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On the touchline or off it, the former Chelsea manager is still the biggest draw in the women's gameFootball needs great characters and, for 12 years, English women's football was all the more interesting for the presence of one of the most charismatic coaches in the sport in the form of Emma Hayes; never afraid to speak her mind, never dull and scarcely ever beaten. Perhaps the Women's Super League and the wider English game did not realise quite how much it was missing Hayes until she brought her Olympic champions to London and reminded everyone what a difference a sprinkle of personality can make inhelping to grow a sport.The match itself was rather unexciting, but the USA coach somehow made the occasion anything but. The tone was set at the start of the week when Hayes hosted a press conference in a pub in Camden. Where else? She joked about the venue smelling of fart and feet", before pouring some pints from behind the bar. It would be unfair to label the 12 current WSL managers as dull by comparison but it is undeniably true that none of them can yet grab a room's attention quite like Hayes can, guarantee as many column inches or stir up quite so much attention for a friendly fixture. Continue reading...

Prime minister becomes first G7 leader to visit president-elect amid concerns over tariff threatDonald Trump said he had a productive" meeting with Justin Trudeau after the Canadian prime minister paid a surprise trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate amid fears about Trump's promised tariffs.Trudeau became the first G7 leader to meet with Trump before his second term amid widespread fears in Canada and many other parts of the world that Trump's trade policy will cause widespread economic chaos. Continue reading...

Businessman pleaded guilty to illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering in 2005Donald Trump has nominated Charles Kushner, a businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Ivanka, to serve as US ambassador to France, the president-elect said on Saturday.Kushner, whose job requires Senate confirmation, is the latest of Trump's picks to have close ties with the incoming president. Kushner's son, Jared Kushner, is married to Ivanka Trump, and was a close advisor to Trump during his first presidency. Continue reading...

It wasn't a classic, but an improved defensive performance from the Lionesses denied Emma Hayes's Olympic champions at Wembley2 min: Otherwise, it's a uneventful start as both teams take turns to get a feel of the ball.12 secs: Naz makes good down the right but her cross is too high for Russo in the middle. Naeher claims. What a start that could have been! Continue reading...

Cooper's whereabouts after he jumped from a plane with $200,000 stumped investigators. Has the case been solved?It is one of the biggest mysteries in US criminal history: just what happened to DB Cooper, the man who hijacked an airplane before leaping out in mid-air with $200,000 in cash?Now, more than 50 years later, the infamous crime may have been solved, after a pair of siblings came forward to claim they had found the parachute used in the hijacking, in their mother's shed, and that Cooper was their father. Continue reading...

Digital crusade by anti-woke warriors against a vapid film for teen girls should be sending a wake-up call to HollywoodThe war on woke" has a new target and her name is the Wicked Witch of the West. If you're a fan of the musical Wicked, you'll also know her as Elphaba, the moniker imagined by Gregory Maguire in his 1995 prequel to L Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. As played by Margaret Hamilton in the 1939 movie, she was the nemesis of Judy Garland's Dorothy; as played this year by the musical theatre star Cynthia Erivo, she has conservative men across Britain and America bursting their blood vessels.Since Maguire came up with his novel - an extravagant piece of fan-fiction that suggests this witch" might simply have been misunderstood - it has been reinterpreted as a stage musical and now as a movie in two parts. Wicked's target market consists of teenage girls who see themselves in this backstory for Elphaba and her college-friend-turned-rival, Glinda the Good Witch. In the 21 years since Stephen Schwartz's adaptation opened on Broadway, the show has been a cult phenomenon among young musical fans, blithely ignored by everyone else. Now the screen version has brought into mainstream conversation and the land of Oz has become a battleground in America's culture war.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...

Riding on a TikTok tide of Putin propaganda, the Romanian nationalist typifies a swing on the continent that is raising the spectre of the 1930sPolitics in Romania can be a bloody business, especially on the right. The excesses of the Iron Guard, an insurrectionary, violently antisemitic, ultranationalist 1930s political-religious militia, stood out even at a time when fascist parties were wreaking havoc in Germany, Italy and Spain. Given what is happening in Europe today, the events of that period are instructive.Iron Guard founder Corneliu Codreanu, a ruthless assassin who was himself assassinated in 1938, and his ally turned enemy, the pro-Nazi general Ion Antonescu, who was executed for war crimes in 1946, are back in the news of late. That's because both men have been lauded as national heroes by Clin Georgescu, shock winner of last weekend's first round of Romania's presidential election.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...

