The tech billionaire, who has publicly feuded with President Trump, wrote on social media that he would be creating “the America Party,” though he hadn’t yet filed paperwork.

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Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

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President Trump has declined to enforce a statutory ban of the popular social media app while his administration negotiates a deal for an American company to acquire it.

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President Donald Trump has defended his use of the term "shylock" at a rally this week, saying he is unaware it is considered antisemitic by some people.

Several prominent Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, drew the public's ire with pessimistic social media messages on July 4.

Previously apolitical Social Security Administration lauded Trump’s debt-expanding bill after its passage

An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.

The reconciliation bill – which the president called the “one big, beautiful bill” before signing it on Friday after Republicans in Congress passed it – includes provisions that will strip people of their health insurance, cut food assistance for the poor, kill off clean energy development and raise the national debt by trillions of dollars.

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Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

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Le ministre français de l’Économie, Éric Lombard, a dit, ce samedi, espérer un accord « ce week-end » pour éviter l’application de droits de douane punitifs par les États-Unis, qu’il a comparés à un « caïd ».

Le ministre français de l’Économie, Éric Lombard, a dit, ce samedi, espérer un accord « ce week-end » pour éviter l’application de droits de douane punitifs par les États-Unis, qu’il a comparés à un « caïd ».

Billionaire said his ‘America party’ would try to turn attainable House and Senate seats to decide major issues

The new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about possibly bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.

Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform which he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law.

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Trump's tax cuts, foreign policy and governance style reveal him to be a 'normie Republican' rather than a political outlier, according to NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie.

Almost 300 researchers have applied for for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia

It was on a US-bound flight in March, as Brian Sandberg stressed about whether he would be stopped at security, that the American historian knew the time had come for him to leave his home country.

For months, he had watched Donald Trump’s administration unleash a multipronged attack on academia – slashing funding, targeting international students and deeming certain fields and even keywords off limits. As his plane approached the US, it felt as though the battle had hit home, as Sandberg worried that he would face reprisals over comments he had made during his travels to the French media on the future of research in the US.

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Emboldened by Trump, the right is trying to chip away the legacy of the trailblazing politician Harvey Milk. Activists say it’s a sign of a wider assault on the LGBTQ+ community

As San Francisco’s pride festivities came to a close last week, a cloud hung over the otherwise joyful celebrations as the city’s LGBTQ+ community learned that the US government had stripped a naval ship of its name honoring the gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk.

Donald Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, claimed the action showed the administration’s commitment to “taking the politics” out of military naming conventions. San Francisco’s queer community saw things differently.

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The "big, beautiful" bill’s passage comes on the heels of other significant victories for his administration, including a Supreme Court ruling in his favor and successful strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

The decision came after Hamas said it had responded positively to an American-backed cease-fire proposal. President Trump says he hopes for a truce as soon as next week.

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The various ways that the G.O.P. legislation doesn’t address itself to America’s most important problems.

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The Trump administration’s political witch hunt is risking the bureau’s effectiveness and the public’s safety.

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The Trump White House blasted the Smithsonian for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives" in an exclusive email to Fox News Digital.

Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to fast-track nation-building projects to remake Canada’s economy. Indigenous groups want a seat at the table.

It is more secure from threats than at any time since its founding. But the war in Gaza, and attacks on Iran and Lebanon, have undercut Israel’s standing among the world’s democracies.

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MMA was once used to curry favor with Putin. Now, Trump is using the UFC to project a nationalist cult of masculinity

Ten years ago – before I became an investigative journalist – I found myself working as a color commentator for a Russian mixed martial arts organization bankrolled by an oligarch deep in Vladimir Putin’s orbit.

The job took me around the Russian Federation and its neighboring states, allowing me to pursue unique stories that would otherwise have been out of my reach. I met a Latvian fighter who escaped a black magic cult run by his coach, attended an MMA show with the president of Ingushetia (now Russia’s deputy minister of defence) and knocked back vodka shots with ex-KGB officers and Russian oligarchs.

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President Trump triumphantly highlighted tax cuts in the legislation while downplaying cuts to Medicaid and other assistance for poor Americans.

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President also says he may visit Xi Jinping or Chinese leader could come to US after Trump last month extended app sale deadline for third time

Donald Trump has said he will start talking to China on Monday or Tuesday about a possible TikTok deal.

The United States president said the US “pretty much” had a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app.

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US is on the brink of launching a trade assault on dozens of countries as 90-day pause on tariffs is set to end on 9 July

When Donald Trump unveiled his “liberation day” tariffs in the spring, only to pull the plug days later as panic tore through global markets, his officials scrambled to present the climbdown as temporary.

Three months of frenetic talks would enable the Trump administration to strike dozens of trade agreements with countries across the world, they claimed. “We’re going to run,” the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told Fox Business Network. “Ninety deals in 90 days is possible.”

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Le président américain Donald Trump a dit vendredi avoir signé des lettres adressées aux partenaires commerciaux des États-Unis concernant l’application de droits de douane punitifs par Washington, dont « probablement douze » seront envoyées lundi.

Le président américain Donald Trump s’est dit, ce vendredi, « très mécontent » de son appel téléphonique la veille avec Vladimir Poutine, qui n’a pas permis de progrès vers une fin de la guerre en Ukraine, précisant qu’il avait évoqué avec lui la possibilité de nouvelles sanctions.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed his US$3.4 trillion budget bill into law Friday, enshrining an extension of tax cuts, temporary new breaks for tipped workers and funding to crack down on illegal immigration. Read More

Une nouvelle offensive cybercriminelle secoue la sphère politique américaine. Un groupe baptisé « Robert », soupçonné d’être lié à l’appareil militaire iranien, affirme détenir une vaste collection d’emails internes provenant de proches collaborateurs de Donald Trump. Parmi les cibles figurent Susie Wiles (cheffe de cabinet), Roger Stone (allié historique), Lindsey Halligan (avocate de Trump) et ... Lire plus

L'article Des hackers menacent de divulguer des emails volés à l’entourage de Trump, Roger Stone et Stormy Daniels… est apparu en premier sur Fredzone.

Une nouvelle offensive cybercriminelle secoue la sphère politique américaine. Un groupe baptisé « Robert », soupçonné d’être lié à l’appareil militaire iranien, affirme détenir une vaste collection d’emails internes provenant de proches collaborateurs de Donald Trump. Parmi les cibles figurent Susie Wiles (cheffe de cabinet), Roger Stone (allié historique), Lindsey Halligan (avocate de Trump) et ... Lire plus

L'article Des hackers menacent de divulguer des emails volés à l’entourage de Trump, Roger Stone et Stormy Daniels… est apparu en premier sur Fredzone.

After the Supreme Court ruled that the deportations could move forward, a last-ditch attempt to block them with a new lawsuit faltered.

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With the president’s domestic policy law signed, states will have to administer many of the cuts and decide how much they can spend to keep their citizens insured and fed.

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Former UFC champion Conor McGregor appeared eager to participate in the White House UFC event announced by President Trump on Thursday.

President Donald Trump signs $3.3 trillion tax bill that extends 2017 tax cuts, raises debt limit by $5 trillion, rescinds Biden green energy credits, and adds Medicaid work requirements.

It was not immediately clear whether the group was demanding any significant changes to the plan for a 60-day truce, hostage-for-prisoner swaps and talks on a permanent end to the Gaza war.

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Kicking off America’s 250th birthday celebration, President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill" is unleashing growth and prosperity for both Main Street and Wall Street alike.