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Students killed in US high school shooting
This isn’t the first school shooting since the February attack in Florida, but it’s the deadliest. Ten students and staff members are reported to have been killed in a high school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. A suspect is in custody, authorities say the gunman is a 17-year-old male student from the school, and that…
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North Korea threatens to call off Trump summit
North Korea has suspended talks with South Korea and threatened to cancel an historic summit between Kim Jong-un and President Trump, saying it wasn’t interested in a one-sided demand to give up its nuclear weapons. Mr Trump said he hadn’t been notified about any threat and would still insist on North Korea’s denuclearisation.
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Bloodshed at Gaza’s border – Israeli gunfire leads to dozens dead
Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.
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US embassy moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
The anger and consequent bloodshed in Gaza was in response to events in Jerusalem.
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David Ignatius: ‘American military response of some kind is likely’
I’m joined by the Washington Post’s Associate Editor and columnist David Ignatius.
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Trump seems to row back on promise of strikes
As so often in these turbulent days here in Washington, Trump’s tweets serve to confuse the issue. Never truer than tonight over what America intends to do in responding to Syria’s apparent use of chemical weapons. Kylie Morris has been to Capitol Hill where senators have been questioning what they say is a lack of…
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President Trump v Amazon – is it about profits or politics?
In one corner, one of the most valuable companies in the world. In the other – the US President. Amazon is the latest target of Donald Trump’s twitter postings – and CEO Jeff Bezos is paying the price on Wall Street.
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Nations retaliate over Trump’s words
African leaders have demanded that Donald Trump apologise over his alleged use of a vulgar term to describe their nations. The Ghanaian president called the words he is said to have used “extremely unfortunate” and 54 African ambassadors to the United Nations condemned what they said were his “outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks”. The US…
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Joshua Green: ‘It was only a matter of time before the two turned on each other’
Journalist Joshua Green is the author of “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency”, which details how Mr Bannon helped deliver the presidency for Donald Trump. He discusses the relationship between the President and his former Chief Strategist.
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Trump recognises Jerusalem as capital of Israel
President Donald Trump has confirmed the US is to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which he called “a step toward peace.”
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Danica Roem: why I got into politics
Today is Thanksgiving when America gathers around a large roasted bird to give thanks and make up. President Trump broadcast his own fireside message today, but the last year has been marred by toxic division – much of it stirred up by the President himself. One minority community that feels targeted by his legislative agenda…
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Democrats mark Trump anniversary with Virginia victory
A year ago today, the world changed. It’s not often you can say that with as much confidence as when you’re referring to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. He’s had few legislative victories, but he’s used his levers of power to roll back many of his predecessor’s policies, and…
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Jeff Sessions under scrutiny in Russia inquiry
He had his favourite mode of communication briefly silenced last night when a rogue Twitter employee deleted the President’s account – but Donald Trump was well and truly back online this morning firing off a barrage of tweets attacking the Democrats. For the next two weeks he’ll be tweeting while travelling on a tour of Asia…
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Carter Page: Allegations against Trump are ‘completely outrageous’
Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page interviewed.
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Trump Iran row
Key US allies, including Britain, have split with Donald Trump over his plans to scrap the Iran nuclear deal.