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WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump warned people on Tuesday against protesting at the weekend military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. "For those people that want to protest, they're going to be met with very big force," Trump told reporters in the White House's Oval Office.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump, staging outside a federal complex that remained largely quiet and without major protests following two days of clashes with immigration authorities.The deployment appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s national guard was activated without a request from its governor, a significant escalation against those who have sought to hinder the administration’s mass deportation efforts. On Sunday morning, some of the troops were stationed outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, dressed in tactical...

Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week. The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News scheduled to broadcast on Sunday, follows days of feuding and threats after Musk called Republicans’ budget legislation an “abomination”. Trump told interviewer Kristen Welker his relationship with the tech mogul was over and warned Musk against choosing to fund Democrats after spending close to $300m in support of Trump’s re-election last year. “If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told...

. — Governor Kathy Hochul is issuing an executive order to prevent other state agencies from hiring former corrections officers who were fired for their involvement in the illegal strikes. On Monday, the Department of Corrections & Community Supervision (DOCCS) terminated about 2,000 officers who did not return to work after three weeks of striking. Public employees cannot strike under state law. Those that remained on the picket line were also doing so in direct defiance of a judge's restraining order, meaning there had been the possibility of law enforcement arresting officers on a criminal contempt charge.

Dictators crave power. President Donald Trump is using his power to give Americans more freedom. That's a massive difference. Desperate to find an effective attack against Trump, some Democrats are recycling an old one. They claim he's an authoritarian. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., invited laid-off federal workers to attend Trump's recent speech to Congress. She said she was standing "shoulder to shoulder with people in defiance to a dictator." That type of defiance led Democrats to callously withhold applause from a 13-year-old brain-cancer survivor simply because Trump introduced him. Shameful. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recently called Trump a...

I have known Volodymyr Zelensky very well for years. As a senior official personally appointed by Zelensky, I spoke to him many times a day and observed him closely both in public and privately. We parted on good terms and without rancour. I have no personal axe to grind. But today I cannot remain silent about how Zelensky is weakening Ukraine under the guise of war. As a result of this new climate of fear I must write these words under the veil of anonymity – a necessary precaution against retaliation from the very regime I once served. It pains...

“Zelensky wants to keep the gravy train going.” “Zelensky has done a terrible job. His country is shattered. Millions of people have unnecessarily died."

US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Trump’s accusation, posted on his social media network Truth Social, came just hours after Zelensky accused him of repeating Russian disinformation. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelensky pushed back on several unfounded claims the US president made on Tuesday, while reinforcing Ukraine’s position that a deal to end the war needed its involvement. “Unfortunately, President Trump – I have great respect for him as a leader...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is living in a Russian "disinformation space" regarding his previous day's comments about the Ukrainian leader's approval rating. Trump said at Mar-a-Lago that Zelenskyy's rating stood at 4%. Zelenskyy replied in a news conference in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv that "we have seen this disinformation. We understand that it is coming from Russia." He said that Trump "lives in this disinformation space." Trump also suggested Ukraine ought to hold elections, which have been postponed due to the war and the consequent imposition of martial law, in accordance with the Ukrainian...

I have long said the only thing President Trump needs to do is to tell Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy he needs to hold an election to showcase his public support for his position. After that, Trump can do nothing except wait for the result and the winner of the election to come to him. Then, engage with Putin on a resolution to the conflict.Would Zelenskyy win the election? I don’t think so, but who knows. Today a video surfaces where Zelenskyy was directly asked why he has cancelled all Ukraine elections, and would he restart them now. Zelenskyy said no,...

Trump wants FBI agents who investigated his coup attempt, his facilitating espionage, or his other financial and criminal activities fired. Let’s be very clear: this is how dictatorships start. A guy who wants to be a dictator always begins by changing how the government works. Even though the majority of the nation had agreed previously that the government should do certain things in certain ways, he reassures everybody he’s got a better way and it’ll all work out..... In the process, he breaks a bunch of laws, but people mostly shrug because they don’t directly affect them. Pastor Niemöller wrote...

