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My father was one of a volunteer crew who took a Dutch minesweeper across the Channel so that the Dutch flag was flown on D-day. He said that the worst thing was seeing the faces of those soldiers swept back against the ship as they were killed before they could properly set foot on the Normandy...

Jared Kushner’s interview over the weekend, in which he said he did not know if he would alert the FBI if approached privately again by Russia, has revived questions about his White House security clearance. The admission came in an interview with Axios on HBO in which Kushner seemed unprepared...

Significant levels of chemicals linked to an array of health problems have been found in seafood, meats and chocolate cake sold in stores to US consumers, the Food and Drug Administration has found. Toxic America The levels in nearly half of the meat and fish tested by researchers were at...

Jared Kushner said Democrats who call the president a racist are doing ‘a disservice to everyone who suffers from real racism in this country’. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Show Times investigation uncovers "alarmingly inappropriate" behavior from Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Trump...

In Virginia Beach on Monday, signs of a shooting that killed 12 people on Friday could still be seen at a complex of government buildings as authorities search for a motive. A mass shooting couldn’t happen in Virginia Beach … until it did At one entrance to the municipal center, a makeshift...

Executives of Barclays and the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline are among those invited to a breakfast meeting between Donald Trump and senior business leaders. About 10 executives have been asked to attend the gathering on Tuesday at St James’s Palace in central London, making it a much...

'So much land under so much water': extreme flooding is drowning parts of the midwest Homes are inundated with flood waters from the Arkansas river in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Photograph: Tom Gilbert/AP As relentless rain wreaks havoc in the farm belt, many struggle to cope by Chris McGreal...

It is one of the great mysteries of the Trump presidency. Up there with questions about the president’s tax returns and whether or not he obstructed justice in the Mueller investigation, are enduring questions about Donald Trump’s hair. The trademark bouffant, which Jimmy Fallon confirmed...

Donald Trump has praised Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, talked up the prospect of a Brexit trade deal, rebuked Sadiq Khan and denied making “bad” comments about the Duchess of Sussex as he left the US for his state visit to Britain. The US president said he expected his three-day visit to be...

In the dense jungle battlefields of the south Pacific, Louis Levi Oakes was a target. Often flanked by bodyguards as he carried a large field pack with a tangle of transmission lines, the men surrounding Oakes were assigned to protect a valuable asset – his language. A Mohawk soldier from a...

An institute whose experts have occupied key positions on EU and UN regulatory panels is, in reality, an industry lobby group that masquerades as a scientific health charity, according to a peer-reviewed study. The Washington-based International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) describes its...

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has expressed uncertainty over the ability of Palestinians to self-govern, in a rare television interview broadcast on Sunday night. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and an architect of the White House’s yet-to-be-released Middle East peace...

An order to have a ship named for the late Senator John McCain hidden from view during Donald Trump’s recent visit to Japan was “not an unreasonable thing to ask”, the president’s chief of staff said on Sunday. Mick Mulvaney made the startling claim even as it was reported that the Pentagon has...

More than 50 congressional Democrats reportedly back impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. But on Sunday morning, senior figures highlighted the split that remains between those demanding swift action and their party leaders. Siege review: Michael Wolff's Trump tale is Fire and Fury II...

After 12 people were shot dead at a government building in Virginia Beach on Friday, contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination sought to present the case for gun control reform in terms of tackling everyday gun violence, rather than stopping mass shootings. A mass shooting couldn’t...

Donald Trump is “deadly serious” about slapping tariffs on imports from Mexico, his chief of staff said on Sunday, even though the president “intentionally left the declaration sort of ad hoc” amidst fears of damage to the US economy if he follows through on his threat. Mexico could tighten...

The US is prepared to engage with Iran about its nuclear program without pre-conditions but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation”, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani suggested on Saturday that Iran may be willing to hold talks if...

Donald Trump has said he did not call Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, “nasty” when giving an interview to the Sun, despite an audio recording released by the paper. Speaking to the tabloid before his visit to the UK, Trump was told that Meghan “wasn’t so nice” about him during the 2016 US...

A handwritten note at the home of the Virginia Beach shootings suspect expressed condolences to the victims on behalf of the suspect’s family. A mass shooting couldn’t happen in Virginia Beach … until it did The suspect died in a shootout with police. The note was taped to the front door of...

Donald Trump’s state visit this week to the UK is being promoted as a celebration of a close alliance tempered through war. It could be more accurately described as a personal lap of victory for the US president, performed largely at the expense of his hosts. Trump arrives in London having...