10 h. ago Is 'April Bills Day' just the start? Brits are hit with hikes to council tax, energy, water, NICs and vehicle duty... amid fears burden will have to rise AGAIN due to Trump tariffs

Brits face an 'Awful April' of domestic tax rises and bill increases hammering family finances starting today - with fears Donald Trump 's tariffs will soon push the burden even higher.

Economics

20 h. ago Recession odds are increasing as Trump pushes his trade war further, top financial firm says

Recession fears mount as Trump set to begin ‘Liberation Day’ tariff agenda this week

Economics

27 h. ago Trump reportedly pushes his team to be more ‘aggressive’ with tariffs

The president has called Wednesday, when massive tariffs are due to kick in, ‘Liberation Day’

Politics

35 h. ago Trump considers extraordinary 20% global tariff on ALL IMPORTS sparking fears of worldwide market bloodbath

Trump has pushed his team in recent days to 'be more aggressive' as they hammer out the finer details of the tariffs.

Politics

51 h. ago ‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

Australia’s richest person has close ties with the US president’s ‘Trumpettes’ and has even styled her company headquarters with Maga-inspired designsListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe founder of a key support group for the US president has praised Gina Rinehart as a “female Donald Trump” and backed a push by the mining magnate to bring Trump’s policy ideas to Australia.Toni Holt Kramer, the president and founder of The Trumpettes USA, told Guardian Australia she had been friends with Rinehart since the first Trump presidency in 2016, describing her as an “extremely brilliant woman”. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago EU capitals push to water down retaliation against Trump tariffs

France, Ireland and Italy among a slew of objections to EU’s proposals to hit back at US

Politics

4 d. ago Trump breaks with 175 years of Smithsonian tradition and pushes for more control to rid it of ‘anti

Trump to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to ‘restore truth and sanity to American history’

Politics

4 d. ago Donald Trump is 'holding a gun to Volodymyr Zelensky's head' with latest Ukraine move

The US is set to have control of Ukraine's mineral wealth and infrastructure linked to natural resources after Donald Trump signed an order - and it's said it will have huge consequences

Politics

4 d. ago Revealed: Donald Trump's proposed minerals deal with Ukraine... and how US President is 'holding a gun to Zelensky's head'

The deal will see the United States handed control of Ukraine's mineral wealth and infrastructure linked to natural resources.

Politics

4 d. ago Trump pushes to control all of Ukraine’s mineral and energy assets in sweeping new demands

New proposals described as ‘robbery’ which could block Ukraine’s path to EU membership

Politics

4 d. ago EPA offers industrial polluters a way to avoid rules on mercury, arsenic and other toxic chemicals

As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals, including mercury, arsenic and benzene

Events

4 d. ago Greenland tourism firm cancels Usha Vance visit fearing ‘media spectacle’

‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders’, says Tupilak Travel amid a push from Donald Trump to try and take control of the territory

Politics

5 d. ago US pushes for expansive new deal to control Ukraine’s minerals and energy

Latest draft sent to Kyiv steps up demands and offers no security guarantees

Economics

5 d. ago Meet Elon Musk's rival billionaire tech bro wielding JD Dunce White House influence

Like Musk, Thiel grew up in South Africa, made a fortune from PayPal and is a big backer of Donald Trump, but the similarities don't stop there as the pair push their influence in the White House

Science

5 d. ago Judge says Justice Department attacked her character to 'impugn the integrity' of US judicial system

A federal judge accused the Justice Department of attacking her character in an effort to undermine the integrity of the judicial system, forcefully pushing back against the Trump administration’s criticism of the courts for blocking parts of the president’s agenda

Events

6 d. ago Italy’s Pirelli pushes Chinese owner to cut stake amid fears of Trump freeze

Management will demand Sinochem reduce its stake in tyremaker at board meeting on Wednesday

Politics

7 d. ago 'Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot': Official blamed for revealing Trump team's texts saying they 'loathe bailing out' Europe's 'pathetic free

Some White House officials believe that Waltz will need to be pushed out or resign to save President Trump from being put in a 'bad position'.

Politics

7 d. ago Appeals court panel appears divided on Trump's deportation of immigrants under wartime law

A panel of appeals court judges appeared divided Monday on a Trump administration push to lift an order blocking deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law

Events

8 d. ago US and Russian officials meet to discuss Ukraine as Trump pushes for a breakthrough

The Kremlin on Sunday downplayed expectations of a rapid resolution. 'We are only at the beginning of this path,' spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state TV.

Politics

8 d. ago Ukraine ceasefire talks: What will be discussed in Saudi Arabia as Trump pushes for truce by Easter?

Kremlin appears to temper hopes of swift truce, despite Trump’s special envoy praising ‘gracious’ Putin

Politics