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Trump completes demolition of White House East Wing

Demolition workers have finished tearing down the White House’s entire East Wing to make way for US president Donald Trump’s giant new $300 million ballroom, satellite pictures showed Thursday.

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White House warns of chaos at US airports as shutdown drags

US president Donald Trump’s administration sounded the alarm Thursday over potential turmoil at airports as the government shutdown threatens to drag into November, warning of ruined holiday plans for millions of Americans.

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Trump administration brands US cities war zones

The Trump administration branded Chicago a ‘war zone’ Sunday as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials, while a judge blocked the White House from sending troops to another Democrat-run city...

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Netanyahu apologises to Qatar, promises no new strike

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling Qatar’s prime minister from the White House on Monday, apologised for strikes against Hamas in the Gulf country and promised not to do so again, the United States said...

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Israel ups pressure on Gaza City

The Israeli military pressed operations around Gaza City on Wednesday, as president Donald Trump prepared to host a White House meeting on post-war plans for the shattered Palestinian territory...

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White House restricts WSJ access to Trump over Epstein story

The White House on Monday barred The Wall Street Journal from traveling with US president Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to Scotland, after the newspaper reported that he wrote a bawdy birthday message to his former friend, alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein...

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Trump pockets $57.4m from crypto coin sales

US president Donald Trump pocketed more than $57 million from token sales by the crypto venture he and his sons helped launch last year, according to federal financial disclosure forms released by the White House...

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Musk blasts Trump mega-bill days after farewell

TENSIONS between Elon Musk and Donald Trump erupted Tuesday as the world's richest man derided the president's key piece of economic legislation in a startling rupture just days after exiting a controversial job in the White House...

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Biden slams Trump ‘destruction’

Joe Biden, in his first major speech since leaving the White House, railed Tuesday against his successor Donald Trump’s frenetic government overhaul, claiming the ‘hatchet’ effort put Americans’ retirement benefits at risk...

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Harvard sees $2.2bn funding freeze after defying Trump

Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion federal funding freeze on Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism.

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Thousands march in US against Trump

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of major US cities on Saturday to oppose the divisive policies of president Donald Trump, in the largest demonstrations since his return to the White House...

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Gambling with World War III

TOO many opposite and unyielding opinions are ranged on the subject, which requires an explanatory note before coming to the point. The ungainly White House spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky has gripped everyone’s attention. But let me make a small point...

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Zelensky at White House to sign minerals deal with Trump

Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump met Friday to sign a deal on sharing Ukraine’s mineral riches and discuss a peace deal with Russia, despite the US president recently branding his Ukrainian counterpart a dictator.

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Trump’s protectionist power play

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on foreign steel and aluminium imports on February 10, doubling down on his protectionist agenda to ‘boost’ the US economy through import taxes, a move that could disrupt trade with key partners. Set to take effect on March 4, the tariffs will impact the 25 million tonnes of steel the US imports...

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Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing

PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...

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US trade gap swells in 2024

The US trade gap swelled last year to its second-largest on record, government data showed Wednesday, as deficits come under the spotlight with president Donald Trump’s return to the White House...