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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin has warned that Americans will "die" as a result of Donald Trump's “big beautiful bill,” after Congress passed the president’s signature domestic policy package. The House narrowly voted to approve the bill Thursday, which includes massive tax and federal spending cuts. The legislation will now be sent to the president, who is expected to sign it on Friday. Martin said the bill’s provisions means Americans will "starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs — and yes, some will die as a result of this bill."

There have been fresh calls for President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to fulfil their promise of releasing 'the full' Jeffrey Epstein files after the tragic death of Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre, known for her allegations against British royal Prince Andrew and her description of herself as Jeffrey Epstein's teenage "sex slave," died by suicide at the age of 41, just weeks after narrowly surviving a horrific car accident. Revealing the news on Friday, Giufre's family described her as a "fierce warrior" and "the light that lifted so many survivors." Giuffre accused billionaire Epstein of trafficking her for sex...

Justin Trudeau’s career is the stuff of 21st-century political drama, with an arc that has taken him from glamorous liberal standard-bearer to the butt of jokes by US president-elect Donald Trump and his acolytes. Trudeau burst on to the international scene in 2015, a newly elected young leader of Canada whose father had also once been a popular prime minister. And he spent the next decade building a brand around being a feminist, an environmentalist, a refugee and indigenous rights advocate, pursuing the same message of change and hope as Barack Obama. While he drew fawning reviews in the news...

Thanks a bunch, America. You’ve left no room for doubt that, yet again, your presidential preference is for anybody but a woman. Yup, even if the man is a galumphing sexual predator who boasts about assaulting women and has vowed to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not”. Yup, even if the woman is cleverer, younger, more energetic, more articulate and comfortable enough in her own skin not to plaster it with orange tan. The manosphere rules, OK. Nothing changes. Not really. Not ever. In the post-Roe v Wade age of JD Vance’s “cat ladies”, as it became...

US president Donald Trump is planning to boycott the annual St Patrick’s Day Speakers’ lunch in Washington next week the Irish Times has learned, amid ongoing tensions between the president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The president traditionally attends the lunch on Capitol Hill which is hosted by the House Speaker – one of the rare times in the year that the president visits congress. But it is understood that Mr Trump and vice president Mike Pence have indicated they will not attend next Thursday, though the Oval Office meeting between the Taoiseach and the president will proceed as planned...

Once confined to the small scientific community of climate researchers and ecological economists, the idea of degrowth is now blazing into the mainstream. Not surprisingly, people are trying to figure out what to make of it. Is it an inspiring idea that points the way to a better economy? Or is it a mad notion that’s sure to plunge us all into poverty? Degrowth is a planned reduction of total energy and material use to bring the economy in line with planetary boundaries, while improving people’s lives by distributing income and resources more fairly. The scientific case for degrowth is...