2 h. ago Trump trade war: Tariffs back on as appeals court rules in president’s favor amid outbursts over ‘unelected’ judges

Appeals court pauses the Court of International Trade ruling on Trump’s tariffs while legal challenge plays out

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5 h. ago Trump trade war live: Tariffs back on as appeals court rules in president’s favor amid outbursts over ‘unelected’ judges

Appeals court pauses the Court of International Trade ruling on Trump’s tariffs while legal challenge plays out

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6 h. ago US court temporarily reinstates Trump tariffs while administration appeals ruling blocking them – US politics live

US appeal judges grant administrative stay of trade court’s order blocking tariffsCan Trump get around the court ruling that blocks his tariffs?A federal judge will consider on whether to further block the Trump administration from revoking Harvard university’s ability to enroll international students (see post at 10.38 for more details).At a hearing in Boston, US district judge Allison Burroughs will weigh whether to extend a temporary order she issued last Friday that blocked the US department of homeland security from carrying out the revocation it issued a day earlier. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Trump tariffs live: President to fight trade ruling as White House claims ‘unelected’ judges ‘brazenly abusing’ powers

Wall Street opened higher on news that court has struck down Trump’s tariffs, though further expected uncertainty tempered gains, as the Dow slipped into negative territory

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8 h. ago RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump teamUS politics live – latest updatesRobert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.The report exposes glaring scientific failures from a health secretary who earlier this week threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Trump officials to ask supreme court to halt bid by ‘activist judges’ to block tariffs

Administration intends to ask top court to immediately pause trade court’s ruling that tariffs regime was illegalQ&A: Why has a US court blocked Donald Trump’s tariffs – and can he get round it?US politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration intends to ask the US supreme court to immediately pause what it characterised as a bid by “activist judges” to block Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.A US trade court ruled the US president’s tariffs regime was illegal on Wednesdaya dramatic twist that could block Trump’s controversial global trade policy. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Trump adviser confident tariff ruling will be overturned and says three trade deals nearly done – live

Kevin Hassett says three trade deals are nearly complete and more expected; Stephen Miller says ‘the judicial coup is out of control’ after federal court blocks tariffsTrump allies rail against court ruling blocking wide swath of tariffsA federal judge will consider on whether to further block the Trump administration from revoking Harvard university’s ability to enroll international students (see post at 10.38 for more details).At a hearing in Boston, US district judge Allison Burroughs will weigh whether to extend a temporary order she issued last Friday that blocked the US department of homeland security from carrying out the revocation it issued a day earlier. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Trump tariffs live: President to fight ruling as Stephen Miller accuses court of ‘judicial coup’

The FTSE has been trading broadly flat while US futures show the S&P 500 heading upwards when the markets open in reaction to the court ruling

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14 h. ago Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west EnglandStarmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause Truss-style meltdownWhen “something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true”, water minister Emma Hardy has said, reports the PA news agency.Asked about the “threat” which Reform UK poses to Labour, Hardy told GB News:I think it’s really important that any political party is held to account for the promises that they’ve made and we know – gosh, don’t we just know – what happened when [former prime minister] Liz Truss made her £45bn of unfunded tax cuts: the economy tanked, mortgages went up, rents went up, bills went up.When something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true. If [Farage] wants to be taken seriously as a political party, then he needs to come up with some serious policies and he needs to be held to account.Now, had I come on your programme and said, ...

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16 h. ago Trump tariffs live: Markets react to US court ruling throwing president’s trade policy ‘into turmoil’

The U.S. Court of International Trade says the president does not have ‘unbounded authority’ to tax imports from nearly every nation

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18 h. ago Trump tariffs live: US court blocks global levies after president ‘exceeded his authority’

The U.S. Court of International Trade says the president does not have ‘unbounded authority’ to tax imports from nearly every nation

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21 h. ago Magda Szubanski reveals ‘very aggressive’ blood cancer diagnosis

The 64-year-old actor and comedian has been diagnosed with stage four mantle cell lymphomaAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMagda Szubanski has revealed she has been diagnosed with a “very rare, very aggressive” blood cancer.The 64-year-old actor and comedian announced her diagnosis with stage four mantle cell lymphoma, a uncommon and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, on Thursday. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Trump says he will be negotiating the ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill after Musk criticizes it – live

Trump says the bill ‘needs to get a lot of support’ in Congress, adding ‘we have to get a lot of votes’Musk says Trump tax bill weakens Doge cost-cutting measuresThe vice-president, JD Vance, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Vegas, which will set out the Trump administration’s turbocharged approach to the US crypto industry.If you cast your minds back, it’s the same conference Trump spoke at last year in Nashville calling for America to become a “bitcoin superpower” and the “crypto capital of the planet” under his leadership.At 4:30pm ET, Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr will speak at the very same conference in Vegas. It’s presumably an industry they feel invested in, given they back a major Bitcoin venture themselves, per Reuters. And it comes just a day after a separate family-linked business, the Trump Media & Technology Group, announced its intention to raise $2.5bn to invest in bitcoin, as the Wall Street Journal reports. A...

