{"id":37906,"date":"2025-04-04T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/donald-trump-fires-director-of-us-national-security-agency-and-other-officials-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:30:43","slug":"donald-trump-fires-director-of-us-national-security-agency-and-other-officials-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/donald-trump-fires-director-of-us-national-security-agency-and-other-officials-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump fires director of US National Security Agency and other officials \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Tim Haugh, director of NSA, and civilian deputy Wendy Noble dismissed, prompting backlash from congressional Democrats<\/p>\n<p>Nato foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to talk about Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Increased defence investment is a key item on the agenda. But some of European\u2019s foreign ministers, including the UK\u2019s <strong>David Lammy<\/strong>, have been asked about Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs on the way in.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists, Lammy said Trump was taking US economic policy back almost a century by embracing protectionism. The British foreign minister explained:<\/p>\n<p><em>The United Kingdom, like France, is a great maritime nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are a nation that believes in open trade, and I regret the return to protectionism in the United States, something that we\u2019ve not seen for nearly a century.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/04\/donald-trump-fires-nsa-tim-haugh-tariffs-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen Tim Haugh, director of NSA, and civilian deputy Wendy Noble dismissed, prompting backlash from congressional Democrats Nato foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to talk about Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Increased defence investment is a key item on the agenda. But some of European\u2019s foreign ministers, including the UK\u2019s David Lammy, have been &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump fires director of US National Security Agency and other officials \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/donald-trump-fires-director-of-us-national-security-agency-and-other-officials-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump fires director of US National Security Agency and other officials \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}