3 h. ago Canada and the US to launch formal talks to review their free trade agreement in mid

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office says Canada and the U.S. will launch formal discussions to review the free trade agreement in mid-January

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3 h. ago Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money?

Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family One Friday in November, armed police blocked off the road that runs beside Gibraltar’s medieval city walls to clear the way for a convoy of blacked-out BMWs. The vehicles pulled up at the offices of Hassans, a law firm.The British enclave in the Mediterranean is a hub for the international ultra-rich, and Hassans counts many of them as clients. But few as highly placed as that day’s visitor: Donald Trump Jr, the man running the family business while his father is in the White House. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago PHOTO ESSAY: The Palestinian families trying to rebuild their lives in the ruins of Gaza

The Halawa family’s building still rises two stories above the rubble in Gaza City, a small miracle after two years of Israeli airstrikes wrought heavy damage on homes across the Palestinian territory.

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4 h. ago Europe has lost all credibility in the Middle East. The way to regain it lies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon | Nathalie Tocci

Sidelined by Trump, preoccupied with Ukraine and damaged by its immoral stance on Gaza, Europe can still help stabilise its eastern Mediterranean neighbours A year after the overthrow of Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, the former jihadi fighter turned Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressed the Doha Forum earlier this month, deftly parrying questions about his controversial past and outlining his country’s complex journey toward a participatory, rules-based system. As I listened, it struck me that, while Europe’s role in the Middle East has been severely damaged by its immoral stance on the Gaza war and its self-inflicted exclusion from Iran nuclear diplomacy, Europeans still have a role to play when it comes to its neighbours in the eastern Mediterranean.Europe’s world has been turned upside down by Washington’s alignment with Moscow in the Ukraine war and the transatlantic rift as the Trump administration treats Europe as an adversary. Another dimension of this upheaval is E...

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5 h. ago Donald Trump's new event for High School students draws dystopian 'Hunger Games' comparisons

The Patriot Games will feature 'one young man and one young woman from each state', echoing the dark science fiction film franchise in which Jennifer Lawrence's protagonist takes on President Snow

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6 h. ago US military says 2 strikes on alleged drug boats kill 5 in eastern Pacific

The U.S. military says that it conducted two more strikes Thursday against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people

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10 h. ago Kennedy Center board votes to add Trump’s name to DC arts institution

Joe Kennedy III, JFK’s grandson, said he doubted the Trump-Kennedy Center name change was legalThe board of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC is moving ahead with a proposal to rename the arts and culture-focused institution, named after President John F Kennedy, in honor of Donald Trump, according to an announcement from the White House on Thursday.If the White House move succeeds it would be called the Trump-Kennedy Center, though it is unclear if this change would be legal. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Federal judge denies request to close Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

A federal judge has denied a request to close an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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11 h. ago Cloud lifts over cannabis companies' future amid push to reclassify the drug

Cannabis companies like Tilray Brands and Canopy Growth could soon face a more mellow path ahead following President Donald Trump’s move to help reclassify the drug’s status

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12 h. ago James Cameron goes scorched earth on Trump as he calls president the 'most narcissistic' since Nero

Iconic movie director James Cameron slammed President Donald Trump in a foul-mouthed rant, calling him the 'most narcissistic' and comparing him to a notoriously brutal Roman Emperor.

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12 h. ago Judge dismisses complaint against Miami land transfer for Trump’s presidential library

A judge in Miami has dismissed a complaint challenging a college’s decision to gift prime downtown real estate for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library

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13 h. ago White House announces Kennedy Center will be renamed to ‘Trump

Donald Trump showed little interest in the Kennedy Center during his first term

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14 h. ago Prosecutor says 14 Minnesota programs are targeted for fraud and the state is swamped with crime

Five new defendants have been charged in connection with a Minnesota housing services fraud scheme

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14 h. ago Democrats won’t release 2024 election loss ‘autopsy’, DNC chair says

Report on Kamala Harris’s loss to Trump would be a ‘distraction’ as party is ‘putting our learnings into motion’The Democratic National Committee won’t release a review of its election loss in 2024, saying it would be a “distraction” from helping the party win going forward.The party has been working on a so-called autopsy of 2024 since Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Trump and Epstein gossiped about sex in 'trophy hunt' for women, swimsuit model claims

Deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's friendship was built on conversations about sex and "trophy hunting" beautiful women, according to a former Sports Illustrated model.

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15 h. ago The Latest: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors

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15 h. ago Mexican drug cartel member accused of faking his death is sentenced to 11

A Mexican drug cartel member accused of faking his death to avoid capture has been sentenced to more than 11 years in U.S. prison

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16 h. ago UN official says lifting US sanctions on Syria could encourage refugee returns

The U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon says the U.S. lifting sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return

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16 h. ago Majority of voters say Trump is going too far with presidential power, poll finds

After a year of tariffs, ICE raids, narco-boat bombings and the partial demolition of the White House, most Americans feel President Donald Trump has exceeded his authority, latest Quinnipiac survey finds

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16 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s speech: ‘Surprise primetime episode of The Worst Wing’

Late-night hosts recapped Trump’s national address and further insights from chief of staff Susie Wiles’s interviewLate-night hosts discussed – or ignored – Donald Trump’s surprise primetime address and dug further into the explosive new interview the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. Continue reading...

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