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    Michael Moore has claimed that Donald Trump will get Americans killed in a new Facebook post. The Oscar-winning director, whose latest film, Michael Moore in TrumpLand, was a critique on the president-elect, believes that the reality TV star and WWE Hall of Famer will prove to be an unsuitable and dangerous leader. He took aim at Trump’s claim that he has only attended a handful of security briefings. Most would agree the 1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe, Moore wrote in a post entitled Donald Trump is going to get us killed. There is no more important meeting every day for the president than the one where he learns what the day’s potential threats are to the country. That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through...

    China has flown a nuclear capable bomber outside its borders in a show of force for the first time since US President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with the president of Taiwan. The 10-minute telephone call with President Tsai Ing-wen was the first by a US president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, acknowledging Taiwan as part of “One China”. It led to protests from Beijing. The Xian H-6 bomber flew along the disputed 'nine-dash line' around the South China Sea on Thursday, US officials told Fox News, passing over a number of disputed islands. The officials said it was designed to send a message to the incoming administration. The Pentagon found out about the flight on Friday and officials said ...

      Donald Trump is doing his best to defend skipping out on intelligence briefings since he won the election last month. It’s been recently reported that the president-elect only receives one intelligence meeting per week and on Sunday he alleged that he's just too smart to receive them daily. I get it when I need it, the 70-year-old said in an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. First of all, these are very good people that are giving me the briefings. And I say, 'If something should change from this point, immediately call me. I'm available on one minute's notice. Last week, Reuters published a report saying that the president-elect was only receiving one briefing per week—far fewer than his predecessors. Still, Trump said that daily briefings wouldn’t ...

    The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances. It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one ca...

    Kim Kardashian West is reportedly considering divorcing her rapper husband Kanye West. Rumours are circulating suggesting that the reality star is contemplating ending her two-and-a-half-year marriage after feeling trapped in her relationship. According to Us magazine, a friend of the 36-year-old said she plans to leave the Pablo singer, but will time the split carefully as she works on building a case to win full custody of the couple's children. "It will take some time before she can do anything," the source said, "but she doesn't want to stay married." Recent traumatic events are thought to have taken their toll on the couple's marriage after a turbulent period during which Kardashian was gagged, bound and held at gunpoint during a Paris jewellery heist on 3 October. © ...

    Time magazine has named US President-elect Donald Trump as its Person of the Year. "It's a great honour, it means a lot," Mr Trump told NBC's Today show in an interview shortly after the announcement. Time's managing editor Nancy Gibbs called the choice "straightforward". The magazine wrote that it had chosen Mr Trump for reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow's political culture by demolishing yesterday's. Every TIME Person Of The Year Cover EverIt is the 90th time the magazine has named a person who has had "the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the...

    Donald Trump should not worry about insulting China and if Beijing objects to him speaking to Taiwan, screw em, an economic adviser to the US president-elect has said. Stephen Moore, chief economist of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, said Mr Trump was right to risk China's displeasure by speaking on the phone with the president of Taiwan, which the Chinese regard as a breakaway province. He said: "Too many namby-pamby people in the foreign policy shop are saying Oh my gosh we can't do this, we might insult the Chinese.' I don't care if we insult the Chinese. "Taiwan is our ally. That is a country that we have backed because they believe in freedom. We ought to back our ally, and if China doesn't like it, screw 'em." Mr Moore added: "We s...

      A bride's childhood dream of arriving at her wedding by helicopter ended in tragedy when it crashed just a mile from the venue. Rosemere do Nascimento Silva, 32, had planned to surprise her fiancé Udirley Damasceno and 300 guests by swooping in to their reception in a rural area on the outskirts of Sao Paulo in Brazil. But in an horrendous twist of fate, the aircraft crashed en route to the venue, killing the bride-to-be, her brother, the pilot and a photographer who was six-months-pregnant. Mr Damasceno was left waiting at the altar, unaware of what his fiancée was planning to do, or of the tragic consequences. Police and air crash investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash. They are looking into reports that it might have hit a tree during ba...

    A diplomatic row erupted on Saturday after US President-Elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, prompting an official complaint from China’s foreign ministry. Beijing claims the self-ruled Taiwan as its own and believes a “one China” principle is the foundation of its relationship with the US. The 10-minute telephone call with Taiwan’s leadership was the first by a US president-elect or president since Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, acknowledging Taiwan as part of “one China”. China’s Foreign Ministry said it had lodged “stern representations” with what it called the “relevant US side”, urging the careful handling of the Taiwan issue to avoid any unnecessary disturbances in ties, Reuters reported....

    Donald Trump has been widely mocked for his choice of words during a conversation with Pakistan’s prime minister - but the exchange was odd for more than one reason. The president-elect described Nawaz Sharif as a “terrific guy” and said he would “love to come to a fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people”. He also described the people of Pakistan as “amazing” and “one of the most intelligent people”. In case you missed it, here’s a write-up of precisely what Trump said during his conversation with Sharif: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called President-elect USA Donald Trump and felicitated him on his victory. President Trump said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif you have a very good reputation. You are a terrific guy. You are doing amazing work which is vi...