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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has said he would not call for a vote to extend healthcare subsidies used by many low-income Americans that are set to expire at the end of the year. The decision means it is almost certain healthcare insurance premiums will increase for millions of …

Reuters Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said a group of US lawmakers will be shown the full, unedited video of a controversial September boat strike in the Caribbean. Hegseth told reporters after a classified briefing for Senators on Tuesday that appropriate congressional committees would be allowed to see it, but not …

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has disputed portions of a Vanity Fair article in which she paints an unflattering picture of the Trump administration and many of its top officials. In the interview, Wiles described Donald Trump as having an “alcoholic’s personality” and Vice President JD Vance as …

Canada will now extend automatic citizenship to children born or adopted abroad to a Canadian parent also born outside the country. There are conditions to the “Lost Canadian” rules that came into effect on Monday – the Canadian parent must show a “substantial connection” to the country by having spent …

Hundreds of skiers hit the slopes dressed as Santa and Mrs Claus at the Sunday River ski resort in the US state of Maine. The annual Santa Sunday event benefits the River Fund Maine, supporting youth education and recreation in the state, as well as the Boyne Forever Foundation. “It’s …

Michelle Obama says she and husband Barack Obama were due to see director Rob Reiner and his photographer wife Michele Reiner the night they were killed. The former US first lady has paid tribute to the couple, who were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on Sunday …

The United States is building up forces in five locations in Puerto Rico, including at a Navy base that was closed in 2004. More aircrafts, combat vehicles and landing craft air cushions have been sent to the US island since November. The US also has number of ships in the …

Watch: “Lucky” to have parents that “care about me”, says Nick Reiner in 2015 interview Celebrated Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood, California, home on Sunday. Their son Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested in Los Angeles on Sunday and …

US President Donald Trump has repeated his criticism of Rob Reiner – after his earlier remarks about the killed Hollywood director, a longtime Trump critic, sparked widespread condemnation. The US president told reporters the director was “very bad for our country”, having earlier written on Truth Social that Reiner’s death …

👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈  Members of the so-called Turtle Island Liberation Front have been charged with plotting to bomb multiple targets in California on New Year’s Eve. But who are they, and why has no one ever heard of them before now? Elsewhere, after legendary film …

US President Donald Trump has sued the BBC for defamation over an edit of his 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. Trump accused the broadcaster of defamation and of violating a trade practices law, according to court documents filed in Florida. He asked for $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages …

Donald Trump has been branded “a sick man ” after launching an extraordinary attack against murdered film director Rob Reiner. The Hollywood luminary was found stabbed to death with his wife on Sunday – and the filmmaker’s son had been arrested on murder charges. Reacting to news of his death, …

US President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC over an edit of his 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. Trump has requested billions of dollars in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida. The BBC apologised to Trump in November, but rejected his …

Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging the corporation’s Panorama documentary portrayed him in a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious” manner. The complaint relates to the broadcaster’s editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol building. …

Four people have been charged with plotting New Year’s Eve bomb attacks in California. Federal authorities in the US said the four are allegedly part of an extremist group which is suspected of planning the attacks in southern California. The plot consisted of planting explosive devices at five locations targeting …

Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on film director Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death with his wife on Sunday, as it was revealed the filmmaker’s son had been arrested on murder charges. The US president said in a post on Truth Social that Reiner was “a …

Two students killed in a shooting at Brown University have been named. Ella Cook, from Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, were killed in Saturday’s shooting, which also left nine wounded. The gunman opened fire inside a classroom in the engineering building, shooting more than …

US police have released new footage of a man they are searching for after a gunman killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University. The gunman opened fire inside a classroom in the engineering building on Saturday afternoon, shooting more than 40 rounds from a 9mm handgun, a …

A JetBlue passenger plane took evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision with a US Air Force plane flying with its transponder turned off near Venezuela, a pilot has said in an air traffic control recording. JetBlue Flight 1112 was flying to New York from the Caribbean nation of Curacao …

College Republicans of America Ella Cook A standout student remembered as a “bright light” and an aspiring neurosurgeon described as a “gifted” young scholar were the two victims killed in a shooting at Brown University. Tributes began pouring in for Ella Cook, a second-year student and the vice-president of the …