Officials acknowledge prisoners have harmed themselves but say they did not set themselves on fire or self-immolateSeveral incarcerated people in Virginia's high-security Red Onion state prison have intentionally burned themselves in a protest against harsh conditions at the facility.A written statement from Virginia's department of corrections acknowledged that men imprisoned there had harmed themselves, although the authorities confirmed six incidents while others reported that 12 men were injured. Continue reading...

Email from mother, published in the New York Times, said he mistreated women and displayed a lack of characterThe family dynamics of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, have burst out into the open after an email from his mother criticizing her son over his treatment of women and calling him an abuser of women" was leaked to a newspaper.A 2018 email from Penelope Hegseth accused her son of routinely mistreating women and displaying a lack of character. Continue reading...

Hoax threats come days after similar threats to Republicans set to fill roles in incoming Trump administrationAmerican lawmakers are on edge after a wave of hoax bomb threats targeted figures across the political spectrum and prompted the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives to demand that Congress take action to provide maximum protection".Over Thanksgiving nearly the entire Connecticut congressional delegation of Democrats faced bomb threats that apparently were signed Maga" - shorthand for Donald Trump's Make America great again" political movement. Continue reading...

Elon Musk seems to have abandoned his many children to hang out with Trump's family and JD Vance is ... just bizarreMelania Trump has made it clear that her second stint at being first lady will be conducted entirely on her own terms. It's been reported that she's unlikely to move back to the White House and will spend a lot of the next four years flitting between New York and Florida. Maybe she'll write another coffee table book. Maybe she'll develop another caviar-infused skincare line. Who knows. But whatever she does, it'll be in the service of her own interest, rather than the country's. Continue reading...

As the next US president threatens steep tariffs, the country's two largest trading partners steel themselves for another rocky rideStone-faced as he stared into a gaggle of cameras on Tuesday, the leader of Canada's largest province laid bare how it feels to be America's northern neighbour and closest ally this week.It's like a family member stabbing you right in the heart," said Ontario's premier, Doug Ford. A day before, president-elect Donald Trump had pledged hefty tariffs on Mexico and Canada, the US's two largest trading partners. It's the biggest threat we've ever seen ... It's unfortunate. It's very, very hurtful." Continue reading...

Navajo Nation sued Apache county for a second time over alleged scramble to cure mail-in ballots - on top of other systemic hurdles like long lines and translation issuesThe calls started coming in to the Arizona Native vote election protection hotline around 6am on election day.Voters in Apache county, where a sizable chunk of the population is Dine, also known as Navajo, were seeing problems at the polls. One location was locked and several others were having trouble printing ballots, according to an affidavit filed in state court. As the day went on, voters reported hours-long waits and observers reported that people were leaving. A local judge would eventually agree to extend voting in nine precincts in the county by two hours. Continue reading...

President-elect's list of branded products continues to grow - and he seems to be profiting from his eclectic rangeDonald Trump raised eyebrows earlier this month when he announced he was selling a line of $11,000 guitars - the musical instrument becoming the latest item in a string of Trump-endorsed products that include sneakers, a Bible and a victory cologne".Billed as the only guitar officially endorsed by President Donald J Trump", the acoustic and electric axes bear all the gaudy insignia of Trump's political campaigns, and have been developed with the help of a master luthier". Continue reading...

Political analysts say president-elect cannot resist chaos' as he preps administration across ideological spectrumDuring Donald Trump's first administration, his vice-president became the target of an angry mob amid calls for him to be hanged. His top diplomat was fired via Twitter and branded dumb as a rock". His first attorney general was given his marching orders and called very weak" and disgraceful".Despite it all, Trump has had no trouble recruiting a team eager to serve when he returns to the White House in January, even if his initial pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, was forced to back out amid allegations of sexual misconduct. Continue reading...

