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Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan
Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.
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The Papers: 'Drive less to save on fuel' and 'War is near end'
Experts warning fuel could hit £2 a litre and Trump saying the Iran war is near its end lead Tuesday's papers.
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Iran war may end ‘pretty quickly’: What Trump told Republicans
US president highlighted what he described as the successes of Operation Epic Fury against Iran in his latest speech.
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‘He could be manipulating the markets’: Former Trump adviser on the president saying Iran war could be over soon | CNN
Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton says President Trump “could be manipulating the markets” by saying the Iran war could be over “very soon.” Bolton told Anderson that “if there’s anything the president is obsessed about, it’s markets” and gas…
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Alexander Butterfield, former top Nixon White House aide whose testimony transformed Watergate investigation, dies
Alexander Butterfield, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon whose disclosure of a secret taping system in the White House dramatically shaped the Watergate scandal, ultimately leading to Nixon’s resignation, has died. He was 99.
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Pentagon Official Sees Little Chance to Revive Anthropic AI Deal
A top Pentagon official sees little chance of resuming negotiations with Anthropic PBC over military use of its artificial intelligence tools following the company’s legal challenge of an unprecedented government move to declare the firm a supply-chain risk.
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Mongolia Seeks to Amend Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi Mine Loan, FT Reports
Mongolia’s government is seeking to renegotiate a loan from Rio Tinto Group, which the nation used to fund its share of building one of the world’s biggest copper deposits, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.
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Trump pushes GOP on voting bill and demands end to most mail balloting
President Donald Trump says he won’t sign any other legislation into law until Congress passes a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that he says also must end Americans’ ability to vote by mail. It's a startling demand months before the midterm elections…
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Iranians rally to welcome Mojtaba Khamenei as new supreme leader
Some Iranians took to the streets of downtown Tehran to show their support for Mojtaba Khamenei as new supreme leader.
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Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan
Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.
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Trump says Vance 'philosophically' different on Iran but downplays a split
President Donald Trump says JD Vance started out less enthusiastic about striking Iran, but he says they still agree. Trump tells reporters he feels the airstrikes are necessary and says the U.S. has no choice. On Monday, he spoke at his golf club in Doral, F…
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Supreme Court Justices Jackson and Kavanaugh clash over Trump's orders
Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh sparred over the many emergency orders the court has issued allowing President Donald Trump to move ahead with key parts of his agenda. The setting for Monday's event was extraordinary, a federa…