21 h. ago Trump warns Musk of ‘very serious consequences’ if he backs Democrats

US president says he’s ‘too busy doing other things’ to try to reconcile with erstwhile ally and campaign backerDonald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week.The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News scheduled to broadcast on Sunday, follows days of feuding and threats after Musk called Republicans’ budget legislation an “abomination”. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Trump threatens Musk with 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

Donald Trump says he is "too busy" to speak to "depressed and heartbroken" ex-bestie Elon Musk after the two shared jibes on social media earlier in the week - and threatened 'serious consequences'

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32 h. ago Musk teases new US political party to rival Democrats and Republicans after public fallout with Trump

The US president said the Tesla founder has ‘lost his mind’ after falling out over his spending plans

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48 h. ago From banning X to funding Dems: All the ways Musk and Trump could hurt each other as they go nuclear

How president and tech titan choose to escalate their bitter feud could have far-reaching consequences for them ... and us

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54 h. ago Musk’s tax bill attacks have rattled Republicans. But Trump still reigns supreme | Lloyd Green

In the end, we’re likely to see a legislative pastiche – a Frankenstein’s monster forged by political necessityThe feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is a godsend for Democrats, a headache for the president and a problem for Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House. Between now and the Fourth of July, Trump expects congressional Republicans to deliver a badly needed win. After more than four months back in the Oval Office, he still lacks a major legislative achievement.Republicans control both the House and Senate, but the public sees goose eggs on the scoreboard. Almost daily, the courts upend the president’s executive orders. Slim legislative majorities and government by rage come with drawbacks.Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992 Continue reading...

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61 h. ago Elon Musk’s business empire was built on government help. How badly could Donald Trump hurt him?

If the President follows through on his threats, the price tag could be enormous. Yet financial loss is far from the worst damage that Trump can cause his erstwhile ‘first buddy’, Io Dodds writes.

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65 h. ago Democrats can barely contain their glee over Trump and Musk’s ‘big beautiful breakup’

Some Democrats are laughing, but Eric Garcia reports, some say ‘the whole state of the country should be with two should be concentrated in two guys with massive egos’

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67 h. ago New York won't rescind Native American mascot ban, despite Trump's threat of cutting federal funds

New York education officials have refused to rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding

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3 d. ago Half of London boroughs face bankruptcy over schools funding crisis

Sixteen of the capitals 33 local authorities have said they face ‘severe budget deficits’ totalling £500million next year over school funding shortfalls

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3 d. ago Half of London boroughs warn they face bankruptcy over insufficient schools funding

Sixteen of the capitals 33 local have said they face ‘severe budget deficits’ totalling £500million next year over school funding shortfalls

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4 d. ago Norway MPs reject call to stop wealth fund investing in occupied Palestinian territories

Parliament votes against divestment proposal after tearful speeches in chamber and protests outsidePoliticians in Norway have rejected calls to stop investing its sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – in the occupied Palestinian territories despite emotional scenes inside and outside parliament.The £1.4tn oil fund, which is run by Norges Bank according to rules set by MPs, is the largest European investor in Israel’s occupation. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Norway MPs reject call to stop wealth fund investing in Israeli

Parliament votes against divestment proposal after tearful speeches in chamber and protests outsidePoliticians in Norway have rejected calls to stop investing its sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – in the occupied Palestinian territories despite emotional scenes inside and outside parliament.The £1.4tn oil fund, which is run by Norges Bank according to rules set by MPs, is the largest European investor in Israel’s occupation. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump pulls NASA nomination of Musk ally Jared Isaacman just days before vote

Senate Democrats have criticized Isaacman’s closeness to Elon Musk, who departed from the administration this week

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8 d. ago Trump demands bigger tax cuts in budget bill as Musk dodges question about reported drug use – US politics live

Trump and Musk speak to reporters as Musk caps his turbulent tenure as the head of DogeMusk allegedly took large amounts of drugs while advising Trump – reportThe Republican nominee for governor of Virginia has recently tried to distance herself from her longstanding, hardline anti-abortion record, declining recently to state whether she would support any restrictions on abortion access if she is elected to lead the state this fall. But her record reveals a candidate staunchly opposed to the procedure.Winsome Earle-Sears, now the state’s lieutenant governor, supported a 15-week abortion ban and has previously said she wants to make abortion illegal in almost all cases. In audio obtained by the Guardian, Earle-Sears also suggested an equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Europe will never agree on Israel – but here’s a way it can act to help Gaza | Nathalie Tocci

The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner – and that gives it leverage to finally change the course of this brutal warEuropean consciences have started waking up to the Israeli government’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – and it is about time. What has caused this long and slow awakening? Is it Israel’s killing of more than 54,000 Palestinians since Hamas’s horrific attack on 7 October 2023? Thousands of babies at risk of dying from starvation and malnutrition? Civilians burning alive? Israeli ministers’ plans to reoccupy and recolonise the Gaza Strip, expelling Palestinians? Or perhaps it’s the Israeli army firing shots at diplomats, including Europeans, in the West Bank – or the racist chanting, during a state-funded march in Jerusalem, of “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”?It’s probably a combination of all the above, as well as the recognition that principled pressure on Israel will certainly not come from Washington. Whatever the triggers for i...

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1 week ago Moment fare dodger using bank card with no funds discovers he owes TfL £3,500

The offender was stopped by a TfL investigator at Surrey Quays station in London’s docklands

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1 week ago Republican senator admits Trump is Canada’s ‘adversary’ as DC delegation grovels in Ottawa

Visiting senators try to soothe hurt feelings but can do little to undo Trump’s damage, writes John Bowden

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2 w. ago Expert calls Musk’s ‘Doge’ involvement ‘one of the greatest brand destructions’

Top US marketing professor Scott Galloway says on Pivot podcast Tesla owner ‘has alienated his core demographic’The prominent US marketing professor Scott Galloway says Elon Musk’s decision to implement brutal job and spending cuts within the federal government on behalf of the Trump administration was “one of the greatest brand destructions” ever.Speaking on Friday’s episode of the popular Pivot podcast, which he co-hosts, Galloway said Trump’s billionaire businessman adviser alienated the customer base of his electrical vehicle manufacturer Tesla – one of his most important holdings – while aligning himself with a president whose allies aren’t interested in the kinds of cars the company makes. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Argentina's Milei unveils bold plan to lure billions in undeclared dollars back home

Argentina’s government has unveiled an ambitious scheme to bring billions of undeclared U.S. dollars tucked under mattresses or stashed in foreign bank accounts back into the crisis-prone country

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2 w. ago Musk, and his money, leaving politics is upsetting both Democrats and Republicans

Billionaire says he has ‘done enough’ but will be missed in Washington by politicians on both sides of the aisle

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