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Struggling to navigate the Epstein files? Here is a visual guide
The US Department of Justice has released three million files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Modi to Kevin Rudd: How Epstein files set off a storm far beyond the US
Latest files include emails and messages between Epstein and powerful men in India, UK, Australia and Slovakia.
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Analysis: Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels
Two weeks into the war with Iran, President Donald Trump has increasingly been knocked back on his political heels.
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Carney rolls his eyes at US Treasury secretary, says he told Trump he meant what he said at Davos
In Davos at the World Economic Forum last week, Carney condemned economic coercion by great powers on smaller countries without mentioning Trump’s name.
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What we know about the joint US-Israel attack on Iran
Donald Trump has described "major combat operations", with explosions heard across Iran.
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Hard Times Have Come For The PhD Degree
Long considered the pinnacle of academic achievement, the PhD is now facing strong headwinds, including reduced federal support for jobs, research and graduate training.
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Judge refuses to block new DHS policy limiting Congress members’ access to ICE facilities
A federal judge has refused to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring members of Congress to give a week’s notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities.
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Iran war live updates: US temporarily lets India buy Russian oil amid energy fears; Israeli military launches strikes on Beirut
US issues 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to buy Russian oil; IDF says it is striking Dahiya neighborhood in southern suburbs of Beirut
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Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
U.S. President Donald Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland. Trump didn't provide details Friday.
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Middle East crisis live: Iran dismisses Trump claim of talks; von der Leyen says global energy situation is ‘critical’
Iranian parliament speaker says ‘no negotiations’ held with US, as Trump postpones energy strikes for five days; European Commission chief says war must come to negotiated end
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Takeaways from the millions of newly released Epstein files
Three million new documents include hundreds of mentions of Trump and emails between Epstein and a person called "The Duke".
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Middle East crisis live: Trump considering ‘winding down’ war as US eases sanctions on Iranian oil; Israel launches retaliatory strikes
Move to allow shipments already at sea comes amid a supply crisis and after US president says he does not ‘want to do a ceasefire’; IDF says it is attacking regime targets in Tehran after missiles fired at Israel from Iran
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Venezuela’s acting president vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez vows to continue releasing prisoners detained under former President Nicolás Maduro.
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A new lawsuit calls for 'immediate' student-loan forgiveness for borrowers enrolled in Biden's affordable repayment plan
After a court declined to approve Trump's settlement to eliminate the SAVE student-loan repayment plan, borrowers filed a lawsuit calling for relief.
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Middle East crisis live: explosions rock Tehran as Iran war enters second week
Donald Trump says he would only accept Tehran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as war continues to expand; Israel launches huge attacks on Iran and Lebanon
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Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says
The secretary of Homeland Security is requiring that all the department's officers on the ground in Minneapolis wear body cameras.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump gives Iran 48-hour ultimatum to open strait of Hormuz; 100 injured in Israel
Trump tells Iran to reopen strait to shipping or face destruction of its energy infrastructure, as Tehran launches its most destructive attack yet on Israel
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Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu suggests need for ‘ground component’ in Iran war
Israeli prime minister says you can’t ‘do revolutions from the air’ and that ‘there has to be a ground component as well’ amid growing signs of tensions between Israel and US
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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum considers legal action after Elon Musk criticism
President Sheinbaum responds to accusations from Musk that she was repeating what ‘cartel bosses tell her to say’.
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France latest to confirm Nato troop deployment after Trump says Greenland ‘very important’ for US national security – Europe live
Mette Frederiksen said ‘there is a fundamental disagreement’ with the US over the future of Greenland
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Middle East crisis live: China warns world cannot return to ‘law of the jungle’; Trump says Iran being ‘decimated’
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US-Israel war on Iran ‘should never have happened’ as strikes continue to hit Tehran and Beirut
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like ‘Groundhog Day’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is criticizing European allies for their slow and fragmented response to Russia's invasion.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump pausing strikes on Iran energy sites; Houthis say ‘no reason’ to halt Red Sea shipping
US president says he is extending deadline for strait of Hormuz to reopen to 6 April; Houthis tell Lloyd’s List ‘no reason’ to prevent Saudi oil using Red Sea route
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Iran war live updates: Mark Carney doesn’t rule out Canada joining war; Israel launches fresh strikes on Tehran
Canadian PM says the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were ‘inconsistent with international law’ but that his country ‘will stand by our allies’. Follow the latest news
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A surprise court decision for millions of student-loan borrowers brings debt relief back into the picture
A court declined to approve Trump's move to end the SAVE student-loan repayment plan ahead of schedule. It ignited calls for prompt debt relief.
