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French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi end a joint news conference with the “Kamehameha” pose from the popular “Dragon Ball” anime series.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown became the longest funding lapse in history over the weekend, but the standoff could take several more months to fully resolve. With President Donald Trump giving Republicans a June 1 deadline to fund the entire department, blame is flying between both parties while top Republicans present a unified … Read more

The supreme court appears poised to reject Trump’s attack on a foundation of US identity. We must hope it follows through American opponents of birthright citizenship – the right of all those born on the soil of a country to claim full legal rights and political representation in that nation – like to point out … Read more

Exclusive: Pressure intensifies for Gabbard after president’s displeasure with Iran war testimony Donald Trump has privately asked cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should replace his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, venting frustration that she shielded a former deputy who undercut his rationale for war with Iran, according to two people briefed on … Read more

Last April, the president unleashed a tidal wave of tariffs on ‘liberation day’. Analysts say the policy has failed, even by the Trump administration’s own terms Before Donald Trump declared “liberation day” on 2 April 2025 and shocked the world by raising import tariffs on nearly every country the US did business with, he had … Read more

Whether in the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat, coaches and players at this NCAA tournament have found the fun in basketball again Kara Lawson’s Duke team saw their Final Four dreams dashed with a 70-58 loss to UCLA on Sunday. The Blue Devils had pulled an impressive, buzzer-beating upset of No 2 … Read more

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X that all she heard from President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday night “was WAR WAR WAR.” “I wanted so much for President Trump to put America First. That’s what I believed he would do. All I heard from his speech tonight was WAR WAR … Read more

As the debate on voter ID and the SAVE America Act rages on in the Senate, a former Democratic senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, is facing heat from his political opponents as he runs to return to the Senate over his votes and positions on the election integrity issue. “You know, it’s inconsistent to denounce … Read more

De-dollarization promises to reorder the world, reducing American power globally The US-Israel war on Iran is expensive. It’s expensive in terms of human lives, first of all. It’s expensive too, in pure currency – about $12bn a week for the US. And it’s expensive in how it’s causing the tectonic structures that underpin our global … Read more

For examples of how little a team’s form in the World Cup run-in matters in the tournament itself, look no further than the US The last time the United States men’s national team entered into the home stretch of its preparations for a World Cup on home soil, the results were dire. From January through … Read more