Joe Biden appears to discuss sensitive information on tape with ghostwriter
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Joe Biden appears to discuss sensitive information on tape with ghostwriter

In recordings made in 2016 and 2017 former president also appears to describe possessing classified informationFormer US president Joe Biden appeared to discuss sensitive information and describe possessing classified documents in audio recordings released on Monday by the Oversight Project, a conservative activist group.The heavily redacted transcripts and recordings were made in 2016 and 2017, w...

Lindsey Graham funeral service set to begin; Trump expected to deliver eulogy – live

Lindsey Graham funeral service set to begin; Trump expected to deliver eulogy – live

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The Republican senator died earlier this month; his funeral is expected to be attended by members of Congress as well as Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sign up for the Breaking News US emailTrump’s meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, set for 9:30am ET on Tuesday, will be closed to the media, the New York Times is reporting.The meeting is expected to be much more cordi...

Trump’s irritation over leak signals strains as Netanyahu visits White House

Trump’s irritation over leak signals strains as Netanyahu visits White House

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US President Donald Trump voiced ⁠irritation with Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their White House meeting on Tuesday, complaining that details of the Israeli prime minister’s planned talking points on Iran had surfaced publicly, in a fresh sign of strain between the two leaders. Asked about reports that Netanyahu wanted to talk to him about Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified facility buried deep undergro...

Trump shows irritation with Netanyahu before White House talks on Iran

Trump shows irritation with Netanyahu before White House talks on Iran

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US President Donald Trump voiced ⁠irritation with Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their White House meeting on Tuesday, complaining that details of the Israeli prime minister’s planned talking points on Iran had surfaced publicly, in a fresh sign of strain between the two leaders. Asked about reports that Netanyahu wanted to talk to him about Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified facility buried deep undergro...

熊本城 石垣の崩落 28か所で確認

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熊本城総合事務所によりますと、震度5強の揺れを観測した熊本市中央区にある熊本城では、石垣の崩落が28か所で確認されたということです。

GSK heads to Cambridge with long-awaited positive vibes | Nils Pratley

GSK heads to Cambridge with long-awaited positive vibes | Nils Pratley

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Pharmaceutical company’s move to new £400m research centre accompanied by encouraging news for shareholders“A vote of confidence in British business,” trumpeted Andy Burnham, seizing the political gift of GSK splashing out £400m on a shiny new research and development centre in Cambridge.For positive vibes, it definitely beats the early pharma news his predecessor as prime minister received. That ...

Lindsey Graham remembered as ‘true American original’ at Capitol memorial

Lindsey Graham remembered as ‘true American original’ at Capitol memorial

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Political leaders honor the longtime Republican senator, whose hawkish foreign policy shaped decades in WashingtonUS politics live – latest updatesWorld leaders and senior political figures convened in Washington for the memorial of long-serving US senator Lindsey Graham, remembering the “swashbuckling” South Carolina Republican “a true American original” whose embrace of “America First” never sof...

California’s largest ICE facility neglected detainees’ medical needs, monitor finds

California’s largest ICE facility neglected detainees’ medical needs, monitor finds

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Court-appointed investigator finds California City facility failed to comply with judge’s order to provide adequate healthcareCalifornia’s largest immigration detention center has failed to comply with a judge’s orders to provide adequate healthcare, according to a court-appointed monitor who found the facility was struggling to meet a wide range of medical standards.The California City detention ...

Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meet Trump before Lindsey Graham funeral service – US politics live

Netanyahu and Zelenskyy meet Trump before Lindsey Graham funeral service – US politics live

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Israeli prime minister meets US president after Trump’s closed-door meeting with Ukrainian presidentSign up for the Breaking News US emailTrump’s meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, set for 9:30am ET on Tuesday, will be closed to the media, the New York Times is reporting.The meeting is expected to be much more cordial than the one last year where Trump openly berated Zelenskyy a...

UK politics: Tories’ Philp rejects French claim that shots fired from naval boat near him were training exercise – as it happened

UK politics: Tories’ Philp rejects French claim that shots fired from naval boat near him were training exercise – as it happened

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Shadow minister says there was no warning and ‘it looked and sounded like deliberate intimidation’Conservative MP accuses French navy of firing shots near him in ChannelIt is not just the Russians firing on Brits in the English Channel; Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, has accused a French warship of firing “warning shots” near him while he was on a boat in the Channel monitoring small boat...

Secret Service agent and two others arrested for ‘prolonged’ hazing in Miami

Secret Service agent and two others arrested for ‘prolonged’ hazing in Miami

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Three men were arrested for ‘repeated beatings with canes and paddles’ causing near-fatal injuries to two pledgesA US Secret Service agent and two others have been arrested after Florida state investigators uncovered evidence of “alleged hazing incidents involving prolonged and repeated beatings with canes and paddles” in Miami.Investigators arrested Marquez Christopher Pinder, 29, on Sunday. Two ...

Zelensky pursues Patriot missile licences in White House meeting with Trump

Zelensky pursues Patriot missile licences in White House meeting with Trump

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought licences to produce Patriot air-defence interceptors during a “good meeting” with US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday, as he underscored Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s loss of initiative on the war front due to heavy losses. Zelensky spent just over an hour with Trump at the White House, in talks that came with Kyiv and Moscow intensifying long-range str...

Zelensky has a ‘good meeting’ with Trump as he seeks more cooperation with US

Zelensky has a ‘good meeting’ with Trump as he seeks more cooperation with US

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US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on Tuesday ahead of Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral, with the two leaders discussing ways for Ukraine to produce its own powerful weapons and “other ideas that could help” in its continuing war against Russia. The sit-down in the Oval Office, which was closed to the media, followed a consequential meeting at the Nato summit ...