Theresa May: Help me fulfil promise of Brexit

Theresa May has called on voters from both sides of the EU debate to back her in next week's general election to "fulfil the promise of Brexit". In a bid to focus on Brexit after being criticised for avoiding a TV debate, she said it could bring "enormous" opportunities. She said Labour's Jeremy Corbyn was "not up to the job" of managing it. But Mr Corbyn accused the Tories...

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Donald Trump Jr: At Fundraiser, President’s Son Says ‘Zero Contact’ With Dad

DALLAS — Donald Trump Jr. said he has had virtually no contact with his father since the real estate tycoon and reality star became president and ceded control of his business empire to his oldest sons. "I basically have zero contact with him at this point," the younger Trump said in a speech at a GOP fundraiser in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday. In January, Donald Trump...

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On ‘S.N.L.,’ Donald Trump Botches His ‘Independence Day’ Moment

Sure, “Saturday Night Live” has offered ample criticism of President Trump and his young administration. But in its latest episode, the program expressed confidence that he’ll be in office until at least 2018, long enough to see America decimated by an alien invasion force from the planet Zorblatt 9. After a palpable absence last week, Alec Baldwin returned to play Mr....

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Today in the Trump Administration

“Face the Nation” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont; and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, appear on “Face the Nation” with host John Dickerson Sunday. Lawmakers demand evidence for Trump’s wiretap claim The House intelligence committee is asking the Trump administration for evidence that the phones at Trump Tower were tapped during the campaign...

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US Attorney Bharara fired in standoff with Trump

Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, tweeted Saturday that he was fired after refusing to resign as requested by President Donald Trump's administration. "I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired," Bharara wrote on his verified Twitter account Saturday afternoon. "Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional...

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The GOP Repeal Plan Sucks. But Is it Better Than Nothing?

First of all, the preferred free-market plan for health care policy should be no plan whatsoever. The idea that we need a federal top-down strategy to manage a huge chunk of the economy is at the very heart of the problem. We don't need a federal plan for health care. Yet Republicans have allowed liberals to frame the entire health insurance debate in these anti-market terms. So...

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Landlord for Trump's daughter and son-in-law is a billionaire suing the U.S. government

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law are renting a house from a foreign billionaire who is fighting the U.S. government over a proposed mine in Minnesota. The Wall Street Journal reports that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are renting a $5.5 million house in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood from Andrónico Luksic. One of the Chilean billionaire’s...

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Spicer attacks 'double standard' in response to WikiLeaks dump

Washington (CNN)White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday cast aside the playbook of cut-and-dry condemnations of national security leaks and instead framed his response along political lines. After expressing concern about Wikileaks' release of documents allegedly revealing CIA surveillance techniques, Spicer quickly muddled his message. He connected the latest...

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KOREA SUICIDE Donald Trump sends B-52 NUCLEAR BOMBERS to South Korea after North fires missiles at Japan and US warns of ‘overwhelming’ response

DONALD Trump is sending nuclear bombers to the Korean peninsula as tensions in the region reach breaking point. North Korea and the US have been teetering on the brink of war for months after Kim Jong-un carried out a series of controversial missile launches.Earlier this week, trigger-happy Kim pushed his luck once more when he fired off four ballistic missiles into the...

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Trump travel ban could prevent United States hosting World Cup

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has indicated Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban could prevent the United States from hosting the World Cup. The US is favourite to win the right to host the 2026 World Cup, either on its own or in a cross-border bid alongside one or both of Mexico and Canada.But President Trump on Monday signed a new executive order banning immigration...

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Indian Immigration In The Time Of Donald Trump

What brought Indians to the United States, and what made Indian immigrants, as a whole, so successful once here? That's the question Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh set out to answer in their book, "The Other One Percent: Indians in America." They track the increase in Indian immigration to America, both after the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act...

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Canada economy tops Q4 expectations, central bank seen staying cautious

Canada's economy grew at a faster pace than anticipated in the final quarter of 2016, lifted by consumer spending and a drop in imports, though the strong figures were seen as unlikely to prod the central bank to soon modify interest rates. Gross domestic product grew at an annualized 2.6 percent rate in the fourth quarter, Statistics Canada said on Thursday, beating economists'...

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Donald Trump fact check: Almost every big claim he made in his speech to Congress was false

Donald Trump has completed his first ever speech to Congress as President. And almost every major claim made in it appeared to be false. He appeared to wrongly claim that he was responsible for a vast reduction in the price of the F-35 jet, as well as falsely characterising a report into the problems of immigration. The President's speech made contested claims about the...

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