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Trump says losing patience, compares freed Israelis to Holocaust survivors

New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages renewed pressure Sunday on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the first phase, even as US President Donald Trump repeated his pledge that the US would take control of the Palestinian enclave. Talks on the second phase, meant to see more hostages released and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, were due to start February 3. But Israel and Hamas appear to have made little progress, even as Israeli forces withdrew Sunday from a Gaza corridor in the latest commitment to the truce. Netanyahu sent a delegation to Qatar, a key mediator, but it included low-level officials, sparking speculation that it won't lead to a breakthrough. Netanyahu, who returned after a U.S. visit to meet with Trump, is expected to convene security Cabinet ministers on Tuesday. Speaking on Sunday, Trump repeated his pledge to take control of the Gaza Strip. I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza. As far as

No action despite tariffs, serious about Canada becoming 51st state: Trump

President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow. Yeah it is, Trump told Fox News Channel's Bret Baier when asked whether his talk of annexing Canada is a real thing" as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently suggested. I think Canada would be much better off being the 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I'm not going to let that happen," he said. "Why are we paying $200 billion a year, essentially a subsidy to Canada? The US is not subsidizing Canada. The US buys products from the natural resource-rich nation, including commodities like oil. While the trade gap in goods has ballooned in recent years to $72 billion in 2023, the deficit largely reflects America's imports of Canadian energy. Trump has repeatedly suggested that Canada would be better off if it agreed to become the 51st US state a prospect that is deeply unpopular among ...

Germany's Scholz calls Trump's Gaza proposal 'scandal' in poll debate

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described President Donald Trump's suggestion that the US could take ownership of the Gaza Strip, relocate its population and redevelop it as a scandal in a pre-election debate Sunday. His main challenger also voiced unease but suggested there's a lot of rhetoric coming from Washington. The center-left Scholz and center-right challenger Friedrich Merz, the front-runner in the Feb. 23 election, discussed top domestic issues such as Germany's struggling economy and migration, and also addressed foreign policy three weeks into Trump's new term. Asked what he made of Trump's proposal to redevelop Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East," Scholz replied: A scandal. Besides that, a really terrible expression," given the extent of the destruction that is now visible there. The relocation of populations is unacceptable and against international law, he added in the debate on ARD and ZDF public television. He pointed to the position of Egypt and Jordan. I shar

PM Modi's US visit to build on 'Global Comprehensive Strategic Partnership'

During the first Trump administration, the Indo-Pacific region gained significant attention as a key strategic area in US foreign policy

UK navigates rough transatlantic waters as Trump shakes up special ties

Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase in the wake of World War II, politicians have extolled the special relationship between the United States and Britain. Under President Donald Trump's second administration, Britain will settle for a merely functional relationship with its former colony turned most important ally. As Trump threatens to slap tariffs on America's neighbors, mulls buying Greenland and suggests the US could take over and reconstruct Gaza. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government is racing to bolster its diplomatic and economic defences for a turbulent new transatlantic era. We're in such uncharted waters that anyone who claims to know what in the hell is going on is just lying, said Kathleen Burk, emeritus professor at University College London and an expert on US-UK relations. High stakes for Britain's Washington envoy British officials say Starmer hopes to visit Washington in the coming weeks, but he has yet to receive an invitation from Trump. In the .

Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry, says he's got enough problems

This statement comes amid legal challenges involving Harry's visa, particularly from the Heritage Foundation

News updates: Govt making all efforts to restore peace in Manipur, says CM

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Judge blocks Musk's access to US Treasury systems, orders data destruction

19 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit with the US Supreme Court against DOGE arguing granting Musk's team access to sensitive govt systems violates constitution and federal laws

Trump makes passport applications more complex for transgender Americans

The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live. Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent. In an executive order Trump signed the night before, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The framing is in line with many conservatives' views but at odds with major medical groups and policies under former President Joe Biden. Her family wants Mellow to be able to leave the country if things became unbearable for transgender people in the US as the federal government increasingly moves not to recognise them. If the worst was to come to worst and things were to threaten my life, she said, I would have some way out. Trump's Jan. 20 order, which questions th

Trump signing up local law officers to help with immigration enforcement

For years, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office in suburban Indianapolis has wanted to partner with federal immigration authorities to identify and detain immigrants who are in the US illegally and facing charges. President Joe Biden's administration never returned its calls, the sheriff's office said. But as President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigration, Hamilton County deputies soon could become the first in Indiana empowered to carry out federal immigration duties and one of many nationally that Trump's administration hopes to enlist. We definitely are joining, Chief Deputy John Lowes told The Associated Press. We want to collaborate with ICE to make sure we keep our community safe. Under Trump, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement is reviving and expanding a decades-old program that trains local law officers to interrogate immigrants in their custody and detain them for potential deportation. The 287(g) programme named for a section of the 1996 law that created it

