12 h. ago US diplomats ‘fear’ telling the Trump administration hard truths amid firings, says report

State department union warned employees in email that diplomats are facing something ‘unlike anything we’ve seen’

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46 h. ago Ryder Cup teams ready for Donald Trump sideshow as Luke Donald tells PGA America their role

Captain Luke Donald says his team are prepared for President being at Bethpage and hopes lessons are learnt from tennis

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3 d. ago Trump administration tells Supreme Court that handing out $4B foreign aid poses ‘grave’ threat to presidency

Trump tees up major challenge to Congress’ constitutional authority to control federal spending

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4 d. ago Trump tells foreign companies to ‘hire and train Americans’ after Hyundai immigration raid

President Trump demands foreign companies ‘respect our nation’s immigration laws’ but encouraged them to ‘LEGALLY bring your very smart people’ to the U.S.

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4 d. ago Trump gives 'last warning' for 'war to end' as he tells both parties to accept his terms

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7 d. ago Trump tells European leaders that buying Russian oil is helping Moscow fund war against Ukraine

Trump joined a call of the “Coalition of the Willing” countries, led by French President Emmanuel Macron

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7 d. ago Nigel Farage's 'awkward' Oval Office photo proves he's on 'Team Trump' in talking down Britain

After examining the 'awkward' photographs from Nigel Farage's divisive meeting with US President Donald Trump, body language expert Judi James has picked up on a telling sign that the Reform leader is 'Team Trump' all the way

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage strangely shows 'little signs of friendship' in grim Donald Trump photo

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage met with US President Donald Trump this week, and a telling photograph of the pair emerged, with an expert claiming it shows 'little signs of friendship'

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8 d. ago President Trump’s military flyover silences Epstein survivors telling their stories

A press conference held by the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein was temporarily drowned out by a military flyover organized by the White House to honor the Polish President.

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1 week ago Trump administration tells states to remove references to 'gender ideology' from sex ed materials

President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials

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2 w. ago Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities as a way to fight crime

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2 w. ago Guard not needed in Chicago, Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claims

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime

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2 w. ago Newsom and Pritzker tell Trump crime is under control but vast majority of Americans see it as ‘major problem’

‘You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is,’ the president has said

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2 w. ago Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard as feud continues

‘Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,’ Trump tells education secretary in cabinet meetingDonald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration “wants nothing less than $500m from Harvard” as a condition for restoring billions of dollars in federal funding to the Ivy League university.“Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,” Trump told his education secretary, Linda McMahon, in a cabinet meeting. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump moves to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook in escalating attack on bank’s independence

Departure of Cook, first Black woman to sit on central bank’s board, would allow US president to put forward a replacementDonald Trump has said he is firing the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, over allegations she committed mortgage fraud, in an extraordinary move that marks the latest escalation in the US president’s attack on the central bank’s independence.Trump wrote to Cook on Monday, telling her that he was removing her from her position “effective immediately”, based on the allegation from one of his allies that she had obtained a mortgage on a second home she incorrectly described as her primary residence. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump showing 'dead ringer' symptom of illness getting 'worse and worse'

US President Donald Trump has been showing a "dead ringer telltale sign" of frontotemporal dementia, a pair of psychologists have claimed as they say the symptom is getting "worse and worse"

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2 w. ago South Park has become the most important TV show of the Trump 2.0 era | Jesse Hassenger

This season of the long-running animated sitcom has aimed its ire at the cruelty and stupidity of an administration others have found hard to successfully ridiculeI’ll admit it: I’m more of a Simpsons guy than a South Park guy. Nothing really against those South Park guys – I’ve caught plenty of episodes over its astonishing near-30-year run, and loved the 1999 big-screen movie. But while I haven’t always maintained clockwork viewership of The Simpsons, either, those characters have proved durable enough to revive my interest in episodes old and new. South Park has a thinner bench by comparison, and as the show itself astutely pointed out years ago, it’s difficult for a satirically minded animated sitcom to explore ground that The Simpsons hasn’t covered already. South Park’s political bent, too, has often seemed less varied than the warmer (but still sometimes cutting) social ribbing of Matt Groening’s signature show. It’s a fine line between omnidirectional satire and libertarian ...

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3 w. ago JD Vance lauds Trump’s ‘genius’ as he tells Democrats to ‘stop sounding like crazy people’

Vice President JD Vance lauded Donald Trump’s “genius” as he advised Democrats to “stop sounding like crazy people."

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3 w. ago Andrew Cuomo tells crowd Trump is going to help him beat Mamdani in the race for NYC mayor

‘Trump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani,’ Cuomo said

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3 w. ago Meloni caught making strange confession to Trump at Ukraine summit

Giorgia Meloni was heard telling Donald Trump that she never wants to speak to the Italian press during the summit on Ukraine in Washington, DC on Monday, 18 August.

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