9 h. ago Trump’s tariff plans will hit UK economy, top economists warn

The chancellor is plotting billions of pounds of spending cuts as economists warn Donald Trump’s tariffs will throw her growth plans into a spin

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9 h. ago Trump’s tariff plans will hit UK economy, top economist warns

The chancellor is plotting billions of pounds of spending cuts as economists warn Donald Trump’s tariffs will throw her growth plans into a spin

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10 h. ago North American pipeline company warns Trump tariffs will hit fuel prices

TC Energy chief says continent needs to deepen cross-border ties to avoid inflation and protect energy security

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16 h. ago ‘For the love of God’: Sean Hannity begged Trump to stop attacking Fox News amid Dominion lawsuit, new book says

Fox News host reportedly pleaded with Trump not to ‘hit the Murdoch family’ during a 2023 phone call

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16 h. ago China threatens America with 'any type of war' and says it will 'fight to the end' as Trump's tariffs come into effect and US threatens MORE

China has hit back at President Donald Trump's vow to impose further tariffs with a stark warning that Beijing is ready for a tariff war or 'any other type of war'.

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17 h. ago German debt ‘bazooka’ sends stocks, euro rallying and bond yields soaring; dollar slides – business live

Defence stocks leap while dollar falls further, sparking talk that it could lose its safe-haven statusAs defence stocks are soaring, Europe’s aerospace and defence index has hit a new record high, rising by 3.7%.The euro has also powered ahead and is now 0.8% higher against the dollar at $1.0711. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it | Owen Jones

Splurging the cash is not the answer to Europe’s security jitters. Let’s ignore the hyperbole and decide what’s actually neededBritain is now on a “war footing”, we are told. Earlier this year, Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, demanded that European nations start hiking defence spending at the expense of pensions, health and social security. Fail to do so, he warned, and the only recourse would be to “get out your Russian language courses or go to New Zealand”.In this increasingly feverish atmosphere, it becomes ever more difficult to ask for a bit of perspective, but it is necessary. European elites are panic-stricken after Donald Trump hit the accelerator away from US hegemony, a trend already long under way. Meanwhile, Labour figures openly brief that this could be Keir Starmer’s “Falklands moment”, using Ukraine’s agony to transform the government’s calamitous polling, speaking to a grubby political opportunism. Britain’s current trajectory could raise a much graver menace ...

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23 h. ago Democrat’s ‘This Is Not Normal’ sign snatched, nearly hitting Trump

President Donald Trump arrived to address a joint session of Congress as Democrat Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading, "This is not normal," at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, 4 March.

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32 h. ago Trudeau addresses Trump directly as he rips into his ‘dumb’ tariffs

Mexico, Canada, and China all plan to hit U.S. with retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump’s policies

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34 h. ago Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau hits out at Donald Trump’s ‘dumb’ tariffs in direct message to president

Justin Trudeau hit out at Donald Trump’s "dumb" tariffs on Canada as he announced his own retaliatory tariffs in response on Tuesday, 4 March.

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36 h. ago First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters | Arwa Mahdawi

How do you stop people worrying about the climate emergency? By sacking anyone whose job it is to keep an eye on it. Chalk up another win for Project 2025Some politicians go whichever way the wind blows. Not, however, the US’s esteemed leader, Donald Trump. He is such a force of nature that he can dictate the direction of the wind. During his first term, he suggested “nuking hurricanes” to stop them from hitting the country. A few weeks after that, Trump seemed to think he could alter the course of Hurricane Dorian with a black marker, scribbling over an official map to change its anticipated trajectory in an incident now known as Sharpiegate. Weirdly, Dorian did not end up following Trump’s orders. Hurricanes can be uncooperative like that.Six weeks into Trump’s second term, the president hasn’t bombed any hurricanes, but he has nuked the US’s weather-forecasting capabilities. Last week, hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre...

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36 h. ago 'America's Hitler?' What JD Vance previously said about Donald Trump before he became vice president

Vice president accused Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky of being disrespectful - but had previously criticised Trump himself

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37 h. ago Major US retailers warn Americans will pay more because of Trump’s trade war with top partners, report says – live

CEOs of Best Buy and Target say shoppers are likely to see rising prices, CNBC reports, after Trump tariffs hit Canada, Mexico and ChinaChina and Canada retaliate after Trump trade tariffs take effectDonald Trump has threatened to cut off funding to universities that allow “illegal protests”, and expel or deport students involved.Writing on Truth Social, the president said:All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.This is absurdly dishonest.I don’t even mention the UK or France in the clip, both of whom have fought bravely alongside the US over the last 20 years, and beyond.But let’s be direct: there are many countries who are volunteering (privately or publicly) support who have neither the battle...

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43 h. ago China hits back at Trump with fresh retaliatory tariffs on agricultural goods

China accounted for 17 per cent of American agricultural exports in 2023

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44 h. ago The goods hit first by Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

Imports from Canada and Mexico will be taxed at 25 percent while levies on Chinese products will increase to 20 percent

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44 h. ago Democrats condemn Trump’s pause on aid to Ukraine as Zelensky is hit with vicious attacks on X

Democratic politicians condemned the decision, while Republicans offered mixed reactions

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47 h. ago Trump administration briefing: Vance defends US position on Ukraine; tariffs hit Canada, Mexico and China

China and Canada retaliate after tariffs come into effect – key US politics stories from Monday at a glanceDonald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, last week, according to US media reports.Vance told Fox News in an interview recorded before the announcement on Monday that giving Washington an economic interest in the future of Ukraine will serve as a security guarantee for the country that Russia invaded in February 2022. “If you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine,” Vance said in the interview. “That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years,” he added. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Asian shares fall after Wall St retreats on fears over hit to the US economy from Trump's tariffs

Shares have opened lower in Asia after U.S. stocks fell sharply just ahead of a new round of higher tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump

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57 h. ago Trump hits out over calls from Starmer for US guarantees on Ukraine peace

European leaders have called for the US to provide security guarantees for a Ukraine ceasefire deal.

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60 h. ago Schumer says cyber operations pause against Russia gives Putin ‘free pass’

Top Democrat calls Trump’s move to retreat from fight against Russian cyber threats ‘a critical strategic mistake’A senior US Democrat has hit out at Donald Trump’s attempt to reset relations with Russia following revelations that the president’s administration is retreating from the fight against Russian cyber threats, calling the reported move “a critical strategic mistake”.In a statement on Sunday making reference to the Russian leader, New York’s Chuck Schumer – the US Senate’s Democratic minority leader – said Trump was “so desperate to earn the affection of a thug like Vladimir Putin he appears to be giving him a free pass as Russia continues to launch cyber operations and ransomware attacks against critical American infrastructure, threatening our economic and national security”. Continue reading...

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