
The Guardian - 6 hours 22 min ago
President orders Pentagon to scale back inappropriate and hostile' 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 "inappropriate and hostile" military drills with South Korea, hours before the exercises began on Monday. Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Donald Trump's chief of staff, the Guardian understands. The UK prime minister was in contact with an unknown...

Slate - 6 hours 29 min ago
Would another impeachment of Donald Trump make sense? Would it be constitutionally supportable, and would it be in the best interests of the country?...

The Guardian - 7 hours 9 min ago
PM was in contact with unknown person pretending to be senior White House aide Susie Wiles, it is understood Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Donald Trump's chief of staff, the Guardian understands. The 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...

The Independent - 7 hours 26 min ago
The new prime minister spoke over message to who he believed was White House chief of staff Susie Wiles...

The Guardian - 7 hours 47 min ago
Thousands more houses could be built near transport hubs including on green belt sites Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating Donald Trump's chief of staff, according to reports. According to Politico's Playbook , the prime minister talked with someone posing as the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, before he became suspicious and concerns were raised about the incident. Downing Street sources have downplayed the significance of the messages. But the incident prompted...

ABC News - 7 hours 58 min ago
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.

ABC News - 8 hours 55 min ago
The BBC has asked a U.S. court for help getting documents and testimony from U.S. President Donald Trump's family in connection to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster...

ABC News - 8 hours 56 min ago
President Donald Trump says vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial...

The Independent - 9 hours 11 min ago
The Trump administration says it is seeking to expand its lethal campaign of bombing boats off Latin America's Caribbean and Pacific coasts onto land...

NY Post - 9 hours 16 min ago
President Donald Trump claimed that vandals damaged grass near the World War II Memorial, but photos show his July 4th stage covered the same spot.

Huffington Post - 9 hours 19 min ago
The president should have read a little further down.

The Guardian - 9 hours 42 min ago
Jared Kushner set to meet Netanyahu following talks with Hamas Jared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on Gaza Welcome to our live coverage of the latest in the continuing conflicts in the Middle East . Donald Trump 's envoys met with Egyptian , Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, a diplomatic source said, aiming to advance the US president's Gaza peace plan, even as Israel pressed on with airstrikes in the territory. Israel resumed its airstrikes on Gaza...

Sky News - 11 hours 1 min ago
Donald Trump's bid to overturn a jury verdict that awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $5m for alleged sexual abuse and defamation has been rejected by the Supreme Court.

Sky News - 11 hours 1 min ago
Donald Trump's bid to overturn a jury verdict that awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $5m for alleged sexual abuse and defamation has been rejected by the Supreme Court.

UPI - 11 hours 14 min ago
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the scaling back of the Pentagon's joint military exercises with South Korea over Seoul's stance on Iran.

Huffington Post - 11 hours 14 min ago
Critics note that the president's decision undermines the U.S.'s ability to defend an ally.

Huffington Post - 11 hours 40 min ago
The Democratic senator from Georgia highlighted the president's close relationship with a much younger aide.

UPI - 15 hours 8 min ago
U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jared Kushner on Sunday met with Hamas to discuss the U.S.-backed peace plan for Gaza.

The Guardian - 15 hours 54 min ago
President says move is based on very good relationship with Kim Jong-un' but US military officials have said Ukraine war is boosting regime's combat capabilities Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un's regime was learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war. The drills under Ulchi Freedom Shield, one of two major annual exercises...

ABC News - 17 hours 56 min ago
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said South Korea declined to help denuclearize Iran...

The Raw Story - 17 hours 57 min ago
President Donald Trump stoked alarm on Sunday after he adhered to a foreign dictator's demands to reduce U.S. military exercises with South Korea. Trump announced on Truth Social that he had directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reduce the scale of the joint military exercises conducted between the U.S. and South Korea. The move came just days after North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un described the exercises as a threat to his regime, and promised to escalate retaliatory threats in response...

The Guardian - 18 hours 7 min ago
Trump's son-in-law and envoy held rare meeting with Hamas chief in Egypt in push for progress on ceasefire Donald Trump's son-in-law and envoy, Jared Kushner , held a rare meeting with Hamas 's political chief on Sunday in Egypt , in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire. Kushner will meet on Monday with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under pressure after rejecting the new 15-point, US-backed road map. The talks aim to salvage the plan for Hamas to disarm...

Sky News - 18 hours 27 min ago
Joint US military exercises with South Korea will be downscaled, Donald Trump says, as they are "hostile" and too expensive.

The Raw Story - 18 hours 31 min ago
President Donald Trump appeared to bow to a dictator's demands in a stunning move on Sunday. In a pithy Truth Social post, Trump said he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to scale back joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea . The two countries have been conducting military exercises together since the 1950s in an effort to deter future aggression by North Korea, a country that Trump claims to have a "very good" relationship with . "Based on my very good relationship...