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Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal
President Trump on Sunday said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after seeing footage of the Palestinian militant group release Israeli hostages over the weekend, whose appearance he compared to Holocaust survivors. Trump's reaction to seeing images of the three hostages, who appeared gaunt upon their release on Saturday, brought fresh uncertainty over the deal's fate before all remaining 76 hostages are freed and came days after the president called for the removal of Palestinians from the enclave and for the U.S. to take control of it.
Senior figures in the intelligence community are warning Donald Trump against repeating what they view as one of the worst mistakes in U.S. foreign policy as he contemplates how to handle Ukraine’s war against Russia. “It will be the most tangible abandonment from the Trump foreign policy,” a former senior U.S. intelligence official told the Daily Beast. Trump, who said he could end the conflict in 24 hours, has yet to unveil the details of his plan to stop the war, which has now raged for almos
"Everything under Trump must be blamed on him, just like what MAGA did with Biden."
President Trump on Sunday said that he has revoked the security clearances of people he doesn’t respect, days after he said he would end former President Biden’s security clearance. “There are people that we don’t respect, if there are people that we thought that were breaking the law, that came very close to it in…
Donald Trump has ruled out deporting the Duke of Sussex from the US, claiming the royal has “enough problems with his wife”, Meghan, whom he said was “terrible”.
Hegseth has asked for more than $130,000 to repair a government-furnished home, $49,000 of which is for an ‘emergency’ paint job
Experts argued expansive view of executive power could cause constitutional crisis
Trump’s appearance at the game marks the first time a sitting U.S. president has attended the annual NFL championship.
Traders in China's export manufacturing hub of Yiwu shrugged off U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and moves against China on Sunday, with some saying they made preparations to soften the blow. Yiwu city in eastern China's Zhejiang province is the world's largest wholesale hub for small manufactured items, exporting products ranging from Christmas trees to costume jewellery globally, including to the United States. "We predicted that he would assume power," Cheng Haodong, chairman of Beisi Group, a business which sells clothes to water bottles, told Reuters from their office in the city.
Elon Musk demanded the impeachment of the federal judge who blocked his federal spending task force from accessing the payment systems at the Treasury Department. “A corrupt judge protecting corruption,” Musk tweeted in the early hours of Sunday morning. “He needs to be impeached NOW!” U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled Saturday that special government employees and officials outside of the Treasury ought to be prohibited from accessing systems that contain sensitive information, effectiv
For the Israeli hostages freed Saturday, the suffering did not end when Hamas militants paraded their frail and gaunt figures on a stage in Gaza ahead of their release to the Red Cross.
Trump has teased two of the US’s biggest trading partners with levies but has moved the goalpost at least three times in two weeks
Sales of Tesla cars slumped in five European countries in January, but the decline has been particularly sharp in France – with a drop of 63 percent. The electric vehicle (EV) market declined by 6 percent overall in January compared to the previous year, but Tesla has been particularly hard hit.Sales of the company's EVs dropped by 63 percent in France, 44 percent in Sweden, 38 percent in Norway, 42 percent in the Netherlands and 12 percent in the UK.One explanation for the decline is Tesla's fa
President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week. “Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25% tariff,” he told reporters Sunday on Air Force One as he flew from Florida to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. When asked about aluminum, he responded, “aluminum, too” will be subject to the trade penalties.
Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg all included on list of Trump’s perceived enemies
They helped the U.S. military order airstrikes against Taliban and Islamic State fighters and worked as drivers and translators during America's longest war. Then President Donald Trump issued executive orders that put an end to programs used to help Afghans get to safety in America. Roshangar requested that The Associated Press only use his first name because he was afraid of Taliban reprisals.
Deputy PM says New Zealand hasn’t been adequately consulted on an agreement the Cook Islands leader is expected to sign in Beijing this week
Prince Harry was in Vancouver on Saturday to open the Invictus games, and it seems he won’t have any trouble getting back across the border after Donald Trump vowed not to deport the prince. However the president didn’t miss the opportunity to take a wicked jab at Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle. When asked if he would force Harry to leave the U.S., Trump told the New York Post: “I don’t want to do that. I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.” However, Trump di
The Trump administration’s aggressive push to cut government jobs is reverberating in the early stages of this year's race for governor in Virginia. The fast-moving effort by Republican President Donald Trump to overhaul the federal workforce could have a sweeping impact in the state, home to some 145,000 federal employees and many more government contractors. Virginia, which along with New Jersey is picking a new governor in 2025, is already regarded as something of an early indicator of voter attitudes between presidential elections and seems certain to attract closer attention as the contest takes shape.
Cost-cutting team now working on larger parts of U.S. budget like military and Medicare