President orders Pentagon to scale back \u2018inappropriate and hostile\u2019 exercises with South Korea<\/p>\n
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US <\/strong>president Donald Trump said he ordered the Pentagon to scale back \u201cinappropriate and hostile\u201d military drills with South Korea, hours before the exercises began on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Donald Trump\u2019s chief of staff, the Guardian understands.<\/strong> The UK prime minister was in contact with an unknown individual pretending to be the senior White House aide Susie Wiles before concerns were raised about the incident. No messages of significance were sent and the suspicious activity was quickly reported to the appropriate authorities, it is understood.<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and envoy, Jared Kushner<\/a>, held a rare meeting with Hamas<\/a>\u2019s political chief on Sunday in Egypt<\/a>, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire.<\/strong> Kushner will meet on Monday with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under pressure after rejecting the new 15-point, US-backed road map.<\/p>\n Republican senator Bill Cassidy \u2013 a medical doctor who voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy<\/a> as federal health secretary in early 2025<\/strong> \u2013 on Sunday denounced Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201ccrazy, stupid\u201d claims about the safety of the combined MMR vaccine for undermining faith in immunization.<\/p>\n Democrats<\/a> on Sunday intensified their demands for answers from the Trump administration<\/a> over conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/strong> as the aircraft carrier\u2019s nearly nine-month deployment continued fueling concern over crew morale, mental health and living conditions.<\/p>\n US attorney general Todd Blanche<\/a> on Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/strong> \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to pledge that,\u201d he said<\/a> when asked about the topic by NBC\u2019s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. \u201cAnd no attorney general should ever pledge that.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President orders Pentagon to scale back \u2018inappropriate and hostile\u2019 exercises with South Korea Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. US president Donald Trump said he ordered the Pentagon to scale back \u201cinappropriate and hostile\u201d military drills with South Korea, hours before the exercises began on Monday. Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77497","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=77497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}