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There is still a “long way to go” in the battle to contain all fires in LA, President Joe Biden has said. During a briefing at the White House, the president described the fires as the “worst in California history”. While progress has been made, the winds fanning the flames could remain a threat for…
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The French foreign minister said the bloc must become stronger after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to take control of Greenland. The EU will not allow other countries to attack its sovereign borders, France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military action to seize Greenland. Trump…
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President-elect Trump faced the media at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday, the day after Congress had certified his victory in November’s election. The press conference came 13 days before Trump will be inaugurated, at which point he will become the only president since Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century to serve nonconsecutive terms.…
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Here’s what you need to know about the Russia-Ukraine war at the start of this year… Ukraine launches new Kursk offensive The biggest story of the year so far came yesterday, when Moscow’s defence ministry said Ukraine had launched a new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region. In a statement, Moscow said efforts to destroy the…
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Incoming president Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable”, and those qualities could help him end the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “The ‘hot’ stage of the war can end quite quickly, if Trump is strong in his position,” Zelenskyy told Ukrainian television. “I believe [Trump] is strong and unpredictable. I would very much…
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The pound has lost some of its earlier gains against the dollar after Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to declare that the Washington Post’s story on his tariff policy is wrong. “The story in the Washington Post, quoting so-called anonymous sources, which don’t exist, incorrectly states that my tariff policy will be…
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A massive winter storm moving across the United States will not keep the U.S. Congress from meeting on Monday to formally certify Republican Donald Trump’s election as president, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday. “The Electoral Count Act requires this on January 6 at 1 p.m. – so, whether we’re in a blizzard…
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The speaker of the US House said Sunday he was pushing an “aggressive” timeframe for getting a multi-trillion-dollar bill addressing immigration, tax cuts and more to Donald Trump’s desk by April, within his first 100 days in office. Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow congressional Republicans are eager to help the incoming president enact his campaign…
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The New York judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday set sentencing for 10 days before his January 20 inauguration and said he was not inclined to impose jail time. Judge Juan Merchan said Trump, the first former president ever convicted of a crime, can appear either in person or virtually…
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President-elect Donald Trump expressed his condolences on the passing of former President Jimmy Carter. “Those of us who have been fortunate to have served as president understand this is a very exclusive club, and only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading the Greatest Nation in History,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added that…
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President-elect Donald Trump weighed in Saturday on the immigration issue that has been roiling some of his highest-profile supporters online, telling The New York Post that he has “always been in favor” of H-1B visas. It is not exactly true: Trump has waffled on his support for the H-1B program over the years, going so far as to suspend it late in his…
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Russia’s point man for arms control cautioned Donald Trump’s incoming administration on Friday against resuming nuclear testing, saying Moscow would keep its own options open amid what he said was Washington’s “extremely hostile” stance. The resumption of testing by the world’s two biggest nuclear powers would usher in a new and precarious era nearly 80…
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Reform UK now has more members than the Conservative Party and is “the real opposition” according to Nigel Farage, while Kemi Badenoch has called his numbers “fake”. According to a digital counter on the party’s website, Reform UK had gone past 131,690 members – the amount the Conservative Party declared before its leadership election in…
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The House vote to determine the next speaker is scheduled for Jan. 3, three days before a joint session of Congress is set to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory. However, a protracted battle for the former could delay the latter, Politico reported. That’s because Congress can’t do anything else until it elects a speaker. Republicans…
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Migrant families will return to being put in detention centers after President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, and the government will not hesitate to deport parents with U.S.-born children, according to Tom Homan, the incoming White House “border czar.” “Here’s the issue. You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a…
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