11 h. ago Fewer dolls and pencils: Trump struggles to read the US’s cost of living crisis

President hit with blowback for branding affordability issues a ‘hoax’ while flaunting expensive White House renovations

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11 h. ago Fewer dolls and pencils: Trump struggles to read America’s cost of living crisis

President hit with blowback for branding affordability issues a ‘hoax’ while flaunting expensive White House renovations

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28 h. ago Foreign farm workers are struggling amid Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘It was terrifying’

Growing instability in the US is being exacerbated by devastation at home and alleged pressure from employersFarm worker Owen Salmon has picked apples in upstate New York for almost a decade, some 1,500 miles (2,400km) from home. In the midst of harvest season this year, Hurricane Melissa, a record-breaking category 5 hurricane, made landfall in Jamaica.“It was terrifying,” said Salmon, whose wife and two children were at home near Black River, a town on the country’s south-western coast. “For days, I couldn’t hear from them. When I finally did, I heard my roof was completely gone. My wife and kids had to run for their lives, but thank God they’re alive.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kilmar Ábrego García ordered released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration

Maryland judge freed Ábrego as his case becomes a partisan flashpoint in battle over Trump’s deportation agendaA federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday, and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland, has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty

More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products – money for care siphoned off for profitOf Arthur Scargill it was said that he began each day with two newspapers. The miners’ leader read the Morning Star of course, but only after consulting the Financial Times. Why did a class warrior from Yorkshire accord such importance to the house journal of pinstriped Londoners? Before imbibing views, he told a journalist, he wanted “to get the facts”.In that spirit, let us parse a deal just struck by the governments of Donald Trump and Keir Starmer. You may not have heard much about this agreement on medicine, but it is huge in both financial and political significance – and Downing Street could not be more proud. A “world-beating deal,” boasts the science minister, Patrick Vallance. It “paves the way for the UK to become a global hub for life sciences,” claims the business secretary, Peter Kyle, with the government press release adding: ...

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6 d. ago 9 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he tells struggling voters 'buy your kids fewer toys' in racist rant

Last night was the first stop of Donald Trump's "affordability tour". He kicked it off by telling voters they were imagining higher prices, and they should just buy fewer toys for their kids - before unleashing a vile racist rant

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7 d. ago Name ‘Stakeknife’ IRA spy, government told as report finds operation cost more lives than it saved

British spy inside IRA ‘committed ‘grotesque’ crimes, report says

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1 week ago Bathgate & Linlithgow MP welcomes UK Government clampdown on ticket touts

The Labour Government plans to make it illegal for tickets to concerts, theatre, comedy, sport and other live events to be resold for more than their original cost.

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2 w. ago How progressives are taking over swing states – and driving fear into Democratic elites

Left-leaning challengers in the Rust belt are throwing chaos into a divided party struggling to rebuild after Trump’s winIn the run-up to last month’s mayoral election in Dayton, Ohio, candidate Shenise Turner-Sloss found herself up against it.Her opponent, mayor Jeffrey Mims, was a 78-year-old local Democratic party doyen who had served on school boards and teachers’ unions in the city for decades. His campaign budget was three times hers and an incumbent hadn’t been unseated from the mayoral role in the city for over a decade. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Ordinary’s annual Slowvember sale is here and this is what I’m buying

Low-cost skincare just got even more wallet-friendlyFollow live: All the best Black Friday 2025 deals

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2 w. ago DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Dithering on prostate tests will cost lives

Friday's findings on prostate cancer screening have an air of equivocation about them which could lead to a tragic, terminal outcome for men who develop this 'invisible killer'.

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 28 November: Pub chain surges despite cost pressure, Whitbread shares fall

The owner of Harvester and All Bar One is the toast of investors after posting better-than-expected results.

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 28 November: Index higher, pubs chain surges despite cost pressure

The owner of Harvester and All Bar One is the toast of investors after posting better-than-expected results.

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3 w. ago Boris Johnson could face legal action over pandemic failings after damning Covid inquiry report

Nadine Dorries and Lord Michael Gove have led attempts to undermine the damning report by Baroness Heather Hallett after it found inaction by Boris Johnson’s government may have cost 23,000 people their lives

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3 w. ago Coronavirus Inquiry: Government ‘chaos’ and failure to tackle virus cost 23,000 lives

The public report has revealed that if the first lockdown began a week earlier than 23,000 lives could have been saved across the UK in the Coronavirus pandemic

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3 w. ago John Swinney says 'lessons must be learnt' after Covid inquiry finds failures cost lives

The findings are contained in the latest inquiry report by Baroness Hallett into the devastating pandemic that began in 2020 and led to a series of lockdowns.

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3 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon's 'presidential' leadership may have cost lives during pandemic

The claim was made by Rhona Arthur of the Scottish Covid Bereaved Group

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3 w. ago Covid Inquiry chair finds Government ‘chaos’ and failure to tackle virus cost 23,000 lives

Baroness Heather Hallett’s report on the government response to Covid accused Mr Johnson of being too “optimistic” in his outlook in the early months of 2020.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer responds to damning Covid Inquiry report as huge failings unearthed

Keir Starmer has said the Government will 'carefully consider' the findings of Baroness Heather Hallett, who said Boris Johnson's dithering cost more than 20,000 lives

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3 w. ago Government ‘chaos’ and failure to tackle Covid cost 23,000 lives, inquiry finds

Former prime minister Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic” culture in Number 10 and regularly changed his mind

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