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Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has adopted a heavy-handed approach to cutting any perceived wasteful spending in the US government.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest playwrights. A prolific and unabashedly autobiographical writer, Williams’ career spanned four decades of the 20th century.

The on-again-off-again tariffs are now apparently on again, at least for cars not built in the United States. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a new executive order announcing a 25-percent tariff on all foreign-built vehicles.

The reason for the switch remains unclear as climate change continues to increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events

Mark Rutte says US wants reassurance European allies will ‘step up’ while Europe needs to know ‘Uncle Sam still has our back’

The second Donald Trump administration has already sent shockwaves through the political establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Overseas, the focus has been on the administration’s apparent dismantling of the post-war international order and Trump’s apparent pivot away from America’s traditional allies towards a warmer relationship with Russia and…

Analysts have raised questions about views expressed by Vice President JD Vance on a text chain with other officials before military strikes.

Plans for an attack against an enemy target are classified in America. But the private views of high-ranking officials about allies, communicated within government, must also count as intelligence to be protected.

Ericka Abram reflects on her remarkable childhood as a 1970s revolutionary

Journalist Beck argues that the war on terror made America vastly more authoritarian, paving the way for Trump

Donald Trump could once again turn to his ally Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief architect of the Doha Deal, as his Afghanistan go-between. Some experts fear that would be a mistake, as Arpan Rai reports