24 h. ago Majority believes the wealthy and large corporations will benefit the most from Trump’s tariff plan

Americans’ view of tariff outcomes mirror opinion of 2017 Republican tax cuts set to be extended by Congress this year

Politics

32 h. ago New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats

Books detail president increasingly unfit to take on Trump, and party infighting that doomed Kamala Harris’s chancesJoe Biden plans to write a book about his presidency which ended in his historic withdrawal from the 2024 election, pushed out by senior Democrats convinced he was too old and infirm and replaced by his vice-president, Kamala Harris.Sources close to Biden told news outlets the book could be published next year, by which time Biden will be 83 and doubtless – like other US presidents’ autobiographies – it will be a self-serving narrative lauding his time in office. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Teen 'murdered parents to finance Trump assassination plan' to 'save the white race'

Nikita Casap, 17, from Wisconsin allegedly killed his mum and stepdad - with their bullet-strewn bodies found covered up a state of decomposition two weeks later

Events

41 h. ago Teen 'killed parents to raise funds for Trump assassination'

Nikita Casap, 17, allegedly killed his mother and stepfather in February as part of an elaborate plan to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government

Events

47 h. ago ‘There’s no way’: Experts doubt Trump team’s plan to reach 90 trade deals in three months

‘There's no way during this timeframe we're doing a comprehensive agreement with any of these countries,’ one expert said

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50 h. ago Trump rolls back some more tariffs as his ‘Liberation Day’ plans continue to face scrutiny: Live updates

Electronics exemption to Trump’s tariffs are boost for high-tech companies like Apple and Tesla, as well as China, which still remains under 145 percent levy

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52 h. ago Make America make again? Trump’s tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams | John Naughton

The president’s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexitiesDonald Trump’s tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it “passeth all understanding” (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to “reshore” the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who’s the big boss around here – or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it, that he “expects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified shopkeepers pleading for mercy from a mafia don”.Cue the UK’s very own Trump whisperer, Keir Starmer, who, according to Politico, plans “to put a review of online safety rules on the table in trade talks” with the US. Which, translated, means that things such as the Online Safety Act and ...

Economics

69 h. ago Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science

Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashedDonald Trump shows no signs of easing his assault on climate science as plans of more sweeping cuts to key US research centers surfaced on Friday.The administration is planning to slash budgets at both the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (Noaa) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), according to internal budget documents, taking aim specifically at programs used to study impacts from the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Reporter from MyPillow guy’s network asks White House the secret behind Trump looking ‘healthier than ever before’

‘Will you guys also consider releasing the president’s fitness plan?’ Cara Castronuova asked. ‘Is he working out with Bobby Kennedy, and is he eating less McDonald’s?’

Society

3 d. ago Judge says Trump lawyers’ failure to explain how they plan to return wrongly deported man ‘extremely troubling’ – live

US district judge Paula Xinis demands administration identify whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego GarciaAdvocates for academic freedom are bracing for what they expect to be the next phase of the government’s effort to reshape higher education: an overhaul of the system accrediting institutions of higher learning.Donald Trump has made no secret of such plans. During the campaign, he boasted that accreditation would be his “secret weapon” against colleges and universities the right has long viewed as too progressive.We may lose a lot of materials.All of the states, we are in dire shape. We have had a reconsideration of everything with regard to what Doge [is doing].” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump admin planning PR blitz to convince Greenlanders to ask to be part of U.S.

Aides have discussed possible advertising and social media campaigns to change public opinion among 57,000 Greenlanders

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3 d. ago Trump was playing chicken with tariffs. Then he chickened out | Steven Greenhouse

In a second term of fiat, flubbing and flip–flopping, Trump pursued his desire to wield a club over everyone and everythingBy imposing punitively high tariffs, Donald Trump was playing a high-stakes game of chicken with America’s trading partners – but it was Trump who chickened out and suspended his tariffs just hours after they took effect. The president couldn’t ignore the worldwide economic havoc that he had caused singled-handedly – stock markets were plunging, business executives were panicking and consumers were seething.Eager to persuade manufacturers to build new plants in the US, Trump said on Monday that many of his tariffs would be permanent. But for Trump, permanent evidently meant two days. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors

Advocates braced for revamp of certification system as experts warn of political pressure being brought to bearAdvocates for academic freedom are bracing for what they expect to be the next phase of the government’s effort to reshape higher education: an overhaul of the system accrediting institutions of higher learning.Donald Trump has made no secret of such plans. During the campaign, he boasted that accreditation would be his “secret weapon” against colleges and universities the right has long viewed as too progressive. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Chinese meme machine mocks Trump and JD Vance with more AI videos of them as factory workers

Chinese accounts have been promoting video and photos ridiculing the so-called 'US Manufacturing Revival Plan' since Trump centred his tariffs on Chinese exports.

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3 d. ago Donald Trump sparks fury as Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as DEAD

Donald Trump's latest move is an effort to prompt some 6,000 immigrants to leave the country as it is thought they will "self-deport" and abandon the US for their birth countries

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3 d. ago Trump has slowed his global tariff plan. Here’s what happens next and the impact on your wallet

The president caught the world – and most of his administration – off guard with his sudden announcement that he was pausing tariffs

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4 d. ago Trump called a cabinet meeting after walking back his tariff plans. It might as well have been held in Moscow

ANALYSIS: Trump’s cabinet meetings have turned into North Korean-style propaganda shows, writes Richard Hall

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4 d. ago Inside the Oval Office where phone calls during Fox News commercials and desperate world leaders changed Trump’s mind on tariff plan

The president said he was acting ‘instinctively’ after announcing the surprise 180 on Wednesday. However multiple sources said that the build up to the decision was drawn out over a number of days

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4 d. ago Stock markets tumble day after Trump’s tariff pause erasing most of the record gains seen Wednesday

After a day of historic gains, the markets tumbled as uncertainty reigns following Trump’s tariff plan pause

Economics

4 d. ago China confirms plans to curb Hollywood film imports amid Trump’s escalating trade war

China had recently considered a complete ban on all American movies in retaliation to Donald Trump’s raising tariffs on Chinese imports

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