The US may avert a looming government shutdown after a top Democrat said he would support a Republican funding bill to keep it open. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his reversal on Thursday, after vowing he and other Democrats […]
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Don’t call it a breakthrough, as there is still a long way to go before lasting peace. But Tuesday’s agreement between the US and Ukraine over a proposed temporary ceasefire in the war with Russia represents a remarkable change of
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Trump says cabinet will cut staff with Musk ‘watching’ US President Donald Trump called a meeting of his cabinet secretaries on Thursday to discuss Elon Musk and his efforts to slash government spending and personnel numbers. It turned heated, according
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Watch: White House press secretary confirms US in talks with Hamas over hostages On Wednesday, in a series of high-stakes diplomatic episodes around the globe, Trump’s free-wheeling attitude toward foreign policy was on full display, playing out in real time
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Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump came to a US Capitol controlled by his Republican Party to take a lengthy victory lap. “We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years,
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‘No room left’ for Canada and Mexico to negotiate tariffs, says Trump Donald Trump has been threatening major tariffs on America’s two largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, for more than a month. It now appears that the day of
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Wearing a black “Make America Great Again” hat and dark sunglasses, Elon Musk – the multi-billionaire tasked by Donald Trump with taking a metaphorical chainsaw to the federal government – received a rock-star welcome as he took the stage at
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Trump questioned on Ukraine not being invited to US-Russia talks If there were any lingering doubts about Donald Trump’s view of the Ukraine war and America’s support of Kyiv’s fight against Russia, he put them to rest in stark terms
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Shortly after Mike Johnson appeared to come up two votes shy of retaining the speakership of the House of Representatives on Friday, Marjorie Taylor Greene – the firebrand Republican congresswoman from Georgia – stood in the middle of the House
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Watch: A look back at the life of former US President Jimmy Carter Forty-four years elapsed between the time Jimmy Carter left the presidency and the day he died. Four decades seems like a long time – a record for
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