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Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who rose to fame as a child star in the 1990s and 2000s, has died aged 39. Police in Manhattan said they responded to an emergency call on Wednesday morning. and found Trachtenberg "unconscious and unresponsive". She was pronounced dead at the scene. The American actress was best known for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer's younger sister Dawn Summers, and later took…
President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for selling a "gold card" visa for $5m (£3.9) that will offer wealthy buyers permanent residency in the US and a path to citizenship. At the first cabinet meeting of his current term, Trump told reporters that the visas would function similarly to green cards, which allow immigrants of varying incomes to live and work permanently in the US, but would go to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday to sign an agreement on sharing his country's mineral resources, Trump has said. Zelensky has described the bilateral deal as preliminary, and said he wants further agreements which include US security guarantees to deter renewed Russian aggression. But Trump said the US would not provide guarantees…
Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders the decision to refuse compensation to millions of women affected by an increase in the state pension age. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) group is demanding payouts for 3.6 million women born in the 1950s who were not properly informed of changes first introduced in the 1990s. The government…
US President Donald Trump has appointed right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI. Trump posted on social media that Bongino was "a man of incredible love and passion for our Country" and would serve under newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel. Bongino, 50, has worked for the New York police department and the Secret Service -as well as having been part of the protection…
Donald Trump made a lot of promises while running for president. He pledged to cut taxes, reduce prices, stem undocumented migration, raise revenue and strengthen American industry with new tariffs and end wars. Some of his proposals were detailed by his policy team or presented by Trump himself, in "Agenda 47" videos on his campaign website. Others were offered seemingly off-the-cuff - a product…
US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign - the latest development in the Trump administration's efforts targeting the federal workforce. The email came after billionaire Trump confidante Elon Musk tweeted that employees would "shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week".…
The Trump administration is moving to end New York City's congestion pricing plan, which charges vehicles entering the city in certain areas, then uses tolls to upgrade its aging transit systems. The Trump administration said the federal government has jurisdiction over highways leading into the city and is revoking its approval of the controversial program over concerns it unfairly burdens…
Donald Trump says he believes Russia has "the cards" in any peace talks to end the war in Ukraine because Russia has "taken a lot of territory". The US president told the BBC he trusted that Moscow wants to see an end to the war, which Russia started when it waged a full-scale invasion almost three years ago. Trump was flying back to Washington DC after speaking at a Saudi-backed investment…
The handover of the four bodies was again a choreographed event by Hamas this time in the devastated landscape of the southern city of Khan Younis. Hamas fighters and other armed factions stood in serried ranks as four coffins were handed over to the Red Cross, which had asked for the process to be done in a private and dignified manner. When the caskets were given over to Israel, the military…
