US President Donald Trump rejected a plan by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three US officials have told BBC’s US partner CBS News. Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that assassinating Khamenei was not a good idea, according to one official. The president has not commented publicly on the...
Bernd Debusmann, John Sudworth and Kayla Epstein Reporting from Washington, Los Angeles and New York Getty Images A protest outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan Protests against President Donald Trump have taken place in towns and cities across the US, organised by a group called “No Kings”. The demonstrations were held to counter a...
Michel Euler/Pool via Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Greenland to meet the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark In a sign of Greenland’s growing importance, French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the Arctic island today, in what experts say is a show of European unity and a signal to Donald Trump. Stepping foot...
Eutopia Homes says it “prides itself on providing unique homes” but apparently doesn’t feel the same way about consulting the public on its plans to build them. In early May it began a pre-application consultation on its proposals to replace Mary Arches car parks with a pair of linked six-storey blocks containing 309 “co-living” units...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has...
Tiffanie Turnbull and Katy Watson BBC News, Sydney PA Media The Aukus submarine deal is pivotal for Australia’s security in the region Australia’s defence minister woke up to a nightmare earlier this week – and it’s one that has been looming ever since the United States re-elected Donald Trump as president in November. A landmark...
“The American people do not want another endless war in the Middle East,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) is warning President Donald Trump that acting on his threats to take up arms with Israel in its war with Iran would be an unconstitutional circumventing of Congress to start a war that the...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent Getty Images As the massive size and scope of Israel’s overnight attacks on Iran have come into view on Friday, Donald Trump is presented with a major new foreign policy crisis – as well as a diplomatic dilemma. How does the American president who promised to be a peacemaker handle...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday, when Trump will...
It has been clear that there has been growing tension between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump over the possibility that Israel would launch an attack on Iran. Trump has been telling the Israeli leader that he doesn’t want him to do this now and to wait, while the US administration continues nuclear negotiations with the...
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s deployment of California’s National Guard to Los Angeles and called the move illegal. The judge’s order to return control of the troops to California Governor Gavin Newsom will not go into effect immediately and the administration has filed an appeal. The state sued President Donald Trump on...
Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent, BBC News Getty Images When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president for a second time in January, he made a promise. “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” he told his audience at home and far beyond. Then, a little more than a hundred...
Has there ever been a governor more derelict in duty than Gavin Newsom? Or as arrogantly tiresome? Or with so much of that arrogance completely unjustified? Frankly, Newsom might want to fully transition into podcasting at this point. He clearly doesn’t to govern anything, especially his own tongue. He stood around while thousands of Angelenos...
US President Donald Trump received a mixed reception from the crowd while attending Les Misérables at the John F Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Wednesday night. Footage shows the audience both booing and cheering Trump and his wife Melania as they took their seats in the presidential box, with some breaking into a “USA”...
And I had such high hopes when I read this earlier. I thought, schmaybe, just schmaybe, cranky pants old Communist Karen had had herself an Elon-like moment of reflection amid all the flames and chaos. That Mayor Bass was ready to…well, not kiss, but perhaps bite her vicious forked tongue and make nice for the...