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Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around the group’s status following the signing of a peace deal meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza. Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said: “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently. “But they …

Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at the White House on Tuesday. Kirk, who was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in September, was among the most significant rightwing activists in the modern political era, galvanizing a younger generation of …

The chief interest at Monday’s largely pointless Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh lay in whether Donald Trump insulted or feted his fellow global leaders as they approached the self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker to shake hands and pose for a thumbs-up photograph. As the host of the party, the US president had arrived – unapologetically – more than two hours late, …

U.S. consumers are bearing the brunt of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. Despite the president and his team repeatedly arguing that America’s trading partners would be the ones paying for the duties, consumers are shouldering as much as 55 percent of their costs, the report found. Over the past six months, Trump …

President Donald Trump has insisted nothing was standing in the way of the Nobel Committee awarding him this year’s peace prize, including the prize’s own rules. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to give a speech marking the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, Trump complained that the committee should have taken the extraordinary—and logistically unrealistic—step of providing this …

China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump  The Economist Cars to Fighter Jets: China’s New Export Curbs May Level a Heavy Blow Worldwide  The New York Times Q: Why Is China’s New Rare-Earth Threat Such a Big Deal?  The Wall Street Journal Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.  Politico China ‘not afraid of trade war,’ accuses U.S. of ‘double standard’ …

President Donald Trump is still stewing about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize Trump has long chased to Venezuelan democracy advocate and opposition leader María Corina Machado on Friday. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung quickly lashed out at the announcement, accusing the committee of choosing “politics over peace.” Trump, for …

A renegade member of Donald Trump’s own party has blasted the president’s attempts to pressure the nation’s top universities into conforming to his MAGA agenda. “The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning …

“There’ve been cases when the Nobel committee awarded the prize to people who’ve done nothing for peace,” Putin said, without naming names. “That’s damaged the prize’s prestige.”  While he demurred when asked whether he felt Trump deserved the prize, the Russian president — who is currently waging a bloody, years-long war in Ukraine and is wanted by the International Criminal …

ADVANCING MOST-FAVORED-NATION PRICING: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the second agreement with a major pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, to bring American drug prices in line with the lowest paid by other developed nations (known as the most-favored-nation, or MFN, price). The agreement will provide every State Medicaid program in the country access to MFN drug prices on AstraZeneca products, resulting …