South Korea in ‘Catch-22 situation’ over Trump’s call for warships to secure Hormuz
Seoul is expected to seek national consensus and wait for the outcome of the Takaichi-Trump summit before deciding, observers say
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Pair attempt to strike united front amid reports vice-president skeptical over US-Israeli attack on Iran
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The idea sounds outlandish, if not downright impossible.
· Eddie Pells
Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit gets riskier by the day
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· Daniel McCarthy
Top Democrats file criminal referral against fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
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· Victor Nava
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· Benjamin Brown
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· Ryan King
Iran: the foreign policy puzzle that keeps defeating Washington
By Maxim Suchkov, Director of the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IIS)
· RT
Trump upset as key US partners shun call for Hormuz warship escorts
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· Herbie G
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· Nick Pearson
‘Squad’s’ Omar and Tlaib endorse 26yo Palestinian for US House seat
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· Ryan King
Trump seeks to delay meeting with China’s Xi by ‘month or so’ amid Iran war
United States President Donald Trump says he is seeking to delay a highly anticipated trip to China in early April by about a month because of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
· Al Jazeera
Trump says he thinks he will have the 'honor' of 'taking Cuba'
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· Garrett Downs
México pedirá a EEUU eliminación de aranceles en negociaciones previas a la revisión del T-MEC
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· The Associated Press
Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia released from US immigration detention
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· Jake Offenhartz
Chilean President Kast pushes for border barrier to curb illegal immigration
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· Nayara Batschke
US judge halts implementation of Trump vaccine overhaul
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· Agence France-Presse
New York police locked out of $86 million in counterterrorism funding promised by Noem
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· Josh Christenson
Trump slams China, US allies for not jumping at chance to help open the Strait of Hormuz: ‘They should be thanking us’
President Trump slammed China and US allies Monday for demurring on his request to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz and reopen the vital oil trading route.
· Ronny Reyes, Emily Goodin
Trump favorite Lindsey Graham got a war with Iran. What will it cost the country and his party?
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· Meg Kinnard
BBC asks US court to drop Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit
The BBC has asked an American court to throw out a lawsuit filed against it by US President Donald Trump. The British state broadcaster has argued its documentary featuring an edited speech Trump delivered during the Capitol Hill riots in 2021 did not harm his reputation enough to warrant a $10 billion defamation case.
· RT
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The BBC has asked an American court to throw out a lawsuit filed against it by US President Donald Trump. The British state broadcaster argued that its documentary featuring an edited speech Trump delivered during the Capitol Hill riots in 2021 did not harm his reputation enough to warrant a $10 billion defamation c…
· RT
Vance denies ‘wedge’ with Trump over Iran war, claims foreign war opposition was only under ‘dumb’ presidents
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· Emily Goodin
Capitals usher in a youth movement as they prepare for life after Alex Ovechkin
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· Stephen Whyno
Trump says U.S. asked China to delay Xi meeting 'a month or so' due to Iran war
President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. has asked to delay his planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing by "a month or so" due to the ongoing war with Iran.
· Kevin Breuninger
Spring, climate change, jet stream serves up buffet of wild weather hitting US
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· Seth Borenstein
Human rights report says US-deported Salvadorans are arbitrarily detained in El Salvador
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· Gisela Salomon
Trump discloses Florida Republican’s ‘terminal’ diagnosis in meandering talk
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· Chris Stein
Cuba reports island-wide blackout as energy crisis worsens
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· Associated Press
How the world’s reacting to Trump’s call to patrol the Hormuz Strait
US President Donald Trump has called on all nations getting oil through the Strait of Hormuz to send their warships to secure navigation through the key shipping lane.
· RT
‘Not our war’: How the world has reacted to Trump’s call to patrol the Hormuz Strait
US President Donald Trump has called on all nations getting oil through the Strait of Hormuz to send their warships to secure navigation through the key shipping lane.
· RT
Judge blocks changes to US government vaccine recommendations
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· Mike Stobbe
Trump divulges congressman’s terminal illness, says doctors said he could be ‘dead by June’
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Trump pressures China over Hormuz; experts see possible delay to Beijing summit
US president highlights China’s reliance on Strait of Hormuz ahead of Beijing visit; White House says summit timing under discussion
· Khushboo Razdan
Trump clashes with Nato countries over refusal to help reopen Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump has expressed his anger at a lack of help from Nato countries cooperating with the US to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway through which more than 20 percent of the world's crude oil is normally transported.
· Middleeasteye
Kennedy Center board votes to close for two years during renovations
Trustees approve Trump’s $257m ‘revitalization project’ to remake DC arts institution that president has taken over
· Edwardhelmore
Federal education bigs threaten accrediting agency if DEI standards aren’t nixed
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· Josh Christenson
Gregory Bovino, who led Minnesota operation, says he’s retiring end of March
Bovino was demoted in January as head of controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis
· Edwardhelmore
Trump to announce coalition to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz - DailyNews
US President Donald Trump is set to announce that a coalition of countries will escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report.
· damith
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles diagnosed with breast cancer
Wiles, 68, praised by president as ‘one of the strongest people I know’, to continue working while having treatment
· Davidsmith
Trump administration can resume ‘third-country’ deportations, appeal court rules
Attorney General Pam Bondi called the ruling, that deports undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own, a ‘key win’
· Agence France-Presse
Supreme Court to consider push to end protections for some migrants
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· Lindsay Whitehurst
Starmer distances UK from Iran war as EU leaders rule out sending warships
PM refuses to be drawn into wider conflict as Germany and Italy defy Trump’s call to help reopen strait of Hormuz
· Pippacrerar, Jennifer Rankin, Lorenzo Tondo
Kennedy Center votes to shut down for 2 years, names new president
A woman walks outside The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts on Feb. 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
· Steven Sloan
Ecuador reporta acciones militares contra el delito y 253 detenidos por infringir el toque de queda
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, saluda al presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, en la cumbre Escudo de las Américas, el sábado 7 de marzo de 2026, en el Trump National Doral Miami, en Doral, Florida. (Foto AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
· Gonzalo Solano
Trump administration asks judge to revisit ruling blocking subpoenas to Fed's Powell
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration has asked a judge to reconsider his ruling that has effectively blocked a criminal investigation into US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to court documents made public on Monday.
· Reuters
Washington signals it wants China kept out of Brazil’s largest port auction
US consul-general Kevin Murakami told port executives the Santos megadeal should not fall into ‘unwanted hands’
· Igor Patrick
Trump admits US doesn’t know if new Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is ‘dead or not’
President Trump speculated at length Monday about the fate of new Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei, pointing out no one has seen him in public.
· Emily Goodin
Allies push back on Trump's war demands
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