4 d. ago Trump administration to allow work to continue on $5bn New York wind farm

Governor lobbied Trump in a series of phone calls, and will now allow new gas pipeline capacity to move forwardUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has lifted a stop work order on a $5bn wind farm off the coast of New York after negotiations with the state to resume the major clean energy project, but cancelled plans for a gas pipeline could also be revived.The month-long stop work order on the Empire Wind project came amid Donald Trump’s targeting of the wind industry in the first 100 days of his second term as the US president pushes a pro-fossil fuels agenda. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Democrats are failing against Trump. We need a new generation in 2026 | Alexandra Rojas

The absence of opposition has been stunning. Americans are losing faith in the party’s ability to solve our problemsAfter more than 100 days of the Trump administration, it’s clear how unprepared Democratic leadership has been for this moment.Words can hardly describe just how far Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the administration have gone to serve the interests of their fellow billionaires, undermine our economy and kill hundreds of thousands of jobs while dragging our basic civil liberties and constitution through the buzzsaw to illegally disappear countless immigrants and send them to privately funded domestic prisons and torture camps abroad.Alexandra Rojas is executive director of Justice Democrats Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump called for 100% tariff on foreign films a day after Jon Voight proposed ‘limited’ tariffs

Actor was assigned by Trump to come up with a plan to save Hollywood, but his proposal only included tariffs ‘in certain limited circumstances’US president Donald Trump announced his 100% tariff on films “coming into our country produced in foreign lands” one day after meeting with actor Jon Voight to discuss his proposals to bring film production back to the US – which only suggested that tariffs could be used “in certain limited circumstances”.The Midnight Cowboy and Heat actor, who was appointed a “special ambassador” to Hollywood by Trump, has been meeting with studios, streamers, unions and guilds for months to develop a plan to lure film and television productions back to the US. Production companies often seek more cost-effective locations or tax incentives in other countries such as Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Hungary, Italy and Spain. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump White House says ‘no final decisions’ on foreign film tariffs

Officials say administration ‘exploring all options’ after president declared 100% tariff on non-US-produced filmsThe White House said on Monday that no final decisions have been made about imposing tariffs on foreign films, just a day after Donald Trump declared a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the United States – an announcement that sparked widespread alarm across the global film industry.“Although no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trump’s directive to safeguard our country’s national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump best pics on White House website rated from cringe to vomit

It's been a wild ride, these first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term, but already there is a huge collection of set-piece photgraphs shared on the official White House website

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3 w. ago From ‘fiasco’ to ‘fantastic’: Americans weigh in on 100 days of Trump

While many are outraged over the chaos, others have embraced some policies promised on the campaign trail“I’m not a fan of Trump, but he’s delivering a long-overdue kick in the pants to the bloated bureaucracy of the US federal government,” said Martyn, a marketing executive from California. “Seems odd to ask Trump to focus on eliminating corruption, but sometimes you need a crook to catch a crook. It’s been, however, way more chaotic than I thought was possible.”Martyn was among thousands of Americans who shared with the Guardian how they felt about the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second term, painting a picture of voters who felt disoriented and maximally alarmed on one side, and exhilarated, hopeful or positively surprised on the other. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Six great reads: 100 Doge days, the magic of kitchen objects and what your dog is thinking

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3 w. ago One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern | Jonathan Freedland

Americans are beginning to worry about their future amid a shrinking economy, warnings of empty shelves – and the president’s failed promisesHe says it’s the “best 100-day start of any president in history”, but you can file that along with his boast about crowd sizes and his claim to have won the 2020 election. In truth, the first three months of Donald Trump’s second presidency have been calamitous on almost every measure. The single biggest achievement of those 100 days has been to serve as a warning of the perils of nationalist populism, which is effective in winning votes but disastrous when translated into reality. That warning applies across the democratic world – and is especially timely in Britain.Start with the numbers that matter most to Trump himself. A slew of polls appeared this week, but they all told the same story: that Trump’s approval ratings have collapsed, falling to the lowest level for a newly installed president in the postwar era. He has now edged ahead of h...

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3 w. ago Revealed: Forecasts of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels soar in Trump’s first 100 days

Tariff chaos hampers Trump’s pledge to ‘drill, baby, drill’, but analysis still shows surge in planet-heating emissions‘A ruthless agenda’: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environmentDonald Trump’s ambitions for the US to “drill, baby, drill” for more fossil fuels have ironically been hampered by the economic chaos unleashed by his own tariffs, but the US is still on track to increase oil and gas extraction, causing a surge in planet-heating emissions, a new analysis shows.The US was already the world’s leading oil and gas power, producing more of the fossil fuels than any country in history during Joe Biden’s administration. But Trump has sought to escalate this further, declaring an “energy emergency” to open up more land and ocean for drilling and launching an unprecedented assault on environmental regulations in his first 100 days back in the White House. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild

Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agendaTrump’s whirlwind start to his second presidencyWhen Donald Trump chose a Project 2025 author to lead a key federal agency that would carry out the underpinnings of the conservative manifesto’s aims, he solidified the project’s role in his second term.Shortly after he won re-election, the US president nominated Russ Vought to lead the office of management and budget. Vought wrote a chapter for Project 2025 about consolidating power in the executive branch and advances a theory that allows the president to withhold funds from agencies, even if Congress has allocated them. Consolidating power, in part through firing a supposed “deep state” and hiring loyalists, is a major plank of the project – and of Trump’s first 100 days. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘He loves us and he’s doing it’: Trump fans’ faith undimmed by first 100 days

Despite plunging opinion polls, for those attending a campaign-style rally in Michigan the president is delivering In Trump they trust. While pundits and protesters have called it 100 days of hell, talk to Donald Trump’s most faithful supporters and you will hear them use words such as “amazing”, “fantastic” and “ecstatic” about his presidency.The Trump base, that amorphous group that has long intrigued pollsters, remains rock solid in its support for the 78-year-old and quite ingenious in finding new ways to eulogise his leadership. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What does Trump really think of his first 100 days in office? – podcast

To mark his 100th day in office, Donald Trump sat down with the Time journalist Eric Cortellessa, who here speaks to Jonathan Freedland about what he learned from his hour-long interview with the US presidentArchive: ABC News, BBC News, CBS News, CBC, Forbes Breaking News Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Profits up, stocks down and angry calls: Tech giants playing nice with Trump hasn’t translated to a windfall

In the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, the president has presided over a chaotic and turbulent economy

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3 w. ago Musk slept in Lincoln bedroom and shared ice cream with Trump during his ‘intense’ 100 days reshaping DC

Billionaire says he spent as much as seven days a week in the U.S. capital as he established the Department of Government Efficiency

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3 w. ago Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term

Blitzkrieg has hit protections in place for land, oceans, forests and wildlife, and will worsen the climate crisis‘A ruthless agenda’: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environmentDonald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault upon the environment, instigating 145 actions to undo rules protecting clean air, water and a livable climate in this administration’s first 100 days – more rollbacks than were completed in Trump’s entire first term as US president.Trump’s blitzkrieg has hit almost every major policy to shield Americans from toxic pollution, curb the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and protect landscapes, oceans, forests and imperiled wildlife. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘A ruthless agenda’: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environment

Guardian reporters map out how Trump is eviscerating efforts to protect the natural world – from ‘drill, baby, drill’ to mass firings100 days of Trump: inside Trump’s whirlwind start to his second termDonald Trump has never been mistaken for an environmentalist, having long called the climate crisis a “giant hoax” and repeatedly lauding the supposed virtues of fossil fuels.But the US president’s onslaught upon the natural world in this administration’s first 100 days has surprised even those who closely charted his first term, in which he rolled back environmental rules and tore the US from the Paris climate agreement.Taken more than 140 actions to roll back environmental rules and push for greater use of fossil fuels.Set about rewriting regulations that limit pollution from cars, trucks and power plants.Officially reconsidering whether greenhouse gases actually cause harm to public health.Legally targeted states that have their own laws on tackling the climate crisis.Speeded up env...

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3 w. ago Pam Bondi claims Donald Trump has saved 75% of American lives in first 100 days

Pam Bondi has claimed that Donald Trump has saved the lives of 258 million Americans as she praised the president's first 100 days in office during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 30 April.

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3 w. ago Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulating immense political power.Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has embedded its members in key roles across federal agencies, gained access to personal data on millions of Americans and fired tens of thousands of workers. SpaceX, where he is CEO,...

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3 w. ago Kamala Harris says ‘courage is contagious’ in major speech excoriating Trump

Democratic presidential candidate speaks in San Francisco in first significant appearance since election defeatKamala Harris delivered a searing indictment of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, warning in her first major address since leaving office that the nation was experiencing a “wholesale abandonment of America’s highest ideals”.Speaking to a crowd of Democrats in San Francisco, the former vice-president struck a defiant posture as she praised the leaders and institutions pushing back against the president and his agenda – from the members of Congress acting boldly to the judges “who uphold the rule of law in the face of those who would jail them”, the universities defying the administration’s “unconstitutional demands”, and the everyday Americans rallying to protect social security. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kamala Harris to step back into spotlight to give sharp critique of Trump

Democratic presidential candidate to speak in San Francisco after keeping low profile since election defeatKamala Harris will step back into the political spotlight on Wednesday night to deliver a sharp critique of Donald Trump, warning that his presidency has put the US at risk of a constitutional crisis.The former vice-president has mostly kept a low profile since leaving the White House in January following her bitter defeat to Trump. Now, a day after Trump celebrated 100 days in office with a rally in Michigan, she is expected to deliver a forceful renunciation of the president’s stunning power grabs that have prompted warnings of creeping authoritarianism. Continue reading...

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