6 h. ago Vanity Fair portraits of White House leaders hoped to cut through ‘political theater.’ Instead they drew snickers online

Photographer Christopher Anderson told The Independent that his photographs of administration officials were consistent with his other portraits

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6 h. ago Trump's White House in chaos over chief of staff's 'hit piece' on Epstein and Elon Musk

Susie Wiles' explosive Vanity Fair interview has thrown Trump's White House into chaos, with the chief of staff now calling the article a "hit piece"

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8 h. ago Trump’s ‘ice maiden’ Susie Wiles unloads on president’s agenda in candid interviews with Vanity Fair

White House chief of staff labels JD Vance a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and Elon Musk an ‘avowed ketamine’ user in revealing interviews throughout the president’s chaotic year in office

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9 h. ago Donald Trump's team in chaos over top aide's explosive interview on Epstein, alcohol and Elon Musk

Susie Wiles posted on X for the first time in more than a year in order to push back against Vanity Fair's profile of her - an indication the article is sparking tumult inside the White House

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11 h. ago Trump's Ice Maiden describes the president's 'alcoholic personality' and brands JD Vance a 'conspiracy theorist' in bombshell interview

Donald Trump's White HouseChief of Staff Susie Wiles has divulged stunning details about the inner workings of the administration in an explosive new report.

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11 h. ago Susie Wiles says Trump has an ‘alcoholic’s personality’ — and reveals her ultimatum that shaped the 2016 election

The president is a teetotaler, telling Fox News in 2016 that he’s ‘never had a drink’

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14 h. ago Starmer blow as Trump 'puts vaunted £31bn tech prosperity deal with UK on ice' amid trade wrangling

Donald Trumpis said to have frozen talks on the pact, which was unveiled with great fanfare during his state visit earlier this year.

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34 h. ago Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping man evade Trump’s ICE crackdown

The trial is the latest flashpoint in President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown

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34 h. ago Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled over her son in Minnesota

Representative says her son was let go once he showed ID as Trump ramps up operation targeting Somali population in MinneapolisDemocratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar told a Minneapolis broadcaster that her son had been stopped over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, after Donald Trump ordered an operation targeting the Minnesota city’s Somali population.“Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [ICE] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go,” Omar said on Sunday in an interview with WCCO. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Trump administration keeps picking fights with pop stars. It’s a no

By using music from SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo in ICE videos, the government is playing a game of rage-baitLast week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland Security employee – I picture the worst sniveling, self-satisfied, hateful loser – got to work on the official X account. The state-employed memelord posted a video depicting Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials arresting people in what appeared to be Chicago, celebrating the humiliation and incarceration of undocumented immigrants as some sort of patriotic achievement. The vile video borrowed, as they often do, from mainstream pop culture; in this case, a viral lyric from Sabrina Carpenter’s song Juno – “Have you ever tried this one?,” referring to sex positions – overlaid clips of agents chasing, tackling and handcuffing people, cheekily nodding to all the methods in ICE’s terr...

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4 d. ago The TSA is providing airline passenger data to ICE to aid Trump’s deportation efforts, report says

The program comes as the Trump administration has sought to leverage data from across the government to speed up deportations

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4 d. ago ‘The holy family is in hiding’: nativity scenes at US churches push back on ICE

Displays include handcuffed baby Jesus and Mary wearing a gas mask in wake of Trump’s immigration crackdownSatirical holiday displays mocking Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, portraying the newborn Jesus and his parents, Mary and Joseph, as victims of heavy-handed tactics by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have appeared across the US.One striking retelling of the Christmas story, at Lake Street church in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, features baby Jesus lying in a manger in the snow – but wrapped in the kind of thin, foil blankets given out in emergencies and regularly as bedding to ICE detainees, and with his wrists zip-tied. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump and White House blast ‘Fake News’ journalists and negative polls as president pushes affordability agenda: Live updates

A new poll found Trump’s approval rating on the economy has declined substantially in recent months

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5 d. ago Kilmar Ábrego García released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration

Ábrego plans return to Maryland as DHS pledges to appeal judge’s decision, calling ruling ‘naked judicial activism’Kilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday.Ábrego was released shortly before 5pm ET, his attorney told the Associated Press. He plans to return to Maryland, where he has lived for many years with his US citizen wife and child after first entering the country illegally as a teenager. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kilmar Ábrego García ordered released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration

Maryland judge freed Ábrego as his case becomes a partisan flashpoint in battle over Trump’s deportation agendaA federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday, and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland, has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘Somalis are the scapegoat’: fear rises as Trump targets Minneapolis community

Residents have had to adjust how they’re living – staying home, carrying passports – since Trump launched his attackOn Tuesday morning, just a few stalls were open among the dozens that normally sell food, rugs, clothing and jewelry at Karmel mall, a Somali community hub in Minneapolis. Longtime Minnesotans said they had never seen the mall as quiet as it has been in recent days, almost jarringly still.The bustle was replaced by unease and fear over the Trump administration’s menace toward Somalis and increased immigration agents in the city, tasked with targeting Somalis for deportation. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago DHS inks $140 million deal for Boeing jets to serve as its deportation fleet

ICE is expected to ramp up mass removals as the Trump administration aims for 1 million deportations

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6 d. ago ICE agents pepper spray crowd amid Trump’s Somalian crackdown

The country’s largest Somali community has been on edge over the past couple of weeks

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7 d. ago Afghans live in fear of ICE in wake of Washington National Guard attack

Many detained had requested asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in the last two years

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9 d. ago Kate Winslet blasts the 'terrifying and devastating' plastic surgery epidemic and warns of the dangers of weight loss drugs

Kate Winslet has blasted the plastic surgery and filler epidemic of recent times as  'terrifying and devastating' and criticised weight loss drugs in a passionate and candid new interview.

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