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Donald Trump’s choice of vocabulary may seem curious, but it makes sense when you look at how the founding fathers created America out of words, writes Robert McCrum
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April 11, 2025
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Vietnam's unlikely tourism, 50 years on from the war
More than half a century after the Vietnam war dominated headlines, some remember the battles of Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, and Khe Sanh from news reports, movies, and history books.
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April 11, 2025
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Vardy must pay £1.8m in Wagatha Christie legal bill
Rebekah Vardy has lost a dispute over spiralling legal costs in the Wagatha Christie libel trial, leaving her with a £1.8m bill for Coleen Rooney’s lawyers.
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April 11, 2025
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Easter weekend set to spark 74 million road journeys
The AA has warned motorists of a surge in traffic this Easter, with 19.1 million drivers expected to hit the roads on Good Friday alone.
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April 11, 2025
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How the 'Tariffgate' trade war blew up in Trump's face
When, in 1974, President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after lying about a break-in involving planting listening devices at his Democrat rivals’ Watergate Hotel HQ during his reelection campaign, it became the biggest scandal in political history.
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April 11, 2025
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Stop Brexit Man told police to stick protest map where sun don't shine, court hears
An activist known as Stop Brexit Man, who is on trial for playing amplifiers outside parliament, told police their map illustrating where he could not use them was incorrect and they should stick it “where the sun don’t shine”, a court has heard.
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April 11, 2025
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Tate 'pointed gun at woman while calling himself a boss'
Andrew Tate has been accused of pointing a gun in a woman’s face, rape, strangling two women until capillaries in their eyes burst, and threatening them with violence, in new court documents filed against the controversial influencer.
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April 11, 2025
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Hudson River helicopter crash claims Spanish family
A sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair yesterday afternoon and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront, killing six people, including a family of Spanish tourists, in the latest highprofile aviation disaster in the US, officials said.
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April 11, 2025
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Even victory in Europe may not save Postecoglou now
At Tottenham Hotspur, there’s a familiar tone. Ange Postecoglou had attempted a call to arms as the club gets closer to a first trophy since 2008, but not even he could resist sparking discussion about his own immediate future.
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April 10, 2025
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Dazzling Doue sparks PSG as Villa learn the hard way
Now it is Unai Emery who needs the remontada. As he knows from bitter experience, Paris Saint-Germain have lost leads in European second legs before, and bigger ones than this. The verdict may be that Aston Villa’s damage-limitation exercise almost succeeded. Particularly in the four, heady minutes when they were in the lead. Fast forward 15 minutes and PSG were one ahead.
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April 10, 2025
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'Endless Davids': Figures show gender inequality of local election candidates
There are more than three times as many local election candidates named David as there are Sarahs, shocking new figures laying bare the level of gender inequality show.
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April 10, 2025
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King puts peace at heart of message to Italy parliament
The King has warned peace is never to be taken for granted” during a historic address to Italy’s parliament as the Queen dressed in celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary.
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April 10, 2025
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Global trade war on hold as Trump U-turns on tariffs
President initiates 90-day pause while hiking duties on China
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April 10, 2025
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Universal theme park will bring 'growth, jobs and joy'
Europe’s first Universal theme park is to open in Bedford in 2031 under a deal that will bring in an estimated 50bn to the UK economy.
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April 10, 2025
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Nandy blames Brexit for the capital's millionaire exodus
London no longer in world’s top five wealthiest cities
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April 10, 2025
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Commando who tried to kill Korean president dies at 82
Kim Shin Jo, a former North Korean commando known for his involvement in a failed assassination attempt on then-South Korean president Park Chung Hee in 1968, has died at the age of 82.
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April 10, 2025
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Bungling Trump has given China's regime a PR coup
For all its achievements in relieving poverty in recent decades, few are in doubt about the true nature of China’s hard-line Communist regime.
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April 10, 2025
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Why Trump could surprise the world with an Iran deal
Any other day, any other week, and the revelation would have dominated headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. With leaders the world over preoccupied with the turmoil caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, however, the news that the United States had made overtures to Iran and that direct talks were to take place on Saturday had to take a much lower billing.
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April 10, 2025
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From radicals to royalists, Labour always falls in line
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy came right out with it. I’m not afraid to say when I change my mind, and I have changed my mind about that,” she said when asked yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain about her assertion during the 2020 Labour leadership campaign that she would vote to abolish the monarchy if such a referendum was held.
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April 10, 2025
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Will steel be brought back under state ownership?
Is the British steel industry about to be nationalised again? The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who’d have to find the money to make such a deal, has pointedly said that all options are on the table”, not ruling out state control as a possible solution.
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April 10, 2025
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Arteta told Arsenal to 'make it happen' they delivered -
If the magic moments”, as Mikel Arteta put it, didn’t make it clear, two images revealed the scale of Arsenal’s 3-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals.
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April 10, 2025
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Harry's life is at stake over security, lawyer warns court
Prince Harry’s life is at stake” in the clash over his UK security arrangements, his lawyer has warned the Court of Appeal on the final day of the duke’s legal challenge.
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April 10, 2025
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Maga is in meltdown - but the bad-mouthing has to stop
It didn’t take long for the Maga inner circle to fall out like a bunch of squabbling hoodlums after a bank raid.
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April 10, 2025
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Seven police injured after chase ends in five-car crash
Seven officers were taken to hospital following a major crash involving at least four police vehicles during a car chase.
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April 10, 2025
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More than 100 dead after roof collapses at nightclub
The number of people known to have been killed by a collapsing roof at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic reached 124 yesterday as officials attempted to identify the victims.
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April 10, 2025
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Rocket Man loses ground: are days of peak Musk over?
Donald Trump’s first buddy finds himself entangled in trade wars, political feuds and flailing tech ventures it might not be long before he falls back to Earth, writes Sean O’Grady
6 min |
April 10, 2025
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Spy mission, rogue soldier or a warning to the West?
Images of a Chinese man in uniform in Ukraine raise as many questions as they answer in this shadowy war
3 min |
April 10, 2025
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Ferry firm invents own passport rules - wrecking family birthday holiday -
Four years after the post-Brexit passport rules for travel to the EU took effect, a leading ferry line wrongly turned away a family from a birthday voyage from Newcastle to Amsterdam because staff made up their own rules.
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April 10, 2025
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Defeat in Belgium shows up Lionesses' lack of depth
Instinctively, England feel like a side with a lot of depth. The problem, though, is that they never seem to act like a team who do.
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April 09, 2025
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Horse dies after collapsing near end of Grand National
Celebre D’Allen, one of the horses competing in last weekend’s Grand National, has died. The 13-year-old pulled up in the showpiece event on Saturday and collapsed on the course.
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