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    Whistleblower Edward Snowden has seized on a report that Russia is considering sending him back to the US as a gift to Donald Trump, saying that the story vindicates him of charges that he is a spy. Finally: irrefutable evidence that I never cooperated with Russian intel, he said on Twitter. No country trades away spies, as the rest would fear they’re next. Snowden was responding to a report by NBC which stated that US intelligence had collected information that Russia wanted to hand Snowden over in order to curry favor with Trump, who has said that the former NSA contractor is a traitor and a spy who deserves to be executed. The report based on two sources in the intelligence community said the intelligence had been gathered since Trump’s inauguration. The Guardian was un...

    Donald Trump has held his first telephone conversation with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, since entering the White House, telling the Communist party leader he will not challenge Beijing by upending longstanding US policy towards Taiwan. In a statement the White House said the leaders of the world’s two largest economies had held a lengthy and extremely cordial telephone call on Thursday evening in which numerous topics were discussed. President Trump agreed, at the request of President Xi, to honor our One China policy, the White House said, referring to a diplomatic understanding by which Washington does not challenge China’s claim over Taiwan, a democratically ruled island that Beijing considers a breakaway province. Following his shock election in November last ye...

    A federal appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, unanimously rejecting the administration's claim of presidential authority, questioning its motives and concluding that the order was unlikely to survive legal challenges. The three judges of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the argument that the ban targets Muslims raised serious allegations and presented significant constitutional questions, and they agreed that courts could consider statements by Trump and his advisers about wishing to enact such a ban. Moments after the ruling, Trump tweeted, SEE YOU IN COURT, adding that THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE! In response, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a D...