When people face financial pressure and child poverty is so high, it's hard to prioritise family readingOn the shelf in my son's bedroom is a row of picture books that once belonged to me. Sometimes, I like to look at them, and be immediately transported back to my own childhood. There's The Three Wonderful Beggars, by Sally Scott, a retelling of the Serbian fairytale; and The Whales' Song, by Dyan Sheldon and Gary Blythe, about a little girl who sneaks out at night in the hope of hearing the sea creatures call to one another.These books conjured vivid worlds for me, and there's something magical about being able to tap into that still, all these years later. This week, I read an interesting report about the so-called crisis" in kids' literacy, which, while worrying, is somewhat overblown. The real concern, it seems, is not to do with test scores measuring the ability to read, but the plummeting number of children reading for pleasure. In 2020, only 17% of US 13-year-olds read for fun every day, compared with 27% in 2012. The numbers in the UK are higher, but also on a downward trajectory. The National Literacy Trust found 35% of eight- to 18-year-olds said they regularly read for pleasure in 2024, which is the lowest figure since measurements began two decades ago.Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist and author Continue reading...

Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patientsThe succession of former prime ministers who lined up in recent days to assert their compassion for the dying was quite something. David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson - all of them wanting us to know just how much they cared. Imagine if this roll call of political powerhouses - each of whom was better placed than anyone to improve the fate of those with terminal diagnoses - had used that power, while in office, to do something concrete, tangible, to alleviate the terminal suffering that allegedly touched them so deeply. Imagine, in other words, if their actions then had matched their fine words now.I don't doubt the strength of feeling behind this vote in favour of legalising assisted dying in England and Wales, but as someone who has cared for thousands of people with terminal illnesses, I have to wonder at its sincerity. Because every prime minister over the last 20 years - and every MP for that matter - knows full well that much (though not all) of the pain and misery of dying can be alleviated with good palliative care. They also know how much suffering at the end of life is caused by basic NHS, social and palliative care simply not being there for patients. Wes Streeting went one step further. The health secretary cited the threadbare realities of our underfunded, patchy, palliative care services as his primary reason for voting against the bill, stating (correctly) that the postcode lottery in care denies many patients a genuine choice at the end of life.Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic Continue reading...

From selfie' to slop', internet culture is changing our languageIt started with chav" and has included carbon footprint", omnishambles" and selfie". The Oxford word of the year campaign celebrates 20 years of selecting the word - or sometimes two words - that in some way sums up the moment. This year's winner, decided by public vote, will be announced on Monday.All six contenders on the shortlist have one thing in common - the internet. The words either refer to anxieties about online phenomena or behaviour (slop", meaning AI-generated content, and brain rot" caused by consuming too much slop" and other material); or they have been repurposed or popularised by social media (old-fashioned words such as demure" and lore", and romantasy" - a blend of romance and fantasy beloved by BookTokkers). Even dynamic pricing" relates to Ticketmaster's skyrocketing costs ofOasis reunion tickets for fans in virtual queues. Continue reading...

Thousands of people ventured out in the rain to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade , with beloved floats, including Minnie Mouse and Sponge Bob, sailing down the parade route. The 98th annual parade, televised nationwide, is part of the tradition of the US Thanksgiving Day holiday, a spectacle of giant balloons of cartoon characters, marching bands and popular music acts performing live. Similar events took place in Chicago, where an array of floats, marching bands and cultural performers marched down State Street. Continue reading...

Emma Hayes is keen for her Olympic champions to keep progressing in Saturday's friendly meeting with EnglandLindsey Horan's nails are painted gold and she gives an embarrassed laugh when asked whether they are a celebration of the US team's Olympic gold in Paris, a statement to Saturday's opposition of their status. No, it was supposed to be brown chrome," she says, going a little red. It was a translation problem."Her manager, Emma Hayes, sitting beside her at Tottenham's training ground before the game against England at Wembley, chips in: She has got the most incredible necklace, though." The five Olympic rings hang round Horan's neck in gold and the captain promises she will get Hayes one. Continue reading...

