40 h. ago Billionaires' ball! Global tech and media moguls Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch are joined by their wives on the red carpet at prize ceremony in wake of Trump's tariffs

Mark Zuckerberg , Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch were all spotted at the 11th Breakthrough Prize awards in Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.

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65 h. ago Meta and Pinterest understood to have made donations to Molly Russell charity

The 14-year-old girl took her life in 2017 after viewing harmful material about suicide on social media platforms.

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3 d. ago Spare a thought for the billionaires: Zuckerberg tops losses just as he buys DC house

The five richest men lost a combined £41.4billion on Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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3 d. ago Trump’s tariffs will likely mean ‘higher inflation and slower growth’, says Fed chair

While the US economy remains robust, Jerome Powell cautions there is high uncertainty over its directionUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s global tariffs assault is set to raise prices and slow down economic growth, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has warned, defying the US president’s demands for an immediate interest rate cut.While the US economy remains robust, Powell cautioned that there is high uncertainty over its direction. “Downside risks have risen,” he told an event in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago World’s richest billionaires lost $200bn in single day after Trump’s tariffs rocked markets

Carlos Slim was one of few to see his net worth rise - but Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and others saw billions wiped off their wealth

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3 d. ago Donald Trump demands France 'Free Marine Le Pen' and brands her presidential election ban a 'witch hunt'

Marine Le Pen, 56, was convicted of creating fake jobs at the EU parliament and taking advantage of expenses to employ assistants actually working for her party.

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4 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg finally revealed as mystery cash buyer of a $23 million D.C. mansion

Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, among other tech executives, also own homes in Washington, DC

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5 d. ago Tesla quarterly sales slump 13% amid backlash against Elon Musk

Drop is likely combination of ageing lineup, increased competition and backlash to Musk’s politicsTesla sales declined in the first three months of the year, another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.The drop of 13% is likely due to a combination of factors, including its ageing lineup, competition from rivals and a backlash from Musk’s embrace of rightwing politics. It also is a warning that the company’s first-quarter earnings report later this month could disappoint investors. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg asks for favor from Trump to help protect Meta as company embracing president’s demands

Meta is expecting the European Commission to slap it with fines and a potential cease-and-desist for violating it’s digital laws

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7 d. ago Donald Trump confirms he’s meeting Bill Maher as a favor to a friend

The president confirmed the meeting, calling Maher ‘a man who has been unjustifiably critical of anything, or anyone, TRUMP’

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7 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg's £230m superyacht with cinema and helipad spotted in Scots waters

The luxurious 387ft vessel is said to be one of the most expensive private yachts in the world.

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7 d. ago Karoline Leavitt set to make major change to White House press briefings that will leave liberal media furious

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is at the center of the move which critics say targets legacy media in favor of pro-Trump or digital-first outlets.

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1 week ago Columbia president resigns after university cedes to Trump demands

Katrina Armstrong exits a week after the institution agreed to a list of reforms to fend off funding cuts

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1 week ago Columbia president resigns after university yields to Trump demands

Katrina Armstrong exits a week after the institution agreed to a list of reforms to fend off funding cuts

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1 week ago Zelenskyy employs strategic optimism to highlight Russia’s abundant bad faith

Ukrainian president has learned Trump’s team demand positivity and there is little point in trying to ‘inject reality’At a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, explaining where initial US-brokered peace negotiations had got to, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, struck a notably different tone. Long gone is the tetchiness on display in London in the aftermath of the Ukrainian leader’s catastrophic trip to the White House. In its place was a degree of optimism so high that it could only be interpreted as political positioning.Though he complained about comments made by Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, that four Ukrainian regions wholly or partly occupied by Russia consisted of people who wanted Moscow’s rule in an “overwhelming majority” – these were “in line with the messages of the Kremlin”, Zelenskyy said – he insisted that had advantages too. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Careless People review: Facebook whistleblower’s book serves up one bombshell after another

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ tell-all memoir is a nightmare for Mark Zuckerberg – and a joy for the rest of us

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1 week ago Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US | Simon Jenkins

The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue“Move fast and break things” was Mark Zuckerberg’s motto in launching Facebook 20 years ago. It seemed the antithesis of management-school custom and practice. But it worked, to be imitated after a fashion by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other digital tycoons with similar success. Donald Trump is now seeing if it works in government.The smart money in Washington was that after the fiasco of Trump’s first term, his second would see a more emollient president, one careful of his reputation. He would reach out, consult, become a peacemaker, in his desperation to become a Nobel president like Barack Obama.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump has signed an executive order overhauling elections. Here’s what it means

President Donald Trump's executive order demanding sweeping changes to US elections has the potential to significantly reshape the voting process, despite likely legal challenges.

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1 week ago Artist reveals inspiration for 'unflattering' Trump portrait that he demanded be removed

Comments artist Sarah Boardman made about her portrait of Trump when it was unveiled in 2019 have resurfaced in light of the president demanding its removal this week.

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2 w. ago ‘Insecure baby’: Trump’s Colorado capitol portrait removed after he throws fit

Even some Republicans have called president’s public demand to remove the painting ‘petty’US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump critics aimed ridicule at the president after he publicly demanded the removal of his portrait at Colorado’s state capitol building, calling it “truly the worst”.In a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, Trump shared an image of the portrait and complained about the painting, saying it was bad and blaming it on Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis – whom the president insulted as being “radically left”. Continue reading...

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