63 h. ago Trump watches in horror as top executive collapses at White House press conference

Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay collapsed during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House on Thursday as President Trump watched on in horror

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3 d. ago The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty

For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous endsZohran Mamdani was forged in the era of Donald Trump. He came to socialism through watching Bernie Sanders run for the US presidency in 2016, in the contest that ultimately gave us Trump I. Last November, a few days after the election of Trump II, he asked voters why they’d backed that guy. The conversations prepared Mamdani in his battle for New York, and the film of them reveals so much about the politics of this era that it repays watching.Those of us schooled in the tactics of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair might roll our eyes at yet another “listening exercise”, starring a powerbroker and his retinue in some beautifully lit hall, but this is no such thing. Here stands an unknown on a street corner in the Bronx, waving a placard as doughtily as a Seventh-Day Adventist. Rather than read off a Rolodex of platitudes, this politician sees his public – some of ...

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3 d. ago Election results live: Trump admits vote was ‘not good for Republicans’ as Mamdani and Newsom celebrate big wins

‘So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,’ the NYC mayor-elect said in victory speech

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3 d. ago Election results live: Trump left to lick wounds as Mamdani and Newsom savor huge night for Democrats

‘So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,’ incoming NYC mayor Mamdani said

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4 d. ago US election results live: Trump left to lick wounds as Mamdani and Newsom savour huge night for Democrats

‘So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,’ incoming NYC mayor Mamdani said

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4 d. ago US election results live: ‘Trump’s worst nightmare’ Zohran Mamdani celebrates historic NYC mayor victory

‘So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up,’ incoming NYC mayor Mamdani said

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4 d. ago A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China

Demands of absolute loyalty and attacks on institutions have raise memories of Mao-style chaos from US watchers in ChinaWhen Vickie Wang, a budding standup comedian, gets on stage in New York, she’s not just thinking about what jokes to crack. She’s also thinking about which ones to avoid. “I don’t criticise the administration directly,” she said. Or if she does, she makes sure it’s not recorded for social media. “I would never publicly publish something where I directly criticise the government I think it’s a learned behaviour from China”.Wang, 39, lived in Shanghai for nearly a decade, leaving in 2022. In 2025 she relocated to the US. When she arrived, she went on a frenzy of “revenge bingeing on democracy”, going to talks, protests and diving into New York’s public library. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Wills gets down to business in Brazil: Prince warns of 'nature crisis' facing the world at anti

Prince William met Maisa Guajajara, Poliana Moreira Guajajara and Claudia Maria Guajajara Da Silva at a United for Wildlife Summit in Rio on Tuesday.

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4 d. ago Trump and his media buddies are taking the muddling of reality to a whole new level | Arwa Mahdawi

How scared should we be by Trump’s heavily edited appearance on a US news programme this weekend, and Elon Musk’s Grokipedia?You know how I’m going to be able to tell that I’ve really made it as a writer in America? When our very handsome (much better-looking than Zohran Mamdani!) and very high-IQ leader Donald Trump gives me a personal shoutout to commend me on what a wonderful job I’m doing. As we all know, a good journalist should always make the rich and powerful feel comfortable.While I wait for that day to come, I’m watching and learning from the head honchos at CBS. Trump appeared on CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night for his first sit-down with the show in five years and commented on how much better the network has become after its owner, Paramount, was taken over by his billionaire allies, the father-and-son duo Larry and David Ellison. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Election Day 2025: What to watch out for in key test for Trump and Democrats

The most prominent battles are unfolding in Virginia, New Jersey and New York

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5 d. ago Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election

President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post and says he does not want to send ‘good money after bad’On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, President Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit

Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free tradeThe Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has warned that the era of free trade and investment that formed the foundations of the postwar global economy has ended.In a stark message to Asia-Pacific leaders at the Apec summit in South Korea on Friday, Carney said rules-based open trade no longer worked in a global economy that was undergoing one of its most profound periods of change since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump and China’s President Xi shake hands for 27 seconds during Asia summit

Watch as Donald Trump and Xi Jingping shake hands for 27 seconds before “amazing” talks between the two leaders.

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1 week ago Trump faces off with Xi in tariff showdown after pairing him with Putin as America's twin enemies

President Trump is preparing for one of the most closely watched encounters of his presidency during his Asia swing.

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1 week ago ‘The world is watching’: What Trump and Xi want from trade summit

US and Chinese leaders expected to unveil deal to extend tariff truce amid tensions over rare earths and tech controls

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1 week ago Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him | Polly Toynbee

Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done – first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop ReformWhat hell is the life of politics. Look around that cabinet table: each person is confronted with near impossible-portfolios without the means to do what they know is needed. After another nightmare week, many in the dark watches must ask themselves why the hell they gave their lives to this brutally thankless task.Their inheritance was even more ruinous than feared: they were bequeathed landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year. They are blighted by bad luck: the Trump destroyer landed on their watch. What worse mishap than a prison officer setting free a refused asylum-seeker sex offender? Small boat arrivals feel unstoppable. An unfortunate deputy leadership election right now was bound to give Keir Starmer a bruising. The 11% vote share at the C...

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1 week ago Forget diplomatic niceties: it's beyond time Europe denounced Trump's trashing of democracy in the US | Paul Taylor

The convention to stay out of allies’ internal affairs does not apply. What happens in America does not stay in AmericaWhat do you do when you discover your best friend is abusive to their partner at home? That question, or something similar, should be addressed to European leaders – and indeed to all of us in the European public space, who are watching, often speechless, as Donald Trump takes a cudgel to the institutions of American democracy.For the last nine months, European leaders have bitten their tongues, looked the other way and engaged in flattery, appeasement and wild promises to keep the US president sweet and engaged in European security. The overwhelming imperative for Trump to stand with Europe against Russia over its war on Ukraine – or at least not against us and alongside Vladimir Putin – has led them to swallow unrealistic defence spending targets and unbalanced trade terms. For what gain?Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continu...

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1 week ago Asian shares are mixed as region watches for outcome from Trump's visits

Asian shares are mixed, with Chinese markets gaining as investors watch to see what might come of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and China's top leader

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2 w. ago UK watchdog sues crypto exchange linked to billionaire Trump backer

HTX, advised by Justin Sun, is accused by the FCA of unlawful promotion of cryptoassets

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2 w. ago I watched Donald Trump's 'Meet Darth Vader' Rose Garden speech and 5 moments were utterly bonkers

Donald Trump hosted a lunch at the newly-renovated White House Rose Garden, which he controversially paved over to build a patio for such events over the summer, receiving fierce bipartisan backlash.

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