4 h. ago Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy

Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’

Economics

58 h. ago Boston nonprofit rejects federal funding so it doesn’t have to comply with Trump’s anti

The nonprofit won a grant through Americorps, the volunteer agency recently gutted by Elon Musk’s DOGE

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3 d. ago Coatbridge Slimming World consultant and groups' members raise funds for charity Cancer Research UK

The money was collected by donating clothes, shoes and accessories that no longer fit to the charity's shops as part of the Big Slimming World Clothes Throw.

Science

7 d. ago Club World Cup teams facing tax threat in new blow to expanded tournament

Fifa is yet to secure exemption for 32 clubs taking partTax rate may vary according to where games are playedFifa is facing complex negotiations with the US authorities before the Club World Cup after failing to secure tax exemptions for the 32 competing clubs.The world governing body announced a huge prize fund for the tournament of $1bn (£754m) in March, including up to $125.8m for the winners, but without tax agreements clubs could be left with bills of tens of millions of dollars to the US tax authorities on top of tax payable in their home countries. At least 29 clubs from outside the US, including Chelsea and Manchester City, will be competing. Continue reading...

Society

7 d. ago Fundraising shows something clear: Democratic voters want fighters

Analysis: From progressives like AOC, Jasmine Crockett and Bernie Sanders to mainstream Democrats like Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, Democrats are sending their money to elected officials they think will aggressively oppose Trump. Eric Garcia reports

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8 d. ago AOC hauls in staggering $9.6 million in just three months as she draws massive crowds with Bernie Sanders

Strong fundraising performance comes after New York progressive toured the country alongside Bernie Sanders on ‘fighting oligarchy’ tour

Economics

9 d. ago Trump brags he ‘rewarded’ farmers with $28bn in taxpayer aid after his first damaging tariffs. He’s set to do it again

‘The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!’ Trump vowed about the voters that supported him

Economics

1 week ago How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown

Harvard has become the first of six Ivy League schools to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands. Josh Marcus reports

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1 week ago How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown and multi

Harvard is the first of six Ivy League schools threatened with funding cuts to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands, a key early battle as 60 universities face investigation

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1 week ago Harvard refuses to comply with Trump administration’s demands over $9 billion

Trump administration asked Harvard to end DEI programs, comply with Department of Homeland Security and reduce student and faculty’s authority

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1 week ago Trump administration slashes $2.2bn in federal money from Harvard after it refuses president’s ‘dictates’

‘The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,’ said a letter from Harvard’s lawyers.’ No private university ‘can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’

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1 week ago Michael Schumacher signs F1 race helmet with aid of his wife Corinna

The helmet, signed by every living world champion, will raise funds for Sir Jackie Stewart’s Race Against Dementia charity

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2 w. ago Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’

Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’

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2 w. ago Meet the billionaire with close royal ties behind Trump's tariffs: How Scott Bessent made his name by almost bankrupting British homeowners but could now be the UK's economic lifeline

He's put the retirement hopes of millions of British savers on hold as the value of their pension funds has shrunk and the world teeters on the brink of recession.

Economics

2 w. ago Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says

World Cancer Research Fund goes further than UK and WHO advice on alcohol after review of evidenceWomen should avoid alcohol altogether to reduce their risk of breast cancer, a charity has warned.The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has published a review of evidence on how diet and lifestyle factors can play a role in the development of the disease. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago ‘Fundamentally wrong, brutal and paranoid’: how will the world respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs?

The US president’s sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on countries around the world are threatening to reshape the global economy – so, what exactly happens next?On Thursday evening, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Dieu and her husband were watching the news. More than 8,700 miles away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on every country around the world. Nowhere was safe, even the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands off the western coast of Australia that, for some unexplained reason, were hit with a 10% tariff.His announcement launched a fierce global trade war and triggered a global market meltdown, including on Trump’s own cherished Wall Street, where hundreds of billions of dollars of stock values evaporated. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump campus crackdown continues with threat Harvard must end ‘ideological capture’ or lose billions

White House has targeted five Ivy League universities so far as part of efforts to enforce priorities on antisemitism, DEI, and transgender people

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3 w. ago Your Friends & Neighbors to Black Mirror: the seven best shows to stream this week

Jon Hamm stars as a gentlemen thief in a very entertaining midlife-crisis satire. Plus: Charlie Brooker’s hit series is back with another sensational castManifesting his signature blend of unshakeable self-confidence and understated self-loathing, Jon Hamm stars in this midlife-crisis satire. Coop (Hamm) is a hedge fund manager who, after years gazing down at the world from an ivory tower, finds his life falling apart. His wife has gone, his kids are expensive, his sister’s mental health problems are getting worse and he’s lost his job. “Your biggest mistake,” his boss tells him, “was thinking any of this was ever yours.” At a barbecue hosted by friends, he has an idea: the people around him are awful and undeservedly rich – so why not rob them? Soon, everything is spiralling out of control in very entertaining fashion. Apple TV+, from Friday 11 April Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago Could antibiotics stop working? Yes – but the biggest danger isn’t prescription

To prevent a catastrophic failure of the drugs modern medicine relies on, look to animal farming in middle-income countriesIf the antibiotics we use to treat infections ever stopped working, the consequences would be catastrophic. It is estimated that the use of antibiotics adds about 20 years of life expectancy for every person worldwide (on average). As the King’s Fund put it, if we lose antibiotics, “we would lose modern medicine as we know it”. Doctors, public health experts and governments take the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) very seriously, yet the problem appears to be getting worse.A report from the National Audit Office in February finds that out of five domestic targets set in 2019 to tackle AMR, only one has been met – to reduce antibiotic use in food-producing animals. Others, such as the target to reduce drug-resistant infections in humans by 10%, haven’t made much progress; in fact, these infections have actually increased by 13% since 2018.Prof Devi Sridh...

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3 w. ago Secrets of Success: the church that served a plantation remains a monument of resistance

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s history of colonisation and enslavementStanding amid the ruins of Success, a former sugar plantation in Hanover, rural Jamaica, there is a muted silence, interrupted by the occasional rumble of a vehicle passing, overripe cocoa pods falling to the ground and green iguanas scuttling across dying leaves on the estate floor.Hidden from the lively community just outside its boundaries, the overgrown site today is a stark contrast to what would have existed there more than a century ago. One of more than 800 sugar plantations across the island, Success was once co-owned by Sir George Philips, one of the 11 men who financed the launch of the Manchester Guardian in 1821.A brick likely to have been used in the construction of a building on the sprawling estate Continue reading...

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