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Does the president or Congress have war powers?
US President Donald Trump’s decision to send US troops to Iraq has raised questions about the powers of the Congress and the US President. The War Powers Resolution empowers the Congress to declare a war against another country, but does not give the President carte blanche to go to war against other countries. However, the…
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Israel is forced to wait for Trump, and is facing a strategic dilemma
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that his country would attack Iran even if US President Donald Trump doesn’t take part. “We’ll achieve all our objectives…If the US doesn’t participate, we will,” he added. Iran has killed 24 people in Israel, the country’s military said in a statement on Thursday.
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The case of the U.S. v. Skrmetti looks at how the trans rights movement gambled on the Supreme Court
A lawyer’s advocate has said that she and her husband had asked in the lawsuit against Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare to do their job as parents. “Don’t allow politics to affect our child’s existence. Being a teenager can be hard. Being a parent of a teenager is not easy. He wants to bar trans…
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The ban is being extended by Trump
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday extending the deadline for ByteDance and TikTok to spin out from their Chinese parent company to mid-September. This will be the third time that Trump has extended the deadline for ByteDance and TikTok to spin out. Earlier, he had signed an executive order delaying…
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The Fed’s economic forecast could be cloudy with a chance of showers
US President Donald Trump said he’s “absolutely ready” to impose new tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports, if China doesn’t back off. However, he added that he hasn’t yet decided whether to go ahead with the move. Earlier this month, Trump had tweeted that the US will impose tariffs on a total of…
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The president is going to leave the G7 to focus on the Middle East
US President Donald Trump, who’ll attend the G7 summit in Canada, said, “We’ve our trade deals. We have our trade deals.” He added, “If he acts out, leaders should ignore him and remain calm like Carney (Canadian PM Sean Carney) did in his recent Oval Office meeting.” Earlier, Trudeau had said that Trump didn’t want…
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Iran retaliates against Israel on the fourth day of the conflict
US President Donald Trump has said that “the full strength of US Armed forces” will come down on Iran at levels “never seen before”. He added that he has “nothing to do with” Iran’s missile attack on Tel Aviv and Haifa. This comes a day after an Iranian military official said that Iran fired missiles…
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A split-screen of a divided America shows no Kings protests and a military parade
Several thousand people attended the military parade held to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Army in Washington on Saturday amid protests against US President Donald Trump’s birthday celebrations. “He’s a dictator when he’s acting within the law,” a protester said about Trump. However, the DC Mayor said he supports people’s First Amendment rights…
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There is a suspect in the political assassinations Rattle Minnesota
A spokesperson for Mark Boelter, the US man who is suspected of shooting two lawmakers in Minnesota, has said that Boelter is the director of security patrols and that it provides private patrols and uniformed security. Boelter did serve multiple terms on the Minnesota Governor’s Workforce Development Board, where authorities said he may have met…
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Tanks and flyovers: The army celebrates its 250th year
US President Donald Trump has said that “people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force”. This comes after protests were held across the country against the US Army’s military parade. “The last time we had a military parade of any sort, I recall, was the Gulf War,” a 30-year-old…
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Israel and Iran carry out strikes in the third day of the conflict
Iran has said it “crossed red lines” by firing ballistic missiles at “civilian population concentrations” and warned it would pay a “very heavy price”, the Times of Israel reported. US President Donald Trump said the US had “nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight” but warned that if Iran was attacked, that “the…
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Iran’s missiles rained down on Tel Aviv
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country would “wipe Iran off the map” with its airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. “Iran’s nuclear program is going to bewiped off the map,” he further said, adding, “We don’t intend to stay there for long. We will go on the offensive and continue to do so.” Iran…
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There will be protests this weekend as well as a parade in D.C
The US National Guard has deployed its forces in Texas ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 40th US President on Saturday. The troops will be deployed to San Antonio and Austin. This comes after the US President ordered the activation of the California National Guard against the wishes of California Governor and…
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Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear and missile sites, prompting a response from Tehran
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country attacked Iranian nuclear facilities because it was concerned about the country’s nuclear program. Iranian state television reported that the Revolutionary Guards’ commander was killed in a strike by Israel. Ahead of planned negotiations with Iran on Sunday, Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists were killed by Israeli…
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Public polling on Trump’s policies
US President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to repeal limits on the greenhouse gas emissions from US fossil fuel-fired power plants. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the administration plans to repeal curbs on the release of COVID-19 into the atmosphere. Trump had announced last month that he’ll end a provision in the Clean…
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Iran retaliated against Israel for their attacks on Iran’s nuclear and missile sites
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that the country carried out strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, adding that they were “struck at the heart of Iran nuclear enrichment programme”. Israel said it intercepted Iranian drones while Jordan said its air force blocked attacks aimed at Israel in Jordanian airspace. Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that Israel…
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The military is involved in protests in LA
US President Donald Trump has appealed his criminal conviction for paying hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with him. A federal judge had ruled that Trump would not face prison time or other penalties, but the conviction will remain on his record.
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People are protesting against Donald Trump’s deportation policies
The US President Donald Trump’s administration has defended its use of military troops to deal with anti-immigration protests in California’s Los Angeles. The FBI and the IRS are investigating who is behind the unrest, a Department of Homeland Security official said. The protests began after immigration raids were carried out in Los Angeles last week.
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Trump has the power to send troops to cities, even if he doesn’t like them
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that US President Donald Trump’s decision to send 2,000 National Guard troops to the US’ second-largest city of Los Angeles was “unwarranted”. “Even when the Guard are federalised by the President, no matter how he puts it, they can protect the federal property and the federal personnel, but they…
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The military is involved in LA as protests continue
US President Donald Trump said that he was deploying hundreds of military personnel to Los Angeles amid protests against his immigration policies. The deployment comes after more than 2,000 National Guard troops were mobilized in the city on Sunday. “I don’t want to see people get injured, and I don’t want to see people being…
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Even though Trump doesn’t want troops in cities, what powers does he have to send them?
US President Donald Trump has called for the National Guard to help quell the protests in Los Angeles over his insistence on building a border wall. Trump called for the military’s help after anti-wall protesters stormed the US Capitol on January 6. Protests erupted in Los Angeles after Trump signed an order that would make…
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The US and China are fighting over rare earths
UK PM Boris Johnson called for a “new deal” between the UK and China during a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the second US-China bilateral trade talks. He said he wanted to see greater cooperation between the two countries on finance and sustainability. “I’m confident that we can come to an…
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There have been protests against ICE in LA
Protests over US President Donald Trump’s policy of detaining immigrants arrested in San Francisco and Los Angeles entered their third day on Sunday. “It’s turned Los Angeles into a tinderbox,” Mayor Karen Bass said. Bass added that coordination with federalized National Guard troops wascollaborative at this point. In San Francisco, 60 people were arrested and…
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Trump sent the National Guard to curb immigration raids in LA
Protests have erupted in the US state of California, amid tensions between local law enforcement and anti-immigration groups. On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered deployment of National Guard troops to California to combat “illegal immigration and transnational crime”, calling it “the most illegal act in the history of this country”. Demonstrations were also held in…
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Why are the proposed budget cuts so large?
US President Donald Trump is proposing to cut NASA’s budget by over 50% and cut funding for the Large Hadron Collider by 40%, a study by Nature has revealed. Trump’s proposed budget also includes a 40% reduction for the LaserInterferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which has sites in Louisiana and Washington State. ExoMars will get zero US…