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Middle East crisis live: Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader; oil prices soar past $100 a barrel
Iran has named hardliner Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader; Donald Trump says oil price spike ‘a small price to pay’ as markets tumble
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As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 order
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Iran war live updates: Regime issues threat against protesters; US ‘destroyed’ mine-laying ships near strait of Hormuz
Iran’s police chief says protesters will be treated as ‘enemies’ and that security forces remain stationed in the streets
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Trump says strikes on Iran will continue as Tehran hits US assets in Gulf
Trump says attacks on Iran will continue until all of his objectives are met, as Tehran keeps up raids on US assets.
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US-Israel war on Iran: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead by state media – latest reports
US president says Khamenei’s death is ‘justice for the people of Iran’ as he repeats call for regime change
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Middle East crisis live: Strike reportedly injures 12 American soldiers at US base in Saudi; Rubio expects war to end in weeks
Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf nations, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that wounded US service members
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Middle East crisis live: oil spill warning after tanker attacked in Dubai; explosions in Tehran and Jerusalem amid wave of attacks
Kuwait says fire broke out after Iranian attack on giant tanker and warns of possible oil spill in surrounding waters
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How much can a city take?
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump says he wants to ‘take the oil’ in Iran and could seize Kharg Island ‘easily’
US president tells Financial Times his ‘preference would be to take the oil’ but that ‘some stupid people back in the US say: “why are you doing that?”’
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Middle East crisis live: Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ entire South Pars gasfield if Iran strikes Qatar
US president says Israel will not launch another attack on the giant gasfield shared by Iran and Qatar, but promises to destroy it if Tehran retaliates
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Withheld Epstein files with accusations against Trump released by justice department
The Department of Justice said the released files had been "incorrectly coded as duplicative" and inadvertently not published.
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Middle East crisis live: US says nearly 2,000 targets hit in Iran war; Trump says navy may escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz
US military says strikes in the first 24 hours was nearly double the scale of the 2003 ‘shock-and-awe’ operation in Iraq; US president orders insurance to be provided for shipping in crucial waterway
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Israel bombs Iran, Lebanon; Trump says war to last 4 weeks or longer
Iran strikes energy infrastructure across the Gulf as IRGC announces closure of Strait of Hormuz.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump insists Iran wants a deal despite initial rejection; China sees ‘glimmer of hope’ for talks
US president claims Iranian negotiators fear being killed by their own side; Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US and Iran ‘signalling a willingness to negotiate’
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Middle East crisis live: Trump ‘surprised’ Iran has targeted Gulf countries and claims US ‘decimated’ Kharg Island
US president said he did not want to make a deal with Iran yet, while claiming that he might hit Kharg Island again ‘just for fun’
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A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump’s overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington
Two golfers in Washington, D.C., have sued the federal government to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course.
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Trump again says talks with Iran under way, 12 killed in attack on Tehran
US-Israeli strikes on Iran continue despite claim of talks, with at least 12 killed, 28 wounded in one attack on Tehran.
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Middle East crisis live: Trump increases pressure on allies over strait of Hormuz; Israel says it still has ‘thousands of targets’ in Iran
Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad’ future if US allies fail to assist in opening the vital oil route; Israel says thousands of targets in Iran remain – follow it live
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‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts
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Ex-leader Harper says Canada should make ‘any sacrifice necessary’ to preserve independence from US
Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the country should make “any sacrifice necessary” to preserve the independence of the country in the face of threats from U.S.
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Trump says Iran war will be over soon as US-Israeli attacks continue
US-Israeli strikes on Tehran continue as Iranian counterattacks target Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
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Trump says Iranian forces on Kharg Island bombed, warns oil facilities next
Intense strikes target central Tehran as US president says ‘powerful’ bombing raid hit Iranian forces on Kharg Island.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone
Social media platforms are awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generated deepfakes.
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I went to Trump's State of the Union. This was the moment when the room's mood shifted.
Here's what it was like for one reporter to be in the room for the longest State of the Union in American history.
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Trump talks up deal with Tehran as Iranian missile, drone attacks continue
Iranian missiles, drones target Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as Trump says Iran has ‘chance to make a deal’.
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