Working for Trump's 'mission' to restore biological truth: US housing secy

Turner's remarks are in line with policies announced by Trump shortly after his inauguration

Trump's DEI order leaves academic researchers fearing influence over grants

President Donald Trump's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in programmes receiving federal money has thrown into doubt the future of research Kendra Dahmer has been doing on intestinal parasites in India and Benin. Dahmer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, has a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the single largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. The grant is supposed to cover her research through the summer of 2026, but now she wonders if that will be possible. She received diversity-based funding as the first college graduate in her family and a woman in science and, more broadly, she is uncertain how Trump's anti-DEI executive order could affect support for her areas of study. There's also this aspect of research that funds specific studies in specific populations that are now being deemed DEI, Dahmer said. So, like HIV research in Africa may be deemed DEI, malaria research, which also happe

TikTok to let US Android users download app via kits on its website

Apple and Google have not reinstated TikTok to their app stores since a US law took effect on January 19 requiring its Chinese owner ByteDance either to sell on national security grounds or face ban

Donald Trump pauses 'de minimis' repeal as packages pile up at US customs

The initial change, implemented with just over 48 hours' notice, caused the USPS to temporarily stop accepting packages from China and Hong Kong earlier this week

Musk's DOGE team moves into US watchdog CFPB as Trump defends billionaire

In November, Musk called for elimination of the CFPB, which polices and regulates consumer financial products, in a post on his social media platform X

Musk to bring back DOGE staffer who resigned after report of racist posting

Elon Musk said on Friday he is re-hiring a staff member at the Department of Government Efficiency who resigned a day earlier after he was linked to social media posts that espoused racism. Musk, in a post on his social media network X, said he would bring back Marko Elez after Vice President JD Vance called for him to be rehired. President Donald Trump later endorsed his vice president's view. Marko Elez resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal linked the 25-year-old DOGE staffer to a deleted social media account on X that posted last year, I was racist before it was cool and You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity, among other posts. The account in September included a post that said, Normalize Indian hate." The vice president's wife, Usha Vance, is the daughter of Indian immigrants. Vance, in a post on Musk-owned X, said Elez should be brought back and blamed journalists who try to destroy people. I obviously disagree with some of Elez's posts, but I don't

Trump pays back, revokes Biden's security clearance ending intel briefings

President Donald Trump said Friday that he's revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearance and ending the daily intelligence briefings he's receiving in payback for Biden doing the same to him in 2021. Trump made the announcement on social media shortly after arriving at Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden's Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings, Trump wrote. He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents. Biden didn't immediately comment on the move. Biden ended Trump's intelligence briefings after Trump helped spur efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and incited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. At the time, Biden said ..

Judge halts Trump order of USAID workers' leave giving them 30 day deadline

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put the employees on paid leave as of midnight Friday. The workers associations argue that Trump lacks the authority for his swift dismantling of a six-decade-old aid agency enshrined in congressional legislation. CLOSE IT DOWN, Trump said Friday on social media of USAID. Crews used duct tape to block out the agency's name on a sign outside its Washington headquarters Friday, and a flag was taken down. Someone placed a bouquet of flowers outside the door. A group of a half-dozen USAID officials speaking to reporters Friday strongly disputed assertions from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the most essential life-saving programs abroad were getting waivers to ..

Canadian fury with Donald Trump is about more than just trade tariffs

Trudeau struck back at the US, saying that Canada would put its own 25 per cent tariffs on thousands of US products

Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under Trump's plan to gut agency

Forced leaves pulling all but a small fraction of staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job around the world began Friday, while employees turned to federal courts to try to roll back the Trump administration's swift dismantling of the six-decade-old aid agency and its programs worldwide. A judge was holding a hearing Friday afternoon in the lawsuit from federal workers associations, who argue that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to shut down an agency enshrined in congressional legislation. CLOSE IT DOWN, Trump said Friday on social media of USAID. Crews used duct tape to block out the agency's name on a sign outside its Washington headquarters Friday, and a flag was taken down. Someone placed a bouquet of flowers outside the door. A group of a half-dozen USAID officials speaking to reporters Friday strongly disputed assertions from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the most essential life-saving programs abroad were getting waivers to ...