From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order - and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposedIt's one damned thing after another. As Keir Starmer is discovering, government, like life, can feel like a fusillade of events, each coming faster than the one before. If it's not a cabinet minister resigning over a past fraud conviction, it's MPs voting for assisted dying - and that's just in one day. Through that blizzard of news, it can be hard to make out the lasting changes in the landscape - even those that have profound implications for our place in the world.The November 2024 event that will have the most enduring global impact is the election of Donald Trump. There are some in the higher reaches of the UK government who are surprisingly relaxed about that fact, reassuring themselves that, in effect, we got through it once, we'll get through it again. Yes, they admit, Trump has nominated some crazy people to lead in areas crucial to the UK-US relationship, such as defence and intelligence, but don't worry, officials in London will do what they did last time: work with like-minded counterparts in the Washington bureaucracy to bypass the Trump loyalists at the top.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The LGBTQ+ community has been here before - and learned that real change happens when activists are front and centerThe ascendency of Donald Trump to his second presidency is fraught with anxiety and fear for many Americans, particularly gay Americans. Books with queer themes are already being removed from school and public libraries. Trans people are being denied the right to use bathrooms or be on sports teams that align with their gender. Trans medical care is under attack in many states. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that may help LGBTQ+ people as well as others are being eliminated. Justice Clarence Thomas has broached revisiting" the supreme court decisions that legalized same-sex marriage.Many queer activists - panicked, tenacious, resolute - are asking what we can do in the face of these attacks that seek to dismantle basic rights and access that were presumed permanent. The enormity and consequentiality of this battle feels like being swept heedlessly into uncharted waters. We are rummaging through US history to find precedents for why Trump won and how to confront the damage he may cause.Working behind the scenes is necessary, but real change happens when activists are front and centerMichael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist and organizer Continue reading...

Peter Young says agency sought information from him about Daniel Andreas San Diego, who was on most wanted terrorists' listA former animal rights activist who was on the run from the FBI for more than seven years claims that he was offered a deal to inform on one of the organisation's most wanted fugitives who was arrested this week in Wales.Peter Young, 47, who now lives in Boulder, Colorado, went on the run after being indicted in 1998 over a string of fur farm raids across three states the previous year. He was jailed in the US for two years in 2005 after spending years hiding from the FBI in the UK. Continue reading...

Both sides have key absences but England hope to learn from going toe-to-toe with Emma Hayes's resurgent sideThe prospect of the European champions hosting the Olympic champions induces sufficient intrigue on its own. But add in the triumphant return to Wembley of Emma Hayes, and an England side with plenty to improve on after losing to Germany last time they played at the national stadium, and this is much more than a friendly between the top-ranked sides in the world.For an England team hoping to retain their title at next summer's Euros in Switzerland, there is no greater yardstick than to test themselves against the USA, who are ranked No 1 and have appeared fully rejuvenated since Hayes left Chelsea to take charge in May. Continue reading...

As Germany and France struggle, Keynesian stimulus alone cannot pull them out of their malaiseAs Europe prepares for a potential trade war after the US president-elect, Donald Trump, takes office in January, its two largest economies are struggling. While Germany is heading into its second consecutive year of zero growth, France is expected to grow by less than 1% in 2025.Is Europe's economic stagnation the result of insufficient Keynesian stimulus, or are its bloated and sclerotic welfare states to blame? Either way, it is clear that those who believe simple measures such as higher budget deficits or lower interest rates can solve Europe's problems are detached from reality. Continue reading...

If Putin allowed to reduce Ukraine to vassal state he will not stop there', Richard Moore says in plea to TrumpAbandoning Ukraine would jeopardise British, European and American security and lead to infinitely higher" costs in the long term, the head of MI6 has warned in a speech that amounted to a plea to Donald Trump to continue supporting Kyiv.Richard Moore, giving a rare speech, said he believed Vladimir Putin would not stop" at Ukraine if he was allowed to subjugate it in any peace talks involving the incoming US Republican administration. Continue reading...

Tensions during travel aren't only about conflicting agendas. The lack of familiar patterns can leave us rattled at the vast randomness of the universeAre you doing that thing of always contradicting every single word I say?" he, accusing, looked up from his phone map.No, I'm not." She, petulant, stopped and stood by her suitcase. Continue reading...

