1 hour ago A very 'p***ed' Trump phoned Jeff Bezos directly to declare WAR over Amazon's 'hostile and political act'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Amazon on Tuesday.

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2 h. ago Trump declares war on Jeff Bezos after Amazon's 'hostile and political' tariffs move

After Amazon announced it was going to display the cost of Trump's tariffs alongside its products on its website, Donald Trump dubbed the move 'hostile and political'

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3 h. ago Donald Trump declares war on Jeff Bezos over Amazon's 'hostile' tariff price rise

Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned Jeff Bezos' move as “a hostile and political act by Amazon”, adding that she had spoken directly with the president about the decision.

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5 h. ago White House calls Amazon ‘hostile’ for reportedly planning to list tariff costs

White House accuses Amazon of ‘hostile and political act’ after report says company will display tariffs costs on siteThe White House accused Amazon of committing a “hostile and political act” after a report said the e-commerce company was planning to inform customers how much Donald Trump’s tariffs would cost them as they shopped.The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was responding to a report in Punchbowl News, which, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that Amazon would begin displaying on its site how much the tariffs had increased the prices of individual products, breaking out the figure from the total listed price. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Trump declares war on Jeff Bezos as Amazon makes 'hostile and political' tariffs move

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Amazon on Tuesday.

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5 h. ago US trade deficit surges; Amazon accused of ‘hostile and political’ act for displaying tariff costs – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsUK grocery inflation has edged up this month, as consumers are hit by rising food prices.Data provider Kantar has reported that supermarket prices rose by 3.8% per year in the four weeks to April 20, up from 3.5% a month earlier.“Chocolate confectionery prices rose by 17.4% this period, the fastest of any category, but that didn’t stop the British public treating themselves this Easter. The volume of chocolate eggs sold through supermarket tills still grew by 0.4% on last year, while at the dinner table lamb was the most popular fresh meat joint, followed by beef and pork.Some households chose to indulge in less seasonal fare as the sun came out and they dusted off the barbecue, with burger sales shooting up by 31% over the last month.”The way in which regulations are being applied to bioethanol is undermining the commercial viability of our business. We are having constructive discussions with the UK Government to explore re...

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9 h. ago Lily Allen apologises to Katy Perry after slamming her Blue Origin space mission

Lily Allen was among a slew of stars who criticised Katy Perry for taking an 11-minute trip to space on Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket

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20 h. ago Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX's Starlinks

Amazon's first internet satellites are on their way to orbit

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4 d. ago It’s Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk as Amazon boss gets into the electric car business

New Slate EV is a pick-up that can morph into an SUV – at a fraction of the cost of a Tesla Cybertruck

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1 week ago Why Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom finally decided to show Daisy's face at space mission

Singer Katy Perry has a special reason for choosing flowers to honour her daughter Daisy after she returned from a trip to space with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos

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2 w. ago Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight

All-female crew led by Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez lands in Texas after reaching the edge of outer spaceKaty Perry’s space flight – latest updatesSix women – including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King – safely completed a trip to the edge of outer space and back from a private Texas ranch on Monday morning on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur.The women, who also included Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, made the trip to the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space – to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket’s capsule for three minutes before returning to Earth. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago No union and forget staff toilet breaks, but hey, at least Bezos can buy Venice for his wedding | Catherine Bennett

In a triumph of bling over restraint, the bride will get a hen do in space and a party on a super-yachtWell done us. It can’t be long before Jeff Bezos personally extends his thanks, as he did when we – Amazon employees and Amazon customers – paid for his flight to sub-orbital space, but let’s not wait. As soon as Monday, when his fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, is due with five friends on a rocket trip, Amazon givers could be witness, again, to the kind of unfettered excess that is only possible if everyone, at every level, contributes, even if it’s only via permanent surveillance and a surrendered toilet break.But no one puts it better than Jeff, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, did himself, after he took his inaugural Blue Origin space trip in 2021. “You guys paid for all this.” More recently, we provided funds – that might not exist without the company’s pitiless working conditions – for Sánchez’s pink diamond engagement ring, proudly exhibited, estimated value, $3m. The...

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2 w. ago Lauren Sanchez sparks speculation she's had 'more' plastic surgery in new Instagram video

Lauren Sanchez , fiancee of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has sparked renewed plastic surgery speculation in her appearance in a social media video about her upcoming trip to space.

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2 w. ago Trump declares war on showers to ‘take care of my beautiful hair’

Donald Trump declared a “war on showers” on Wednesday, 9 April, signing an executive order to lift restrictions on water pressure in showers saying he wanted to "take care of my beautiful hair."

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2 w. ago Trump's massive 104% tariff sparks 'bullying' response from China as market plunges

Donald Trump has declared a trade war on the rest of the world after his latest round of tariffs went into full effect at midnight. China has now been slapped with an eye-watering 104%

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2 w. ago Trump declares 'war with the world' as his 'explosive' tariffs take effect and send FTSE down 2% amid global stock plunge triggered by 104% rate on China

The FTSE opened down 2 per cent after the President's latest round of tariffs, which have shaken a global trading order that has persisted for decades and raised fears of recession.

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2 w. ago Trump declares 'war with the world' as his 'explosive' tariffs take effect and send global stocks plunging again

Asian shares slipped further today as the latest set of Donald Trump's tariffs took effect including a massive 104 per cent levy on Chinese imports.

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's team 'declares war' on masturbation with 'insane' new US sex laws

MAGA politicians are going after the burning issue causing all of American's problems – the sex toy. Lawmakers in Texas want to ban the sale of vibrators anywhere outside of strip clubs, the suckers

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer to make major speech declaring 'British brilliance' after Trump trade war

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will declare his backing for 'British brilliance' with a support package for the car industry in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs

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3 w. ago Starmer to declare end of globalisation while Trump’s tariff war rages

Prime minister argues that tariffs show Britain must ‘move further and faster’ in cutting red tape to boost economic growth

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