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‘We need a secretary who can get the job done, not somebody who spends his time on Signal chat groups,’ former national security adviser says

Contraction? What contraction?

Trump claimed police recruiting is booming, despite overwhelming evidence that U.S. departments are still grappling with severe staffing shortages.

At least 28 migrants were charged this week with after entering a 170-mile-long National Defense Area in southern New Mexico

‘I’ve never even heard of you,’ the US president tells ABC reporter Terry Moran as they clash over key issues, including tariffs and the Ukraine-Russia war

Hegseth said the Women, Peace & Security program was “yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative.”

The Trump administration’s decision to distance itself from Nato obligations signals a potential dismantling of the historical transatlantic order – and not merely in military terms. As the United States disengages from European affairs and cuts ties with what secretary of defense Pete Hegseth called Nato’s “pathetic” freeloaders, it is…

RAF jets target buildings used to make drones, officials say, in Britain’s first involvement since Trump took office

SPECIAL REPORT: Japan views Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a failure of global deterrence – and a wake-up call. On Yonaguni island, just 100km from Taiwan, Adam Withnall visits a community bracing in case history repeats itself

Donal Trump celebrates 100 days in office with Michigan event, saying ‘nothing will stop me’ – key US politics stories from Tuesday 29 April at a glance

The court filings follow a decision to designate a strip of border land in New Mexico as a ‘national defence area’.