

Failed assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot at Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally in July 2024, had an interest in animated images of a certain type of women, according to FBI

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3 w. ago Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts

Federal judge instructed state to use older maps, with Republicans likely to appeal decisionUS politics live – latest updatesNew maps that added five Republican districts in Texas hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday, with a federal judge saying the state cannot use the 2025 maps because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”.The decision is likely to be appealed, given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them. Some states have followed suit, and some Democratic states have retaliated, pushing to add more blue seats to counteract Republicans. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside the US evangelical push into Africa in vacuum left by Trump’s aid cuts – as activists fear for human rights

As Donald Trump's aid cuts leave African health programmes scrambling, The Independent pieces together events at a number of conferences where American religious organisations are looking to move in to shape the future. Rachel Schraer reports

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