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Trump confirms he recently spoke with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro

Trump remained tight-lipped on details of call with Venezuelan president as tensions rise between countries

Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, but he did not provide details on what the two leaders discussed.

“I don’t want to comment on it. The answer is yes,” the US president said when asked if he had spoken with Maduro. He was speaking to reporters onboard Air Force One.

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© Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

© Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

© Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

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Remembering WW2 Camps, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos.

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Nicole Suzuki, left, and Amy Oba drive around the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles looking for immigration agents.
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Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime

Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers.

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Representative Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio, raised concerns about the recent operations in the Caribbean.
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The Political Price Shock of Data Centers and Electric Bills

Democrats zeroed in on utilities and affordability to win Republican support in upset elections in Georgia and Virginia. Can the same playbook work in 2026?

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Some residents in Hogansville, Ga., worry a data center may soon be built near their town, further raising energy costs.
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Hondurans vote amid Trump threat to cut aid if his preferred candidate loses

US president favours Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura of rightwing National party, as polls show three candidates are neck-and-neck

Hondurans have begun voting in an election held amid threats by Donald Trump to cut aid to the country if his preferred candidate loses.

Honduras could be the next country in Latin America, after Argentina and Bolivia, to swing right after years of leftwing rule.

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© Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters

© Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters

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Consternation aux États-Unis : le CDC remet une pièce dans la machine antivax

Vaccin

C’est la consternation dans les milieux scientifiques et médicaux. Le CDC, l’agence fédérale chargée de la prévention des maladies et de la santé publique aux États-Unis, établit un lien possible entre vaccins et autisme. Un argument classique des antivax, démonté encore et encore par l’ensemble des travaux scientifiques crédibles.

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How Trump’s Actions Could Affect Honduran Elections

President Trump weighed in heavily on Honduras’s elections. Will voters be influenced on Sunday by his pardon of an ex-president or his pick in this year’s race?

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One candidate for the Honduran presidency, Nasry Asfura, was endorsed by President Trump.
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Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case

Request is submitted weeks after Donald Trump called on Isaac Herzog to pardon Israeli prime minister

Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “national interest”.

Isaac Herzog’s office acknowledged receipt of the 111-page submission from the prime minister’s lawyer, and said it had been passed on to the pardons department in the ministry of justice. The president’s legal adviser would also formulate an opinion before Herzog made a decision, it added.

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© Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

© Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

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Consternation aux États-Unis : le CDC remet une pièce dans la machine antivax

Vaccin

C’est la consternation dans les milieux scientifiques et médicaux. Le CDC, l’agence fédérale chargée de la prévention des maladies et de la santé publique aux États-Unis, établit un lien possible entre vaccins et autisme. Un argument classique des antivax, démonté encore et encore par l’ensemble des travaux scientifiques crédibles.

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Raymond J. de Souza: Don’t compare Trump with WWII’s Chamberlain

Talk of appeasement is in the air. Thus a word ought to be said about its patron saint, as it were, Neville Chamberlain. Actually, several words, well chosen, offered by Sir Winston Churchill, who opposed with all his might Chamberlain’s appeasement policy, and then marshalled all his formidable rhetorical powers in eulogizing him. Read More
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‘He massages Trump’s basest instincts’: why is Fifa’s Gianni Infantino cosying up to the US president?

For a man who insists football isn’t political, the Fifa boss is putting a lot of effort into into courting the most divisive politician on Earth

Gianni Infantino was 18 years old the first time he ran for office. It was a presidential election at FC Brig-Glis, the local amateur football club in the small Swiss town where he grew up. Running against two older men, and with no discernible footballing record of his own, the little red-haired kid with freckles was, unsurprisingly, the rank outsider in the race.

But he had a vision. He had a ferocious work ethic, boundless enthusiasm, well-established networks in the town’s Italian immigrant community. And even at this tender age, he had a flair for an eye-catching scheme. To the shock of many veterans at the club, Infantino surged to victory: partly on the back of his pledge to attract new sponsors and revenue streams, and partly on something more tangible. Infantino promised that if he won, his mother Maria would wash all the players’ kits, every week, for as long as he was president.

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© Illustration: Joan Wong/The Guardian

© Illustration: Joan Wong/The Guardian

© Illustration: Joan Wong/The Guardian

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