10 h. 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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62 h. ago Trump’s approval rating finally starts to climb as Republicans back his handling of the economy

Despite the president claiming affordability is a ‘con job,’ more Americans think he is doing a better job of handling the economy

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4 d. ago Zelensky heads to London to discuss peace plan with Keir Starmer after Trump lashed out at the Ukrainian president for 'not reading' the latest US proposal to end the war

The Ukrainian President is under unprecedented duress to signal he approves the latest U.S. text, after accusations from Trump that he is dragging his feet.

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4 d. ago First phase of Gaza ceasefire plan nearly complete, says Netanyahu

Israeli PM to discuss next steps with Donald Trump this month but timetable for lasting peace remains unclearBenjamin Netanyahu has said that the first phase of the UN-endorsed Gaza ceasefire plan is close to completion, and that the second phase must involve the disarmament of Hamas.The Israeli prime minister said he would discuss the next steps later this month in Washington with Donald Trump, whose Gaza proposals were codified in a UN security council resolution on 17 November. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump says he approved the making of Japanese ‘tiny cars’ to be sold in the US

‘I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America,’ the president wrote on Truth Social Friday

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7 d. ago Supreme court allows Texas to use new congressional map favoring Republicans in 2026 elections – US politics live

Ruling will impact elections as soon as the March primariesUS supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional mapsAmong the beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations, there is a group that legal experts and political scientists see as some of the clearest evidence of how such actions undermine the rule of law: those who were released from prison and again arrested for different alleged crimes.During his first term, Trump issued 237 acts of clemency – including to someone who was a predatory lender and drug smuggler and to another who ran a Ponzi scheme. Since taking office again, Trump has issued more than 1,600, most for people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago UN Security Council delegation visits Syria for first time since 1945

A United Nations Security Council delegation has visited Syria for the first time since the council's founding in 1945

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7 d. ago US envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Ukraine national security chief in Miami

Meeting comes two days after Witkoff and Jared Kushner held five hours of talks with Vladimir Putin in MoscowAnalysis: Ukraine peace deal has stumbled yet againThe US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Ukraine’s national security council chief, Rustem Umerov, in Miami on Thursday as Washington steps up its diplomatic push to secure a pathway to peace in Ukraine.Witkoff, accompanied by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, spent nearly five hours in talks with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. Moscow later said the meeting had not brought the sides any closer to a peace agreement. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters

The U.S. and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests

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1 week ago Nearly half of Americans say Trump will go down in history as a ‘poor’ president

The poll comes as Trump’s approval ratings have plunged to a record low in recent months

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1 week ago Kristi Noem claims suspect in national guard shooting was ‘radicalized’ in US

Homeland security secretary also blamed ‘activist’ judges for defying court order to halt deportation flightsKristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, claimed on Sunday that the suspect in the national guard shooting in Washington DC was “radicalized” in the US and blamed the Biden administration, though the suspect’s asylum was approved under Donald Trump.The shooting suspect, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was granted asylum under the Trump administration in April 2025. He worked with CIA backed units in Afghanistan, coming to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Moment security guard grabbed protester by neck as she 'stormed' Glasgow council meeting

The female Living Rent activitst was manhandled by the security guard as they tried to enter the conference.

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1 week ago South London boy 'struggled to cope' after council failed to secure SEN therapy for 8 months

South London boy 'struggled to cope' after council failed to secure SEN therapy for 8 months  My London

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2 w. ago A new low: Trump’s approval rating negative with every major pollster for the first time

Polls carried out by YouGov, Gallup, Ipsos, R.M.G. Research, Morning Consult and Quinnipiac all show that more U.S. citizens disapprove of Trump than approve

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2 w. ago This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones

Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’The fate of one French judge is a case study in the west’s long unravelling. Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours. He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”, unable to use most bank cards.Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States, putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin. Why? Because alongside two other judges of the international criminal court pre-trial chamber I, he approved arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Deif, the former commander of Hamas’s military wing. Guillou and his colleagues had “actively engaged in the ICC’s illegitima...

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2 w. ago Shocking new poll shows how much public has turned against Trump’s ICE raids after horror stories emerge across the country

Protests have erupted across the country over Trump’s mass deportation agenda

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2 w. ago Trump hits lowest approval ever as he loses grip on MAGA issues that built his political brand, new shattering poll reveals

Donald Trump has hit a second term slump with a slew of warning signs flashing red for his administration - even on issues that helped him secure re-election a year ago.

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2 w. ago West Lothian Council leads application to secure funding for new railway station at Winchburgh

The bid to the Scottish Government is a crucial step in the development of a new station for West Lothian. Train operator ScotRail welcomed the bid.

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2 w. ago Trump boasts he has his ‘highest poll numbers’ ever – but some surveys show him sinking to a record second

President’s approval rating fell this week amid backlash over the Epstein files and the rising cost of living

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: defeating Russia an ‘illusion’, says Putin, as he welcomes Trump deal

Russia’s president says US-led plan ‘could form the basis of a final peace settlement’, bolstering concerns in Europe about one-sided nature of US-brokered deal. What we know on day 1,368See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageVladimir Putin says Ukraine is being unrealistic if it does not accept the US plan to end the war, declaring: “Ukraine is against it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies are still under illusions and dream of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield”. The positive response from the Russian president adds weight to the views of European and Ukrainian officials that the deal amounts to a “capitulation”. Addressing Russia’s national security council, Putin called the 28-point plan “a new version” and “a modernised plan” of what was discussed with the US ahead of his Alaska summit with Donald Trump in August, and said Moscow has received it. Putin said the plan “could form the basis of a final peace settlement”.Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reac...

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