After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the ‘show of force’ costing
Key questions answered about scheme that has sent more than 25,000 people to countries that are not their own Banished: Trump’s secret deportation deals Freedom oppressed: journalists caught up in Trump crackdown Since returning to office in 2025, Donald Trump’s administration has deported more
While world leaders prepare for annual UN gathering, shifts in the global order continue in the face of a disruptive American president In the event of a midterms election battering, it is possible that a deflated Donald Trump, constrained by a Democrat-controlled Congress, will gradually have to fa
Anti-ICE protests break out in push for transparency as unnamed man is in serious but stable condition at hospital A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) officer shot and wounded a man on Sunday afternoon in Texas ’s capital of Austin , local authorities said, and anti-ICE protesters qui
Guard was named an All-Star in first WNBA season Miles has broken several records in first campaign Olivia Miles broke Caitlin Clark’s WNBA rookie scoring record on Sunday in the Minnesota Lynx’s 101-89 victory over the Connecticut Sun. Miles, who finished with 21 points, was tied with Clark at
The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four months Recently, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, quit his job over concerns that AI was on a collision course with humanity. A flurry of headlines put the spotlight on the current cris
President’s latest order expected to bring NIH funding under control of Trump administration to align with agenda Donald Trump ’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump ad
PM hopes to be firmer with US leader than his predecessor without provoking diplomatic warfare, as the Iran war weighs on the UK economy No international relationship has more power to determine the success of Andy Burnham’s premiership. So you might imagine the stakes for the prime minister’s f
Florida’s María Elvira Salazar warns Trump that advisers are ‘compromising his legacy’ and not showing ‘whole picture’ María Elvira Salazar, the Republican congresswoman who has accused the president of going too far on immigration enforcement, doubled down on her criticism of the admini
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has bee
As the organisation meets this week, it remains the best hope for restoring order. But it relies on goodwill from the US president – and that is lacking If all goes to plan, at some stage in the coming weeks 15 diplomats will emerge from a small sound-proofed room deep in the bowels of the United
US president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the ‘strong request’ of the US military Donald Trump is proffering a new argument for building his triumphal arch in Washington DC: it will be converted into a “top grade military complex” replete with drone and amm