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President Donald Trump holds his hat in the wind as he disembarked Air Force One last week.

Donald Trump

Trump was asked if he has to uphold the Constitution. His response: ‘I don’t know’

The US president also said in a wide-ranging interview that he did not think military force would be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down talk of a third term.

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Aamer Madhani

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US President Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, and Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a cabinet meeting at the White House.

Opinion
US politics

Gratitude isn’t acceptable among Trump’s cabinet. It’s mandatory

Critics look at the US president’s star line-up and see a group of people that bear more resemblance to North Korean generals than a traditional US cabinet.

May 5, 2025
David French

US President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photo showing himself as the pope.

Trump diplomacy

Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself as pope, drawing internet outrage

The US president posted the image just days after joking he would “like to be pope” and less than a week after attending Pope Francis’ funeral.

May 4, 2025
Andrea Shalal

Wreckage from the deadly plane crash in the Potomac River near the Reagan Washington National Airport in late January.

Aviation

‘Take an Uber’: Pentagon helicopter ‘scenic’ flight forces aborted landings at crash airport

Two commercial flights were impeded by an army helicopter, just months after 67 people were killed in an eerily similar incident at the same Washington airport.

May 3, 2025
David Shepardson

Alice Weidel at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin after elections in February.

Germany

German spy agency brands main opposition party as ‘extremist’. The US is not happy

A report found the far-right AfD to be racist and anti-Muslim, allowing security services step up monitoring. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it was “tyranny in disguise”.

May 3, 2025
Sarah Marsh and Friederike Heine

Noe ousted White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, left, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump's White House

‘They fired the wrong guy’: Blowtorch turns to Hegseth as Waltz pays for Signalgate

US President Donald Trump has removed national security adviser Mike Waltz from his post and sent him off to be an ambassador to the United Nations, a body the president holds in contempt.