40 minutes ago China and Canada respond to Trump’s tariff threats and border comments – live

China’s embassy in Washington has responded to Trump’s announcement, saying that no one will win a trade war or tariff war’Prosecutors drop federal cases against TrumpCorey Lewandowski, an adviser to Donald Trump, has said that he and the president-elect have “no concerns at all” regarding Pete Hegseth’s confirmation by the Senate as the next US secretary of defense.During an appearance on NewsMax, Lewandowski was asked if Trump had any concerns about Hegseth and his nomination, to which Lewandowski responded: “We have no concerns at all.” Continue reading...

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85 minutes ago The moment it all went wrong for Meghan and the Queen: RICHARD EDEN reveals in his show Reading The Royals how a wedding row over 'respect' was the beginning of trouble

The moment where things went wrong for the pair's relationship has puzzled royal experts, but now Richard Eden has studied the evidence in a new YouTube television series - Reading The Royals.

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97 minutes ago Elon Musk confirms that he’s limiting people’s ability to share outside news on X

The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon defended his policy on hyperlinks as a way to stop ‘lazy linking’, but without explaining what that meant

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1 hour ago ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and visit from RFK Jr

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i.Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i.Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow wrote earlier this year.In 2023, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Drake claims UMG and Spotify ‘artificially inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us

Feud escalates as rapper’s lawyers file petition alleging Universal Music Group and streaming giant conspired to make rival’s hit more successfulDrake has launched legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify, alleging they conspired to artificially inflate interest in Kendrick Lamar’s diss track about him, Not Like Us, while suppressing his own music.In a petition filed to the New York supreme court on Monday, attorneys for Drake’s company Frozen Moments LLC accused UMG and the streaming service of having “launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves”, using various tactics to make Lamar’s song more popular. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Meghan Markle broke the one fashion rule the Queen swore by which led to row with Kate

Meghan Markle, 43, was a senior working member of the Royal Family for just a year before she and Prince Harry announced they were stepping down in January 2020.

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2 hours ago Jane Moore is labelled a 'martyr' by furious I'm A Celeb viewers as she continues her war on suds after being lumbered with pot

The Loose Women host, 62, wasn't afraid to share her thoughts after she was given a new chore following a camp re-shuffle on Sunday's episode.

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3 hours ago Why you may have just six weeks to save your house plants this winter?

And the Royal Horticultural Society sounded the alarm for winter yesterday - warning there are 'six weeks to save our house plants'.

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