57 m. ago Musk’s bad day: Tesla’s stock tanks costing mogul $12 billion as X suffers major outage

Stock in the EV manufacturer is down more than 51 percent from its all-time high, which was set in December

Economics

2 h. ago Trump confirms detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil: ‘the first arrest of many to come’ – live

Trump says Ice took the Palestinian student protester into custody after his executive order‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activistSecretary of state Marco Rubio has announced that USAid will cancel the majority of its programs, while the rest will be folded into the state department.Writing on X, Rubio said:After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Rangers issue £5.3m worth of shares as club make financial move for second time this year

The club have followed up their move from January with a second share issue in February

Economics

2 h. ago Canadian police identify remains of murdered Indigenous woman at landfill

Police said they had identified Morgan Harris, 39, and had also found more remains of another personCanadian police have identified the remains of a murdered Indigenous woman at a landfill and found more remains from another person, after a months long search demanded by the families of victims targeted by a serial killer.Police said in a statement they had confirmed that human remains found in the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, had been identified as those of Morgan Harris, who was 39. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago Lauren Boebert slammed over ‘pimp cane’ insult directed at censured Democrat Al Green

The GOP firebrand was accused of ‘effortless racism’ over a perceived dig at the Deomcrat

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2 h. ago Elon Musk confirms 'massive cyberattack against X' as he suggests 'country is involved'

Elon Musk claims Twitter outages were caused by a 'massive cyber attack'. The site, which he bought for a bargain $44 billion, has failed to load for thousands of users globally on Monday

Economics

2 h. ago Stockport council now charges £59 for green bin collections... will you have to pay soon too?

The new £59 fee has proved controversial

Economics

2 h. ago Lloyd's of London expects $2.3 billion in net losses from Los Angeles wildfires

Lloyd's of London expects $2.3 billion in net losses from Los Angeles wildfires  Yahoo Finance

Economics

2 h. ago First image of mum shot and killed in Talbot Green as police issue major update

Joanne Penney, 40, was found at a property in Green Park as detectives issue a witness appeal

Events

2 h. ago Families ridicule Green city council after it built eco railway station with solar panels, wildflowers on the roof and 1,000 cycle spaces

Cambridge South station at the city's Biomedical Campus is expected to open in early 2026 and has been criticised by local residents and both motoring and cycling groups.

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2 h. ago Trump confirms arrest and detention of Palestinian activist: ‘the first arrest of many to come’ – live

Trump says Ice took Mahmoud Khalil into custody after his executive order‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activistSecretary of state Marco Rubio has announced that USAid will cancel the majority of its programs, while the rest will be folded into the state department.Writing on X, Rubio said:After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Melania Trump ditched dresses for tuxedos: A bold fashion shift or political statement?

Between a camel-colored Ralph Lauren suit and a Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo, Melania Trump has been sporting a lot of menswear recently. Kaleigh Werner explores what she might be trying to tell us

Politics

3 h. ago Top Washington Post columnist quits after piece critical of Bezos is scrapped

Ruth Marcus dissented from paper’s new opinion policy of supporting only ‘personal liberties and free markets’Washington Post associate editor and top political columnist Ruth Marcus is reportedly resigning following the decision by the CEO, Will Lewis, to kill her opinion column critical of the billionaire owner Jeff Bezos’s latest changes to the paper.“It is with great sadness that I submit my resignation as columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post,” Marcus wrote in a letter addressed to Lewis and Bezos and posted on X by a New York Times media reporter. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago EPA froze 'green bank' funds worth billions, climate group suit says

A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly freezing its account

Economics

3 h. ago Fact check: Nigel Farage said he admired Vladimir Putin more than a decade ago

Claims were made about what Mr Farage had said about the Russian president.

Politics

4 h. ago Lauren Boebert accused of racism and ableism over her criticism of Al Green

Republican faces backlash for saying Democrat shook ‘his pimp cane’ at Trump during congressional addressThe extremist Republican US House member Lauren Boebert has been accused of racism, ableism and hypocrisy in one fell swoop after criticizing a Black Democrat for “shaking his pimp cane” at Donald Trump during the president’s recent speech to Congress.“Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum,” Boebert told Real America’s Voice, a far-right outlet, while discussing the Texas Democratic congressman’s ejection from the House chamber for shouting about Trump’s threats to social benefits spending on 6 March. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

Chris Wright signals abandonment of Biden’s ‘irrational, quasi-religious’ climate policies at industry conference The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Study says climate change will even make Earth's orbit a mess

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too

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4 h. ago This Morning fans have BRUTAL response as Spencer Matthews defends withholding his fortune from his children so they don't become 'trust fund kids'

The 36-year-old appeared on the ITV show to chat to Ben Shephard, 50, and Cat Deeley, 48, about his most recent fitness challenge which saw him run 170km in 24 hours.

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4 h. ago Will there be a government shutdown? Trump says it’s possible

A proposed temporary funding bill would keep the government running through the fiscal year

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