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Donald Trump has doubled down on US plans to take over Gaza in a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House. The meeting came the day after the president said he would withhold aid to Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries if they refused to take in people forcibly displaced from Gaza.

The AI summit in Paris is a coming together of world leaders and technology firms designed to shape a responsible and sustainable future for artificial intelligence. But the big political day of the summit was overshadowed by a bust-up between rival billionaire tech-bros. Timed perfectly to coincide with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s arrival in

Elon Musk’s bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4bn (£78.7bn) came unsolicited on Monday night and was quickly rejected by his former friend and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. “The company is not for sale, neither is the mission,” Mr Altman said to Sky News this morning. “We’ll happily buy Twitter though.” Read more: OpenAI co-founder

Google Maps has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America, after Donald Trump passed an executive order renaming the body of water in the eyes of the US. The US-based company previously said it would change the name of the oceanic basin once it was updated in the US

Donald Trump has said Palestinians would have no right to return to Gaza under his proposal to relocate its population and rebuild the Strip. The president last week debuted his suggestion to “own” Gaza and shut out Hamas while it’s redeveloped, but has now contradicted officials who had said any relocation would be temporary. Asked

President Trump says he has ordered the US government’s Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Mr Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social. He added: “I have instructed my Secretary

There is no bigger event on the American cultural calendar. The Super Bowl is everything. And so, harnessing the moment, as he has every moment of the past few weeks, Donald Trump was there in New Orleans – the first time ever that a sitting president has attended this sporting centrepiece. In a few short

Donald Trump says he will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into the US, including from Canada and Mexico. The president said he would make the announcement on Monday, signalling yet another major escalation in his trade policy overhaul. Speaking on Air Force One as he flew from Florida to New Orleans

Donald Trump has sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing it of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel”. In his latest round of executive orders, the US president has taken aim at the ICC and rallied against what he called anti-Christian bias in the US. It comes as a US

The Olympics has been put on notice – comply with Donald Trump or face his wrath. If transgender women are not banned from the 2028 Los Angeles Games, they’ll be banned from entering the United States. And the president delivered a blunt warning from the White House: “Nobody’s going to be able to do a

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning trans women athletes from competing in female sports. The move is designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in certain sporting events, including those at school. The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”, will call for “immediate enforcement” against

Donald Trump has reinstated his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran – as he threatened Tehran it would be “obliterated” if it assassinates him. The US president signed a memorandum on Tuesday in an effort to crack down on Iran’s nuclear programme and restrict oil exports – moments before he met Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Leverage is the most important thing in negotiations, Donald Trump said in his book The Art Of The Deal. “Don’t make deals without it.” The US president has just maximised his leverage over Iran’s government, squeezing it where it hurts most. Oil sales. The move will hurt Iran’s economy, already in deep trouble, and could

US President Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe Palestinians should return to Gaza because it is a “guarantee that they’re going to end up dying” – as he held a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking after welcoming Mr Netanyahu to the Oval Office, President Trump doubled down on his suggestion

China has, as expected, hit back at Donald Trump’s imposition of a 10% tariff on its exports to the United States. Beijing has slapped levies of between 10-15% on a range of energy products that imports from the US. But what has surprised observers – particularly when Mr Trump kicked off the trade war over

Both Canada and Mexico have agreed to strengthen border security with the United States in return for a 30-day pause in tariffs. President Trump announced on Sunday he was imposing 25% taxes on goods from his country’s northern and southern neighbours. Mexico was first to reach a deal with the White House. Its president, Claudia

A judge has warned Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s lawyers to stop publicly discussing their competing lawsuits. Both actors – who co-starred in 2024’s It Ends With Us – have filed lawsuits against each other following an initial legal complaint from Lively. The 37-year-old accused Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the film

As the geographical spread of US President Donald Trump’s pronouncements increases, so do the furrowed worry lines of leaders worldwide.  Day 14 of the Trump presidency brought threats of a global trade war and news of the likely demise of USAID – the US international aid and development agency. But the 78-year-old also spent his

These are major American policy announcements with massive implications for the rest of the world, delivered in an off-the-cuff style by President Donald Trump and his billionaire strategist, Elon Musk. Speaking after visiting his home in Florida, Mr Trump said the US government’s international aid and development arm, USAID, was “run by lunatics”. The president,

Donald Trump is set to speak to the leaders of Canada and Mexico later but warned them against retaliating to his tariffs, saying: “We can play the game all they want.” The US leader has announced that he is imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. The two countries then hit back with