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Shortly after President Trump mused Friday over imposing tariffs on Japan while sitting alongside the country’s prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, the Japanese leader was asked by a reporter to reflect on his first meeting with Mr. Trump. It was a prime opportunity to respond to Mr. Trump’s economic threat.Instead, Mr. Ishiba took a different tack — becoming the latest foreign leader to fawn over, rather than flout, the American president.“I was so excited to see such a celebrity on television,” Mr. Ishiba said, prompting Mr. Trump to turn to him and smile from ear to ear. “On television he is…

Leaders pledge to stand against Chinese ‘aggression’, announce compromise on Nippon Steel-US Steel deal.Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and US President Donald Trump have struck a warm tone in their first meeting, with Tokyo avoiding tariffs that Trump has slapped on other allies – for now. Heaping praise on each other at the White House, the two leaders on Friday pledged to stand together against Chinese “aggression” and said they found a solution to a blocked deal for troubled US Steel. Trump however pressed Ishiba to cut the US trade deficit with Japan to zero and warned that Tokyo could…

President Donald Trump dismissed the head of the National Archives, a White House official said Friday night, following through on a vow last month to change the leadership atop the agency, which was involved in the criminal case that had accused Trump of mishandling classified documents.White House director of presidential personnel Sergio Gor said on X that national archivist Colleen Shogan was dismissed Friday night at Trump’s direction.“At the direction of @realDonaldTrump the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight. We thank Colleen Shogan for her service,” Gor wrote.Gor did not indicate who would take over Shogan’s position.…

Washington, DC – Donald Trump has been claiming credit for the ceasefire deal that halted the war in Gaza, but the United States president’s proposal to forcibly displace the Palestinians in the territory risks torpedoing the agreement, experts say. Trump repeatedly called this week for Gaza to be depopulated — a push that rights groups say would amount to ethnic cleansing — and for the US to “take over” the Palestinian territory. Leaders across the world have warned that uprooting Palestinians from Gaza would destabilise the entire Middle East. More immediately, Trump’s comments could derail the push towards an enduring…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was moving to “immediately” cut off former President Joe Biden’s access to intelligence information.“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social. “Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings.”Biden’s office did not immediately provide a comment Friday night.Follow live politics coverage here.Presidents do not have security clearances. Rather, the intelligence community operates to provide the president with material of all levels of classification.Former presidents are traditionally allowed to receive intelligence…

President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States because of what he called actions by the country’s government that “racially disfavored landowners.”In the order, Mr. Trump said that “the United States shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa” and that American officials should do everything possible to help “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”It follows Mr. Trump’s accusation on his social media site on Sunday that the South African government was…

Army officials are considering changing the name of Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg, according to two people familiar with the conversations. In 2021, Congress established a commission tasked with renaming Department of Defense properties that were named after Confederate leaders. Then-President Donald Trump vetoed the bill, arguing against changing any of the names, but Congress overrode the veto, making the changes mandatory by law. In 2022, the commission recommended changing the names of nine Army installations, including Fort Bragg, which was named after General Braxton Bragg in 1918, a native North Carolinian and Confederate leader who fought in the…

US president says ‘no need’ for predecessor to have access to classified information.United States President Donald Trump has announced that he is revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to intelligence briefings in his latest act of retribution against his rivals. Trump said on Friday that there was “no need” for Biden to keep his “security clearances” and that he was taking the action in response to his predecessor revoking his access to classified material after he left office. “He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States…

The Trump administration is moving forward with restarting the detention of migrant families, including those with young children, which could mean an increase in arrests of children and teens, according to three sources familiar with the planning. The sources said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to publish in the coming days a “Request for Proposal” that will ask private prison companies to bid for contracts to restart detention facilities intended specifically for families. The Obama and first Trump administrations detained parents with their children, but the Biden administration ended that in early 2021. Under the terms of a 1997 court…

New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state attorneys general sued President Donald Trump’s administration Friday in an effort to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personal data housed in the Treasury Department.In the lawsuit, James pointed to DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s central payment system and sensitive data housed in it, including their states’ residents’ bank account details and Social Security numbers.The coalition of attorneys general argued that granting such access to Musk and DOGE was unlawful and unconstitutional. They are seeking an injunction.“As the richest man in the world, Elon Musk is…