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    President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting next week, an apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities. Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States, Trump wrote, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They will be removed as fast as they come in. Large-scale ICE enforcement operations are typically kept secret to avoid tipping off targets to possible arrest. In 2017, Trump and other senior officials threatened the mayor of Oakland, Calif., with criminal prosecution for...

    The perilous contest between the United States and Iran for influence in the Middle East escalated dramatically on Thursday as two tankers were targeted in suspected attacks near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global oil shipments. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for the “blatant assault” on the vessels and said the United States would defend itself and its allies against Iranian aggression in the region. But he provided no evidence that the explosions had been the work of Iranian forces. The blasts appeared to be a coordinated attack, damaging the hull of a Japanese-owned tanker and striking a Norwegian-owned vessel, which caught fire and was left adrift in the Gulf of Oman. The incidents were similar to suspected acts of sabotage ...

    Donald Trump has backed Boris Johnson to be the next Prime Minister while Nigel Farage said he has been "banned" from meeting the US president. Mr Trump, who is visiting the UK for a three-day state visit on Monday, said he thinks the former foreign secretary would be "excellent" as a successor to Theresa May. Speaking to the Sun, Mr Trump said: "I think Boris would do a very good job. I think he would be excellent." The President added: "I like him. I have always liked him. I don't know that he is going to be chosen, but I think he is a very good guy, a very talented person. "He has been very positive about me and our country." Mr Trump also said other candidates have approached him in a bid to secure his endorsement. According to the Times, senior White House ...

    Mark Zuckerberg has built an innovative "sleep box" for his wife Priscilla Chan to help with her recent bout of sleeplessness. On Sunday, the Facebook founder shared his invention on Instagram, explaining that Chan has had a hard time sleeping through the night since having the couple's two young children, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg and August Chan Zuckerberg, in 2015 and 2017 respectively. She'll wake up and check the time on her phone to see if the kids might wake up soon, but then knowing the time stresses her out and she can't fall back asleep, Zuckerberg wrote in the caption. The 34-year-old explained that the wooden box is placed on his wife's nightstand, and emits a faint, glowing light at the bottom between 6am and 7am. The light is visible enough that if she ...

      There is no small complexity in the task of carrying hundreds of people through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. More than 100,000 airliners take off and land each day, but two deadly air crashes in six months have shocked passengers, regulators, and industry alike. Crashes of Boeing’s 737 Max in Indonesia and Ethiopia offer a window into all that complexity. Boeing and its CEO Dennis Muilenburg want the story to be simple: a software problem that can be fixed with a quick patch. But that doesn’t capture the mistakes made by Boeing and American aviation regulators in certifying the plane to carry passengers. By now, you may well have heard of MCAS, software that automatically pitches 737 Maxes downward to avoid stalling in mid-air. It exists only b...

    The US has outlined its objectives for a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK, demanding greater access to the food markets where products such as chlorinated chicken or hormone-fed beef are currently banned under EU rules. The US laid out its aims for a trade deal to cut tariff and non-tariff barriers for US industrial and agricultural goods and reduce regulatory differences. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate or reduce barriers for US agricultural products and secure duty-free access for industrial goods. The outline requirements were published by the office of the US trade representative, headed by Robert Lighthizer, as required by Congress. The office said it was seeking comprehensive market access for US agricultural goods in the UK. The US has lo...

    U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects trade with the U.K. to increase substantially, handing a boost to Theresa May, the beleaguered prime minister, who has flagged a trans-Atlantic agreement as one of the great prizes of Brexit. With the U.K. we’re continuing our trade and we’re going to be increasing it very substantially as time goes by, Trump said on Friday. We’re agreeing to go forward and preserve our trade agreement, he said. We have a very good trading relationship with the U.K. and that’s just been strengthened further.’’ Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on Feb. 15. The president has close ties with U.K. politicians who campaigned for Brexit, including former U.K. Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage. His latest intervention buttress...

    Miley Cyrus would like to set the record straight. Following reports that the Nothing Break Like a Heart singer was expecting her first child with husband Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus took to Twitter on Wednesday to share her thoughts on the matter. Replying to a Daily Mail Celebrity tweet, and photo shopping an egg with her famous tongue sticking out on a paparazzi pic of herself, Cyrus cleverly wrote: I’m not Egg-xpecting but it’s Egg-celent to hear everyone is so Happy For Us .... we’re happy for us too! Egg-cited for this next chapter in our lives.... Now, can everyone leave me alone and go back to staring at an egg. This isn't the first time that Cyrus has had to shoot down pregnancy reports. In 2017, the former Hannah Montana star called out rude rumors that claimed...

    Donald Trump’s daughter is reportedly one of a handful of people being considered as the new head of the World Bank. The US president’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump has been mentioned as a possible successor to Jim Yong Kim, who stood down earlier this week three and a half years before his term was up. The sudden departure of Mr Kim, who was first appointed by former president Barack Obama in 2011 and re-elected in 2016, means Mr Trump can now choose a successor. According to the Financial Times, names being thrown into the mix for the role include Ivanka Trump, Treasury official David Malpass, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, and head of the US Agency for International Development Mark Green. Mr Kim, a former academic and health official, said he was leaving th...

    A group of young Muslim men fanned out across the Mall shortly after sunrise Sunday to pick up litter and empty trash cans. Following President Trump’s warning Friday that a partial government shutdown could last for months or even years, the men arrived with trash bags and gloves to do what the federal government is no longer doing collecting trash. Their peers were doing the same over the weekend in national parks in Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Ohio. It’s just what we do, Sarmad Bhatti, 23, said as he emptied trash cans along Independence Avenue. If there’s an opportunity to serve, that is what Muslims do. The men are part of the youth group of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a branch of Islam that preaches about the importance of tolerance and has face...