Young people are admitting that going out is awful. Plus, is it the end for Gwyneth Paltrow's vaginal maintenance empire Goop?Today I begin three days of being locked in a tiny, soundproofed, windowless room, alone except for a book. In so many ways, it is the dream. The only flaw is that the book is one I wrote and I have to read it aloud into a microphone so that it may be recorded and turned into an audiobook. So really, it's three days of continuous talking and of periodically hearing your voice played back to you so that you can hear where you went wrong. In other words, the nightmare. Continue reading...

US expert says models showed voters did not seek sweeping transformation. Plus: hiker found alive after 50 days lostGood morning.Despite Donald Trump's decisive victory in the presidential election, a political scientist who developed a model that correctly predicted his sweep of battleground states warns that voters have not necessarily given the president-elect a mandate to make radical changes.What did Trump's Ukraine envoy pick controversially propose? The retired lieutenant general Keith Kellogg has written that the US could help end the war by withdrawing weapons from Ukraine if it does not enter peace talks - and giving even more weapons to Ukraine if Russia does not do the same.What's Musk's latest big idea? The tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has been tapped to run a department of government efficiency" has said he wants to delete" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal watchdog that helps protect consumers from predatory financial practices.Did they discuss tariffs? No, according to Sheinbaum, but she nevertheless said that her conversation with Trump had reassured her that no tit-for-tat tariff battle would be needed in future. Continue reading...

Boris Epshteyn, Susie Wiles and JD Vance hold outsized influence in the president-elect's administration selectionsDonald Trump's picks for the incoming administration are being shaped by a combination of different power centers including one-man influences like top Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn and combined groups led by chief of staff Susie Wiles and vice-president-elect JD Vance.The president-elect appears to have settled on a number of cabinet nominees himself without being aggressively pushed by advisers, including Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, Marco Rubio for secretary of state and Russ Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Continue reading...

Leaders from Los Angeles to Chicago organize in preparation of a vengeance-filled Trump agendaMike Johnston, the mayor of Denver, joined a drumbeat of local leaders in left-leaning cities across the country earlier this month to say he's willing to protest the incoming Trump administration's expected mass deportation efforts.He told local outlet Denverite that Denver police would be stationed at the county line" to keep federal authorities out. It's like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?" he said. He then walked back the comments about using local police, but still said he would protest deportations - even being willing to go to jail for it. Continue reading...

Growing rates of infectious disease in state's most populous region could indicate increased vaccine hesitancy'In deep blue Colorado, one of the only states that did not shift right in the 2024 presidential election, vaccine advocates see openings for Robert F Kennedy Jr.An environmental lawyer and the nation's most prominent propagator of vaccine misinformation, Kennedy is now the embodiment of where left meets right - the scion of a political dynasty who first ran as a Democratic presidential candidate and is now slated to join president-elect Trump's administration as the nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Continue reading...

Whatever happens in Australia and the rest of 2025, Murray taking the role of Djokovic's corner man is a unique and somewhat joyful coda to this golden era in the sportIn June 1990, just minutes after his shocking first-round defeat to upset specialist Derrick Rostagno at Wimbledon, a suddenly aging and forlorn John McEnroe sat down with NBC's Bud Collins, along with rival Jimmy Connors, for an interview. Connors was working for NBC that summer as an analyst while nursing a wrist injury.It was a rare moment of revealing, subdued reflection from the usually fiery McEnroe. The loquacious New Yorker spoke about his disappointment with himself and his level of play and how difficult it had become to balance family life and a pro tennis career. Connors pointed out that his fellow Irish-American seemed to be lacking direction and was in need of advice on how to proceed. Continue reading...

I've been punished for using the term genocide' - but hope for peace and justice must be kept alive in Israel and PalestineThe arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court (ICC) against Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former defence minister Yoav Gallant caught many in the international community by surprise. How is it that a perceived constitutional democracy, bound by the rule of law, with a supposedly autonomous judiciary, could allegedly be in such grave violation of international laws and norms?However, those who have observed, in horror and shock, the unfolding genocide over the past year needed no revelation by the ICC to know the extent of the war crimes and atrocities committed in Gaza. Palestinians, in the ruins of bombarded Gaza, the occupied West Bank, or illegally annexed East Jerusalem, were undoubtedly not surprised. For decades, generation after generation of Palestinians have been deprived of their basic rights and liberties under the auspices of the Israeli occupation. For them, the idea of an Israeli rule of law is as absurd as any colonial attempt to legitimise tyranny through hollow legality. Continue reading...

