7 h. ago Trump boasted that ‘oil prices are down.’ But his former economic adviser says that could spell doom

President’s former economic adviser Stephen Moore said that he’s ‘worried’ that the declining energy prices could mean investors think demand will drop due to the tariffs

Economics

1 week ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

Politics

1 week ago Donald Trump's demands to 'charge Europe for missile strikes' exposed in leaked texts

A member of Donald Trump's team revealed the White House's plans to 'levy' its allies after Vice President JD Vance said the US strikes on Houthi rebels could 'bail out' Europe and raise oil prices

Events

2 w. ago Sacha Lord quizzed about £400,000 Covid grant his company was told to pay back

The Parklife and Warehouse Project founder resigned as Andy Burnham's night time economy adviser earlier this year

Economics

2 w. ago Reeves must scrap ‘bonkers’ pledge on pension triple lock, warns chancellor’s former economic adviser

Former Treasury minister Jim O’Neill, who previously advised Rachel Reeves, has warned she has ‘hemmed herself in’ too much by sticking to election pledges on taxes and pensions

Events

3 w. ago Trump boasts of killing top ISIS's leader in Iraq in US airstrike

Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as Abu Khadijah, was considered one of the 'most dangerous terrorists in the world', according to Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

Events

3 w. ago Karoline Leavitt boasts about Trump’s economic policies — as Fox News stock ticker below her plummets in real time

The Dow Jones showed a 726-point drop at one point during Leavitt’s press briefing on Tuesday, which followed the massive plunge on Monday

Politics