Extreme weather and life-threatening cold temperatures are set to hit western states near the Rocky Mountains – after severe flooding killed at least 10 people in the eastern US over the weekend. The National Weather Service’s (NWS) weather prediction centre said a winter storm tracking from the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic is expected to
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At least 10 people, including a mother and seven-year-old child, have been killed amid harsh weather in the US. Storms and severe flooding have hit areas of Kentucky, leaving nine dead and hundreds of others in need of rescue. Elsewhere, a person in Atlanta was killed when an “extremely large tree” fell on a home
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The prime minister will join an emergency meeting of European leaders to discuss Ukraine, expected to happen early next week. Sir Keir Starmer has spoken of a “once in a generation moment” for the UK, US and Europe to work together and warned against NATO “divisions”. He said the UK will “work to ensure we
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Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet Sir Keir Starmer “very soon” after the prime minister “asked to come” to the US. Mr Trump discussed details of his phone call with Sir Keir while taking questions from the media in the White House’s Oval Office on Friday. “He asked for a meeting, and I agreed
The US president has promised to target countries which charge tax on US imports by matching them with a reciprocal tariff. Donald Trump has ordered his team to start calculating duties by early April – increasing fears of a global trade war that could also accelerate US inflation. “On trade, I have decided for purposes
US President Donald Trump says he will unveil “reciprocal” trade tariffs on Thursday, adding: “Today is the big one”. Countries around the world have been waiting for details on potential tariffs amid a series of threats from the White House. “Three great weeks, perhaps the best ever. Today is the big one: reciprocal tariffs,” Mr
Donald Trump says there has been agreement to begin negotiations about ending the war in Ukraine, after holding phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It is the US president’s first big step towards diplomacy over a conflict which he promised to end within 24 hours of being inaugurated. “We both agreed, we want
US troops will not be used to secure the peace in Ukraine following any ceasefire deal with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump’s new defence secretary has declared, as he signalled a dramatic shift in American foreign and defence policy away from Europe. Pete Hegseth also said it is “unrealistic” to think Ukraine can return to its
Elon Musk joined Donald Trump in the Oval Office as the US president signed an executive order allowing the tech billionaire to make large-scale reductions in the federal workforce. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory group, Mr Musk says he wants to add “common sense controls” to government and ensure
In what will be seen as a signature act of the new Trump administration, the president and his team have denounced and dismembered the US government’s international assistance arm, USAID, in a matter of three weeks. It is a decision that will have serious, real-world consequences – and the impact is already being felt in
Donald Trump says the Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled if all remaining Israeli hostages are not returned by noon on Saturday – as he warned Hamas that “all hell is going to break out”. The US president’s intervention came hours after Hamas has said it will delay the release of more hostages and accused Israel
Donald Trump has said he trusts Elon Musk and is going to ask him to investigate billions of dollars of “fraud and abuse” within the US military. The X owner is spearheading the US president’s efforts to cut costs and bureaucracy in government, which has already seen the US Aid Agency for International Development targeted.
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
A federal court has paused aspects of a plan by Donald Trump to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and put roughly 2,700 of its staff on leave. District judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by the US president during his first term, agreed with legal arguments from the largest government workers’ union
A search for a missing plane carrying 10 people is under way in Alaska. The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm’s operations director David Olson said. Officials are trying to work out its last-known position but the coastguard said the Cessna
A small plane which crashed in western Alaska with 10 people on board has been found and the US Coast Guard (USCG) says there were no survivors. The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm’s operations director David Olson said. On Saturday,
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 White House has appeared to backtrack on Donald Trump’s assertion that Palestinians should be permanently resettled from Gaza. On Tuesday, during a visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump said: “If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be