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Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has been accused of mocking the way President Donald Trump talked on live TV while he stood right next to her. Trump was spotted posing for pictures with the Queen and her husband King Willem-Alexander after he arrived in the European country for the NATO summit Wednesday. In a clip, the trio was seen smiling for cameras as Trump gave a thumbs-up while the King appeared to stand a bit closer to the commander-in-chief than his wife. Trump and the King made small talk and laughed a bit while Queen Maxima stayed quiet and continued...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could make him the most powerful president in history by using an obscure Constitutional theory to enact his vision of presidential authority. The new order seeks to 'reign in independent agencies' by seizing various departments that normally act in accordance with Congress and bring them under control of the executive branch in the White House. The order also states that the president and attorney general will interpret the law, leaving Trump free from Congressional and judicial oversight. Observers suggest that Trump is using unitary executive theory which grants the president a wide...

Keir Starmer has said he is prepared to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine if there is a deal to end the war with Russia, acknowledging it could put troops “in harm’s way” if Vladimir Putin launches another attack. It is understood to be the first time the prime minister has explicitly stated he is considering deploying British peacekeepers to Ukraine. The comments came just before emergency talks with European leaders in Paris on Monday. The leaders will aim to devise a strategy in response to Donald Trump’s push for a deal with the Russian president and to...

When Ric Harris traded in his ageing Mercedes for a Tesla Model 3, he was instantly converted. “It was a bit like having a spaceship,” says the 51-year-old computer programmer. “It saved me an absolute fortune in fuel; the only thing it’s had done is tyres and topping up the windscreen washer fluid.” When he acquired the car on a company scheme, Harris did not consider the politics of Tesla’s billionaire owner too closely. “Elon Musk just seemed like a really interesting person. Everything he was doing seemed really positive,” he says. Four and a half years later, the car’s...

Handcuffed and dressed in jail-issue tracksuits, a small batch of prisoners wait in line to be marched on to a transport plane and flown off to a new home that holds a uniquely notorious place in the annals of US justice. The ten prisoners, all members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan criminal gang that has managed to infiltrate America, are about to board the very first flight of ‘criminal aliens’, which departed for Guantanamo Bay last week. More than 20 years after the world saw the first shocking pictures of suspected Islamic terrorists being held at the same...

A Jack in the Box customer got a beating after attacking restaurant staff for forgetting her curly fries. The dramatic incident - which is believed to have occurred at the Spartanburg, South Carolina location - quickly escalated as the irate customer screamed at the staff for failing to add her three orders of curly fries to her combo meals. In a viral video first shared Sunday, as the woman yelled that she would 'blow this whole motherf****** up' if her order wasn't fixed. She continued to scream at the workers and even started throwing signs at them before the incident...