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Donald Trump<\/a> has said there are \u201cmethods\u201d \u2013 if not \u201cplans\u201d \u2013 to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms, in an explosive interview in which he also said he was \u201cvery angry\u201d with Vladimir Putin, threatened to bomb Iran and did not rule out using force in Greenland.<\/p>\n

In the interview<\/a>, which aired Sunday on NBC, Trump told host Kristen Welker regarding a third term that \u201cthere are methods which you could do it\u201d. Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of serving a third term but has often masqueraded it as a joke. But on Sunday, he confirmed he was \u201cnot joking\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Trump makes clear his interest in a third term is serious<\/h2>\n

In the interview, Welker alluded to a purported loophole some Trump supporters have fantasized about finding in which he could be the running mate to his vice-president, JD Vance<\/a>, or someone else in the 2028 election. The person to whom Trump would be the running mate in that scenario could then immediately resign after winning and being sworn in as president, letting Trump take over by succession.<\/p>\n

Trump said it was \u201cfar too early to think about\u201d trying to defy the two presidential term limit, but asked if being president a third time would be too much work, he said: \u201cI like working.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump says he\u2019s \u2018pissed off\u2019 with Putin<\/h2>\n

Trump has said he is \u201cvery angry\u201d and \u201cpissed off\u201d with Vladimir Putin<\/a> over his approach to a ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened to levy tariffs on Moscow\u2019s oil exports if the Russian leader does not agree to a truce within a month.<\/p>\n

The abrupt change of direction came after Putin had tried to attack the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> on Friday, Trump said. Appearing on Russian television, Putin had suggested Ukraine could be placed under a temporary UN-led government to organise fresh elections before negotiating a peace deal.<\/p>\n

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Finnish president plays a round of golf diplomacy with Trump<\/h2>\n

Finnish president<\/a> Alexander Stubb said Trump was losing patience with Putin\u2019s stalling tactics over the Ukraine ceasefire after spending several hours with the US president \u2013 including winning a golf competition with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Stubb, who also spent two days with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>, last week in Helsinki suggested in a Guardian interview a plan for a deadline of 20 April, by which time Putin should be required to comply with a full ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic\u2019s Goldberg dismisses Waltz\u2019s Signal defense: \u2018This isn\u2019t the Matrix\u2019.<\/h2>\n

The Atlantic magazine\u2019s chief editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, has dismissed as implausible the explanation offered by national security adviser Mike Waltz that his contact was \u201csucked in\u201d to his phone via \u201csomebody else\u2019s contact\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t The Matrix,\u201d Goldberg told NBC\u2019s<\/a> Kristen Welker on Sunday\u2019s Meet the Press. \u201cPhone numbers don\u2019t just get sucked into other phones.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Minnesota officials seek answers after Ice detains graduate student<\/h2>\n

Officials in Minnesota were seeking answers in the case of a University of Minnesota graduate student who was being detained by US immigration<\/a> authorities for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n

University leadership said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained the student on Thursday at an off-campus residence. Officials said the school was not given advance notice about the detention and did not share information with federal authorities. The student\u2019s name and nationality have not been released.<\/p>\n

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Advertising giant WPP cuts diversity references from annual report<\/h2>\n

The British advertising giant WPP<\/a> has become the latest company to cut the phrase \u201cdiversity, equity and inclusion\u201d from its annual report as the policies come under attack from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The agency, which counts the US as by far its largest market, boasts the storied \u201cMadison Avenue\u201d agencies J Walter Thompson, Ogilvy and Grey<\/a> among its top brands. In WPP\u2019s annual report, which was released on Friday, the chief executive, Mark Read, told shareholders that \u201cmuch has changed over the last year\u201d due to political events.<\/p>\n

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Comedy is off the menu at the annual White House correspondents\u2019 dinner, a once convivial get-together for reporters to meet with federal governments officials that has become too fraught for light-heartedness amid the second Trump<\/a> presidency.<\/p>\n

The dinner, scheduled for 26 April, is <\/em>organized by the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA), and it typically features a post-meal comedic interlude<\/a> where a comedian sets to work on the powerful. Beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924, every president has attended at least one WHCA dinner \u2013 except for Trump.<\/p>\n

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Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history<\/h2>\n

Visitors have come in their millions to the Smithsonian Institution<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest museum, education and research complex, in Washington for the past 178 years. On Thursday, Donald Trump arrived with his cultural wrecking ball.<\/p>\n

The US president, who has sought to root out \u201cwokeness\u201d since returning to power in January, accused the Smithsonian of trying to rewrite history on issues of race and gender. In an executive order<\/a> entitled \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u201d, he directed the removal of \u201cimproper, divisive or anti-American ideology\u201d from its storied museums.<\/p>\n

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