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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has rejected suggestions the president will reorient his policies to support equity prices.

German newspaper Der Spiegel claims to have accessed personal data about several top Trump officials

Mark Rutte says US wants reassurance European allies will ‘step up’ while Europe needs to know ‘Uncle Sam still has our back’

The second Donald Trump administration has already sent shockwaves through the political establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Overseas, the focus has been on the administration’s apparent dismantling of the post-war international order and Trump’s apparent pivot away from America’s traditional allies towards a warmer relationship with Russia and…

Analysts have raised questions about views expressed by Vice President JD Vance on a text chain with other officials before military strikes.

Plans for an attack against an enemy target are classified in America. But the private views of high-ranking officials about allies, communicated within government, must also count as intelligence to be protected.

Ericka Abram reflects on her remarkable childhood as a 1970s revolutionary

Journalist Beck argues that the war on terror made America vastly more authoritarian, paving the way for Trump

Donald Trump could once again turn to his ally Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief architect of the Doha Deal, as his Afghanistan go-between. Some experts fear that would be a mistake, as Arpan Rai reports