Reacting to the ruling, Trump posted that he was “pleased” the “baseless” lawsuit had failed to halt construction. “We are living in the Golden Age of America, and this Building will be one of the Greatest ever constructed in Washington, DC,” he said. Trump has long argued that the White House needs a larger events […]
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US has struck a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves. The US president wrote that the agreement would more than double American oil reserves and “substantially lower gas prices for all Americans”. The BBC’s Tom Bateman explains what […]
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Nasa says its “crisp, sweeping surveys will help scientists investigate dark energy and dark matter, discover and characterise exoplanets, map billions of galaxies, study black holes, and explore objects from our own solar system to the edge of the observable Universe.” Dark matter, which is invisible, acts as a kind of gravitational glue, while dark […]
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US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation after about 18 months in the role. His departure was confirmed by CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, which reported it came after months of conflict between him and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. The youngest-ever army secretary has often been referred to as President Donald Trump’s […]
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Trump signed the executive order on Thursday seeking to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, following the collapse of trade negotiations between Canada and the US. The order directs Burgum to “take all appropriate actions” to rename the lake, including updating the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), the official US government map […]
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Amazon secretly overcharged more than a million advertising customers by manipulating online auctions it uses to set ad prices, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a bipartisan group of 22 states. According to the lawsuit, filed on Monday, the alleged scheme has likely netted the firm $20bn (£14.8bn) […]
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This hinges on the postpartum psychosis defence – her legal team argued that Clancy hallucinated a voice after giving birth to her youngest child that told her to kill the children. Expert witnesses told the court how severe this illness can be, and family members testified about Clancy’s state of mind. Under Massachusetts law, there […]
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In his second term, Trump has pledged to reduce America’s foreign entanglements in regions like the Middle East. He also launched the war with Iran, which reached the six-month mark on Friday with no end in sight. The memorandum of understanding between the Pentagon and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) is set to expire on […]
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