4 h. ago Trump rages as Putin and Indian prime minister Modi cozy up hand

Many saw Modi's embrace of Putin as a response to Trump's heavy tariffs on India for buying Russia's oil and Trump let the Indian leader have it on Truth Social.

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16 h. ago The Guardian view on Donald Trump and India: the tariff war that boosted China | Editorial

The White House wanted India to bow. Instead, Narendra Modi flew to China, shook Xi Jinping’s hand and left Washington sidelined Donald Trump’s imperial tendencies see the US president wield tariffs and sanctions in the expectation that America will receive tributes. Yet his latest move – punishing India with 50% tariffs for Russian oil purchases once encouraged by the US – has produced not submission but spectacle. It has sent India’s Narendra Modi to China for the first time in seven years as Xi Jinping hosted more than 20 leaders for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin. And it is in Tianjin, not Washington, where it looks as if the hinge of history is moving.The SCO is easy to dismiss: the bloc is a bundle of contradictions. India and Pakistan remain adversaries. China and India still stare across a garrisoned Himalayan frontier, though relations have thawed since last October’s border breakthrough. Russia and China vie for influence in Central Asia. Unl...

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65 h. ago Epstein estate will hand ‘birthday book’ at center of Trump defamation case to Congress

Rep. Robert Garcia of California said that the estate of the sex trafficker would comply with a subpoena and turn over the book and ‘other documents’

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3 d. ago Donald Trump's health condition can lead to amputation, warns expert

Fears have risen over the health of US President Donald Trump after images emerged of his swollen ankles and he has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency

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5 d. ago Newsom claps back at Trump’s ‘strange hand action’ remark after large bruising noted on president’s hands

Trump has sported a prominent bruise on his right hand for several months and attenpted to cover it up with makeup to no avail

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5 d. ago Newsom claps back at Trump’s ‘strange hand action’ remark amid health concerns over dark spots on president’s appendage

Trump has sported a prominent bruise on his right hand for several months and attenpted to cover it up with makeup to no avail

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6 d. ago US envoy sparks uproar after telling Lebanese journalists to ‘act civilised’

Reporters demand apology from Tom Barrack, US special envoy to Syria, after his remarks at Beirut press conference Journalists in Lebanon have demanded an apology from a senior US envoy after he told them to “act civilized” and not be “animalistic”.As reporters shouted questions after the US delegation’s meeting with the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, on Tuesday, Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, stepped up to the podium in the packed room and said: “We’re going to have a different set of rules ... please be quiet for a moment. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Doctor's 'concern' for Donald Trump's health after three worrying photos in a week

EXCLUSIVE: A doctor has voiced concern over recurring bruises on President Donald Trump’s hand, as speculation about his health reignites ahead of the fall

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6 d. ago Wild Trump health rumours swirl online as armchair experts analyse new hand bruising weeks after his 'swollen ankles' and 'limp' triggered avalanche of speculation

Armchair experts have shared their bizarre theories around what they believe is going on with the the US President's health - despite the White House clearing up the rumours on August 7.

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7 d. ago Bruise on Trump’s hand won’t go away, and neither will questions about his health – US politics live

Large bruise on president’s hands, hidden poorly under makeup, renews speculation that White House may be concealing information about his healthThe justice department is alleging in a new court filing that three Smartmatic executives who were indicted last year on bribery and money-laundering charges transferred money from a 2018 voting machine contract with Los Angeles county into slush funds that were originally set up to pay bribes to election officials in Venezuela and the Philippines between 2012 and 2016 to obtain and retain lucrative election contracts.Prosecutors say one of the executives transferred an undisclosed amount from the $282m LA county contract into the slush funds in 2019 but did not say if anyone actually received bribes from the county’s money at that point. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Donald Trump fears as 'unwell' President 'desperately' tries to hide hand in new footage

Donald Trump has been at the centre of fresh health fears after footage appeared to show the 79-year-old desperately trying to hide a bruise on his hand

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7 d. ago Donald Trump spotted with dark bruise mark on hand as questions over health grow

A dark mark was clearly visible on the back of Donald Trump's hand today at the Oval Office and it follows what appeared to be thick makeup on it last Friday

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7 d. ago Donald Trump sparks health fears as massive bruise spotted on President's hand

US President Donald Trump was delivering a media briefing in the Oval Office on Monday when many spotted a huge bruise on his right hand – days after he was seen with make-up on it

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7 d. ago Trump fears he won’t get into heaven. I think he has nothing to worry about | Dave Schilling

His concerns are understandable after decades acting in his own best interest. On the other hand, he’s very rich“Will Donald Trump get into heaven?” I know this is a question weighing heavily on your mind right now. The current president of the United States is 79 years old, so we don’t have much time left to sort this one out. Trump clearly has eternity at the top of his agenda, having spoken on at least two occasions about what happens when we die. He called into a radio program called the Todd Starnes Show, which is a thing people listen to when the internet is out on their block. He waxed on about his military deployment in Washington DC, but also about the possible system that decides the fate of your everlasting soul. “There has to be some kind of a report card up there someplace, y’know, like: ‘Let’s go to heaven, let’s get into heaven.’ It’s sort of a beautiful thing,” he said to Starnes. He’s probably hoping they grade on a curve.On Fox News, Trump expressed serious doubt h...

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9 d. ago Trump’s hand makeup has returned after questions about president’s health over swollen ankle sightings

A large patch of what appeared to be foundation, in a lighter shade than his skin, was clearly visible on his hand during President Trump’s visit to an exhibit at the People’s House museum

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1 week ago Donald Trump health concerns resurface as unusual mark spotted on his hand

The President, 79, has been covering bruising on the back of his hand with makeup that doesn’t match his skin tone for some time now

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1 week ago The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianismOn 4 March, Donald Trump delivered his epic 100-minute speech to Congress, the longest such presidential address in US history. Having finished speaking, in time-honored fashion, he walked down the line of supreme court justices, gladhanding each in turn before coming to a stop before the chief justice, John Roberts.“Thank you again, thank you again,” Trump said, taking Roberts’s hand into both his own and shaking it vigorously. Then, as he began to step away, the president tapped Roberts on the arm in a gesture of buddy-buddy intimacy, and said: “Won’t forget.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Trump and Zelenskyy: Ukraine deserves better than 'better than we feared' | Editorial

In Washington, European leaders helped steer the US president away from his embrace of Vladimir Putin’s talking points. But for how long?The verdict on Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders on Monday depends entirely upon the metric used. The great fear was that this might prove a disaster along the lines of the US president’s dressing down of the Ukrainian leader in February – a scenario so plausible that Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and other key European leaders dropped everything to dash to the White House themselves in support.Following his red carpet welcome for Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, Mr Trump reportedly backed the idea that Ukraine should hand over the Donbas to achieve a peace deal. Even if one were naive enough to think that the Kremlin would see that as an end to conflict, rather than a staging post for a later offensive, it would not be a “land swap” but a land grab that Ukraine – for go...

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2 w. ago Trump 'will hand Putin part of Ukraine today' then he'll 'come back for the rest'

EXCLUSIVE: United States President Donald Trump could hand the Donbass region to Russia, and the long-term consequences of that could be far worse than many would imagine

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2 w. ago Vladimir Putin 'agrees to Ukraine security guarantees' during Donald Trump talks

The move was confirmed by Donald Trump's right-hand man Steve Witkoff minutes after the President boasted of “big progress on Russia”

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