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President boasts he stopped Tehran's nuke dream as Russia floods the market with fuel and Ukrainian bloodshed exposes the deal's dark side

At a candlelight memorial for the victims of Oct. 7, New York’s mayor was heckled by the very protesters who once championed him, a collision that captured a city unable to agree even on how to grieve.

The president's approval of a firing-squad execution for Nidal Hasan closes a chapter that began with 13 dead on a Texas parade field and tested the limits of military justice for nearly two decades.

With 41 per cent of Canadians now viewing the United States as an enemy, Prime Minister Mark Carney has abandoned diplomacy for a harder edge, instructing his military to examine the prospect of an American invasion.

A wave of departures, from the press secretary to the director of national intelligence, is reshaping an administration straining under an overseas war, a softening economy, and a Republican Party bracing for a difficult November.

Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai and a dozen men in suits promised an 'age of abundance' — and almost no women were in the room.

No joint statements, no major breakthroughs — just a wary handshake between two superpowers walking on eggshells.

Attorney General Todd Blanche snapped at ABC's Martha Raddatz when pressed on the White House's ban of three news outlets, bizarrely insisting 'one-sided' reporting is a 'national security problem' — even as a judge says otherwise.

The president vowed to storm 35 battlegrounds. Instead, he's kicking off his midterms push in Oklahoma and Alabama — and Republicans are sweating.

The prime minister's General Assembly address placed Australia in pointed opposition to Trump's transactional foreign policy, even as Washington rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping.

The president hosted the Chinese leader for a lavish White House dinner with tech billionaires in attendance, but the substance of their talks remained largely out of view.

President snaps at the CNN anchor as he walks into the General Assembly — days after banning her network from the White House and sparking a First Amendment lawsuit.

President threatens to drive the Islamic Republic 'into hell' in fiery General Assembly address — even as US and Iranian officials held three hours of talks through a Qatari mediator on the sidelines.

The two leaders are set to huddle Monday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in what aides are calling a 'warm and productive' reset of the transatlantic alliance. Plus: Macron's whirlwind diplomatic tour.

The Ukrainian strongman is heading to the Big Apple for a face-to-face with the president who loves a deal — and this time, the stakes are nothing less than the fate of a nation bleeding for four and a half years.

The president is breaking with decades of diplomatic protocol to meet the Chinese leader on the airfield — a move tied to the red-carpet treatment Trump received in Beijing earlier this year.

President Trump walked away from Davos on Thursday declaring he'd secured 'total' and permanent American access to Greenland — backing off his tariff threats and ruling out force, while a rattled Denmark insisted its sovereignty was never on the table.

As the titans of artificial intelligence gather in San Francisco and Washington this week, a once-unified industry is fracturing over how — and whether — to slow down. Nvidia's Jensen Huang says no new laws are needed. Anthropic's Dario Amodei wants standards. Bernie Sanders wants a treaty with China. And President Trump calls the whole debate a 'hoax.'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was dealt a humiliating blow Tuesday when two moderate Democrats broke ranks and voted with Republicans on a key procedural vote — rescuing the GOP from an embarrassing final week before the November midterms.

The U.S. Air Force colonel known only as 'Dude 44 Bravo' broke his silence Sunday night on '60 Minutes,' revealing the harrowing, white-knuckle details of surviving nearly two days alone behind enemy lines in Iran after his F-15E Strike Eagle was blasted out of the sky by a shoulder-fired missile.

Rudy Giuliani — the man who held New York City together after 9/11 — proved once again why he's still 'America's Mayor,' offering a moment of unexpected grace and surprising praise for his political rival at the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero.

On the 25th anniversary of the attacks, the families of those killed at the World Trade Center used the memorial stage to deliver an extraordinary public appeal — pressing a sitting president to declassify Saudi intelligence files and confronting a former one over a veto Congress overrode a decade ago.

In a first-of-its-kind midterm convention in Dallas, the president casts the November vote as a referendum on his own unfinished agenda — vowing to campaign in all 35 competitive races and warning of a 'sick cloud' of socialism if Republicans falter.

The One Nation leader's plan to divert a quarter of future compulsory super contributions into take-home pay has split Canberra, drawn fire from the Treasurer, and reopened a decades-old debate about whether Australia's $3.9 trillion retirement system is serving the people who fund it.

