5 h. ago Mike Myers says SNL Canada protest was ‘angry’ response to Donald Trump

‘It was not about me – it was about my country,’ ‘Austin Powers’ actor said

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9 h. ago Trump says he thinks Zelenskyy is ready to give up Crimea despite previous comments

US president says face-to-face meeting at Vatican improved relations with Ukrainian president and demurs on trust in Vladimir PutinUS President Donald Trump has said he thinks Volodymyr Zelenskyy is ready to give up Crimea, despite his Ukrainian counterpart’s previous assertions on the Black Sea peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.Speaking to reporters at an airport in New Jersey on Sunday a day after meeting with Zelenskyy at the Vatican, Trump said “Oh, I think so,” in response to a question on whether he thought Zelenskyy was ready to “give up” the territory. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago ‘Everyone’s scared’: little appetite for mirth before White House correspondents’ dinner

Annual event likely to prove gloomy affair amid Trump attacks on press and rise of Maga media ecosystemIt is no laughing matter. The annual dinner for journalists who cover the White House is best known for American presidents trying to be funny and comedians trying to be political. But this year’s edition will feature neither.Instead the event in a downtown Washington hotel on Saturday night will, critics say, resemble something closer to a wake for legacy media still trying to find an effective response to Donald Trump’s divide-and-rule tactics and the rise of the Maga media ecosystem. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Readers' letters: Private firms issuing parking fines must be reined in

A reader calls for a crackdown private firms issuing hefty fines for minor parking infringements

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3 d. ago Massive blow to Trump as Japanese car giant moves manufacturing OUT of US in tariff twist

Subaru is reshuffling its supply chain in response to President Donald Trump's tariff upheavals.

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3 d. ago Readers' letters: BBC 'not turning its back on Scottish talent by axeing River City'

BBC Scotland defends its decision to decommission River City, saying it is responding to changing viewing habits

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3 d. ago Trump says Russia has made ‘pretty big concession’ to peace by not seizing whole of Ukraine

President tells reporters he has his ‘own deadline’ for reaching a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow – but insists he is putting ‘a lot of pressure’ on Russia

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3 d. ago Trump slams ‘not necessary’ Russian airstrike on Kyiv: ‘Vladimir, STOP!’

Trump’s criticism of Moscow comes less than a day after he attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

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4 d. ago Judd Trump hits back at Stephen Hendry claim with firm response

Judd Trump is currently playing to win his second World Championship and triumphing at the Crucible would, according to Stephen Henry, see him remembered as a 'great'

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4 d. ago Readers' letters: Misuse of language will lead to 'bigotry fatigue'

A reader suggests campaigners should not be so quick to resort to extreme language

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5 d. ago Chinese PM writes to Japan stressing need to jointly fight Trump’s tariffs

China has reportedly urged Japan for a coordinated response to tariffs imposed on both nations by US president Donald Trump.

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5 d. ago Readers' letters: Pope Francis had a rare gift – he was greater than his office

Readers pay tribute to Pope Francis following his death at the age of 88 on Easter Monday

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5 d. ago Trump says China tariffs will drop ‘substantially – but it won’t be zero’

US president says tariffs on imported goods will come down from 145% rate but insists ‘we’re doing fine with China’Donald Trump said during a White House news conference that high tariffs on goods from China will “come down substantially, but it won’t be zero”.Trump’s remarks were in response to earlier comments on Tuesday by treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who said that the high tariffs were unsustainable and that he expects a “de-escalation” in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Readers' letters: League reconstruction could usher in a whole new ball game

A reader suggests the reconstruction of Scottish football could open the door to a more successful, competitive domestic game

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6 d. ago Readers' Letters: £75 to meet you? Sorry Nicola, we've already paid the price

A reader is snubbing the chance to pay for Nicola Sturgeon in close-up

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7 d. ago Readers' Letters: Scottish Government clueless when it come to Education

Scottish Government is getting it wrong on financing universities, says reader

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9 d. ago Readers' Letters: When did 'activism' become a career in itself?

Shouldn’t an ‘activist’ have lots of real world experience, wonders reader

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9 d. ago Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

Site that once provided health information now includes criticism of Anthony Fauci, who led response to pandemicUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has replaced Covid.gov – a website that once provided Americans with access to information about free tests, vaccines, treatment and secondary conditions such as long Covid – with a treatise on the “lab leak” theory.The site includes intense criticism of Dr Anthony Fauci, who helmed national Covid policies under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the World Health Organization (WHO) and state leadership in New York. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Readers' Letters: Be kind to all, but let's ditch gender madness

Correspondents overwhelmingly backed the Supreme Court’s judgment on the legal definition of a ‘woman’

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1 week ago Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong

The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leaderThe Oval Office meeting of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele on Monday was a grotesque spectacle. Both men, elected to lead nominally democratic countries, have described themselves as dictators, and they exuded that sense of smug impunity. While reporters sought answers on the fate of Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old father of three who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot mega-prison, Trump and Bukele disclaimed responsibility, joked about further deportations, and engaged in casual slander of Ábrego García, who is not, and has never been alleged to be, a terrorist.And then there was the gold. So much gold. Continue reading...

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