12 h. ago Blood on the streets and main road closed after double stabbing in Longsight

Two teenagers were hospitalised following the incident on Stockport Road

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18 h. ago LIVE: Police tape off major Manchester road following incident

Buses have been stopped on the street

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41 h. ago Civil rights advocates say Trump order guts protections against discrimination

Order directs federal agencies to ‘deprioritize enforcement’ of laws where policies have discriminatory effectsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s executive order on Wednesday eliminating “disparate-impact liability” from federal civil rights enforcement has sparked condemnation from legal and civil rights advocates who argue it guts protections that have shielded Americans from discrimination for decades.The order directs federal agencies to immediately “deprioritize enforcement” of laws where policies have discriminatory effects, even without discriminatory intent – a cornerstone of modern civil rights protection. It also instructs the attorney general to begin repealing or amending regulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Trump tariffs live: Dozen US states sue to stop ‘insane’ policy as president threatens more global levies

The lawsuit comes as the president warned he could re-impose the higher tariffs in as little as two weeks

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3 d. ago Man 'stabbed' in Cambuslang attack as police cordon off street

He was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment, where his current condition is unknown.

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3 d. ago LIVE: Police tape off street in Manchester after serious incident

A cordon is in place

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4 d. ago LIVE: Major Manchester road CLOSED by police after serious incident

Hyde Road in Gorton is shut with traffic being diverted from the scene

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4 d. ago LIVE: Major Manchester road CLOSED by police after serious crash with two in hospital

Hyde Road in Gorton is shut with traffic being diverted from the scene

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8 d. ago Trump attacks Fed chair over interest rates and says his termination ‘cannot come fast enough’

President, whose tariff policy has caused turmoil, said Jerome Powell is ‘always too late and wrong’ with rate policyBusiness live – latest updatesDonald Trump early on Thursday blasted the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, for not lowering US interest rates and expressed a wish for him to be gone from his role.The US president lambasted Powell as “always too late and wrong” in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump noted that the European Central Bank (ECB) was poised on Thursday to lower interest rates again, without mentioning that the body has been responding to the chaos caused by Trump’s initiatives on tariffs. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago LIVE as house in Stockport village taped off by police following serious incident

A cordon is in place outside an address in Gatley

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1 week ago Salford incident LIVE: Helicopter and armed police at scene with cordon in place

A huge emergency response is in attendance

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1 week ago Salford incident LIVE: Huge cordon after 'gun' pointed at crowd on street as armed police descend

A huge emergency response is in attendance

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1 week ago Salford incident LIVE: Huge cordon with seven arrests after gun pointed at crowd and crossbow found

A huge emergency response is in attendance

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1 week ago LIVE: Office smashed and covered in red paint as police launch investigation

It comes after a protest took place last month

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2 w. ago Tariffs live: Trump insists policy ‘doing really well’ despite China hiking levies on American goods to 125%

Beijing will ignore further US action as ‘there is no possibility of market acceptance for US goods’ at current tariff level

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2 w. ago M66 LIVE as motorway blocked both ways due to police incident with 'severe' traffic delays

There are severe delays due to the incident

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2 w. ago Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order

President orders justice department to stop enforcement of critical policies holding fossil fuel companies accountableUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump is taking aim and city- and state-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, which have been hailed as a last source of hope for the climate amid the president’s ferociously anti-environment agenda.In a Tuesday executive order, Trump instructed the Department of Justice to “stop the enforcement” of state climate laws, which his administration has suggested are unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Democratic governors hit back at Trump order blocking state climate policies – US politics live

Move directing US attorney general to block laws addressing carbon emissions draws criticism China’s move to impose 84% retaliatory tariffs against the United States is unfortunate and a losing proposition for Beijing, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on Wednesday, as he urged China to “come to the table” with the Trump administration.“I think it’s unfortunate that the Chinese actually don’t want to come and negotiate, because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system,” Bessent said in an interview with Fox Business Network.I can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them, that they have some very smart the economist and the academicians, technocrats within their bureaucracy, and they would be telling the leadership that we do not have the edge here. They are the surplus country that their exports to the US are five times our exports to China. So they can raise their tariffs. But so what?No one wins in a war. But it’s proportionality. And ...

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2 w. ago Trump issues executive order to block state climate crisis policies – US politics live

Move directs US attorney general to block laws addressing carbon emissions and comes hours after president issued orders to increase coal productionChina will impose 84% tariffs on US goods from Thursday, up from the 34% previously announced, the finance ministry said on Wednesday.In early March, the Trump administration sent warning letters to 60 US universities it said were facing “potential enforcement actions” for what it described as “failure to protect Jewish students on campus” in the wake of widespread pro-Palestinian protests on campuses last year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago EU sanctions policy ‘failed’ to make impact on Russia, says Hungarian minister – Europe live

Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, claims sanctions ‘hit European economy more than Russian economy’Péter Szijjártó, a frequent visitor to Moscow despite the continuing Russian aggression against Ukraine, also told Bloomberg that the EU’s sanctions policy “has failed” as he claimed it “hit European economy more than the Russian economy”.He said that Hungary’s view on rolling over the existing sanctions will “depend a lot on the geopolitical circumstances”, with Budapest closely following the progress of Trump-led talks with Russia. Continue reading...

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