24 h. ago The LA Times’ AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump | Margaret Sullivan

The paper’s billionaire owner, who barred it from endorsing Kamala Harris, is leaving human journalists out of the equationThe past few months have been brutal ones for the readers and journalists of the largest news organization in California, the Los Angeles Times.Since he bought the paper in 2018, the billionaire and medical entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong has become something of a Donald Trump acolyte. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Fired federal watchdog must keep his job, judge rules, striking blow to Trump’s reshaping of government

A federal judge said President Donald Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful

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4 d. ago Judge rules head of watchdog agency must keep his job, says Trump's bid to oust him was unlawful

A federal judge has ruled that the head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, saying President Donald Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful

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4 d. ago Socialite sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell 'considers pardon bid' from old pal Donald Trump

"Given how many pardons Trump has issued in the weeks since being back in power, those in Ghislaine clique joked she should push for one."

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4 d. ago Donald Trump 'pardon bid' for jailed British socialite and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Maxwell got 20 years in June 2022 for grooming and trafficking underage girls for her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein – who was also a friend of Donald Trump.

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5 d. ago Marco Rubio in outrageous bid to blame Zelensky's 'behaviour' for Donald Trump attack

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed Donald Trump's outburst against Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House was a 'predictable outcome' and blamed the Ukrainian president for the ugly scenes

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5 d. ago 'Keir Starmer's bid to bridge divide between Donald Trump and Europe is being tested'

Keir Starmer returned home buoyed by a positive meeting with Donald Trump but hours later Ukraine peace talks were hanging in the balance after ugly scenes in the Oval Office

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7 d. ago Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post’s opinion section. That’s a death knell | Margaret Sullivan

‘I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted,’ says former top editor Martin BaronOwners and publishers of news organizations often exert their will on opinion sections. It would be naive to think otherwise.But a draconian announcement this week by Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post owner, goes far beyond the norm.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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1 week ago The ‘Gulf of America’ feud is about something bigger: Trump wants to control the media | Margaret Sullivan

The president punished the AP for choosing its own language, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The press must show unityIt might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another.But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment – and the extent to which news organizations will stick together in each other’s defense, or will comply with the powerful for the sake of their own access. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Macron and Starmer to lead Europe’s Trump charm offensive when they travel to US – Europe live

French president and UK prime minister are due to meet Donald Trump next weekGoing briefly to a number of different false claims made by US president Donald Trump about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, we have looked at some of them in detail and produced this short video explainer.French president Emmanuel Macron and UK prime minister Keir Starmer will lead Europe’s charm offensive next week as they both travel to the US to meet with president Donald Trump in an increasingly desperate bid to change his mind on Ukraine and European security. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workers, judge rules

US judge rejects bid by group of labor unions to halt president’s government overhaul through Musk-led ‘Doge’The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce.The ruling by the US district judge Christopher Cooper in Washington DC federal court is temporary while the litigation plays out. But it is a win for the Trump administration as it seeks to purge the federal workforce and slash what it deems wasteful and fraudulent government spending. Continue reading...

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