
The Guardian - 7 hours 4 min ago
A new book examines controversial recent decisions and the lasting effects of Ford's pardoning of Nixon in 1974 To Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy , pardons are "X-rays into the soul" of the American president who gives them, revealing true character. Pardons can show compassion and mercy in the occupant of the Oval Office. More often, they expose venality and self-preservation. Toobin said: "One thing you can say about Donald Trump is that...

Newsweek - 7 hours 5 min ago
The layoffs come amid ongoing concerns about flight safety following a spate of incidents involving aircraft in the U.S.

Financial Times - 7 hours 18 min ago
The world's richest man is taking a torch to the American state on behalf of Donald Trump...

The Guardian - 7 hours 57 min ago
Fellow Democrats are riled by the Pennsylvania maverick who now denounces the sort of politician he once was "You can't work' with crazy," John Fetterman wrote. "You must call it what it is. Anything less is spineless appeasement." It was mid-2016, and Fetterman, then running in the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat in Pennsylvania, was responding to a Politico article about how Democrats may work with Donald Trump. Continue reading...

The Independent - 8 hours 2 min ago
The division became clear as European leaders attended an emergency summit on Ukraine in Paris, where allies scrambled for a strategy in response to Donald Trump's push for a deal with Putin...

The Guardian - 8 hours 4 min ago
Ice's pursuit of low-hanging fruit' by allegedly tricking people complying with rules could be counterproductive People attending recent mandatory immigration check-ins or court appearances have been escorted out in federal custody after the Trump administration allegedly tricked, lied to, or otherwise deceived them as part of its mass deportation campaign. Amid a blitz of immigration-related policy changes over the last few weeks, Donald Trump and his subordinates have greenlit the ability...

The Guardian - 8 hours 4 min ago
The centre left's failure has left a vacuum that's been filled by those offering hope, rather than a technocratic status quo Jonathan White is professor of politics at the LSE At first glance, today's politicians appear to have shifted their eyes from the future to the present and the past . The way to win power, it seems, is to make Maga-style appeals to the glories of yesteryear, while the best hope of keeping it is to pursue the short-term gains that will emerge before the next election...

The Raw Story - 8 hours 6 min ago
The CIA has already been carrying out President Donald Trump's orders to conduct missions against drug cartels in Mexico, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The intelligence agency has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones across the border to spy on the cartels, current and former officials with knowledge of the matter told CNN . It's part of the new administration's dramatic reorientation of national security assets along the southern border. "The missions...

Fox News - 8 hours 10 min ago
Buffalo Bills players Spencer Brown, Dalton Kincaid, Sam Martin, Ryan Van Demark and Tommy Doyle were seen posing for a picture with President Donald Trump on Monday.

The Independent - 8 hours 16 min ago
Elon Musk declared that "[Donald] Trump derangement syndrome" is real in a joint interview with the US president broadcast on Monday, 17 February.

The Hill - 8 hours 25 min ago
"I want this; 80% of the American people are with me. The Trump haters don't want it," O'Reilly said Monday.

Fox News - 8 hours 33 min ago
"Doctor Who" actor David Tennant made multiple jokes against President Donald Trump during the opening monologue of the 2025 BAFTA Awards on Sunday.

Fox News - 9 hours 3 min ago
President Donald Trump congratulated U.S. forces after an airstrike over the weekend killed an official of Hurras al-Din, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, in Syria.

The New Yorker - 9 hours 4 min ago
At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.

Mother Jones - 9 hours 4 min ago
After years of serving as a top destination for the world's dirty money stashed in untraceable LLCs, impenetrable trusts, and anonymously-owned properties the United States was on the cusp of turning a corner. Congress had passed bipartisan legislation compelling shell companies to divulge their owners to the Treasury Department, which has also imposed new rules to bring […]...

Fortune - 9 hours 7 min ago
Elon Musk called the president to address speculation that he was the real power in the White House but Trump remains unfazed.

Tech Meme - 9 hours 9 min ago
Financial Times : A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now makes the iPhone 16 Pro; sources say China views Apple's growing business in India with suspicion — As Donald Trump was preparing to take office for the first time in 2017, Priyank Kharge was busy making calls to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino …...

NBC News - 9 hours 12 min ago
The United States and Russia on Tuesday kicked off high-level talks marking President Donald Trump's reversal of American policy on Moscow.

The Guardian - 9 hours 13 min ago
Justice department has requested corruption charges against Eric Adams be dropped, widely seen as reward for his help with Trump's immigration agenda Hello and welcome to the US politics blog. US and Russian officials have been holding talks in Riyadh on the war in Ukraine - the first in-person discussion between top officials in years. Four deputies to New York's mayor , Eric Adams, resigned on Monday as the growing chaos after a justice department request to drop corruption charges against...

Slate - 9 hours 24 min ago
Everyone searching for the "liberal Joe Rogan" might be missing something better altogether.

The Nation - 9 hours 34 min ago
Sam Gustin The president’s disdain for disabled people and obsession with genetic superiority harks back to a grim past. The post Donald Trump's Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities appeared first on The Nation .

Fox News - 9 hours 41 min ago
Former Vice President Mike Pence has billed himself the leading Republican opposition voice to the "more populist thinking" of President Donald Trump's allies.

Sky News - 9 hours 54 min ago
Donald Trump's administration has reportedly made multiple attempts to pressurise Romania to lift travel restrictions on Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who are facing a series of criminal charges in the country.

The Guardian - 10 hours 4 min ago
Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely on The mask has slipped and the gloves are off. A company which in 2022 boasted that it had exceeded its target , "spending $1.26 billion with US certified diverse suppliers", is now ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. That company is Meta (formerly known as Facebook), whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced DEI dismantling shortly before he had...