The cost of truly replacing Salah would almost certainly be steeper than the price of keeping him. Just ask Boston how their Mookie Betts succession plan has panned outFenway Sports Group, the John W Henry-led company that holds a controlling stake in Liverpool FC, doesn't need to look too far back into its own history to find a lesson that should signpost a resolution to Mohamed Salah's contract situation.In February 2020, Mookie Betts was one of the best baseball players on the planet. He was a little over a year removed from powering the Boston Red Sox - also owned by FSG - to a World Series triumph. He was 27 years old, at the peak of his powers. He was an American League MVP and a four-time All-Star. He was also about to become a free agent. Continue reading...

Sales employees complain of understaffing, overwork and violence in frenzied run-up to Christmas seasonFor workers in retail, the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, marks the beginning of the busiest time of year.Though the nature of shopping has changed in recent years, with online purchases competing more with brick and mortar sales and sales days" lasting for weeks at a time, US retail sales between Black Friday and so-called Cyber Monday (at the end of the holiday weekend) are projected to grow 5% this year in the US, hitting a record $75bn. Continue reading...

We need to hear out family and friends who feel mainstream parties have let them down. This was a cry for helpLast Sunday, my country was jolted awake by a collective shock. For days, we've been consumed by one name: Clin Georgescu. His unexpected rise to the top in the first round of Romania's presidential elections has polarised the country to an extent unseen since we became a democracy 35 years ago.Romania's streets, screens and dining tables are abuzz with debates about how a fringe far-right and ultra-nationalist candidate managed to capture the nation's attention - and votes. Protesters, many of them young, have already taken to the streets. Continue reading...

Campaigners on both sides dub the bill a matter of conscience' - but profound ethical issues can't be reduced to right v wrongLife moves slow until, suddenly, it doesn't. The last time MPs voted on assisted dying was in 2015, with the next decade marked by near silence on the issue, as Brexit and austerity dominated the agenda. On Friday, a mere 18 days after the legislation was first published, MPs will vote on the landmark terminally ill adults (end of life) bill that could, in time, see the right to die become law in England and Wales.None of this will feel fast enough for the late-stage cancer patients waiting for the autonomy to die as they choose, of course, not least those for whom it has come too late to end their suffering, or the loved ones who had to helplessly watch. And yet by any other definition, it is hard to escape the sense that the bill has been rushed. Britain's longest-serving MPs, Labour's Diane Abbott and the Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, last week issued a joint warning arguing that MPs have not had sufficient time to scrutinise the proposed law.Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Jim Himes, Joe Courtney and John Larson report threats to their homes, a day after Trump cabinet picks targetedSeveral Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut have been targeted by bomb threats on their homes, the lawmakers or their offices said on Thursday.

Sheinbaum says she had cooperative talks with president-elect who threatened 25% tariff against Mexico on TuesdayClaudia Sheinbaum has said her very kind" phone conversation with Donald Trump, in which they discussed immigration and fentanyl, means there will not be a potential tariff war" between the US and Mexico.The president of Mexico spoke to reporters on Thursday following Trump's threat earlier in the week to apply a 25% tariff against Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tariff against China, when he takes office in January if the countries did not stop all illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling into the US. Continue reading...

In a co-authored document presented to Trump in April, Keith Kellogg also said US should give Ukraine more weapons if Russia doesn't join negotiationsDonald Trump's plan to tap the retired US lieutenant general Keith Kellogg as US envoy to Ukraine and Russia has triggered renewed interest in a policy document he co-authored that proposes ending the war by withdrawing weapons from Ukraine if it doesn't enter peace talks - and giving even more weapons to Ukraine if Russia doesn't do the same.Trump is said to have responded favorably to the plan - America First, Russia & Ukraine - which was presented to him in April and was written by Kellogg and the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz, who both served as chiefs of staff in Trump's national security council from 2017 to 2021. Continue reading...

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