9 h. ago JD Vance’s wedding anniversary takes backseat to Trump birthday and military parade

JD Vance mentioned that it was his wedding anniversary at the end of his speech during Donald Trump’s military parade that coincided with the president’s 79th birthday on Saturday, 15 June.

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15 h. ago Donald Trump 'falls asleep' amid military parade on president's 79th birthday

Donald Trump was proud to show off his country's military might on Saturday but photos taken from the area appeared to show the US President drifting off throughout the day

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20 h. ago Gathering stormclouds can’t wipe smile from Trump’s face as long

In scenes that could have been set in Moscow, families queued to sit in helicopters, while tanks and robot dogs paraded Constition AvenueIt may have been billed as a military parade to celebrate the American military’s history, but it said even more about the country’s present and future under Donald Trump.Soldiers, tanks and even robot dogs paraded along Constitution Ave. on Saturday, as paratroopers swooped in from overhead and military aircraft buzzed past the Washington Monument for the first major military parade held in the US capital since the victory after the first Gulf War of 1991. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Watch: Trump calls US ‘hottest country in the world’ during military parade speech

Donald Trump called the United States ‘the hottest country in the world’ during his military parade speech.

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25 h. ago Trump military parade underway as president arrives to watch festivities on his birthday

More than 6,000 troops are marching in front of the president near the National Mall to honor the Army’s anniversary

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52 h. ago Nigerian leader's pardon of executed Ogoni activists draws criticisms

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu posthumously pardoned nine environmental activists executed 30 years ago by the military junta ruling the country at the time

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56 h. ago Israelis in triumphant but foreboding mood after unprecedented Iran strikes

Many welcome attack on military and nuclear targets but unease lingers as country braces for what happens nextMiddle East crisis – live updatesTrepidation mixed with triumphalism in Israel on Friday, after an unprecedented attack on Iran’s military and nuclear programme brought ordinary life to an abrupt halt.The country’s main airport was closed “until further notice” with no flights expected for days and hospitals began moving hundreds of vulnerable patients to emergency underground facilities and sending home anyone who could be discharged. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Israel's nighttime attack on Iran mapped as six key nuclear targets confirmed

Israel has launched a widescale attack against Iran, killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists, with the country responding by launching 100 drones of their own and promising "bitter" revenge

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68 h. ago The stars and stripes fly, in photos, as Flag Day approaches

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country's promise — sometimes dotted along historic graves of military veterans, draped upside down over a protester, or painted on a barn.

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3 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he gets booed and trolled by drag queens at theatre

Do you hear the drag queens boo? Booing the President, that is. Happened when Donald Trump and Mrs Trump sat down to watch Les Mis. All of this and more in a day on Planet Trump

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3 d. ago World War 3 fears as US official claims it's 'more serious than any other time in the past'

Israel is reportedly 'fully ready' to launch a military strike against Iran in a move that would rupture the country's relationship with the US and could spark a global war

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4 d. ago Watch: Trump reacts to news that actors are boycotting his attendance at Kennedy Center

Donald Trump says he is unbothered by actors boycotting his attendance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center Wednesday night (11 June).

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4 d. ago Trump is waging war against his own citizens in Los Angeles | Judith Levine

In its first months in office, the Trump administration enacted what could be called soft authoritarianism. Now we are in a second phaseOn Monday, the Pentagon sent 700 active-duty marines to Los Angeles and doubled the number of national guard troops deployed there to 4,000, to quell protests Donald Trump said on Sunday were already “under control”, “still simmering ... but not very much”.The same day, the US president used the word “insurrectionists” to describe demonstrators against the unprecedentedly large and fierce immigration deportation raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) that started on Friday in that city. The remark echoed his long-held desire to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, which would authorize him to send the military anywhere in the country to put down dissent. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago American carnage revisited as Trump plays president of permanent emergency

The president declined at Fort Bragg to hum a tune of virtue and valor – instead it was a tour of his darkest horizonsLA protests – live updatesDonald Trump was hundreds of miles away from the White House on Tuesday, visiting one the country’s most venerable military bases, Fort Bragg in North Carolina, partly to big-up Saturday’s forthcoming celebration of America’s armed might in Washington – a parade spectacular ostensibly held in honor of the US armed forces’ birthday. But also his own.With a new setting came the chance for a new theme. Instead the president chose an old one – American carnage. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Watch: Trump says people who burn the American flag ‘should go to jail for a year’

Donald Trump says that anyone who burns the American flag should be thrown in prison.

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6 d. ago Watch: Donald Trump ignores Britain as he claims the US ‘won World War II’

President Donald Trump ignored Britain’s contribution as he claimed the United States ‘won World War II.’

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1 week ago The new wave of interior designers London's hottest celebs are calling on to make over their homes

Meet the in-demand creatives tasked with designing beautiful homes for the glitterati

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1 week ago Sudan's former prime minister Hamdok says recent military gains won't end the war

Sudan’s former prime minister has told The Associated Press that the military's recent victories will not end the country's two-year civil war

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1 week ago Voices: That’s fighting talk, prime minister – but can you deliver?

In the face of Russian aggression, Keir Starmer says he must ready the country for war, by increasing military spending and building a platoon of nuclear submarines – but, as Mark Almond cautions, perhaps the only thing the Ministry of Defence can be guaranteed to produce on time are defence reviews

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1 week ago Minister warns UK faces 'new threats in very dangerous world' and 'is not in peace'

Defence minister Luke Pollard warned that Brits are now living in a "very dangerous world" and that "new threats" are facing the country as our military lingers from a "lack of investment"

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