2 h. ago Bruce Springsteen's lyrical view of America has long included politics — even more so as he ages

Even as his fame and wealth have soared over the decades, Bruce Springsteen has retained the voice of the working class’ balladeer

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3 h. ago Apple sees stock drop after Trump threatens 25 percent tariffs unless they build iPhones in America

President Donald Trump made the threats after he reportedly met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House earlier in the week

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3 h. ago Trump signs executive orders to spur US ‘nuclear energy renaissance’

President aims to construct new nuclear reactors as he implements his own energy policies and undoes Joe Biden’sDonald Trump signed a series of executive orders on Friday intended to spur a “nuclear energy renaissance” through the construction of new reactors he said would satisfy the electricity demands of data centers for artificial intelligence and other emerging industries.The orders represented the president’s latest foray into the policy underlying America’s electricity supply. Trump declared a national energy emergency on his first day in office over and moved to undo a ban implemented by Joe Biden on new natural gas export terminals and expand oil and gas drilling in Alaska. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: a boon to the UK, as well as audiences elsewhere | Editorial

Britain would benefit from pledging more sustained and committed support in this age of disinformation and global turmoilTwo years ago, BBC Arabic radio left the airwaves after decades. Soon afterwards, Russia’s Sputnik service began broadcasting on the frequency left vacant in Lebanon. That detail illuminates a larger picture. China, Russia and others see global-facing media as central to their global ambitions and are investing accordingly – pumping out propaganda to muddle or drown out objective, independently minded journalism. These outlets are state-controlled as well as state-owned.Meanwhile, conspiracy theories and disinformation proliferate online, attacks on press freedom intensify and the Trump administration is dismantling media organisations including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia (RFA), which have been essential sources of information for audiences under repressive regimes. Official Chinese media were gleeful at what RFA’s president, Bay Fang, cal...

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9 h. ago Apple stocks sink after Trump threatens 25 percent tariffs unless they build iPhones in America

The president made the threat against the tech giant in a Truth Social post

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21 h. ago ‘America is not for sale:’ Protesters mob Trump golf course guests ahead of exclusive crypto dinner

Demonstrators held signs reading ‘Stop Crypto Corruption,’ ‘America is not for sale,’ as well as brandishing a large gold coin featuring a large image of the president’s scowling face

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24 h. ago Donald Trump mocked for making up new word in bizarre 'Make America Healthy Again' TV appearance

Donald Trump made another TV appearance discussing the government's plans to crack down on ultra-processed foods and "over prescription and widespread exposure to toxic chemicals"

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54 h. ago The Guardian view on social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’ | Editorial

Three decades on from Robert Putnam’s account of fraying social ties in the US, new research in Britain identifies similar dangersThirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert Putnam has a right to feel vindicated. In a lecture this spring, Prof Putnam, now 84, warned his audience that, amid levels of polarisation and distrust higher than at any time since the civil war, the US was “in danger of going to hell in a handcart”.Britain is still, thankfully, a long way from the poisonous toxicity of Trump-era America, notwithstanding the ominous rise of Reform and Nigel Farage. But research published this week by the More in Common polling group paints a worrying portrait of communities in which there is a widespread sense of social disconnection, high levels of distrust among the young and a felt loss of shared spaces and rituals.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...

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3 d. ago Trump announces ‘Golden Dome for America’ to protect U.S. from ballistic and hypersonic missiles

Trump claims the ‘Golden Dome’ system will be operational by the end of his term

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6 d. ago How Trump stunned the world as he flipped America's Middle East policy on its head

President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East provided the president with the kind of made-for-TV moments the president adores.

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7 d. ago Moments before his execution, a suspected serial killer’s final words were: ‘Trump, keep making America great’

Glen Rogers, known as the "Casanova Killer” who once admitted to killing 70 people, used his final breaths to shout out President Donald Trump.

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7 d. ago Latin American leaders spend millions to influence Trump’s White House

El Salvador’s Bukele has scored an Oval Office Trump meeting, nuclear deal and US prison supportUS government records reveal Latin American leaders have spent millions hiring Washington’s top lobbyists to push for a laundry list of requests – from free-trade deals, security assistance and energy investments – heard by the Trump administration, according to an analysis by the Guardian and The Quincy Institute.Since the lead-up to Donald Trump’s election as president in November 2024, Department of Justice records show that at least 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have registered their top officials and envoys as foreign principals under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (Fara). Fara aims to promote transparency by requiring those working as foreign agents to disclose their activities and compensation. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Potential US semiconductor manufacturing boom complicated by Trump's economic policies

Before ‘America First’ became the Trump administration’s mandate for foreign policy and trade, one sector was already working to bring business back to the United States: the semiconductor industry

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8 d. ago Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America

Many people have decided a trip to the US isn’t worth the risk after recent border detentions. But if you are going, what do you need to know? Immigration lawyers explain it allKindness doesn’t cost a thing. Putting up a big “no foreigners welcome” sign, threatening to annex your neighbour, and throwing visitors to your country into detention for minor visa infractions, however? Such actions are expensive. The United States is on track to lose $12.5bn (£9.4bn) in international travel spending this year, according to a study published on Tuesday by the World Travel and Tourism Council.If the Trump administration is concerned that its aggressive rhetoric is costing tourist dollars, it’s not showing it. During a recent press conference about the 2026 Fifa World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada, vice president JD Vance joked about deporting football fans who outstay their welcome. “We’ll have visitors from close to 100 countries. We want them to come ” Vanc...

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1 week ago Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’

Accepting honorary Palme d’Or at opening ceremony of festival, actor rails against the US’s ‘philistine president’The actor Robert De Niro has – after a brief period of abstention – returned to his robust public critique of Donald Trump, using his Palme d’Or acceptance speech at the Cannes film festival to newly attack the US president.Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 78th film festival in France, De Niro said that the US’s re-elected commander-in-chief posed a global threat. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘That’s not America first’: MAGA turns on Trump over gift $400m jet from Qatar

Trump said it would be ‘stupid’ to turn down the offer of a free plane

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1 week ago First group of white South Africans leave for US after Trump offers refugee status

The South African government said it is ‘completely false’ that Afrikaners are being persecuted

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1 week ago Trump's reshaping of higher education tests America's appeal for international students

The durability of the America's appeal for international students is facing a test under the Trump administration, which has ramped up scrutiny of student visas and moved to deport foreign students for involvement in pro-Palestinian activism

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1 week ago Trump will destroy world trade, but democracies can defend themselves – and each other | Anders Fogh Rasmussen

We need a trade block, a D7, that would mirror Nato. An economic attack on one would be an attack on allAnders Fogh Rasmussen is a former prime minister of Denmark and former secretary general of Nato The postwar global economic order, with the United States at its centre, has created more prosperity than any other period in human history. Yet as Donald Trump takes a sledgehammer to that economic order, America’s democratic allies face a choice. We can accept the new cost of doing business with the US. We can follow the US down a path of mutually assured economic destruction with an ever-escalating trade war. Or we can find new avenues to keep free trade alive.My proposition? I believe we need a new platform for economic cooperation between the world’s seven leading democracies. Call it the “Democratic 7”, or “D7”. The EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea represent roughly 25% of global GDP and account for about 35% of global trade volume. Together, the...

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1 week ago How Trump’s trade war threw his and America’s toys out the pram

Parents have reacted with anger at his latest remarks

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