27 m. ago Feargal Sharkey diagnosed with prostate cancer after seeing doctor for sore throat

Sharkey urged others to get checked out if they have symptoms

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97 m. ago ‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposed

A Guardian investigation revealed how hundreds of thousands of people were plunged into debt – and some criminalised – for looking after their loved onesOne February afternoon in 2016, Sir Robert Devereux, at the time the most powerful official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was stopped by a junior colleague as he walked through the car park of a civil service office in Preston, Lancashire. Was he aware, the worker asked, about the problems with carer’s allowance?Devereux, on a flying visit to the DWP outpost, asked for details and promised to look into it. A few days later, Devereux’s office received a long and detailed note, complete with 80 anonymised case studies, setting out how years of shortcomings in the administration of the carer’s allowance benefit had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money and inflicted untold hardship and misery on thousands of unpaid carers. Continue reading...

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97 m. ago Original Sin book review: How we were fools to be fooled by Joe Biden’s people

Since this book was written we have learned Joe Biden has prostate cancer. The sad news was greeted with sympathy from all sides of the political divide, including Donald Trump. That would have been the response if, as president, Biden had declared in 2023 that he wasn’t going to run again on the basis of his age; there would have been lots of love, as there was at the start of George Clooney’s celebrated open letter to Biden in The New York Times telling him he loved him, but it was time to go.

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1 hour ago Trump may have skirted the law addressing his crypto investors using the presidential seal

It’s illegal to use the seal to convey a ‘false impression of sponsorship or approval’ by the government

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2 h. ago EU trade chief calls for ‘mutual respect’ after Trump tariff threats

The US president threatened to slap 50% tariffs on all EU goods sent to the United States.

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2 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer urged to oppose 'dangerous' Donald Trump demand to U

Donald Trump has told Keir Starmer to abandon his renewable energy strategy and ramp up North Sea oil and gas production.

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2 h. ago Ramshackle Canonbury studio where Dire Straits and The Police recorded set for conversion into house

The unassuming building saw everyone from Madness to John Cleese come through its doors

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2 h. ago Jon Stewart makes horrifying dark prediction about the end of Trump

A disturbed Jon Stewart harrowingly predicted how Donald Trump's presidency may end for the media.

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3 h. ago Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient | Hanno Hauenstein

From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it bestGrowing up in Germany, we were taught to believe we had done better. Better than our grandparents’ generation, who swept their complicity under a thick rug of silence. Better even than our parents, whose revolts in the late 1960s rarely led to any serious reckoning with the legacy of the Holocaust.Born in the late 1980s, my generation learned about Auschwitz early on. We visited former concentration camps and studied the Nazi regime not as an alien aberration, but as a warning: this is how democracies die. Today, with the far-right AfD and ethno-chauvinism on the rise, that warning has never felt more urgent.Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based journalist and author. He worked as a senior editor in Berliner Zeitung’s culture department, specialising in contemporary art and politics Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Donald Trump and the tortured history of South Africa’s land

Land ownership remains country’s toughest policy problem as it grapples with the legacy of apartheid

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3 h. ago Freedom of the Press Foundation says it will sue Paramount if it settles with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit

FPF said corporations that own news outlets ‘should not be in the busines”s of settling “baseless lawsuits that clearly violate the First Amendment and put other media outlets at risk’

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5 h. ago Judge denies stay request, lets ruling stand blocking DOGE efforts to shut down peace institute

A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request that she stay her May 19 ruling that returned control of the U.S. Institute of Peace back to its acting president and board

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5 h. ago Make Japan Great Again: Trump announces his approval of Nippon deal with US Steel

Details of the deal are still sketchy, but steelworkers union fears takeover by Japanese steel giant

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5 h. ago Trump wields the knife as he orders shock purge at crucial agency that's pivotal for Americans' safety

Donald Trump is ordering a major overhaul of the National Security Council that will shrink its size by over 100 staffers.

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6 h. ago Donald Trump is branded an 'a***hole' by his own niece in scathing put

Donald Trump's enemies are hungry to open the eyes of all who support him, but his fans say the US President is the antidote to the "established way" which they say failed

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6 h. ago Environmentalists' lawsuit challenges Trump's order to allow commercial fishing in Pacific monument

Environmentalists are challenging in court President Donald Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing

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6 h. ago Donald Trump's chilling vow to US as he is hellbent on 'remaining president for life'

Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump has warned that the former US President is hellbent on staying in office for the rest of his life and is unlikely to go quietly if he is defeated at the ballot box

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7 h. ago Donald Trump's unhinged take on US' future laid bare in nine alarming words

Donald Trump was branded an a***hole by his own niece Mary in a fascinating interview and now the woman has offered her thoughts on what makes the US President tick

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8 h. ago Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney reaches tentative agreement with striking machinists

Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney says it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing about 3,000 machinists in Connecticut

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8 h. ago New Pentagon spokesperson promoted antisemitic conspiracy theory – US politics live

Kingsley Wilson, who has repeatedly shared false claim, promoted to press secretary as critics blast her ‘clearly unfit for her role’Harvard University has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the Ivy League school’s ability to enrol international students, a move the school called unconstitutional and retaliatory.Reuters reports that in a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Harvard called the revocation a “blatant violation” of the US constitution’s first amendment and other federal laws. Continue reading...

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