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    Trump calls on House Republicans to vote to release Epstein files

    Donald Trump has urged lawmakers in his own party to vote to release files relating to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The US president wrote on Sunday night that House Republicans should do so “because we have nothing to hide”. The reversal of his position follows a slow drip feed of documents concerning the disgraced […]

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    What we know about new Epstein emails that mention Trump

    US lawmakers have released more than 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some that mention President Donald Trump. Early on Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published three email exchanges, including correspondence between Epstein, who died in 2019 in prison, and his […]

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    Trump says he doubts US will go to war with Venezuela

    Donald Trump has played down the possibility of a US war with Venezuela, but suggested Nicolás Maduro’s days as the country’s president were numbered. Asked if the US was going to war against Venezuela, the US president told CBS’ 60 Minutes: “I doubt it. I don’t think so. But they’ve been treating us very badly.” […]

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    Trump says trade talks with Canada ‘terminated’ over anti-tariffs advert

    US President Donald Trump has said he is immediately ending all trade negotiations with Canada. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the country had run an advert featuring former US President Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED,” Trump wrote […]

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    Zelensky fails to secure Tomahawk missiles at talks with Trump

    President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have come away empty-handed from a White House meeting after US President Donald Trump indicated he was not ready to supply sought-after Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Zelensky said after the cordial bilateral talks that he and Trump had talked about long-range missiles, but decided not to make statements on […]

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    What we know about the ‘first phase’ of the Gaza peace deal

    US President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a Gaza peace deal. It comes two years and two days after Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage. […]

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    Trump says he will sue New York Times for $15bn

    US President Donald Trump has said he would sue the New York Times for $15bn (£11bn) over what the US president calls defamation and libel. “The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth […]

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    Trump appeals to US Supreme Court to rule on legality of tariffs

    President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that found many of his sweeping tariffs were illegal. In a petition filed late on Wednesday, the administration asked the justices to quickly intervene to rule that the president has the power to impose such import taxes on foreign nations. […]

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    Trump and the NFL – why it’s complicated

    American football fans never thought they would see the day – the head of the National Football League standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Trump has frequently traded blows with the NFL since he first became US president in 2017, but he and America’s most popular sports league have been […]