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Sir Keir Starmer is only one of the middle power leaders trekking to Beijing to renew relations. No one has forgotten China’s increasing international forcefulness, its handling of the pandemic and its closer relations with Russia as war engulfed Ukraine. But the wildness of Donald Trump’s first year back in power is spurring Canada, France and others to hedge their bets. This, not whisky tariff cuts, is what the British prime minister sought. Mr Trump called the move “dangerous”, but threatens allies and describes Xi Jinping as a “friend”. Set beside this administration, Beijing looks no more benevolent but does…

Will Cain: This is a big day for Don Lemon Fox News host Will Cain takes a look at the arrest of Don Lemon in connection to the storming of a Minnesota church amid anti-ICE protests and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche responds to reporters. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Thursday that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem should be “put on ice permanently,” as he threatened impeachment proceedings against the cabinet official during a news conference.Jeffries made the remarks while responding to questions about whether Democrats would…

Jeffrey Epstein sent thousands of pounds in bank transfers after his release from prison in 2009 to Peter Mandelson’s husband, according to emails published by the US Department of Justice on Friday.The latest documents raise fresh questions about Epstein’s relationship with Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington when details of his support for the disgraced financier emerged in September.The latest dataset published on Friday shows that Mandelson’s husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, emailed Epstein on 7 September 2009, about two months after Epstein was released from prison. Epstein had served 13 months of an 18-month sentence…

Democrats threaten DHS funding shutdown over ICE policies John Roberts introduces Chad Pergram live from Capitol Hill, who reports on the potential for a government shutdown due to Democrats threatening to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security over Immigration and Customs Enforcement. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The country’s airlines and military members could once again take the brunt of a government shutdown as lawmakers remain gridlocked over how to avoid a government shutdown come Feb. 1.Democrats walked away from a bipartisan deal to fund the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Education, Transportation, Housing and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States has directly communicated expectations to Iran as pressure mounts for Tehran to accept a nuclear deal, even as Iranian officials publicly signal interest in talks.Asked whether Iran faces a deadline to make a deal, Trump suggested the timeline already had been conveyed privately. “Only they know for sure,” he said, confirming when pressed that the message had been delivered directly to Iranian leaders.Trump also tied the growing U.S. naval presence in the region explicitly to Iran, saying American warships “have to float someplace” and…

Labour have accused the Reform UK candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection, Matthew Goodwin, of representing “toxic politics” after he was endorsed by the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson.The move will be uncomfortable for Nigel Farage, who has consistently kept the parties he leads separate from Robinson, an anti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK’s leading far-right figures.In a post on X on Friday to his 1.8 million followers, Robinson quoted a tweet by Hope Not Hate, which researches and campaigns against far-right politics, adding simply: “Vote for Matt.”A Reform spokesperson said in response: “We have consistently been clear on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump indicated Thursday night that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was in Georgia this week for election security-related reasons.At the premiere of first lady Melania Trump’s movie “Melania” at The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the president was asked what Gabbard was doing at an election center in Georgia.Gabbard was at an election facility in Fulton County where the FBI executed a search warrant on Wednesday.FBI AGENTS SEARCH ELECTION HUB IN FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA Newly sworn-in Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard…

Parliamentarians say they take ‘no comfort’ in lifting of sanctionsChina has lifted the sanctions it imposed on serving British MPs and peers in a significant sign of warming relations after Keir Starmer travelled to Beijing for landmark talks with Xi Jinping.Nine UK citizens were banned from China in 2021, including five Conservative MPs and two members of the House of Lords, targeted for highlighting human rights violations against the Muslim Uyghur community.The group of sanctioned parliamentarians said: “While British citizen Jimmy Lai remains imprisoned and Uyghurs continue to suffer atrocity crimes, we take no comfort in this decision and will…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration fired back at local Democratic leadership in a Washington, D.C. suburb, that had called on residents to dial 911 to report sightings of ICE and federal immigration enforcement.On Tuesday, Arlington County Board of Supervisors chairman Matt de Ferranti, a Democrat from the Rock Spring neighborhood, had advised constituents that doing so would help local officials know of ICE’s presence and help “pursue Arlington County’s law enforcement mission: preventing violence in our community.”The Trump administration said the directive is uniquely dangerous because it will not only endanger the public…

There’s a strange tendency to describe social media as something other people use – those young people on TikTok, that conspiratorial uncle on Facebook, the rightwing trolls on X. In truth, we’re all online now. The number of global social media users surpassed 5 billion in 2024. To put that into perspective there are 8 billion people on the planet.The internet has totally transformed the ways in which we communicate and share information. First the internet came for print. As free online content began outcompeting subscription newspapers, publishers briefly found new audiences on Facebook, only to see referral traffic plummet…