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Trump’s $5,000 pledge to voters: a ‘desperate gimmick’Talking Point The president’s outlandish campaign promise has prompted questions about his grip on reality
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Canada begins its post-US pivotIN THE SPOTLIGHT Facing a trade war with an unreliable ally turned adversary, Canada looks to the EU for allies
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The weapons the US have put in spaceThe Explainer ‘Extraordinary’ announcement has sparked strong criticism from Russia and China, fuelling fears of a space arms race
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Putin ally funded Trump Jr. wedding partySpeed Read The president’s son’s wedding was quietly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin
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Will we heed warnings and slow AI down?Today's Big Question With US and China ‘committed to a global AI arms race’, fears about future of humanity likely to fall on deaf ears
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Trump blames Kyiv for diesel costs amid Mideast oil crisisSpeed Read The president called on Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries
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Trump backs Irish unification, sparking furorSpeed Read The president broke with a longstanding convention of not taking sides regarding the possibility of a united Ireland
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Will AI end humanity?Talking Points Developers sound the alarms but say the risk is low for now
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A war by any other name: Republicans recast Iran to fit a shifting agendaIN THE SPOTLIGHT When is a war not really a war? It depends on who’s asking and why.
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Is the UK about to break up for good?Today's Big Question Nationalist leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland sign declaration calling on Westminster to ‘prepare, plan and facilitate constitutional change’
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‘To the victor the spoils’: Trump’s Venezuelan oil grabIn the Spotlight The president has claimed the deal is the biggest in history, but Venezuelans fear the country is becoming ‘51st state in all but name’
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Trump’s deportation drive: a victim of its own success?Talking Point There are fewer illegal immigrants in the US since Trump’s second term began, but a declining workforce has stymied economic growth
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Trump ally quits his DOJ ‘grand conspiracy’ probeSpeed Read DiGenova had been hired in April, soon after Pam Bondi was fired as attorney general
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25 years on from 9/11: did Osama bin Laden win?Today's Big Question War on Terror proved hugely costly but did prevent any further terrorist attack on the same scale
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