66 m. ago Earth Day marks the chance to help save the planet. The environment was already on the edge before Trump took office

Scientists are calling for rapid action to curb emissions as the Trump administration embraces the fossil fuel industry

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6 h. ago FTSE 100 bucks global Trump slump after BoE official says US tariffs might CUT inflation and wades into president's standoff with Fed chief

The FTSE 100 edged up after Megan Greene, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, gave an assessment of the consequences of Donald Trump 's trade war.

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10 h. ago Trump to give commencement speeches at two prominent schools amid nationwide pressure campaign on universities

Despite putting multiple colleges and universities under pressure since taking office, President Donald Trump has selected two schools to speak at next month

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19 h. ago Harvard sues Trump over $2.2 billion funding freeze as free speech battle heats up between White House and Ivy League school

Trump administration officials had demanded that the prestigious university crack down on student protests and screen international applicants for their political opinions

Economics

23 h. ago Judge temporarily blocks NYC mayor from allowing ICE agents on Rikers Island jail

A New York judge has ordered city officials to temporarily halt discussions with the Trump administration allowing federal immigration agents to operate within the Rikers Island jail complex

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24 h. ago Furious Trump officials are planning to pull a further $1 billion in funding from Harvard

Harvard University has the largest endowment of any college in the United States but still relies on the government to fund research

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27 h. ago Bill Clinton special adviser issues damning analysis on Trump’s first 100 days: ‘He’s fallen into the trap’ and ‘overread his mandate’

It comes as Trump nears the milestone of his first 100 days in office

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34 h. ago Peter Navarro: the economist who has outsmarted Elon Musk and has the ear of Donald Trump

US president’s chief trade adviser is intellectual driving force behind global tariffs and trade war with ChinaElon Musk called him “dumber than a sack of bricks” but, in the raw contest for political power, Peter Navarro has outsmarted the billionaire.The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, not Musk, who has Donald Trump’s ear in the Oval Office. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik

A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazyThere are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces....

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42 h. ago Trump official calls for Americans to be paid reparations over trauma caused by Biden's migrant crisis

Miller was incensed by a suggestion that  Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant with suspected dies to the MS-13 gang, was entitled to reparations.

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45 h. ago Amy Klobuchar calls on supreme court to hold Trump officials in contempt

Senator warns of US getting ‘closer to a constitutional crisis’ as Samuel Alito’s dissent signals deference to TrumpMinnesota senator Amy Klobuchar warned on Sunday that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.“I believe as long as these courts hold, and the constituents hold, and the congress starts standing up, our democracy will hold,” Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding “but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.” Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Liberals 'cancel' Hollywood star Vince Vaughn as he's pictured with Donald Trump in Oval Office

The Hollywood actor surprised fans after the White House shared a picture of him smiling next to President Trump in the Oval Office, with many saying they were unaware of his political leanings.

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2 d. ago Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol are asking the nation’s highest court to keep their identities anonymous in public court records

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3 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 unhinged things Donald Trump did in 24 hours as 'medical issue' sparks Oval Office chaos

A ceremony to swear in Donald Trump's new administrator of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services was brought to an abrupt end, when a visitor to the Oval apparently collapsed - but it was the guy getting sworn in that was the unhinged bit

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3 d. ago ‘White House Crashers’: Vince Vaughn poses with Donald Trump in the Oval Office

White House released a strange mocked-up film poster to mark the visit

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3 d. ago Appeals court pauses Judge Boasberg’s contempt probe against Trump administration

A federal appeals court late Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt investigation against the Trump administration after he accused officials of failing to comply with his order regarding deportation flights to El Salvador last month.

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3 d. ago Trump official urges criminal probe of New York attorney general, who calls request 'retaliation'

A top housing official in the Trump administration has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James over a real estate transaction

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3 d. ago Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Jennifer Vasquez Sura relieved husband is alive but Trump officials say in mocking X post he is ‘never coming back’US politics live – latest updatesJennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that he is “never coming back” to the US.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump's Oval Office erupts into chaos after young family member of Dr. Oz collapses at end of event with RFK Jr.

President Donald Trump's Oval Office erupted into chaos after a young family member of Dr. Mehmet Oz collapsed during his swearing-in ceremony.

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4 d. ago Trump officials create uncertainty to evade court orders rather than comply

Recalcitrance appears to be product of Trump White House’s maximalist interpretation of executive powersFaced with a flurry of adverse court orders it would rather not follow, the Trump White House is increasingly deploying a strategy of claiming or even manufacturing its own uncertainty to dodge their effects without appearing to outright defy them.The Trump administration has faced several major legal setbacks in recent weeks, most notably in its efforts to deport undocumented immigrants without due process under the Alien Enemies Act or in spite of protective orders. Continue reading...

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