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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces resignation

Starmer will continue as caretaker prime minister until a new Labour leader is elected, while Reform UK has demanded a general election. #EuropeNews

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Loomer condemns 'crisis' in Trump-world after Gabbard 'guru' report​

Laura Loomer, an informal adviser to President Donald Trump, has blasted his administration for a “lack of vetting” following a damning report alleging that Tulsi Gabbard was being advised for years by the reclusive guru of a spiritual movement while in Congress.

Gabbard served her final day as Trump’s Director of National Intelligence on Thursday, two days before The Washington Post expose was published, to spend more time with her husband, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.

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We talked to arms dealers illegally selling guns | Visual investigations

Jun 20, 2026
Canadian sniper rifles are turning up in war-ravaged countries. They’re being sold openly on social media by arms dealers in Yemen, used by militias in Libya and by "genocidal" rebel fighters in Sudan — all countries prohibited from having Canadian weapons. CBC’s visual investigations team takes you inside this black market by tracking digital clues and talking to arms dealers.


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Todd Blanche hit with state bar complaint backed by 101 former judges​

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s principal focus in recent weeks has been lining up support on Capitol Hill ahead of his upcoming Senate confirmation hearings, with a specific focus on winning over GOP skeptics. But Donald Trump’s controversial former defense attorney has more troubles than lining up 51 votes.

As this week got underway, Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers Defending American Democracy and a group of 101 former federal and state judges filed a complaint against Blanche with the New York State Bar, which included a formal request for an ethics investigation.

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'There are no limits': Trump's views on presidential powers take an even more radical turn​

In theory, there are a great many lessons Donald Trump should have learned after launching a failed war against Iran. In practice, however, the president appears to have learned effectively nothing.

In fact, by some measures, he appears to have come away from the conflict having learned the wrong lessons.

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Trump doesn’t own the government – even though he acts as if Congress is not his equal in constitutional power and authority​

In a recent exchange with reporters about the newly brokered Iran agreement, President Donald Trump was asked whether he planned to submit the deal to Congress.

“I never thought about sending – never even thought about it, but I will,” Trump said. “I will send it to Congress. I like the idea.”

The most revealing phrase in the president’s statement was not “I will send it.” It was “I never thought about it.”

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