28 m. ago Danish PM tells US ‘you cannot annex another country’ on visit to Greenland

Mette Frederiksen, who met island’s new and outgoing PMs, says she wants to cooperate with Trump on Arctic securityThe Danish prime minister has put on a show of unity with Greenlandic leaders in her first visit to the Arctic island since Donald Trump’s renewed threats to acquire the territory, telling the US: “You cannot annex another country.”Speaking onboard an inspection ship in front of a military helicopter, alongside Greenland’s new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, and Greenland’s outgoing prime minister, Múte B Egede, Mette Frederiksen switched from Danish to English to address the diplomatic standoff with the Trump administration. Continue reading...

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29 m. ago Trump ‘is not going to back off’ from tariff policies, US commerce secretary says – live

Howard Lutnick tells CNN that US president stands by decision to impose sweeping tariffs on nations around the worldUS stock markets tumble as investors shaken by Trump tariffsIn the aftermath of the disastrous debate against Donald Trump that ultimately ended his political career, Joe Biden skipped a White House meeting with the congressional Progressive caucus in favor of a Camp David photoshoot with the fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz, a new book says.“You need to cancel that,” Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff and debate prep leader, told the president, as he advocated securing the endorsement of the group of powerful progressive politicians perhaps key to his remaining the Democratic nominee. Continue reading...

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43 m. ago Should you buy a car now? What to know about rising prices after Trump’s tariffs

Foreign-made cars could see a price increase between $5,000 and $15,000 as a result of the tariffs

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61 m. ago Pregnant mum found 'beaten to death' and dumped in shopping trolley

Donnie White, 51, is accused of one count of murder and non-consensual termination of a pregnancy after 38-year-old Brittany Hopkins was found dead in a shopping trolley

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68 m. ago The Guardian view on Trump’s tariffs: a monstrous and momentous act of folly | Editorial

The US president has expelled his own country from the rules-based global trade system that America itself createdFor the world’s already embattled trading system, it is as though an asteroid has crashed into the planet, devastating everyone and everything that previously existed there. But there is this important difference. If an asteroid struck the Earth, the impact would at least have been caused by ungovernable cosmic forces. The assault on world trade, by contrast, is a completely deliberate act of choice, taken by one man and one nation.Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on every country in the world is a monstrous and momentous act of folly. Unilateral and unjustified, it was expressed on Wednesday in indefensible language in which Mr Trump described US allies as “cheaters” and “scavengers” who “looted”, “raped” and “pillaged” the US. Many of the calculations on which Mr Trump doled out his punishments are perverse, not least the exclusion of Russia from the cond...

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72 m. ago Britain can retaliate or negotiate with Trump – but there is no way we can win at this game | Gaby Hinsliff

Starmer will try to calm the situation and focus on May’s local elections, but one thing is clear: our ties with Europe are more crucial than everNobody wins a trade war. You can lose it by greater or lesser degrees: you may be one of the luckier casualties. But that’s about as good as it gets. So, while there will have been initial relief in Downing Street on Wednesday night, a feeling even that Keir Starmer’s placating of Donald Trump looks vindicated, what followed was no victory lap.How could it be, after that grotesquely swaggering show trial the president staged in the White House garden, all the better to jazz up an economic assault on what were once his country’s allies? Come on down, Britain, escaping with just the minimum 10% tariff on its exports to the US and no drive-by insults! Better than Taiwan (32% plus a lecture about how the US used to build all the semiconductors once), Vietnam (“They like me, I like them” but still a brutal 46%), the EU (“very very tough traders...

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88 m. ago Unhinged Donald Trump issues bizarre 'PATIENT LIVED' rant after 'Liberation Day' tariffs bombshell

Donald Trump launched a bizarre rant claiming the 'patient lived, and is healing' after unveiling punitive tariffs on all imports - but his move has sent US financial markets into meltdown

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88 m. ago Donald Trump in unhinged 'patient lived' rant after 'Liberation Day' tariffs bombshell

Donald Trump launched a bizarre rant claiming the 'patient lived, and is healing' after unveiling punitive tariffs on all imports - but his move has sent US financial markets into meltdown

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93 m. ago Exclusion from Trump's tariffs reduces premium of New York precious metals over London

Exclusion from Trump's tariffs reduces premium of New York precious metals over London  Reuters

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1 hour ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Tariffs. I'm with Trump, the most Anglophile President in our lifetime. He's thrown Starmer a lifeline he doesn't deserve

Donald Trump dealt Keir Starmer a gold-plated Get Out Of Jail Free card when he dropped his global tariff bomb.

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1 hour ago Donald Trump ordered to pay £626,000 legal costs after Steele dossier lawsuit

US president had sued over denied allegations he took part in ‘perverted’ sex acts but UK case was thrown out last yearDonald Trump has been ordered by a judge in England to pay more than £620,000 in legal costs after unsuccessfully suing a company over denied allegations he took part in “perverted” sex acts.The US president brought a data protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by a former MI6 officer, Christopher Steele, in 2022. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Trump ally likens BBC host to ‘kindergartener’ over tariffs question before threatening to walk out of interview

Donald Trump's ally Sebastian Gorka compared the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire to a kindergartener during a heated interview.

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1 hour ago Snooker rival directly addresses Judd Trump loss of form claim as he utterly rubbishes it

The Hawk produced a dominant display to shock the world No.1 at the Tour Championship in Manchester as Trump's long match woes continued

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1 hour ago Kanye West's most sinister acts and vile rants as Bianca Censori dumps him

Kanye West has split from his second wife Bianca Censori after two years of marriage as he claims in new song lyrics that the model tried to have him 'committed' over his gross rants

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1 hour ago Donald Trump puts tariffs on uninhabited islands home only to penguins

The islands have no human inhabitants and no imports or exports

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1 hour ago The Trump administration admits a father was mistakenly deported. Now his wife is raising their disabled son alone.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family is fighting in court to force the Trump administration to retrieve him from El Salvador’s notorious prison after admitting an ‘administrative error’ that sent him there

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1 hour ago Trump imposes tariffs on remote islands near Antarctica home only to penguins

The US president has imposed tariffs on a number of tiny territories, some of which do not even have human inhabitants.

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1 hour ago Larry Lamb's wild new job after son George quits their TV show for major career change

Larry and George Lamb's show Britain by Bike was axed after George quit showbiz, and while Larry expressed major sadness to leave it behind, he now has a more pub-friendly job

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2 h. ago Trump fires National Security Council staff after Laura Loomer urged him to cut people she saw as disloyal: report

Trump fired ‘several’ NSC members after his Oval Office meeting with Loomer, according to reports

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2 h. ago Labour tries to seem in control while The Donald unleashes chaos on the world | John Crace

Underneath the measured words you could almost smell the panic as the government scrambled to come up with a plan to respond to Trump’s tariffsWith characteristic humility and good grace Hardly.Shortly after 9pm UK time on Wednesday, the Sun-Bed King made his way to the White House Rose Garden, looking every bit the dishonest bookie as he held up a board with every country’s separate tariff. He might as well have been signposting the odds on a global recession. Continue reading...

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