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34 h. ago Marco Rubio announces visa restrictions for foreigners ‘complicit in censoring Americans’ – US politics live

US secretary of state makes announcement that appears to take aim at other countries’ enforcement of social media regulationsMusk says Trump tax bill weakens Doge cost-cutting measuresThe vice-president, JD Vance, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Vegas, which will set out the Trump administration’s turbocharged approach to the US crypto industry.If you cast your minds back, it’s the same conference Trump spoke at last year in Nashville calling for America to become a “bitcoin superpower” and the “crypto capital of the planet” under his leadership.At 4:30pm ET, Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr will speak at the very same conference in Vegas. It’s presumably an industry they feel invested in, given they back a major Bitcoin venture themselves, per Reuters. And it comes just a day after a separate family-linked business, the Trump Media & Technology Group, announced its intention to raise $2.5bn to invest in bitcoin, as the Wall Str...

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36 h. ago Musk criticises Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’, saying tax plans undermine Doge measures – US politics live

Tesla billionaire calls legislation a ‘massive spending bill’ that will add to the federal deficitMusk says Trump tax bill weakens Doge cost-cutting measuresThe vice-president, JD Vance, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Vegas, which will set out the Trump administration’s turbocharged approach to the US crypto industry.If you cast your minds back, it’s the same conference Trump spoke at last year in Nashville calling for America to become a “bitcoin superpower” and the “crypto capital of the planet” under his leadership.At 4:30pm ET, Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr will speak at the very same conference in Vegas. It’s presumably an industry they feel invested in, given they back a major Bitcoin venture themselves, per Reuters. And it comes just a day after a separate family-linked business, the Trump Media & Technology Group, announced its intention to raise $2.5bn to invest in bitcoin, as the Wall Street Journal reports. And th...

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41 h. ago UK politics live: minister defends Labour’s justice record after warnings of threat to public safety

Housing minister says previous government left prison system in state of ‘criminal neglect’ amid warnings over early release plan The government is seeking to give a boost to smaller developers with faster planning decisions and financial backing to speed up building new homes.It will set out the detail of proposals to cut red tape and for planning decisions to be shifted away from councillors and towards expert officers as part of efforts to meet Labour’s pledge to build 1.5m homes by 2029-30.We’ve inherited, as you know, a housing system that’s not building enough homes part of the reason it is broken is that we’re overly reliant on a small number of large volume housebuilders. So we’ve got to diversify the housing market and get smaller housebuilders back in the game.In the 1980s they used to produce about 40% of all homes. Today it’s less than 10%, and so the package we’re announcing today allocating land specifically to SME housebuilders, providing them with more financial supp...

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56 h. ago Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews

Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenueUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has ordered US embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students as it prepares to implement comprehensive social media screening for all international applicants.A Tuesday state department cable instructs consular sections to pause adding “any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued” within days. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Trump says Putin is ‘playing with fire’ in wake of massive Russian strikes on Ukraine – US politics live

US president claims if it weren’t for him ‘really bad’ things would have happened to Russia amid signs he is frustrated with Russian president’s stalling of peace talksEarlier this morning, Alan Garber, president of Harvard University, told NPR’s Morning Edition that elite institutions need to double down on their “commitment to the good of the nation” and “be firm in our commitments to what we stand for”.Garber said he finds the measures taken by the Trump administration to be “perplexing”; while he acknowledges there is work to be done on campus regarding viewpoint diversity, he said he struggles to see a link between funding freezes and fighting antisemitism.I think that we have heard from some people that they do feel that [Harvard lacks viewpoint diversity]. What is perplexing is the measures that they have taken to address these that don’t even hit the same people that they believe are causing the problems. Why cut off research funding? Sure, it hurts Harvard, but it hurts the...

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57 h. ago NPR sues Trump administration over funding cuts it says violate first amendment

Lawsuit argues executive order violates constitution by targeting NPR for news coverage Trump feels is biasedUS politics live – latest updatesNational Public Radio, the US public broadcaster that provides news and cultural programming to more than 1,000 local stations, has filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration, challenging an executive order that cuts federal funding to the public broadcaster as an unconstitutional attack on press freedom.The lawsuit, which landed on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, argues that Trump’s 1 May executive order violates the first amendment by targeting NPR for news coverage the president considers “biased”. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago King Charles tells Canada’s parliament country will stay ‘strong and free’ amid Trump annexation threats – live

Monarch says Canada ‘faces critical moment’ as unprecedented address comes amid Trump’s repeated threats that US should make Canada the 51st stateEarlier this morning, Alan Garber, president of Harvard University, told NPR’s Morning Edition that elite institutions need to double down on their “commitment to the good of the nation” and “be firm in our commitments to what we stand for”.Garber said he finds the measures taken by the Trump administration to be “perplexing”; while he acknowledges there is work to be done on campus regarding viewpoint diversity, he said he struggles to see a link between funding freezes and fighting antisemitism.I think that we have heard from some people that they do feel that [Harvard lacks viewpoint diversity]. What is perplexing is the measures that they have taken to address these that don’t even hit the same people that they believe are causing the problems. Why cut off research funding? Sure, it hurts Harvard, but it hurts the country because after...

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