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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a member of the far-left “Squad” in the House, over her multi-million dollar net worth during a news conference from the White House Tuesday afternoon.Trump called the Somali-born lawmaker from Minnesota “crooked” on Tuesday amid a probe by Congressional Republicans on the House Oversight Committee looking into how Omar’s wealth exploded after becoming a lawmaker. In just one year, Omar’s net worth reportedly jumped $30 million, according to financial disclosures first reported last week.”I was told that Ilhan Omar is worth $30 million,” Trump…

TEL AVIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invited, along with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and strongmen from Hungary to Belarus and beyond. A long and growing list of world leaders, including those of India, Pakistan and the European Union’s executive arm, say they’ve been offered the chance to join President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” to supervise the next phase of his plan for the Gaza Strip. But the board’s charter makes no direct mention of Gaza and instead proposes a broad mandate for a new international organization that “seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure…

Food policy across much of the world is changing. But not in Britain. That may be a costly mistake as the prices of essentials rise because of the climate emergency, geopolitical tensions and the fragility of just-in-time supply chains. Many capitals are now reviving their strategic food reserves. European nations such as Sweden, Finland, Norway and Germany are rebuilding stocks dismantled after the cold war. Climate shocks have led to Egypt and Bangladesh boosting similar programmes. Countries such as Brazil and Indonesia – sensitive to the food needs of their vast populations – are also expanding their reserves.The UK, by…

Sotomayor steps in as Barrett presses Trump tariff authority Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Solicitor General John Sauer on President Donald Trump’s tariff authority, citing precedent, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor urged him to answer Barrett’s questions directly during Supreme Court oral arguments. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Supreme Court left unresolved Tuesday a high-stakes challenge to President Donald Trump’s use of an emergency law to impose sweeping tariffs, prolonging uncertainty over a case closely watched by the White House and global markets.The high court released three lower-profile opinions: Berk v. Choy, Ellingburg v. United States…

Longtime U.S. allies say they have abandoned large prisons holding thousands of Islamic State group fighters and their families in northeastern Syria.The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Tuesday it had redeployed from the al-Hol camp to nearby cities, blaming “international indifference” for the withdrawal. The move comes amid intensifying fighting between the SDF and fighters loyal to the government of Syria and after a reported ceasefire between the two sides. “International indifference toward the issue of the ISIS terrorist organization and the failure of the international community to assume its responsibilities in addressing this serious matter” was behind the…

The UK communities secretary, Steve Reed, has given permission for China to build a vast new embassy near the Tower of London after spy chiefs told him that the risks to national security could be controlled and dealt with.The decision paves the way for Keir Starmer to visit Beijing in the coming weeks – though local residents plan to legally challenge the decision, potentially delaying the development by months or years.“Ethical or similar objections to the provision of an embassy for a specific country cannot be a material planning consideration,” Reed said, as he largely endorsed a report from the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Three days after President Donald Trump exploded a political bomb in Louisiana’s Senate race by endorsing Republican Rep. Julia Letlow over incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, sources say Letlow is likely to launch a campaign as early as this week.Trump’s support of Letlow, who was elected in 2021 after her husband Luke died from COVID shortly before taking office in the House, is a severe setback for Cassidy, a physician and chair of the powerful Senate Health committee who is running for a third six-year term in the solidly red state.And it’s…

“I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”That’s what French President Emmanuel Macron told President Donald Trump, in a private message shared online by the American leader.The message, posted overnight on Truth Social, was part of a flurry of activity as Trump insisted there was “no going back” in his campaign to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory. He also posted a text from the head of NATO, accused Britain of “stupidity,” and shared what appeared to be images generated by artificial intelligence depicting the American flag over Greenland and Canada. But Trump did add a glimmer of diplomacy,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters says that President Donald Trump is the GOP’s “secret weapon” that will help the GOP “defy history” in November’s midterm elections, when the party in power traditionally loses House and Senate seats. But one year into his second tour of duty in the White House, public opinion surveys suggest many Americans are souring on the president and his agenda.The president’s approval rating stands at 45% in the latest Wall Street Journal poll, at 41% in Reuters/Ipsos, and an average of all the most recent national polls…

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