3 h. ago Gold price jumps above $5,000 an ounce for first time amid Trump turmoil

Investors seek safe haven in precious metal, while Japan’s government spooks money markets with tax-cuts pledgeThe price of gold has jumped above $5,000 an ounce for the first time as Donald Trump’s chaotic policies and proclamations drive more investors to seek safe harbour in the precious metal.Gold reached a record high of $5,100 (£3,723) on Monday morning, before easing back to settle up 2.2% at $5,091. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Lawmakers warn that Trump’s policies will make it harder for US athletes to compete overseas

President Donald Trump’s aggressive recent foreign policy actions could see competitors subjected to hostile crowds and anti-American sentiment at this year’s major sporting events, representatives argue

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13 h. ago Gold price tops $5,000 an ounce for first time as investors seek safe haven from Trump turmoil

Rising fears that another US shutdown looms pushes gold price to new height amid nearly 90% rise since Trump’s inaugurationGold has jumped above US$5,000 an ounce for the first time, as Donald Trump’s chaotic policies and proclamations drive more investors to seek safe harbour in the precious metal.The price of the yellow metal jumped 1.8% to $5,078 an ounce on Monday, according to Bloomberg. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Minneapolis leaders call the ICE surge a ‘siege’. My reporting from there concurs

After covering Trump’s immigration policies from Chicago and LA, the Twin Cities operation feels like a marked escalationThe Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board described the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities as “a military occupation”. Local leaders have used words like “siege” and “invasion”. After a week of reporting in Minneapolis and St Paul, I wouldn’t know how else to describe the scene.I’ve been covering the administration’s immigration policies since Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January last year. I was in Chicago in January last year, when the administration assigned hundreds of federal agents to conduct “enhanced targeted operations” in the city. I was in Los Angeles last summer, when agents began seizing workers at car washes and garment warehouses, grabbing bicyclists and raiding churches. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Stephen Miller’s wife brutally trolled over latest criticism of Gavin Newsom

Newsom is in Davos to serve as an opposing voice to Trump’s economic policies

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7 d. ago China’s GDP grows 5% in 2025 as exports offset weak domestic outlook

Latest data reflects 2-speed economy as Beijing grapples with Donald Trump’s trade policies

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8 d. ago FIFA warned to strip Donald Trump of the World Cup after 'utterly, totally sickening' actions'

TalkSPORT star Jeff Stelling, who hosted Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday for 29 years, says Trump's policies should disqualify the US from hosting the iconic football tournament

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1 week ago Majority of Americans call Trump’s first year back in office a ‘failure’ and say he is focusing on the wrong priorities

Latest polling makes dire reading for President Donald Trump as 55 percent of respondents say he has made economy worse, just one of many dire statistics revealed by the research

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1 week ago Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into 'great spaces' found a new advocate in Trump? | Brendan Simms

Carl Schmitt wanted empires that dominated the small countries in their orbits. But the US president’s chaotic actions are not that strategicIt is axiomatic to many of his critics that the US president, Donald Trump, is a fascist. Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “crown jurist” and political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the Trump administration’s domestic policies, particularly his doctrine of “the exception”, which can be used to suspend certain constitutional rights. After a tumultuous few weeks in geopolitics, his work is being discussed for its contemporary relevance again.In the wake of the release of the new US National Security Strategy in 2025, its raid on Venezuela, the president’s rhetoric on Greenland, Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba, and his apparent indulgence towards Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the question now being asked is whether Trump is also an advocate of aspects of Schmitt’s concept of “great space”.Brendan Simms is director of the Centre fo...

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1 week ago Crows trained to attack MAGA hats in unique protest against Trump

Dave, who has a dislike for Donald Trump's policies, has become an internet sensation after deciding on an unusual method of protesting by teaching crows to attack red MAGA caps

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1 week ago Trump is making one country stronger in the world’s eyes – and it isn’t America

Trump’s ‘America First’ policies have accelerated a shift in global opinion, the poll found

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1 week ago Canada cleared of US allegations they rigged skeleton qualifying for Winter Olympics

US athlete said she was deliberately deprived of pointsInvestigation says Canada acted within rulesCanada’s skeleton team have been cleared of allegations they rigged a qualifying event for the Winter Olympics and denied rival athletes from qualifying for next month’s Games.USA’s Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Winter Olympian in skeleton, accused the Canadian team of deliberately pulling four of its six athletes from a race in Lake Placid, New York, last weekend in order to make it harder for athletes from other countries to qualify. The reduced field meant fewer qualifying points were available and Uhlaender, who won the event, missed out on a place at this year’s Games, which will take place in Milan-Cortina, Italy. Uhlaender claims Joe Cecchini, the head coach of Canada’s skeleton team, told her he had come up with the scheme. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ policies to fuel shift from US, Pimco says

Cautious stance comes amid Wall St concerns over president’s attack on the Federal Reserve

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2 w. ago CBS News pushes back on report Weiss held another 60 Minutes story critical of Trump’s policies

The segment is by veteran journalist Anderson Cooper and covers the Trump administration’s decision to accept refugees from South Africa, a report says

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2 w. ago CBS News chief Bari Weiss holds another 60 Minutes story critical of Trump’s policies: report

The delayed segment is from veteran journalist Anderson Cooper and covers the Trump administration’s decision to accept refugees from South Africa, it is claimed

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2 w. ago Trump immigration policies and aging population slow US growth projection, budget office says

The U.S. population is projected to grow more slowly over the next 30 years

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2 w. ago Trump officials sue California cities over laws to restrict fossil fuels

Suit against San Francisco-area cities Petaluma and Morgan Hill latest attack on policies that seek to rein in oil and gasThe Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday, seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.The lawsuit is the administration’s latest attack on energy policies that seek to rein in the use of fossil fuels to combat climate change. California, a Democratic stronghold, has among the most aggressive climate change policies in the world. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Tesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle maker as sales fall for second year in a row

Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row

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3 w. ago Trump is wrong: ‘woke’ policies aren’t the real threat to Europe | Nouriel Roubini

The continent’s problems are not caused by immigration or cultural politics but by economic and technological declineDonald Trump’s new national security strategy offers a misguided assessment of Europe, long regarded as the US’s most reliable ally. Unrestrained immigration and other policies derided by administration officials as “woke”, it warns, could lead to “civilisational erasure” within a few decades.That argument rests on a fundamental misreading of Europe’s current predicament. While the EU does face an existential threat, it has little to do with immigration or cultural politics. In fact, the share of foreign-born residents in the US is slightly higher than in Europe. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago A cemetery highlighted the war sacrifices of Black Americans. Trump’s ‘anti woke’ policies removed them

Carried out without any public explanation, the removal has provoked anger among Dutch officials, the families of US soldiers, and local residents

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