10 h. ago Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon calls for Elon Musk to be deported immediately

Steve Bannon, chief strategist for the first seven months of Trump's first term, has called for a full investigation into South African born Elon Musk's immigration status

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21 h. ago Musk ally hints he lost top NASA job because Trump had ‘axe to grind’

Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s former nominee for NASA administrator, has hinted that his ties to Elon Musk may have been the reason his nomination was withdrawn.

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer says he will not support a second independence referendum as Prime Minister

The Labour leader said his Government would instead be focused on its own priorities

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3 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer rules out second Scottish independence referendum while he is Prime Minister

The Prime Minister says his government needs to focus on the economy rather than the constitution.

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5 d. ago Trump pulls NASA nomination of Musk ally Jared Isaacman just days before vote

Senate Democrats have criticized Isaacman’s closeness to Elon Musk, who departed from the administration this week

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1 week ago Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world

The president’s billionaire backer was ever-present at the start of Trump’s term but is now pulling back from politics – and Republicans want to keep it that wayThe Oval Office was crowded, with reporters cautioned not to collide with the Resolute Desk. Standing beside them, dressed in black, was Elon Musk, billionaire ally of Donald Trump and head of his government efficiency drive.“Elon is from South Africa – I don’t want to get Elon involved,” the US president told his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, during a discussion about crime against white farmers. “He actually came here on a different subject: sending rockets to Mars. He likes that better.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Romania’s presidential election upset: a vote for stability and the west | Editorial

A stunning comeback victory for the centrist mayor of Bucharest was also good news for Kyiv. But elsewhere in Europe, the far right continues to flourishAs Romanians voted on Sunday in arguably the most consequential election in the country’s post-communist history, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will have been preparing to welcome a fellow disruptor to the European stage. The first round of a controversially re-run presidential contest had been handsomely won by George Simion, a Eurosceptic ultranationalist who views Donald Trump as a “natural ally” and opposes military aid to Ukraine. On the back of a 20-point lead, Mr Simion, a 38-year-old former football ultra with a taste for violent rhetoric, was so confident of winning that he made a confrontational visit to Brussels in the last days of his campaign.Those expectations were confounded in remarkable fashion at the weekend. In a dramatic reversal of fortunes, Nicușor Dan, the centrist mayor of Bucharest, benefited ...

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2 w. ago Starmer branded 'the closet Remainer who never got over losing referendum' as Tories claim EU deal will unleash 'free movement by the back door'

Writing for MailOnline Andrew Griffith, the shadow business secretary, accused him of moving towards 'freedom of movement by the back door' with plans for a youth mobility scheme.

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3 w. ago Trump Derangement Syndrome to be studied under new bill... how to tell if you've got symptoms

To many in the U.S., thinking of Donald Trump evokes an automatic rage-filled response, some call this 'Trump Derangement Syndrome,' and now Congress wants it studied.

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch to tell Labour not to make UK a 'supplicant' to the European Union with fears Starmer will look to unpick the Brexit referendum

Kemi Badenoch will take aim at Labour's 'surrender' on Brexit with a hard-hitting speech in Brussels today.

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3 w. ago Trump’s failed Surgeon General pick lands on her feet with a job at RFK Jr’s HHS

Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination was pulled after her education credentials came under scrutiny and a Trump ally criticized her endorsement of the Covid vaccine.

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3 w. ago First white South Africans to arrive in America despite Trump’s refugee freeze

The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has been echoed by Trump's white South African-born ally Elon Musk

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4 w. ago What will the new Pope be like? He’s chosen to be called Leo: that’s no accident | Catherine Pepinster

Popes who take that name tend to be progressive reformers. If Trump and JD Vance think they have an ally in the Vatican, I think not Catherine Pepinster is a former editor of The TabletWhat’s in a name? When it comes to a pope – everything. The white smoke from the Sistine Chapel earlier this evening told the world that a new pope to succeed Francis had been elected – and for the first time the pontiff is an American.But if Donald Trump and his Catholic convert Veep, JD Vance, are ready to cheer, then they should think again. Cardinal Robert Prevost has chosen the name Leo XIV – and if you’re a papal Leo, you tend to be a reformer at the progressive end of Catholicism. That Prevost has decided to become Leo XIV will make Catholics think immediately of the last Leo – Leo XIII – and his 1891 encyclical or teaching document, Rerum Novarum, which outlined workers’ rights to a fair wage, safe working conditions and the rights of workers to belong to trade unions. If Pope Francis was the ...

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4 w. ago ‘We can’t let it go down the drain like Detroit’: Jon Voight is Trump’s Hollywood ally looking to save US production

Voight insists plan including movie tariffs got better reaction from industry than headlines would suggest

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4 w. ago Trump ally and Mandelson laugh as Starmer references VE Day in US

Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and Peter Mandelson laughed as Sir Keir Starmer celebrated a UK-US trade deal coinciding with Victory in Europe Day’s (VE Day) 80th anniversary on Thursday, 8 May.

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4 w. ago Bill Gates says his Foundation will close in 2045 and decries Musk for USAID cuts

Microsoft co-founder accuses Trump ally of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ by slashing US aid fundingBill Gates announced plans on Thursday to shutter the Gates Foundation in 2045 and also strongly criticized Elon Musk for slashing funding to the US Agency for International Development (USAID), accusing the Tesla CEO of “killing the world’s poorest children” in new interviews.In an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday, Gates condemned the sudden funding cuts to USAID by Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), saying the cuts had led to life-saving food and medicines expiring in warehouses, and could result in the resurgence of diseases such as measles, HIV and polio. Continue reading...

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