Judge Deborah Boardman slapped a preliminary injunction on Trump's August executive order, calling it 'almost certainly unconstitutional' — and the White House fired back hard.

VP JD Vance unloaded on Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed at a fiery Detroit rally after the Democrat took a swipe at Second Lady Usha Vance — warning him she's 'way out of your league.'

One Nation's stunning WA by-election victory has sent shockwaves through the Australian Labor Party, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reportedly holding emergency crisis meetings as Labor scrambles to respond.

President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' — then floated the idea of rebranding the Atlantic and Pacific oceans next, sending critics into a frenzy and New York's governor into open revolt.

The Caribbean nation is courting Chinese and Gulf cash to develop its oil and gas riches — while American taxpayers pump in $80 million a year and US firms get shut out. So what exactly does Washington get in return?

The State Department is preparing to yank the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who applied for asylum — a move that would shatter every previous record for mass visa revocations in American history.

As President Trump's 50% tariffs on $28 billion in Canadian goods take effect and trade talks collapse in acrimony, a powerful player on the other side of the world is quietly pulling the strings — and his name is Xi Jinping.

The president hit pause on Truth Social less than two hours before 50% tariffs on $20bn of Canadian goods were due to kick in — after a frantic last-minute call with PM Mark Carney.

Trump-backed Rep. Byron Donalds captured nearly half the vote in a crowded Republican primary, setting up a November showdown with party-switching Democrat David Jolly — and a chance to make history as Florida’s first black governor.

Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul touched down in Canberra for the first leader-to-leader summit in 14 years — walking away with a jet fuel lifeline, a transnational crime crackdown and a major defence upgrade.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pressed the US president to scrap the 12.5 per cent slug on Australian exports in a 'warm and productive' phone hook-up — but walked away with little more than a promise to consider it.

New reporting reveals the president was smuggled off Air Force One in a catering truck and flown home on a third, unannounced military jet — a ruse that fooled Iran, the press pool and his own staff.

President Trump says the US is 'low-keying it' with Tehran — backing off military strikes and letting the regime's collapsing economy do the talking instead.

President Trump's pick for Canberra is finally confirmed as Washington moves to strengthen a critical alliance and build a stronger Indo-Pacific partnership — with David Brat set to land in Australia just days before the 75th anniversary of ANZUS.

The Trump administration is demanding some prospective immigrants post bonds of up to $250,000 before they can land a US visa, with the Dominican Republic first in the firing line under a pilot program run by the State Department and Homeland Security.

President Trump privately told Oval Office donors 'we need to elect JD,' the strongest sign yet he's leaning toward backing Vice President JD Vance for 2028 — even as he keeps the public guessing in a game-show-style contest with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

President Trump says he's calling off the bombers — for now — after Mideast allies brokered an outline to end the war, but warned America remains 'locked and loaded' and ready to unleash military might 'not seen since World War II.'

President Trump fired back at Tehran after Iran's Revolutionary Guard launched a surprise ballistic missile barrage at US forces in the Middle East — vowing America would resume pounding the Islamic Republic after every incoming rocket was blasted out of the sky.

Anthony Albanese will jet to Karratha to unveil a $4m pre-feasibility study for a third Australian oil refinery — the first built on home soil in 60 years — as the Middle East conflict threatens to send fuel prices through the roof.

Embattled Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan resigned Tuesday ahead of a leadership spill, paving the way for her deputy Ben Carroll to take the top job — and immediately distance himself from both Allan and Daniel Andrews while announcing a royal commission into the state's scandal-plagued construction sector.

President Trump is turning up the heat on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to cut back the number of shots recommended for kids, telling his own health secretary he's moving too slow on the alleged vaccine-autism link — even as White House advisers begged to tone it down before the midterms.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a blunt new warning to Tehran Thursday, declaring the president's policy is 'a head for an eye' — a dramatic escalation of reciprocal justice as the Middle East conflict widens to a second front.

The president will announce the Ratepayer Protection Pledge at EPA headquarters Thursday, enlisting 23 Republican governors, tech leaders and utility CEOs who have pledged not to pass data-center costs on to American families.

Born of a friendship forged in the carnival glare of the World Cup, the president's push to place the Swiss soccer boss at the helm of the United Nations would upend a cautious diplomatic tradition — and perhaps quiet Trump's own frustration with the institution he has long chastised.