Trump Posts AI Video Depicting His Proposal of a Resort-ified Gaza Strip
Trump’s proposal to develop the war-devastated Gaza Strip into a Riviera replete with luxury casinos and resorts has been heavily criticized in the Middle East.
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Top Democrat says Trump may seek mineral deal with both Russia and Ukraine
Jeanne Shaheen discusses Trump’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to rare-earth reserves for helping end warDonald Trump may be pursuing a mineral rights deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia as well as with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, a top S…
Trump executive order targets payments and travel after reporters barred from cabinet meeting – as it happened
This blog is now closed. You can read our latest story hereThere has been reaction to Trump’s proposal for a “gold card” for wealthy foreigners (post 11.14am) which would give them the right to live and work in the US as well as a route to citizenship …
Trump plans to cut more than 90% of USAid foreign aid contracts
Internal memo and court filings reveal president to also eliminate $60bn in overall US assistance around worldThe Trump administration said it is eliminating more than 90% of the US Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60bn…
Russia could reinvade Ukraine without US security guarantees, Starmer warns
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Trump administration orders New York to end congestion pricing by March 21
Head of Federal Highway Administration informed New York that the traffic-calming program ‘must cease’The Trump administration has ordered New York City to end its congestion pricing program by 21 March.In a letter dated 20 February and publicized on W…
Trump cabinet flunkies hail wannabe Caesar and Elon, his oligarch pal
Special adviser showed instinctive feel for authoritarianism as he addressed the president’s first full cabinet meetingOn Tuesday, just over a mile from the White House, the classicist Mary Beard spoke to an audience about Roman emperors. “An autocrat …
‘Mafia godfather’ Trump may be collaborating with Putin to ‘carve up’ territory: analysis
In trying to make sense of President Donald Trump’s favor of Russia over Ukraine, New York Times opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman floated two possibilities.Friedman called his introspection, “one of the most disturbing questions I’ve ever had to a…
Fired USAid workers and HIV activists hold ‘die-in’ to protest Trump and Musk
Dozens of demonstrators laid down in government office building to warn against dismantling foreign aid agencyFired USAid employees and advocates for people with HIV staged a protest in a Capitol office building on Wednesday, warning that Donald Trump’…
‘So exhausting’: National security expert left exasperated by Trump’s Gaza hotel video
CNN’s Boris Sanchez asked national security analyst Kevin Barron to give his take on President Donald Trump’s AI-generated video promoting his idea to turn war-torn Gaza “into a lavish golf resort.”
The video, posted to TruthSocial, includes lyric…