A Chinese government video exhorts other countries not to buckle to U.S. trade pressure and pledges to “fight on.”
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Israel says it carried out operation against gunmen attacking Druze fighters in Syria [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.
The Trump administration has sanctioned an Iran-based network over missile materials, ahead of a fourth round of nuclear talks.
US president’s speech included an attack on ‘communist radical left judges’ and a claim that ‘nothing will stop me’
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and will be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.
Let’s start with the president’s Michigan rally last night. Donald Trump has celebrated his 100th day in office with a campaign-style rally in Michigan and an attack on “communist radical left judges” for trying to seize his power, warning: “Nothing will stop me.”
As Trump defended his broadly unpopular handling of the economy, he criticized Fed chair Jerome Powell, saying: “I have a Fed person who’s not really doing a good job, but I won’t say that.” The businessman president who used bankruptcy law to rescue his failed enterprises six times added: “I know much more about interest rates than he does”.
Trump mistakenly attacked the Michigan representative John James, calling the Republican he had endorsed “a lunatic” for trying to impeach him. That was someone else.
Trump supporters praised by the president at a rally included the former member of a violent cult who founded Blacks for Trump, and a retired autoworker who once told people to read David Duke’s “honest and fair” book about race.
The US Department of Justice has begun the first criminal prosecutions of immigrants for entering a newly declared military buffer zone created along the border with Mexico, according to court filings.
Trump called Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about a report that the company planned to display prices that show the impact of tariffs. Trump told reporters later that Bezos “was very nice, he was terrific” during their call, and “he solved the problem very quickly”.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter told CNN.
Gretzky has been under increasing scrutiny for his friendship with Trump.
The United States and our allies are facing unprecedented threats from highly sophisticated adversaries seeking to weaken our alliances, undermine our way of life, and deteriorate our readiness.
Russia wants full control of four annexed Ukrainian regions, a new report claims.