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  • No recent Xi-Trump call, says China despite US president’s claims – US politics live

    ‘China and the US are not conducting consultations or negotiations on tariff issues,’ foreign ministry spokesperson says

    President Donald Trump has said he thinks Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to give up Crimea, despite his Ukrainian counterpart’s previous assertions on the Black Sea peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.

    Speaking to reporters at an airport in New Jersey on Sunday a day after meeting with Zelenskyy at the Vatican, Trump said “Oh, I think so,” in response to a question on whether he thought Zelenskyy was ready to “give up” the territory.

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  • Kim Kardashian robbery suspects to appear in Paris court as trial begins

    Ten men nicknamed ‘grandpa robbers’ accused of stealing jewellery worth millions from American TV star in 2016

    Ten people nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” by French media are to go on trial charged with stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian when she attended Paris fashion week in 2016.

    The suspects, whose ages range from 35 to 78, will appear in a court in the French capital on Monday afternoon at the start of a month-long trial in which Kardashian, 44, will testify in May.

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  • Trump warms to Zelenskyy after Vatican meeting but is ‘disappointed’ by Russia

    US president says face-to-face improved relations with Ukrainian leader and demurs on trust in Vladimir Putin

    Asked to comment on his meeting at the Vatican with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump on Sunday expressed newfound sympathy for his Ukrainian counterpart, saying he “wants to do something good for his country” and “is working hard”.

    Reflecting on his conversation with the Ukrainian president in a “beautiful” setting, the US president also said that he was “surprised and disappointed, very disappointed” that Russia had bombed Ukraine after discussions between Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s peace envoy, Steve Witkoff. “I was very disappointed that missiles were flying, by Russia,” the US president said.

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  • US treasury secretary says ‘there is a path’ with China over tariff negotiations

    ‘The Chinese will see this high tariff level is unsustainable for their business,’ says Scott Bessent

    The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said “there is a path” to an agreement with China over tariffs after he had interactions with his Chinese counterparts last week in Washington.

    “I had interaction with my Chinese counterparts, but it was more on the traditional things like financial stability, global economic early warnings,” Bessent told ABC News’s This Week on Sunday, explaining that he spoke to the Chinese during International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington. “I don’t know if President Trump has spoken with President Xi,” he added.

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  • ‘A trickle to a tidal wave’: behind the Trump protest movement that launched on Reddit

    From humble beginnings, the 50501 community is one of many coming together to resist the president and his policies

    It started with a Reddit post.

    “50 PROTESTS – 50 STATES – 1 DAY,” the user who goes by Evolved Fungi wrote, kicking off a movement that has since drawn hundreds of thousands to the streets in protests against Donald Trump across the country.

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  • I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more

    Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state’s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant

    “Don’t open the door to nobody,” my father warned throughout my childhood – right up until the day he died. He trusted no politicians, no organized religion and definitely no strangers knocking unannounced.

    Lately, his words echo louder than ever.

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  • Trump golf club to host speaker who claims bleach can cure cancer and Covid

    Andreas Kalcker, prominent peddler of chlorine dioxide remedy, to appear at ‘Truth Seekers Conference’ in Miami

    Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, Covid and autism.

    Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day event opening on Thursday at the US president’s resort, Trump National Doral Miami. The event features several anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists who have been brought together by the far-right commentator Charlie Ward.

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  • Hope as US universities find ‘backbone’ against Trump’s assault on education

    Anxious Americans find solace as university leaders start to mount more muscular defense of academic freedom

    Americans anxious about their country’s slide into authoritarianism found some solace in the past week over what appears to be growing pushback by American universities against Donald Trump’s assault on higher education.

    After a barrage of orders, demands and the freezing of billions in federal funds for research had elicited a mostly demure response from university leaders, some are starting to mount a more muscular defense of academic freedom. A statement denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” was signed by more than 400 university presidents, and the list is growing. Another, signed by more than 100 former university heads, called for a coalition of local leaders, students, labor unions and communities, across party affiliation, to “work against authoritarianism”.

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  • ‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government

    David A Graham’s latest book considers the vast far-right plan to change US politics – and why its architects are playing the long game

    David A Graham doesn’t say he read Project 2025 so you don’t have to, but it might be inferred.

    The Atlantic staff writer’s new book, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America, is a swift but thorough overview of the vast far-right plan for a second Trump administration that achieved notoriety last year. Over just 138 pages, a passing dream next to the Heritage Foundation’s 922-page doorstop, Graham considers the origins of Project 2025, its aims and effects so far.

    The Project is published in the US by Random House

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  • Republican unity to be tested in talks over Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

    Party eyes dramatic spending cuts to turn president’s promises into reality – but not all lawmakers are on board

    Donald Trump has made a simple request of Congress’s Republican leaders: deliver “one big, beautiful bill” that will turn his campaign promises into reality. By all indications, there will be little beautiful about the negotiations to come when Congress returns to session on Monday.

    The bill envisioned by Trump will extend tax cuts enacted during his first term, fund more border defenses and mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and potentially include the president’s vow to end the taxation of tips, overtime and social security payments. To pay for it, the GOP is eyeing dramatic reductions in government spending, and has targeted social safety net programs relied on by tens of millions of Americans.

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