After three years of war, President Zelensky joins Piers Morgan to respond to criticism from US conservatives and state the case for America's backing in its war with Russia. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has become one of the most famous world leaders of modern times. Some call him a modern-day Churchill; bravely staying with his people to lead their resistance. Others, however, have called him a beggar or worse for consistently asking for more aid from the US and Europe. Piers asks Zelensky how he thinks the war is going and what Putin really wants. Plus, the Ukrainian...

There is no question that Zelensky has become a ruthless dictator at the behest of the West. If Trump really wants to end this war, cut off EVERYTHING to Ukraine until Zelensky allows an election and then send in monitors to ensure the Ukrainian people get a real election. Sources in Ukraine have often questioned if he was actually elected. But that is revisiting history and who knows the truth? What is clear is that he ran promising peace and has done absolutely everything opposite of what he ran for election promising. Vladimir Putin has raised this question about Volodymyr...

President-elect Trump ran much of his campaign based on retribution and absolute loyalty. As he prepares for a second term in office, what might that mean for the future of U.S. democracy? Laura Barrón-López discussed more with Jason Stanley, a Yale philosophy professor and author of “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.” William Brangham: President-elect Donald Trump ran a lot of his campaign promising retribution for his enemies and asking absolute loyalty from his supporters. Now, as he prepares for a second term in office, Laura Barron-Lopez has a look at what that might mean...

A Russian ballet dancer who was an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine has mysteriously plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a building. Vladimir Shklyarov, a married father of two, plummeted around 60 feet to the ground from a building on Saturday, a spokesperson for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, where the 39-year-old was the highest-ranking dancer, told Fontanka. Russian authorities initially labeled the fall an accident, blaming the painkillers he was taking before a complex spinal surgery. However, he joins numerous other critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin who have met untimely ends —...

Dolton “Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard called the Illinois village’s police after she spotted workers taking down welcome banners featuring her image — with her self-described “super mayor” title underneath — as the vendor claims it’s owed nearly $20,000, according to a new report. Footage obtained by NBC 5 Chicago showed the controversial leader asking for charges to be filed against the village administrator and possibly even the workers removing the signage at the behest of the village’s dissenting trustees. “Press charges on him, and they just in the middle of it but if I gotta press charges on them, too,...

Vice-presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed that former President Donald Trump is a “dictator” trying to “overturn the Constitution” during his rally in Arizona on Saturday. “Momentum is on our side, but we take nothing for granted,” the Democrat said to a Tucson audience. “We know in Arizona a vote or two per precinct could be what it takes to win the whole damn race for the country.”

Dolton “Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard inferred she would seek the arrests of her opponents in a rambling social media rant as her fed-up landlord described dealing with the under-fire pol who is facing eviction. Henyard, of the Illinois suburb, went on a nearly 90-minute tirade in a Facebook live video Tuesday after a meeting of the Thornton Township, which she also leads, was canceled because not enough board members showed up. In the endless address, the scandal-ridden mayor defended herself against non-stop criticism over her handling of municipal business and finances while calling dissenting officials corrupt. “I will be seeking...

The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy. Or the “peaceful forms of protest” carried on with nuclear missiles and terrorism. But...

The so-called Dolton “Dictator” wants to stay in power. Tiffany Henyard, the self-proclaimed “super mayor” of Dolton, Illinois announced her reelection bid Tuesday — despite facing countless controversies during her first term that have landed her under federal scrutiny. “Attention, Attention, Attention, Attention,” she said on Facebook. “I am running for Reelection for Mayor of Dolton.” But Henyard, who clinched her first term in office in 2021, hasn’t done much fundraising leading up to Tuesday’s announcement. Her campaign, Friends of Tiffany Henyard, didn’t record any contributions or expenses between July and September, according to the most recent campaign disclosure report.