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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has arrived in Saudi Arabia this morning ahead of expected talks with Russian officials aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The talks come after Donald Trump last week spoke to Vladimir Putin by phone and ordered top officials to begin negotiations on the war. Riyadh, which is also…
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The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency’s plans, and cuts could happen as soon as next week. This comes as the Trump administration intensified sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all…
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President Lai Ching-te pledged on Friday (Feb 14) to talk with the United States about President Donald Trump’s concerns over the chip industry and to invest more in and buy more from the country, while ramping up defence spending. Trump spoke critically about Taiwan on Thursday, saying he aimed to restore US manufacturing of semiconductor chips and…
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President Donald Trump on Thursday (Feb 13) offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration’s punitive approach to much of the world. Modi, only the fourth world leader to visit the White House since…
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The White House said Wednesday that news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico were telling “lies” and insisted it would continue to bar Associated Press journalists from presidential events. Trump has decreed that the international body of water — which borders Mexico, the United States and…
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While Donald Trump make waves with a black Sharpie in the Oval Office, JD Vance is on his first foreign visit as vice president. He’s just addressed a high-stakes AI summit in Paris, criticising Europe’s tech regulations and warning leaders that excessive rules could strangle artificial intelligence. “We believe that excessive regulation of the AI…
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Donald Trump says his phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy “went very well”. “He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE,” the president posted on social media. “We discussed a variety of topics having to do with the War, but mostly, the meeting that is being set up on Friday in Munich, where Vice President JD…
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Donald Trump has celebrated the news that the Gulf of Mexico is now labelled the Gulf of America on Google Maps after he signed an executive order to rename it… It comes after he signed a proclamation declaring 9 February 2025 the first-ever “Gulf of America Day”, having claimed the gulf is run by cartels…
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Donald Trump says he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he returned to the White House on 20 January. The US president made the comments in an interview aired on Fox News tonight. “Yeah… I have talked to him and I have talked to his people, too,” Mr Trump said when asked if…
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United States President Donald Trump has again insisted that the US will take control of the Gaza Strip. Trump made this statement while meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House on Tuesday. It was Trump’s first meeting with his Jordanian counterpart since announcing his plan to take over Gaza. Recently, Trump suggested he…
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Thursday that he’s confident that the Pacific Palisades and other Los Angeles-area neighborhoods will build back better than they were before being destroyed by fires. Zeldin made the remarks from the Palisades, where he joined myriad other federal agencies on Thursday leading the charge with local and state officials on…
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets…
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The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in December, as imports reached an all-time high amid looming tariff threats, according to data released on Wednesday. The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that the goods and services deficit was 98.4 billion U.S. dollars in December, up 19.5 billion dollars,…
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Away from the White House, members of Mexico’s National Guard are heading to the US border as part of a deal agreed between Claudia Sheinbaum and Donald Trump. Mexico’s president got Trump to pause the implementation of 25% tariffs on her country yesterday after agreements were reached on border security. Sheinbaum said she was sending…
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation, putting some at risk of being removed from the country in about two months. Noem signed a notice reversing a move by her predecessor, Alejandro Mayorkas, in the waning days of…
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For rejecting two deportation flights carrying about 160 immigrants, US President Trump announces sanctions against Colombia. 🔵 Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%. 🔵 A Travel Ban and immediate Visa Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters. 🔵 Visa Sanctions…
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