97 m. ago Brits look for these top traits when it comes to choosing a new dog

A poll of 2,000 adults who either have, or would like, a dog found these were key attributes alongside, 21% wanting their pet to be good with other animals

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2 h. ago Take your seats, please: Germany's parliament chamber is rearranged to reflect voters' verdict

German voters have had their say

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4 h. ago Nigel Farage's Reform leapfrogs Tories in Scotland with new record high support that puts it on course to win 14 Holyrood seats in next year's election

A new poll by Survation has the hard right party leapfrogging the Tories in terms of support into third behind the SNP and Labour, after a four-point rise in the constituency vote since January.

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6 h. ago Reform UK records highest level of support in Scotland in new poll

The Survation poll would see Nigel Farage’s party win 14 seats in Holyrood

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8 h. ago Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review – what Doge is trying to destroy

The Moneyball author is joined by writers including Dave Eggers and Geraldine Brooks in a hymn of praise to the workers who keep America’s cogs turningIt is a tad obnoxious for Michael Lewis, perhaps America’s most consistently successful nonfiction author, to open his new book by boasting that a previous one sold half a million copies, but bear with him. The book in question was 2018’s The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis smartly responded to Donald Trump’s first administration with profiles of a handful of unknown federal government employees in order to valorise what Trump scorned and highlight the cost of breaking it. His point in the introduction to Who Is Government? is that you could lift the lid on any department and find a similar treasure trove of stories: people you’ve never heard of, doing work whose importance you’ve never understood.Last year, Lewis assembled a crack team of long-form writers to uncover more of these stories for the Washington Post, and those articles are co...

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16 h. ago Trump voter horrified as his new wife is cuffed and taken away by immigration

Bradley Bartell is heartbroken after his wife Camila Muñoz was detained by ICE immigration agents after arriving back in the US from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico

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17 h. ago Researchers discover simple diet tweak to beat debilitating ringing ear condition

Making simple diet swaps may slash the risk of developing the debilitating ear-ringing disease tinnitus by up to 35 percent, a study published this week by researchers in China suggests.

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19 h. ago Musk and Doge’s USAid shutdown likely violated US constitution, judge rules

Judge halts efforts to fire USAid workers, a major setback in administration’s attempts to bulldoze federal governmentNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Elon Musk and the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) likely violated the US constitution by shutting down USAid, ordering the Trump administration to reverse some of the actions it took to dismantle the agency.The decision by US district judge Theodore Chuang was sweeping in its scope and marked a major setback for the administration’s signature takedown in its effort to bulldoze through the federal government. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago DOGE's bitter blow after massive USAID shuttering is rejected as 'unconstitutional' by Obama

A U.S. judge has ordered the Trump administration and billionaire Elon Musk from further dismantling USAID as DOGE looks to make cuts across the federal government.

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20 h. ago Trump live updates: Judge rules Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘likely violated’ Constitution by shutting down USAID

President and allies round on district court justice overseeing case of alleged Venezuelan gang members flown to El Salvador and accuse him of overstepping his authority

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20 h. ago Elon Musk and DOGE ‘likely violated the Constitution’ by shutting down USAID, judge rules

The billionaire and his DOGE team are temporarily blocked from ‘any work’ related to shutting down the global aid agency

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20 h. ago Judge rules against Musk and ‘Doge’, finding USAid shutdown ‘likely violated’ constitution – US politics live

Federal judge orders halt on any work to shut down USAid and tells Musk’s so-called Department for government efficiency to reinstate workers’ email accessDonald Trump has called for the impeachment of the judge handling lawsuits over his administration’s deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, a significant escalation of rightwing attacks on the judiciary.While allies of the president such as Elon Musk have repeatedly said judges who rule against him should be impeached, this appears to be the first time the president has backed such calls publicly. Trump’s post on Truth Social does not name the judge, but seems to reference James Boasberg, the Washington DC-based justice who was appointed by Barack Obama and attempted to prevent the government from deporting the alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Here’s what Trump wrote:This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected Preside...

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20 h. ago Judge rules DOGE's USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts

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21 h. ago How Americans really feel about DEI programs and political correctness

Registered voters sharply divided along partisan and racial lines

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21 h. ago Shocking plan would force thousands to file for Social Security claims in person

An estimated 75,000 and 85,000 recipients would be sent to field offices every week

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22 h. ago Americans worry they can’t get approved for a credit card, mortgage or car loan

More than eight percent of Americans haven’t applied for credit despite needing it over concerns they won’t be approved

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22 h. ago Musk says US Government has 'magic money computers that send cash out of thin air'

The world's richest man Elon Musk has said his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found 14 ‘magic money computers’ that can send cash anywhere in the world

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26 h. ago Have Labour's benefits cuts gone too far? Take our poll and have your say

Labour’s plan to cut billions from the welfare bill has sparked unease within the party and with changes potentially slashing upwards of £5 billion in payments, we're asking - is the government cutting too deep?

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33 h. ago DOGE staffers accused of breaking into US Institute of Peace

The U.S. Institute of Peace insists it is a nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency

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34 h. ago Elon Musk reveals DOGE has found 14 'magic money computers' that create cash 'out of thin air'

Elon Musk said that one of the wilder discoveries his Department of Government Efficiency has made is over a dozen 'magic money computers' that can send payments from thin air.

Economics